Privately Sponsored Project
Project Awards 2014
Synopsys Silicon Valley Science and Technology Championship
| School | Teacher | Student | Award | Title | Gr | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | |||||||