East Side Union High School District
Project Awards 2016
Synopsys Silicon Valley Science and Technology Championship
| School | Teacher | Student | Award | Title | Gr | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Andrew Hill High School | Patrick | Allamandola | Natalie | Chau | 1st Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | How do treated inorganic seeds affect the quality of soil in comparison to grown organic seeds? (Biological Science and Engineering) | 12 |
| Kevin | Ly | 2nd Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | The Bacterial Resistance of Elicited Phytoalexins in Arabidopsis (Biological Science and Engineering) | 12 | |||
| Jonelle | Pascual | Honorable Mention Award - Popular Science Magazine Subscription and Framed Certificate of Achievement, ASM International, A Society for Materials, Santa Clara Valley Chapter | Paper Clips and Surface Tension (Physical Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| Cindy | Pham | Honorable Mention Certificate, Santa Clara County Biotech Education Partnership (SCCBEP) | GFP Expression under Varying Conditions (Biological Science and Engineering) | 12 | |||
| Kevin | Sanchez | 3rd Place: SJSU College of Engineering Certificate of Achievement, San Jose State University College of Engineering | How much force is needed to run on water? (Physical Science and Engineering) | 12 | |||
| Evergreen Valley High School | Mary-Kate | Lesoine | Labanya | Mukhopadhyay | 1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Study of Micro-robotic Motions in Low Reynolds Number Liquids (Physical Science and Engineering) | 10 |
| Scott | Lubbs | Swetha | Revanur | 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 | Machine Learning Framework for Multi-Omics Discovery and Characterization of Gene-Gene Interactions Impacting Disease (RRI Biological Science and Engineering) | 12 | |
| $100 First Prize, Morgan Lewis | |||||||
| 1st Award, RRI Biological Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| $100 and Certificate of Achievement, Fair Manager's Graphic Design Award | |||||||
| ASEI Silicon Valley Emerging Technology Certificate of Achievement Award and Membership to American Society of Engineers of Indian Origin, ASEI Award | |||||||
| Certificate of Achievement and ONR Medallion, United States Navy and Marine Corps | |||||||
| Intel ECS Certificate of Achievement and Forms to Submit for $200, Intel Excellence in Computer Science Award | |||||||
| Carol | Metica-Pongol | Aratrika | Ghatak | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | A Low-Cost Solution to fight California's Drought: Controlling Water Usage with Mobile Applications and IOT technology (Physical Science and Engineering) | 10 | |
| Doug | Miller | Himanshu | Gautam | 2nd Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | An AI system that integrates facial recognition with social networking platforms (Physical Science and Engineering) | 11 | |
| Akul | Gupta | 2nd Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | An AI system that integrates facial recognition with social networking platforms (Physical Science and Engineering) | 10 | |||
| Anushka | Jogalekar | Grand Prize - Best of Championship - Outreach Schools - Trip to Intel ISEF and Plaque, Santa Clara Valley Science & Engineering Fair Assn - Board of Directors Awards - High School | Using Machine Learning to Detect Computer Network Security Threats (Physical Science and Engineering) | 10 | |||
| 1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| One-day immersive trip to Palo Alto Networks, TechLab Education | |||||||
| Kevin | Keechempallil | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | 20-20-20 Eye Relaxer (Physical Science and Engineering) | 10 | |||
| Adesh | Kumar | 2nd Place: SJSU College of Engineering Certificate of Achievement, San Jose State University College of Engineering | Can we make 3D prints stronger? (Physical Science and Engineering) | 12 | |||
| Sneha | Kurella | Certificate of Achievement, Ricoh Corporation | Enabling the hearing-impaired to perceive audible alarms: An application of Internet of Things (IoT) techniques (Physical Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| Sanika | Sahasrabudhe | $1000 cash award for project demonstrating entrepeneurial promise., Muddu Family Entrepreneurial and Startup Award | Ocular Sensors: Detecting Drowsy Drivers and Saving Lives (Physical Science and Engineering) | 10 | |||
| Dylan H | Tran | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | 20-20-20 Eye Relaxer (Physical Science and Engineering) | 10 | |||
| Jonathan Hong | Yu | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | 20-20-20 Eye Relaxer (Physical Science and Engineering) | 10 | |||
| Barjinder | Sabherwal | Rishi | Parikh | Certificate of Achievement, American Meteorological Society | Creating a Platform to Monitor and Improve the Air Quality in our Environment (Physical Science and Engineering) | 9 | |
| Rebecca | Taylor | Tanisha | Joshi | Grand Prize - Best of Championship - Outreach Schools - Trip to Intel ISEF and Plaque, Santa Clara Valley Science & Engineering Fair Assn - Board of Directors Awards - High School | A Self-Learning, Predictive Model for HER2 Inhibitors with Virtual In-Vitro Biochemical Assays. (Biological Science and Engineering) | 11 | |
| 1st Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Oak Grove High School | Jennifer | Claudio-Quan | Barah | Aljewad | Grand Prize Alternate - Outreach Schools - Trip to State Science Fair and Plaque, Santa Clara Valley Science & Engineering Fair Assn - Board of Directors Awards - High School | Effects of Cigarette Litter on the Urban Ecology of Armadillidium vulgare (Biological Science and Engineering) | 12 |
| 1st Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Magdalena Alejandra | Mendoza | 3rd Place Award - $50 Cash and Certificate of Achievement, American Society of Civil Engineers- San Jose Branch | How does sandbag shape affect the efficacy of water blockage? (Physical Science and Engineering) | 10 | |||
| Jennifer Lynn | Mosch | Grand Prize Alternate - Outreach Schools - Trip to State Science Fair and Plaque, Santa Clara Valley Science & Engineering Fair Assn - Board of Directors Awards - High School | Effects of Cigarette Litter on the Urban Ecology of Armadillidium vulgare (Biological Science and Engineering) | 12 | |||
| 1st Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Overfelt (William C.) High School | Ann | Shioji | Melissa | Gutierrez | Student Award in Geoscience Excellence from Association for Women Geoscientists Bay Area Chapter, Association for Women Geoscientists, San Francisco Bay Area Chapter | Wire Mesh Adobe (Physical Science and Engineering) | 12 |
| Yovani Isai | Hernandez | 1st Place Award - $150 Cash and Certificate of Achievement, American Society of Civil Engineers- San Jose Branch | The Effect of Perforated Pipes on Liquefaction (Physical Science and Engineering) | 12 | |||
| Isela Jaqueline | Medina | 1st Place Award - $150 Cash and Certificate of Achievement, American Society of Civil Engineers- San Jose Branch | The Effect of Perforated Pipes on Liquefaction (Physical Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| Daena | Valencia Samora | Student Award in Geoscience Excellence from Association for Women Geoscientists Bay Area Chapter, Association for Women Geoscientists, San Francisco Bay Area Chapter | Wire Mesh Adobe (Physical Science and Engineering) | 12 | |||
| Daniela | Velazquez | Student Award in Geoscience Excellence from Association for Women Geoscientists Bay Area Chapter, Association for Women Geoscientists, San Francisco Bay Area Chapter | Wire Mesh Adobe (Physical Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| Piedmont Hills High School | Matt | Trask | Mark | Shacker | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | EchoView: A Device to Supplement the Visually Impaired's Ability to Detect Incoming Objects (Physical Science and Engineering) | 10 |
| Santa Teresa High School | Debra | Dimas | Jennifer Lynn | Guise | 3rd place MS student - $25 and Certificate of Achievement, American Vacuum Society, Northern CA | Telescope Using Mirrors and Sunshields (Physical Science and Engineering) | 12 |
| Enrique | Munguia | 3rd place MS student - $25 and Certificate of Achievement, American Vacuum Society, Northern CA | Telescope Using Mirrors and Sunshields (Physical Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| Carole | Ng | Luis | Gallegos | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Water Displacement App (Physical Science and Engineering) | 12 | |
| Tony | Jojan | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Water Displacement App (Physical Science and Engineering) | 12 | |||
| Sammy G | Khadder | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Water Displacement App (Physical Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| Silver Creek High School | Narquiz | Cervantes | Prachi | Bhagavatha | IEEE Electro-Technology $25 gift card and a certificate, Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers | Improved Cane for the Visually-Impaired (Physical Science and Engineering) | 10 |
| Erin Yurim | Kim | 1st Place: $1000 Scholarship to SJSU College of Engineering and Certificate of Achievement, San Jose State University College of Engineering | Body Heat Powered LED Vest (Physical Science and Engineering) | 12 | |||
| 2nd Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| IEEE Electro-Technology $25 gift card and a certificate, Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers | |||||||
| Sophia | Lau | Grand Prize Alternate - Outreach Schools - Trip to State Science Fair and Plaque, Santa Clara Valley Science & Engineering Fair Assn - Board of Directors Awards - High School | Effect of Ultraviolet Radiation on the Photoelectrochemical Conversion System of Organic, Dye-Sensitized Voltaic Cells (Physical Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| 1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Jasmine | Ngo | IEEE Electro-Technology $25 gift card and a certificate, Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers | Improved Cane for the Visually-Impaired (Physical Science and Engineering) | 10 | |||
| Traci | Verna | Jennifer | Nguyen | Best Project: $50, Certificate of Achievement, and Voucher for a Safe Boating Course, United States Coast Guard Auxiliary | The Effects of Phosphate Enrichment on the Growth Rate of Marine Phytoplankton and Domoic Acid Production (Physical Science and Engineering) | 11 | |
| Aleisa | Quach | Best Project: $50, Certificate of Achievement, and Voucher for a Safe Boating Course, United States Coast Guard Auxiliary | The Effects of Phosphate Enrichment on the Growth Rate of Marine Phytoplankton and Domoic Acid Production (Physical Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||