East Side Union High School District
Project Awards 2015
Synopsys Silicon Valley Science and Technology Championship
| School | Teacher | Student | Award | Title | Gr | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Andrew Hill High School | Patrick | Allamandola | Kevin | Dieu | Certificate of Achievement, American Meteorological Society | The Drought's Effect on Creek Water Pollutants (Chemistry) | 12 |
| Outstanding Project: Certificate of Achievement and Voucher for a Safe Boating Course, United States Coast Guard Auxiliary | |||||||
| Evergreen Valley High School | Ibtisam | Khalaf (SSW mentor) | Neha Santhoshi | Pusarla | Honorable Mention, Biochemistry / Microbiology Category | The Effect on the Lipid Storage of Caenorhabditis elegans After Silencing the DAF-16 (Abnormal Dauer Formation) Gene, relating to DAF-2 which resembles the human receptor for insulin-like growth factor (IGF-1), in the Mutated Versus the Wild type Worms (Biochemistry / Microbiology) | 11 |
| Scott | Lubbs | Sampada | Deglurkar | 2nd Place - $75, Framed Certificate of Achievement, and Popular Science Magazine Subscription, SAMPE - Society for the Advancement of Material and Process Engineering | Increasing the Efficiency of Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells: How the Amount of Chiral Molecules Affects the Efficiency of the DSSC (Chemistry) | 11 | |
| 2nd Place Award - $75, Popular Science Magazine Subscription and Framed Certificate of Achievement, ASM International, A Society for Materials, Santa Clara Valley Chapter | |||||||
| Justin | Hao | 2nd Place: SJSU College of Engineering Certificate of Achievement, San Jose State University College of Engineering | Hybrid AC and DC Electric Supplies: An Efficient Approach to Consuming Solar and Wind Power (Engineering) | 12 | |||
| Carol | Metica-Pongol | Tanisha | Joshi | Grand Prize - Best of Championship - Outreach Schools - Trip to Intel ISEF and Plaque, Santa Clara Valley Science & Engineering Fair Assn - Board of Directors Awards - High School | Comparative efficacy of Lapatinib and Afatinib on ErbB1 and ErbB2/ Neu2 targets on tumor depletion in carcinoma based cancers. (Bioinformatics) | 10 | |
| 1st Award, Bioinformatics Category | |||||||
| Doug | Miller | Aratrika | Ghatak | Grand Prize Alternate - Outreach Schools - Trip to State Science Fair and Plaque, Santa Clara Valley Science & Engineering Fair Assn - Board of Directors Awards - High School | Faster Emergency Response via Vehicle to Signal (V2S) Communication (Computers / Mathematics) | 9 | |
| 2nd Award, Computers / Mathematics Category | |||||||
| Sport Bag, Junior Tech Organizer, Certificate of achievement, United States Air Force | |||||||
| Labanya | Mukhopadhyay | Individual: $30 and Book, The ROD Women in Science Award | Smart Device to Save Young Lives Abandoned in Car (Engineering) | 9 | |||
| Jeffrey | Solomon | Anushka Prasad | Jogalekar | 2nd Award, Computers / Mathematics Category | Computer-Assisted Retinal Disease Detection (Computers / Mathematics) | 9 | |
| Gift Card and Certificate of Achievement, Society of Women Engineers | |||||||
| David | Walz | Swetha | Revanur | Grand Prize - Best of Championship - Outreach Schools - Trip to Intel ISEF and Plaque, Santa Clara Valley Science & Engineering Fair Assn - Board of Directors Awards - High School | A Global-Scale Meta-Analysis of Gene Expression Distributions to Determine Detection Calls (RRI Biological Sciences) | 11 | |
| $250 Best Outreach Project, Whitney Education Foundation | |||||||
| 1st Award, RRI Biological Sciences Category | |||||||
| Oak Grove High School | Jennifer | Quan | Claudia | Toma | Honorable Mention - Certificate of Achievement, American Society of Civil Engineers | Sand Particle Size and Structural Stability in Erosion Patterns (Earth / Space Sciences) | 12 |
| Piedmont Hills High School | Matt | Trask | Andrew Cyril | Shacker | 1st Place: $250 Cash and Certificate of Achievement, System Safety Society | Spark Big Data Streaming Application in Pattern Development to Predict Adverse Aviation Conditions (Engineering) | 11 |
| Silver Creek High School | Narquiz | Cervantes | Nora | Abushaaban | Team award - $300 total and Framed Certificate of Achievement, American Chemical Society, Santa Clara Valley | Effects of Metal Cations on the Kinetics of Ortho- Nitrophenyl-Beta Galactoside Hydrolysis by Lactase (Chemistry) | 11 |
| 2nd Award, Chemistry Category | |||||||
| Manjot | Kaur | Grand Prize Alternate - Outreach Schools - Trip to State Science Fair and Plaque, Santa Clara Valley Science & Engineering Fair Assn - Board of Directors Awards - High School | Effect of various metal pollutants on the photosynthetic growth of marine algae under replicated oceanic conditions measured by the resulting concentration of chlorophyll detected through a spectrophotometer (Ecology) | 10 | |||
| 1st Award, Ecology Category | |||||||
| $100 and Certificate of Achievement, Schonert Award | |||||||
| Erin Yurim | Kim | 2nd Award, Chemistry Category | Chopsticks: Harmless Wood or a Bane? (Chemistry) | 11 | |||
| Jennifer Yura | Kim | 2nd Award, Chemistry Category | Chopsticks: Harmless Wood or a Bane? (Chemistry) | 12 | |||
| Sophia | Lau | Grand Prize Alternate - Outreach Schools - Trip to State Science Fair and Plaque, Santa Clara Valley Science & Engineering Fair Assn - Board of Directors Awards - High School | Effect of various metal pollutants on the photosynthetic growth of marine algae under replicated oceanic conditions measured by the resulting concentration of chlorophyll detected through a spectrophotometer (Ecology) | 10 | |||
| 1st Award, Ecology Category | |||||||
| $100 and Certificate of Achievement, Schonert Award | |||||||
| Whitney J | Lau | Team award - $300 total and Framed Certificate of Achievement, American Chemical Society, Santa Clara Valley | Effects of Metal Cations on the Kinetics of Ortho- Nitrophenyl-Beta Galactoside Hydrolysis by Lactase (Chemistry) | 11 | |||
| 2nd Award, Chemistry Category | |||||||
| Pratima | Manga | Team award - $300 total and Framed Certificate of Achievement, American Chemical Society, Santa Clara Valley | Effects of Metal Cations on the Kinetics of Ortho- Nitrophenyl-Beta Galactoside Hydrolysis by Lactase (Chemistry) | 11 | |||
| 2nd Award, Chemistry Category | |||||||
| Priya | Padmanaban | 2nd Place Award - $200 and Framed Certificate of Achievement, American Chemical Society, Santa Clara Valley | The Synthesis of Ferromagnetic Nanoparticles for the Decontamination of Oily Water". (Chemistry) | 11 | |||
| 1st Award, Chemistry Category | |||||||
| Certificate of Achievement; if registered, medal, subscription & opportunity to advance to national competition for trip to Stockholm, Stockholm Junior Water Prize | |||||||
| Traci | Verna | Christian | Justo | Honorable Mention Certificate, Santa Clara County Biotech Education Partnership (SCCBEP) | Bacterial Murderers (Biochemistry / Microbiology) | 11 | |
| Moses | Rivera | Honorable Mention Certificate, Santa Clara County Biotech Education Partnership (SCCBEP) | Bacterial Murderers (Biochemistry / Microbiology) | 11 | |||
| Helen Hanh | Thio | 2nd Award, Biochemistry / Microbiology Category | How do the different conditions (temperature and concentration/quantity) of several essential oils work as anti-fungal agents to stop fungal infections? (Biochemistry / Microbiology) | 11 | |||