Palo Alto Unified School District
Project Awards 2015
Synopsys Silicon Valley Science and Technology Championship
| School | Teacher | Student | Award | Title | Gr | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gunn (Henry M.) High School | Bill | Dunbar | Sharon Y. | Chen | High School Finalist Certficate, The Synopsys Outreach Foundation n+1 Prize | Exploring the Time-of-Flight Capability of BrainPET: A Radio Frequency Field-Penetrable Positron Emission Tomography Insert for Simultaneous PET/MR Brain Imaging (RRI Physical Sciences) | 12 |
| Joy Qiu | 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 | Identification and Characterization of a Rare Subpopulation with Cancer Stem Cell Properties in Lung Cancer (RRI Biological Sciences) | 12 | |||
| 1st Award, RRI Biological Sciences Category | |||||||
| $200, Certificate of Achievement, and Letter, Dr. Paul X. Callahan in Memoriam Award | |||||||
| Honorable Mention: Certificate of Achievement, and Goody Bag, Association for Women in Science, Palo Alto Chapter | |||||||
| Jena | Lee | Ken Kyung-Hyun | Noh | 1st Award, RRI Biological Sciences Category | Basophil Activation Test: Evaluating Innate Immune Response in Allergic Patients with Fever (RRI Biological Sciences) | 11 | |
| Megan | Thaler | Tian | Chen | Honorable Mention, Physics Category | A Mathematical Proof of Heat Gradient Induced Convection Resolving Mpemba Paradox (Physics) | 9 | |
| Jordan (David Starr) Middle School | Kellie | Fletcher | Conor | Padmanabhan | 1st Award, Physics Category | The Effect of Air Temperature on Sound Energy (Physics) | 6 |
| Nominated to compete envelope, Broadcom MASTERS - 6th Grade | |||||||
| Erica | Goldsworthy | Nicole Claire | Adamson | Honorable Mention, Biochemistry / Microbiology Category | The Effect of Different Wavelengths on the Luminescent Output of Pyrocystis fusiformis (Biochemistry / Microbiology) | 8 | |
| Lori | Monahan | Vyomika | Gupta | Honorable Mention, Physics Category | Experimentation on the COANDA Effect (Physics) | 7 | |
| Sue | Pound | Ayush S. | Gupta | 2nd Award, Engineering Category | Arduino, FFT, Hot-Wire Anemometers: Creating a Device for a Developing Woodwind Player (Engineering) | 8 | |
| 1st place student - $100 and Certificate of Achievement, American Vacuum Society, Northern CA | |||||||
| Palo Alto High School | Radu | Toma | Jerry | Hong | 2nd Award, RRI Physical Sciences Category | The Investigation of Anomalous Lithium Detections in Red Giants of Globular Clusters (RRI Physical Sciences) | 10 |
| Stanford (Jane Lathrop) Middle School | Robin | Ames | Elaine Huang | Chu | 2nd Award, Chemistry Category | Hot Ice and the Laws of Thermodynamics (Chemistry) | 7 |
| Fred | Berghout | Siddharth | Jain | Honorable Mention, Physics Category | The effect of a strong magnetic field on the flow of alpha particles (Physics) | 8 | |
| 3rd place student - $25 and Certificate of Achievement, American Vacuum Society, Northern CA | |||||||
| Colin Richard | Schultz | Honorable Mention, Physics Category | What is the effect of air pressure on the intensity of sound? (Physics) | 8 | |||
| 1st place student - $100 and Certificate of Achievement, American Vacuum Society, Northern CA | |||||||
| Linda | Luo | Frederick | Nitta | 1st Award, Chemistry Category | Anthocyanin and the behavior of electrons (Chemistry) | 8 | |
| Nominated to compete envelope, Broadcom MASTERS - 8th Grade | |||||||
| Greg | Rice | Nandita Jain | Gupta | 2nd Award, Engineering Category | A Heliotracking Parabolic Solar Cooker (Engineering) | 7 | |
| Isabel | Sperandio | 1st Award, Physics Category | Does the color of light and the temperature of solar panels improve the efficiency? (Physics) | 7 | |||
| Nominated to compete envelope, Broadcom MASTERS - 7th Grade | |||||||
| Terman Middle School | Beth | Carlson | Swati | Goel | 3rd Place Student Award: $80 and Certificate of Achievement, Association for Computing Machinery, San Francisco Bay Area Professional Chapter | Can you win the Word Game? (Computers / Mathematics) | 7 |
| 2nd Award, Computers / Mathematics Category | |||||||
| Christina | DeGregorio | Arjun Michael | Miklos | 2nd Award, Physics Category | Just For Kicks: The Biomechanics of Kicking a Soccer Ball (Physics) | 8 | |
| 2nd place student - $50 and Certificate of Achievement, American Vacuum Society, Northern CA | |||||||
| Daniel | Ong | Middle School Finalist Certificate, The Synopsys Outreach Foundation n+1 Prize | Global minimization of protein energy profile by repeated perturbation and annealing as a method to predict final protein shape from its amino acid sequence. (Computers / Mathematics) | 8 | |||
| Arjun Krishna | Prabhakar | 2nd Award, Ecology Category | A Cost-Effective Search for Clean Water (Ecology) | 8 | |||
| Tamara | Juarez | Amelia Ashlund | Creemer | 2nd Award, Physics Category | How's the Air Up There? (Physics) | 7 | |
| Antonia Zoe | Quake | 2nd Award, Physics Category | How's the Air Up There? (Physics) | 7 | |||
| Abigail Rose | Walker | 2nd Award, Physics Category | How's the Air Up There? (Physics) | 7 | |||