Palo Alto Unified School District
Project Awards 2014
Synopsys Silicon Valley Science and Technology Championship
| School | Teacher | Student | Award | Title | Gr | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gunn (Henry M.) High School | Heather | Mellows | Ken Kyung-Hyun | Noh | 2nd Award, Computers / Mathematics Category | Analysis of Pandemic Factors via Virus Simulation (Computers / Mathematics) | 10 |
| Radu | Toma | Jason | Huang | Honorable Mention Student Award: $50 and Certificate of Achievement, Association for Computing Machinery, San Francisco Bay Area Professional Chapter | Prime Labeling of Complete Binary Trees and an Efficient Prime Labeling Algorithm for Connected Graph (Computers / Mathematics) | 10 | |
| Certificate of Achievement and Letter to Teacher, Mu Alpha Theta | |||||||
| Elana | Zizmor | Audrey Caroline | Cheng | 1st Place Award - $650 and Framed Certificate of Achievement, American Chemical Society, Santa Clara Valley Local Section | Novel Mechanism for Attachment of Peptides to Functionalized Carbon Nanotubes (Chemistry) | 10 | |
| Emily S. | Wang | Grand Prize Alternate - Biological Sciences - Trip to State Science Fair and Plaque, Santa Clara Valley Science & Engineering Fair Assn - Board of Directors Awards - High School | Illuminating Disease Pathways: Developing Bright Fluorescent Proteins to Improve FRET Biosensing. (Biochemistry / Microbiology) | 12 | |||
| $100 First Prize, Morgan Lewis | |||||||
| 1st Award, Biochemistry / Microbiology Category | |||||||
| Jordan (David Starr) Middle School | Kellie | Fletcher | Neil | Kapoor | 2nd Award, Engineering Category | Automatic Fish Feeder (Engineering) | 6 |
| Robin | Levy | Anna | Tomz | Honorable Mention - Framed Certificate of Achievement and Popular Science Magazine, SAMPE - Society for the Advancement of Material and Process Engineering | What is the Best Adhesive? Comparing Sugru -- a New Invention -- and Other Adhesives (Chemistry) | 6 | |
| Lori | Monahan | Ayush S | Gupta | 1st Award, Engineering Category | Developing a Tennis Ball Tester (Engineering) | 7 | |
| Palo Alto High School | Radu | Toma | Joseph | Chang | Honorable Mention Student Award: $50 and Certificate of Achievement, Association for Computing Machinery, San Francisco Bay Area Professional Chapter | Prime Labeling of Complete Binary Trees and an Efficient Prime Labeling Algorithm for Connected Graph (Computers / Mathematics) | 11 |
| Certificate of Achievement and Letter to Teacher, Mu Alpha Theta | |||||||
| Stanford (Jane Lathrop) Middle School | Robin | Ames | Callum Edward | Day Ham | 1st Award, Botany Category | CO2 in a Plants Environment (Botany) | 7 |
| $100 and Certificate of Achievement, Trimble Navigation, Ltd. | |||||||
| Divya | Tadimeti | 2nd Award, Physics Category | The Effect of Golf Ball Temperature on Shot Distance (Physics) | 7 | |||
| Fred | Berghout | Carmel | Baharav | 1st Award, Chemistry Category | What Makes an Effective Sports Drink? (Chemistry) | 8 | |
| Noga | Hurwitz | 1st Award, Chemistry Category | What Makes an Effective Sports Drink? (Chemistry) | 8 | |||
| Gautam | Mittal | 2nd Award, Computers / Mathematics Category | Encryption Algorithms: Speed Versus Strength (Computers / Mathematics) | 8 | |||
| Noel | Berghout | Shannon Ashley | Lin | Certificate of Excellence from National Association of Women Geoscientists, Association for Women Geoscientists, San Francisco Bay Area Chapter | Exploring the Ice Wedging Phenomenon (Earth / Space Sciences) | 6 | |
| Diane | Garcia | Isabel | Sperandio | 2nd Award, Physics Category | How do you improve the solar panels? (Physics) | 6 | |
| Kevin | Lynch | Nicholas Turlough | Padmanabhan | 1st Award, Physics Category | The Effect of Angle on Burn Time (Physics) | 7 | |
| Rishi Ratnam | Sankar | Honorable Mention Student Award: $40 and Certificate of Achievement, Association for Computing Machinery, San Francisco Bay Area Professional Chapter | Polynomial Equation Solver (Computers / Mathematics) | 7 | |||
| Anna | Yu | 1st Award, Physics Category | How to Better Control a Tennis Ball (Physics) | 7 | |||
| Greg | Rice | Edward | Ross | 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 | Balloon Acoustics II: Why Do Balloons Make a Loud Noise When They Pop? (Physics) | 7 | |
| Middle School Finalist Letter, The Synopsys Outreach Foundation n+1 Prize | |||||||
| 1st Award, Physics Category | |||||||
| 3rd place student - $25 and Certificate of Achievement, American Vacuum Society, Northern CA Chapter | |||||||
| Terman Middle School | Christina | DeGregorio | Tian | Chen | 1st Award, Physics Category | The Thermodynamic freezing paradox of The Mpemba Effect (Physics) | 8 |
| Anna Chuen An | Tsai | 1st Award, Physics Category | The Thermodynamic freezing paradox of The Mpemba Effect (Physics) | 8 | |||
| Ore | Ziskind | 1st Award, Physics Category | The Thermodynamic freezing paradox of The Mpemba Effect (Physics) | 8 | |||
| Cathy | Do | Swati | Goel | Honorable Mention Student Award: $40 and Certificate of Achievement, Association for Computing Machinery, San Francisco Bay Area Professional Chapter | Family Tree of Traits (Computers / Mathematics) | 6 | |
| Aru | Hill (SSW Mentor) | Eric Thomas | Hooton | 1st place: $100, Certificate of Achievement, Letter, and IFT Information, Northern California Institute of Food Technologists (NCIFT) | The Use of Multiplex PCR to Test for GMO Pollination of Non-GMO Papaya Samples (Biochemistry / Microbiology) | 8 | |
| Tamara | Juarez | Arjun Krishna | Prabhakar | 2nd Award, Medicine / Health / Gerontology Category | Processed or Fresh? Finding the Right Diet for Diabetics. (Medicine / Health / Gerontology) | 7 | |