Lynbrook High School
Project Awards 2015
Synopsys Silicon Valley Science and Technology Championship
| School | Teacher | Student | Award | Title | Gr | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lynbrook High School | Jason | Lee | Rupsa Bhatt | Acharya | 1st Award, Medicine / Health / Gerontology Category | The effect of Carica papaya leaf extract on the lifespan of C. elegans with fatal germ line tumors. (Medicine / Health / Gerontology) | 10 |
| Nikhil | Ajjarapu | Honorable Mention: Certificate of Achievement, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) Intelligent Systems Award | Censoring Illicit Content using Machine Learning (Computers / Mathematics) | 9 | |||
| Mythili | Bhethanabotla | 4th Place Student Award: $120 and Certificate of Achievement, Association for Computing Machinery, San Francisco Bay Area Professional Chapter | A Smart Gadget: An effective wearable mechanism to better assist and guide the visually impaired (Engineering) | 9 | |||
| 2nd Award, Engineering Category | |||||||
| Nithin | Buduma | 1st Award, Bioinformatics Category | Comparative Analysis of Transcriptional Networks during Mouse and Human Red Blood Cell Development (Bioinformatics) | 11 | |||
| Honorable Mention Certificate of Achievement, Kindle, MedImmune | |||||||
| Jeffrey | Chang | 1st Award, Behavioral / Social Category | The California Vowel Shift: Social Motivations for Language Change (Behavioral / Social) | 11 | |||
| Pransu | Dash | 2nd Award, Engineering Category | Enhancing public safety by using the internet and Wide-Area Control Systems to remotely disable firearms (Engineering) | 11 | |||
| Rohan | Dhesikan | 1st Award, Engineering Category | An Automated Battery Replacement System for Quadcopters (Engineering) | 9 | |||
| Honorable Mention: Certificate of Achievement, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) Intelligent Systems Award | |||||||
| One-day immersive trip to Firebase to work on API project, TechLab Education | |||||||
| Durga | Ganesh | 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 | Identification of NUSAP1 as a novel therapeutic target for aggressive prostate cancer: evaluating cell invasion, migration, proliferation, and morphology in androgen sensitive and insensitive cell lines (RRI Biological Sciences) | 11 | |||
| 1st Award, RRI Biological Sciences Category | |||||||
| Matthew M. | Hase-Liu | 2nd Award, Physics Category | A Novel Study on the Improvement of Electronic Transport Characteristics in a Dye-Sensitized Solar Cell (Physics) | 10 | |||
| 1st Place - $100, Framed Certificate of Achievement, and Popular Science Magazine Subscription, SAMPE - Society for the Advancement of Material and Process Engineering | |||||||
| 1st Place Award - $100, Popular Science Magazine Subscription, Framed Certificate of Achievement, and Certificate & Medallion from ASM Educational Foundation, ASM International, A Society for Materials, Santa Clara Valley Chapter | |||||||
| GR 9-12, 3rd Place: $35 and Certificate of Achievement, T-Shirt, Society of Vacuum Coaters (SVC) | |||||||
| Jasper | Huang | 1st Award, Earth / Space Sciences Category | The Effect of Soil Coarseness and Soil Moisture Content on the Amount of Carbon Dioxide Sequestered by Basalt Sand with Red Harvester Ants as a Biotic Agent (Earth / Space Sciences) | 9 | |||
| Nachiket Nitin | Ingle | Honorable Mention, Medicine / Health / Gerontology Category | The Parts of the Brain that Filters Out Distractions (Medicine / Health / Gerontology) | 9 | |||
| Nikunj | Khetan | Honorable Mention, Physics Category | The Energy Efficient Deposition of Carbon Nanotubes Using Waste-Derived Carbon Dioxide as a Precursor Gas (Physics) | 12 | |||
| Shadaj | Laddad | 3rd Place Student Award: $160 and Certificate of Achievement, Association for Computing Machinery, San Francisco Bay Area Professional Chapter | Applying Concurrency and Distributed Systems to Sequence Alignment Algorithms (Bioinformatics) | 9 | |||
| 2nd Award, Bioinformatics Category | |||||||
| Pranav Varasri | Lalgudi | Honorable Mention, RRI Biological Sciences Category | Novel Molecular Dynamics Simulations and Modelling of Periplasmic Proteins and Peptidoglycan Interactions of Escherichia coli (RRI Biological Sciences) | 10 | |||
| Edward | Lee | 2nd Award, Engineering Category | The Optimization of the Real-Time Analysis of Malicious Web User Behavior (Engineering) | 11 | |||
| Angela R | Liu | Honorable Mention, Engineering Category | Creating a wearable electronic device that monitors heart health (Engineering) | 9 | |||
| Isha | Mehrotra | 1st Award, Medicine / Health / Gerontology Category | The effect of natural compounds Curcumin and Nicotinamide on alpha-Synuclein accumulation in a Caenorhabditis elegans model of Parkinson's Disease (Medicine / Health / Gerontology) | 9 | |||
| Rohan | Mehrotra | 1st Award, Medicine / Health / Gerontology Category | The effect of natural compounds Curcumin and Nicotinamide on alpha-Synuclein accumulation in a Caenorhabditis elegans model of Parkinson's Disease (Medicine / Health / Gerontology) | 9 | |||
| Cassandra Elaine | Overney | 1st Award, Biochemistry / Microbiology Category | Genotoxicity Investigation by Measuring the Effect of Metal Concentrations on Garlic Root Bioassays by the Observations of Chromosomal Aberrations (Biochemistry / Microbiology) | 10 | |||
| Ruchi Sandeep | Pandya | 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 | Design and synthesis of a novel paper based biosensor platform for health diagnostics. (RRI Physical Sciences) | 12 | |||
| $1000 Grand Prize, Morgan Lewis | |||||||
| High School Finalist Certficate, The Synopsys Outreach Foundation n+1 Prize | |||||||
| 1st Award, RRI Physical Sciences Category | |||||||
| GR 9-12, 1st Place: $110, Book, and Certificate of Achievement, T-Shirt, Society of Vacuum Coaters (SVC) | |||||||
| Advait Avinash | Patil | High School Finalist Certficate, The Synopsys Outreach Foundation n+1 Prize | CryoSubtilis: A synthetic biological approach to engineering cold resistance in Bacillus subtilis through expression of CspC and ZeAFP proteins (Biochemistry / Microbiology) | 9 | |||
| 1st Award, Biochemistry / Microbiology Category | |||||||
| Gauri | Patil | Honorable Mention, RRI Biological Sciences Category | Effect of Single Nucleotide Variations in the DIXDC1 Gene on Wnt-beta - Catenin Signaling Pathway Activation (RRI Biological Sciences) | 12 | |||
| Jessica | Peng | Honorable Mention, Engineering Category | Creating a wearable electronic device that monitors heart health (Engineering) | 9 | |||
| Amulya Bhupathiraju | Raju | Honorable Mention: Certificate of Achievement, and Goody Bag, Association for Women in Science, Palo Alto Chapter | Controlling Obstructive Sleep Apnea with the Usage of Mucoadhesive Strips (Engineering) | 11 | |||
| Individual: $30 and Book, The ROD Women in Science Award | |||||||
| Varun Bhupathiraju | Raju | Honorable Mention, Engineering Category | An alternative to compression garments to control abnormal growth of limbs. (Engineering) | 9 | |||
| $50 cash award and certificate to student in 9th grade, The Bruce Kawanami Engineering Award | |||||||
| Sherry | Sarkar | Honorable Mention, Computers / Mathematics Category | The Applications of Coding Theory for the Analysis of Genetic Data (Computers / Mathematics) | 11 | |||
| Aubhro | Sengupta | 2nd Award, Engineering Category | Heat Powered Hearing Aids (Engineering) | 9 | |||
| $50 cash award and certificate to student in 9th grade, The Bruce Kawanami Engineering Award | |||||||
| Certificate of Achievement, Ricoh Corporation | |||||||
| Nisarg | Shah | Honorable Mention, Biochemistry / Microbiology Category | A Novel Method for the Bioremediation of Pyrene through Endoyphyte-Plant Symbiosis (Biochemistry / Microbiology) | 10 | |||
| Shailja | Somani | 2nd Award, Biochemistry / Microbiology Category | The Effect of a Bacterial Protein on Plant Growth (Biochemistry / Microbiology) | 11 | |||
| Andrew | Tang | 2nd Award, Engineering Category | The Optimization of the Real-Time Analysis of Malicious Web User Behavior (Engineering) | 10 | |||
| Charles | Tang | 2nd Award, Engineering Category | The Optimization of the Real-Time Analysis of Malicious Web User Behavior (Engineering) | 11 | |||
| Varun J | Venkatesh | 1st Award, RRI Biological Sciences Category | A Study on Using Hydrogen Deuterium Exchange Mass Spectroscopy to Determine Protein Structure in the Coagulation Cascade (RRI Biological Sciences) | 10 | |||
| Marilyn Mengyao | Zhang | Honorable Mention, Bioinformatics Category | Diagnosing Alzheimer's and Parkinson's Disease with Alzheimer's and Parkinson's-specific Biomarkers in Blood Sample (Bioinformatics) | 10 | |||
| Susan Lining | Zhou | Honorable Mention, Biochemistry / Microbiology Category | The Effects of Sodium Hydroxide and Potassium Chloride on Saccharomyces cerevisiae (Biochemistry / Microbiology) | 9 | |||