BASIS Independent Silicon Valley School

Project Awards 2016

Synopsys Silicon Valley Science and Technology Championship

School	Teacher		Student		Award	Title	Gr
BASIS Independent Silicon Valley School	Kevyn	Adams	Andrew	Chiang	$125 + certificate + a signed book + breakfast with Bob Zeidman, Zeidman Award	Force Sensing Techniques for Robotic Arms (Physical Science and Engineering)	7
					Nominated to compete envelope, Broadcom MASTERS - 7th Grade
					1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category
					IEEE Electro-Technology $50 gift card and a certificiate, Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers
	Sean	Carroll (SSW mentor)	Mithil	Chakraborty	Honorable Mention, Biological Science and Engineering Category	Evaluation of the Antibiotic Properties of Tomatine using Daphnia Magna (Biological Science and Engineering)	7
	Pooya	Hajjarian	Christopher	He	Honorable Mention, Biological Science and Engineering Category	Predicting Influenza A Virulence from Phenotypic Marker Combinations Using Machine Learning (Biological Science and Engineering)	10
	Anuradha	Murthy	Sophia L	Cha	2nd Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category	Drought Buster: Kaolin Soil Amendments and Irriguous Earth (Physical Science and Engineering)	7
			Mihir	Godbole	2nd Place - $75, Framed Certificate of Achievement, and Popular Science Magazine Subscription, SAMPE - Society for the Advancement of Material and Process Engineering	Making Bioplastics (Physical Science and Engineering)	8
			Shiven	Gupta	2nd Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category	R. I. P - Replace Infrared with an iPhone (Physical Science and Engineering)	9
			Shivek	Narang	2nd Place Award - $200 and Framed Certificate of Achievement, American Chemical Society, Santa Clara Valley	The Effect of Salt on Saccharomyces cerevisiae (Biological Science and Engineering)	7
					2nd Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category