Los Gatos-Saratoga Union High School District

Project Awards 2016

Synopsys Silicon Valley Science and Technology Championship

School	Teacher		Student		Award	Title	Gr
Los Gatos High School	Cathy	Messenger	Reid Alexander	Barton	1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category	Perovskite Crystals: A Bright Future in Solar Cell Technology (Physical Science and Engineering)	12
					1st place MS student - $100 and Certificate of Achievement, American Vacuum Society, Northern CA
					2nd Place Award - $75, Popular Science Magazine Subscription and Framed Certificate of Achievement, ASM International, A Society for Materials, Santa Clara Valley Chapter
			Scott Alexander	Bout	Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category	Novel Wing Design That Creates Proverse Yaw Without The Use Of Rudders Or A Vertical Stabilizer (Physical Science and Engineering)	10
			Shomik	Jain	2nd Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category	WaterMind: An Algorithm-Based iOS Application That Determines and Monitors Your Daily Water Intake (Physical Science and Engineering)	12
			Shomil	Jain	1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category	Developing an Artificial Turf Field with Embedded Thermoelectric Generators for Heat Absorption & Electricity Generation (Physical Science and Engineering)	10
			Mason Christopher	Julian	Honorable Mention, Biological Science and Engineering Category	Fabricating an LED Based Phototherapy Device for Treatment of Neonatal Hyperbilirubinemia (Biological Science and Engineering)	12
			Sanjay Asher	Mohan	1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category	Application of Artificial Neural Networks in Handwritten Text Processing (Physical Science and Engineering)	12
					ASEI Silicon Valley Emerging Technology Certificate of Achievement Award and Membership to American Society of Engineers of Indian Origin, ASEI Award
					One-day immersive trip to Firebase to work on API project, TechLab Education
			Gautam	Prabhu	2nd Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category	Predicting Evolution of Resistance Mutations to NRTI Drugs in HIV-1 Using Computational and Statistical Methods (Biological Science and Engineering)	11
			Violet India	Wallerstein	Honorable Mention: Certificate of Achievement, and Goody Bag, Association for Women in Science, Palo Alto Chapter	The Effect of Resveratrol on the Lifespan of Nutritionally Stressed Drosophila (Biological Science and Engineering)	12
			Elina	Yon	1st Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category	The Effects of Silicate Applications on Drought Tolerance and Growth of Lolium perenne and Lactuca sativa var Longifolia (Biological Science and Engineering)	11
Saratoga High School	Jill	McCrystal	Aayush	Gupta	Honorable Mention, RRI Biological Science and Engineering Category	A novel method for combination drug toxicity prescription recommendation using protein-drug interactome signatures (RRI Biological Science and Engineering)	10
			Sohil	Pokharna	High School Finalist Certficate & Amazon.com gift certficate, The Synopsys Outreach Foundation n+1 Prize	Affordable incubator leveraging thermal energy storage and Peltier devices for thermoregulation of neonatal preemies (Biological Science and Engineering)	9
					$100 First Place, Certificate of Achievement, and Letter, Inez M. Lechner Award
					IEEE Electro-Technology $25 gift card and a certificate, Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers
			Karthik	Ramachandran	ASEI Silicon Valley Emerging Technology Certificate of Achievement Award and Membership to American Society of Engineers of Indian Origin, ASEI Award	Overdose Watch: Tracking Medicine Consumption and Drug Interactions using NFC tags and NIH databases (Physical Science and Engineering)	10