Palo Alto Unified School District

Project Awards 2017

Synopsys Silicon Valley Science and Technology Championship

School	Teacher		Student		Award	Title	Gr
Gunn (Henry M.) High School	Bill	Dunbar	Kevin	Frans	1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category	Coordinated Multi-Agent Control Utilizing Deep Reinforcement Learning (Physical Science and Engineering)	11
			Alex	Gao	1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category	Coordinated Multi-Agent Control Utilizing Deep Reinforcement Learning (Physical Science and Engineering)	11
	Marie	Durquet	Sandhini	Agarwal	Certificate of Achievement, United States Public Health Service	Using Computer Technology to Accurately Assess and Diagnose Walking Balance Disorders (Biological Science and Engineering)	10
	Heather	Mellows	Rustam Khushroo	Gandhi	Plaque and Tour of Stanford Chemistry Department Labs, Stanford University Chemistry Department	What is the effect of changing the catalyst plated on the anode on the efficiency of the water splitting reaction. (Physical Science and Engineering)	10
	Angela	Merchant	Tian	Chen	2nd Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category	Density Functional Theory Study of Fe, Co, Ni, and Pt Embedded Graphene (Physical Science and Engineering)	11
					2nd Place Award - $75, Popular Science Magazine Subscription and Framed Certificate of Achievement, ASM International, A Society for Materials, Santa Clara Valley Chapter
			Frederick	Nitta	2nd Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category	Density Functional Theory Study of Fe, Co, Ni, and Pt Embedded Graphene (Physical Science and Engineering)	10
					2nd Place Award - $75, Popular Science Magazine Subscription and Framed Certificate of Achievement, ASM International, A Society for Materials, Santa Clara Valley Chapter
	Christina	Woznicki	Swati	Goel	Honorable Mention Student Award: $50 and Certificate of Achievement, Association for Computing Machinery, San Francisco Bay Area Professional Chapter	Truth on the Internet: A Web Extension and Back-End Search System to Discover Original Sources (Physical Science and Engineering)	9
					2nd Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category
					IEEE Electro-Technology $50 gift card and a certificate, Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers
			Isabel W	Sperandio	GR 9-12 Most Promising Female Researcher, $150, Certificate, T-Shirt, Society of Vacuum Coaters (SVC)	A New Solar Panel Design: Producing Electricity Day and Night Using Photovoltaic, Seebeck, and Thermal Elements (Physical Science and Engineering)	9
					2nd Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category
					$100 First Place, Certificate of Achievement, and Letter, Inez M. Lechner Award
					Packet of Bag, flash drive, car charger, and battery, United States Air Force
Jordan (David Starr) Middle School	Patricia	Balbuena	Daniel Edison	Siegel	Middle school - One packet with Letter, Certificate of Achievement, and ONR Medallion, United States Navy and Marine Corps	Measurement and Analysis of Resonant Frequencies in Thin Plates using Sound Waves (Physical Science and Engineering)	6
	Sarah	Pierce	Brennen	Ho	Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category	Wearable GPS Tracker (Physical Science and Engineering)	6
Stanford (Jane Lathrop) Middle School	Mary	Melnick	Iyanu Bomar	Olukotun	2nd Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category	Heating the Moon: Creating a Thermal Mass to Warm the Lunar Surface (Physical Science and Engineering)	7
Terman Middle School	Lori	Lester	Alan Dongjin	Lee	2nd Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category	How Effective is Silica Gel in Food Package and Does It Last Until The Expiry date? (Physical Science and Engineering)	6
	Annie	Yount	Roy	Gross	Nominated to compete envelope, Broadcom MASTERS - 6th Grade	Radiocartography: Mapping the Unseen World of Radio (Physical Science and Engineering)	6
					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