Los Gatos High School
Project Awards 2015
Synopsys Silicon Valley Science and Technology Championship
| School | Teacher | Student | Award | Title | Gr | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Los Gatos High School | Cathy | Messenger | Michela | Gori | 3rd Place - $50, Framed Certificate of Achievement, and Popular Science Magazine Subscription, SAMPE - Society for the Advancement of Material and Process Engineering | The Transformation of Casein into Biodegradable Plastic (Engineering) | 12 |
| 3rd Place Award - $50, Popular Science Magazine Subscription and Framed Certificate of Achievement, ASM International, A Society for Materials, Santa Clara Valley Chapter | |||||||
| Individual: $30 and Book, The ROD Women in Science Award | |||||||
| Noah Paul | Gundotra | Honorable Mention Certificate, Santa Clara County Biotech Education Partnership (SCCBEP) | Comprehensive Prediction of Protein Structures Using Foldit (Bioinformatics) | 10 | |||
| Ilian Hodges | Herzi | 2nd Award, Biochemistry / Microbiology Category | The Effects of Various Chemoattractants on Chemotaxis-Movement Behavior of Escherichia coli and Bacillus subtilis in a Circulatory Modeled System (Biochemistry / Microbiology) | 12 | |||
| Shomik | Jain | 2nd Award, Chemistry Category | Is Your Sunscreen Safe? A study of sunscreens with photocatalytic particles, their ability to produce hydroxyl radicals in pools, and the effect of these particles on chlorination. (Chemistry) | 11 | |||
| Leron | Perez | 2nd Award, Engineering Category | Cost-Effective Prosthetics: Utilization of Artificial Muscles in a 3D Printed Arm (Engineering) | 12 | |||
| Sarah Elizabeth | Shaw | 2nd Award, Ecology Category | The Effect of Mycorrhizae on Reducing Drought Stress on Lolium perenne (Ecology) | 10 | |||
| Connor Lawton | Tinsley | 2nd Place Award - $100 Cash and Certificate of Achievement, American Society of Civil Engineers | Storm Drain Filter For Removal of Common Suburban Pollutants Found in Rainwater Run-off (Engineering) | 10 | |||
| Certificate of Achievement; if registered, medal, subscription & opportunity to advance to national competition for trip to Stockholm, Stockholm Junior Water Prize | |||||||
| Chinmay Manish | Vaidya | Honorable Mention Student Award: $50 and Certificate of Achievement, Association for Computing Machinery, San Francisco Bay Area Professional Chapter | An In Vitro Study of The Mitigation of Atherosclerosis via Magnetic Hyperthermia (Engineering) | 12 | |||
| IEEE Award for Electro-Technology ($50 and Framed Certificate), Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers | |||||||
| Olivia Lynn | Woodford-Berry | High School Finalist Certficate, The Synopsys Outreach Foundation n+1 Prize | A Novel Approach to Improving Drought Tolerance: The Effects of Biochar on Crop Yield (Botany) | 12 | |||
| 1st Award, Botany Category | |||||||
| Elina B. | Yon | 1st Award, Ecology Category | Effects of Pistia stratiotes Phytoremediation of Nitrogen and Phosphorus, and Effects of Nitrogen and Phosphorus Enriched Pistia Stratiotes as Organic Mulch Fertilizer on growth of Lactua sativa (Ecology) | 10 | |||
| Anne | Zepecki | Honorable Mention Student Award: $50 and Certificate of Achievement, Association for Computing Machinery, San Francisco Bay Area Professional Chapter | Girls Learn Code - A Lesson in Java for Teenage Girls (Computers / Mathematics) | 11 | |||