Saratoga Union School District
Project Awards 2014
Synopsys Silicon Valley Science and Technology Championship
| School | Teacher | Student | Award | Title | Gr | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Redwood Middle School | Susan | Germeraad | Ruchi | Maheshwari | 2nd Award, Engineering Category | PoolBot: A Pool Maintenance Robot That Explores Home Automation and the Internet of Things (Engineering) | 7 |
| Gift Card and Certificate of Achievement, Society of Women Engineers | |||||||
| Isabella Katherine | Taylor | Honorable Mention, Physics Category | Which Waterwheel is the Most Efficient? (Physics) | 7 | |||
| Deborah | Yakulis | Cameron Morgan | Baab | 2nd Award, Biochemistry / Microbiology Category | The Effects of Various Extraction Methods of the Antioxidant Epigallocatechin Gallete (EGCG) from Green Tea Leaves on Fatty Acid Production in the Alga Nannochloropsis Salina. (Biochemistry / Microbiology) | 8 | |
| Kyle Jiesi | Wang | 2nd Award, Physics Category | The Usage of Graphene to Detect Pollen (Physics) | 8 | |||
| 1st Place Award - $100, Popular Science Magazine Subscription, Framed Certificate of Achievement, ASM International, A Society for Materials, Santa Clara Valley Chapter | |||||||
| Nathaniel Paul | Wire | 1st Award, Earth / Space Sciences Category | Locating and Determining the Activity Level of Faults using Electrotilluric Currents and Variations in the Earth's Magnetic Field (Earth / Space Sciences) | 8 | |||