Monta Vista High School
Project Awards 2016
Synopsys Silicon Valley Science and Technology Championship
| School | Teacher | Student | Award | Title | Gr | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Monta Vista High School | Pamela | Chow | Julia Hayoung | Cho | 2nd Award, RRI Biological Science and Engineering Category | Genetically encoded bioluminescence resonance energy transfer (BRET)-based Ca2+ indicator for in vivo imaging (RRI Biological Science and Engineering) | 12 |
| Certificate of Achievement and ONR Medallion, United States Navy and Marine Corps | |||||||
| Kamya | Krishnan | 1st Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | The effect of sucralose on the growth of gut microbiota (Biological Science and Engineering) | 9 | |||
| Krishna | Sunder | 2nd Award, RRI Biological Science and Engineering Category | The effect of ARHGAP28 on human airway smooth muscle contraction (RRI Biological Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| Scott | DeRuiter | Advith | Gopinath | Grand Prize Student Award: $640 and Certificate of Achievement, Association for Computing Machinery, San Francisco Bay Area Professional Chapter | The Voice of Alzheimer's: An App That Can Diagnose Alzheimer's Disease (Biological Science and Engineering) | 10 | |
| Arjun | Subramonian | 4th Place Student Award: $120 and Certificate of Achievement, Association for Computing Machinery, San Francisco Bay Area Professional Chapter | A New Software Approach to Music Transposition through Image Processing (Physical Science and Engineering) | 10 | |||
| Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Renee | Fallon | Shreyas Keshav | Bharadwaj | Honorable Mention, Biological Science and Engineering Category | The Effect of Varying Salinity on the Rate of Growth of Antibiotic Resistant E. Coli versus Non-Resistant E Coli. (Biological Science and Engineering) | 9 | |
| Sanjana Sandip | Borle | $100 First Place, Certificate of Achievement, and Letter, Inez M. Lechner Award | Pool Disinfectants and Our Respiratory Health: The Safety of Sodium-Hypochlorite, -Bromate, and Potassium Iodide (Biological Science and Engineering) | 9 | |||
| Ankita | Chatterjee | 1st Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | Detection of Alzheimer's and Parkinson's Disease Utilizing the Morphometry of Cortical Gyrification (Biological Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| Zunera | Ghalib | Honorable Mention, RRI Biological Science and Engineering Category | Effects of Altering Polyphosphate in Rotenone-induced Drosophila Models of Parkinson's Disease (RRI Biological Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| Aditi | Gnanasekar | 1st Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | A Study of Precocious Puberty Resulting from Obesity on the Likelihood of Suffering from Dysthymia and Using Ketoconazol (Biological Science and Engineering) | 10 | |||
| Vivek Vijay | Kamarshi | 1st Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | Effect of Heat-Sensing Mutations on Voluntary Fevering in Drosophila melanogaster (Biological Science and Engineering) | 9 | |||
| Neelufar | Raja | Honorable Mention, Biological Science and Engineering Category | The Effect of Rock and Classical Music on Cortisol Levels, Heart Rate, and Perceived Stress in Adolescents (Biological Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| Certificate of Achievement, American Psychological Association | |||||||
| Rujuta Samir | Sathe | 1st Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | Diagnosing neurodegenerative diseases: Using Levamisole (hydrochloride) to test for neurodegeneration in C.elegans. (Biological Science and Engineering) | 9 | |||
| 1st Place Award - $175 and Certificate of Achievement, American Association for Laboratory Animal Science, Northern California Branch | |||||||
| Manav Jitesh | Shah | 2nd Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | IBD and Colorectal Cancer: Limiting E. Coli Colon Dominance During Intestinal Dysbiosis with a Human Gut Inflamed Model (Biological Science and Engineering) | 10 | |||
| Shreya | Thiagarajan | First place High School-Cash Award-$75 and certificate, Northern California Institute of Food Technologists (NCIFT) | Synergism Between Organic Compounds and Bacteria-Derived Nisin as an Alternative to Antibiotics Against Food Pathogens (Biological Science and Engineering) | 10 | |||
| Sydney | Ty | 1st Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | A Study of Precocious Puberty Resulting from Obesity on the Likelihood of Suffering from Dysthymia and Using Ketoconazol (Biological Science and Engineering) | 10 | |||
| Gina | Yang | High School Finalist Certficate & Amazon.com gift certficate, The Synopsys Outreach Foundation n+1 Prize | Effects of tau-Fluvalinate on Mortality and Olfactory Associative Learning and Memory of Honeybees (Apis mellifera L.) (Biological Science and Engineering) | 10 | |||
| 1st Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| 3rd Place Award - $75 and Certificate of Achievement, American Association for Laboratory Animal Science, Northern California Branch | |||||||
| First Place: $100, Certificate of Achievement, and Goody Bag, Association for Women in Science, Palo Alto Chapter | |||||||
| Plaque and $100 check, and Compete for $1000 Outstanding Young Scientist Award, California Association of Professional Scientists (CAPS) | |||||||
| Claire | Zhang | 1st Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | Fighting Antibiotic Resistance: An Evaluation of Menthol as a Curing Agent of Low Copy Resistance Plasmids in E.coli (Biological Science and Engineering) | 10 | |||
| Debbie | Frazier | Anika | Cheerla | 2nd Award, RRI Biological Science and Engineering Category | Automated Prediction of Future Breast Cancer Occurrence from Non-Cancerous Mammograms (RRI Biological Science and Engineering) | 9 | |
| Special Award: $75 and Certificate of Achievement, Varian Medical Systems | |||||||
| Shirley | Qi | 1st Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | Agent-based Program for Bee Pollination (Biological Science and Engineering) | 9 | |||
| Sanjana Viral | Shah | 1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Smart Flood Sensor: detect, analyze, and predict water accumulation in city's drainage system (Physical Science and Engineering) | 9 | |||
| $50 and Certificate of Achievement, The Kerry Veenstra Awards | |||||||
| Certificate of Achievement and ONR Medallion, United States Navy and Marine Corps | |||||||
| Certificate of Achievement; if registered, medal, subscription & opportunity to advance to national competition for trip to Stockholm, Stockholm Junior Water Prize | |||||||
| IEEE Electro-Technology $25 gift card and a certificate, Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers | |||||||
| Kaushik | Tandon | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | H.A.W.K. Machine Learning Algorithm for Hate Speech Detection (Physical Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| 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 | |||||||
| David | Greenstein | Ravi Nikhil | Bhatt | 1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Improved GPS Navigation By Learning Drivers' Routes and Preferences (Physical Science and Engineering) | 9 | |
| Ashmita | Rajkumar | 3rd Place Student Award: $160 and Certificate of Achievement, Association for Computing Machinery, San Francisco Bay Area Professional Chapter | A Novel Approach to an Intrusion Detection System: Detecting intrusions within a Home Network (Physical Science and Engineering) | 10 | |||
| Anurag | Singh | Honorable Mention Student Award: $50 and Certificate of Achievement, Association for Computing Machinery, San Francisco Bay Area Professional Chapter | Wearable Device to Enable Independent Living for Senior Citizens (Physical Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| $100 and a Certificate of Achievement, IBM Award | |||||||
| Kavita | Gupta | Anish G | Krishnan | Second Place: University of Toronto "Swag Bag", University of Toronto Award | Gasping Grizzly: An Innovative Cost-Efficient System to Detect the Scent of Lung Cancer and Diabetes. (Physical Science and Engineering) | 11 | |
| Sajeev | Saluja | 2nd Award, RRI Biological Science and Engineering Category | Computational analysis of Als3 amyloid-like aggregation in Candida albicans (RRI Biological Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| Pooya | Hajjarian | Hira Nisar | Ali | Honorable Mention, Biological Science and Engineering Category | The Effects of Toxins on Daphnia: E-Cigarettes vs. Traditional Cigarettes (Biological Science and Engineering) | 9 | |
| William | Hsu | Honorable Mention, Biological Science and Engineering Category | Predicting Influenza A Virulence from Phenotypic Marker Combinations Using Machine Learning (Biological Science and Engineering) | 10 | |||
| Michael | Wan | Honorable Mention, Biological Science and Engineering Category | Predicting Influenza A Virulence from Phenotypic Marker Combinations Using Machine Learning (Biological Science and Engineering) | 10 | |||
| Kathleen | Koch | Vivian | Chiang | Grand Prize Alternate - Physical Sciences - Trip to State Science Fair and Plaque, Santa Clara Valley Science & Engineering Fair Assn - Board of Directors Awards - High School | Motion Detection in Video Surveillance (Physical Science and Engineering) | 10 | |
| 1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Lora | Lerner | Aadithya Ramana | Anumala | Honorable Mention, Biological Science and Engineering Category | What is the Effect of Increasing CSF Flow, Adding Saline, and Removing Blood on Intracranial Pressure during an SAH? (Biological Science and Engineering) | 9 | |
| Daria Vasilievna | Syskine | 2nd Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | The Price of Predation: The Effects of Low-light Stress on the Electrical Short-Term Memory of Dionaea muscipula (Biological Science and Engineering) | 10 | |||
| Kathleen | McCarty | Heather | Migdal | Certificate of Achievement, American Psychological Association | The effect of externally regulated extrinsic motivation on academic performance (Biological Science and Engineering) | 9 | |
| Ted | Shinta | Kyle John | Ettinger | 1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Multiroter Disabling Technology (Physical Science and Engineering) | 10 | |
| IEEE Electro-Technology $25 gift card and a certificate, Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers | |||||||
| Gautham Reddy | Gujjula | Certificate of Achievement, Ricoh Corporation | Cooking Fire Prevention System (Physical Science and Engineering) | 10 | |||
| Priscilla | Siow | 2nd Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Thermoelectric Powered Heart Rate Monitor (Physical Science and Engineering) | 10 | |||
| Gift Card and Certificate of Achievement, Society of Women Engineers | |||||||