Harker School-Upper Campus

Project Awards 2013

Synopsys Silicon Valley Science and Technology Championship

School	Teacher		Student		Award	Title	Gr
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