Harker School-Upper Campus
Project Awards 2013
Synopsys Silicon Valley Science and Technology Championship
| School | Teacher | Student | Award | Title | Gr | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Harker School-Upper Campus | Gary | Blickenstaff | Sriram | Somasundaram | 1st Award, Biochemistry / Microbiology Category | A Novel Treatment for Biofilms using Nanocurcumin, Chitosan and nAg, and an Innovative Coating in Preventing Biofilms. (Biochemistry / Microbiology) | 10 |
| Steven Michael | Wang | 1st Award, Bioinformatics Category | Anti-Tumor Immunity: A Novel Hybrid Cellular Automaton for Cancer Vaccines (Bioinformatics) | 10 | |||
| 1st Place: $150 and Certificate of Achievement, UCSF Center For Systems and Synthetic Biology Award | |||||||
| Stanley | Xie | 2nd Award, Biochemistry / Microbiology Category | Increasing Lifespan through Inhibition of the HSF-1 Transcription Factor in C. Elegans? (Biochemistry / Microbiology) | 10 | |||
| David | Fryauf (Mentor) | Ramakrishnan | Menon | 2nd Award, Engineering Category | Carbon Enhanced Aluminum Oxide Memristor (Engineering) | 12 | |
| 2nd place student - $50 and Certificate of Achievement, American Vacuum Society, Northern CA Chapter | |||||||
| Ralph | Kling (Mentor) | Michael A. | Kling | 2nd Award, Engineering Category | Magic Pen (Engineering) | 11 | |
| Certificate of Achievement and Pewter Medallion Voucher, Yale Science and Engineering Association | |||||||
| Vibra | Radiya (Mentor) | Anika | Radiya-Dixit | Grand Prize - Best of Championship - Biological Sciences - Trip to Intel ISEF, Santa Clara Valley Science & Engineering Fair Assn - Board of Directors Awards - High School | Comparison of Healthy vs. Diabetic Adipose-Derived Stem-Cell-Seeded Hydrogels for Topical Wound Healing (Medicine / Health / Gerontology) | 12 | |
| Top finalist High School projects, The Synopsys Outreach Foundation n+1 Prize | |||||||
| 1st Award, Medicine / Health / Gerontology Category | |||||||
| $200, Certificate of Achievement, and Letter, Dr. Paul X. Callahan in memorium - a Top Biological HS project | |||||||
| Grade 12 Individual Project - $200 award, DuPont Industrial Biosciences | |||||||
| Chris | Spenner | Rohith Madhira | Bhethanabotla | 1st Award, Chemistry Category | Achiral and polarimetric analysis using alpha-cyclodextrin and beta-cyclodexrin as chiral selectors to separate enantiomers and diastereomers of cypermethrin (Chemistry) | 11 | |
| Rishabh Uday | Chandra | 2nd Award, Physics Category | The Effect of Temperature Variation on the Flow Rate of Electromagnetic Pumps (Physics) | 9 | |||
| Stephanie | Chen | Certificate of Achievement, NASA Ames Research Center | Using Geometric Albedos and Reflection Spectra to Model the Color of Planets (Earth / Space Sciences) | 11 | |||
| Mercedes | Chien | 2nd Award, Chemistry Category | Creating a Potential Biodiesel Additive Using an Ester and Solketal from Crude Glycerol (Chemistry) | 11 | |||
| Kacey | Fang | Certificate of Achievement, NASA Ames Research Center | Using Gas Chromatography to Analyze the Toxicity of Former Superfund Sites and Their Effects on Phaseolus vulgaris (Environmental Sciences) | 10 | |||
| Christopher David | Fu | 1st Award, Zoology Category | What is the Relationship Between Sea Cucumber Body Wall Ossicles and Species Types? (Zoology) | 11 | |||
| Matthew | Huang | Certificate of Achievement, NASA Ames Research Center | Using Geometric Albedos and Reflection Spectra to Model the Color of Planets (Earth / Space Sciences) | 10 | |||
| Rishabh | Jain | 2nd Award, Computers / Mathematics Category | The Early Detection of Wildfires Through the Utilization of GOES Satellite Imagery, Edge Analysis, and Spectral-Based Hashing. (Computers / Mathematics) | 10 | |||
| 1st Place: Student Membership to AIAA, Certificate of Achievement, and Programmable Robot, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) Intelligent Systems Award | |||||||
| Honorable Mention: Certificate of Achievement, United States Army | |||||||
| Andrew Cheng | Jin | Grand Prize - Best of Championship - Biological Sciences - Trip to Intel ISEF, Santa Clara Valley Science & Engineering Fair Assn - Board of Directors Awards - High School | Breast Cancer Prognosis Through Gene Expression Profiling and Tumor Morphology (Bioinformatics) | 10 | |||
| 1st Award, Bioinformatics Category | |||||||
| Cindy Z. | Liu | Honorable Mention, Computers / Mathematics Category | Automated Choroidal Segmentation Method in Human Eye with 1050 nm Optical Coherence Tomography (Computers / Mathematics) | 10 | |||
| Andrew Jiakang | Luo | 2nd Award, Earth / Space Sciences Category | The Kinematics of Andromeda's Diffuse Ionized Gas Disk (Earth / Space Sciences) | 12 | |||
| Jonathan QuanXuan | Ma | 2nd Award, Physics Category | The Effect of Temperature Variation on the Flow Rate of Electromagnetic Pumps (Physics) | 9 | |||
| Neil K | Movva | 1st Award, Engineering Category | A Novel Approach to Pupil Tracking Using IR Reflection (Engineering) | 10 | |||
| $50 Voucher, Certificate of Achievement, Letter of Congratulations, and ONR Medallion, United States Navy and Marine Corps | |||||||
| Honorable Mention: Certificate of Achievement, United States Army | |||||||
| Special Award: $75 and Certificate of Achievement, Varian Medical Systems | |||||||
| Avinash | Nayak | 2nd Award, Physics Category | Investigation of Four-Lepton Invariant Mass Spectrum in Proton-Proton Collisions (Physics) | 11 | |||
| Suchita | Nety | 1st Award, Medicine / Health / Gerontology Category | Assessing a Targeted Heptapeptide as a Molecular Imaging Agent for Colon Cancer Screening (Medicine / Health / Gerontology) | 12 | |||
| Daniel Ryan | Pak | 1st Award, Zoology Category | What is the Relationship Between Sea Cucumber Body Wall Ossicles and Species Types? (Zoology) | 11 | |||
| Shreyas | Parthasarathy | 2nd Award, Physics Category | Investigation of Four-Lepton Invariant Mass Spectrum in Proton-Proton Collisions (Physics) | 11 | |||
| Pranav G. | Reddy | 2nd Award, Biochemistry / Microbiology Category | The Effect on p53 on the Inhibition of the SASP by Rapamycin in Human Fibroblasts (Biochemistry / Microbiology) | 10 | |||
| Honorable Mention Certificate of Achievement, MedImmune | |||||||
| Alison Emiko | Rugar | 3rd Place Award - $50, Popular Science Magazine Subscription, and Certificate of Achievement, ASM International, A Society for Materials, Santa Clara Valley Chapter | Growth and Characterization of the Thermoelectric Properties of Indium Phosphide Nanowire Networks (Engineering) | 12 | |||
| 3rd place student - $25 and Certificate of Achievement, American Vacuum Society, Northern CA Chapter | |||||||
| Honorable Mention: Certificate of Achievement, Society of Vacuum Coaters (SVC) | |||||||
| Brian | Tuan | Honorable Mention Student Award: $50 and Certificate of Achievement, Association for Computing Machinery, San Francisco Bay Area Professional Chapter | Optimization of Computational Data Analysis in Lattice Quantum Chromodynamics (Computers / Mathematics) | 11 | |||
| Andrew | Wang | Honorable Mention Student Award: $50 and Certificate of Achievement, Association for Computing Machinery, San Francisco Bay Area Professional Chapter | Optimization of Computational Data Analysis in Lattice Quantum Chromodynamics (Computers / Mathematics) | 11 | |||