Monta Vista High School

Project Awards 2016

Synopsys Silicon Valley Science and Technology Championship

School Teacher Student Award Title Gr
Monta Vista High School Pamela Chow Julia Hayoung Cho 2nd Award, RRI Biological Science and Engineering Category Genetically encoded bioluminescence resonance energy transfer (BRET)-based Ca2+ indicator for in vivo imaging (RRI Biological Science and Engineering) 12
            Certificate of Achievement and ONR Medallion, United States Navy and Marine Corps    
      Kamya  Krishnan 1st Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category The effect of sucralose on the growth of gut microbiota (Biological Science and Engineering) 9
      Krishna  Sunder 2nd Award, RRI Biological Science and Engineering Category The effect of ARHGAP28 on human airway smooth muscle contraction (RRI Biological Science and Engineering) 11
  Scott DeRuiter Advith  Gopinath Grand Prize Student Award: $640 and Certificate of Achievement, Association for Computing Machinery, San Francisco Bay Area Professional Chapter The Voice of Alzheimer's: An App That Can Diagnose Alzheimer's Disease (Biological Science and Engineering) 10
      Arjun  Subramonian 4th Place Student Award: $120 and Certificate of Achievement, Association for Computing Machinery, San Francisco Bay Area Professional Chapter A New Software Approach to Music Transposition through Image Processing (Physical Science and Engineering) 10
            Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category    
  Renee Fallon Shreyas Keshav Bharadwaj Honorable Mention, Biological Science and Engineering Category The Effect of Varying Salinity on the Rate of Growth of Antibiotic Resistant E. Coli versus Non-Resistant E Coli. (Biological Science and Engineering) 9
      Sanjana Sandip Borle $100 First Place, Certificate of Achievement, and Letter, Inez M. Lechner Award Pool Disinfectants and Our Respiratory Health: The Safety of Sodium-Hypochlorite, -Bromate, and Potassium Iodide (Biological Science and Engineering) 9
      Ankita  Chatterjee 1st Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category Detection of Alzheimer's and Parkinson's Disease Utilizing the Morphometry of Cortical Gyrification (Biological Science and Engineering) 11
      Zunera  Ghalib Honorable Mention, RRI Biological Science and Engineering Category Effects of Altering Polyphosphate in Rotenone-induced Drosophila Models of Parkinson's Disease (RRI Biological Science and Engineering) 11
      Aditi  Gnanasekar 1st Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category A Study of Precocious Puberty Resulting from Obesity on the Likelihood of Suffering from Dysthymia and Using Ketoconazol (Biological Science and Engineering) 10
      Vivek Vijay Kamarshi 1st Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category Effect of Heat-Sensing Mutations on Voluntary Fevering in Drosophila melanogaster (Biological Science and Engineering) 9
      Neelufar  Raja Honorable Mention, Biological Science and Engineering Category The Effect of Rock and Classical Music on Cortisol Levels, Heart Rate, and Perceived Stress in Adolescents (Biological Science and Engineering) 11
            Certificate of Achievement, American Psychological Association    
      Rujuta Samir Sathe 1st Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category Diagnosing neurodegenerative diseases: Using Levamisole (hydrochloride) to test for neurodegeneration in C.elegans. (Biological Science and Engineering) 9
            1st Place Award - $175 and Certificate of Achievement, American Association for Laboratory Animal Science, Northern California Branch    
      Manav Jitesh Shah 2nd Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category IBD and Colorectal Cancer: Limiting E. Coli Colon Dominance During Intestinal Dysbiosis with a Human Gut Inflamed Model (Biological Science and Engineering) 10
      Shreya  Thiagarajan First place High School-Cash Award-$75 and certificate, Northern California Institute of Food Technologists (NCIFT) Synergism Between Organic Compounds and Bacteria-Derived Nisin as an Alternative to Antibiotics Against Food Pathogens (Biological Science and Engineering) 10
      Sydney  Ty 1st Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category A Study of Precocious Puberty Resulting from Obesity on the Likelihood of Suffering from Dysthymia and Using Ketoconazol (Biological Science and Engineering) 10
      Gina  Yang High School Finalist Certficate & Amazon.com gift certficate, The Synopsys Outreach Foundation n+1 Prize Effects of tau-Fluvalinate on Mortality and Olfactory Associative Learning and Memory of Honeybees (Apis mellifera L.) (Biological Science and Engineering) 10
            1st Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category    
            3rd Place Award - $75 and Certificate of Achievement, American Association for Laboratory Animal Science, Northern California Branch    
            First Place: $100, Certificate of Achievement, and Goody Bag, Association for Women in Science, Palo Alto Chapter    
            Plaque and $100 check, and Compete for $1000 Outstanding Young Scientist Award, California Association of Professional Scientists (CAPS)    
      Claire  Zhang 1st Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category Fighting Antibiotic Resistance: An Evaluation of Menthol as a Curing Agent of Low Copy Resistance Plasmids in E.coli (Biological Science and Engineering) 10
  Debbie Frazier Anika  Cheerla 2nd Award, RRI Biological Science and Engineering Category Automated Prediction of Future Breast Cancer Occurrence from Non-Cancerous Mammograms (RRI Biological Science and Engineering) 9
            Special Award: $75 and Certificate of Achievement, Varian Medical Systems    
      Shirley  Qi 1st Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category Agent-based Program for Bee Pollination (Biological Science and Engineering) 9
      Sanjana Viral Shah 1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category Smart Flood Sensor: detect, analyze, and predict water accumulation in city's drainage system (Physical Science and Engineering) 9
            $50 and Certificate of Achievement, The Kerry Veenstra Awards    
            Certificate of Achievement and ONR Medallion, United States Navy and Marine Corps    
            Certificate of Achievement; if registered, medal, subscription & opportunity to advance to national competition for trip to Stockholm, Stockholm Junior Water Prize    
            IEEE Electro-Technology $25 gift card and a certificate, Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers    
      Kaushik  Tandon Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category H.A.W.K. Machine Learning Algorithm for Hate Speech Detection (Physical Science and Engineering) 11
            ASEI Silicon Valley Emerging Technology Certificate of Achievement Award and Membership to American Society of Engineers of Indian Origin, ASEI Award    
            One-day immersive trip to Firebase to work on API project, TechLab Education    
  David Greenstein Ravi Nikhil Bhatt 1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category Improved GPS Navigation By Learning Drivers' Routes and Preferences (Physical Science and Engineering) 9
      Ashmita  Rajkumar 3rd Place Student Award: $160 and Certificate of Achievement, Association for Computing Machinery, San Francisco Bay Area Professional Chapter A Novel Approach to an Intrusion Detection System: Detecting intrusions within a Home Network (Physical Science and Engineering) 10
      Anurag  Singh Honorable Mention Student Award: $50 and Certificate of Achievement, Association for Computing Machinery, San Francisco Bay Area Professional Chapter Wearable Device to Enable Independent Living for Senior Citizens (Physical Science and Engineering) 11
            $100 and a Certificate of Achievement, IBM Award    
  Kavita Gupta Anish G Krishnan Second Place: University of Toronto "Swag Bag", University of Toronto Award Gasping Grizzly: An Innovative Cost-Efficient System to Detect the Scent of Lung Cancer and Diabetes. (Physical Science and Engineering) 11
      Sajeev  Saluja 2nd Award, RRI Biological Science and Engineering Category Computational analysis of Als3 amyloid-like aggregation in Candida albicans (RRI Biological Science and Engineering) 11
  Pooya Hajjarian Hira Nisar Ali Honorable Mention, Biological Science and Engineering Category The Effects of Toxins on Daphnia: E-Cigarettes vs. Traditional Cigarettes (Biological Science and Engineering) 9
      William  Hsu Honorable Mention, Biological Science and Engineering Category Predicting Influenza A Virulence from Phenotypic Marker Combinations Using Machine Learning (Biological Science and Engineering) 10
      Michael  Wan Honorable Mention, Biological Science and Engineering Category Predicting Influenza A Virulence from Phenotypic Marker Combinations Using Machine Learning (Biological Science and Engineering) 10
  Kathleen Koch Vivian  Chiang Grand Prize Alternate - Physical Sciences - Trip to State Science Fair and Plaque, Santa Clara Valley Science & Engineering Fair Assn - Board of Directors Awards - High School Motion Detection in Video Surveillance (Physical Science and Engineering) 10
            1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category    
  Lora Lerner Aadithya Ramana Anumala Honorable Mention, Biological Science and Engineering Category What is the Effect of Increasing CSF Flow, Adding Saline, and Removing Blood on Intracranial Pressure during an SAH? (Biological Science and Engineering) 9
      Daria Vasilievna Syskine 2nd Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category The Price of Predation: The Effects of Low-light Stress on the Electrical Short-Term Memory of Dionaea muscipula (Biological Science and Engineering) 10
  Kathleen McCarty Heather  Migdal Certificate of Achievement, American Psychological Association The effect of externally regulated extrinsic motivation on academic performance (Biological Science and Engineering) 9
  Ted Shinta Kyle John Ettinger 1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category Multiroter Disabling Technology (Physical Science and Engineering) 10
            IEEE Electro-Technology $25 gift card and a certificate, Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers    
      Gautham Reddy  Gujjula Certificate of Achievement, Ricoh Corporation Cooking Fire Prevention System (Physical Science and Engineering) 10
      Priscilla  Siow 2nd Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category Thermoelectric Powered Heart Rate Monitor (Physical Science and Engineering) 10
            Gift Card and Certificate of Achievement, Society of Women Engineers