Private
Project Awards 2013
Synopsys Silicon Valley Science and Technology Championship
| School | Teacher | Student | Award | Title | Gr | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| A Schmahl Science Workshop | Sean | Carroll | Zunera | Ghalib | Honorable Mention, Medicine / Health / Gerontology Category | The Effects of Diacetyl Monoxime on Beta-Amyloid Plaques in C. elegans (Medicine / Health / Gerontology) | 8 |
| Madhu | Nori | 1st Award, Biochemistry / Microbiology Category | Effects of Erythromycin Antibiotic Over Time on Lactobacillus Probiotic (Biochemistry / Microbiology) | 10 | |||
| Michelle Q. | Xu | 1st Award, Biochemistry / Microbiology Category | The Antibacterial Effects of Natural Herbs on E. coli (Biochemistry / Microbiology) | 8 | |||
| Aru | Hill | Nishka | Ayyar | 2nd Award, Zoology Category | Effects of Caffeine on Mortality of Daphnia Magna (Zoology) | 7 | |
| Anjali | Ganguly | 1st Award, Engineering Category | Use of Dissolved Air Flotation (DAF) to Concentrate Algae (Engineering) | 9 | |||
| Kriti | Lall | Outstanding Sustainability Project. Weeklong I-SWEEEP Competition, I-SWEEEP | Studying and Manipulating arxA, an Arsenite Oxidase, in E. coli: Unearthing Applications in Astrobiology and Water Bioremediation. (Environmental Sciences) | 10 | |||
| 1st Award, Environmental Sciences Category | |||||||
| Nitya | Mani | First Place: $100, Certificate of Achievement, and Goody Bag, Association for Women in Science, Palo Alto Chapter | B-carotene Production from D.Salina for Vit. A Supplementation under a Reduced Resource Setting (Engineering) | 10 | |||
| Meera Reddy | Rachamallu | 2nd Award, Environmental Sciences Category | The Effect of Silver Nanoparticles on Nannochloropsis oculata and Daphnia through Bioaccumulation (Environmental Sciences) | 9 | |||
| Evani | Radiya-Dixit | Top finalist Middle School projects, The Synopsys Outreach Foundation n+1 Prize | Use of Bromelain and Papain to Engineer Hypoallergenic Peanut Products (Medicine / Health / Gerontology) | 8 | |||
| Rajiv | Sancheti | Robert Brownlee Best High School project - $600, Brownlee - Shaeffer - Schmahl Science Award | Comparing The Nutritional Content of Raw Milk Against Heat and UV Pasteurized Milk (Biochemistry / Microbiology) | 9 | |||
| Nikash D. | Shankar | 1st Award, Medicine / Health / Gerontology Category | Potential Cure for Alzheimer's Disease: A Novel Therapy Using Polymeric Nanoparticle-Encapsulated Curcumin To Inhibit Caspase Pathway (Medicine / Health / Gerontology) | 10 | |||
| 2nd Place: $200, Rambus | |||||||
| Honorable Mention Certificate of Achievement, MedImmune | |||||||
| Youssef | Ismail | Avi | Agarwal | Honorable Mention, Engineering Category | Music of Movement (Engineering) | 11 | |
| Anish G. | Krishnan | 1st Award, Engineering Category | Extending Mileage In Electric Vehicles (Engineering) | 8 | |||
| Vidya Srinivas | Raghvendra | Certificate of Achievement, Ricoh Corporation | Low-Cost Water Purification and Desalination System Using Solar and Geothermal Energy (Engineering) | 10 | |||
| Meena | Rajan | $100 and Certificate of Achievement, Trimble Navigation, Ltd. | Defining Straight Lines in Curvilinear Coordinate Systems (Computers / Mathematics) | 10 | |||
| Best Project: $50, Certificate of Achievement, and Voucher for Materials and a Safe Boating Course, United States Coast Guard Auxiliary | |||||||
| Certificate of Achievement and Letter to Teacher, Mu Alpha Theta | |||||||
| Certificate of Achievement, NASA Ames Research Center | |||||||
| Aditya | Srinivasan | Honorable Mention: Certificate of Achievement, United States Army | Active Camouflage (Engineering) | 11 | |||
| Ibtisam | Khalaf | Amith Teja | Galivanche | 1st Award, Biochemistry / Microbiology Category | Antimicrobial Activity of Clove Oil and Cinnamon Oil Against Escherichia Coli (Biochemistry / Microbiology) | 7 | |
| Gokul Venkatraman | Kalyanasundaram | 2nd Award, Biochemistry / Microbiology Category | Evaluation of the Antimicrobial Effectiveness and Interactions of common Herb Oils and Antibiotic Combination aginst E.coli and S.Epidermis (Biochemistry / Microbiology) | 8 | |||
| Judy | Wan | Shrey Sanjeev | Desai | 1st Award, Environmental Sciences Category | Antibiotic Alternative to Radiation in the Sterile Insect Technique (Environmental Sciences) | 9 | |
| 3rd Place Award - $100 and Certificate of Achievement, American Association for Laboratory Animal Science, Northern California Branch | |||||||
| Archbishop Mitty High School | William | Abb | Namrata Ramya | Balasingam | 1st Award, Physics Category | On the Dynamics of Carbon Dioxide Plumes Sequestered in Saline Aquifers: A Physics-Based Assessment of the Risk of Leakage (Physics) | 10 |
| Theresa | Hannon | Vadim | Korolik | Honorable Mention, Chemistry Category | Ground Water Treatment: Removal of Dissolved Iron (Chemistry) | 10 | |
| 2nd Place Award - $200 and Framed Certificate of Achievement, American Chemical Society, Santa Clara Valley Local Section | |||||||
| Ronald | Nicoletti | Arjun V. | Balasingam | Outstanding Sustainability Project. Weeklong I-SWEEEP Competition, I-SWEEEP | On Enhancing the Wind Energy Harvested by Piezoelectric Beams: An Investigation of Aeroelastic Flutter and Related Phenomena in Novel Fin-and-Bluff Systems (Physics) | 11 | |
| 1st Award, Physics Category | |||||||
| $100 and Certificate of Achievement, Trimble Navigation, Ltd. | |||||||
| $100 and Certificate of Achievement, Wireless Communications Alliance | |||||||
| $50 Voucher, Certificate of Achievement, Letter of Congratulations, and ONR Medallion, United States Navy and Marine Corps | |||||||
| 1st Place: $300, Rambus | |||||||
| Certificate of Achievement and Pewter Medallion Voucher, Yale Science and Engineering Association | |||||||
| Bellarmine College Preparatory | Michael | Janda | Christopher Alan | Powers | 1st Award, Earth / Space Sciences Category | Investigating Wave Barriers to Reduce the Power of Storm Surges (Earth / Space Sciences) | 10 |
| Certificate of Achievement, American Meteorological Society | |||||||
| Mark | Riese | Julia | Cho | 1st Award, Engineering Category | Creating a Clearer Voice Chat/Conference Experience by Using Sound Localization (Engineering) | 9 | |
| Josh | Kim | 1st Award, Engineering Category | Creating a Clearer Voice Chat/Conference Experience by Using Sound Localization (Engineering) | 9 | |||
| Debjani | Roy | Nikhil | Buduma | Grand Prize - Best of Championship - Physical Sciences - Trip to Intel ISEF, Santa Clara Valley Science & Engineering Fair Assn - Board of Directors Awards - High School | A Computational Investigation of the Structures, Energies, and Formation Pathways of Interstellar Anions: Elucidating Unexplored Mechanisms of Anionic Astrochemistry (Earth / Space Sciences) | 12 | |
| 1st Award, Earth / Space Sciences Category | |||||||
| Alexander Scott | Powers | Grand Prize Alternate - Physical Sciences - Trip to State Science Fair, Santa Clara Valley Science & Engineering Fair Assn - Board of Directors Awards - High School | Investigation of the Effects of Nanocrystal Shape on the Efficiency of Quantum Dot Sensitized Solar Cells (Chemistry) | 12 | |||
| $2000 to the winning student or team in Physical Science, The Synopsys Outreach Foundation n+1 Prize | |||||||
| Top finalist High School projects, The Synopsys Outreach Foundation n+1 Prize | |||||||
| 1st Award, Chemistry Category | |||||||
| $50 Voucher, Certificate of Achievement, Letter of Congratulations, and ONR Medallion, United States Navy and Marine Corps | |||||||
| 1st Place Award - $100, Popular Science Magazine Subscription, Certificate of Achievement, and Certificate & Medallion from ASM Educational Foundation, ASM International, A Society for Materials, Santa Clara Valley Chapter | |||||||
| 1st place student - $100 and Certificate of Achievement, American Vacuum Society, Northern CA Chapter | |||||||
| 1st Place: $100, Book, and Certificate of Achievement, Society of Vacuum Coaters (SVC) | |||||||
| Rod | Wong | Omkar | Savant | 2nd Award, Engineering Category | An Ultrasonic Tactile Mapping Device to Enable Autonomous Navigation for the Blind (Engineering) | 10 | |
| $50 Voucher, Certificate of Achievement, Letter of Congratulations, and ONR Medallion, United States Navy and Marine Corps | |||||||
| IEEE Award for Electro-Technology ($50 and Framed Certificate), Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers | |||||||
| Anin | Sayana | 2nd Award, Biochemistry / Microbiology Category | A Novel Strategy to Inhibit Metastasis of Alveolar Rhabdomyosarcoma Using Lentiviral-Mediated Knockdown of the PAX3-FOXO1 Fusion Gene via RNA Interference (Biochemistry / Microbiology) | 9 | |||
| $100 First Place, Certificate of Achievement, and Letter, Inez M. Lechner Award | |||||||
| Canyon Heights Academy | Lisa | Kelsey | Matthew | Wong | 2nd Award, Physics Category | The Effect of Shape on Drag (Physics) | 6 |
| Teresa | Lesieutre | John | Ghantous | 2nd Award, Physics Category | The Effect of Adding Different Shapes to the Front, Back, and Bottom of the Trailer, on a Truck's Aerodynamic Drag (Physics) | 7 | |
| Michael Joseph | Sager | 2nd Award, Physics Category | An Experiment in the Mechanial Efficiency of Different Vertical Axis Wind Turbine Designs (Physics) | 8 | |||
| Carden Academy of Almaden | Elizabeth | Levine | Sophia Ann | Harrison | Isabelle Stone Award for Best Biological Science Projects - Trip to State Science Fair, Plaque, and $100, Santa Clara Valley Science & Engineering Fair Assn - Board of Directors Awards - Middle School | The Effect of Temperature on the Growth of Red Radishes with Symbiotic Endomycorrhizae (Botany) | 7 |
| 1st Award, Botany Category | |||||||
| Rebekah Jasmine | Kaufman | Honorable Mention, Physics Category | You've Been Served! (Physics) | 7 | |||
| Ashna | Perumal | Honorable Mention, Physics Category | You've Been Served! (Physics) | 7 | |||
| Carden Day School of San Jose | David | Pardue | Lilly Marie | Hackworth | 1st Award, Physics Category | Save Our Seals: Better Parachutes (Physics) | 8 |
| Benjamin J. | Ma | 2nd Award, Chemistry Category | Scrub-A-Dub-Dub: A Possible Solution for Global Warming (Chemistry) | 8 | |||
| Certificate of Achievement, American Meteorological Society | |||||||
| Clayton C.W. | Moore | Honorable Mention, Medicine / Health / Gerontology Category | Are Non-Newtonian Fluids Acceptable Protection Equipment Replacements? (Medicine / Health / Gerontology) | 8 | |||
| Darren George | Omori | Honorable Mention, Physics Category | What Is the Effect of the Number of Sheaves in a Block and Tackle on Its Efficiency? (Physics) | 8 | |||
| Castilleja School | Jeanne | Appelget | Sophia | Nguyen | $100 American Express Gift Card, Plaque, and Certificate of Achievement, MedImmune | Salmonella Carrying shRNA Against Indolamine 2,3-Dioxygenase Induces Neutrophils During Control of Murine Pancreatic Cancer. (Medicine / Health / Gerontology) | 11 |
| Challenger - Almaden | Pronati | Mondal | Derek Huy | Nguyen | 2nd Award, Physics Category | What is the Effect of the Size of the Fins on the Stability of a Submarine? (Physics) | 8 |
| Eric Kevin | Wang | 1st Award, Physics Category | The Art of Bouncing Bows x2 (Physics) | 8 | |||
| Challenger - Berryessa | Evelyn | Santiago | Prerita V. | Pandya | Honorable Mention, Chemistry Category | The Effect of Different Types of Waters and Their Temperatures on Copper Corrosion (Chemistry) | 6 |
| 2nd Place Award - $75, Popular Science Magazine Subscription, and Certificate of Achievement, ASM International, A Society for Materials, Santa Clara Valley Chapter | |||||||
| Challenger - San Jose | Heather | Mackewicz | Pratik | Gongloor | Honorable Mention, Physics Category | Modeling Flow Rate at the Carotid Artery Bifurcation under Variable Conditions (Physics) | 8 |
| Anik | Gupta | 1st Award, Behavioral / Social Category | To Be or Not To Be a Vegetarian (Behavioral / Social) | 6 | |||
| Aniket | Kapadia | Family and Friends Memberships to the Tech Museum, The Tech Museum of Innovation | Color-Teller for the Blind (Engineering) | 6 | |||
| Asha Aiswaryaa | Kar | Honorable Mention, Engineering Category | FlingTime (Engineering) | 6 | |||
| Gift Card and Certificate of Achievement, Society of Women Engineers | |||||||
| Shashank Vaidehi | Mahesh | 2nd Award, Chemistry Category | Soil Fertility and Electrical Conductivity (Chemistry) | 6 | |||
| Siddharth Vaidehi | Mahesh | 2nd Award, Chemistry Category | Soil Fertility and Electrical Conductivity (Chemistry) | 6 | |||
| Avinash | Subramanian | Family and Friends Memberships to the Tech Museum, The Tech Museum of Innovation | Color-Teller for the Blind (Engineering) | 6 | |||
| Rohin Kiranapani | Tangirala | Best Project: $50, Certificate of Achievement, and Voucher for Materials and a Safe Boating Course, United States Coast Guard Auxiliary | Hulls vs. Drag: The Effect of the Change in the Number of Hulls, Spacing Between the Hulls, and Placement of the Hulls of Various Multihulls on Their Drag (Physics) | 6 | |||
| Certificate of Achievement, Letter of Congratulations, and ONR Medallion, United States Navy and Marine Corps | |||||||
| Amanda | Wang | Honorable Mention, Engineering Category | FlingTime (Engineering) | 6 | |||
| Gift Card and Certificate of Achievement, Society of Women Engineers | |||||||
| Challenger - Shawnee | Bonnie | Basu | Kendra Leigh | Barker | 1st Award, Engineering Category | Follow the Light (Engineering) | 8 |
| HP 35s Scientific Calculator, Hewlett-Packard Laboratories | |||||||
| Yash Ashok | Deshmukh | 2nd Award, Physics Category | The Effect of a Fresnel Lens on the Efficiency of a Solar Cell (Physics) | 8 | |||
| Mantej Singh | Panesar | Honorable Mention, Environmental Sciences Category | Green Passive Cooling of Computer Data Centers (Environmental Sciences) | 7 | |||
| Challenger - Sunnyvale | Thuy-Anh | Nguyen | Ananya | Karthik | Castro Family Award for Best Physical Science Projects - Trip to State Science Fair, Plaque, and $100 Cash, Santa Clara Valley Science & Engineering Fair Assn - Board of Directors Awards - Middle School | Mighty Microgreens? The Effect of the Maturity of Plant Greens on Their Nutrient Contents (Chemistry) | 6 |
| 1st Award, Chemistry Category | |||||||
| 1st Place: $75 and Certificate of Achievement, UCSF Center For Systems and Synthetic Biology Award | |||||||
| Certificate of Achievement, Medallion, and Letter, United States Public Health Service Award | |||||||
| Srivatsav | Pyda | Honorable Mention, Biochemistry / Microbiology Category | The Compared Effect of Natural and Over-the-Counter Medications on the Prevention of Bacterial Proliferation (Biochemistry / Microbiology) | 8 | |||
| Karthik | Ramachandran | 1st Award, Environmental Sciences Category | An A-peeling Solution! - The Effect of Citrus Oils and d-Limonene on Polystyrene (Environmental Sciences) | 7 | |||
| Pravin | Ravishanker | $1000 to the Top Projects in Bio Science (tie), The Synopsys Outreach Foundation n+1 Prize | The Effects of Neuromodulating Agents on Spiking Rates and Patterns of Neuronal Action Potentials in Acheta domestica: An Investigation in Neuropharmacotherapy. (Medicine / Health / Gerontology) | 8 | |||
| Top finalist Middle School projects, The Synopsys Outreach Foundation n+1 Prize | |||||||
| 2nd Award, Medicine / Health / Gerontology Category | |||||||
| Plaque and $100 check, and Compete for $1000 Outstanding Young Scientist Award, California Association of Professional Scientists | |||||||
| Ruhi | Sayana | 1st Award, Medicine / Health / Gerontology Category | Targeting Postprandial Hyperglycemia: Novel Use of the Anthocyanin Cyanidin and Eugenol to Inhibit alpha-Glucosidase for Type 2 Diabetes (Medicine / Health / Gerontology) | 6 | |||
| Manu Murali | Srimat | 1st Award, Chemistry Category | Fuel Cells: Hot or Cold? (Chemistry) | 8 | |||
| Challenger-Middlefield-Palo Alto | Tini | Raman | Shopnavo | Biswas | Honorable Mention, Botany Category | What is the Effect of Magnetism on Plant Growth (Botany) | 7 |
| Priyanka Ram | Vatturi | 2nd Award, Behavioral / Social Category | Saccadic Eye Movement (Behavioral / Social) | 8 | |||
| Delphi Academy-Campbell | Nita | Kumar | Sahil | Katrekar | 2nd Award, Chemistry Category | How Does Passing an Electric Current Through Water Affect its pH? (Chemistry) | 8 |
| Granada Islamic School | Shagufta | Akhtar | Haashir | Alikhan | Honorable Mention, Physics Category | Building a Raft Powered by Surface Tension (Physics) | 7 |
| Sumizah | Qureshi | Muzakkir Ali | Khan | Honorable Mention, Physics Category | Stealthy Aircrafts (Physics) | 6 | |
| Rizq Yahya | Khateeb | Honorable Mention, Biochemistry / Microbiology Category | No Germs for Me! (Biochemistry / Microbiology) | 6 | |||
| Mahir Mohammed | Malek | Honorable Mention, Chemistry Category | The Effect of Lead on pH (Chemistry) | 8 | |||
| Bilal | Malik | 1st Award, Chemistry Category | Vitamin C in Vegetables (Chemistry) | 6 | |||
| Farah Noor | Masood | Certificate of Excellence from National Association of Women Geoscientists, Association for Women Geoscientists, San Francisco Bay Area Chapter | Greenhouse Effect Under Different Environments (Environmental Sciences) | 6 | |||
| Nathifa | Nasim | 1st Award, Environmental Sciences Category | From Trash to Gas : Biomass Energy (Environmental Sciences) | 6 | |||
| Family and Friends Memberships to the Tech Museum, The Tech Museum of Innovation | |||||||
| Reshma | Nawaz | 2nd Award, Physics Category | Fuel Cell Technology: Save Solar Energy Use at Night! (Physics) | 8 | |||
| Zoha | Qader | 1st Award, Physics Category | Do We Receive the Highest Intensity of Light When We Are Closest To the Parabolic Reflector Surface? (Physics) | 8 | |||
| Greene Scholars Program | Gloria | Whitaker-Daniels | Toure Erik | Oliver | $50 Cash, San Jose State University Student Affiliates of the American Chemical Society | Glowing Water (Chemistry) | 8 |
| Harker School-Middle Campus | Thomas | Artiss | Aditya Arya | Dhar | 2nd Award, Computers / Mathematics Category | The effect of compression on audio quality in different genres of music and the optimal trade-off between compression and quality (Computers / Mathematics) | 8 |
| Andrew | Gu | 1st Award, Botany Category | What is the Effect of Stenospermocarpy in Grapes on their Nutritional Value? (Botany) | 8 | |||
| Avi S | Khemani | 1st Award, Biochemistry / Microbiology Category | The Effect of Microwave Denaturation on Proteins Compared to Conventional Cooking Systems (Biochemistry / Microbiology) | 8 | |||
| Jonathan | Liu | Honorable Mention, Biochemistry / Microbiology Category | Drought Resistant Corn vs Normal Corn, and the Concentration of BPA in Both (Biochemistry / Microbiology) | 8 | |||
| Manan Ajay | Shah | 1st Award, Biochemistry / Microbiology Category | The Effect of Microwave Denaturation on Proteins Compared to Conventional Cooking Systems (Biochemistry / Microbiology) | 8 | |||
| Arjun Srikanth | Subramaniam | 2nd Award, Computers / Mathematics Category | The effect of compression on audio quality in different genres of music and the optimal trade-off between compression and quality (Computers / Mathematics) | 8 | |||
| Justin Long | Xie | Honorable Mention, Biochemistry / Microbiology Category | Drought Resistant Corn vs Normal Corn, and the Concentration of BPA in Both (Biochemistry / Microbiology) | 8 | |||
| Benjamin | Morgensen | Peter | Wu | 2nd Award, Engineering Category | Redesigning Desk Lamps to Maximize Light Output While Reducing Glare (Engineering) | 8 | |
| David | Zhu | 2nd Award, Engineering Category | Redesigning Desk Lamps to Maximize Light Output While Reducing Glare (Engineering) | 8 | |||
| Kristen | Morgensen | Joyce | Huang | 2nd Award, Behavioral / Social Category | The Effects of Increments of Body Visibility on Lie Detection (Behavioral / Social) | 8 | |
| Amrita | Singh | 2nd Award, Engineering Category | A Novel Mechanism for Emulating Male Cricket Wing Stridulation (Engineering) | 8 | |||
| Certificate of Achievement and Lapel Pin, National Society of Professional Engineers | |||||||
| Meilan Eng | Steimle | 2nd Award, Behavioral / Social Category | The Effects of Increments of Body Visibility on Lie Detection (Behavioral / Social) | 8 | |||
| Swetha Priya | Tummala | 2nd Award, Behavioral / Social Category | The Effect of Time on How Long the Afterimage Lasts (Behavioral / Social) | 8 | |||
| Daniel | Sommer | Sandip | Nirmel | Family and Friends Memberships to the Tech Museum, The Tech Museum of Innovation | Usable Electricity from Buildup of Static Electricity in Car Tires (Engineering) | 8 | |
| Venkat Narayanan | Sankar | Isabelle Stone Award for Best Biological Science Projects - Trip to State Science Fair, Plaque, and $100, Santa Clara Valley Science & Engineering Fair Assn - Board of Directors Awards - Middle School | Ecology or Economy: How to Have It Both Ways! A Simulation Based Approach for Managing The Impact of Infrastructure Projects on the Population Viability of Endangered Species. (Environmental Sciences) | 8 | |||
| 1st Award, Environmental Sciences Category | |||||||
| 2nd Place: $50 and Certificate of Achievement, UCSF Center For Systems and Synthetic Biology Award | |||||||
| Harker School-Upper Campus | Gary | Blickenstaff | Sriram | Somasundaram | 1st Award, Biochemistry / Microbiology Category | A Novel Treatment for Biofilms using Nanocurcumin, Chitosan and nAg, and an Innovative Coating in Preventing Biofilms. (Biochemistry / Microbiology) | 10 |
| Steven Michael | Wang | 1st Award, Bioinformatics Category | Anti-Tumor Immunity: A Novel Hybrid Cellular Automaton for Cancer Vaccines (Bioinformatics) | 10 | |||
| 1st Place: $150 and Certificate of Achievement, UCSF Center For Systems and Synthetic Biology Award | |||||||
| Stanley | Xie | 2nd Award, Biochemistry / Microbiology Category | Increasing Lifespan through Inhibition of the HSF-1 Transcription Factor in C. Elegans? (Biochemistry / Microbiology) | 10 | |||
| Chris | Spenner | Rohith Madhira | Bhethanabotla | 1st Award, Chemistry Category | Achiral and polarimetric analysis using alpha-cyclodextrin and beta-cyclodexrin as chiral selectors to separate enantiomers and diastereomers of cypermethrin (Chemistry) | 11 | |
| Rishabh Uday | Chandra | 2nd Award, Physics Category | The Effect of Temperature Variation on the Flow Rate of Electromagnetic Pumps (Physics) | 9 | |||
| Stephanie | Chen | Certificate of Achievement, NASA Ames Research Center | Using Geometric Albedos and Reflection Spectra to Model the Color of Planets (Earth / Space Sciences) | 11 | |||
| Mercedes | Chien | 2nd Award, Chemistry Category | Creating a Potential Biodiesel Additive Using an Ester and Solketal from Crude Glycerol (Chemistry) | 11 | |||
| Kacey | Fang | Certificate of Achievement, NASA Ames Research Center | Using Gas Chromatography to Analyze the Toxicity of Former Superfund Sites and Their Effects on Phaseolus vulgaris (Environmental Sciences) | 10 | |||
| Christopher David | Fu | 1st Award, Zoology Category | What is the Relationship Between Sea Cucumber Body Wall Ossicles and Species Types? (Zoology) | 11 | |||
| Matthew | Huang | Certificate of Achievement, NASA Ames Research Center | Using Geometric Albedos and Reflection Spectra to Model the Color of Planets (Earth / Space Sciences) | 10 | |||
| Rishabh | Jain | 2nd Award, Computers / Mathematics Category | The Early Detection of Wildfires Through the Utilization of GOES Satellite Imagery, Edge Analysis, and Spectral-Based Hashing. (Computers / Mathematics) | 10 | |||
| 1st Place: Student Membership to AIAA, Certificate of Achievement, and Programmable Robot, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) Intelligent Systems Award | |||||||
| Honorable Mention: Certificate of Achievement, United States Army | |||||||
| Andrew Cheng | Jin | Grand Prize - Best of Championship - Biological Sciences - Trip to Intel ISEF, Santa Clara Valley Science & Engineering Fair Assn - Board of Directors Awards - High School | Breast Cancer Prognosis Through Gene Expression Profiling and Tumor Morphology (Bioinformatics) | 10 | |||
| 1st Award, Bioinformatics Category | |||||||
| Cindy Z. | Liu | Honorable Mention, Computers / Mathematics Category | Automated Choroidal Segmentation Method in Human Eye with 1050 nm Optical Coherence Tomography (Computers / Mathematics) | 10 | |||
| Andrew Jiakang | Luo | 2nd Award, Earth / Space Sciences Category | The Kinematics of Andromeda's Diffuse Ionized Gas Disk (Earth / Space Sciences) | 12 | |||
| Jonathan QuanXuan | Ma | 2nd Award, Physics Category | The Effect of Temperature Variation on the Flow Rate of Electromagnetic Pumps (Physics) | 9 | |||
| Neil K | Movva | 1st Award, Engineering Category | A Novel Approach to Pupil Tracking Using IR Reflection (Engineering) | 10 | |||
| $50 Voucher, Certificate of Achievement, Letter of Congratulations, and ONR Medallion, United States Navy and Marine Corps | |||||||
| Honorable Mention: Certificate of Achievement, United States Army | |||||||
| Special Award: $75 and Certificate of Achievement, Varian Medical Systems | |||||||
| Avinash | Nayak | 2nd Award, Physics Category | Investigation of Four-Lepton Invariant Mass Spectrum in Proton-Proton Collisions (Physics) | 11 | |||
| Suchita | Nety | 1st Award, Medicine / Health / Gerontology Category | Assessing a Targeted Heptapeptide as a Molecular Imaging Agent for Colon Cancer Screening (Medicine / Health / Gerontology) | 12 | |||
| Daniel Ryan | Pak | 1st Award, Zoology Category | What is the Relationship Between Sea Cucumber Body Wall Ossicles and Species Types? (Zoology) | 11 | |||
| Shreyas | Parthasarathy | 2nd Award, Physics Category | Investigation of Four-Lepton Invariant Mass Spectrum in Proton-Proton Collisions (Physics) | 11 | |||
| Pranav G. | Reddy | 2nd Award, Biochemistry / Microbiology Category | The Effect on p53 on the Inhibition of the SASP by Rapamycin in Human Fibroblasts (Biochemistry / Microbiology) | 10 | |||
| Honorable Mention Certificate of Achievement, MedImmune | |||||||
| Alison Emiko | Rugar | 3rd Place Award - $50, Popular Science Magazine Subscription, and Certificate of Achievement, ASM International, A Society for Materials, Santa Clara Valley Chapter | Growth and Characterization of the Thermoelectric Properties of Indium Phosphide Nanowire Networks (Engineering) | 12 | |||
| 3rd place student - $25 and Certificate of Achievement, American Vacuum Society, Northern CA Chapter | |||||||
| Honorable Mention: Certificate of Achievement, Society of Vacuum Coaters (SVC) | |||||||
| Brian | Tuan | Honorable Mention Student Award: $50 and Certificate of Achievement, Association for Computing Machinery, San Francisco Bay Area Professional Chapter | Optimization of Computational Data Analysis in Lattice Quantum Chromodynamics (Computers / Mathematics) | 11 | |||
| Andrew | Wang | Honorable Mention Student Award: $50 and Certificate of Achievement, Association for Computing Machinery, San Francisco Bay Area Professional Chapter | Optimization of Computational Data Analysis in Lattice Quantum Chromodynamics (Computers / Mathematics) | 11 | |||
| Holy Family School | Phil | Mariant | Sahil | Surapaneni | Honorable Mention, Engineering Category | The Smart Cane (Engineering) | 7 |
| Homeschool (Greathouse) | Sue | Greathouse | Laura Lynn | Powers | 2nd Award, Earth / Space Sciences Category | Factors that Affect Glacier Speed (Earth / Space Sciences) | 6 |
| Certificate of Achievement, American Meteorological Society | |||||||
| Certificate of Achievement, Letter of Congratulations, and ONR Medallion, United States Navy and Marine Corps | |||||||
| Merryhill Schools -Milpitas | Kanchan | Bhandare | Mark | Shacker | 2nd Award, Engineering Category | Light Armor (Engineering) | 7 |
| Jeannie | Bui | Kelli Mieko | Tsukmoto | 2nd Award, Physics Category | Magnets and Temperature (Physics) | 6 | |
| Andrew David | Wilson | 2nd Award, Physics Category | Magnets and Temperature (Physics) | 6 | |||
| Milpitas Christian School (6-8) | Lindon | Richards | Allen Khit | Cheung | 1st Award, Engineering Category | Small Tiles for Big Purposes (Engineering) | 7 |
| David Ngoc | Hoang | 1st Award, Engineering Category | Small Tiles for Big Purposes (Engineering) | 7 | |||
| Mountain View Academy | Jim | Marxmiller | Derek Myungil | Kim | Certificate of Achievement, Ricoh Corporation | Trash With Class (Behavioral / Social) | 11 |
| Old Orchard School | Linh | Pham | Vivian Ruoh-Yun | Chiang | 1st Award, Physics Category | Pulse Wave Analysis in Simulated Vascular System (Physics) | 7 |
| Christopher Alain | Emond | 2nd Award, Medicine / Health / Gerontology Category | Does Caffeine Affect Blood Pressure? (Medicine / Health / Gerontology) | 6 | |||
| Holly Marie | Jackson | Honorable Mention, Physics Category | Billiard Bots (Physics) | 7 | |||
| 3rd place student - $25 and Certificate of Achievement, American Vacuum Society, Northern CA Chapter | |||||||
| HP 35s Scientific Calculator, Hewlett-Packard Laboratories | |||||||
| Nicole Olivia | Link | 2nd Award, Physics Category | Hot Rocks (Physics) | 8 | |||
| Abigail Marie | McCarthy | 2nd Award, Behavioral / Social Category | Distractions While Driving (Behavioral / Social) | 7 | |||
| Catherine Miyuki | Petersen | 2nd Award, Behavioral / Social Category | Distractions While Driving (Behavioral / Social) | 7 | |||
| Vayl Ryan | Sorensen | 2nd Award, Physics Category | Hot Rocks (Physics) | 8 | |||
| Eva Elise | Szoboszlay | 2nd Award, Environmental Sciences Category | Dissolving Shells: The Effects of Ocean Acidification (Environmental Sciences) | 7 | |||
| Sabine | Schmuck | Chloe B. | Lechner | 2nd Award, Medicine / Health / Gerontology Category | The Flouride Eggsperiment (Medicine / Health / Gerontology) | 6 | |
| Presentation High School | Suzanne | Colvin | Nepheli Neeta | Aji | Honorable Mention, Behavioral / Social Category | The Art of Note Taking : How Typing vs Transcribing Impacts Recall (Behavioral / Social) | 12 |
| Special Award: $75 and Certificate of Achievement, Varian Medical Systems | |||||||
| Nicolle A. | Iacobacci | 1st Award, Zoology Category | The Effect of Poisonous Plants on Daphnia (Zoology) | 11 | |||
| Swetha | Janardhana Rajavel | 1st Award, Zoology Category | The Effect of Poisonous Plants on Daphnia (Zoology) | 12 | |||
| Ritika | Pai | Honorable Mention, Behavioral / Social Category | The Art of Note Taking : How Typing vs Transcribing Impacts Recall (Behavioral / Social) | 12 | |||
| Special Award: $75 and Certificate of Achievement, Varian Medical Systems | |||||||
| Shefali | Patel | Honorable Mention, Environmental Sciences Category | Cyanobacteria as a BioFertilizer:Utilizing the nitrogen-fixation capabilities of Nostoc cyanobacteria to enhance the growth of Brassica pervirdis, Brassica oleracea and Beta vulgaris (Environmental Sciences) | 10 | |||
| Anna Teresa | Thomas | 1st Award, Medicine / Health / Gerontology Category | Evaluating the Prevalence of Noncoding Repeat Expansions in Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (Medicine / Health / Gerontology) | 11 | |||
| Nicole | Odell | Soumya | Banna | Honorable Mention: Certificate of Achievement, United States Army | What Effect Does Inflation, Nominal Interest Rates, Real Interest Rates and GDP Have on International Value of the American Exchange Rate? (Computers / Mathematics) | 12 | |
| Sonia | Kapoor | 1st place: $100, Certificate of Achievement, Letter, and IFT Information, Northern California Institute of Food Technologists (NCIFT) | The Effect of Soda Consumption On Hunger (Medicine / Health / Gerontology) | 11 | |||
| Sanika Vijay | Kulkarni | Honorable Mention, Earth / Space Sciences Category | How do the Velocities and Positions of Different Stars Affect the Rotation Curve of the Andromeda Galaxy (Earth / Space Sciences) | 11 | |||
| Corina | Rahmig | Maya | Varma | $100 First Prize, Morgan Lewis | Algorithms for DNA Sequence Alignment in a Raspberry Pi Cluster (Computers / Mathematics) | 9 | |
| HP PAV g7z Laptop Computer with Microsoft Student Office Installed, Hewlett-Packard Laboratories | |||||||
| Privately Sponsored Project | Shanthi | Adimoolam (Sponsor) | Kaushik | Shivakumar | 1st Award, Physics Category | Effects of Roller Coaster Configurations on the Car's Final Velocity (Physics) | 6 |
| Gloria | Carter (Mentor) | Gautam | Bulusu | Honorable Mention, Medicine / Health / Gerontology Category | Metadherin (MTDH/AEG1): A Novel Marker of Metastasis and Chemoresistance Expression in Lymph-node Negative Estrogen Positive/HER2 Negative (Luminal A Subtype) Breast Cancer Women (Medicine / Health / Gerontology) | 9 | |
| David | Fryauf (Mentor) | Ramakrishnan | Menon | 2nd Award, Engineering Category | Carbon Enhanced Aluminum Oxide Memristor (Engineering) | 12 | |
| 2nd place student - $50 and Certificate of Achievement, American Vacuum Society, Northern CA Chapter | |||||||
| Stefan | Heller (Mentor) | Gabriel Sebastian | Rossmann | 1st Award, Computers / Mathematics Category | Microfluidic Chip and Software Interface for Tissue Culturing Experiments (Computers / Mathematics) | 11 | |
| Vipin | Jain (Mentor) | Diya | Jain | 1st place - $150 and Certificate of Achievement, American Society of Civil Engineers | An Economical Water Purifier for Under-Developed Countries (Engineering) | 6 | |
| Harsh N. | Jain | 1st place - $150 and Certificate of Achievement, American Society of Civil Engineers | An Economical Water Purifier for Under-Developed Countries (Engineering) | 8 | |||
| Pratibha | Jain (Sponsor) | Rishabh | Jain | 1st Award, Chemistry Category | From Fields to Fuels (Chemistry) | 7 | |
| Jay | Jawahar (Sponsor) | Shasvat Atman | Jawahar | 3rd Place Student Award: $50 and Certificate of Achievement, Association for Computing Machinery, San Francisco Bay Area Professional Chapter | Diagnosing Breast Cancer using an Artificial Neural Network (Computers / Mathematics) | 8 | |
| 2nd Award, Computers / Mathematics Category | |||||||
| Rohin | Prabhakaran | 3rd Place Student Award: $50 and Certificate of Achievement, Association for Computing Machinery, San Francisco Bay Area Professional Chapter | Diagnosing Breast Cancer using an Artificial Neural Network (Computers / Mathematics) | 8 | |||
| 2nd Award, Computers / Mathematics Category | |||||||
| Bruce | Kawanami (Sponsor) | Spoorthi Venkata | Davala | HP PhotoSmart 6520 printer, Hewlett-Packard Laboratories | The Inhibition of Escherichia Coli In Refrigerators Through the Use of Pulsed Electric Field Processing (Engineering) | 11 | |
| Ajay | Jain | $1000 Grand Prize, Morgan Lewis | Rapid Variable Density Map Acquisition Through a Novel Distributed Network of Autonomous Aerial Quadrotors Driven by Computer Vision Based Feature Targeting (Engineering) | 9 | |||
| 1st Award, Engineering Category | |||||||
| 2nd Place: Messenger Bag, Notepad, Framed Certificate of Achievement, and Letter, United States Army | |||||||
| Honorable Mention: Student Membership to AIAA and Certificate of Achievement, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) Intelligent Systems Award | |||||||
| Paras | Jain | $1000 Grand Prize, Morgan Lewis | Rapid Variable Density Map Acquisition Through a Novel Distributed Network of Autonomous Aerial Quadrotors Driven by Computer Vision Based Feature Targeting (Engineering) | 11 | |||
| 1st Award, Engineering Category | |||||||
| 2nd Place: Messenger Bag, Notepad, Framed Certificate of Achievement, and Letter, United States Army | |||||||
| Honorable Mention: Student Membership to AIAA and Certificate of Achievement, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) Intelligent Systems Award | |||||||
| Meera Arati | Yellamraju | Gift Card and Certificate of Achievement, Society of Women Engineers | A Cane-Mounted Camera Device to Aid the Visually Impaired at an Intersection: The Application of an Image Analysis Algorithm to Detect Moving Vehicles (Engineering) | 11 | |||
| Ralph | Kling (Mentor) | Michael A. | Kling | 2nd Award, Engineering Category | Magic Pen (Engineering) | 11 | |
| Certificate of Achievement and Pewter Medallion Voucher, Yale Science and Engineering Association | |||||||
| Manish | Pandey (Sponsor) | Mayank | Pandey | 2nd place student - $50 and Certificate of Achievement, American Vacuum Society, Northern CA Chapter | 3D Optical Microscope (Engineering) | 8 | |
| Vibra | Radiya (Mentor) | Anika | Radiya-Dixit | Grand Prize - Best of Championship - Biological Sciences - Trip to Intel ISEF, Santa Clara Valley Science & Engineering Fair Assn - Board of Directors Awards - High School | Comparison of Healthy vs. Diabetic Adipose-Derived Stem-Cell-Seeded Hydrogels for Topical Wound Healing (Medicine / Health / Gerontology) | 12 | |
| Top finalist High School projects, The Synopsys Outreach Foundation n+1 Prize | |||||||
| 1st Award, Medicine / Health / Gerontology Category | |||||||
| $200, Certificate of Achievement, and Letter, Dr. Paul X. Callahan in memorium - a Top Biological HS project | |||||||
| Grade 12 Individual Project - $200 award, DuPont Industrial Biosciences | |||||||
| Roger | Terrill (Mentor) | Shivam | Singhal | 1st Award, Botany Category | A Secret Cure: Evaluation of Curcuma Longa's Ability to Desist Hypothyroidism. (Botany) | 6 | |
| Sacred Heart Middle School | Rachel | Pleis | Harry Wightman | Lambert | Honorable Mention, Physics Category | Which Bat Hits Furthest? (Physics) | 6 |
| Ian Michael | Sands | Honorable Mention, Chemistry Category | What is the Best Way to Dry a Baseball in 45 Seconds? (Chemistry) | 6 | |||
| Jaeger J. | Stone | Honorable Mention, Physics Category | Which Bat Hits Furthest? (Physics) | 6 | |||
| Saint Christopher School | Denise | Brady | Dana Isabel | Bagis | Honorable Mention, Physics Category | Music Maker (Physics) | 6 |
| Arlene | Brown | Alana Rose | De La Torre | 2nd Award, Environmental Sciences Category | Acid Rain Acid Rain Go Away (Environmental Sciences) | 6 | |
| Isabelle Rebecca | McKenzie | 2nd Award, Environmental Sciences Category | Acid Rain Acid Rain Go Away (Environmental Sciences) | 6 | |||
| Nicholas | Guttadauro | Grace Louise | Bernal | 1st Award, Chemistry Category | Optimization of pH for Lactase Enzyme Function (Chemistry) | 8 | |
| Kyle Six | Lim | 1st Place Award - $200 to Team, Popular Science Magazine Subscription, Certificate of Achievement, and Certificate & Medallion from ASM Educational Foundation, ASM International, A Society for Materials, Santa Clara Valley Chapter | Material Friction In Our World Today (Physics) | 8 | |||
| Anne Marie | Moultray | 2nd Award, Botany Category | Allelopathy Apocalypse (Botany) | 8 | |||
| Matthew Louis | Rizzo | 1st Place Award - $200 to Team, Popular Science Magazine Subscription, Certificate of Achievement, and Certificate & Medallion from ASM Educational Foundation, ASM International, A Society for Materials, Santa Clara Valley Chapter | Material Friction In Our World Today (Physics) | 8 | |||
| Saint Francis High School | Roberta | Chisam | Anjini | Karthik | Grand Prize Alternate - Physical Sciences - Trip to State Science Fair, Santa Clara Valley Science & Engineering Fair Assn - Board of Directors Awards - High School | Biosynthesis of Metal Nanoparticles for Surface Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy (Physics) | 9 |
| 1st Award, Physics Category | |||||||
| 1st Place - $100, Framed Certificate of Achievement, and Popular Science Magazine Subscription, SAMPE - Society for the Advancement of Material and Process Engineering | |||||||
| Manogna | Vemulapati | 1st Award, Bioinformatics Category | Identification of CpG Islands in a DNA Sequence using a Hidden Markov Model Trained in MapReduce (Bioinformatics) | 9 | |||
| Kimberly | Day | Arpita | Singhal | 1st Award, Chemistry Category | Herbalism as an Anticancer and Anti-inflamatory Agent: Characterization and Evalution of Bioavailability of Curcumin Particles (Chemistry) | 9 | |
| 1st Place Award - $500 and Framed Certificate of Achievement, American Chemical Society, Santa Clara Valley Local Section | |||||||
| Chihiro | Ikezi | Leela J. | Amladi | Honorable Mention, Engineering Category | Fail-Proof Pill Reminder System (Engineering) | 10 | |
| Saint Joseph of Cupertino Elem School | Lisa | Wicht | Katherine Bayron | Cervania | Honorable Mention, Chemistry Category | The Effect of Temperature and Acid Strength of an Aqueous Solution on the Solution's Electric Charge. (Chemistry) | 8 |
| Stratford Middle School - San Jose | Neha | Makhijani | Vardhaan Sai | Ambati | 1st Award, Environmental Sciences Category | Are Manufactured Nano-Materials (MNMs) an Ecotoxicological Risk? Experiment Conducted Using Three Commonly Manufactured Nano-Materials (MNMs) - Nano Zno, Nano CeO2, Nano-TiO2 and Rhizobia as a Biosensor (Environmental Sciences) | 8 |
| 1st Place: $75 and Certificate of Achievement, Society of Vacuum Coaters (SVC) | |||||||
| Gardening Book and $31 class voucher, Common Ground Organic Garden Supply & Education Center | |||||||
| Mythri | Ambatipudi | 1st Award, Medicine / Health / Gerontology Category | Diet Induced Thermogenesis!!! Combating Obesity and Postprandial Hyperglycemia With the Thermogenic Effects of Anthocyanins Catechins and Capsaicins (Medicine / Health / Gerontology) | 7 | |||
| Sara Lily | Emami | 2nd Award, Environmental Sciences Category | Does Increasing Levels of Carbon Dioxide in the Air Contribute to Global Warming? (Environmental Sciences) | 7 | |||
| Tithi | Mandal | 1st Award, Physics Category | Airfoils and Winglets (Physics) | 7 | |||
| Anish | Seshadri | 1st Award, Engineering Category | Automated, Wearable Guidance System for the Visually Impaired (Engineering) | 8 | |||
| Certificate of Achievement and Lapel Pin, National Society of Professional Engineers | |||||||
| Certificate of Achievement, Letter of Congratulations, and ONR Medallion, United States Navy and Marine Corps | |||||||
| Jeremy Ryan | Sharp | 2nd Award, Physics Category | Accuracy of a Trebuchet (Physics) | 6 | |||
| Sean | Yang | 1st Award, Earth / Space Sciences Category | What's the Angle on Solar Cells? (Earth / Space Sciences) | 6 | |||
| Krista | Nguyen | Brandon H. | Baik | Certificate of Achievement, Letter of Congratulations, and ONR Medallion, United States Navy and Marine Corps | What Shape is the Most Stealthy? (Engineering) | 6 | |
| Themistocles | Hadjiioannou | 1st Award, Physics Category | How Does Temperature Affect A Magnet's Strength? (Physics) | 7 | |||
| Family and Friends Memberships to the Tech Museum, The Tech Museum of Innovation | |||||||
| Kevin | Seago | Arash | Shabany | 1st Award, Engineering Category | The Effect of a Lens on the Electrical Energy Generated By a Solar Panel (Engineering) | 6 | |
| Stratford Middle School-Santa Clara | Anuradha | Murthy | Manya | Bali | Honorable Mention, Biochemistry / Microbiology Category | Fountain of Youth? Antioxidants: Defense Against Free Radicals? (Biochemistry / Microbiology) | 7 |
| Divya Lekshmi | Empranthiri | 1st Award, Physics Category | Want to Play More Temple Run? The Effect of Temperature on Battery Life (Physics) | 7 | |||
| Certificate of Achievement, Letter of Congratulations, and ONR Medallion, United States Navy and Marine Corps | |||||||
| Nachiketa | Gargi | 2nd Award, Physics Category | Super Cool Science (Physics) | 7 | |||
| Rohan | Koodli | 2nd Award, Biochemistry / Microbiology Category | Sensitivity of Dinoflagellate Bioluminescence to Light Exposure (Biochemistry / Microbiology) | 7 | |||
| Ronak Kiran | Mundkur | Honorable Mention, Physics Category | Cars Powered by Aqua Fuel: Effect of Electrical Load on the Electrical Efficiency of the PEMFC Cell (Physics) | 7 | |||
| Anushree Manoj | Thekkedath | Honorable Mention, Chemistry Category | Soak It Up! Effect of Chemical Composition of Liquids on Absorption by Polyacrylates (Chemistry) | 7 | |||
| Christopher Hafai | Yip | 1st Award, Physics Category | Wind Turbines (Physics) | 7 | |||
| Adrika Prio | Yousuf | Honorable Mention, Physics Category | Temperature vs. Viscosity (Physics) | 7 | |||
| Martin | Wiedemann | Gowri | Anupama | 2nd Award, Physics Category | Energy Efficient Solar Cells (Physics) | 6 | |
| 3rd Place: $25 and Certificate of Achievement, Society of Vacuum Coaters (SVC) | |||||||
| Sameer | Chaparala | Honorable Mention, Engineering Category | Power of the Sun (Engineering) | 6 | |||
| Rachel | Chung | Honorable Mention, Botany Category | Lasting Beauty (Botany) | 6 | |||
| Ishani Pravin | Narwankar | 2nd Award, Botany Category | Going Green (Botany) | 6 | |||
| Ashwin | Rammohan | 2nd Award, Physics Category | Testing and Comparing the Non-ionizing Radiation from Cell Phones for Safety (Physics) | 6 | |||
| Certificate of Achievement, NASA Ames Research Center | |||||||
| Svetlana | Sohoni | Certificate of Excellence from National Association of Women Geoscientists, Association for Women Geoscientists, San Francisco Bay Area Chapter | How to Prevent Soil Erosion (Environmental Sciences) | 6 | |||
| Mallika N. | Yeleswarapu | 2nd Award, Environmental Sciences Category | Water's the Matter: The Effect of pH on Dissolved Oxygen Levels in Freshwater Sources (Environmental Sciences) | 8 | |||
| Valley Christian High School | Jennifer | Gerlach | Monica Himaani | Bodd | 2nd Award, Biochemistry / Microbiology Category | Bionanotechnology: Manipulation of Photothermal Properties of Gold Nanorod Conjugates of EGFR and VEGFR in Mammary Carcinoma and Non-Small Cell Lung Carcinoma (NSCLC) (Biochemistry / Microbiology) | 11 |
| 1st place: $51 and Certificate of Achievement, United States Metric Association | |||||||
| Audrey Eunyoung | Chang | 2nd Award, Biochemistry / Microbiology Category | Bionanotechnology: Manipulation of Photothermal Properties of Gold Nanorod Conjugates of EGFR and VEGFR in Mammary Carcinoma and Non-Small Cell Lung Carcinoma (NSCLC) (Biochemistry / Microbiology) | 11 | |||
| 1st place: $51 and Certificate of Achievement, United States Metric Association | |||||||
| Rachel Lou | Eager | Honorable Mention, Behavioral / Social Category | Cognitive Reasoning and Memory Abilities in Cuttlefish: Relating Environmental Factors to Specific Patterns Using Positive Reinforcement (Sepia bandensis) (Behavioral / Social) | 11 | |||
| Melissa Louise | Hartman | Honorable Mention, Behavioral / Social Category | Cognitive Reasoning and Memory Abilities in Cuttlefish: Relating Environmental Factors to Specific Patterns Using Positive Reinforcement (Sepia bandensis) (Behavioral / Social) | 11 | |||
| Karen | Mac | 2nd Award, Biochemistry / Microbiology Category | Bionanotechnology: Manipulation of Photothermal Properties of Gold Nanorod Conjugates of EGFR and VEGFR in Mammary Carcinoma and Non-Small Cell Lung Carcinoma (NSCLC) (Biochemistry / Microbiology) | 11 | |||
| 1st place: $51 and Certificate of Achievement, United States Metric Association | |||||||
| Eyobed Tsehaye | Mesfun | 1st Award, Medicine / Health / Gerontology Category | The Study of the Effects of Electromagnetic Fields With Varying Frequencies on Cancerous and Non-cancerous cell-lines (Medicine / Health / Gerontology) | 12 | |||
| Nicki | Naddaf | Top finalist High School projects, The Synopsys Outreach Foundation n+1 Prize | The Epigenetic Causes of Parkinson's Disease in Relation to PINK 1 (Medicine / Health / Gerontology) | 12 | |||
| Dorothy Karen | Ng | Top finalist High School projects, The Synopsys Outreach Foundation n+1 Prize | The Epigenetic Causes of Parkinson's Disease in Relation to PINK 1 (Medicine / Health / Gerontology) | 12 | |||
| Andrew Dinh | Nguyen | 2nd place: $40 and Certificate of Achievement, United States Metric Association | Effects of Graphene on Cell Growth (Biochemistry / Microbiology) | 11 | |||
| Sam | Taft | 2nd place: $40 and Certificate of Achievement, United States Metric Association | Effects of Graphene on Cell Growth (Biochemistry / Microbiology) | 11 | |||
| Howell | Ivy | Evan | Borras | 2nd Award, Engineering Category | Simulation of Passive Attitude Stabilization of a CubeSat to Predetermine Orientations for Imaging Devices (Engineering) | 11 | |
| 2nd Place: $150 and Framed Certificate of Achievement, System Safety Society | |||||||
| Izzat Mitri | Halabi | HP PAV g7z Laptop Computer with Microsoft Student Office Installed, Hewlett-Packard Laboratories | Free Energy (Engineering) | 11 | |||
| Rahul | Tewari | 2nd Award, Engineering Category | Simulation of Passive Attitude Stabilization of a CubeSat to Predetermine Orientations for Imaging Devices (Engineering) | 9 | |||
| 2nd Place: $150 and Framed Certificate of Achievement, System Safety Society | |||||||
| Valley Christian Junior High School | Malathi | Tuers | Priscilla L. | Lee | 2nd Award, Medicine / Health / Gerontology Category | What is the Effect of Off-the-shelf Shampoo and/or Conditioner on Frizzy Hair? (Medicine / Health / Gerontology) | 7 |
| Yavneh Day School | David | Oliver | Miles David | Bader | Honorable Mention, Biochemistry / Microbiology Category | What is the Effect of Mouthwash on Mouth Bacteria? (Biochemistry / Microbiology) | 6 |
| Jacob Benjamin | Kahn-Samuelson | Honorable Mention, Biochemistry / Microbiology Category | What is the Effect of Mouthwash on Mouth Bacteria? (Biochemistry / Microbiology) | 6 | |||
| Jalen Alexander | Milrad | Honorable Mention, Biochemistry / Microbiology Category | What is the Effect of Mouthwash on Mouth Bacteria? (Biochemistry / Microbiology) | 6 | |||
| Joshua Eli | Rosenheim | $50 Cash Award to student, Certificate of Achievement, and Letter, Al Foster Award | Physics of the Tablecloth Trick (Physics) | 6 | |||