Los Gatos-Saratoga Union High School District
Project Awards 2017
Synopsys Silicon Valley Science and Technology Championship
| School | Teacher | Student | Award | Title | Gr | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Los Gatos High School | Cathy | Messenger | Emma Krisztina | Brezoczky | 1st Place Award - $125 and Certificate of Achievement, American Association for Laboratory Animal Science, Northern California Branch | A study of cadmium neurodegenerative effect on Caenorhabditis elegans in relation to Parkinson's disease. (Biological Science and Engineering) | 11 |
| Olivia Flores | Briones | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | An Ecological Approach to Oil Spill Clean Up: Modifying Plant Fibers to Absorb Oil (Physical Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| Certificate of Achievement, NOAA Medallion, and letter, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration | |||||||
| Honorable Mention - Framed Certificate of Achievement and Popular Science Magazine Subscription, SAMPE - Society for the Advancement of Material and Process Engineering | |||||||
| Honorable Mention Award - Popular Science Magazine Subscription and Framed Certificate of Achievement, ASM International, A Society for Materials, Santa Clara Valley Chapter | |||||||
| Gwendolyn Izabel | Erdosh | Honorable Mention, Biological Science and Engineering Category | Anti-parasitic Effects of Milkweed Species on Monarch Butterflies Infected with Ophryocystis elektroscirrha (Biological Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| Catherine Shuqi Xu | grebin | $100 First Prize, Morgan Lewis | Biocompatible Microdroplets: A Paradigm Shift in the Reversal of Atherosclerosis (Biological Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| 1st Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Honorable Mention: Certificate of Achievement, and Goody Bag, Association for Women in Science, Palo Alto Chapter | |||||||
| Caitlin | Huang | 2nd Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | An Attribute and Instance Weighted Naive Bayes Algorithm that uses Medical Knowledge for Heart Disease Detection (Biological Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| Shomil | Jain | BBC Microbit development kit, TechLab Education | ACE: Assistive Crosswalk Engagement through Dedicated Short-Range Communication (DSRC) between Vehicles and Pedestrians (Physical Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| Charlotta Giselle | Lebedenko | Honorable Mention, Biological Science and Engineering Category | Evaluating the effects of non-caloric artificial sweeteners on human gut microbiota to prevent glucose intolerance (Biological Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| Alice | Martynova | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Using Artificial Intelligence to Correct Grammar and Spelling Mistakes (Physical Science and Engineering) | 10 | |||
| Rory Dewitt | Morgan | Honorable Mention, Biological Science and Engineering Category | What are the Effects of Climate Change on the Evolution of a Population of Simulated Organisms? (Biological Science and Engineering) | 10 | |||
| Pranav V | Muthuraman | 2nd Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | "Why So Salty?" An Energy Efficient Method for Desalination of Water Using Microbial Fuel Cells (Physical Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| Avi | Patel | 1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Confirming the Coevolution of Supermassive Black Holes & Dark Matter Halos by Analyzing the Structure of Galaxy Bulges (Physical Science and Engineering) | 10 | |||
| Gautam | Prabhu | 1st Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | Kinetic Modeling of Signal Transduction in the Intra-S Phase DNA Damage Checkpoint (Biological Science and Engineering) | 12 | |||
| Talal Ahmed | Sohail | Honorable Mention, Biological Science and Engineering Category | Using Drosophila melanogaster as a Model Organism to Investigate the Effects of Geometric Patterns on Food Attraction (Biological Science and Engineering) | 12 | |||
| Mariapaula | Sunzeri Hernandez | 2nd Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | Behavioral Modification using Red and Green LED Lights to Train Planarians with Positive Reinforcement (Biological Science and Engineering) | 10 | |||
| Tuong | Tran | 2nd Place Award - $100 and Certificate of Achievement, American Association for Laboratory Animal Science, Northern California Branch | Modeling the Effects of Monosodium Glutamate on Geotaxis, Life Expectancy, Pulse Rate Using Drosophila melanogaster (Biological Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| Kent Makoto | Van Belleghem | 2nd Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Using Nitinol as a Concussion Indicator in Football Helmets (Physical Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| Elina | Yon | 2nd Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | eyeHelper: An iOS Application Aid for the Visually Impaired (Physical Science and Engineering) | 12 | |||
| Monica | Minson | Mia Watson | Fong | Certificate of Excellence from National Association of Women Geoscientists, Association for Women Geoscientists, San Francisco Bay Area Chapter | If Radon Exists in Santa Cruz Mountain Well Water, How Much Radon Will Be Present at the House Tap (Physical Science and Engineering) | 9 | |
| Saratoga High School | Jill | McCrystal | Aayush | Gupta | 2nd Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | A Better Uber: Reinforcement Learning Pricing to Help Users in the On-demand Economy (Physical Science and Engineering) | 11 |
| Certificate of Achievement and letter, Ricoh Corporation | |||||||
| Raj | Janardhan | Honorable Mention, Biological Science and Engineering Category | The Effect of Music on Brain Competency (Biological Science and Engineering) | 9 | |||
| Sohini | Kar | 4th Place Student Award: $120 and Certificate of Achievement, Association for Computing Machinery, San Francisco Bay Area Professional Chapter | Factorization of Recurrence Relations (Physical Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| 2nd Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Sohil | Pokharna | Honorable Mention, Biological Science and Engineering Category | IoT enabled Neonatal Incubator for Monitoring and Storage of Vital Data for Predicting Short and Long Term Ailments (Biological Science and Engineering) | 10 | |||
| Special Award: $75 and Certificate of Achievement, Varian Medical Systems | |||||||
| Arian Salil | Raje | ASEI Silicon Valley Emerging Technology Certificate of Achievement Award and Membership to American Society of Engineers of Indian Origin, American Society of Engineers of Indian Origin Award | Pharma.AI: A Novel Approach to QSAR Using Gradient Boosting and DNNs in the Prediction of Drug-Target Interactions (RRI Biological Science and Engineering) | 10 | |||
| Karthik | Ramachandran | Honorable Mention, RRI Biological Science and Engineering Category | Breaking Down Barriers: Using RNAi on ABC Transporter Genes to Determine Role in Organism Survival and Toxin Resistance (RRI Biological Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| Amulya | Vadlakonda | Certificate of Achievement, American Psychological Association | The Effects of Awareness Models on the Sustainability of our Organ Donation System (Biological Science and Engineering) | 12 | |||