Private
Project Awards 2014
Synopsys Silicon Valley Science and Technology Championship
| School | Teacher | Student | Award | Title | Gr | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Archbishop Mitty High School | William | Abb | Namrata Ramya | Balasingam | 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 | A Monte Carlo Study of the Scalability and Variability of the Forming Voltage of Transition Metal Oxide (TMO) ReRAMs. (Physics) | 11 |
| Honorable Mention Student Award: $50 and Certificate of Achievement, Association for Computing Machinery, San Francisco Bay Area Professional Chapter | |||||||
| 1st Award, Physics Category | |||||||
| Theresa | Hannon | Vadim | Korolik | 1st Award, Physics Category | Surface tension's Influence on High Aspect Ratio Structures during Drying (Physics) | 11 | |
| Certificate of Achievement and ONR Medallion, United States Navy and Marine Corps | |||||||
| Honorable Mention: Certificate of Achievement, T-Shirt, Society of Vacuum Coaters (SVC) | |||||||
| Tom | Motroni | Vardhaan Sai | Ambati | Honorable Mention, Chemistry Category | Testing the Effectiveness of Pectin as a Detoxifier of Heavy Metals: A Novel Approach Using Denaturation of Proteins and Arduino Based Colorimeter (Chemistry) | 9 | |
| Certificate of Achievement; if registered, medal, subscription & opportunity to advance to national competition for trip to Stockholm, Stockholm Junior Water Prize | |||||||
| Bellarmine College Preparatory | Brad | Lindemann | Rahul Ram | Mohan | 5th Place Student Award: $80 and Certificate of Achievement, Association for Computing Machinery, San Francisco Bay Area Professional Chapter | A Novel Method to detect and track the progression of Parkinson's disease using smartphone data (Computers / Mathematics) | 9 |
| 1st Award, Computers / Mathematics Category | |||||||
| Certificate of Achievement, Medallion, and Letter, United States Public Health Service Award | |||||||
| Debjani | Roy | Shreyan | Jain | GR 9-12, 3rd Place: $25 per student and Certificate of Achievement, T-Shirt, Society of Vacuum Coaters (SVC) | A Computational Investigation of Iridium Hydride and Other Metastable Metal Hydrides for Optimizing Hydrogen Storage in a Fuel Cell (Chemistry) | 10 | |
| Honorable Mention Award - Popular Science Magazine Subscription and Framed Certificate of Achievement, ASM International, A Society for Materials, Santa Clara Valley Chapter | |||||||
| Christopher Alan | Powers | 1st Award, Earth / Space Sciences Category | Investigating Vegetation as a Natural Barrier to Reduce Tsunami Power (Earth / Space Sciences) | 11 | |||
| 1st Place Award - $150 Cash and Certificate of Achievement, American Society of Civil Engineers | |||||||
| Hersh Jasmine | Sanghvi | 2nd Award, Biochemistry / Microbiology Category | Modeling Novel Sensory Uses of Graphene Nanopores to Detect Urinary Nucleoside Biomarkers 1-Methyladenosine, Cytidine, 8-Hydroxyguanosine (Biochemistry / Microbiology) | 11 | |||
| Omkar | Savant | GR 9-12, 3rd Place: $25 per student and Certificate of Achievement, T-Shirt, Society of Vacuum Coaters (SVC) | A Computational Investigation of Iridium Hydride and Other Metastable Metal Hydrides for Optimizing Hydrogen Storage in a Fuel Cell (Chemistry) | 11 | |||
| Honorable Mention Award - Popular Science Magazine Subscription and Framed Certificate of Achievement, ASM International, A Society for Materials, Santa Clara Valley Chapter | |||||||
| Anin | Sayana | 2nd Award, Medicine / Health / Gerontology Category | The Unfolded Protein Response in Cancer Resistance: A Novel Therapeutic Target for Alveolar Rhabdomyosarcoma (Medicine / Health / Gerontology) | 10 | |||
| Akhil | Surapaneni | 2nd Award, Biochemistry / Microbiology Category | Modeling Novel Sensory Uses of Graphene Nanopores to Detect Urinary Nucleoside Biomarkers 1-Methyladenosine, Cytidine, 8-Hydroxyguanosine (Biochemistry / Microbiology) | 12 | |||
| Siddharth | Venkatraman | Certificate of Achievement, NASA Ames Research Center | Theoretical Design to Beam Helium-3 Energy from the Moon (Engineering) | 10 | |||
| Rod | Wong | Milan | Gambhir | 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 | A Wearable Ultrasonic Device for the Early Detection of Tumor Recurrence (Medicine / Health / Gerontology) | 10 | |
| High School Finalist Letter, The Synopsys Outreach Foundation n+1 Prize | |||||||
| 1st Award, Medicine / Health / Gerontology Category | |||||||
| First Place: $500 American Express Gift Card and Certificate of Achievement, Agilent Technologies | |||||||
| Pravin | Ravishanker | 1st Award, Computers / Mathematics Category | Genetics or Gender: Assessing the impact of APOE-e4 and Gender in age-specific cognitive and structural rates of decline in Alzheimer's disease (Computers / Mathematics) | 9 | |||
| Canyon Heights Academy | Teresa | Lesieutre | Marie-Therese | Chahrouri | 1st Award, Behavioral / Social Category | What is the effect of the responses from the test subjects on Piaget and Kohlberg's theories? (Behavioral / Social) | 8 |
| John | Ghantous | Honorable Mention, Chemistry Category | The effect of different liquid acid concentrations, and different anode materials in a water-based salt battery, and the efficiency of the anode material. (Chemistry) | 8 | |||
| Shannon Brigette | Miranda | Honorable Mention, Chemistry Category | Beet it! Reducing Road Corrosion with a Greener Solution (Chemistry) | 6 | |||
| 2nd Place Award - $75, Popular Science Magazine Subscription and Framed Certificate of Achievement, ASM International, A Society for Materials, Santa Clara Valley Chapter | |||||||
| Alexander Bao | Vu | 2nd Award, Chemistry Category | Splitting Sugar: A Study of the Effect of pH on the Rate of Hydrolysis of Sucrose (Chemistry) | 8 | |||
| Anthony Thien | Vu | 1st Award, Earth / Space Sciences Category | The Disintegration of the Great Rome (Apple): A Study of the Effects of Different Soils on the Biodegradation Rate of Organic Matter (Earth / Space Sciences) | 6 | |||
| Matthew Kai Hei | Wong | 1st Award, Physics Category | The Effect of Varying Wing Angles on the Lift Produced (Physics) | 7 | |||
| Carden Academy of Almaden | Elizabeth | Levine | Laurent | Le Borgne | Honorable Mention, Botany Category | The Effect Of Spices On Bean Sprouts Germination and Flavor (Botany) | 7 |
| Nicklaus Andrew | Lo | Honorable Mention, Botany Category | The Effect Of Spices On Bean Sprouts Germination and Flavor (Botany) | 7 | |||
| Carden Day School of San Jose | Michael | Crowe | Siddharth | Kumar | $50 Cash, San Jose State University Student Affiliates of the American Chemical Society | Factors Affecting Growth of Crystals (Chemistry) | 7 |
| Marcus | Ma | Honorable Mention, Physics Category | Too Hot to Handle: How Does the Exterior Color of a Car Affect Its Interior Air Temperature in the Sun? (Physics) | 6 | |||
| Castilleja School | Elaine | Middleman | Kriti | Lall | Honorable Mention, Bioinformatics Category | The Landscape of Somatic Hypermutation In Cancer (Bioinformatics) | 11 |
| Grade 11 Individual Project - $200 award and Certificate, DuPont Industrial Biosciences | |||||||
| Challenger - Almaden | Pronati | Mondal | Hamza Asif | Qadeer | Honorable Mention, Physics Category | The Effect of Increasing the Temperature of Both Ends of a Stirling Engine by an Equal Amount on the Efficiency of the Engine (Physics) | 8 |
| Certificate of Achievement and ONR Medallion, United States Navy and Marine Corps | |||||||
| Rishabh | Rajesh | Labcoat, Labcoat Award for Lab Bench Finesse | Effect of Different Vegetable Oils on the Characteristics of Biodiesel (Biochemistry / Microbiology) | 8 | |||
| Challenger - Shawnee | Bonny | Basu | Adishree | Ghatare | 1st Award, Physics Category | What is the effect of the reflecting angle and type of reflector on the efficiency of a solar cooker? (Physics) | 6 |
| Anusha | Ghosh | 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 | Making Hydraulic Fracturing More Environmentally Friendly Using Sea Water (Environmental Sciences) | 6 | |||
| 1st Award, Environmental Sciences Category | |||||||
| 1st place - $150 and Certificate of Achievement, American Society of Civil Engineers | |||||||
| Challenger - Sunnyvale | Thuy-Anh | Nguyen | Rithvik Ravi | Chuppala | Honorable Mention, Engineering Category | Comparing an all-carbon based supercapacitor with various energy storage devices (Engineering) | 7 |
| Nikita | Goyal | 2nd Award, Physics Category | Effect of Spectral Window Length on the Accuracy of Decoding Music Notes (Physics) | 8 | |||
| Ananya | Karthik | 1st Award, Chemistry Category | A Greener Cleaner: Investigating a Potential Biosorbent for the Removal of Heavy Metals from Aqueous Solutions. (Chemistry) | 7 | |||
| $50, book, Promethium Chapter of Iota Sigma Pi | |||||||
| Sathvik | Koneru | Honorable Mention, Physics Category | Modeling the tension placed on the quadriceps at different squatting angles (Physics) | 8 | |||
| Certificate of Achievement and ONR Medallion, United States Navy and Marine Corps | |||||||
| Zade | Lobo | Honorable Mention, Computers / Mathematics Category | Changing Wireless Intensity (Computers / Mathematics) | 7 | |||
| Avni Pravin | Madhani | 2nd Place Award - $350 and Framed Certificate of Achievement, American Chemical Society, Santa Clara Valley Local Section | Lye or Lime? Examining the Effect of Sodium Hydroxide and Calcium Hydroxide on the Pretreatment of Corn Husks in Ethanol Production (Chemistry) | 8 | |||
| Karthik | Ramachandran | Honorable Mention Student Award: $40 and Certificate of Achievement, Association for Computing Machinery, San Francisco Bay Area Professional Chapter | Tag Your Meds: Reduce Accidental Drug Overdose Using NFC Tags (Computers / Mathematics) | 8 | |||
| 1st Award, Computers / Mathematics Category | |||||||
| Ruhi | Sayana | Honorable Mention, Medicine / Health / Gerontology Category | Isolating MHC Class II+ Dendritic Cells: A Comparative study of DC Populations in Murine Spleen and Skin with Flow Cytometry (Medicine / Health / Gerontology) | 7 | |||
| Shivam | Singhal | Honorable Mention, Environmental Sciences Category | Green Alternatives: Exploring a Method for the Creation of Next Generation Biofuel by the Bioconversion of Biomass Feedstocks (Environmental Sciences) | 7 | |||
| 1st Place - $100, Framed Certificate of Achievement, and Popular Science Magazine Subscription, SAMPE - Society for the Advancement of Material and Process Engineering | |||||||
| 3rd Place Award - $50, Popular Science Magazine Subscription and Framed Certificate of Achievement, ASM International, A Society for Materials, Santa Clara Valley Chapter | |||||||
| Challenger-Strawberry Park-SJ | Heather | Mackewicz | Tarun | Chiruvolu | Middle School Finalist Letter, The Synopsys Outreach Foundation n+1 Prize | Healing Bruises with Wearable Devices (Medicine / Health / Gerontology) | 6 |
| 1st Award, Medicine / Health / Gerontology Category | |||||||
| Anik | Gupta | 1st Award, Engineering Category | sAssist: Helps organize your student life (Engineering) | 7 | |||
| Solomon Eben | Joseph | $ 500 to the winning student or team in Bio Science + Glass Award, The Synopsys Outreach Foundation n+1 Prize | Guardian Angel (Medicine / Health / Gerontology) | 8 | |||
| Middle School Finalist Letter, The Synopsys Outreach Foundation n+1 Prize | |||||||
| Honorable Mention, Medicine / Health / Gerontology Category | |||||||
| Eesha | Pamula | 1st Award, Biochemistry / Microbiology Category | Effects of Cooking on Different Organic Foods (Biochemistry / Microbiology) | 6 | |||
| Tejes | Srivastava | 2nd Award, Chemistry Category | Renewable Green Energy - Cow Dung (Chemistry) | 7 | |||
| Champion School | Sandeep | Khanna | Safwan | Kazmi | 3rd place - $100 and Certificate of Achievement, American Society of Civil Engineers | Creating a Stronger Bridge (Engineering) | 8 |
| Nathan | Loi | 3rd place - $100 and Certificate of Achievement, American Society of Civil Engineers | Creating a Stronger Bridge (Engineering) | 7 | |||
| Lakhan | Singh | 3rd place - $100 and Certificate of Achievement, American Society of Civil Engineers | Creating a Stronger Bridge (Engineering) | 7 | |||
| Eisho | Takatsuji | Middle School Finalist Letter, The Synopsys Outreach Foundation n+1 Prize | Using Text Analysis Metrics to Determine Authorship (Computers / Mathematics) | 6 | |||
| Kazuki | Tayama | Middle School Finalist Letter, The Synopsys Outreach Foundation n+1 Prize | Using Text Analysis Metrics to Determine Authorship (Computers / Mathematics) | 6 | |||
| Jay | Vishwarpue | Middle School Finalist Letter, The Synopsys Outreach Foundation n+1 Prize | Using Text Analysis Metrics to Determine Authorship (Computers / Mathematics) | 6 | |||
| Muna | Mavany | Shubham | Banerjee | $ 500 to the winning student or team in Physical Science+ Glass Award, The Synopsys Outreach Foundation n+1 Prize | Cost Reduced Braille Printer (Engineering) | 7 | |
| Middle School Finalist Letter, The Synopsys Outreach Foundation n+1 Prize | |||||||
| Delphi Academy-Campbell | Nita | Kumar | Neha Hariprasad | Shetty | Honorable Mention, Engineering Category | Trapping and Using Carbon Dioxide Using an Environment Beneficial Device (Engineering) | 6 |
| Anika | Srivastava | Honorable Mention, Engineering Category | Trapping and Using Carbon Dioxide Using an Environment Beneficial Device (Engineering) | 6 | |||
| Granada Islamic School | Shagufta | Akhtar | Bilal Hassnain | Malik | 2nd Award, Biochemistry / Microbiology Category | Honey and Spice Inhibit the Not Nice! The Antimicrobial Effects of Raw Honey, Black Seed Oil, Turmeric, Cayenne, Garlic, and Cumin on Staphylococcus epidermidis, Bacillus cereus, and Escherichia coli (Biochemistry / Microbiology) | 7 |
| Farah Noor | Masood | Honorable Mention, Environmental Sciences Category | Nanotechnology and Oil Spills (Environmental Sciences) | 7 | |||
| 2nd Place - $75, Framed Certificate of Achievement, and Popular Science Magazine Subscription, SAMPE - Society for the Advancement of Material and Process Engineering | |||||||
| GR 6-8, 2nd Place: $50 and Certificate of Achievement, T-Shirt, Society of Vacuum Coaters (SVC) | |||||||
| Nathifa | Nasim | 1st Award, Environmental Sciences Category | The Effect of Using Plants on Removing the Amount of CO in the Air (Environmental Sciences) | 7 | |||
| Sumizah | Qureshi | Aleema Majid | Garfinkel | Honorable Mention, Zoology Category | Pest Problems! (Zoology) | 6 | |
| Zaid | Khan | 1st Award, Chemistry Category | Paper Chromatography (Chemistry) | 6 | |||
| Sameeha | Salman | 2nd Award, Chemistry Category | Fade,Fade,Fade Away! (Chemistry) | 6 | |||
| Afrah | Siddiqi | Middle School Finalist Letter, The Synopsys Outreach Foundation n+1 Prize | Bio-friendly Alternative for Disposing Polystyrene (Environmental Sciences) | 8 | |||
| Harker School-Middle Campus | Thomas | Artiss | Sohenee | Banerjee | 1st Award, Medicine / Health / Gerontology Category | The Comparison of How a Probiotic and a Pathogenic Bacteria React to Different Antibiotics (Medicine / Health / Gerontology) | 8 |
| Meghana S | Karinthi | 1st Award, Medicine / Health / Gerontology Category | The Comparison of How a Probiotic and a Pathogenic Bacteria React to Different Antibiotics (Medicine / Health / Gerontology) | 8 | |||
| Sushant | Thyagaraj | 2nd Award, Physics Category | The Compatibility of A Cell Phone Spectrophotometer with Beer-Lambert Law (Physics) | 8 | |||
| Akhil | Mehta | Praveen | Batra | 1st Award, Zoology Category | What is the effect of farnesol on ant dispersion across a flat surface? (Zoology) | 8 | |
| Michael | Kwan | 1st Award, Zoology Category | What is the effect of farnesol on ant dispersion across a flat surface? (Zoology) | 8 | |||
| Sumati | Wadhwa | Honorable Mention, Zoology Category | Behavioral Patterns in Frogs in Complex and Simple Environments (Zoology) | 8 | |||
| Kristen | Morgensen | Jerry | Chen | 2nd Award, Medicine / Health / Gerontology Category | Comparing the Levels of UVA and UVB Radiation Blocked by Different SPF Sunscreens Under Varying Conditions (Medicine / Health / Gerontology) | 8 | |
| Aadi | Ghildiyal | Honorable Mention, Environmental Sciences Category | Effects of Environmental Factors on Absorption Rates of Polymers (Environmental Sciences) | 8 | |||
| Anastasiya Andrew | Grebin | 1st Award, Botany Category | The Effects of Calcium Sulfate on Spore Formation in the Mucor Genus of the Fungi Kingdom (Botany) | 8 | |||
| Sohini | Kar | Honorable Mention, Environmental Sciences Category | Effects of Environmental Factors on Absorption Rates of Polymers (Environmental Sciences) | 8 | |||
| Jimmy | Lin | 2nd Award, Medicine / Health / Gerontology Category | Comparing the Levels of UVA and UVB Radiation Blocked by Different SPF Sunscreens Under Varying Conditions (Medicine / Health / Gerontology) | 8 | |||
| Rajiv | Movva | 1st Award, Biochemistry / Microbiology Category | Preventing Excessive Blood Sugar Levels in Type 2 Diabetes Patients: An in vitro Inhibition Mechanism of Alpha-Amylase with Flavonoids (Biochemistry / Microbiology) | 8 | |||
| Anooshree | Sengupta | 2nd Award, Biochemistry / Microbiology Category | Effect of Nanoparticles on E. Coli (Biochemistry / Microbiology) | 8 | |||
| Honorable Mention: Certificate of Achievement, T-Shirt, Society of Vacuum Coaters (SVC) | |||||||
| Stephanie Renee | Swanson | 1st Award, Botany Category | The Effects of Calcium Sulfate on Spore Formation in the Mucor Genus of the Fungi Kingdom (Botany) | 8 | |||
| Shaya | Zarkesh | 1st Award, Engineering Category | A Novel Approach to Generating Electricity from Human Movement through Walking Shoes (Engineering) | 8 | |||
| IEEE Award for Electro-Technology ($50 and Framed Certificate), Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers | |||||||
| Harker School-Upper Campus | Gary | Blickenstaff | Tiara | Bhatacharya | 2nd Award, Environmental Sciences Category | Effect of Mushroom Cellobioses on the Degradation Rate of PNP Glucopyranoside in Coordination with their Potentials as a Biofuel (Environmental Sciences) | 11 |
| Joyce | Huang | 1st Award, Botany Category | The Effect of Chemosensitization on the Efficacy of Antifungal Agents (Botany) | 9 | |||
| Anika Apsara | Jain | 1st Award, Environmental Sciences Category | The Effect of Insulin and Thyroxine on the Greater Growth of a Wisconsin FastPlant's root, leaf, and overall growth (Environmental Sciences) | 9 | |||
| Neymika | Jain | 1st Award, Botany Category | The Effect of Chemosensitization on the Efficacy of Antifungal Agents (Botany) | 9 | |||
| Anuva | Mittal | 1st Award, Environmental Sciences Category | The Effect of Insulin and Thyroxine on the Greater Growth of a Wisconsin FastPlant's root, leaf, and overall growth (Environmental Sciences) | 9 | |||
| Sriram | Somasundaram | 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 | Design and Evaluation of Chitosan-NP Ocular Drug Delivery System for targeted delivery of Ciprofloxacin hydrochloride in bacterial conjunctivitis (Biochemistry / Microbiology) | 11 | |||
| $ 1000 to the winning student or team in Bio Science + Glass award, The Synopsys Outreach Foundation n+1 Prize | |||||||
| High School Finalist Letter, The Synopsys Outreach Foundation n+1 Prize | |||||||
| 1st Award, Biochemistry / Microbiology Category | |||||||
| Susan | King | Ankita | Pannu | 4th Place Student Award: $120 and Certificate of Achievement, Association for Computing Machinery, San Francisco Bay Area Professional Chapter | Finding comfort in numbers: Using natural language processing and text mining to improve the effectiveness of online cancer support groups (Computers / Mathematics) | 11 | |
| Chris | Spenner | Vikas Chandra | Bhetanabhotla | 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 | Identification of Satellite Galaxies around Milky Way Galactic Analogs using Machine Learning Algorithms (Physics) | 12 | |
| 1st Award, Physics Category | |||||||
| Steven | Cao | 1st Award, Environmental Sciences Category | The Effect of Aluminum Sulfate on Orthophosphate Levels in Water and Its Viability as a Solution to Northern Mexican Gulf Hypoxia (Environmental Sciences) | 9 | |||
| $100 and Certificate of Achievement, Schonert Award | |||||||
| Zareen | Choudhury | 2nd Award, Earth / Space Sciences Category | The Evolving Mixture of Barium Isotopes in Milky Way Halo Stars (Earth / Space Sciences) | 12 | |||
| Vamsi | Gadiraju | $100 First Prize, Morgan Lewis | Improving the Wettability Of Vertically Aligned Single Walled Carbon Nanotubes in Supercapacitors Via Substrate Patterning (Engineering) | 11 | |||
| High School Finalist Letter, The Synopsys Outreach Foundation n+1 Prize | |||||||
| 1st place student - $100 and Certificate of Achievement, American Vacuum Society, Northern CA Chapter | |||||||
| 2nd Place Award - $75, Popular Science Magazine Subscription and Framed Certificate of Achievement, ASM International, A Society for Materials, Santa Clara Valley Chapter | |||||||
| Certificate of Achievement and ONR Medallion, United States Navy and Marine Corps | |||||||
| GR 9-12, 1st Place: $100, Book, and Certificate of Achievement, T-Shirt, Society of Vacuum Coaters (SVC) | |||||||
| Anika | Gupta | Honorable Mention, Biochemistry / Microbiology Category | A Novel Two-Step Approach Towards Ending Cancer Stem Cell Tumorigenesis: Tumor-Targeted Drug Delivery of Biotin and Hyaluronic Acid-Taxoid Conjugates (Biochemistry / Microbiology) | 12 | |||
| Rishabh | Jain | Honorable Mention: Certificate of Achievement, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) Intelligent Systems Award | A Navigation Assistant for the Visually Impaired by Means of Robust and Streamlined Object Recognition (Computers / Mathematics) | 11 | |||
| Andrew Cheng | Jin | 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 | Rational Discovery and Optimization of Synergistic Chemotherapy Combinations: A Novel Framework Integrating Gene Perturbation Analysis and Machine Learning Algorithms (Bioinformatics) | 11 | |||
| $ 1000 to the winning student or team in Physical Science + Glass award, The Synopsys Outreach Foundation n+1 Prize | |||||||
| $100 First Prize, Morgan Lewis | |||||||
| High School Finalist Letter, The Synopsys Outreach Foundation n+1 Prize | |||||||
| 1st Award, Bioinformatics Category | |||||||
| GR 9-12: 2nd Place, $100 and Certificate of Achievement, UCSF Center For Systems and Synthetic Biology Award | |||||||
| Special Award: $75 and Certificate of Achievement, Varian Medical Systems | |||||||
| Vineet Sai | Kosaraju | Honorable Mention: Certificate of Achievement, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) Intelligent Systems Award | A Navigation Assistant for the Visually Impaired by Means of Robust and Streamlined Object Recognition (Computers / Mathematics) | 10 | |||
| Rohith C | Kuditipudi | High School Finalist Letter, The Synopsys Outreach Foundation n+1 Prize | Separating Mirror Molecules: Computational Evaluation and Novel Framework for HPLC Method Development (Chemistry) | 11 | |||
| 1st Award, Chemistry Category | |||||||
| $50 Cash, San Jose State University Student Affiliates of the American Chemical Society | |||||||
| David | Lin | Honorable Mention, Bioinformatics Category | Identifying Molecular Signatures for Lung Adenocarcinoma Prognosis and Treatment (Bioinformatics) | 11 | |||
| iPad Mini, Plaque, and Certificate of Achievement, MedImmune | |||||||
| Nitya | Mani | 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 | Characterizing the N-Divison Points of Genus 0 Curves Through Ruler-Compass Constructions (Computers / Mathematics) | 11 | |||
| 1st Award, Computers / Mathematics Category | |||||||
| Certificate of Achievement and Letter to Teacher, Mu Alpha Theta | |||||||
| Varun | Mohan | 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 | A Lattice Boltzmann Method Based Computational Model for Optimizing Anode Morphologies to Design Efficient Li-ion Batteries (Computers / Mathematics) | 12 | |||
| 1st Award, Computers / Mathematics Category | |||||||
| Certificate of Achievement and ONR Medallion, United States Navy and Marine Corps | |||||||
| Neil | Movva | 1st Place - $100, Framed Certificate of Achievement, and Popular Science Magazine Subscription, SAMPE - Society for the Advancement of Material and Process Engineering | Rapid Tissue Repair: Using Enzymatic Hydrogels and Collagen Matrices to Cover & Heal Epithelial Wounds (Medicine / Health / Gerontology) | 11 | |||
| Kshithija | Mulam | 1st Award, Biochemistry / Microbiology Category | The Effect on C. Elegans After the Consumption of E. Coli Bacteria Infected By Tributyltin Oxide (Biochemistry / Microbiology) | 9 | |||
| Efrey Alex | Noten | 2nd Award, Chemistry Category | Examining the effect of a polymer-supported palladium catalyst on the yield of a Negishi-coupled diaryl compound (Chemistry) | 12 | |||
| Alayna | Richmond | 1st Award, Biochemistry / Microbiology Category | The Effect on C. Elegans After the Consumption of E. Coli Bacteria Infected By Tributyltin Oxide (Biochemistry / Microbiology) | 9 | |||
| Venkat N. | Sankar | 2nd Award, Medicine / Health / Gerontology Category | A Crystal Ball for Drug Efficacy: Predicting Drug Resistance with HIV Non-Nucleoside Reverse Transcriptase Inhibitors (Medicine / Health / Gerontology) | 9 | |||
| Manan Ajay | Shah | 1st Award, Earth / Space Sciences Category | A Study of the Effect of Solar Flares on the Magnetosphere of the Sun and the Propagation of Pressure Waves (Earth / Space Sciences) | 9 | |||
| $100 and Certificate of Achievement, Trimble Navigation, Ltd. | |||||||
| Certificate of Achievement, American Meteorological Society | |||||||
| Vedant | Thyagaraj | 2nd Award, Bioinformatics Category | Gene Expression Profiling As a Tool For Early Cancer Detection (Bioinformatics) | 11 | |||
| Kailas N. | Vodrahalli | Outstanding Sustainability Project. Weeklong I-SWEEEP Competition, I-SWEEEP | Transmission of Solar Energy through Optical Waveguides: Modeling and Material Studies. (Engineering) | 11 | |||
| Honorable Mention, Engineering Category | |||||||
| Certificate of Achievement and ONR Medallion, United States Navy and Marine Corps | |||||||
| Steven Michael | Wang | 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 | Rational Discovery and Optimization of Synergistic Chemotherapy Combinations: A Novel Framework Integrating Gene Perturbation Analysis and Machine Learning Algorithms (Bioinformatics) | 11 | |||
| $ 1000 to the winning student or team in Physical Science + Glass award, The Synopsys Outreach Foundation n+1 Prize | |||||||
| $100 First Prize, Morgan Lewis | |||||||
| High School Finalist Letter, The Synopsys Outreach Foundation n+1 Prize | |||||||
| 1st Award, Bioinformatics Category | |||||||
| GR 9-12: 2nd Place, $100 and Certificate of Achievement, UCSF Center For Systems and Synthetic Biology Award | |||||||
| Special Award: $75 and Certificate of Achievement, Varian Medical Systems | |||||||
| Leo | Yu | 2nd Award, Physics Category | I3 and I5 Ion Diffusion Through 186-02 Film Modeled Through Monte Carlo Simulation (Physics) | 11 | |||
| Jeff | Sutton | Vivek | Sriram | Grand Prize Alternate - Biological Sciences - Trip to State Science Fair and Plaque, Santa Clara Valley Science & Engineering Fair Assn - Board of Directors Awards - High School | Using Agent-Based Modeling to Simulate the Transfer of Zoonotic Pathogens (Bioinformatics) | 11 | |
| 1st Award, Bioinformatics Category | |||||||
| Homeschool (Greathouse) | Sue | Greathouse | Laura Lynn | Powers | 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 | Investigating Ant Pheromone Trails (Zoology) | 7 |
| 1st Award, Zoology Category | |||||||
| $50 Cash Award to student, Certificate of Achievement, and Letter, Al Foster Award | |||||||
| 1st Place Award - $150 and Certificate of Achievement, American Association for Laboratory Animal Science, Northern California Branch | |||||||
| Merryhill Schools -Milpitas | Kanchan | Bhandare | Yashvi Sandeep | Deokule | Outstanding Project: Certificate of Achievement and Voucher for Materials and a Safe Boating Course, United States Coast Guard Auxiliary | Phytoremidation of Zinc and Copper on an Aquatic Environment (Botany) | 8 |
| Viet | Nguyen | Sport Bag, Junior Tech Organizer, United States Air Force | The science of concealment: stealth technology in the visual realm (Physics) | 7 | |||
| Jeannie | Bui | Deepan Hitesh | Shah | 2nd Award, Chemistry Category | How much glucose is in your juice? (Chemistry) | 6 | |
| Milpitas Christian School (6-8) | Lindon | Richards | Shobhan | Mangla | 1st Award, Physics Category | Stealthy Shapes (Physics) | 6 |
| Most Holy Trinity | Stephanie | Jordan | Quang-Dan Thanh | Tran | Certificate of Achievement and ONR Medallion, United States Navy and Marine Corps | Tool to Select Best Roof to Install Solar Panels (Engineering) | 6 |
| Quang-Long Thanh | Tran | 2nd Award, Engineering Category | Freedom Robot (Engineering) | 8 | |||
| Mountain View Academy | Jim | Marxmiller | Sanam | Javid | Honorable Mention, Physics Category | Shooting Angle & Trajectory (Physics) | 11 |
| 2nd place: $40 and Certificate of Achievement, United States Metric Association | |||||||
| Old Orchard School | Linh | Pham | Vivian Ruoh-Yun | Chiang | 1st Award, Physics Category | Soundboards Sound Bored? (Physics) | 8 |
| Audrey | Cox | Honorable Mention, Physics Category | How many magnets does it take to light an LED light using water wave power? (Physics) | 7 | |||
| $50 and Certificate of Achievement, Hegland Award | |||||||
| Holly Marie | Jackson | 1st Award, Physics Category | Sewing Science (Physics) | 8 | |||
| Abigail Marie | McCarthy | 2nd Award, Environmental Sciences Category | DapHnia (Environmental Sciences) | 8 | |||
| Hannah Leslie | Patrignani | Honorable Mention, Physics Category | What is Warmer? Chiengora, cotton, wool or paper? (Physics) | 8 | |||
| Catherine Miyuki | Petersen | 2nd Award, Environmental Sciences Category | DapHnia (Environmental Sciences) | 8 | |||
| Eva Elise DeRosa | Szoboszlay | 1st Award, Environmental Sciences Category | Macroinvertebrates in Local Stream Habitats (Environmental Sciences) | 8 | |||
| Sabine | Schmuck | Amelia Grace | Gleixner | 1st Award, Chemistry Category | Polymer Elasticity (Chemistry) | 6 | |
| Presentation High School | Nicole | Odell | Nisha | Bhatia | Honorable Mention, Engineering Category | A Smart Smoke Detector (Engineering) | 10 |
| Jacqueline Thien An | Duong | 2nd Award, Engineering Category | Getting to the Pointe (Engineering) | 11 | |||
| Sonia | Kapoor | Honorable Mention, Medicine / Health / Gerontology Category | The Effect of Mint and Cinnamon Oils on Treponema Denticola in Relation to Periodontal Disease (Medicine / Health / Gerontology) | 12 | |||
| Michelle | Nguyen | Honorable Mention, Medicine / Health / Gerontology Category | The Effect of Mint and Cinnamon Oils on Treponema Denticola in Relation to Periodontal Disease (Medicine / Health / Gerontology) | 12 | |||
| Marissa Paige | Patterson | 2nd Award, Behavioral / Social Category | The Effect of Subliminal Messages on Hunger and Thirst (Behavioral / Social) | 10 | |||
| Rohini | Paul | Honorable Mention, Behavioral / Social Category | The Effect of the McGurk Effect and Bias on the Perception of Visual and Auditory Stimuli (Behavioral / Social) | 12 | |||
| Chandler Anne | Sutherland | 2nd Award, Behavioral / Social Category | The Effect of Subliminal Messages on Hunger and Thirst (Behavioral / Social) | 10 | |||
| Anna | Thomas | 2nd Award, Bioinformatics Category | Automating Biomedical Image Segmentation with Random Forests (Bioinformatics) | 12 | |||
| Maya | Varma | Honorable Mention, Engineering Category | A Novel Wireless Microcontroller-Based Pulmonary Function Analyzer for Early Detection of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) (Engineering) | 10 | |||
| 3rd place student - $25 and Certificate of Achievement, American Vacuum Society, Northern CA Chapter | |||||||
| Certificate of Achievement, Medallion, and Letter, United States Public Health Service Award | |||||||
| IEEE Award for Electro-Technology ($50 and Framed Certificate), Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers | |||||||
| Privately Sponsored Project | Shanthi | Adimoolam (Sponsor) | Kaushik | Shivakumar | 2nd Award, Physics Category | Energy-Efficient Aircraft Landings: Factors influencing the conversion of kinetic energy of a landing airplane into useful electrical energy. (Physics) | 7 |
| Vladimir | Bacvanski (PSP) | Marc Gong | Bacvanski | 3rd Place Student Award: $80 and Certificate of Achievement, Association for Computing Machinery, San Francisco Bay Area Professional Chapter | The Effect of the Number of Computers on Computation Time (Computers / Mathematics) | 7 | |
| 2nd Award, Computers / Mathematics Category | |||||||
| Certificate of Achievement and ONR Medallion, United States Navy and Marine Corps | |||||||
| Suhasini | Chandra (Sponsor) | Rishabh | Chandra | Honorable Mention, Chemistry Category | Improving the Efficiency of a Bio-Battery as a Biofuel Energy Source (Chemistry) | 10 | |
| Puragra | Guhathakurta (Mentor) | Caroline Amy | Debs | Honorable Mention, Earth / Space Sciences Category | High Resolution Spectroscopic Measurements of Milky Way Stars (Earth / Space Sciences) | 12 | |
| Certificate of Achievement and ONR Medallion, United States Navy and Marine Corps | |||||||
| Aru | Hill (SSW Mentor) | Anika | Cheerla | Honorable Mention, Chemistry Category | Solvatochromism: It's Not Just Black and White Anymore (Chemistry) | 7 | |
| Eric Thomas | Hooton | 1st place: $100, Certificate of Achievement, Letter, and IFT Information, Northern California Institute of Food Technologists (NCIFT) | The Use of Multiplex PCR to Test for GMO Pollination of Non-GMO Papaya Samples (Biochemistry / Microbiology) | 8 | |||
| Maya Anil | Kalbag | Honorable Mention Certificate, Santa Clara County Biotech Education Partnership (SCCBEP) | Effects of Vitamin C Supplements on the Total Antioxidant Activity of Human Tears. (Medicine / Health / Gerontology) | 9 | |||
| Youssef | Ismail (SSW Mentor) | Shiloh Sigrid | Curtis | 1st Award, Engineering Category | Enabling Situational Awareness: A Hat-Based Hands-Free Haptic Navigational Aid for the Visually Impaired (Engineering) | 11 | |
| $100 and Certificate of Achievement, Trimble Navigation, Ltd. | |||||||
| $100 First Place and Certificate, Dewayne Hendricks Wireless Technology Award | |||||||
| IEEE Award for Electro-Technology ($50 and Framed Certificate), Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers | |||||||
| Sport Bag, Junior Tech Organizer, United States Air Force | |||||||
| Snehal Josh | Dey | Outstanding Project: Certificate of Achievement and Voucher for Materials and a Safe Boating Course, United States Coast Guard Auxiliary | A Novel Way to Test Stress Levels in Humans Using Image Analysis (Computers / Mathematics) | 10 | |||
| Anjali | Ganguly | Honorable Mention, Physics Category | Increasing Fluid Dynamic Efficiency Through Boundary Layer Tripping (Physics) | 10 | |||
| Rishab | Gargeya | 3rd Place Student Award: $160 and Certificate of Achievement, Association for Computing Machinery, San Francisco Bay Area Professional Chapter | A software based approach for automated pathology diagnosis of diabetic retinopathy in the human retina (Bioinformatics) | 9 | |||
| 2nd Award, Bioinformatics Category | |||||||
| $100 First Place, Certificate of Achievement, and Letter, Inez M. Lechner Award | |||||||
| Pratik | Gongloor | 2nd Place Student Award: $320 and Certificate of Achievement, Association for Computing Machinery, San Francisco Bay Area Professional Chapter | An EEG Controlled Hand Grip Augmentation Exoskeleton for the Physically Impaired (Engineering) | 9 | |||
| Honorable Mention, Engineering Category | |||||||
| $100 First Place, Certificate of Achievement, and Letter, Inez M. Lechner Award | |||||||
| Anita | Ilango | 2nd Award, Engineering Category | A Microbial Fuel Cell for the Processing of Acid Whey and Power Generation (Engineering) | 9 | |||
| Megha | Ilango | 2nd Award, Engineering Category | A Microbial Fuel Cell for the Processing of Acid Whey and Power Generation (Engineering) | 9 | |||
| Karthik | Kalyanasundaram | Honorable Mention, Engineering Category | Charging Electric Vehicles On The Go (Engineering) | 7 | |||
| Anish G | Krishnan | 1st Award, Engineering Category | Regenerative Acceleration Generator Technology to Extend the Mileage of Alternative fuel Vehicles (Engineering) | 9 | |||
| Andrew Basil | Nazareth | 1st Award, Physics Category | Radiation: How Safe Are You With Your Daily Devices? (Physics) | 6 | |||
| Amulya | Vadlakonda | 1st Award, Engineering Category | A Smart Fuzzy Logic Based Gripping Prosthetic to Aid Hand Amputees in Handling Delicate Objects. (Engineering) | 9 | |||
| Honorable Mention: Certificate of Achievement, and Goody Bag, Association for Women in Science, Palo Alto Chapter | |||||||
| Vikram | Vasan | 2nd Award, Engineering Category | A novel approach for improving depth perception in those impaired with stereopsis (Engineering) | 10 | |||
| IEEE Award for Electro-Technology ($50 and Framed Certificate), Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers | |||||||
| Tejaswi | Vemulapati | 2nd Place Student Award: $160 and Certificate of Achievement, Association for Computing Machinery, San Francisco Bay Area Professional Chapter | An Algorithm to Compute The Fractal Dimension of a Penrose Tiling (Computers / Mathematics) | 6 | |||
| Honorable Mention, Computers / Mathematics Category | |||||||
| Pratibha | Jain (PSP) | Rishabh | Jain | 1st Award, Chemistry Category | Starch Your Engines - The Effect of the Type of Starch on Potential Ethanol Yield (Chemistry) | 8 | |
| Ibtisam | Khalaf (SSW mentor) | Vinay | Ayyappan | 1st Award, Biochemistry / Microbiology Category | A Novel Strategy to Mitigate Bacterial Quorum Sensing via Inhibition of Autoinducer-2 (AI-2) through Boron Encapsulation by Polyvinyl Alcohol (Biochemistry / Microbiology) | 10 | |
| Sarita | Berigei | Honorable Mention, Biochemistry / Microbiology Category | Testing Antibacterial Activity of Spider Silk Against Bacteria (Biochemistry / Microbiology) | 10 | |||
| Amith Teja | Galivanche | Honorable Mention, Biochemistry / Microbiology Category | Antimicrobial Activity Of Clove Oil, Cinnamon Oil, And Basil Oil Against Staphylococcus Epidermidis In Comparison To Tetracycline (Biochemistry / Microbiology) | 8 | |||
| Gokul Venkatraman | Kalyanasundaram | 1st Award, Biochemistry / Microbiology Category | E. Diabli: A Synthetic Biological Approach For Tackling Type 2 Diabetes (Biochemistry / Microbiology) | 9 | |||
| $100 First Place, Certificate of Achievement, and Letter, Inez M. Lechner Award | |||||||
| Honorable Mention Certificate of Achievement, 2GB iPod Shuffle, MedImmune | |||||||
| Sruthi Vidya | Ramabadran | 2nd Award, Biochemistry / Microbiology Category | Effects of Curcurmin on Commensal and Pathogenic Intestinal Bacteria Associated with Crohn's Disease (Biochemistry / Microbiology) | 9 | |||
| Preethi | Ravi | Honorable Mention, Biochemistry / Microbiology Category | The Effect of Curcumin on Ubq-2 (rpl-40) protein expression in Alzheimer-mutated C. elegans Using Immunohistochemistry (Biochemistry / Microbiology) | 11 | |||
| Nikash | Shankar | 2nd Award, Medicine / Health / Gerontology Category | A Promising Target For Alzheimer's Disease: Effects of Canonical and Non-Canonical Wnt Signaling Pathways On beta-Catenin and Mitochondrial Dynamics (Medicine / Health / Gerontology) | 11 | |||
| Ananya | Vadlakonda | 2nd Award, Biochemistry / Microbiology Category | The Effect of Chlorine Bleach on the Heart Rate and Death Rate of Daphnia Magna (Biochemistry / Microbiology) | 6 | |||
| Michelle Q | Xu | $100 First Place, Certificate of Achievement, and Letter, Inez M. Lechner Award | Bring Antibiotics Back to Life? Synergistic Effect of Natural Herbs with Ampicillin against Resistant E. Coli (Biochemistry / Microbiology) | 9 | |||
| Honorable Mention Certificate of Achievement, 2GB iPod Shuffle, MedImmune | |||||||
| Honorable Mention: Certificate of Achievement, and Goody Bag, Association for Women in Science, Palo Alto Chapter | |||||||
| Candace | Love (Sponsor) | Alan Glen | Love | Honorable Mention Award - Popular Science Magazine Subscription and Framed Certificate of Achievement, ASM International, A Society for Materials, Santa Clara Valley Chapter | Molding Metal (Engineering) | 8 | |
| Viral | Pandya (PSP) | Rachita | Pandya | Certificate of Achievement, Society for In Vitro Biology | Optimization of Chemically-Defined Media for Generating Clinical-Grade Smooth Muscle Cells, In-Vitro, as a Potential Cell-Based Therapy for Treating Stress Urinary Incontinence in Women. (Biochemistry / Microbiology) | 11 | |
| Caroline | Prasad (PSP) | Ronak | Pai | 1st Award, Engineering Category | Tramp-O-Charge (Engineering) | 6 | |
| Gino | Prasad | 1st Award, Engineering Category | Tramp-O-Charge (Engineering) | 6 | |||
| Dhruv | Shah | 1st Award, Engineering Category | Tramp-O-Charge (Engineering) | 6 | |||
| Samir | Sathe (PSP) | Rujuta Samir | Sathe | 2nd Award, Behavioral / Social Category | Does "Om" chanting help reduce stress, anxiety, and promote mental and physcical well being? (Behavioral / Social) | 7 | |
| Latha | Subramanyan(PSP) | Raghav | Ganesh | 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 | Sensor based cane for the visually challenged (Engineering) | 6 | |
| 1st Award, Engineering Category | |||||||
| IEEE Award for Electro-Technology ($50 and Framed Certificate), Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers | |||||||
| Gloria | Whitaker-Daniels (GSP Mentor) | Paige | Ashton | Honorable Mention, Botany Category | Rose Pigment Chromatography (Botany) | 6 | |
| Tiffany | Yen (PSP) | Amy | Zhang | Outstanding Sustainability Project. Weeklong I-SWEEEP Competition, I-SWEEEP | The Phytoremediation of Zinc by Lemna minor (Environmental Sciences) | 10 | |
| 1st Award, Environmental Sciences Category | |||||||
| Sacred Heart Middle School | Rachel | Pleis | Olivia Grace Marie | Baumert | 1st Award, Chemistry Category | Which fruits will ruin a gelatin dessert and why? (Chemistry) | 7 |
| Fionnuala F | LaTourrette | 2nd Award, Biochemistry / Microbiology Category | What can best prevent mold growth on your Jack-O-Lanterns? (Biochemistry / Microbiology) | 6 | |||
| Oriel Christopher | Zagazeta | 2nd Award, Botany Category | How Does Life React to Microwave Radiation? (Botany) | 6 | |||
| Saint Christopher School | Arlene | Brown | Ana | Gamboa-Gonzalez | 2nd Award, Physics Category | Marbles in the Viscosity Lane - Effect of Liquid Density and Temperature on Viscosity (Physics) | 6 |
| Amber Kailyn | Gilligan | 2nd Award, Chemistry Category | Gummy Bears Go Swimming (Chemistry) | 6 | |||
| Kelly | Heimburger | 2nd Award, Earth / Space Sciences Category | Power of the Sun (Earth / Space Sciences) | 6 | |||
| Lauren | Heine | 2nd Award, Earth / Space Sciences Category | Power of the Sun (Earth / Space Sciences) | 6 | |||
| Lauren Nichole | Malik | 2nd Award, Chemistry Category | Gummy Bears Go Swimming (Chemistry) | 6 | |||
| Nicholas | Guttadauro | Arturo | Gamboa-Gonzalez | 2nd Award, Chemistry Category | Temperature and pH Effect on the Decomposition of Hydrogen Peroxide by Catalase in Yeast (Chemistry) | 8 | |
| William Henry | Portman | Certificate of Achievement, NASA Ames Research Center | Harnessing the sun with Arduino (Engineering) | 8 | |||
| Saint Francis High School | Chihiro | Ikezi | Leela | Amladi | 1st Award, Engineering Category | A Pill-Buddy Platform. (Engineering) | 11 |
| $50 and Certificate of Achievement, The Kerry Veenstra Awards | |||||||
| IEEE Award for Electro-Technology ($50 and Framed Certificate), Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers | |||||||
| Linda | Segal | Anish | Seshadri | 3rd Place - $50, Framed Certificate of Achievement, and Popular Science Magazine Subscription, SAMPE - Society for the Advancement of Material and Process Engineering | Increasing efficiency of dye sensitized solar cells using Nanocrystalline Gold and Silver (Chemistry) | 9 | |
| Jennifer | Thomas | Anjini | Karthik | 1st Award, Chemistry Category | Developing a Novel Method for the Detection of Pathogens on Surfaces Using Cell-Imprinted Polymers. (Chemistry) | 10 | |
| Arpita | Singhal | 2nd Award, Biochemistry / Microbiology Category | A Novel Method to Diagnose Cancer: Developing a BioMarker to Detect EGFRvIII Expression in Cancer Cells (Biochemistry / Microbiology) | 10 | |||
| Honorable Mention Certificate of Achievement, 2GB iPod Shuffle, MedImmune | |||||||
| Saint Joseph of Cupertino Elem School | Lisa | Wicht | Ana | Julian | 2nd Place Student Award, Outstanding Young Woman in Computing: $160 and Certificate of Achievement, Association for Computing Machinery, San Francisco Bay Area Professional Chapter | Does the area of the equilateral triangle affect the area of the sequence of spidron triangles that follow it? (Computers / Mathematics) | 8 |
| Saint Joseph School (Mountain View) | Rachel | Hilario-Pigg | Steven | Howley | Honorable Mention, Chemistry Category | Burning Nuts to Count Calories (Chemistry) | 8 |
| Stratford Middle School - San Jose | Neha | Makhijani | Mythri | Ambatipudi | Middle School Finalist Letter, The Synopsys Outreach Foundation n+1 Prize | Breaking the AGE barrier!!! Inhibiting the Formation of Advanced Glycation End-products (AGEs) to Combat Atherosclerosis, Cancer, and Diabetic Complications (Biochemistry / Microbiology) | 8 |
| 1st Award, Biochemistry / Microbiology Category | |||||||
| $100 and Certificate of Achievement, Fair Manager's Graphic Design Award | |||||||
| Anushka Prasad | Jogalekar | Grand Prize Student Award, Outstanding Young Woman in Computing: $320 and Certificate of Achievement, Association for Computing Machinery, San Francisco Bay Area Professional Chapter | Computer Assisted Color Recognition Aid for the Colorblind (Computers / Mathematics) | 8 | |||
| Krista | Nguyen | Nikhil A | Athreya | 2nd Award, Physics Category | The Effect of Temperature and Opacity on Solar Panel Efficiency (Physics) | 7 | |
| Sean Austin | Yang | 2nd Award, Physics Category | What's the Angle on Wind Turbines? (Physics) | 7 | |||
| Jeffrey | Takemoto | Brian Man-Kit | Ng | 1st Award, Physics Category | The effect of temperature on Nitinol wire strength (Physics) | 7 | |
| Honorable Mention Award - Popular Science Magazine Subscription and Framed Certificate of Achievement, ASM International, A Society for Materials, Santa Clara Valley Chapter | |||||||
| James Zhao | Peterson | Honorable Mention, Physics Category | Light Diffraction: A Study of Quantum Uncertainty (Physics) | 7 | |||
| Arash | Shabany | $50 and Certificate of Achievement, Hegland Award | Electricity Generated by a Solar Panel Exposed to Different Light Sources (Physics) | 7 | |||
| Stratford Middle School - Santa Clara | Anuradha | Murthy | Shiva | Balachander | 1st Award, Biochemistry / Microbiology Category | Sticky Situation: Effect of Natural Supplements on Removal of Cholesterol from Arterial Walls (Biochemistry / Microbiology) | 7 |
| Rohan | Koodli | GR 6-8, 1st Place: $75 and Certificate of Achievement, T-Shirt, Society of Vacuum Coaters (SVC) | Effect of Electrolytes on the Performance of Graphene Supercapacitors (Chemistry) | 8 | |||
| Ronak Kiran | Mundkur | 1st Award, Physics Category | Surfing on Nano-Magnets (Physics) | 8 | |||
| Anish | Muthali | Grand Prize Student Award: $320 and Certificate of Achievement, Association for Computing Machinery, San Francisco Bay Area Professional Chapter | The Minotaur of the Labyrinth (Computers / Mathematics) | 7 | |||
| 1st Award, Computers / Mathematics Category | |||||||
| Ishani Pravin | Narwankar | 1st Award, Medicine / Health / Gerontology Category | Who Dunit? (Medicine / Health / Gerontology) | 7 | |||
| Ashwin | Rammohan | Honorable Mention, Biochemistry / Microbiology Category | Hydrogels: Functions and Applications (Biochemistry / Microbiology) | 7 | |||
| Anjali | Sinha | 1st Award, Earth / Space Sciences Category | Quake'n and Shake'n! (Earth / Space Sciences) | 7 | |||
| Certificate of Excellence from National Association of Women Geoscientists, Association for Women Geoscientists, San Francisco Bay Area Chapter | |||||||
| Svetlana | Sohoni | 2nd Award, Physics Category | Solar Tracker (Physics) | 7 | |||
| Martin | Wiedemann | Ariel | Bachman | 2nd Award, Physics Category | Sound Travel in Liquids (Physics) | 6 | |
| Kristin Yilin | Cheung | Honorable Mention, Physics Category | Sound Absorption and Frequency (Physics) | 6 | |||
| Tanvi V | Gaitonde | 1st Award, Botany Category | Radioaction - Effect of Cell Phone Radiation on Plants (Botany) | 6 | |||
| Nidhi Aswini | Gowda | 2nd Award, Medicine / Health / Gerontology Category | How Sweet Is It: Measuring Glucose Levels (Medicine / Health / Gerontology) | 6 | |||
| GR 6-8: 1st Place, $75 and Certificate of Achievement, UCSF Center For Systems and Synthetic Biology Award | |||||||
| Kuhoo | Gupta | 2nd Award, Botany Category | Leaf Pigments (Botany) | 6 | |||
| Ashvatth | Maheriya | Honorable Mention, Physics Category | What are the factors that affect terminal velocity? (Physics) | 6 | |||
| Shreya Lakshmi | Ramnath | Honorable Mention, Chemistry Category | How much energy is released per gram of different fuels? (Chemistry) | 6 | |||
| Pranay | Satya | Todd Shaeffer 1st place award - Grade 6 - $100, Shaeffer Schmahl Science Award | Pesky Signals Versus Charged-Up Cars: The effect of metals of different dimensions at different distances on an electromagnetic induction road sensor (Engineering) | 6 | |||
| Valley Christian High School | Jennifer | Gerlach | Shagun | Patel | Honorable Mention, Biochemistry / Microbiology Category | The Effect of Lycopene on Reducing Cancer Progression of Three Malignant Cell Lines Through the Interference of Androgen Cell Signaling Pathways (Biochemistry / Microbiology) | 11 |
| Tanisha | Shankar | Honorable Mention, Biochemistry / Microbiology Category | The Effect of Lycopene on Reducing Cancer Progression of Three Malignant Cell Lines Through the Interference of Androgen Cell Signaling Pathways (Biochemistry / Microbiology) | 11 | |||
| Wilson | Ye | Certificate of Achievement, American Meteorological Society | The Effectiveness of Water Filtration of Fine Particles in the Air (Environmental Sciences) | 11 | |||
| Howell | Ivy | Tianjian | Huang | 3rd Place: SJSU College of Engineering Certificate of Achievement, San Jose State University College of Engineering | Antenna Deployment System (Engineering) | 10 | |
| 2nd Award, Engineering Category | |||||||
| Caroline Marie | Pritchett | 3rd Place: SJSU College of Engineering Certificate of Achievement, San Jose State University College of Engineering | Antenna Deployment System (Engineering) | 12 | |||
| 2nd Award, Engineering Category | |||||||
| Aleeza Grace | Roque | 3rd Place: SJSU College of Engineering Certificate of Achievement, San Jose State University College of Engineering | Antenna Deployment System (Engineering) | 11 | |||
| 2nd Award, Engineering Category | |||||||
| Kristina | McMinn | Aaron Michael | Chang | 2nd Award, Engineering Category | The Generation of Action Potentials in Neurons through Magnetic Stimulation (Engineering) | 11 | |
| Charles Hannah | Nijmeh | 2nd Award, Engineering Category | The Generation of Action Potentials in Neurons through Magnetic Stimulation (Engineering) | 10 | |||
| Gerrit Chi-Yung Luk | Orthlieb | 2nd Award, Engineering Category | The Generation of Action Potentials in Neurons through Magnetic Stimulation (Engineering) | 11 | |||
| Valley Christian Junior High School | Malathi | Tuers | Sasha | Jaffarove | 2nd Award, Engineering Category | Cave Mapper (Engineering) | 8 |
| Certificate of Achievement and ONR Medallion, United States Navy and Marine Corps | |||||||
| Special Award: $75 and Certificate of Achievement, Varian Medical Systems | |||||||
| Priscilla | Lee | 2nd Award, Biochemistry / Microbiology Category | Penicillium Unveiled (Biochemistry / Microbiology) | 8 | |||
| Rishab Reddy | Yeddula | 2nd Award, Engineering Category | Radar Guided Rock Layer Surface Mapping (Engineering) | 7 | |||
| Yavneh Day School | David | Oliver | Jacob | Fergason | Honorable Mention, Behavioral / Social Category | The Effect of Motivation on the Human Mind While in Physical Activity (Behavioral / Social) | 7 |
| Naama | Gotesdyner | Honorable Mention, Behavioral / Social Category | If Eyes Could Tell (Behavioral / Social) | 8 | |||
| Ari | Myron | Honorable Mention, Behavioral / Social Category | The Effect of Motivation on the Human Mind While in Physical Activity (Behavioral / Social) | 7 | |||
| Molly J | Peck | Honorable Mention, Behavioral / Social Category | If Eyes Could Tell (Behavioral / Social) | 8 | |||
| Dalia | Tabibian | Honorable Mention, Behavioral / Social Category | If Eyes Could Tell (Behavioral / Social) | 8 | |||
| Evan | Weissbart | Honorable Mention, Behavioral / Social Category | The Effect of Motivation on the Human Mind While in Physical Activity (Behavioral / Social) | 7 | |||