Los Gatos-Saratoga Union High School District
Project Awards 2016
Synopsys Silicon Valley Science and Technology Championship
| School | Teacher | Student | Award | Title | Gr | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Los Gatos High School | Cathy | Messenger | Reid Alexander | Barton | 1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Perovskite Crystals: A Bright Future in Solar Cell Technology (Physical Science and Engineering) | 12 |
| 1st place MS student - $100 and Certificate of Achievement, American Vacuum Society, Northern CA | |||||||
| 2nd Place Award - $75, Popular Science Magazine Subscription and Framed Certificate of Achievement, ASM International, A Society for Materials, Santa Clara Valley Chapter | |||||||
| Scott Alexander | Bout | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Novel Wing Design That Creates Proverse Yaw Without The Use Of Rudders Or A Vertical Stabilizer (Physical Science and Engineering) | 10 | |||
| Shomik | Jain | 2nd Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | WaterMind: An Algorithm-Based iOS Application That Determines and Monitors Your Daily Water Intake (Physical Science and Engineering) | 12 | |||
| Shomil | Jain | 1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Developing an Artificial Turf Field with Embedded Thermoelectric Generators for Heat Absorption & Electricity Generation (Physical Science and Engineering) | 10 | |||
| Mason Christopher | Julian | Honorable Mention, Biological Science and Engineering Category | Fabricating an LED Based Phototherapy Device for Treatment of Neonatal Hyperbilirubinemia (Biological Science and Engineering) | 12 | |||
| Sanjay Asher | Mohan | 1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Application of Artificial Neural Networks in Handwritten Text Processing (Physical Science and Engineering) | 12 | |||
| ASEI Silicon Valley Emerging Technology Certificate of Achievement Award and Membership to American Society of Engineers of Indian Origin, ASEI Award | |||||||
| One-day immersive trip to Firebase to work on API project, TechLab Education | |||||||
| Gautam | Prabhu | 2nd Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | Predicting Evolution of Resistance Mutations to NRTI Drugs in HIV-1 Using Computational and Statistical Methods (Biological Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| Violet India | Wallerstein | Honorable Mention: Certificate of Achievement, and Goody Bag, Association for Women in Science, Palo Alto Chapter | The Effect of Resveratrol on the Lifespan of Nutritionally Stressed Drosophila (Biological Science and Engineering) | 12 | |||
| Elina | Yon | 1st Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | The Effects of Silicate Applications on Drought Tolerance and Growth of Lolium perenne and Lactuca sativa var Longifolia (Biological Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| Saratoga High School | Dennis | Bua (SSW Mentor) | Chengzi | Guo | 2nd Award, RRI Biological Science and Engineering Category | Determine how the opportunistic pathogen Candida glabrata is resistant to antifungal agents when other yeast are not (RRI Biological Science and Engineering) | 10 |
| Jill | McCrystal | Aayush | Gupta | Honorable Mention, RRI Biological Science and Engineering Category | A novel method for combination drug toxicity prescription recommendation using protein-drug interactome signatures (RRI Biological Science and Engineering) | 10 | |
| Sohil | Pokharna | High School Finalist Certficate & Amazon.com gift certficate, The Synopsys Outreach Foundation n+1 Prize | Affordable incubator leveraging thermal energy storage and Peltier devices for thermoregulation of neonatal preemies (Biological Science and Engineering) | 9 | |||
| $100 First Place, Certificate of Achievement, and Letter, Inez M. Lechner Award | |||||||
| IEEE Electro-Technology $25 gift card and a certificate, Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers | |||||||
| Karthik | Ramachandran | ASEI Silicon Valley Emerging Technology Certificate of Achievement Award and Membership to American Society of Engineers of Indian Origin, ASEI Award | Overdose Watch: Tracking Medicine Consumption and Drug Interactions using NFC tags and NIH databases (Physical Science and Engineering) | 10 | |||
| Chris | Spenner | Rishi | Veerapaneni | Honorable Mention, RRI Biological Science and Engineering Category | AdaptSet: A Novel Synthesis of Deep Learning and Level Set for Segmentation of Cancer Lesions (RRI Biological Science and Engineering) | 12 | |
| Special Award: $75 and Certificate of Achievement, Varian Medical Systems | |||||||