Privately Sponsored Project
Project Awards 2016
Synopsys Silicon Valley Science and Technology Championship
| School | Teacher | Student | Award | Title | Gr | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Privately Sponsored Project | Dennis | Bua (SSW Mentor) | Chengzi | Guo | 2nd Award, RRI Biological Science and Engineering Category | Determine how the opportunistic pathogen Candida glabrata is resistant to antifungal agents when other yeast are not (RRI Biological Science and Engineering) | 10 |
| Ananya | Vadlakonda | Certificate of Achievement and ONR Medallion, United States Navy and Marine Corps | The Effect of the Presence of Curcumin, Tyrosine, or MSG on Dopamine Stability: Implications for a Treatment for ADHD (Biological Science and Engineering) | 8 | |||
| Sean | Carroll (SSW mentor) | Mithil | Chakraborty | Honorable Mention, Biological Science and Engineering Category | Evaluation of the Antibiotic Properties of Tomatine using Daphnia Magna (Biological Science and Engineering) | 7 | |
| Clara | Hansen | 2nd Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | The effect of glyphosate on Dinoflagellate growth and bioluminescence (Biological Science and Engineering) | 6 | |||
| Aditya | Hariharan | 2nd Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | The Effect of B. subtilis bacteria on reducing the salinity of salt water (Biological Science and Engineering) | 8 | |||
| Sachi Kedar | Shirali | Honorable Mention, RRI Biological Science and Engineering Category | Antibacterial Effects of Essential Oils on Escherichia Coli (RRI Biological Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| Alekhya | Vadlakonda | Honorable Mention, Biological Science and Engineering Category | Asthma treatment revisited- preventing oxidative stress with green tea (Biological Science and Engineering) | 7 | |||
| Elaina | Chambers (SSW mentor) | Anika | Sanyal | Certificate of Achievement, United States Public Health Service | A Practical Approach To Treating and Regulating Cholesterol Levels for Patients with Chronic LDL-Cholesterol and Plaque (RRI Biological Science and Engineering) | 9 | |
| Anuran | Chatterjee (SSW mentor) | Kaushik | Shivakumar | 2nd Award, RRI Biological Science and Engineering Category | The Effects of Simulated Microgravity on Planarian Regeneration and the Use of Resolvin to Negate Them (RRI Biological Science and Engineering) | 9 | |
| Alexander | Young | 2nd Award, RRI Biological Science and Engineering Category | The Effects of Simulated Microgravity on Planarian Regeneration and the Use of Resolvin to Negate Them (RRI Biological Science and Engineering) | 9 | |||
| Mahasweta | Ganai (PSP) | Milan | Ganai | Nominated to compete envelope, Broadcom MASTERS - 8th Grade | Wearable Therapeutic Device with Bluetooth for Sarcopenia Patients and Caregivers (Physical Science and Engineering) | 8 | |
| 1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Youssef | Ismail (SSW mentor) | Brian | Ng | $100 First Place, Certificate of Achievement, and Letter, Inez M. Lechner Award | Autonomous Stress Detection using Electromyography (RRI Physical Science and Engineering) | 9 | |
| Shruti | Sridhar | Nominated to compete envelope, Broadcom MASTERS - 8th Grade | A Novel Sensor-Based Device to Detect Heatstroke and Dehydration (Physical Science and Engineering) | 8 | |||
| 1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Best Project: $50, Certificate of Achievement, and Voucher for a Safe Boating Course, United States Coast Guard Auxiliary | |||||||
| Gift Card and Certificate of Achievement, Society of Women Engineers | |||||||
| Kaushik Sai | Tota | 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 Magnesium-Air Fuel Cells (Physical Science and Engineering) | 7 | |||
| Honorable Mention Certificate + a signed book + breakfast with Bob Zeidman, Zeidman Award | |||||||
| Nominated to compete envelope, Broadcom MASTERS - 7th Grade | |||||||
| 1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| 1st Place Award - $100, Popular Science Magazine Subscription, Framed Certificate of Achievement, ASM International, A Society for Materials, Santa Clara Valley Chapter | |||||||
| GR 6-8, 1st Place: $85 and Certificate of Achievement, T-Shirt, Tote bag, Society of Vacuum Coaters (SVC) | |||||||
| Shivam | Verma | 2nd Place Student Award: $160 and Certificate of Achievement, Association for Computing Machinery, San Francisco Bay Area Professional Chapter | Controlling Wheelchair Motion Using a Computer Vision System that Detects Head Movement (Physical Science and Engineering) | 8 | |||
| Patrick | Yu | Honorable Mention Student Award: $40 and Certificate of Achievement, Association for Computing Machinery, San Francisco Bay Area Professional Chapter | A Novel Approach to Leaf and Image Recognition (Physical Science and Engineering) | 8 | |||
| Middle School Finalist Certificate & Amazon.com gift certificate, The Synopsys Outreach Foundation n+1 Prize | |||||||
| 2nd Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| $100 and Certificate of Achievement, Trimble Award | |||||||
| Omar | Reyes Paredes (SSW mentor) | Andrew Basil | Nazareth | Team award - $300 total and Framed Certificate of Achievement, American Chemical Society, Santa Clara Valley | Bacteria Battles: Effects of antimicrobial efficacy using antibiotics and an essential oil to combat anti-bacterial resistance using E.coli and S. epidermidis biofilm formations (Biological Science and Engineering) | 8 | |
| Michelle Melody | Nazareth | Team award - $300 total and Framed Certificate of Achievement, American Chemical Society, Santa Clara Valley | Bacteria Battles: Effects of antimicrobial efficacy using antibiotics and an essential oil to combat anti-bacterial resistance using E.coli and S. epidermidis biofilm formations (Biological Science and Engineering) | 7 | |||
| Latha | Subramanyan(PSP) | Raghav | Ganesh | $500 + certificate + a signed book + breakfast with Bob Zeidman, Zeidman Award | Characterizing Brain Activity using Facial Feature Recognition and Gaze Tracking (Physical Science and Engineering) | 8 | |
| Grand Prize Student Award: $320 and Certificate of Achievement, Association for Computing Machinery, San Francisco Bay Area Professional Chapter | |||||||
| Middle School Finalist Certificate & Amazon.com gift certificate, The Synopsys Outreach Foundation n+1 Prize | |||||||
| Certificate of Achievement and ONR Medallion, United States Navy and Marine Corps | |||||||
| IEEE Electro-Technology $50 gift card and a certificiate, Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers | |||||||
| Dipa | Trivedi (PSP) | Kavish | Trivedi | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Preventing Crime using a Smart Doorbell (Physical Science and Engineering) | 8 | |