Monta Vista High School
Project Awards 2017
Synopsys Silicon Valley Science and Technology Championship
| School | Teacher | Student | Award | Title | Gr | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Monta Vista High School | Sushma | Bana | Matthew Harrison | Park | 1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Energy Conservation Through Timely Sleep Detection with Mobile Devices (Physical Science and Engineering) | 10 |
| Jim | Birdsong | Bogdan | Kovtun | High School Finalist Certficate & Amazon.com gift certficate, Synopsys Outreach Foundation n+1 Prize | Utilizing Vortex Generating Perforations on Fixed-Wing Aircraft for Improving High Angle-of-Attack Performance (Physical Science and Engineering) | 9 | |
| High school - One packet with Letter, Certificate of Achievement, ONR Medallion, and form for $50 gift card, United States Navy and Marine Corps | |||||||
| Sean | Carroll (SSW mentor) | Siddhi | Shah | 2nd Award, RRI Biological Science and Engineering Category | The Effect of Glutamine Synthetase 2, a Glial-Specific Gene, on Long-Term Memory Formation in Drosophila (RRI Biological Science and Engineering) | 10 | |
| Pamela | Chow | Aadithya Ramana | Anumala | Honorable Mention, Biological Science and Engineering Category | Overexpression of p63 and p73 with E2F1 and pcDNA6/TR in yeast model of Breast Cancer effect on mortality with cisplatin (Biological Science and Engineering) | 10 | |
| Scott | DeRuiter | Pranav | Kumar | 3rd Place: $25 Cash and Certificate of Achievement, System Safety Society | Flood Escape App: An App That Shows the Quickest Route to Safety During a Flood (Physical Science and Engineering) | 9 | |
| Patrick | Yu | High School Finalist Certficate & Amazon.com gift certficate, Synopsys Outreach Foundation n+1 Prize | Never Lost: An App to Keep You On Track (Physical Science and Engineering) | 9 | |||
| Renee | Fallon | Hira Nisar | Ali | 1st Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | The Effect of Valeriana officinalis vs. L-Tyrosine on a Rotenone-Induced Drosophila Model for Parkinson's Disease (Biological Science and Engineering) | 10 | |
| Loren H | Chang | Honorable Mention, Biological Science and Engineering Category | Effect of different quantities of sodium hexametaphosphate on ampicillin resistance in E coli (Biological Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| Athena | Fung | 1st Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | Sodium Chloride: An Excitotoxin Triggering Neurodegeneration Through An Increased Na+/Ca2+ Influx Into Neuron (Biological Science and Engineering) | 9 | |||
| Aditi | Gnanasekar | 2nd Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | Pumping Up Security: Using Encryption and 2 FA to Secure Connected Medical Devices (Biological Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| Special Award: $75 and Certificate of Achievement, Varian Medical Systems | |||||||
| Advith | Gopinath | 1st Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | The Voice of Alzheimer's: Wearable Technology Coupled with Machine Learning to Track Alzheimer's Disease Progression (Biological Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| Vivek Vijay | Kamarshi | 1st Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | Effects of Gut Microbiota on Drosophila Models of Parkinson's Disease (Biological Science and Engineering) | 10 | |||
| 3rd Place Award - $75 and Certificate of Achievement, American Association for Laboratory Animal Science, Northern California Branch | |||||||
| Varun Chandra | Kodur | Honorable Mention, Biological Science and Engineering Category | The Effect of Acetic Vapor On Aspergillus Niger Growth On Allium Cepa L. Onion Slices (Biological Science and Engineering) | 9 | |||
| Harshita | Saha | Special Award: $75 and Certificate of Achievement, Varian Medical Systems | Dissolving Blood Clots with vibrations in localized areas for people diagnosed with thrombosis (Biological Science and Engineering) | 9 | |||
| Rujuta Samir | Sathe | 1st Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | Using PQQ mitochondrial biogenesis as a therapeutic approach towards the treatment for Neurodegenerative Disease (ALS) (Biological Science and Engineering) | 10 | |||
| Manav Jitesh | Shah | Packet of Bag, flash drive, car charger, and battery, United States Air Force | Redefining Patient-Specific Tumor Neo-Antigen Detection: Using Bacterial Quorum Sensing as a Lung Cancer Biomarker (Biological Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| Karan Vivek | Sharma | Honorable Mention, Biological Science and Engineering Category | Effect of different quantities of sodium hexametaphosphate on ampicillin resistance in E coli (Biological Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| Vikas Vinayak | Srinivasa | Honorable Mention, Biological Science and Engineering Category | Effect of different quantities of sodium hexametaphosphate on ampicillin resistance in E coli (Biological Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| Sydney | Ty | 2nd Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | Pumping Up Security: Using Encryption and 2 FA to Secure Connected Medical Devices (Biological Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| Special Award: $75 and Certificate of Achievement, Varian Medical Systems | |||||||
| William | Xu | Packet of Bag, flash drive, car charger, and battery, United States Air Force | How does the humidity in the soil affect the amount of energy produced by the bacteria in the Microbial Fuel Cell? (Physical Science and Engineering) | 9 | |||
| Gina | Yang | 2nd Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | Investigating Colony Collapse Disorder: Synergistic Effects of In-hive Miticides on the Health of Honeybees A. mellifera (Biological Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| Plaque and $100 check, and Compete for $1000 Outstanding Young Scientist Award, California Association of Professional Scientists (CAPS) | |||||||
| Ashley Kalishia | Yeh | Honorable Mention: Certificate of Achievement, and Goody Bag, Association for Women in Science, Palo Alto Chapter | The Effects of NAD+ on a Drosophila Melanogaster Model of Cognitive Decline. (Biological Science and Engineering) | 9 | |||
| Michelle Yue | Zhu | 2nd Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | A novel, inexpensive, portable, medication and vaccine refrigeration device for use in developing countries (Physical Science and Engineering) | 9 | |||
| Packet of Bag, flash drive, car charger, and battery, United States Air Force | |||||||
| Debbie | Frazier | Anika | Cheerla | 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 | Mitosis Detection and Tumor Grading Using Deep Convolutional Neural Networks (RRI Physical Science and Engineering) | 10 | |
| 1st Award, RRI Physical Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Nikhil | Cheerla | 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 | Mitosis Detection and Tumor Grading Using Deep Convolutional Neural Networks (RRI Physical Science and Engineering) | 12 | |||
| 1st Award, RRI Physical Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Andrew | Goldenkranz | Triya | Roy | 2nd Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | The affect concentrations of pollutants and amount of food source on Daphnia's sensitivity to toxins. (Physical Science and Engineering) | 9 | |
| Aditya Sunil | Shah | $100 and Certificate of Achievement, Wireless Communications Alliance | Smart Wildfire Sensor: Automated Fuel Size Detection and Classification using Neural Networks for Prediction of Wildfire (Physical Science and Engineering) | 10 | |||
| Sanjana Viral | Shah | $100 and Certificate of Achievement, Wireless Communications Alliance | Smart Wildfire Sensor: Automated Fuel Size Detection and Classification using Neural Networks for Prediction of Wildfire (Physical Science and Engineering) | 10 | |||
| David | Greenstein | Ashmita | Rajkumar | 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 | MedHack: The Impact of Malware Attack upon Biomedical Devices (RRI Biological Science and Engineering) | 11 | |
| 2nd Award, RRI Biological Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Pooya | Hajjarian | Carl | Rosenthal | 1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | A Gel-Based Combination of Pyriproxyfen and Hydroprene Insect Growth Regulators for the Control of Blattella Germanica. (Physical Science and Engineering) | 10 | |
| Kathleen | Koch | Alex Bakshi | Richardson | 2nd Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | Taking notes by hand vs typing and its affects on learning (Biological Science and Engineering) | 9 | |
| Lora | Lerner | Daria Vasilievna | Syskine | 1st Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | Non-social Butterflies: Effects of Social Learning on Flower Foraging in the nonsocial Cabbage Butterfly (Pieris rapae) (Biological Science and Engineering) | 11 | |
| Michael | Lordan | Matthew | Cho | Grand Prize Student Award: $640 and Certificate of Achievement, Association for Computing Machinery, San Francisco Bay Area Professional Chapter | Strategic Decision Making Utilizing Neural Networks Trained with Optimal Patterns from Reinforcement Learning (Physical Science and Engineering) | 9 | |
| Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| $50 cash award and certificate, Bruce Kawanami Engineering Award | |||||||
| Rohit Venkatasai | Tanikella | Certificate of Achievement, United States Public Health Service | Relationship Between Self-Efficacy and Cognitive Anxiety on Cognitive Performance (Biological Science and Engineering) | 9 | |||
| Skip | Mueller | Raj Sekhar Reddy | Palleti | 1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | What Factors Determine an Eulerian Polygon? A Computer-Inspired Analysis (Physical Science and Engineering) | 9 | |
| Suhas | Prasad | 1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | What Factors Determine an Eulerian Polygon? A Computer-Inspired Analysis (Physical Science and Engineering) | 9 | |||
| Ted | Shinta | Kyle John | Ettinger | High School Finalist Certficate & Amazon.com gift certficate, Synopsys Outreach Foundation n+1 Prize | Automated targeting and firing of Multirotor Disabling Technology (Physical Science and Engineering) | 11 | |
| 1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| High school - One packet with Letter, Certificate of Achievement, ONR Medallion, and form for $50 gift card, United States Navy and Marine Corps | |||||||
| Honorable Mention: Certificate of Achievement, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) Intelligent Systems Award | |||||||
| Gautham Reddy | Gujjula | Outstanding Sustainability Project. Weeklong I-SWEEEP Competition, I-SWEEEP | Demystifying Electromagnetic Coupling Within Antenna Arrays (RRI Physical Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| 2nd Award, RRI Physical Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Best Project: $50, Certificate of Achievement, and Voucher for a Safe Boating Course, United States Coast Guard Auxiliary | |||||||
| Ashvin Saikumar | Irrinki | High School Finalist Certficate & Amazon.com gift certficate, Synopsys Outreach Foundation n+1 Prize | Improving the Human Gait for One-Legged Amputees with a Synergetic Prosthesis (Biological Science and Engineering) | 9 | |||
| Honorable Mention, Biological Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Jahan | Razavi | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | A Ground Topography Detection System for the Blind (Physical Science and Engineering) | 9 | |||
| Nilay | Sawant | 2nd Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | FitBox: A Smart Diet Controlling Container for Type 2 Diabetes (Physical Science and Engineering) | 12 | |||
| Jon | Stark | Christian W. | Chiong | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Analyzing the likelihood and composition of planets orbiting Herbig Ae/Be stars using only low resolution instruments (Physical Science and Engineering) | 10 | |
| Certificate of Achievement plus Letter, Mu Alpha Theta | |||||||
| Eric | Yang | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Analyzing the likelihood and composition of planets orbiting Herbig Ae/Be stars using only low resolution instruments (Physical Science and Engineering) | 10 | |||
| Certificate of Achievement plus Letter, Mu Alpha Theta | |||||||