Monta Vista High School
Project Awards 2013
Synopsys Silicon Valley Science and Technology Championship
| School | Teacher | Student | Award | Title | Gr | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Monta Vista High School | Sheila | Altmann | YoungJean | Han | 2nd Award, Behavioral / Social Category | The Correlation Between the Bed Time Variability and Short-Term Memory Retrieval (Behavioral / Social) | 10 |
| Jim | Birdsong | Julia H | Miao | Honorable Mention, Computers / Mathematics Category | Breast Cancer Diagnosis and Prognosis Using Machine Learning Based on Backpropagation Neural Network (Computers / Mathematics) | 10 | |
| Certificate of Achievement and Letter to Teacher, Mu Alpha Theta | |||||||
| Gift Card and Certificate of Achievement, Society of Women Engineers | |||||||
| IEEE Award for Electro-Technology ($100 to Team and Framed Certificate), Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers | |||||||
| Kathleen H. | Miao | Honorable Mention, Computers / Mathematics Category | Breast Cancer Diagnosis and Prognosis Using Machine Learning Based on Backpropagation Neural Network (Computers / Mathematics) | 12 | |||
| Certificate of Achievement and Letter to Teacher, Mu Alpha Theta | |||||||
| Gift Card and Certificate of Achievement, Society of Women Engineers | |||||||
| IEEE Award for Electro-Technology ($100 to Team and Framed Certificate), Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers | |||||||
| Renee | Fallon | Disha | Bahl | 1st Award, Botany Category | The Effect of Taraxacum officinale on Escherichia coli and Serratia marscecens (Botany) | 10 | |
| Sumanth | Balaraman | 2nd Award, Engineering Category | Using Smartphones to Screen for and Correct Hearing Loss (Engineering) | 11 | |||
| Certificate of Achievement and Pewter Medallion Voucher, Yale Science and Engineering Association | |||||||
| Honorable Mention: Certificate of Achievement, United States Army | |||||||
| Jiangyan | Du | Honorable Mention, Environmental Sciences Category | Effect of Surrounding Conditions on Shewanella oneidensis in the Reduction of Chromium (VI) (Environmental Sciences) | 11 | |||
| Jonathan F | Fung | 1st Award, Biochemistry / Microbiology Category | Monosodium Glutamate: A Potential Ligand for mGluRs One and Five that causes Microtubule Depolymerization in Alzheimer's disease? (Biochemistry / Microbiology) | 9 | |||
| $100 and Certificate of Achievement, Fair Manager's Graphic Design Award | |||||||
| Honorable Mention: Certificate of Achievement and Goody Bag, Santa Clara County Biotech Education Partnership (SCCBEP) | |||||||
| Nishant | Jain | $100 First Prize, Morgan Lewis | 3D Markerless Tracking in Augmented Reality:A Moblie Interface for the Global Deployment of Spatial Anatomical Education (Computers / Mathematics) | 11 | |||
| 3rd Place Student Award: $120 and Certificate of Achievement, Association for Computing Machinery, San Francisco Bay Area Professional Chapter | |||||||
| Honorable Mention, Computers / Mathematics Category | |||||||
| Venkata Soumith | Jonnakuti | Honorable Mention, Medicine / Health / Gerontology Category | Effectiveness of Serratia Marcescens on the Friability of Atherosclerotic Plaque (Medicine / Health / Gerontology) | 11 | |||
| Special Award: $75 and Certificate of Achievement, Varian Medical Systems | |||||||
| Sandhya | Kannan | 2nd Award, Biochemistry / Microbiology Category | Testing Biofilm Disassembly Using Glycoside Hydrolase Enzymes on E.coli Biofilm Matrices (Biochemistry / Microbiology) | 9 | |||
| Ashish | Samaddar | Honorable Mention, Medicine / Health / Gerontology Category | Effectiveness of Serratia Marcescens on the Friability of Atherosclerotic Plaque (Medicine / Health / Gerontology) | 11 | |||
| Special Award: $75 and Certificate of Achievement, Varian Medical Systems | |||||||
| Aiswarya Sunil | Sankar | Honorable Mention, Medicine / Health / Gerontology Category | Reduction of Glutamate Levels in a Saline Solution through the Combined Administration of Insulin and Glucagon (Medicine / Health / Gerontology) | 10 | |||
| Honorable Mention: Certificate of Achievement and Goody Bag, Santa Clara County Biotech Education Partnership (SCCBEP) | |||||||
| Vishnu | Shankar | 2nd Award, Bioinformatics Category | Application Of a Novel De-Novo and Homology-based Algorithm to Predict the 3D Structure and Dynamics of Human DP G-Protein Coupled Receptor for Cardiovascular and Immune Systems (Bioinformatics) | 11 | |||
| Anika N. | Ullah | Honorable Mention, Medicine / Health / Gerontology Category | Is There a Difference Between Genders In the Neuronal Markers of Myenteric Plexus, and Could this Explain Why Some Common G1 Ailments Preferentially Affect Females? (Medicine / Health / Gerontology) | 11 | |||
| First Place: $100, Certificate of Achievement, and Goody Bag, Association for Women in Science, Palo Alto Chapter | |||||||
| Molly M. | Vora | 2nd Award, Medicine / Health / Gerontology Category | Facial Dysmorphologies Caused By an Imbalance in Wnt Signaling (Medicine / Health / Gerontology) | 11 | |||
| Jeremy Chi-Chao | Wang | 1st Award, Botany Category | The Effect of Taraxacum officinale on Escherichia coli and Serratia marscecens (Botany) | 10 | |||
| Kathryn Sarah | Wong | Honorable Mention Certificate of Achievement, MedImmune | Pharmacokinetics study of FC-FLT3L (Medicine / Health / Gerontology) | 12 | |||
| Debbie | Frazier | Ajay B | Gopinath | Honorable Mention, Computers / Mathematics Category | Computational Modeling of Phytoplanktonic Organisms to Resolve "The Paradox of the Plankton" in Aquatic Biology (Computers / Mathematics) | 10 | |
| Yuhui (Anna) | Liu | First Place: $1000 American Express Gift Card and Framed Certificate of Achievement, Agilent Technologies | Graphene as a Fluorescence Quencher in Quantitative Polymerase Chain Reaction (Biochemistry / Microbiology) | 11 | |||
| Namrata | Ramani | Honorable Mention, Physics Category | The Optimization of The Strength of Porous Scaffolds in Tissue Engineering Through Silicon Coating (Physics) | 11 | |||
| 2nd Place - $75, Framed Certificate of Achievement, and Popular Science Magazine Subscription, SAMPE - Society for the Advancement of Material and Process Engineering | |||||||
| Kavita | Gupta | Shruthi Reddy | Perati | Grand Prize Alternate - Biological Sciences - Trip to State Science Fair, Santa Clara Valley Science & Engineering Fair Assn - Board of Directors Awards - High School | A Molecular Study of Ror2/Wnt Signaling Pathways and Their Effects on Facial Deformities During Embryonic Development (Medicine / Health / Gerontology) | 11 | |
| 1st Award, Medicine / Health / Gerontology Category | |||||||
| Certificate of Achievement, Society for In Vitro Biology | |||||||
| Anshul Asawa | Ramachandran | 2nd Award, Computers / Mathematics Category | Substructure Mining by Application of Weighted Molecular Bonds to a Simplicial Complex Representation of Molecules (Computers / Mathematics) | 11 | |||
| Intel ECS Certificate of Achievement and Forms to Submit for $200, Intel Excellence in Computer Science Award | |||||||
| Bruce | Kawanami (Sponsor) | Spoorthi Venkata | Davala | HP PhotoSmart 6520 printer, Hewlett-Packard Laboratories | The Inhibition of Escherichia Coli In Refrigerators Through the Use of Pulsed Electric Field Processing (Engineering) | 11 | |
| Ajay | Jain | $1000 Grand Prize, Morgan Lewis | Rapid Variable Density Map Acquisition Through a Novel Distributed Network of Autonomous Aerial Quadrotors Driven by Computer Vision Based Feature Targeting (Engineering) | 9 | |||
| 1st Award, Engineering Category | |||||||
| 2nd Place: Messenger Bag, Notepad, Framed Certificate of Achievement, and Letter, United States Army | |||||||
| Honorable Mention: Student Membership to AIAA and Certificate of Achievement, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) Intelligent Systems Award | |||||||
| Paras | Jain | $1000 Grand Prize, Morgan Lewis | Rapid Variable Density Map Acquisition Through a Novel Distributed Network of Autonomous Aerial Quadrotors Driven by Computer Vision Based Feature Targeting (Engineering) | 11 | |||
| 1st Award, Engineering Category | |||||||
| 2nd Place: Messenger Bag, Notepad, Framed Certificate of Achievement, and Letter, United States Army | |||||||
| Honorable Mention: Student Membership to AIAA and Certificate of Achievement, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) Intelligent Systems Award | |||||||
| Meera Arati | Yellamraju | Gift Card and Certificate of Achievement, Society of Women Engineers | A Cane-Mounted Camera Device to Aid the Visually Impaired at an Intersection: The Application of an Image Analysis Algorithm to Detect Moving Vehicles (Engineering) | 11 | |||
| Joe | Kim | Natalie | Ng | Grand Prize - Best of Championship - Biological Sciences - Trip to Intel ISEF, Santa Clara Valley Science & Engineering Fair Assn - Board of Directors Awards - High School | Advancing Precision Medicine: MicroRNA Prognostic Signatures and Prediction Models for Distant Metastasis-Free Survival in Breast Cancer (Bioinformatics) | 11 | |
| 1st Award, Bioinformatics Category | |||||||
| Honorable Mention Certificate of Achievement, MedImmune | |||||||
| Mark | Riese | Julia | Cho | 1st Award, Engineering Category | Creating a Clearer Voice Chat/Conference Experience by Using Sound Localization (Engineering) | 9 | |
| Jon | Stark | Adyota | Gupta | 1st Award, Engineering Category | SmartVest: Redesigning and Revolutionizing the Conventional Bulletproof Vest (Engineering) | 11 | |
| 1st Place: Messenger Bag, Notepad, Framed Certificate of Achievement, Letter, and Silver Medal, United States Army | |||||||