Cupertino Union School District
Project Awards 2014
Synopsys Silicon Valley Science and Technology Championship
| School | Teacher | Student | Award | Title | Gr | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cupertino Middle School | Frank | Adriance | Rajiv Krishna | Nelakanti | Middle School Finalist Letter, The Synopsys Outreach Foundation n+1 Prize | An evolutionary study of hydrogenosomes and mitochondria: comparing 18S rRNA sequences of eukaryotic organisms (Bioinformatics) | 8 |
| GR 6-8: 2nd Place, $50 and Certificate of Achievement, UCSF Center For Systems and Synthetic Biology Award | |||||||
| Rachel | Nolan | Anika | Sanyal | 2nd Award, Chemistry Category | The Power of Raw Freshness. Does Cooking/Refrigeration Decrease Vitamin C in Food? (Chemistry) | 7 | |
| Hyde Middle School | Okon | Ibanga | Siddharth Vaidehi | Mahesh | Honorable Mention, Engineering Category | Green Technology: Build an Electronic Rain Detector to Conserve Water (Engineering) | 7 |
| Kristina | Park | Shashank Vaidehi | Mahesh | 2nd Award, Engineering Category | Arduino controlled Paper Evaluation System (Engineering) | 7 | |
| Kennedy(John F.) Middle School-Cupertino | Thea | Dalvand | Advith | Gopinath | Honorable Mention, Behavioral / Social Category | Does Rap Have a Bad Rep? A Study on How Rap Music Affects Aggression (Behavioral / Social) | 8 |
| Aru | Hill (SSW Mentor) | Anika | Cheerla | Honorable Mention, Chemistry Category | Solvatochromism: It's Not Just Black and White Anymore (Chemistry) | 7 | |
| Youssef | Ismail (SSW Mentor) | Tejaswi | Vemulapati | 2nd Place Student Award: $160 and Certificate of Achievement, Association for Computing Machinery, San Francisco Bay Area Professional Chapter | An Algorithm to Compute The Fractal Dimension of a Penrose Tiling (Computers / Mathematics) | 6 | |
| Honorable Mention, Computers / Mathematics Category | |||||||
| Jamie | Oliveira | Suhas | Prasad | Honorable Mention Student Award: $40 and Certificate of Achievement, Association for Computing Machinery, San Francisco Bay Area Professional Chapter | May the Best Line-Follower Win: Comparisons of Line-Following Algorithms for Different Types of Lines (Computers / Mathematics) | 6 | |
| 2nd Award, Computers / Mathematics Category | |||||||
| Certificate of Achievement, NASA Ames Research Center | |||||||
| Certificate of Achievement, NOAA Medallion, and Letter, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration | |||||||
| Samir | Sathe (PSP) | Rujuta Samir | Sathe | 2nd Award, Behavioral / Social Category | Does "Om" chanting help reduce stress, anxiety, and promote mental and physcical well being? (Behavioral / Social) | 7 | |
| Lawson Middle School | Emily | Adams | Utkarsh | Tandon | Castro Family Award for Best Physical Science Projects - Trip to State Science Fair, Plaque, and $100 Cash, Santa Clara Valley Science & Engineering Fair Assn - Board of Directors Awards - Middle School | A Wearable Device for Spinal-Lumbus-Modeling to Recognize and Correct Posture through Real-Time Analysis and Flex Sensing Capabilites (Engineering) | 8 |
| 1st Award, Engineering Category | |||||||
| Certificate of Achievement and ONR Medallion, United States Navy and Marine Corps | |||||||
| IEEE Award for Electro-Technology ($50 and Framed Certificate), Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers | |||||||
| Miller Middle School | Steve | Greenfield | Eesha | Deepak | Honorable Mention, Physics Category | The Effect of Placement and Angle of Solar Cells, Angle of Sun, and Conduciveness of the Sun's Rays on Solar Panel Potency (Physics) | 7 |
| Tanvee | Joshi | Honorable Mention, Physics Category | The Effect of Placement and Angle of Solar Cells, Angle of Sun, and Conduciveness of the Sun's Rays on Solar Panel Potency (Physics) | 7 | |||
| Codrutza | Popescu | Maya Vaishali | Abiram | Certificate of Achievement, American Psychological Association | Effect of Meditation on Weight Loss (Behavioral / Social) | 6 | |
| Diya | Jain | 1st Award, Behavioral / Social Category | Does Color Affect Learning & Memory (Behavioral / Social) | 7 | |||
| Certificate of Achievement, American Psychological Association | |||||||
| Seena | Jovkar | 2nd Award, Environmental Sciences Category | The Algicidal Effects of Probiotics on Eutrophication (Environmental Sciences) | 7 | |||
| Chinmay | Lalgudi | Certificate of Achievement, NASA Ames Research Center | Using Wave Energy to generate Electricity (Engineering) | 6 | |||
| Certificate of Achievement, NOAA Medallion, and Letter, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration | |||||||
| Luca | Popescu | 2nd Award, Environmental Sciences Category | The Algicidal Effects of Probiotics on Eutrophication (Environmental Sciences) | 7 | |||
| Zara Anzum | Shariff | 1st Award, Behavioral / Social Category | Does the Eye Read Full Words or Individual Letters? (Behavioral / Social) | 6 | |||
| Amol | Singh | Honorable Mention, Physics Category | MAGNETS in Action with Temperature (Physics) | 7 | |||
| Latha | Subramanyan(PSP) | Raghav | Ganesh | Castro Family Award for Best Physical Science Projects - Trip to State Science Fair, Plaque, and $100 Cash, Santa Clara Valley Science & Engineering Fair Assn - Board of Directors Awards - Middle School | Sensor based cane for the visually challenged (Engineering) | 6 | |
| 1st Award, Engineering Category | |||||||
| IEEE Award for Electro-Technology ($50 and Framed Certificate), Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers | |||||||