Harker School-Upper Campus
Project Awards 2015
Synopsys Silicon Valley Science and Technology Championship
| School | Teacher | Student | Award | Title | Gr | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Harker School-Upper Campus | Gary | Blickenstaff | Trisha | Dwivedi | Honorable Mention, Botany Category | The Effects on the Growth of Brassica Rapa After Exposure of its Cryptochromes to Magnetic Fields (Botany) | 10 |
| Neymika | Jain | 2nd Award, Medicine / Health / Gerontology Category | The Effect of Metformin on Transgenic Ab1-42 Caenorhabditis elegans: An in vitro study on Alzheimer's Disease (Medicine / Health / Gerontology) | 10 | |||
| 1 certificate and possible trip to Arizona, ASU Walton Sustainability Solutions Initiatives | |||||||
| Kshithija | Mulam | Honorable Mention, Botany Category | The Effects on the Growth of Brassica Rapa After Exposure of its Cryptochromes to Magnetic Fields (Botany) | 10 | |||
| Youssef | Ismail (SSW mentor) | Akhil | Arun | $100 and Certificate of Achievement, Trimble Navigation, Ltd. | Designing a Reflective Polarimeter (Engineering) | 9 | |
| Jill | McCrystal | Stephanie | Huang | First Place: $100, Certificate of Achievement, and Goody Bag, Santa Clara County Biotech Education Partnership (SCCBEP) | Breaking Antibiotic Resistant Biofilms with Natural Herbs (Biochemistry / Microbiology) | 11 | |
| Eric | Nelson | Manan Ajay | Shah | 1st Award, Computers / Mathematics Category | Improving the Accuracy of Sentiment Classification: a Novel Synthesis of Computational and Analytical Methods (Computers / Mathematics) | 10 | |
| Ken | Schmahl (SSW mentor) | Neil | Movva | Grand Prize Alternate - Physical Sciences - Trip to State Science Fair and Plaque, Santa Clara Valley Science & Engineering Fair Assn - Board of Directors Awards - High School | (In)security Everywhere: Machine Learning Assisted Deep Power Analysis Fundamentally Defeats Software Cryptography (Engineering) | 12 | |
| $100 First Prize, Morgan Lewis | |||||||
| 2nd Award, Engineering Category | |||||||
| $100 and Certificate of Achievement, Fair Manager's Graphic Design Award | |||||||
| Certificate of Achievement and ONR Medallion, United States Navy and Marine Corps | |||||||
| One-day immersive trip to Firebase to work on API project, TechLab Education | |||||||
| Chris | Spenner | Sneha S. | Bhetanabhotla | Honorable Mention, Physics Category | Simulating Galaxy Mergers Using Gravitational Equations (Physics) | 10 | |
| Jerry | Chen | Honorable Mention, Bioinformatics Category | Combating the Obesity Epidemic: Computational Analysis to Identify Driver Genes and Virtual High Throughput Screening to Discover Novel Treatments (Bioinformatics) | 9 | |||
| Amy | Dunphy | High School Finalist Certficate, The Synopsys Outreach Foundation n+1 Prize | Preventing Urushiol (Poison Oak)- Induced Dermatitis by Deactivating the Allergen (RRI Physical Sciences) | 9 | |||
| Honorable Mention, RRI Physical Sciences Category | |||||||
| Vamsi | Gadiraju | $100 First Prize, Morgan Lewis | Defect-Mediated Electrocatalytic Activity of Palladium-Graphene Quantum Dot Nanocomposites (RRI Physical Sciences) | 12 | |||
| 1st Award, RRI Physical Sciences Category | |||||||
| Honorable Mention: Certificate of Achievement, T-Shirt, Society of Vacuum Coaters (SVC) | |||||||
| Rishab Srinivasan | Gargeya | 2nd Award, Bioinformatics Category | Computer-Aided Grading of Diabetic Retinopathy: A Novel Screening Tool for Automated Recognition of Sight Threatening Diabetic Retinopathy (STDR) (Bioinformatics) | 10 | |||
| Anastasiya | Grebin | Honorable Mention, Bioinformatics Category | The Classification of SNPs in the SMAD4 Gene on the Development of Pancreatic Cancer in a Human Using a Machine Algorithm (Bioinformatics) | 9 | |||
| Rahul | Jayaraman | 1st Award, RRI Biological Sciences Category | Evaluation of Novel Mechanisms of Heart Failure in Children with Congenital Heart Disease Identifies the Potential for Pediatric-Specific Heart Failure Therapies (RRI Biological Sciences) | 12 | |||
| Amy | Jin | Honorable Mention, Bioinformatics Category | Combating the Obesity Epidemic: Computational Analysis to Identify Driver Genes and Virtual High Throughput Screening to Discover Novel Treatments (Bioinformatics) | 9 | |||
| Vineet Sai | Kosaraju | 2nd Award, RRI Biological Sciences Category | Towards Rational RNA Therapeutics: 3D RNA Engineering in a Massive Open Laboratory (RRI Biological Sciences) | 11 | |||
| Jonathan Q | Ma | Grand Prize - Best of Championship - Biological Sciences - Trip to Intel ISEF and Plaque, Santa Clara Valley Science & Engineering Fair Assn - Board of Directors Awards - High School | Systematic Rational Identification of Sex-Linked Molecular Alterations and Therapies in Cancer (RRI Biological Sciences) | 11 | |||
| $250 Best Biological-science Project, Whitney Education Foundation | |||||||
| 1st Award, RRI Biological Sciences Category | |||||||
| Sadhika S | Malladi | Grand Prize - Best of Championship - Biological Sciences - Trip to Intel ISEF and Plaque, Santa Clara Valley Science & Engineering Fair Assn - Board of Directors Awards - High School | Systematic Rational Identification of Sex-Linked Molecular Alterations and Therapies in Cancer (RRI Biological Sciences) | 11 | |||
| $250 Best Biological-science Project, Whitney Education Foundation | |||||||
| 1st Award, RRI Biological Sciences Category | |||||||
| Nitya | Mani | Grand Prize - Best of Championship - Physical Sciences - Trip to Intel ISEF and Plaque, Santa Clara Valley Science & Engineering Fair Assn - Board of Directors Awards - High School | Characterizing the Constructible n-Division Points of the Rational Hypocycloids Through Straightedge and Compass Constructions (RRI Physical Sciences) | 12 | |||
| $250 Best Physical-science Project, Whitney Education Foundation | |||||||
| 1st Award, RRI Physical Sciences Category | |||||||
| Certificate of Achievement and Letter to Teacher, Mu Alpha Theta | |||||||
| Rajiv | Movva | 1st Award, Engineering Category | A Novel Use of RC Circuits to Build a Low-Cost and Non-Invasive Respiratory Monitor (Engineering) | 9 | |||
| Mary Theresa | Najibi | Certificate of Achievement, American Psychological Association | The Effect of Joy on Test Scores (Behavioral / Social) | 11 | |||
| Madhuri B. | Nori | 2nd Award, RRI Biological Sciences Category | Rescuing Declining Integration Rates of Transplanted Retinal Photoreceptors in Host Mouse Retina with a Microglia-derived Factor (RRI Biological Sciences) | 12 | |||
| 2nd Place Award - $175 and Certificate of Achievement, American Association for Laboratory Animal Science, Northern California Branch | |||||||
| Evani | Radiya-Dixit | Honorable Mention, RRI Physical Sciences Category | Automatic Extraction of Cancerous Lesion Characteristics from Imaging Reports Through a Novel Integration of Natural Language Processing Techniques (RRI Physical Sciences) | 10 | |||
| Venkat N | Sankar | Honorable Mention, RRI Biological Sciences Category | Investigating the mechanisms of BHLH-mediated reprogramming of fibroblasts into neurons (RRI Biological Sciences) | 10 | |||
| Anooshree | Sengupta | Honorable Mention, Bioinformatics Category | The Classification of SNPs in the SMAD4 Gene on the Development of Pancreatic Cancer in a Human Using a Machine Algorithm (Bioinformatics) | 9 | |||
| Vedaad | Shakib | Grand Prize Alternate - Physical Sciences - Trip to State Science Fair and Plaque, Santa Clara Valley Science & Engineering Fair Assn - Board of Directors Awards - High School | Computer Simulation of Free-Surface Fluid Flow using MPS (Computers / Mathematics) | 10 | |||
| 2nd Award, Computers / Mathematics Category | |||||||
| Certificate of Achievement and ONR Medallion, United States Navy and Marine Corps | |||||||
| Amrita | Singh | 2nd Award, RRI Biological Sciences Category | A Study of Snail Shell Taphonomy to Determine what Traits Affect Shell Damage Across Multiple Species in Costa Rica (RRI Biological Sciences) | 10 | |||
| Arjun Srikanth | Subramaniam | 1st Award, Engineering Category | Think-to-Type: A Machine Learning Algorithm for the Classification of Different Letters Based on EEG Patterns (Engineering) | 10 | |||
| One-day immersive trip to Firebase to work on API project, TechLab Education | |||||||
| Justin Long | Xie | Certificate of Achievement and Letter to Teacher, Mu Alpha Theta | An expanded computer simulation of viral transmission in a real world model. (Bioinformatics) | 9 | |||
| Leo | Yu | Honorable Mention Student Award: $50 and Certificate of Achievement, Association for Computing Machinery, San Francisco Bay Area Professional Chapter | A Novel Machine Learning Model for Optimal Climate Projections (RRI Physical Sciences) | 12 | |||
| 1 certificate and possible trip to Arizona, ASU Walton Sustainability Solutions Initiatives | |||||||
| Certificate of Achievement and Letter to Teacher, Mu Alpha Theta | |||||||
| Certificate of Achievement, NOAA Medallion, and Letter, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration | |||||||