BASIS Independent Silicon Valley School

Project Awards 2018

Synopsys Silicon Valley Science and Technology Championship

School	Teacher		Student		Award	Title	Gr
BASIS Independent Silicon Valley School	Kevyn	Adams	Shiven	Gupta	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	A Wearable Device for Real-Time Fall Detection for the Elderly (Physical Science and Engineering)	11
	Thomas	Dornhoffer	Anushka Himanshu	Goel	Honorable Mention Certificate, Santa Clara County Biotech Education Partnership (SCCBEP)	Using Neural Nets and Molecular Clocks to Predict which Influenza Strains should be Included in the Seasonal Flu Vaccine (Biological Science and Engineering)	10
			Sanoja	Kikkeri	2nd Place Award - $100 and Certificate of Achievement, American Association for Laboratory Animal Science, Northern California Branch	Inducing apoptotic pathway effects of the ced-9 gene in cancer C. elegans offspring and the cure against human diseases. (RRI Biological Science and Engineering)	10
			Eva	Prakash	2nd Award, RRI Biological Science and Engineering Category	Interpretable Support Vector Machines for Variant Interpretation and Motif Discovery in Genomics (RRI Biological Science and Engineering)	11
			Anjali	Sadarangani	Certificate of Achievement, Society for In Vitro Biology	Investigating Retinitis Pigmentosa: Gene Expression of iPSC's Derived from Retinal Pigment Epithelial Cells (RRI Biological Science and Engineering)	11
			Shreya Sai	Shekhar	$100 First Prize, Morgan Lewis	Predicting Pharmacogenomic Biomarkers Using RNA Sequencing (RRI Biological Science and Engineering)	11
			Anita	Taft	2nd Place Award - $100 and Certificate of Achievement, American Association for Laboratory Animal Science, Northern California Branch	Inducing apoptotic pathway effects of the ced-9 gene in cancer C. elegans offspring and the cure against human diseases. (RRI Biological Science and Engineering)	10
			Aditi	Venkatesh	1st Award, RRI Biological Science and Engineering Category	The Effect of Exercise on Brown Adipose Tissue (RRI Biological Science and Engineering)	11
					HS student - Certificate of Achievement, Medallion and $50 gift card, United States Navy and Marine Corps