San Jose Unified School District

Project Awards 2016

Synopsys Silicon Valley Science and Technology Championship

School	Teacher		Student		Award	Title	Gr
Allen at Steinbeck	Nikita	Gettu	Isabella	Hilton	Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category	What is the Effect of Weight on Gravitational Forces in Different Roller Coaster Elements? (Physical Science and Engineering)	6
Harte (Bret) Middle School	Deborah	Loeb	Nikhil	Chandra	Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category	Noise level reduction using bent tubes embedded in sound proofing materials (Physical Science and Engineering)	7
Leland High School	Mark	Cahn	Alexandria Marie	Sochocki	Honorable Mention: Certificate of Achievement, and Goody Bag, Association for Women in Science, Palo Alto Chapter	Quality of the Surface Water in the Almaden Valley (Biological Science and Engineering)	9
	Tracy	Hall	Ali-Asghar	Heera	2nd Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category	The Race to Finish: An Inquiry on how the Human Mind Perceives Merging versus Splitting (Biological Science and Engineering)	12
					Certificate of Achievement, American Psychological Association
			Luke	Hong	2nd Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category	The Race to Finish: An Inquiry on how the Human Mind Perceives Merging versus Splitting (Biological Science and Engineering)	12
					Certificate of Achievement, American Psychological Association
	Youssef	Ismail (SSW mentor)	Brian	Ng	$100 First Place, Certificate of Achievement, and Letter, Inez M. Lechner Award	Autonomous Stress Detection using Electromyography (RRI Physical Science and Engineering)	9
	Karen	Lee	Justin	Callahan	Certificate of Achievement, American Meteorological Society	California Drought and El Nino: A study of the effects of drought and El Nino on fertility of the topsoil (Physical Scie (Physical Science and Engineering)	10
					Certificate of Achievement; if registered, medal, subscription & opportunity to advance to national competition for trip to Stockholm, Stockholm Junior Water Prize
			Jonathan	Li	First Place: One Week DEEP Summer Academy at the University of Toronto, Std Residence Package, and Travel Stipend, University of Toronto Award	What is the most cost effective and practical method of dissolving active oxygen in unsafe drinking water. (Physical Science and Engineering)	10
			Ujjaini	Mukhopadhyay	Certificate of Achievement, American Meteorological Society	California Drought and El Nino: A study of the effects of drought and El Nino on fertility of the topsoil (Physical Scie (Physical Science and Engineering)	10
					Certificate of Achievement; if registered, medal, subscription & opportunity to advance to national competition for trip to Stockholm, Stockholm Junior Water Prize
	Jeff	Lutze	Ryan	Lee	Honorable Mention Student Award: $50 and Certificate of Achievement, Association for Computing Machinery, San Francisco Bay Area Professional Chapter	Testing the randomness of computer-generated random numbers (Physical Science and Engineering)	10
San Jose Middle College	David	Clark	Gajan R.	Nagaraj	2nd Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category	Water: Drought or Deluge (Physical Science and Engineering)	11
					Certificate of Achievement, American Meteorological Society
					Certificate of Achievement; if registered, medal, subscription & opportunity to advance to national competition for trip to Stockholm, Stockholm Junior Water Prize