Privately Sponsored Project
Project Awards 2017
Synopsys Silicon Valley Science and Technology Championship
| School | Teacher | Student | Award | Title | Gr | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Privately Sponsored Project | Shanthi | Adimoolam (Mentor) | Nidhya | Shivakumar | Nominated to compete envelope, Broadcom MASTERS - 6th Grade | Halophytes:A Potential Solution for the Remediation of Soil in Saline Wastelands (Physical Science and Engineering) | 6 |
| 1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Michael | Askins (SSW mentor) | Josh | Sanyal | 2nd Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | The Homework Machine: Helps students work smarter, not harder, and collaborate with peers, teachers, and parents (Physical Science and Engineering) | 8 | |
| Sean | Carroll (SSW mentor) | Ruchika Sunil | Dixit | Nominated to compete envelope, Broadcom MASTERS - 8th Grade | How Quorum Sensing and Media affect Bacterial Bioluminescence (Biological Science and Engineering) | 8 | |
| 1st Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Sachin | Narayan | Honorable Mention Award - Popular Science Magazine Subscription and Framed Certificate of Achievement, ASM International, A Society for Materials, Santa Clara Valley Chapter | The Design and Construction of an Underwater Oil Cleanup Device for Platforms and Ships to Contain Oil Plumes (RRI Physical Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| Siddhi | Shah | 2nd Award, RRI Biological Science and Engineering Category | The Effect of Glutamine Synthetase 2, a Glial-Specific Gene, on Long-Term Memory Formation in Drosophila (RRI Biological Science and Engineering) | 10 | |||
| Kaushik Sai | Tota | 2nd Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Portable Water Bottle Which Utilizes a Ceramic Filter to Provide Clean Water to Areas with a Polluted Water Supply (Physical Science and Engineering) | 8 | |||
| Vivek Srinivas | Veluvali | Middle School Finalist Certificate & Amazon.com gift certificate, Synopsys Outreach Foundation n+1 Prize | A novel method of forward osmosis involving iron nanopaticles (Physical Science and Engineering) | 8 | |||
| Jin | Cheng (PSP) | Brian | Chen | 2nd Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | RotorCar: A Novel Idea to Reduce Traffic Using Flying Cars (Physical Science and Engineering) | 6 | |
| Sonia | Cuellar (SSW mentor) | Anushka | Sanyal | Isabelle Stone Award for Best Biological Science Projects - Trip to State Science Fair, Plaque, Certificate, and $100, Santa Clara Valley Science & Engineering Fair Assn - Board of Directors Awards - Middle School | Developing a tool for studying Alzheimer's: A bacterial expression vector for the M3-M4 fragment of the nAChR alpha-7 (Biological Science and Engineering) | 8 | |
| Nominated to compete envelope, Broadcom MASTERS - 8th Grade | |||||||
| 1st Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Shailendra | Deva (mentor) | Rohan | Dhesikan | 2nd Award, RRI Physical Science and Engineering Category | Fabrication and Manipulation of Magnet Micro Robots for Complex Engineering Applications (RRI Physical Science and Engineering) | 11 | |
| Poorva | Gupta (PSP) | Riya | Gupta | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Dance Imagination: Projecting Real-Time Special Effects Based on a Dancer's Motion (Physical Science and Engineering) | 7 | |
| Apoorva Ameya | Talwalkar | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Dance Imagination: Projecting Real-Time Special Effects Based on a Dancer's Motion (Physical Science and Engineering) | 6 | |||
| Youssef | Ismail (SSW mentor) | Siddharth | Jain | 1st Award, RRI Physical Science and Engineering Category | Brain Impact Suppresion - Building a Better Helmet (RRI Physical Science and Engineering) | 10 | |
| Suhas | Kotha | 3rd place HS student - $25 and Certificate of Achievement, American Vacuum Society, Northern CA | Piezoelectric Energy Harvester (RRI Physical Science and Engineering) | 9 | |||
| 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 | |||||||
| Maya | Nayak | GR 9-12: 1st Place, Programable Robotics Kit, Certificate of Achievement, and tour of NASA Ames Research Center, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) Intelligent Systems Award | Self-Navigating Wheelchair (RRI Physical Science and Engineering) | 9 | |||
| Srivishnu | Pyda | Honorable Mention: Certificate of Achievement,T-Shirt, Society of Vacuum Coaters (SVC) | Developing Bio-Composite Materials: Carbon Fiber Reinforced Chitin Matrix (Physical Science and Engineering) | 8 | |||
| Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| 2nd Place Award - $75, Popular Science Magazine Subscription and Framed Certificate of Achievement, ASM International, A Society for Materials, Santa Clara Valley Chapter | |||||||
| Anika | Sanyal | First Place: One Week DEEP Summer Academy at the University of Toronto, Std Residence Package, and Travel Stipend, University of Toronto Award | An Inexpensive, Digital Frequency Elimination Device: To Help Autistics and Others with Hearing Sensitivities (RRI Physical Science and Engineering) | 10 | |||
| Keval | Shah | IEEE Electro-Technology $50 gift card and a certificate, Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers | Smart Bio-Sensor Data Acquisition System (RRI Biological Science and Engineering) | 10 | |||
| Diptanshu | Sikdar | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Wireless charging via an Ultrasonic - Piezoelectric Bridge (Physical Science and Engineering) | 7 | |||
| IEEE Electro-Technology $50 gift card and a certificiate, Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers | |||||||
| Middle school - One packet with Letter, Certificate of Achievement, and ONR Medallion, United States Navy and Marine Corps | |||||||
| Srinath | Somasundaram | Nominated to compete envelope, Broadcom MASTERS - 8th Grade | A Novel Design and Evaluation of a Temperature Controlled Smart Sock with Fuzzy Logic Control (Physical Science and Engineering) | 8 | |||
| 1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| GR 6-8: 1st Place, Programable Robotics Kit, Certificate of Achievement, and tour of NASA Ames Research Center, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) Intelligent Systems Award | |||||||