Los Gatos-Saratoga Union High School District

Project Awards 2014

Synopsys Silicon Valley Science and Technology Championship

School	Teacher		Student		Award	Title	Gr
Los Gatos High School	Dan	Burns	Jessica	Chiu	1st Place: $1000 Scholarship to SJSU College of Engineering and Certificate of Achievement, San Jose State University College of Engineering	Aeroelastic Flight Dynamic Modeling of an Adaptive Camber-Morphing Aircraft for Improved Cruise Efficiency (Engineering)	12
					1st Award, Engineering Category
					3rd Place: $100 and Certificate of Achievement, System Safety Society
					First Place: $100, Certificate of Achievement, and Goody Bag, Association for Women in Science, Palo Alto Chapter
					Gift Card and Certificate of Achievement, Society of Women Engineers
					Grade 12 Individual Project - $200 award and Certificate, DuPont Industrial Biosciences
					Honorable Mention: Certificate of Achievement, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) Intelligent Systems Award
					IEEE Award for Electro-Technology ($50 and Framed Certificate), Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers
			Andrea Rae	Kibel	2nd Award, Zoology Category	Proof of Concept: Digital Vocabulary Analysis for C. Stelleri (Zoology)	12
	Cathy	Messenger	Zuhra	Bholat	1st Award, Engineering Category	Performance of a Plant Microbial Fuel Cell with Oryza Sativa (Engineering)	10
					Team: $60 and Book per team member, The ROD Women in Science Award
			Liam Michael	Conrad	Honorable Mention, Botany Category	The Effects of Multicolor Light on Raphanus sativus Plant Pigments (Botany)	10
			Shomik	Jain	1st Award, Botany Category	The Effect of Bisphenol A on Lactuca sativa var. Longifolia (Botany)	10
			Jiayi	Luo	1st Award, Engineering Category	Performance of a Plant Microbial Fuel Cell with Oryza Sativa (Engineering)	10
					Team: $60 and Book per team member, The ROD Women in Science Award
			Leron	Perez	1st place, $50 check, and a Book, Apatite to Zircon, Inc. Award	Biomimetic Robot Based on Cypselurus californicus For Hydro-Aerial Applications (Engineering)	11
			Yannan	Tuo	Honorable Mention - Framed Certificate of Achievement and Popular Science Magazine Subscription, SAMPE - Society for the Advancement of Material and Process Engineering	Enhancing Solar Cell Efficiency with Fluorescent Coatings (Engineering)	10
			Lauren Alessandra	Verheyden	2nd Award, Botany Category	Effects of Astragalus Canadensis Extracts on Erwinia Carotovora Diseased Plants (Botany)	10
Saratoga High School	Youssef	Ismail (SSW Mentor)	Snehal Josh	Dey	Outstanding Project: Certificate of Achievement and Voucher for Materials and a Safe Boating Course, United States Coast Guard Auxiliary	A Novel Way to Test Stress Levels in Humans Using Image Analysis (Computers / Mathematics)	10
			Amulya	Vadlakonda	1st Award, Engineering Category	A Smart Fuzzy Logic Based Gripping Prosthetic to Aid Hand Amputees in Handling Delicate Objects. (Engineering)	9
					Honorable Mention: Certificate of Achievement, and Goody Bag, Association for Women in Science, Palo Alto Chapter
	Ibtisam	Khalaf (SSW mentor)	Preethi	Ravi	Honorable Mention, Biochemistry / Microbiology Category	The Effect of Curcumin on Ubq-2 (rpl-40) protein expression in Alzheimer-mutated C. elegans Using Immunohistochemistry (Biochemistry / Microbiology)	11
			Michelle Q	Xu	$100 First Place, Certificate of Achievement, and Letter, Inez M. Lechner Award	Bring Antibiotics Back to Life? Synergistic Effect of Natural Herbs with Ampicillin against Resistant E. Coli (Biochemistry / Microbiology)	9
					Honorable Mention Certificate of Achievement, 2GB iPod Shuffle, MedImmune
					Honorable Mention: Certificate of Achievement, and Goody Bag, Association for Women in Science, Palo Alto Chapter
	Jill	McCrystal	Anusuya	Arjavalingam	2nd Award, Physics Category	The Effect of Magnetism on Electrolysis (Physics)	10
			Agastya	Gupta	$100 First Prize, Morgan Lewis	An Inexpensive, Global, and Effective Means of Diagnosing Heart Disease (Computers / Mathematics)	11
					1st Award, Computers / Mathematics Category
			Trishla	Pokharna	Honorable Mention, Engineering Category	Low-Cost Innovative Incubator using TEC Technology (Engineering)	9
			Kristine	Zhang	2nd Award, Chemistry Category	Development of Novel Metal Nanostructures for Efficient and Broadband Solar Energy Conversion (Chemistry)	10
					2nd Place - $75, Framed Certificate of Achievement, and Popular Science Magazine Subscription, SAMPE - Society for the Advancement of Material and Process Engineering
	Tiffany	Yen (PSP)	Amy	Zhang	Outstanding Sustainability Project. Weeklong I-SWEEEP Competition, I-SWEEEP	The Phytoremediation of Zinc by Lemna minor (Environmental Sciences)	10
					1st Award, Environmental Sciences Category