Valley Christian High School
Project Awards 2015
Synopsys Silicon Valley Science and Technology Championship
| School | Teacher | Student | Award | Title | Gr | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Valley Christian High School | Rita | Huff | Joshua Paul | Bevis | 2nd Award, Zoology Category | The Effect of Drought on the Skeletal Development of Danio Rerio (Zebrafish) (Zoology) | 11 |
| Charley | Bi | 1st Award, Biochemistry / Microbiology Category | How Bacterially Secreted Intrinsic Factor affects Vitamin B12 Transfer (Biochemistry / Microbiology) | 11 | |||
| Amy | Bugwadia | 2nd Award, Biochemistry / Microbiology Category | Determining optimal level of 11B-HSD2 for healthy fetal neural development (Biochemistry / Microbiology) | 11 | |||
| Austin Won | Chang | 1st Award, Biochemistry / Microbiology Category | How Bacterially Secreted Intrinsic Factor affects Vitamin B12 Transfer (Biochemistry / Microbiology) | 11 | |||
| Nathan Ryan | Chang | 2nd Award, Zoology Category | The Effect of Drought on the Skeletal Development of Danio Rerio (Zebrafish) (Zoology) | 11 | |||
| Angie Luan | Chen | 2nd Award, Biochemistry / Microbiology Category | Determining optimal level of 11B-HSD2 for healthy fetal neural development (Biochemistry / Microbiology) | 11 | |||
| Rishi Pulin | Desai | Honorable Mention Student Award: $50 and Certificate of Achievement, Association for Computing Machinery, San Francisco Bay Area Professional Chapter | Efficient Programming Through Natural Language Processing (Computers / Mathematics) | 10 | |||
| Honorable Mention, Computers / Mathematics Category | |||||||
| One-day immersive trip to Firebase to work on API project, TechLab Education | |||||||
| Niharika | Desaraju | 2nd Award, Zoology Category | Drosophila melanogaster's immunity/longevity of life with daily supplements of regular probiotics (Zoology) | 10 | |||
| Thomas | Fahrner | Honorable Mention Student Award: $50 and Certificate of Achievement, Association for Computing Machinery, San Francisco Bay Area Professional Chapter | Efficient Programming Through Natural Language Processing (Computers / Mathematics) | 12 | |||
| Honorable Mention, Computers / Mathematics Category | |||||||
| One-day immersive trip to Firebase to work on API project, TechLab Education | |||||||
| Cooper | Ge | 1st Award, Biochemistry / Microbiology Category | How Bacterially Secreted Intrinsic Factor affects Vitamin B12 Transfer (Biochemistry / Microbiology) | 11 | |||
| Jessica | Macmillan | 1st Award, Engineering Category | Amoeba Filtration through native clothing and materials (Engineering) | 12 | |||
| $50 and Certificate of Achievement, The Kerry Veenstra Awards | |||||||
| Pavithra | Margabandu | Honorable Mention, Biochemistry / Microbiology Category | Will oxidative stress cause the accumulation of alpha synuclein, increase markers of lipid peroxidation, and apoptosis in dopaminergic neurons. (Biochemistry / Microbiology) | 11 | |||
| Charles | Nijmeh | 3rd Place Award - $125 and Certificate of Achievement, American Association for Laboratory Animal Science, Northern California Branch | Mechanisms to Increase Temozolomide Efficacy in Astrocytoma Cells (Biochemistry / Microbiology) | 11 | |||
| Gerrit C-Y. Luk | Orthlieb | 3rd Place Award - $125 and Certificate of Achievement, American Association for Laboratory Animal Science, Northern California Branch | Mechanisms to Increase Temozolomide Efficacy in Astrocytoma Cells (Biochemistry / Microbiology) | 12 | |||
| Malathi | Tuers | Priscilla | Lee | Honorable Mention, Biochemistry / Microbiology Category | Crystal Ball? (Biochemistry / Microbiology) | 9 | |