Monta Vista High School
Project Awards 2015
Synopsys Silicon Valley Science and Technology Championship
| School | Teacher | Student | Award | Title | Gr | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Monta Vista High School | Pamela | Chow | Julia | Cho | Honorable Mention, RRI Biological Sciences Category | Microfabricated hydrogel-based vascular networks for the metastasis study of circulating tumor cells (RRI Biological Sciences) | 11 |
| Certificate of Achievement, Society for In Vitro Biology | |||||||
| Scott | DeRuiter | Ajay | Jain | Best Project: $50, Certificate of Achievement, and Voucher for a Safe Boating Course, United States Coast Guard Auxiliary | Distributed Robotic Pursuit and Evasion: Navigation and State Estimation (RRI Physical Sciences) | 11 | |
| Certificate of Achievement and ONR Medallion, United States Navy and Marine Corps | |||||||
| One-day immersive trip to Firebase to work on API project, TechLab Education | |||||||
| Anurag | Singh | High School Finalist Certficate, The Synopsys Outreach Foundation n+1 Prize | Handwashing Hound: Computer Vision System for Monitoring Effective Hand Hygiene (Engineering) | 10 | |||
| 2nd Award, Engineering Category | |||||||
| Honorable Mention-$50, Northern California Institute of Food Technologists (NCIFT) | |||||||
| Kaushik | Tandon | High School Finalist Certficate, The Synopsys Outreach Foundation n+1 Prize | Handwashing Hound: Computer Vision System for Monitoring Effective Hand Hygiene (Engineering) | 10 | |||
| 2nd Award, Engineering Category | |||||||
| Honorable Mention-$50, Northern California Institute of Food Technologists (NCIFT) | |||||||
| Renee | Fallon | Maalini Radha | Bommakanti | Certificate of Achievement; if registered, medal, subscription & opportunity to advance to national competition for trip to Stockholm, Stockholm Junior Water Prize | Effects of Sunscreen in Coastal Waters on Marine Life: Observing Damage of Hydrogen Peroxide from Sunscreen on Spirulina Cyanobacteria (Biochemistry / Microbiology) | 11 | |
| Ankita | Chatterjee | 2nd Award, Engineering Category | A Low-Cost Novel Construction of a Stacked E. coli-Based Fuel Cell System (Engineering) | 10 | |||
| Jonathan F | Fung | $ 500 to the winning student or team in high school Physical Science, The Synopsys Outreach Foundation n+1 Prize | Surface Specific Rationally Self-Assembling Au-Fe Oxide Nanoparticles: A Potential Multi-Modal Imaging Agent Platform for Early Tumor Diagnosis (RRI Physical Sciences) | 11 | |||
| High School Finalist Certficate, The Synopsys Outreach Foundation n+1 Prize | |||||||
| Honorable Mention, RRI Physical Sciences Category | |||||||
| GR 9-12, 2nd Place: $70, Book, and Certificate of Achievement, T-Shirt, Society of Vacuum Coaters (SVC) | |||||||
| Zunera | Ghalib | Honorable Mention, Medicine / Health / Gerontology Category | The Effects of Curcumin On Rotenone-induced Drosophila Models of Parkinson's Disease (Medicine / Health / Gerontology) | 10 | |||
| Joshua | John | 1st Award, Biochemistry / Microbiology Category | What is the effect of dollar bill value on the amount of germs found present on the bill? (Biochemistry / Microbiology) | 9 | |||
| Gayathri A | Kalla | Certificate of Achievement; if registered, medal, subscription & opportunity to advance to national competition for trip to Stockholm, Stockholm Junior Water Prize | Effects of Sunscreen in Coastal Waters on Marine Life: Observing Damage of Hydrogen Peroxide from Sunscreen on Spirulina Cyanobacteria (Biochemistry / Microbiology) | 11 | |||
| Anish G | Krishnan | 1st Award, Engineering Category | A Non-invasive Low-Cost Electronic Nose Breath Analyzer To Detect the Deadliest Cancer. (Engineering) | 10 | |||
| Christina C | Lau | 2nd Award, Behavioral / Social Category | The Correlation Between the Time Middle and High School Students Spend on Chores and Their Grade Point Average scores (Behavioral / Social) | 9 | |||
| Shriya Reddy | Perati | Honorable Mention, Medicine / Health / Gerontology Category | The Effect of Melatonin on Antibiotic Resistance (Medicine / Health / Gerontology) | 10 | |||
| Yana | Petri | 1st Award, Earth / Space Sciences Category | Modeling CMIP5 Projected Climate Change Impacts on Global Terrestrial Mammalian Species-Range Shifts Under RCP Emission Scenarios (Earth / Space Sciences) | 12 | |||
| $100 and Certificate of Achievement, Trimble Navigation, Ltd. | |||||||
| Certificate of Achievement, NOAA Medallion, and Letter, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration | |||||||
| Manav Jitesh | Shah | Honorable Mention, Ecology Category | The Effect of Freshwater Diatoms and Orthosilicate during Nutrient Over-Fertilization in Harmful Algal Blooms to control the Growth Rate of Dinoflagellate Peridinium (Ecology) | 9 | |||
| Certificate of Achievement, American Meteorological Society | |||||||
| Priscilla | Siow | Plaque and $100 check, and Compete for $1000 Outstanding Young Scientist Award, California Association of Professional Scientists | E.Coli Filtration using Plant Xylem from the Pseudotsuga menziesii (Botany) | 9 | |||
| Pranav | Srinivas | 2nd Award, Bioinformatics Category | Integrative Network Analysis of Epigenetic and Genomic Data for Colorectal Cancer (Bioinformatics) | 11 | |||
| Rishi Jatin | Upadhyay | 2nd Award, Ecology Category | Effect of environmental pollutants on Salmon chromatophores and their use as a biosensor (Ecology) | 9 | |||
| Gina | Yang | 1st Award, Zoology Category | Effects of Agricultural Adjuvant on the Olfactory Associative Learning and Memory of Honeybees (Apis mellifera L.) (Zoology) | 9 | |||
| Debbie | Frazier | Nikhil | Cheerla | GR 9-12: 2nd Place, $100 and Certificate of Achievement, UCSF Center For Systems and Synthetic Biology | Linking Alternative Splicing to Human Brain Development and Synaptic Plasticity (Bioinformatics) | 10 | |
| Advith | Gopinath | $100 First Place, Certificate of Achievement, and Letter, Inez M. Lechner Award | Using Machine Learning to Analyze Gait to Assist in the Diagnosis of Parkinson's Disease (Bioinformatics) | 9 | |||
| Andrew | Goldenkranz | Anika Asawa | Ramachandran | $100 First Place, Certificate of Achievement, and Letter, Inez M. Lechner Award | The Reduction of Carbon Dioxide Levels in Freshwater Using Chlorella vulgaris and Calcium Oxide (Ecology) | 9 | |
| book for student and another for her science teacher, Promethium Chapter of Iota Sigma Pi | |||||||
| David | Greenstein | Ganesh | Valliappan | Honorable Mention, Engineering Category | Smart Home Safety System (Engineering) | 10 | |
| Youssef | Ismail (SSW mentor) | Elizabeth Ye | Wang | $100 and Certificate of Achievement, Wireless Communications Alliance | Operation Fire Ant: Rescuing Natural Disaster Survivors Via Collective Control of Swarm Robots (Engineering) | 10 | |
| Gift Card and Certificate of Achievement, Society of Women Engineers | |||||||
| GR 9-12: 1st Place, Certificate of Achievement, and tour of NASA Ames Research Center, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) Intelligent Systems Award | |||||||
| Sport Bag, Junior Tech Organizer, Certificate of achievement, United States Air Force | |||||||
| Kathleen | McCarty | Nathan | Wong | 2nd Award, Behavioral / Social Category | The correlation between different music aspects and electrodermal activity (Behavioral / Social) | 10 | |
| Certificate of Achievement, American Psychological Association | |||||||
| Ted | Shinta | Anirudh | Balasubramaniam | Honorable Mention, Engineering Category | A Semi-Autonomous Vehicle that Searches a Natural Disaster Area for Survivors. (Engineering) | 10 | |
| Nilay Sanjay | Sawant | Honorable Mention, Engineering Category | A Semi-Autonomous Vehicle that Searches a Natural Disaster Area for Survivors. (Engineering) | 10 | |||