Evergreen Valley High School
Project Awards 2015
Synopsys Silicon Valley Science and Technology Championship
| School | Teacher | Student | Award | Title | Gr | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 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 | |||||||