Santa Clara Unified School District
Project Awards 2016
Synopsys Silicon Valley Science and Technology Championship
| School | Teacher | Student | Award | Title | Gr | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cabrillo Middle School | Nelson | Hori | Bryan | Reyes | 2nd Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | The Effect of Music on Human Moods (Biological Science and Engineering) | 8 |
| Dauntae | Vivas | 2nd Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | The Effect of Music on Human Moods (Biological Science and Engineering) | 8 | |||
| Nicole | Hulgan | Sean Kyson | Do | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Using hand gestures to operate mechanisms. (Physical Science and Engineering) | 7 | |
| Talin Joshi | Ray | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Using hand gestures to operate mechanisms. (Physical Science and Engineering) | 7 | |||
| Jennifer | Lee | Krish | Praseeth | 2nd Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | The design and construction of a Braille emulator for visually impaired people to surf the web (Physical Science and Engineering) | 7 | |
| Gabriel N | Ticau | 2nd Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | The design and construction of a Braille emulator for visually impaired people to surf the web (Physical Science and Engineering) | 7 | |||
| Glenn | Lillie | Letitia D | Aloysius | 2nd Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Sign Language Alphabets using Augmented Reality (Physical Science and Engineering) | 8 | |
| Joseph M | Hernandez Jr. | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Become The Smarty (Physical Science and Engineering) | 8 | |||
| Ryan L | Ramirez | 2nd Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | BlindNav (Physical Science and Engineering) | 8 | |||
| Siddarth | Ramkrishnan | 2nd Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | BlindNav (Physical Science and Engineering) | 8 | |||
| Janet | Wu | Jenna Sophia | Houle | Isabelle Stone Award for Best Biological Science Projects - Trip to State Science Fair, Plaque, and $100, Santa Clara Valley Science & Engineering Fair Assn - Board of Directors Awards - Middle School | Techniques to help kids improve their memory, lower anxiety, and improve their attitude about school (Biological Science and Engineering) | 7 | |
| Nominated to compete envelope, Broadcom MASTERS - 7th Grade | |||||||
| 1st Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Peterson Middle School | Lynnanne | Henderson | Surya C | Tallavarjula | Nominated to compete envelope, Broadcom MASTERS - 6th Grade | To characterize the energy loss for different types of light bulbs, and ways to recover and reuse some of the energy loss. (Physical Science and Engineering) | 6 |
| 1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Honorable Mention: Certificate of Achievement,T-Shirt, Tote bag, Society of Vacuum Coaters (SVC) | |||||||
| Wilcox High School | David | Iverson | 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 and Exploration of Multi-Exoplanet Systems Using Novel Photometric and TTV Algorithms for the K2 Mission (RRI Physical Science and Engineering) | 11 |
| High School Finalist Certficate & Amazon.com gift certficate, The Synopsys Outreach Foundation n+1 Prize | |||||||
| 1st Award, RRI Physical Science and Engineering 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 and Exploration of Multi-Exoplanet Systems Using Novel Photometric and TTV Algorithms for the K2 Mission (RRI Physical Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| High School Finalist Certficate & Amazon.com gift certficate, The Synopsys Outreach Foundation n+1 Prize | |||||||
| 1st Award, RRI Physical Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Mary Pat | Slate | Visala R | Tallavarjula | Certificate of Achievement; if registered, medal, subscription & opportunity to advance to national competition for trip to Stockholm, Stockholm Junior Water Prize | Methods based on Statistical Analysis To Improve Water Retention in Sub-surface Irrigation (Physical Science and Engineering) | 9 | |