Palo Alto Unified School District
Project Awards 2013
Synopsys Silicon Valley Science and Technology Championship
| School | Teacher | Student | Award | Title | Gr | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gunn (Henry M.) High School | Angela | Merchant | Ken Kyung-Hyun | Noh | Honorable Mention, Behavioral / Social Category | What is the Effect of Information Asymmetry in Multi-Rounded Games on Players' Decision Making and Behavior (Behavioral / Social) | 9 |
| $100 First Place, Certificate of Achievement, and Letter, Inez M. Lechner Award | |||||||
| Josh | Paley | Calvin L | Huang | 2nd Place Student Award: $240 and Certificate of Achievement, Association for Computing Machinery, San Francisco Bay Area Professional Chapter | Using Structured Learning to Improve Accuracy of Semantic Role Labeling in Natural Language Processing (Computers / Mathematics) | 11 | |
| Amy A | Shen | Honorable Mention Student Award: $50 and Certificate of Achievement, Association for Computing Machinery, San Francisco Bay Area Professional Chapter | A Novel Approach to Measuring Password Strength Using Machine Learning and Web Popularity (Computers / Mathematics) | 11 | |||
| Elana | Zizmor | Emily S. | Wang | Grand Prize Alternate - Biological Sciences - Trip to State Science Fair, Santa Clara Valley Science & Engineering Fair Assn - Board of Directors Awards - High School | A New Light In Biosensing: Engineering Photostable GFP Mutants For FRET (Biochemistry / Microbiology) | 11 | |
| $2000 to the winning student or team in Bio Science, The Synopsys Outreach Foundation n+1 Prize | |||||||
| Top finalist High School projects, The Synopsys Outreach Foundation n+1 Prize | |||||||
| 1st Award, Biochemistry / Microbiology Category | |||||||
| Grade 11 Individual Project - $200 award, DuPont Industrial Biosciences | |||||||
| Jordan (David Starr) Middle School | Abigail | Garrison | Nicole Claire | Adamson | 1st Award, Physics Category | Solar Cell Wavelength Sensitivity (Physics) | 6 |
| Gurmeher Sufi | Kaur | Todd Shaeffer 1st place award - Grade 6 - $100, Brownlee - Shaeffer - Schmahl Science Award | Thrive: How do YOU Grow Your Own Food (Environmental Sciences) | 6 | |||
| Erica | Goldsworthy | Chirag Kapil | Akella | 1st Award, Medicine / Health / Gerontology Category | All About Allergies (Medicine / Health / Gerontology) | 8 | |
| Sarah | Pierce | Nihar Roy | Mitra | 2nd Award, Engineering Category | Flashback! We can Record What We See, Why Not What We Saw? (Engineering) | 8 | |
| Stanford(Jane Lathrop) Middle School | Leonel | Argumedo | Nicholas T. | Padmanabhan | IEEE Award for Electro-Technology ($50 and Framed Certificate), Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers | What are the Effects of Wind Speed and Insulation Material on Heat Loss (Physics) | 6 |
| Fred | Berghout | Jane | Ahn | 1st place student - $100 and Certificate of Achievement, American Vacuum Society, Northern CA Chapter | Relationship Between Temperature and Volume of Gas (Physics) | 8 | |
| Jerry | Liu | Honorable Mention, Physics Category | The Mpemba Effect (Physics) | 8 | |||
| Maya Ratnam | Sankar | Grand Prize Student Award, Outstanding Young Woman in Computing: $320 and Certificate of Achievement, Association for Computing Machinery, San Francisco Bay Area Professional Chapter | Misspelled: A Comparison of Various Spelling Correction Algorithms (Computers / Mathematics) | 8 | |||
| 1st Award, Computers / Mathematics Category | |||||||
| Gift Card and Certificate of Achievement, Society of Women Engineers | |||||||
| IEEE Award for Electro-Technology ($50 and Framed Certificate), Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers | |||||||
| Janet Christina | Shea | Certificate of Achievement, Medallion, and Letter, United States Public Health Service Award | Preserving the Most Vitamin C in Fruit (Chemistry) | 8 | |||
| Noel | Berghout | Patrick James | Burrows | Honorable Mention, Physics Category | Measuring the Effect of Ship Hull Design on Hydrodynamic Efficiency (Physics) | 6 | |
| Daniel Holum | Kass | 1st Award, Physics Category | Rocket Component Affects Rocket Flight Time and Stability (Physics) | 6 | |||
| Frederick | Nitta | Honorable Mention, Physics Category | What Makes the Speed of Light Slower in Different Solutions? (Physics) | 6 | |||
| Diane | Garcia | Audrey Sackler | Lamis | 2nd Award, Behavioral / Social Category | The Effect of Caloric Consumption on Test Performance (Behavioral / Social) | 6 | |
| Certificate of Achievement, American Psychological Association | |||||||
| Ann | Lorey | Olivia Tackaberry | Aspegren | 2nd Award, Chemistry Category | How Salt and Sugar Affect the Boiling Point of Water (Chemistry) | 6 | |
| Celia Rose | Willner | 1st Award, Medicine / Health / Gerontology Category | The Potential Effect of Decibel Levels in Certain Settings on Permanent Hearing Damage (Medicine / Health / Gerontology) | 8 | |||
| David Charles | Willner | 1st Award, Medicine / Health / Gerontology Category | The Potential Effect of Decibel Levels in Certain Settings on Permanent Hearing Damage (Medicine / Health / Gerontology) | 8 | |||
| Linda | Luo | Aaron Zachary | Schultz | Honorable Mention, Physics Category | What Variables Affect Drag? (Physics) | 8 | |
| Mikaela | McKenna | Edward J. | Ross | Honorable Mention, Physics Category | Which Balloon Is Louder When Popped, Helium or Air? (Physics) | 6 | |
| $50 and Framed Certificate of Achievement, Hegland Award | |||||||
| IEEE Award for Electro-Technology ($50 and Framed Certificate), Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers | |||||||
| Colin Richard | Schultz | $50 and Framed Certificate of Achievement, Hegland Award | How the Angle of Launch Affects the Ground Distance of a Stream of Water (Physics) | 6 | |||
| Terman Middle School | Robin | Ames | Gabrielle Sylvie | Candes | Honorable Mention, Zoology Category | Are Fingerprints Inherited? (Zoology) | 8 |
| Jim | Cox | Andrew | Shen | Honorable Mention Student Award: $40 and Certificate of Achievement, Association for Computing Machinery, San Francisco Bay Area Professional Chapter | Get Back to Work: A Study on Whether a User's Keystrokes and Mouse Movements Can Indicate Gaming (Behavioral / Social) | 8 | |
| 1st Award, Behavioral / Social Category | |||||||
| Lori | Lester | Ishita Mallika | Mohan | 1st Award, Physics Category | Weight Lost or Not? (Physics) | 6 | |
| Mark | Segesta | Tejas | Kadambi | Honorable Mention, Environmental Sciences Category | Is the Miscibility of Oil and Water Affected by Additives? (Environmental Sciences) | 6 | |
| Annie | Yount | Arjun Michael | Miklos | 2nd Award, Environmental Sciences Category | Getting into Hot Water; Comparison of Methods of Solar Water Heating (Environmental Sciences) | 6 | |