Lynbrook High School
Project Awards 2016
Synopsys Silicon Valley Science and Technology Championship
| School | Teacher | Student | Award | Title | Gr | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lynbrook High School | Kenneth | Iams | Isa | Dash | $100 and a Certificate of Achievement, IBM Award | Applying Swarming and Clustering Algorithms to Vehicles for Real Time, Data-Driven Traffic Management (Physical Science and Engineering) | 10 |
| ASEI Silicon Valley Emerging Technology Certificate of Achievement Award and Membership to American Society of Engineers of Indian Origin, ASEI Award | |||||||
| Pransu | Dash | $100 and a Certificate of Achievement, IBM Award | Applying Swarming and Clustering Algorithms to Vehicles for Real Time, Data-Driven Traffic Management (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 | |||||||
| Jason | Lee | Krishnakumar Sivaganesh | Bhattaram | 1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Mathematical Designing and Modelling of Cascadable NAND Gate for Surface Plasmon Polariton (SPP) Computing (Physical Science and Engineering) | 9 | |
| Mythili Priya | Bhethanabotla | Honorable Mention, RRI Physical Science and Engineering Category | A Study on Routing Protocols in DTN Scenarios to Determine an Effective Way of Communication in Extreme Conditions (RRI Physical Science and Engineering) | 10 | |||
| Allen Huaxin | Chen | Honorable Mention Student Award: $50 and Certificate of Achievement, Association for Computing Machinery, San Francisco Bay Area Professional Chapter | A Novel Method of Paraphrase Identification in Natural Language Processing (RRI Physical Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| Christine Suhyun | Cho | Honorable Mention, RRI Physical Science and Engineering Category | A Study on Routing Protocols in DTN Scenarios to Determine an Effective Way of Communication in Extreme Conditions (RRI Physical Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| Vennela Janaki | Chukka | Honorable Mention, Biological Science and Engineering Category | The Effect of Flavonoids on β Amyloid Plaque Formation in C. elegans for Neurodegenerative Disease, Alzheimers. (Biological Science and Engineering) | 9 | |||
| First Place: $100, Certificate of Achievement, and Goody Bag, Santa Clara County Biotech Education Partnership (SCCBEP) | |||||||
| Anusha | Fatehpuria | 2nd Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | The Effect of Exposure to the Pyrethroid Pesticide Deltamethrin on the Activity of Dopaminergic Neurons (Biological Science and Engineering) | 9 | |||
| Durga | Ganesh | 1st Award, RRI Biological Science and Engineering Category | Angiopoietin-2 Induces Myeloid Cell Adhesion via G Protein-Coupled Receptor X (RRI Biological Science and Engineering) | 12 | |||
| $200, Certificate of Achievement, and Letter, Dr. Paul X. Callahan in Memoriam Award | |||||||
| Catherine | Huang | Honorable Mention: Certificate of Achievement, and Goody Bag, Association for Women in Science, Palo Alto Chapter | Identification of gene signature profiles of HPV induced oncogenesis through analysis of gene expression data (Biological Science and Engineering) | 10 | |||
| Charlie Jialiang | Huang | High School Finalist Certficate & Amazon.com gift certficate, The Synopsys Outreach Foundation n+1 Prize | Crystallization of Calcium Carbonate into Chitin in Penicillium Chrysogenum Cell Walls for Bone Repair and Prosthetics (Biological Science and Engineering) | 9 | |||
| 1st Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| $50 cash award and certificate to student in 9th grade, The Bruce Kawanami Engineering Award | |||||||
| 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 | |||||||
| Jasper | Huang | High School Finalist Certficate & Amazon.com gift certficate, The Synopsys Outreach Foundation n+1 Prize | Auditory Analysis of Gait and Footstep Patterns as a Novel Method of Biometrics (Physical Science and Engineering) | 10 | |||
| 2nd Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Ethan | Jean | Certificate of Achievement, American Meteorological Society | Climate Change scenarios in the Bay Area 100 years from now- Big Data and GIS Analysis (Physical Science and Engineering) | 9 | |||
| Certificate of Achievement, NASA Earth System Science Award | |||||||
| Certificate of Achievement, NOAA Medallion, and Letter, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration | |||||||
| Pranav | Lalgudi | 1st Award, RRI Biological Science and Engineering Category | Identification of Transdifferentiation Regulating Genes in Caenorhabditis elegans (RRI Biological Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| Ysabel | Li | 2nd Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | Effect of Dangerous Chemicals on Vibrio fischeri (Biological Science and Engineering) | 9 | |||
| Isha | Mehrotra | 1st Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | Novel interactions between Parkinson's genes and alpha-synuclein reveal new disease pathways and genetic therapies (Biological Science and Engineering) | 10 | |||
| Rohan | Mehrotra | 1st Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | Novel interactions between Parkinson's genes and alpha-synuclein reveal new disease pathways and genetic therapies (Biological Science and Engineering) | 10 | |||
| Vikram S | Miryala | 2nd Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Optimizing Piezo-Electric Energy Harvesting on a Cantilever (Physical Science and Engineering) | 10 | |||
| Tanvi | Narvekar | 2nd Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | Music and The Brain: How Different Genres of Music Affect Typing Output (Biological Science and Engineering) | 9 | |||
| Ashwin | Nathan | Honorable Mention Student Award: $50 and Certificate of Achievement, Association for Computing Machinery, San Francisco Bay Area Professional Chapter | Evaluating Which Heuristic Algorithm (Genetic vs. Monte Carlo Simulation) Is Better At Predicting Stock Performance (Physical Science and Engineering) | 10 | |||
| 2nd Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Saumya | Nimmagadda | High School Finalist Certficate & Amazon.com gift certficate, The Synopsys Outreach Foundation n+1 Prize | The Effect of Support and Knowledge from Coaches and Family on an Athlete's Return to Sport from an ACL injury (Biological Science and Engineering) | 10 | |||
| 2nd Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Cassandra Elaine | Overney | Honorable Mention, Biological Science and Engineering Category | Effect of Hypergravity on the Growth of Garlic Root Bioassays Obtained by a Genotoxicity Investigation (Biological Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| Samiksha | Patil | Honorable Mention, Biological Science and Engineering Category | What is the effect of switching the order of math problems on your test performance? (Biological Science and Engineering) | 9 | |||
| Priya | Ram | Honorable Mention, Biological Science and Engineering Category | What is the effect of switching the order of math problems on your test performance? (Biological Science and Engineering) | 9 | |||
| Saba | Sharfuddin | Individual: Certificate of Merit, The ROD Women in Science Award | The Effect of Escherichia coli and Micrococcus luteus on Polyvinyl Chloride (Physical Science and Engineering) | 10 | |||
| Amol | Singh | 2nd Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | Making Drought Resistant Plants: The Effect of Abscisic Acid on Fast Plants for Reducing Water Loss (Biological Science and Engineering) | 9 | |||
| Ian Tzuchi | Tai | 2nd Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | Making Drought Resistant Plants: The Effect of Abscisic Acid on Fast Plants for Reducing Water Loss (Biological Science and Engineering) | 9 | |||
| Gaurav | Vipat | ASEI Silicon Valley Emerging Technology Certificate of Achievement Award and Membership to American Society of Engineers of Indian Origin, ASEI Award | Improving the detection of facial key points to improve facial recognition software. (Physical Science and Engineering) | 9 | |||
| Marilyn Mengyao | Zhang | 2nd Award, RRI Biological Science and Engineering Category | Exploring Extracellular Vesicle-mediated Breast Tumor Communication with Macrophages in Tumor Progression (RRI Biological Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| Lester | Leung | Avinash Kalpit | Jain | 5th Place Student Award: $80 and Certificate of Achievement, Association for Computing Machinery, San Francisco Bay Area Professional Chapter | Crimson - A Service Revolutionizing Online Reading through Audio and Voice Control (Physical Science and Engineering) | 10 | |
| Sritam | Mishra | 1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Effectively Preventing Seizures Triggered by Photosensitive Epilepsy through an Efficient Computer Algorithm (Physical Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| Kathleen | Loia | Nikhil | Ajjarapu | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | A Novel Algorithm to Predict the Expenses of a Natural Disaster based on Geographic Features (Physical Science and Engineering) | 10 | |
| 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 | |||||||
| Andrew Tong | Li | 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 | The effects of different transition metal ions on carbon fixation and silica content of Thalassiosira Pseudonana Diatom (Physical Science and Engineering) | 10 | |||
| 1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Robert | Yang | 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 | The effects of different transition metal ions on carbon fixation and silica content of Thalassiosira Pseudonana Diatom (Physical Science and Engineering) | 10 | |||
| 1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Matthew | Zhou | 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 | The effects of different transition metal ions on carbon fixation and silica content of Thalassiosira Pseudonana Diatom (Physical Science and Engineering) | 10 | |||
| 1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Roy | Rocklin | Matthew M. | Hase-Liu | 1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Improving the Efficiency of a Mass Driver with the Use of Nonuniform Coil Density and Current Reversal via H-bridges (Physical Science and Engineering) | 11 | |
| Certificate of Achievement and Pewter Medallion Voucher, Yale Science and Engineering Association | |||||||
| Shadaj | Laddad | Honorable Mention Student Award: $50 and Certificate of Achievement, Association for Computing Machinery, San Francisco Bay Area Professional Chapter | A Machine Learning Algorithm for Classification of Discrete Series through Markov Chain Models (Physical Science and Engineering) | 10 | |||
| 1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| $100 and Certificate of Achievement, Trimble Award | |||||||
| One-day immersive trip to Firebase to work on API project, TechLab Education | |||||||