Saratoga High School

Project Awards 2016

Synopsys Silicon Valley Science and Technology Championship

School	Teacher		Student		Award	Title	Gr
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