Lynbrook High School
Project Awards 2014
Synopsys Silicon Valley Science and Technology Championship
| School | Teacher | Student | Award | Title | Gr | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lynbrook High School | Amanda | Alonzo | Shivani Milind | Bhandarkar | 2nd Award, Environmental Sciences Category | The Effect of Sulfur during Temperature Rise on the Reproduction Rate of C. Elegans (Environmental Sciences) | 9 |
| Nithin | Buduma | 1st Award, Physics Category | Evaluating the Effectiveness of the Anisotropic Kondo Systems CeNiSn and FeSi as topological insulators reveals anomalous transport behavior (Physics) | 10 | |||
| 3rd Place Award - $50, Popular Science Magazine Subscription and Framed Certificate of Achievement, ASM International, A Society for Materials, Santa Clara Valley Chapter | |||||||
| Honorable Mention: Certificate of Achievement, T-Shirt, Society of Vacuum Coaters (SVC) | |||||||
| Aayush | Gupta | Honorable Mention, Engineering Category | Trying to Make a More Hand Friendly Computer Mouse (Engineering) | 10 | |||
| Mukund | Hari | Honorable Mention, Medicine / Health / Gerontology Category | Impact of Curcumin on Cancer Induced Drosophila Specimen (Medicine / Health / Gerontology) | 10 | |||
| Matthew Manchung Keisuke | Hase-Liu | 1st Award, Chemistry Category | The Effectiveness of the Natural Polymers Chitosan and Polyglutamic Acid in Water Purification (Chemistry) | 9 | |||
| Certificate of Achievement; if registered, medal, subscription & opportunity to advance to national competition for trip to Stockholm, Stockholm Junior Water Prize | |||||||
| Selena | Huang | Honorable Mention, Behavioral / Social Category | Effect of Music on Students' Focus (Behavioral / Social) | 9 | |||
| Adish Ashutosh | Jain | 2nd Award, Engineering Category | A Novel Approach to Harnessing the Energy of the Sun: Using a Thermoelectric Generating Heat Chamber to Recharge a Cell Phone (Engineering) | 10 | |||
| Certificate of Achievement, Ricoh Corporation | |||||||
| Maitreyee | Joshi | $100 and Certificate of Achievement, Wireless Communications Alliance | Developing an Automatic Indoor Mapping Technique to Create an Indoor Navigation System App for the Blind and Visually Impaired (Engineering) | 12 | |||
| Certificate of Achievement, NASA Ames Research Center | |||||||
| One-day immersive trip to Firebase to work on API project, TechLab Education | |||||||
| Rachit | Kataria | 1st Award, Environmental Sciences Category | A Novel Approach on the Maximization of CO2 Intake through the Use of 3-Indoleacetic Acid and Kinetin Chemical Enhancement and Mycorrhizal Fungal Alteration on Rhizophora Mangle (Environmental Sciences) | 11 | |||
| Certificate of Achievement, American Meteorological Society | |||||||
| Somya | Khare | Gift Card and Certificate of Achievement, Society of Women Engineers | Development of an Effective Pan-Cancer Prognostic Model: Analyzing Gene Expression Levels of the FOXM1 Transcription Network in Multiple Cancer Types in Order to Predict Patient Survival (Bioinformatics) | 11 | |||
| Xiangyue Angela | Kong | 1st Award, Medicine / Health / Gerontology Category | The Transcription Factor Bcl11b Regulates Mammary Stem Cell Self-renewal and Quiescence Partially Through p21 (Medicine / Health / Gerontology) | 12 | |||
| Marilyn | Kung | Honorable Mention, Botany Category | The Effects of Stanleya pinnata on Reducing the Amount of Selenium Discharges in the Permanente Creek (Botany) | 9 | |||
| Neha | Kunjal | 2nd Place Award - $100 Cash and Certificate of Achievement, American Society of Civil Engineers | The Design of an Efficient System that can Separate Mud and Debris from Muddy water (Engineering) | 10 | |||
| Individual: $30 and Book, The ROD Women in Science Award | |||||||
| Pranav Varasri | Lalgudi | High School Finalist Letter, The Synopsys Outreach Foundation n+1 Prize | A Novel Study on the Expression of Recombinant Polyphenolic Adhesive Protein Mefp-5 Secreted by the Mollusk Mytilus edulis in Escherichia coli (Biochemistry / Microbiology) | 9 | |||
| Honorable Mention, Biochemistry / Microbiology Category | |||||||
| Nidhi A | Navaratna | Gift Card and Certificate of Achievement, Society of Women Engineers | Development of an Effective Pan-Cancer Prognostic Model: Analyzing Gene Expression Levels of the FOXM1 Transcription Network in Multiple Cancer Types in Order to Predict Patient Survival (Bioinformatics) | 11 | |||
| Ruchi Sandeep | Pandya | $100 First Prize, Morgan Lewis | The development of a Carbon Nanofiber electrode based sensor for cardiac health monitoring (Chemistry) | 11 | |||
| 1st Award, Chemistry Category | |||||||
| 1st Place Award - $100, Popular Science Magazine Subscription, Framed Certificate of Achievement, and Certificate & Medallion from ASM Educational Foundation, ASM International, A Society for Materials, Santa Clara Valley Chapter | |||||||
| 2nd place student - $50 and Certificate of Achievement, American Vacuum Society, Northern CA Chapter | |||||||
| GR 9-12, 2nd Place: $50, Book, and Certificate of Achievement, T-Shirt, Society of Vacuum Coaters (SVC) | |||||||
| Gauri | Patil | Honorable Mention, Zoology Category | Determining the Effect of Cocos Nucifera Oil in Caenorhabditis Elegans that display Alzheimer's Disease Symptoms (Zoology) | 11 | |||
| Vidur | Sanandan | 1st Award, Earth / Space Sciences Category | Structural Parameters and Comparisons of Galaxies in Redshift Range 0.8 to 2.0 and Mass Greater Than 10^10 From Mathematical Residual Model Fits Made From Telescopic and Simulated Images of Varying Depth (Earth / Space Sciences) | 12 | |||
| Neilay | Shahi | Honorable Mention, Environmental Sciences Category | The effect of substances on the productivity of electricity in a microbial fuel cell (Environmental Sciences) | 9 | |||
| Samvardhini | Sridharan | Honorable Mention, Botany Category | The emission of methyl salicylate in response to the application of simple and complex sugars to lacerations of Gaultheria Procumbens (Botany) | 10 | |||
| Pragna Elizabeth | Upputuri | Sport Bag, Junior Tech Organizer, United States Air Force | The Application of Optical Lift on Micromotors (Engineering) | 9 | |||
| Srisaiteja | Vemireddy | Honorable Mention, Medicine / Health / Gerontology Category | Impact of Curcumin on Cancer Induced Drosophila Specimen (Medicine / Health / Gerontology) | 10 | |||
| Varun J | Venkatesh | High School Finalist Letter, The Synopsys Outreach Foundation n+1 Prize | A Novel Study on the Expression of Recombinant Polyphenolic Adhesive Protein Mefp-5 Secreted by the Mollusk Mytilus edulis in Escherichia coli (Biochemistry / Microbiology) | 9 | |||
| Honorable Mention, Biochemistry / Microbiology Category | |||||||
| Andy | Zhang | 2nd Award, Engineering Category | A Novel Approach to Harnessing the Energy of the Sun: Using a Thermoelectric Generating Heat Chamber to Recharge a Cell Phone (Engineering) | 10 | |||
| Certificate of Achievement, Ricoh Corporation | |||||||
| Marilyn Mengyao | Zhang | 1st Award, Medicine / Health / Gerontology Category | The Effect of the Number of Caenorhabditis elegans per Living Space on the Neurogenesis and Brain Activity of C. elegans (Medicine / Health / Gerontology) | 9 | |||
| Youssef | Ismail (SSW Mentor) | Pratik | Gongloor | 2nd Place Student Award: $320 and Certificate of Achievement, Association for Computing Machinery, San Francisco Bay Area Professional Chapter | An EEG Controlled Hand Grip Augmentation Exoskeleton for the Physically Impaired (Engineering) | 9 | |
| Honorable Mention, Engineering Category | |||||||
| $100 First Place, Certificate of Achievement, and Letter, Inez M. Lechner Award | |||||||
| Brittany | Stevens | Hima | Rajana | Honorable Mention, Medicine / Health / Gerontology Category | Understanding the Neurobiological Basis of Sleep Using Neurodegenerative Diseases as Models (Medicine / Health / Gerontology) | 11 | |
| David | Taylor | Vibhav Satsheel | Altekar | Grand Prize - Best of Championship - Physical Sciences - Trip to Intel ISEF and Plaque, Santa Clara Valley Science & Engineering Fair Assn - Board of Directors Awards - High School | Engineered Chitosan based MultiReservoir devices for effective localization to treat Multifaceted set of diseases (Engineering) | 12 | |
| High School Finalist Letter, The Synopsys Outreach Foundation n+1 Prize | |||||||
| 1st Award, Engineering Category | |||||||
| Certificate of Achievement and ONR Medallion, United States Navy and Marine Corps | |||||||