San Jose Unified School District

Project Awards 2017

Synopsys Silicon Valley Science and Technology Championship

School	Teacher		Student		Award	Title	Gr
Allen at Steinbeck	Kim	Moritz	Xenia	Torres	Honorable Mention - Framed Certificate of Achievement and Popular Science Magazine, SAMPE - Society for the Advancement of Material and Process Engineering	How Does Heat Transfer Through Metals vs. Alloys? (Physical Science and Engineering)	7
Harte (Bret) Middle School	Jill	Fischer	Nethra	Srinivasan	Middle school - One packet with Letter, Certificate of Achievement, and ONR Medallion, United States Navy and Marine Corps	Fluid Mechanics: The Effects of Temperature on a Liquid's Viscosity (Physical Science and Engineering)	7
	Jenna	Patton	Nikhil	Chandra	BBC Microbit development kit, TechLab Education	Iot Water Leak Alarm: Delivers an email to a connected user immediately upon detection of a water leak (Physical Science and Engineering)	8
			Parthiv	Seetharaman	BBC Microbit development kit, TechLab Education	Iot Water Leak Alarm: Delivers an email to a connected user immediately upon detection of a water leak (Physical Science and Engineering)	8
Leland High School	Mark	Cahn	Ujjaini	Mukhopadhyay	2nd Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category	Mindset or Aptitude: What drives the learning ability of high school students? (Biological Science and Engineering)	11
					Certificate of Achievement, United States Public Health Service
	Karen	Davis	Wesley	Luh	Outstanding Project: Certificate of Achievement and Voucher for a Safe Boating Course, United States Coast Guard Auxiliary	Optimizing Machine Learning Based Ocean Oil Spill Detection using Genetic Algorithm Techniques (RRI Physical Science and Engineering)	10
	Karen	Lee	Jonathan B	Li	Honorable Mention: Certificate of Achievement, T-Shirt, Society of Vacuum Coaters (SVC)	Fabricating a modified dye-sensitized solar cell (DSSC) using a novel fast-ion conduction electrolyte layer (Physical Science and Engineering)	11
					2nd Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category
			Vedha	Santhosh	1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category	The Effect of Using Biodegradable Coagulants on Domestic Wastewater Treatment to Promote Water Conservation (Physical Science and Engineering)	9
	Jeff	Lutze	Samantha Yan	Cheung	First Place: $100, Certificate of Achievement, and Goody Bag, Santa Clara County Biotech Education Partnership (SCCBEP)	The Investigation of the Prevalence of the Wolbachia Gene in Arthropods from Cities of the Bay Area (Biological Science and Engineering)	12
			Ryan	Lee	BBC Microbit development kit, TechLab Education	A self-contained file Encryptor based on the Arduino platform (Physical Science and Engineering)	11
			Theodora	Worledge	Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category	The role of spontaneous symmetry breaking in the initial formation of ski moguls (Physical Science and Engineering)	11
					IEEE Electro-Technology $50 gift card and a certificate, Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers
	Wilson	Yen	Muhammad	Anas	BBC Microbit development kit, TechLab Education	Classroom Behavioral Management Tool (Physical Science and Engineering)	12
Lincoln High School	Dana	Buller	Edward	Ross	2nd Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category	Got Moisture? Could surface treatments of uninsulated concrete slab foundations eliminate indoor moisture accumulation (Physical Science and Engineering)	10
					2nd Place Award - $100 Cash and Certificate of Achievement, American Society of Civil Engineers- San Jose Branch
San Jose Middle College	David	Clark	Gajan	Nagaraj	1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category	A Novel Fire Hazard Autodetect System for Vents, Pipes, and Chimneys. (Physical Science and Engineering)	12
					2nd Place: $50 Cash and Certificate of Achievement, System Safety Society