Mountain View-Los Altos Union High School District

Project Awards 2021

Synopsys Silicon Valley Science and Technology Championship

School	Teacher		Student		Award	Title	Gr
Los Altos High School	Darren	Dressen	Elizabeth Diane	Barnett	Honorable Mention, Biological Science and Engineering Category	Impact of Supplemental Amino Acids on the Growth and Lifespan of the Isocitrate Dehydrogenase 1 or 2 knockout C. Elegans (Biological Science and Engineering)	12
			Margaret W	Capetz	Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair	Cutinase mutagenesis, hydrophobin, and electrostatic interplay to enhance polyethylene terephthalate biodegradation (Biological Science and Engineering)	12
					2nd Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category
			Olivia Anne	Colace	1st Place Award - $350 and Framed Certificate of Achievement, American Chemical Society, Silicon Valley, SVACS	Strategies for treating late stage Lyme disease: Synthesizing derivatives of telomere resolvase inhibitors (Physical Science and Engineering)	12
			Artin	Lahni	Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair	Designing and synthesizing a small-molecule inhibitor to mitigate the effects of C. pneumoniae on beta-amyloid generation (Physical Science and Engineering)	12
					2nd Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category
			Thomas David	Lilygren	1st Place Award - $350 and Framed Certificate of Achievement, American Chemical Society, Silicon Valley, SVACS	Constructing a hafnium-based metal-organic framework to remove trivalent arsenic compounds from water. (Physical Science and Engineering)	12
					Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair
					1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category
					3rd Place - $50, Certificate of Achievement, SAMPE - Society for the Advancement of Material and Process Engineering
					3rd Place Award - $50 and Certificate of Achievement, ASM International, A Society for Materials, Santa Clara Valley Chapter
			Angelina	Lue	Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair	Designing and synthesizing a small-molecule inhibitor to mitigate the effects of C. pneumoniae on beta-amyloid generation (Physical Science and Engineering)	12
					2nd Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category
			Tara S	Pande	Honorable Mention, Biological Science and Engineering Category	Engineering immunosilenced T-cell epitopes by a deep neural network to facilitate CRISPR-Cas9 in vivo gene therapy (Biological Science and Engineering)	11
			Keela Karishma	Zambre	2nd Place Award - $200 and Framed Certificate of Achievement, American Chemical Society, Silicon Valley, SVACS	Synthesis of curcumin-polyethylene glycol-valine prodrug to improve bioavailability in Alzheimer's disease treatments (Physical Science and Engineering)	12