Privately Sponsored Project
Project Awards 2015
Synopsys Silicon Valley Science and Technology Championship
| School | Teacher | Student | Award | Title | Gr | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Privately Sponsored Project | Sean | Carroll (SSW mentor) | Viet | Nguyen | 2nd Award, Zoology Category | Video Analysis of Daphnia (Zoology) | 11 |
| Shruti | Sridhar | 1st Award, Biochemistry / Microbiology Category | The antimicobial effects of common essential oils and facial treatments on staphylococcus (Biochemistry / Microbiology) | 7 | |||
| Nominated to compete envelope, Broadcom MASTERS - 7th Grade | |||||||
| Elaina | Chambers (SSW mentor) | Ruhi | Sayana | 2nd Award, Medicine / Health / Gerontology Category | Discovery of Monosodium Glutamate as an Inducing Factor of Increased Lipid Storage Through Expression of Adenosine Monophosphate-activated Protein Kinase (Medicine / Health / Gerontology) | 8 | |
| Certificate of Achievement, Medallion, and Letter, United States Public Health Service | |||||||
| Ananya | Vadlakonda | 2nd Award, Medicine / Health / Gerontology Category | A Novel Treatment for Parkinson's Disease - Preventing Oxidative Stress with Chocolate (Medicine / Health / Gerontology) | 7 | |||
| 1st Place Award - $200 and Certificate of Achievement, American Association for Laboratory Animal Science, Northern California Branch | |||||||
| Anuran | Chatterjee (SSW mentor) | Derick Rohan | Cutinha | 2nd Award, Biochemistry / Microbiology Category | Effect of cigarette smoke extract/condensate on ROS generation and muscle function in C. elegans (Biochemistry / Microbiology) | 8 | |
| Certificate of Achievement, Medallion, and Letter, United States Public Health Service | |||||||
| Ting-Kuang | Chiang (PSP) | Andrew | Chiang | 1st Award, Earth / Space Sciences Category | Wind Winds Windmills (Earth / Space Sciences) | 6 | |
| Nominated to compete envelope, Broadcom MASTERS - 6th Grade | |||||||
| Youssef | Ismail (SSW mentor) | Akhil | Arun | $100 and Certificate of Achievement, Trimble Navigation, Ltd. | Designing a Reflective Polarimeter (Engineering) | 9 | |
| Lawrence | Cheng | Honorable Mention, Engineering Category | A Novel Approach to Detecting Respiratory Blockage Through Portable Internal CO2 Level Monitoring via Transcutaneous Sensors (Engineering) | 11 | |||
| Certificate of Achievement and ONR Medallion, United States Navy and Marine Corps | |||||||
| IEEE Award for Electro-Technology ($50 and Framed Certificate), Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers | |||||||
| Shiloh S. | Curtis | 1st Place: $1000 Scholarship to SJSU College of Engineering and Certificate of Achievement, San Jose State University College of Engineering | Enabling Situational Awareness: A Hat-Based Hands-Free Haptic Navigational Aid for the Visually Impaired (Engineering) | 12 | |||
| 2nd Place Student Award: $320 and Certificate of Achievement, Association for Computing Machinery, San Francisco Bay Area Professional Chapter | |||||||
| High School Finalist Certficate, The Synopsys Outreach Foundation n+1 Prize | |||||||
| Outstanding Sustainability Project. Weeklong I-SWEEEP Competition, I-SWEEEP | |||||||
| 1st Award, Engineering Category | |||||||
| 2nd Place: $150 and Certificate of Achievement, System Safety Society | |||||||
| Certificate of Achievement and ONR Medallion, United States Navy and Marine Corps | |||||||
| Ronit Rishi | Dey | Honorable Mention, Physics Category | Reducing Joint Injuries During Impact in Contact Sports Using Energy Absorbing Protective Gear (Physics) | 8 | |||
| Shrivats | Kannan | Honorable Mention, Engineering Category | Kinetically Powered Everlasting Pacemaker (Engineering) | 9 | |||
| IEEE Award for Electro-Technology ($50 and Framed Certificate), Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers | |||||||
| Srinath | Somasundaram | $125 + certificate + two books to student + breakfast with Bob, Zeidman Award | A Novel Design and Evaluation of an Air Cushioning mechanism for Helmets to minimize impact acceleration on the head (Engineering) | 6 | |||
| 2nd Award, Engineering Category | |||||||
| Sport Bag, Junior Tech Organizer, Certificate of achievement, United States Air Force | |||||||
| Elizabeth Ye | Wang | $100 and Certificate of Achievement, Wireless Communications Alliance | Operation Fire Ant: Rescuing Natural Disaster Survivors Via Collective Control of Swarm Robots (Engineering) | 10 | |||
| Gift Card and Certificate of Achievement, Society of Women Engineers | |||||||
| GR 9-12: 1st Place, Certificate of Achievement, and tour of NASA Ames Research Center, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) Intelligent Systems Award | |||||||
| Sport Bag, Junior Tech Organizer, Certificate of achievement, United States Air Force | |||||||
| Patrick | Yu | 1st Award, Computers / Mathematics Category | Developing Efficient Algorithms for Self-Navigating Vehicles (Computers / Mathematics) | 7 | |||
| Nominated to compete envelope, Broadcom MASTERS - 7th Grade | |||||||
| Sport Bag, Junior Tech Organizer, Certificate of achievement, United States Air Force | |||||||
| Ibtisam | Khalaf (SSW mentor) | Ayan | Bandyopadhyay | 1st Award, Biochemistry / Microbiology Category | Effect of a Leptothrix discophora biocathode in a microbial fuel cell on power output (Biochemistry / Microbiology) | 11 | |
| Sarita | Berigei | First place High School-Cash Award-$75 and certificate, Northern California Institute of Food Technologists (NCIFT) | Measuring the concentration of antioxidants and measuring preservative ability of rosemary, broccoli, and sunflower seeds, and comparing those qualities to those of synthetic antioxidants and preservatives, by using Ferric Reducing Ability Plasma assay (FRAP) (Biochemistry / Microbiology) | 11 | |||
| Tanvi | Chokshi | 1st Award, Biochemistry / Microbiology Category | Title: The Use of Allicin and Vitamins to reduce stress in Wild type Caenorhabditis elegans measured by Immunohistochemistry in order to find a potential treatment to Stress Induced Alopecia (Biochemistry / Microbiology) | 12 | |||
| Chengzi | Guo | Honorable Mention Certificate of Achievement, Kindle, MedImmune | Antibacterial Activity of Medical grade Manuka honey and methylglyoxal and synergism between each and ciprofloxacin against Escherichia coli (Biochemistry / Microbiology) | 9 | |||
| Michelle Melody | Nazareth | 1st Award, Medicine / Health / Gerontology Category | Inhaler Inhibitors?: Comparing steroid and nonsteroid asthmatic treatment on the height rate of Drosophila Melanogaster (Medicine / Health / Gerontology) | 6 | |||
| GR 6-8: 2nd Place, $50 and Certificate of Achievement, UCSF Center For Systems and Synthetic Biology | |||||||
| Nominated to compete envelope, Broadcom MASTERS - 6th Grade | |||||||
| Neha Santhoshi | Pusarla | Honorable Mention, Biochemistry / Microbiology Category | The Effect on the Lipid Storage of Caenorhabditis elegans After Silencing the DAF-16 (Abnormal Dauer Formation) Gene, relating to DAF-2 which resembles the human receptor for insulin-like growth factor (IGF-1), in the Mutated Versus the Wild type Worms (Biochemistry / Microbiology) | 11 | |||
| Kiran | Rachamallu | Certificate of Achievement, Medallion, and Letter, United States Public Health Service | Microbiological Identification of bacteria in the Buccal Cavity in Smokers vs Nonsmokers (Biochemistry / Microbiology) | 8 | |||
| Anika | Sanyal | 2nd Award, Medicine / Health / Gerontology Category | Effects of Vitamin B12 on the Lifespan/Motility of Diabetic Mutated versus Wild Type C. elegans strains: A Representation Concentration of Glucose in Women with Gestational Diabetes (Medicine / Health / Gerontology) | 8 | |||
| Amy | Zhang | Honorable Mention, Ecology Category | Bioremediation of Lead Using Shewanelle oneidensis (Ecology) | 11 | |||
| Certificate of Achievement, American Meteorological Society | |||||||
| Michael | Lee (PSP) | Mackenzie | Lee | 1st Award, Physics Category | The Effect of Vane Tilt Angles on the Speed of a Revolving Lantern (Physics) | 8 | |
| Nominated to compete envelope, Broadcom MASTERS - 8th Grade | |||||||
| Rajiv | Maheshwari (PSP) | Ruchi | Maheshwari | Honorable Mention, Engineering Category | HomeBot: A Home Automation System that Combines and Controls Intelligent Devices in the Home (Engineering) | 8 | |
| Deepak | Nair (PSP) | Malini | Nair | Honorable Mention, Engineering Category | Tsunami Breakers (Engineering) | 6 | |
| Ken | Schmahl (SSW mentor) | Neil | Movva | Grand Prize Alternate - Physical Sciences - Trip to State Science Fair and Plaque, Santa Clara Valley Science & Engineering Fair Assn - Board of Directors Awards - High School | (In)security Everywhere: Machine Learning Assisted Deep Power Analysis Fundamentally Defeats Software Cryptography (Engineering) | 12 | |
| $100 First Prize, Morgan Lewis | |||||||
| 2nd Award, Engineering Category | |||||||
| $100 and Certificate of Achievement, Fair Manager's Graphic Design Award | |||||||
| Certificate of Achievement and ONR Medallion, United States Navy and Marine Corps | |||||||
| One-day immersive trip to Firebase to work on API project, TechLab Education | |||||||
| 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 | Developing an Electronic Wearable and Customizable Solution to Predict and Prevent Autistic Meltdowns (Engineering) | 7 | |
| $500 + certificate + two books to student + breakfast with Bob, Zeidman Award | |||||||
| 1st Award, Engineering Category | |||||||
| Certificate of Achievement and ONR Medallion, United States Navy and Marine Corps | |||||||
| IEEE Award for Electro-Technology ($50 and Framed Certificate), Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers | |||||||
| Nominated to compete envelope, Broadcom MASTERS - 7th Grade | |||||||
| Special Award: $75 and Certificate of Achievement, Varian Medical Systems | |||||||