Los Gatos-Saratoga Union High School District

Project Awards 2013

Synopsys Silicon Valley Science and Technology Championship

School	Teacher		Student		Award	Title	Gr
Los Gatos High School	Dan	Burns	Jessica	Chiu	1st Place: Student Membership to AIAA, Certificate of Achievement, and Programmable Robot, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) Intelligent Systems Award	The Passive Aeroelastic Response of Morphing Wing Designs Utilizing Memory Shape Alloy Actuators (Engineering)	11
					Honorable Mention: Certificate of Achievement, United States Army
	Cathy	Messenger	Brooke Murphy	Ahmed	Individual: $30 and Book, The ROD Women in Science Award	An Experimental Study on the Effects of Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide and Oceanic Acidity and Hypoxia on Calcifying Marine Organisms (Environmental Sciences)	11
			XinNi E.	Chai	Honorable Mention: Certificate of Achievement, Society of Vacuum Coaters (SVC)	Evaluation of a Novel Microbial Fuel Cell (Engineering)	10
			Adam Kevin	O'Regan	Honorable Mention, Environmental Sciences Category	The Effect of Different Soil Bacteria Species on Phytoremediation of Volatile Benzene from an Indoor Environment (Environmental Sciences)	10
			Hannah Belle	Spinner	1st Award, Botany Category	The Effects of Mycorrhizal Networks on the Communicative Abilities of Zea mays (Botany)	11
			Olivia Lynn	Woodford-Berry	2nd place, $30 check, and a Book, Apatite to Zircon, Inc. Award	An Analysis of a Potential Factor in Global Warming: The Effects of Varying Salt Water pH on Chaetomorpha (Environmental Sciences)	10
					Certificate of Achievement, NOAA Medallion, and Letter, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Saratoga High School	Jill	McCrystal	Edward Lee	White	3rd place: $100 and Certificate of Achievement, Pauchon Foundation Award	Natural Motion Energy Harvesting System (Engineering)	12
					Honorable Mention: Certificate of Achievement, United States Army
					HP PhotoSmart 6520 printer, Hewlett-Packard Laboratories
			David Andrew	Zarrin	Grand Prize - Best of Championship - Physical Sciences - Trip to Intel ISEF, Santa Clara Valley Science & Engineering Fair Assn - Board of Directors Awards - High School	A Hybrid Pulsating Turbine Jet Engine (Engineering)	12
					$100 First Prize, Morgan Lewis
					2nd Place: SJSU College of Engineering Certificate of Achievement, San Jose State University College of Engineering
					1st Award, Engineering Category
					$50 Voucher, Certificate of Achievement, Letter of Congratulations, and ONR Medallion, United States Navy and Marine Corps
					1st place: $250 and Certificate of Achievement, Pauchon Foundation Award
					1st Place: $250 Cash and Framed Certificate of Achievement, System Safety Society
					2nd Place: Messenger Bag, Notepad, Framed Certificate of Achievement, and Letter, United States Army
					3rd Place: $25 and Certificate of Achievement, Society of Vacuum Coaters (SVC)
					Certificate of Achievement and Lapel Pin, National Society of Professional Engineers
					Certificate of Achievement, NASA Ames Research Center