Saratoga High School
Project Awards 2014
Synopsys Silicon Valley Science and Technology Championship
| School | Teacher | Student | Award | Title | Gr | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | |||||||