Los Gatos-Saratoga Union High School District
Project Awards 2019
Synopsys Silicon Valley Science and Technology Championship
| School | Teacher | Student | Award | Title | Gr | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Los Gatos High School | Cathy | Messenger | Lubat | Asadova | 2nd Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | Testing the Effect of Heat Shock On the Behavior Response and on the Neuron Activity in C. Elegans (Biological Science and Engineering) | 12 |
| Maciej | Buszko | Honorable Mention Student Award: $50 and Certificate of Achievement, Association for Computing Machinery, San Francisco Bay Area Professional Chapter | Swarm Navigation Control Systems for Connecting Tetrahedral Linear Actuator Robots (Physical Science and Engineering) | 10 | |||
| 2nd Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Intel ECS Certificate of Achievement and Forms to Submit for $200, Intel Excellence in Computer Science Award | |||||||
| Anna | Castello | Honorable Mention, Biological Science and Engineering Category | Testing the Efficacy of Coconut Oil and its Components in Protection Against Amyloid Toxicity in Transgenic C. elegans (Biological Science and Engineering) | 12 | |||
| Dylan Rose | Chin | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Ability of Ferrofluids to Remove Organophosphates from Ocean Water (Physical Science and Engineering) | 10 | |||
| Certificate of Achievement, American Meteorological Society | |||||||
| Zeeshaan | Chunawala | Honorable Mention, Biological Science and Engineering Category | Magnetization of Incorporated Iron Oxide Nanoparticles as a Method for Combatting Candida albicans Biofilm Growth (Biological Science and Engineering) | 12 | |||
| Ana | Cismaru | 1st Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | Parkinson's Disease Classification via Convolutional Neural Networks using DaTscans (Biological Science and Engineering) | 12 | |||
| Honorable Mention Certificate, Santa Clara County Biotech Education Partnership (SCCBEP) | |||||||
| Ashley | Dang | 3rd Place $75, Santa Clara Valley Water District | Removing Heavy Metals and Pathogens from Water Using Biosand Filters Containing Plant Biomass (Physical Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| Certificate of Achievement and letter, Ricoh Corporation | |||||||
| Certificate of Achievement and opportunity to advance to national and international competitions, Stockholm Junior Water Prize | |||||||
| Kelly Sachi | Ferguson | Honorable Mention, Biological Science and Engineering Category | Testing for Abnormal Heart Rate as a Side Effect of Passiflora incarnata in Wingless Drosophila melanogaster (Biological Science and Engineering) | 10 | |||
| Nicholas James | Hotelling | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Estimating Volleyball Speed Real-time Using an Apple iPhone (Physical Science and Engineering) | 10 | |||
| Ryan M | Judy | Honorable Mention, Biological Science and Engineering Category | Determining the effect of ascorbic acid on viability of drosophila melanogaster with developmental nicotine exposure (Biological Science and Engineering) | 12 | |||
| Joshita | Kamalakannan | Honorable Mention, Biological Science and Engineering Category | Using Aronia melanocarpa Extract to Analyze the Effects of Antioxidant-Rich Foods on the Health Span of Drosophila (Biological Science and Engineering) | 12 | |||
| Nicole | Krockenberger | 1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Creating a Renewable and Biodegradable Bioplastic from Bambusa multiplex (Physical Science and Engineering) | 10 | |||
| Emerson Laine | Martin | Honorable Mention, Biological Science and Engineering Category | Evaluating the Protective Effects of Cyanocobalamin and Methylcobalamin when C.elegans are exposed to Bisphenol-A (Biological Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| Alice | Martynova | $100, Morgan Lewis | An Affordable, AI-Enhanced Device to Diagnosis Strep Throat and Prevent Rheumatic Fever in Developing Countries (Biological Science and Engineering) | 12 | |||
| 2nd Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Liam Sebastian | McHugh | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Engineering Magnetorheological Fluid for Optimal Performance in a Variable Compression Damper (Physical Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| Beatrice Maria | Mihalache | 1st Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | Effects of Polyethylene Microbeads on Lactuca sativa var. Longifolia (Biological Science and Engineering) | 10 | |||
| Annika Hope | Mittelhauser | Honorable Mention, Biological Science and Engineering Category | Can Air Pollution Damage Memory? Impact of Varying NO2 Exposure Times on Memory of Drosophila Melanogaster (Biological Science and Engineering) | 12 | |||
| HS student - Certificate of Achievement, Medallion and $50 gift card, United States Navy and Marine Corps | |||||||
| Ada Isabelle | Peschanskiy | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Reducing Radio Frequency Exposure to Mobile Phone Users by Disabling WiFi, Mobile Data and Bluetooth During Phone Calls (Physical Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| Justin Nicholas | Quan | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Network of Checkpoints and RFID-Equipped Apparel for Campus Security and Nonintrusive Tracking in Schools (Physical Science and Engineering) | 12 | |||
| Nishan Kuraparti | Reddy | 2nd Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | Testing the effects of the herbicide, Glyphosate, on motor neurons within C. elegans (Biological Science and Engineering) | 10 | |||
| Greg W. | Santangeli | 1st Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | Effect of Dissolved Urea on the Reproductive Rate and ROS Production of Dinoflagellates Under Thermal Stress (Biological Science and Engineering) | 12 | |||
| HS student - Certificate of Achievement, Medallion and $50 gift card, United States Navy and Marine Corps | |||||||
| Christina E | Wong | 2nd Award, RRI Biological Science and Engineering Category | Visualizing Tumor Heterogeneity and Predicting Metastasis with Machine Learning (RRI Biological Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| Saratoga High School | Jill | McCrystal | Arvind | Ramachandran | Intel ECS Certificate of Achievement and Forms to Submit for $200, Intel Excellence in Computer Science Award | SafeRetro: A Secure Emulator for 8080 apps (Physical Science and Engineering) | 10 |
| Ethan Sun | Zuo | 2nd Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | The Effect of Thermal Transfer Rate on Laptop Performance (Physical Science and Engineering) | 9 | |||
| Audrey | Warmuth | Aeshon | Balasubramanian | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Improving the Safety of Self-Driving Cars with Deep Learning and Audio (Physical Science and Engineering) | 9 | |
| Certificate of Achievement, System Safety Society | |||||||