Fremont Union High School District
Project Awards 2014
Synopsys Silicon Valley Science and Technology Championship
| School | Teacher | Student | Award | Title | Gr | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cupertino High School | Eric | Ferrante | Tanay | Tandon | 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 | A Machine Learning Model for Automated Short Essay Assessment through Random Forest based Ensemble Training Methods with Natural Language Processing driven Feature Engineering (Computers / Mathematics) | 11 |
| 1st Award, Computers / Mathematics Category | |||||||
| 1st Place: Certificate of Achievement, and Programmable Robot, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) Intelligent Systems Award | |||||||
| Daniel | Stavis | Sanika | Mahajan | 1st Award, Environmental Sciences Category | What is the Effect of Exposure to Different Concentrations of Sediment from Various Locations on Daphnia Magna, and what is the LC50 of these Sediments? (Environmental Sciences) | 9 | |
| Varsha | Swamy | 1st Award, Environmental Sciences Category | What is the Effect of Exposure to Different Concentrations of Sediment from Various Locations on Daphnia Magna, and what is the LC50 of these Sediments? (Environmental Sciences) | 9 | |||
| Allannah | Ujifusa | Gautam | Bulusu | 1st Award, Medicine / Health / Gerontology Category | Biomarkers in risk prediction model (RPM) predicting recurrence in patients with Ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS) (Medicine / Health / Gerontology) | 10 | |
| Homestead High School | Jillian | Fackrell | Karthik | Srivatsan | 2nd place, $30 check, and a Book, Apatite to Zircon, Inc. Award | Radiant Heat Cellphone Charger (Engineering) | 11 |
| Amrita | Venkatraman | Grand Prize Student Award: $640 and Certificate of Achievement, Association for Computing Machinery, San Francisco Bay Area Professional Chapter | Building A Mobile Sensor to Detect Hand Tremors for the Determination of Psychosocial and Pathological Conditions (Engineering) | 10 | |||
| 2nd Award, Engineering Category | |||||||
| One-day immersive trip to Firebase to work on API project, TechLab Education | |||||||
| Sam | Fung | David | Liang | 2nd Award, Botany Category | Thigmotropic response in Passion Fruit Tendrils (Botany) | 11 | |
| Shaunak | Modak | 2nd Award, Behavioral / Social Category | Does knowledge of the amount of time allowed influence the ability to perform a task? (Behavioral / Social) | 9 | |||
| Certificate of Achievement, American Psychological Association | |||||||
| William Christopher | Scott | 2nd Award, Behavioral / Social Category | Does knowledge of the amount of time allowed influence the ability to perform a task? (Behavioral / Social) | 9 | |||
| Certificate of Achievement, American Psychological Association | |||||||
| Connie | Murray | Anisha | Braganza | Honorable Mention, Physics Category | Excited Oxygen Chemistry in Disks around Young Stars (Physics) | 11 | |
| Lynbrook High School | Amanda | Alonzo | Shivani Milind | Bhandarkar | 2nd Award, Environmental Sciences Category | The Effect of Sulfur during Temperature Rise on the Reproduction Rate of C. Elegans (Environmental Sciences) | 9 |
| Nithin | Buduma | 1st Award, Physics Category | Evaluating the Effectiveness of the Anisotropic Kondo Systems CeNiSn and FeSi as topological insulators reveals anomalous transport behavior (Physics) | 10 | |||
| 3rd Place Award - $50, Popular Science Magazine Subscription and Framed Certificate of Achievement, ASM International, A Society for Materials, Santa Clara Valley Chapter | |||||||
| Honorable Mention: Certificate of Achievement, T-Shirt, Society of Vacuum Coaters (SVC) | |||||||
| Aayush | Gupta | Honorable Mention, Engineering Category | Trying to Make a More Hand Friendly Computer Mouse (Engineering) | 10 | |||
| Mukund | Hari | Honorable Mention, Medicine / Health / Gerontology Category | Impact of Curcumin on Cancer Induced Drosophila Specimen (Medicine / Health / Gerontology) | 10 | |||
| Matthew Manchung Keisuke | Hase-Liu | 1st Award, Chemistry Category | The Effectiveness of the Natural Polymers Chitosan and Polyglutamic Acid in Water Purification (Chemistry) | 9 | |||
| Certificate of Achievement; if registered, medal, subscription & opportunity to advance to national competition for trip to Stockholm, Stockholm Junior Water Prize | |||||||
| Selena | Huang | Honorable Mention, Behavioral / Social Category | Effect of Music on Students' Focus (Behavioral / Social) | 9 | |||
| Adish Ashutosh | Jain | 2nd Award, Engineering Category | A Novel Approach to Harnessing the Energy of the Sun: Using a Thermoelectric Generating Heat Chamber to Recharge a Cell Phone (Engineering) | 10 | |||
| Certificate of Achievement, Ricoh Corporation | |||||||
| Maitreyee | Joshi | $100 and Certificate of Achievement, Wireless Communications Alliance | Developing an Automatic Indoor Mapping Technique to Create an Indoor Navigation System App for the Blind and Visually Impaired (Engineering) | 12 | |||
| Certificate of Achievement, NASA Ames Research Center | |||||||
| One-day immersive trip to Firebase to work on API project, TechLab Education | |||||||
| Rachit | Kataria | 1st Award, Environmental Sciences Category | A Novel Approach on the Maximization of CO2 Intake through the Use of 3-Indoleacetic Acid and Kinetin Chemical Enhancement and Mycorrhizal Fungal Alteration on Rhizophora Mangle (Environmental Sciences) | 11 | |||
| Certificate of Achievement, American Meteorological Society | |||||||
| Somya | Khare | Gift Card and Certificate of Achievement, Society of Women Engineers | Development of an Effective Pan-Cancer Prognostic Model: Analyzing Gene Expression Levels of the FOXM1 Transcription Network in Multiple Cancer Types in Order to Predict Patient Survival (Bioinformatics) | 11 | |||
| Xiangyue Angela | Kong | 1st Award, Medicine / Health / Gerontology Category | The Transcription Factor Bcl11b Regulates Mammary Stem Cell Self-renewal and Quiescence Partially Through p21 (Medicine / Health / Gerontology) | 12 | |||
| Marilyn | Kung | Honorable Mention, Botany Category | The Effects of Stanleya pinnata on Reducing the Amount of Selenium Discharges in the Permanente Creek (Botany) | 9 | |||
| Neha | Kunjal | 2nd Place Award - $100 Cash and Certificate of Achievement, American Society of Civil Engineers | The Design of an Efficient System that can Separate Mud and Debris from Muddy water (Engineering) | 10 | |||
| Individual: $30 and Book, The ROD Women in Science Award | |||||||
| Pranav Varasri | Lalgudi | High School Finalist Letter, The Synopsys Outreach Foundation n+1 Prize | A Novel Study on the Expression of Recombinant Polyphenolic Adhesive Protein Mefp-5 Secreted by the Mollusk Mytilus edulis in Escherichia coli (Biochemistry / Microbiology) | 9 | |||
| Honorable Mention, Biochemistry / Microbiology Category | |||||||
| Nidhi A | Navaratna | Gift Card and Certificate of Achievement, Society of Women Engineers | Development of an Effective Pan-Cancer Prognostic Model: Analyzing Gene Expression Levels of the FOXM1 Transcription Network in Multiple Cancer Types in Order to Predict Patient Survival (Bioinformatics) | 11 | |||
| Ruchi Sandeep | Pandya | $100 First Prize, Morgan Lewis | The development of a Carbon Nanofiber electrode based sensor for cardiac health monitoring (Chemistry) | 11 | |||
| 1st Award, Chemistry Category | |||||||
| 1st Place Award - $100, Popular Science Magazine Subscription, Framed Certificate of Achievement, and Certificate & Medallion from ASM Educational Foundation, ASM International, A Society for Materials, Santa Clara Valley Chapter | |||||||
| 2nd place student - $50 and Certificate of Achievement, American Vacuum Society, Northern CA Chapter | |||||||
| GR 9-12, 2nd Place: $50, Book, and Certificate of Achievement, T-Shirt, Society of Vacuum Coaters (SVC) | |||||||
| Gauri | Patil | Honorable Mention, Zoology Category | Determining the Effect of Cocos Nucifera Oil in Caenorhabditis Elegans that display Alzheimer's Disease Symptoms (Zoology) | 11 | |||
| Vidur | Sanandan | 1st Award, Earth / Space Sciences Category | Structural Parameters and Comparisons of Galaxies in Redshift Range 0.8 to 2.0 and Mass Greater Than 10^10 From Mathematical Residual Model Fits Made From Telescopic and Simulated Images of Varying Depth (Earth / Space Sciences) | 12 | |||
| Neilay | Shahi | Honorable Mention, Environmental Sciences Category | The effect of substances on the productivity of electricity in a microbial fuel cell (Environmental Sciences) | 9 | |||
| Samvardhini | Sridharan | Honorable Mention, Botany Category | The emission of methyl salicylate in response to the application of simple and complex sugars to lacerations of Gaultheria Procumbens (Botany) | 10 | |||
| Pragna Elizabeth | Upputuri | Sport Bag, Junior Tech Organizer, United States Air Force | The Application of Optical Lift on Micromotors (Engineering) | 9 | |||
| Srisaiteja | Vemireddy | Honorable Mention, Medicine / Health / Gerontology Category | Impact of Curcumin on Cancer Induced Drosophila Specimen (Medicine / Health / Gerontology) | 10 | |||
| Varun J | Venkatesh | High School Finalist Letter, The Synopsys Outreach Foundation n+1 Prize | A Novel Study on the Expression of Recombinant Polyphenolic Adhesive Protein Mefp-5 Secreted by the Mollusk Mytilus edulis in Escherichia coli (Biochemistry / Microbiology) | 9 | |||
| Honorable Mention, Biochemistry / Microbiology Category | |||||||
| Andy | Zhang | 2nd Award, Engineering Category | A Novel Approach to Harnessing the Energy of the Sun: Using a Thermoelectric Generating Heat Chamber to Recharge a Cell Phone (Engineering) | 10 | |||
| Certificate of Achievement, Ricoh Corporation | |||||||
| Marilyn Mengyao | Zhang | 1st Award, Medicine / Health / Gerontology Category | The Effect of the Number of Caenorhabditis elegans per Living Space on the Neurogenesis and Brain Activity of C. elegans (Medicine / Health / Gerontology) | 9 | |||
| Brittany | Stevens | Hima | Rajana | Honorable Mention, Medicine / Health / Gerontology Category | Understanding the Neurobiological Basis of Sleep Using Neurodegenerative Diseases as Models (Medicine / Health / Gerontology) | 11 | |
| David | Taylor | Vibhav Satsheel | Altekar | Grand Prize - Best of Championship - Physical Sciences - Trip to Intel ISEF and Plaque, Santa Clara Valley Science & Engineering Fair Assn - Board of Directors Awards - High School | Engineered Chitosan based MultiReservoir devices for effective localization to treat Multifaceted set of diseases (Engineering) | 12 | |
| High School Finalist Letter, The Synopsys Outreach Foundation n+1 Prize | |||||||
| 1st Award, Engineering Category | |||||||
| Certificate of Achievement and ONR Medallion, United States Navy and Marine Corps | |||||||
| Monta Vista High School | Scott | DeRuiter | Ajay | Jain | Honorable Mention Student Award: $50 and Certificate of Achievement, Association for Computing Machinery, San Francisco Bay Area Professional Chapter | An Autonomous Networked Robotic Nurse for Patients and the Elderly for Care, Monitoring, Diagnostics and Supply Delivery (Engineering) | 10 |
| 1st Award, Engineering Category | |||||||
| $100 cash prize for Internet of Things project, TechLab Education | |||||||
| 1st Place: Certificate of Achievement, and Programmable Robot, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) Intelligent Systems Award | |||||||
| One-day immersive trip to Firebase to work on API project, TechLab Education | |||||||
| Shuheng | Niu | Honorable Mention, Computers / Mathematics Category | Removing Topic-Specific Words to Improve Accuracy of Authorship Attribution (Computers / Mathematics) | 9 | |||
| Renee | Fallon | Anusha | Agarwal | 2nd Place Award - $125 and Certificate of Achievement, American Association for Laboratory Animal Science, Northern California Branch | The Effects of Temperature on Somatic Pain (Behavioral / Social) | 9 | |
| Jonathan F | Fung | 2nd Award, Bioinformatics Category | Prognostic Biomarker Tool for Glioblastoma: A Multi-Dimensional Cluster Analysis to Identify Target Genomic Signatures (Bioinformatics) | 10 | |||
| Ameena | Golding | Honorable Mention, Behavioral / Social Category | Short Term Memory Retrieval via Visual and Verbal Stimuli: The Effects of Age and Sex (Behavioral / Social) | 11 | |||
| Abishak | Govindarajan | Honorable Mention, Biochemistry / Microbiology Category | Creating Green Energy from Paper Towels through Microbial Fuel Cells (Biochemistry / Microbiology) | 9 | |||
| Scott Carson | Haskell | 2nd Award, Biochemistry / Microbiology Category | Effects of Extremely Low Frequency (ELF) Magnetic Fields on Daphnia and their Population Growth (Biochemistry / Microbiology) | 11 | |||
| 3rd Place Award - $100 and Certificate of Achievement, American Association for Laboratory Animal Science, Northern California Branch | |||||||
| Aditi | Jain | 2nd Award, Botany Category | Can the Laccase Enzyme Released from Botrytis cinerea (Noble Rot) During Wine Fermentation Treat Candida Yeast Infections? (Botany) | 9 | |||
| Honorable Mention Certificate, Santa Clara County Biotech Education Partnership (SCCBEP) | |||||||
| Keerthi Vasan | Krishnan | Honorable Mention, Bioinformatics Category | Reducing false-positive biopsies: a unique RT image processing technique as a filter on mammography images for BI-RADS 4 assessment and new thresholds for intervention. (Bioinformatics) | 10 | |||
| Julia H | Miao | 2nd Award, Computers / Mathematics Category | Mammographic Diagnosis for Breast Cancer Biopsy Predictions Using Support Vector Machine (SVM) Learning Classification (Computers / Mathematics) | 11 | |||
| Bhavana | Pabbisetti | 2nd Award, Environmental Sciences Category | What is the effect of the amount of selenium in soil on the selenium intake in plants? (Environmental Sciences) | 10 | |||
| Shriya Reddy | Perati | Honorable Mention: Certificate of Achievement, and Goody Bag, Association for Women in Science, Palo Alto Chapter | The Effect of Pesticides and Herbicides on Nitrogen Fixing Bacteria Isolated from Legumes and Soil (Environmental Sciences) | 9 | |||
| Yana | Petri | 1st Award, Zoology Category | The effects of ingestion of spores and proteinaceous parasporal crystals produced by Bacillus thuringiensis on the survival and olfactory associative learning performance of adult honeybees of the species Apis mellifera. (Zoology) | 11 | |||
| Honorable Mention: 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 | |||||||
| Rhea | Rangarajan | 2nd Award, Environmental Sciences Category | Ocean Acidification: The Effect of Carbonate on Mussel Shells (Environmental Sciences) | 9 | |||
| Aiswarya Sunil | Sankar | 1st Award, Medicine / Health / Gerontology Category | Reducing Hyper-excitation in Autism: A Test of Various Medicinal Herb's Ability to Increase Inhibition in the Roots of Arabidopsis Thaliana (Medicine / Health / Gerontology) | 11 | |||
| Certificate of Achievement, Medallion, and Letter, United States Public Health Service Award | |||||||
| Soumya | Siravara | 2nd Award, Chemistry Category | Determination of Residual Effect of Silver Nanoparticles on Food (Chemistry) | 9 | |||
| 1st place: $100, Certificate of Achievement, Letter, and IFT Information, Northern California Institute of Food Technologists (NCIFT) | |||||||
| Honorable Mention: Certificate of Achievement, and Goody Bag, Association for Women in Science, Palo Alto Chapter | |||||||
| Elizabeth Ye | Wang | 2nd Award, Engineering Category | A Novel, Bio-inspired Soft Robot For Disaster Relief Via Raspberry Pi Command System and Cutting Edge Movement Mechanism (Engineering) | 9 | |||
| Best Project: $50, Certificate of Achievement, and Voucher for Materials and a Safe Boating Course, United States Coast Guard Auxiliary | |||||||
| Debbie | Frazier | Nadine Christina | Aderhold | High School Finalist Letter, The Synopsys Outreach Foundation n+1 Prize | The Effect of Temperature and Humidity on the Tensile Strength of Synthetic Spider Silk Grown From E. Coli (Biochemistry / Microbiology) | 9 | |
| 2nd Award, Biochemistry / Microbiology Category | |||||||
| Certificate of Achievement, NASA Ames Research Center | |||||||
| Nikhil | Cheerla | 1st Award, Bioinformatics Category | Accurate Detection of Skin Cancer Using Multi-Stage Neural Networks (Bioinformatics) | 9 | |||
| Special Award: $75 and Certificate of Achievement, Varian Medical Systems | |||||||
| Ajay | Gopinath | Honorable Mention, Computers / Mathematics Category | Characterizing the deformation of leukemic neutrophils from large deformations to understand cancer cell migration (Computers / Mathematics) | 11 | |||
| Josephine | Koe | 2nd Award, Computers / Mathematics Category | Generating the Infinite List of Prime Numbers (Computers / Mathematics) | 9 | |||
| Anurag | Singh | 1st Award, Engineering Category | Parking Pigeon: Application for Enhanced Localization in Multi Story Parking Lots (Engineering) | 9 | |||
| $100 and Certificate of Achievement, Fair Manager's Graphic Design Award | |||||||
| Kaushik | Tandon | 1st Award, Engineering Category | Parking Pigeon: Application for Enhanced Localization in Multi Story Parking Lots (Engineering) | 9 | |||
| $100 and Certificate of Achievement, Fair Manager's Graphic Design Award | |||||||
| Andrew | Goldenkranz | Dhanya | Mahesh | Certificate of Achievement; if registered, medal, subscription & opportunity to advance to national competition for trip to Stockholm, Stockholm Junior Water Prize | The Effect of Charcoal Filtering on Chemical Composition of Water (Environmental Sciences) | 9 | |
| Ishaan T | Shah | 2nd Award, Medicine / Health / Gerontology Category | The Contribution of Ethanol in the Extracellular Matrix on Lipoppolysaccharide-Challenged White Blood Cells from Sheep Blood to Lactate Production. (Medicine / Health / Gerontology) | 10 | |||
| Vamsee | Vemulapalli | 2nd Award, Medicine / Health / Gerontology Category | The Contribution of Ethanol in the Extracellular Matrix on Lipoppolysaccharide-Challenged White Blood Cells from Sheep Blood to Lactate Production. (Medicine / Health / Gerontology) | 10 | |||
| Kavita | Gupta | Disha | Bahl | 2nd Award, Biochemistry / Microbiology Category | Role of Wnt3a in Restoring the Osteogenic Capacity of Aged Bone Marrow (Biochemistry / Microbiology) | 11 | |
| Shruthi Reddy | Perati | 1st Award, Medicine / Health / Gerontology Category | A Histological Study of the Effects of Wnt Signaling on Cementum Thickness and Regeneration in the First Maxillary Molar (Medicine / Health / Gerontology) | 12 | |||
| Anshul | Ramachandran | 1st Award, Chemistry Category | Determination of Accurate Molecular Models of Polyatomic Ions in Aqueous Solutions by Molecular Dynamics Simulations (Chemistry) | 12 | |||
| David I-Hsuan | Wang | Certificate of Achievement, Ricoh Corporation | Practicality of Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide Capture by Bubbling Ambient Air through Sodium Hydroxide Solution (Environmental Sciences) | 11 | |||
| Joe | Kim | Natalie | Ng | Grand Prize - Best of Championship - Biological Sciences - Trip to Intel ISEF and Plaque, Santa Clara Valley Science & Engineering Fair Assn - Board of Directors Awards - High School | An Intragenomic Screening Tool to Identify Functional Regulatory Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms (rSNPs) Impacting Disease (Bioinformatics) | 12 | |
| $1000 Grand Prize, Morgan Lewis | |||||||
| 1st Award, Bioinformatics Category | |||||||
| Supriya | Moore | Donghoon | Kang | Honorable Mention, Environmental Sciences Category | The Effect of Photodegradation of Escherichia Coli on Water Quality Parameters (Environmental Sciences) | 11 | |
| Jon | Stark | Siddharth | Prasad | 2nd Award, Computers / Mathematics Category | Walks on Primes in Imaginary Quadratic Fields (Computers / Mathematics) | 11 | |
| Certificate of Achievement and Letter to Teacher, Mu Alpha Theta | |||||||
| Certificate of Achievement and Pewter Medallion Voucher, Yale Science and Engineering Association | |||||||
| Intel ECS Certificate of Achievement and Forms to Submit for $200, Intel Excellence in Computer Science Award | |||||||