San Jose Unified School District
Project Awards 2017
Synopsys Silicon Valley Science and Technology Championship
| School | Teacher | Student | Award | Title | Gr | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Allen at Steinbeck | Kim | Moritz | Xenia | Torres | Honorable Mention - Framed Certificate of Achievement and Popular Science Magazine, SAMPE - Society for the Advancement of Material and Process Engineering | How Does Heat Transfer Through Metals vs. Alloys? (Physical Science and Engineering) | 7 |
| Harte (Bret) Middle School | Jill | Fischer | Nethra | Srinivasan | Middle school - One packet with Letter, Certificate of Achievement, and ONR Medallion, United States Navy and Marine Corps | Fluid Mechanics: The Effects of Temperature on a Liquid's Viscosity (Physical Science and Engineering) | 7 |
| Jenna | Patton | Nikhil | Chandra | BBC Microbit development kit, TechLab Education | Iot Water Leak Alarm: Delivers an email to a connected user immediately upon detection of a water leak (Physical Science and Engineering) | 8 | |
| Parthiv | Seetharaman | BBC Microbit development kit, TechLab Education | Iot Water Leak Alarm: Delivers an email to a connected user immediately upon detection of a water leak (Physical Science and Engineering) | 8 | |||
| Leland High School | Mark | Cahn | Ujjaini | Mukhopadhyay | 2nd Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | Mindset or Aptitude: What drives the learning ability of high school students? (Biological Science and Engineering) | 11 |
| Certificate of Achievement, United States Public Health Service | |||||||
| Karen | Lee | Jonathan B | Li | Honorable Mention: Certificate of Achievement, T-Shirt, Society of Vacuum Coaters (SVC) | Fabricating a modified dye-sensitized solar cell (DSSC) using a novel fast-ion conduction electrolyte layer (Physical Science and Engineering) | 11 | |
| 2nd Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Vedha | Santhosh | 1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | The Effect of Using Biodegradable Coagulants on Domestic Wastewater Treatment to Promote Water Conservation (Physical Science and Engineering) | 9 | |||
| Jeff | Lutze | Samantha Yan | Cheung | First Place: $100, Certificate of Achievement, and Goody Bag, Santa Clara County Biotech Education Partnership (SCCBEP) | The Investigation of the Prevalence of the Wolbachia Gene in Arthropods from Cities of the Bay Area (Biological Science and Engineering) | 12 | |
| Ryan | Lee | BBC Microbit development kit, TechLab Education | A self-contained file Encryptor based on the Arduino platform (Physical Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| Theodora | Worledge | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | The role of spontaneous symmetry breaking in the initial formation of ski moguls (Physical Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| IEEE Electro-Technology $50 gift card and a certificate, Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers | |||||||
| Wilson | Yen | Muhammad | Anas | BBC Microbit development kit, TechLab Education | Classroom Behavioral Management Tool (Physical Science and Engineering) | 12 | |
| Syed Waqasul | Hassan | BBC Microbit development kit, TechLab Education | Classroom Behavioral Management Tool (Physical Science and Engineering) | 12 | |||
| San Jose Middle College | David | Clark | Gajan | Nagaraj | 1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | A Novel Fire Hazard Autodetect System for Vents, Pipes, and Chimneys. (Physical Science and Engineering) | 12 |
| 2nd Place: $50 Cash and Certificate of Achievement, System Safety Society | |||||||
| San Jose Unified School District-homestudy program | Dana | Buller | Edward | Ross | 2nd Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Got Moisture? Could surface treatments of uninsulated concrete slab foundations eliminate indoor moisture accumulation (Physical Science and Engineering) | 10 |
| 2nd Place Award - $100 Cash and Certificate of Achievement, American Society of Civil Engineers- San Jose Branch | |||||||