Harker School-Upper Campus
Project Awards 2016
Synopsys Silicon Valley Science and Technology Championship
| School | Teacher | Student | Award | Title | Gr | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Harker School-Upper Campus | Miriam | Allersma | Cameron Cole | Jones | Outstanding Sustainability Project. Weeklong I-SWEEEP Competition, I-SWEEEP | Laser Etching of Graphene Oxide to Create High Energy Density Micro-Supercapacitors (Physical Science and Engineering) | 9 |
| 1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| 3rd Place Award - $50, Popular Science Magazine Subscription and Framed Certificate of Achievement, ASM International, A Society for Materials, Santa Clara Valley Chapter | |||||||
| GR 9-12, 2nd Place: $70, Book, and Certificate of Achievement, T-Shirt, Tote bag, Society of Vacuum Coaters (SVC) | |||||||
| IEEE Electro-Technology $25 gift card and a certificate, Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers | |||||||
| Gary | Blickenstaff | Trisha | Dwivedi | Honorable Mention, Biological Science and Engineering Category | A Study of Calcium Channel Blockers and Zinc and Magnesium Supplements in Inhibiting Epileptic Conditions in C. Elegans (Biological Science and Engineering) | 11 | |
| Karena | Kong | ASEI Silicon Valley Emerging Technology Certificate of Achievement Award and Membership to American Society of Engineers of Indian Origin, ASEI Award | Visual-Based Cognitive Facial Expression Recognition Software with the Application of an AI Learning Algorithm (Physical Science and Engineering) | 10 | |||
| Linus | Li | ASEI Silicon Valley Emerging Technology Certificate of Achievement Award and Membership to American Society of Engineers of Indian Origin, ASEI Award | Visual-Based Cognitive Facial Expression Recognition Software with the Application of an AI Learning Algorithm (Physical Science and Engineering) | 10 | |||
| Kshithija | Mulam | Honorable Mention, Biological Science and Engineering Category | A Study of Calcium Channel Blockers and Zinc and Magnesium Supplements in Inhibiting Epileptic Conditions in C. Elegans (Biological Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| Derek | Yen | 2nd Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Comparing the viability of different plant materials for the creation of cellulose-derived biofuel (Physical Science and Engineering) | 10 | |||
| Anuran | Chatterjee (SSW mentor) | Kaushik | Shivakumar | 2nd Award, RRI Biological Science and Engineering Category | The Effects of Simulated Microgravity on Planarian Regeneration and the Use of Resolvin to Negate Them (RRI Biological Science and Engineering) | 9 | |
| Alexander | Young | 2nd Award, RRI Biological Science and Engineering Category | The Effects of Simulated Microgravity on Planarian Regeneration and the Use of Resolvin to Negate Them (RRI Biological Science and Engineering) | 9 | |||
| Kelly | Horan | Shreyas | Chandrashekaran | 1st Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | The effect of age on human thinking processes (Biological Science and Engineering) | 10 | |
| Eric | Nelson | Rajiv | Movva | $100 First Prize, Morgan Lewis | Concussion Detection: A Deep Learning-Assisted System to Detect Mild Traumatic Brain Injuries in Sports (Biological Science and Engineering) | 10 | |
| 2nd Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| $100 and a Certificate of Achievement, IBM Award | |||||||
| Cindy Xindi | Wang | 1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Drone Flight Path Charting with DJI Phantom 3 Professional and Google Maps Using Cubic Spline Interpolation (Physical Science and Engineering) | 9 | |||
| Katherine | Zhang | 1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Drone Flight Path Charting with DJI Phantom 3 Professional and Google Maps Using Cubic Spline Interpolation (Physical Science and Engineering) | 9 | |||
| Mike | Pistacchi | Winnie | Li | Honorable Mention Certificate, Santa Clara County Biotech Education Partnership (SCCBEP) | The Effects of Genetically Modified Food Supply on White Cabbage Butterfly Larvae (Biological Science and Engineering) | 11 | |
| Joyce | Zhao | Honorable Mention Certificate, Santa Clara County Biotech Education Partnership (SCCBEP) | The Effects of Genetically Modified Food Supply on White Cabbage Butterfly Larvae (Biological Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| Kate | Schafer | Emily Yue | Chen | 1st Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | Analyzing genetic relationships and linked treatment targets of obsessive-compulsive disorder and generalized anxiety (Biological Science and Engineering) | 10 | |
| Chris | Spenner | Sneha | Bhetanabhotla | Honorable Mention, RRI Physical Science and Engineering Category | Reducing Noise Level in High Temperature Superconducting SQUIDs (RRI Physical Science and Engineering) | 11 | |
| Jerry | Chen | 1st Award, RRI Biological Science and Engineering Category | Combating the Obesity Epidemic: Computational Analysis to Identify Driver Genes and Virtual Screening to Discover Novel (RRI Biological Science and Engineering) | 10 | |||
| Aditya | Dhar | 1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Predicting and Identifying Forced Human Displacement Hotspots Using Multiple Linear Regression and Neural Networks (Physical Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| Amy C | Dunphy | Grand Prize - Best of Championship - Physical Sciences - Trip to Intel ISEF and Plaque, Santa Clara Valley Science & Engineering Fair Assn - Board of Directors Awards - High School | Preventing Urushiol (Poison Oak)-Induced Dermatitis by Deactivating the Allergen (RRI Physical Science and Engineering) | 10 | |||
| 1st Place Award - $500 and Framed Certificate of Achievement, American Chemical Society, Santa Clara Valley | |||||||
| 1st Award, RRI Physical Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Rishab | Gargeya | Grand Prize - Best of Championship - Physical Sciences - Trip to Intel ISEF and Plaque, Santa Clara Valley Science & Engineering Fair Assn - Board of Directors Awards - High School | Automated Diagnosis of Diabetic Retinopathy in Fundus Images: A Novel Synthesis of Biological and Data Driven Approaches (RRI Physical Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| $1000 cash award for project demonstrating entrepeneurial promise., Muddu Family Entrepreneurial and Startup Award | |||||||
| 1st Award, RRI Physical Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| ASEI Silicon Valley Emerging Technology Certificate of Achievement Award and Membership to American Society of Engineers of Indian Origin, ASEI Award | |||||||
| Shasvat Atman | Jawahar | 2nd Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | Using Deep Learning Techniques to Evaluate the Effectiveness of Drug Combinations. (Biological Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| Amy | Jin | 1st Award, RRI Biological Science and Engineering Category | Combating the Obesity Epidemic: Computational Analysis to Identify Driver Genes and Virtual Screening to Discover Novel (RRI Biological Science and Engineering) | 10 | |||
| Krish | Kapadia | 1st Award, RRI Biological Science and Engineering Category | The Use of Salivary Lactic Acid Levels as a Noninvasive Biomarker for Sepsis (RRI Biological Science and Engineering) | 9 | |||
| Sumer | Kohli | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Towards Quicker Rehabilitation for Smokers: Determining a Mechanism By Which Menthol increases Addiction to Nicotine (Physical Science and Engineering) | 10 | |||
| Maya | Kumar | 2nd Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | A location-aware sensor-rich mobile robot for human interaction and guidance (Physical Science and Engineering) | 10 | |||
| $100 and Certificate of Achievement, Wireless Communications Alliance | |||||||
| IEEE Electro-Technology $25 gift card and a certificate, Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers | |||||||
| Jonathan | Ma | Grand Prize - Best of Championship - Biological Sciences - Trip to Intel ISEF and Plaque, Santa Clara Valley Science & Engineering Fair Assn - Board of Directors Awards - High School | Genomics-Based Cancer Drug Response Prediction through the Adaptive Elastic Net (RRI Biological Science and Engineering) | 12 | |||
| 1st Award, RRI Biological Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Sadhika S | Malladi | Grand Prize - Best of Championship - Biological Sciences - Trip to Intel ISEF and Plaque, Santa Clara Valley Science & Engineering Fair Assn - Board of Directors Awards - High School | Application of EMDomics to Identify Age-Associated Expression and Treatments in Cancer (RRI Biological Science and Engineering) | 12 | |||
| 1st Award, RRI Biological Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Neelesh Krishna | Ramachandran | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Towards Quicker Rehabilitation for Smokers: Determining a Mechanism By Which Menthol increases Addiction to Nicotine (Physical Science and Engineering) | 10 | |||
| Anjay | Saklecha | 1st Award, RRI Biological Science and Engineering Category | The Use of Salivary Lactic Acid Levels as a Noninvasive Biomarker for Sepsis (RRI Biological Science and Engineering) | 9 | |||
| Anooshree | Sengupta | 2nd Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | A location-aware sensor-rich mobile robot for human interaction and guidance (Physical Science and Engineering) | 10 | |||
| $100 and Certificate of Achievement, Wireless Communications Alliance | |||||||
| IEEE Electro-Technology $25 gift card and a certificate, Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers | |||||||
| Manan | Shah | Grand Prize - Best of Championship - Physical Sciences - Trip to Intel ISEF and Plaque, Santa Clara Valley Science & Engineering Fair Assn - Board of Directors Awards - High School | Automated Diagnosis of Diabetic Retinopathy in Fundus Images: A Novel Synthesis of Biological and Data Driven Approaches (RRI Physical Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| $1000 cash award for project demonstrating entrepeneurial promise., Muddu Family Entrepreneurial and Startup Award | |||||||
| 1st Award, RRI Physical Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| ASEI Silicon Valley Emerging Technology Certificate of Achievement Award and Membership to American Society of Engineers of Indian Origin, ASEI Award | |||||||
| Scott | Song | 1st Award, RRI Biological Science and Engineering Category | Development of a Novel Microfluidic System to Study Neurodegenerative Disorders (RRI Biological Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| Arjun | Subramaniam | 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) | 11 | |||
| Special Award: $75 and Certificate of Achievement, Varian Medical Systems | |||||||
| Raymond | Xu | 2nd Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | Using Deep Learning Techniques to Evaluate the Effectiveness of Drug Combinations. (Biological Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| Shaya | Zarkesh | Honorable Mention, Biological Science and Engineering Category | A Novel Distance Measure for Gene Sequence Clustering with Applications in Tree Construction and HIV-1 Classification (Biological Science and Engineering) | 10 | |||