Los Gatos-Saratoga Union High School District
Project Awards 2014
Synopsys Silicon Valley Science and Technology Championship
| School | Teacher | Student | Award | Title | Gr | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Los Gatos High School | Dan | Burns | Jessica | Chiu | 1st Place: $1000 Scholarship to SJSU College of Engineering and Certificate of Achievement, San Jose State University College of Engineering | Aeroelastic Flight Dynamic Modeling of an Adaptive Camber-Morphing Aircraft for Improved Cruise Efficiency (Engineering) | 12 |
| 1st Award, Engineering Category | |||||||
| 3rd Place: $100 and Certificate of Achievement, System Safety Society | |||||||
| First Place: $100, Certificate of Achievement, and Goody Bag, Association for Women in Science, Palo Alto Chapter | |||||||
| Gift Card and Certificate of Achievement, Society of Women Engineers | |||||||
| Grade 12 Individual Project - $200 award and Certificate, DuPont Industrial Biosciences | |||||||
| Honorable Mention: Certificate of Achievement, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) Intelligent Systems Award | |||||||
| IEEE Award for Electro-Technology ($50 and Framed Certificate), Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers | |||||||
| Andrea Rae | Kibel | 2nd Award, Zoology Category | Proof of Concept: Digital Vocabulary Analysis for C. Stelleri (Zoology) | 12 | |||
| Cathy | Messenger | Zuhra | Bholat | 1st Award, Engineering Category | Performance of a Plant Microbial Fuel Cell with Oryza Sativa (Engineering) | 10 | |
| Team: $60 and Book per team member, The ROD Women in Science Award | |||||||
| Liam Michael | Conrad | Honorable Mention, Botany Category | The Effects of Multicolor Light on Raphanus sativus Plant Pigments (Botany) | 10 | |||
| Shomik | Jain | 1st Award, Botany Category | The Effect of Bisphenol A on Lactuca sativa var. Longifolia (Botany) | 10 | |||
| Jiayi | Luo | 1st Award, Engineering Category | Performance of a Plant Microbial Fuel Cell with Oryza Sativa (Engineering) | 10 | |||
| Team: $60 and Book per team member, The ROD Women in Science Award | |||||||
| Leron | Perez | 1st place, $50 check, and a Book, Apatite to Zircon, Inc. Award | Biomimetic Robot Based on Cypselurus californicus For Hydro-Aerial Applications (Engineering) | 11 | |||
| Yannan | Tuo | Honorable Mention - Framed Certificate of Achievement and Popular Science Magazine Subscription, SAMPE - Society for the Advancement of Material and Process Engineering | Enhancing Solar Cell Efficiency with Fluorescent Coatings (Engineering) | 10 | |||
| Lauren Alessandra | Verheyden | 2nd Award, Botany Category | Effects of Astragalus Canadensis Extracts on Erwinia Carotovora Diseased Plants (Botany) | 10 | |||
| Saratoga High School | Jill | McCrystal | Anusuya | Arjavalingam | 2nd Award, Physics Category | The Effect of Magnetism on Electrolysis (Physics) | 10 |
| Agastya | Gupta | $100 First Prize, Morgan Lewis | An Inexpensive, Global, and Effective Means of Diagnosing Heart Disease (Computers / Mathematics) | 11 | |||
| 1st Award, Computers / Mathematics Category | |||||||
| Trishla | Pokharna | Honorable Mention, Engineering Category | Low-Cost Innovative Incubator using TEC Technology (Engineering) | 9 | |||
| Kristine | Zhang | 2nd Award, Chemistry Category | Development of Novel Metal Nanostructures for Efficient and Broadband Solar Energy Conversion (Chemistry) | 10 | |||
| 2nd Place - $75, Framed Certificate of Achievement, and Popular Science Magazine Subscription, SAMPE - Society for the Advancement of Material and Process Engineering | |||||||