Cupertino Union School District
Project Awards 2015
Synopsys Silicon Valley Science and Technology Championship
| School | Teacher | Student | Award | Title | Gr | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cupertino Middle School | Ibtisam | Khalaf (SSW mentor) | Anika | Sanyal | 2nd Award, Medicine / Health / Gerontology Category | Effects of Vitamin B12 on the Lifespan/Motility of Diabetic Mutated versus Wild Type C. elegans strains: A Representation Concentration of Glucose in Women with Gestational Diabetes (Medicine / Health / Gerontology) | 8 |
| Homeschool (Chiang) | Ting-Kuang | Chiang (PSP) | Andrew | Chiang | 1st Award, Earth / Space Sciences Category | Wind Winds Windmills (Earth / Space Sciences) | 6 |
| Nominated to compete envelope, Broadcom MASTERS - 6th Grade | |||||||
| Hyde Middle School | Anuran | Chatterjee (SSW mentor) | Derick Rohan | Cutinha | 2nd Award, Biochemistry / Microbiology Category | Effect of cigarette smoke extract/condensate on ROS generation and muscle function in C. elegans (Biochemistry / Microbiology) | 8 |
| Certificate of Achievement, Medallion, and Letter, United States Public Health Service | |||||||
| Kennedy(John F.) Middle School-Cupertino | Klington | Chang | Sanjana V. | Shah | $250 + certificate + two books to student + breakfast with Bob, Zeidman Award | Text Compression Algorithm based on Popularity using Global English Dictionary (Computers / Mathematics) | 8 |
| 2nd Place Student Award, Outstanding Young Woman in Computing: $160 and Certificate of Achievement, Association for Computing Machinery, San Francisco Bay Area Professional Chapter | |||||||
| 1st Award, Computers / Mathematics Category | |||||||
| Nominated to compete envelope, Broadcom MASTERS - 8th Grade | |||||||
| Thea | Dalvand | Priya | Goel | 1st Award, Physics Category | Effect of Impurities on Surface Tension of Water (Physics) | 8 | |
| 3rd place student - $25 and Certificate of Achievement, American Vacuum Society, Northern CA | |||||||
| Nominated to compete envelope, Broadcom MASTERS - 8th Grade | |||||||
| Ankita | Vinod | 1st Award, Physics Category | Effect of Impurities on Surface Tension of Water (Physics) | 8 | |||
| 3rd place student - $25 and Certificate of Achievement, American Vacuum Society, Northern CA | |||||||
| Nominated to compete envelope, Broadcom MASTERS - 8th Grade | |||||||
| Susan | Hansen | Akshaya | Ganesan | 1st Award, Ecology Category | FEEDING EARTHWORMS: DO DIFFERENT DIETS AFFECT THE NUTRIENT LEVELS OF VERMICOMPOST ? (Ecology) | 6 | |
| Nominated to compete envelope, Broadcom MASTERS - 6th Grade | |||||||
| Youssef | Ismail (SSW mentor) | Patrick | Yu | 1st Award, Computers / Mathematics Category | Developing Efficient Algorithms for Self-Navigating Vehicles (Computers / Mathematics) | 7 | |
| Nominated to compete envelope, Broadcom MASTERS - 7th Grade | |||||||
| Sport Bag, Junior Tech Organizer, Certificate of achievement, United States Air Force | |||||||
| Khadija | Iyer | Anika | Cheerla | 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 | Automated Diagnosis of Alzheimer's from MRI Images (Engineering) | 8 | |
| Grand Prize Student Award, Outstanding Young Woman in Computing: $320 and Certificate of Achievement, Association for Computing Machinery, San Francisco Bay Area Professional Chapter | |||||||
| Honorable Mention Certificate, Zeidman Award | |||||||
| Middle School Finalist Certificate, The Synopsys Outreach Foundation n+1 Prize | |||||||
| 1st Award, Engineering Category | |||||||
| $100 and Certificate of Achievement, Fair Manager's Graphic Design Award | |||||||
| IEEE Award for Electro-Technology ($50 and Framed Certificate), Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers | |||||||
| Nominated to compete envelope, Broadcom MASTERS - 8th Grade | |||||||
| Kiersten | Kampp | Matthew | Cho | Honorable Mention Student Award: $40 and Certificate of Achievement, Association for Computing Machinery, San Francisco Bay Area Professional Chapter | Braille Pad: An electronic braille display using solenoids (Engineering) | 7 | |
| 2nd Award, Engineering Category | |||||||
| $50 and Certificate of Achievement, The Kerry Veenstra Awards | |||||||
| 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 | |||||||
| Jamie | Oliveira | Anjali | Singh | Outstanding Project: Certificate of Achievement and Voucher for a Safe Boating Course, United States Coast Guard Auxiliary | I'm Lost - How Accurate is My GPS? (Earth / Space Sciences) | 6 | |
| Chris | Scharmen | Manasa H. | Bhimaraju | 1st Place Award - $500 and Framed Certificate of Achievement, American Chemical Society, Santa Clara Valley | Low-cost animated teaching tool for the electron structure of elements in the Periodic Table (Engineering) | 6 | |
| 1st Award, Engineering Category | |||||||
| $50 Cash Award to student, Certificate of Achievement, and Letter, Al Foster Award | |||||||
| Honorable Mention: Certificate of Achievement,T-Shirt, Society of Vacuum Coaters (SVC) | |||||||
| Nominated to compete envelope, Broadcom MASTERS - 6th Grade | |||||||
| Leah | Watts | Sanjana S. | Borle | Middle School Finalist Certificate, The Synopsys Outreach Foundation n+1 Prize | Natural vs. Artificial Oil Absorbers to Clean up Oil Spills (Chemistry) | 8 | |
| Siddhi Anil | Shah | Certificate of Achievement, American Psychological Association | The Effect of Playing Music on Your Creativity (Behavioral / Social) | 8 | |||
| Lawson Middle School | Joel | Carter | Shiven | Gupta | Grand Prize Student Award: $320 and Certificate of Achievement, Association for Computing Machinery, San Francisco Bay Area Professional Chapter | Wearable Device for the Visually Impaired (Engineering) | 8 |
| Honorable Mention Certificate, Zeidman Award | |||||||
| 1st Award, Engineering Category | |||||||
| Nominated to compete envelope, Broadcom MASTERS - 8th Grade | |||||||
| Special Award: $75 and Certificate of Achievement, Varian Medical Systems | |||||||
| Jishnu | Swamy | 1st Place - $100, Framed Certificate of Achievement, and Popular Science Magazine Subscription, SAMPE - Society for the Advancement of Material and Process Engineering | Waterproof Fabric - A study and comparison of common waterproofing materials, natural and synthetic, to measure water resistance (Physics) | 7 | |||
| 1st Place Award - $100, Popular Science Magazine Subscription, Framed Certificate of Achievement, ASM International, A Society for Materials, Santa Clara Valley Chapter | |||||||
| Mokshith | Voodarla | Grand Prize Student Award: $320 and Certificate of Achievement, Association for Computing Machinery, San Francisco Bay Area Professional Chapter | Wearable Device for the Visually Impaired (Engineering) | 8 | |||
| Honorable Mention Certificate, Zeidman Award | |||||||
| 1st Award, Engineering Category | |||||||
| Nominated to compete envelope, Broadcom MASTERS - 8th Grade | |||||||
| Special Award: $75 and Certificate of Achievement, Varian Medical Systems | |||||||
| Miller Middle School | Steve | Greenfield | Tanvee | Joshi | Honorable Mention, Behavioral / Social Category | Managing Bias (Behavioral / Social) | 8 |
| Certificate of Achievement, American Psychological Association | |||||||
| Codrutza | Popescu | Maya | Abiram | Honorable Mention, Engineering Category | Creating a Smart Device Application for Entertainment Targeted Towards the Visually Impaired (Engineering) | 7 | |
| Raka Bhatt | Acharya | Honorable Mention, Engineering Category | Creating a Smart Device Application for Entertainment Targeted Towards the Visually Impaired (Engineering) | 7 | |||
| Rutesh | Shah | Aayush | Shah | 2nd Award, Engineering Category | Ultrasonic Aid for the DIsabled (Engineering) | 8 | |
| Priya | Srinath | Samiksha | Patil | Honorable Mention, Physics Category | The Magic of Fading Colors (Physics) | 8 | |
| 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 | Developing an Electronic Wearable and Customizable Solution to Predict and Prevent Autistic Meltdowns (Engineering) | 7 | |
| $500 + certificate + two books to student + breakfast with Bob, Zeidman Award | |||||||
| 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 | |||||||
| Nominated to compete envelope, Broadcom MASTERS - 7th Grade | |||||||
| Special Award: $75 and Certificate of Achievement, Varian Medical Systems | |||||||