East Side Union High School District
Project Awards 2013
Synopsys Silicon Valley Science and Technology Championship
| School | Teacher | Student | Award | Title | Gr | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Evergreen Valley High School | Doug | Miller | Shreya | Dash | 1st Award, Environmental Sciences Category | Cleaning Oil Spills: Which Sorbents are Best (Environmental Sciences) | 9 |
| Honorable Mention - Framed Certificate of Achievement and Popular Science Magazine Subscription, SAMPE - Society for the Advancement of Material and Process Engineering | |||||||
| Michelle Ruomei | Du | Honorable Mention, Behavioral / Social Category | Cheating and Factors that Cause It (Behavioral / Social) | 9 | |||
| Yootak | Jin | 1st Award, Physics Category | Fractal Antennas: The Effect of the Iteration Number of a Fractal on the Strength of Signal Reception (Physics) | 9 | |||
| Honorable Mention: Certificate of Achievement, Society of Vacuum Coaters (SVC) | |||||||
| Rahul V | Joshi | 2nd Award, Physics Category | Car Seats & Damage Control: What is the Most Optimal Weight & Seating Position for Car Seat Use (Physics) | 9 | |||
| Viraj | Kadakia | 2nd Award, Physics Category | Effect of Temperature on Efficiency of a Solar Cell (Physics) | 9 | |||
| Harika | Kalluri | 2nd Award, Physics Category | Car Seats & Damage Control: What is the Most Optimal Weight & Seating Position for Car Seat Use (Physics) | 9 | |||
| Inderpal | Kaur | Honorable Mention - Certificate of Achievement, American Society of Civil Engineers | Liquefaction in Action: Testing Building Height vs. Liquefaction Resistance (Earth / Space Sciences) | 9 | |||
| SAGE Certificate and $40 Amazon Gift Certificate, Association for Women Geoscientists, San Francisco Bay Area Chapter | |||||||
| Titus C-N. | Lagman | 1st Award, Environmental Sciences Category | Cleaning Oil Spills: Which Sorbents are Best (Environmental Sciences) | 11 | |||
| Honorable Mention - Framed Certificate of Achievement and Popular Science Magazine Subscription, SAMPE - Society for the Advancement of Material and Process Engineering | |||||||
| Aakash | Parikh | 2nd Award, Physics Category | Effect of Temperature on Efficiency of a Solar Cell (Physics) | 9 | |||
| Michelle Quynh-Nhu | Pham | Honorable Mention: Certificate of Achievement, United States Metric Association | Degrading Plastic: The Amount of Ultraviolet Light It Takes to Break Plastic (Physics) | 9 | |||
| Anurima | Polisetty | Honorable Mention, Behavioral / Social Category | Cheating and Factors that Cause It (Behavioral / Social) | 9 | |||
| Niharika N. | Rane | Honorable Mention - Certificate of Achievement, American Society of Civil Engineers | Liquefaction in Action: Testing Building Height vs. Liquefaction Resistance (Earth / Space Sciences) | 9 | |||
| SAGE Certificate and $40 Amazon Gift Certificate, Association for Women Geoscientists, San Francisco Bay Area Chapter | |||||||
| Vienna Vy-van | Tran | Honorable Mention: Certificate of Achievement, United States Metric Association | Degrading Plastic: The Amount of Ultraviolet Light It Takes to Break Plastic (Physics) | 9 | |||
| Kevin | Wang | 1st Award, Physics Category | Fractal Antennas: The Effect of the Iteration Number of a Fractal on the Strength of Signal Reception (Physics) | 9 | |||
| Honorable Mention: Certificate of Achievement, Society of Vacuum Coaters (SVC) | |||||||
| Barjinder | Sabherwal | Nikki | Do | Honorable Mention, Botany Category | The Effect of Urine on Chlorophyll Concentration (Botany) | 10 | |
| Tran | Nguyen | Honorable Mention, Botany Category | The Effect of Urine on Chlorophyll Concentration (Botany) | 10 | |||
| Swetha | Revanur | Grand Prize - Best of Championship - Outreach Schools - Trip to Intel ISEF, Santa Clara Valley Science & Engineering Fair Assn - Board of Directors Awards - High School | Multi-Dimensional Genomic Data Analysis of Hidradenitis Suppurativa (Acne Inversa) and Associated Comorbidities (Bioinformatics) | 9 | |||
| 1st Award, Bioinformatics Category | |||||||
| $100 First Place, Certificate of Achievement, and Letter, Inez M. Lechner Award | |||||||
| 2nd Place: $100 and Certificate of Achievement, UCSF Center For Systems and Synthetic Biology Award | |||||||
| Oak Grove High School | John | Allen | McKenna Pearl | Duzac | Top finalist High School projects, The Synopsys Outreach Foundation n+1 Prize | Berzeliopaper: The Arrangement of Silicon Nanoparticles in a Macroscopic Aggregate Sheet and its Comparison to Buckypaper (Engineering) | 12 |
| Honorable Mention, Engineering Category | |||||||
| 3rd Place - $50, Framed Certificate of Achievement, and Popular Science Magazine Subscription, SAMPE - Society for the Advancement of Material and Process Engineering | |||||||
| Honorable Mention: Certificate of Achievement, Society of Vacuum Coaters (SVC) | |||||||
| Honorable Mention: Certificate of Achievement, United States Army | |||||||
| Jacob Truong | Nguyen | Honorable Mention Award - Popular Science Magazine Subscription and Framed Certificate of Achievement, ASM International, A Society for Materials, Santa Clara Valley Chapter | Superhydrophobic Soot: Applying the Properties of the Dispersion of Carbon Nanoparticles to Reduce Friction from Newtonian Fluids (Engineering) | 12 | |||
| Piedmont Hills High School | Matt | Trask | Andrew Cyril | Shacker | 3rd Place: $100 and Framed Certificate of Achievement, System Safety Society | The Practicality of Satellite-Based Laser Ablation of Space Debris (Engineering) | 9 |
| Santa Teresa High School | Debra | Dimas | Daniel | Drager | 1st Award, Physics Category | Magnet Strength and Temperature (Physics) | 12 |
| Chris | Monahan | 1st Award, Physics Category | Magnet Strength and Temperature (Physics) | 11 | |||
| Silver Creek High School | Narquiz | Cervantes | Megan Rosemary | Duckering | Honorable Mention - Framed Certificate of Achievement and Popular Science Magazine Subscription, SAMPE - Society for the Advancement of Material and Process Engineering | Plastic Bottle Solvents (Chemistry) | 10 |
| Tien Lauren | Phan | Honorable Mention - Framed Certificate of Achievement and Popular Science Magazine Subscription, SAMPE - Society for the Advancement of Material and Process Engineering | Plastic Bottle Solvents (Chemistry) | 10 | |||
| Mary | Sommers | Srishti | Dhawan | 2nd Award, Chemistry Category | Milk and Lactose (Chemistry) | 9 | |
| Simran | Pabla | Honorable Mention, Physics Category | Transmitting Energy Wirelessly (Physics) | 9 | |||
| Chloe Ann | Pears | 2nd Award, Chemistry Category | Milk and Lactose (Chemistry) | 9 | |||
| Yerba Buena High School | Ann | Shioji | Ngoc Han | Nguyen | 3rd Place Award - $50 Cash and Certificate of Achievement, American Society of Civil Engineers | Soil Liquifaction Mitigation (Earth / Space Sciences) | 11 |