Basis Independent Silicon Valley School

Project Awards 2015

Synopsys Silicon Valley Science and Technology Championship

School	Teacher		Student		Award	Title	Gr
Basis Independent Silicon Valley School	Simon	Hale	Chethan Anand	Bhateja	2nd Award, Physics Category	Builder's Fault: Testing Robustness and Stability of Various Structures During Earthquakes (Physics)	8
					1st place - $150 and Certificate of Achievement, American Society of Civil Engineers
			Shreya	Khandewale	5th Place Student Award: $80 and Certificate of Achievement, Association for Computing Machinery, San Francisco Bay Area Professional Chapter	Quivr! - A Mobile Application to Alert via Sensory Notifications (Engineering)	9
					$100 First Place, Certificate of Achievement, and Letter, Inez M. Lechner Award
					3rd Place: $100 and Certificate of Achievement, System Safety Society
	Youssef	Ismail (SSW mentor)	Shrivats	Kannan	Honorable Mention, Engineering Category	Kinetically Powered Everlasting Pacemaker (Engineering)	9
					IEEE Award for Electro-Technology ($50 and Framed Certificate), Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers
	Stephanie	Louris	Carissa Mercedes	Ott	2nd Award, Ecology Category	Planty-ful Air, Effects of Plants Operating Air Purification (Ecology)	6
	Anuradha	Murthy	Jaydev Niranjan	Bhateja	1st Award, Ecology Category	Sweet Drought: Effects of Dry Farming on Sugar Concentrations in Pisum sativum (Ecology)	8
					Nominated to compete envelope, Broadcom MASTERS - 8th Grade
			Bethany	Chen	Honorable Mention, Biochemistry / Microbiology Category	Glowing Dinos: Analyzing Bioluminescence of Pyrocystis fusiformis (Biochemistry / Microbiology)	9
			Anish	Muthali	Honorable Mention, Engineering Category	Parking Dilemma: Designing an Application for Parking Sensors (Engineering)	8
			Alexander Bao	Vu	2nd Award, Chemistry Category	Magnetic Water Magic: A Study on the Effect of Magnetic Water Treatment on the Scale Formation of Water (Chemistry)	9
					Certificate of Achievement, American Meteorological Society