Santa Clara Unified School District
Project Awards 2015
Synopsys Silicon Valley Science and Technology Championship
| School | Teacher | Student | Award | Title | Gr | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Buchser Middle School | Amy | Brindos | Isabella | Mclarney | 2nd Award, Earth / Space Sciences Category | Maglev Magic (Earth / Space Sciences) | 6 |
| Caroline | Sloan | Nicole Laguna | Bucton | Honorable Mention - Certificate of Achievement, American Society of Civil Engineers | Storm Drains (Earth / Space Sciences) | 6 | |
| Cabrillo Middle School | Nelson | Hori | Arav | Chheda | 2nd Award, Computers / Mathematics Category | Video Game for the Blind (Computers / Mathematics) | 7 |
| Kalie Esther | Ching | Honorable Mention, Physics Category | True North vs. Magnetic North (Physics) | 7 | |||
| Brandon | Lee | 2nd Award, Computers / Mathematics Category | Video Game for the Blind (Computers / Mathematics) | 7 | |||
| Matthew Sai | Malto | Honorable Mention, Physics Category | Stopping Piracy (Physics) | 7 | |||
| Anjali | Mathi | Honorable Mention, Physics Category | True North vs. Magnetic North (Physics) | 7 | |||
| Brandon Riley | McClelland | Honorable Mention, Chemistry Category | A Gassy Science Project: What Chemical Reaction Expels the Most Gas? (Chemistry) | 7 | |||
| Vincent | Nguyen | Honorable Mention, Physics Category | Stopping Piracy (Physics) | 7 | |||
| Palaniappan | Sithambaram | Honorable Mention, Physics Category | Stopping Piracy (Physics) | 7 | |||
| Nicole | Hulgan | Siobhan | Helms | Middle School Finalist Certificate, The Synopsys Outreach Foundation n+1 Prize | Bioadhesive (Chemistry) | 7 | |
| Isaac Jun Zhe | Lo | 1st Award, Engineering Category | Sensory glasses for the blind (Engineering) | 7 | |||
| Nominated to compete envelope, Broadcom MASTERS - 7th Grade | |||||||
| Mariana Lynn | Niblock | Middle School Finalist Certificate, The Synopsys Outreach Foundation n+1 Prize | Bioadhesive (Chemistry) | 7 | |||
| Siddhartha | Parekh | Honorable Mention, Physics Category | Rockin' the Boat (Physics) | 7 | |||
| Siddarth | Ramkrishnan | 1st Award, Engineering Category | Sensory glasses for the blind (Engineering) | 7 | |||
| Nominated to compete envelope, Broadcom MASTERS - 7th Grade | |||||||
| Brendan Lu | Su | 1st Award, Engineering Category | Sensory glasses for the blind (Engineering) | 7 | |||
| Nominated to compete envelope, Broadcom MASTERS - 7th Grade | |||||||
| Jennifer | Lee | Rohan | Kolappa | Honorable Mention, Engineering Category | Umbrella Backpack (Engineering) | 7 | |
| Nicholas Young | Yu | Honorable Mention, Engineering Category | Umbrella Backpack (Engineering) | 7 | |||
| Don Callejon Middle Sch. | Xuong | Tu | Dylon Matthew | Tjanaka | Middle School Finalist Certificate, The Synopsys Outreach Foundation n+1 Prize | Active Skid Detection and Compensation for Autonomous Vehicles (Engineering) | 8 |
| 2nd Award, Engineering Category | |||||||
| Wilcox High School | Cory | Dobos | Shashank | Dholakia | 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 Search for Exoplanets in the Open Star Clusters Messier 35 and Koposov 62 Using A Novel Large-Scale Photometric Algorithm for the "Crippled" Kepler Mission. (Earth / Space Sciences) | 10 |
| 1st Award, Earth / Space Sciences Category | |||||||
| Shishir | Dholakia | 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 Search for Exoplanets in the Open Star Clusters Messier 35 and Koposov 62 Using A Novel Large-Scale Photometric Algorithm for the "Crippled" Kepler Mission. (Earth / Space Sciences) | 10 | |||
| 1st Award, Earth / Space Sciences Category | |||||||