Privately Sponsored Project
Project Awards 2013
Synopsys Silicon Valley Science and Technology Championship
| School | Teacher | Student | Award | Title | Gr | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | |