Los Gatos-Saratoga Union High School District
Project Awards 2018
Synopsys Silicon Valley Science and Technology Championship
| School | Teacher | Student | Award | Title | Gr | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Los Gatos High School | Cathy | Messenger | Tyler Christian | Adams | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Wind Energy Harvesting by use of Piezoelectric Materials and Vortex Induced Vibrations (VIV) (Physical Science and Engineering) | 10 |
| Eleni Christine | Bauman | Honorable Mention, Biological Science and Engineering Category | Testing the Effectiveness of NSAIDs in Protection Against Amyloid-beta toxicity in Caenorhabditis elegans. (Biological Science and Engineering) | 10 | |||
| First Place: $100, Certificate of Achievement, and Goody Bag, Santa Clara County Biotech Education Partnership (SCCBEP) | |||||||
| Special Award: $75 and Certificate of Achievement, Varian Medical Systems | |||||||
| Christian Robin | Bout | Certificate of Achievement, American Meteorological Society | The Effects of Ocean Acidification on the Growth and Health of Trochus Snails (Physical Science and Engineering) | 10 | |||
| Certificate of Achievement, NOAA Medallion, and letter, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration | |||||||
| Sydney Anne | Brown | $100 and Certificate of Achievement, Schonert Award | Ecofriendly Oil Spill Clean Up: A Comparison of the Efficiency of Oil Absorption by the Leaves of Selected Trichomes (Physical Science and Engineering) | 12 | |||
| A certificate, chance to apply to the Genius Olympiad, NY, Genius Olympiad-State University of New York, Oswego | |||||||
| Outstanding Project: Certificate of Achievement and Voucher for a Safe Boating Course. Completion of Course Awards Additional $50., United States Coast Guard Auxiliary | |||||||
| Victoria Leth | Carlson | 2nd Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | Testing the Effects of the Rambo Micklem Competition Bridle on Equus Caballus Dressage Scores (Biological Science and Engineering) | 10 | |||
| Zeeshaan | Chunawala | 2nd Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | Determining the Efficacy of Essential Oils as Natural Antibiotic Substitutes and their Incorporation in Common Products (Biological Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| Ana | Cismaru | 2nd Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | Testing the Effects of Fipronil on Motor Neuron Degeneration in C. elegans (Biological Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| Gwendolyn Izabel | Erdosh | Honorable Mention, Biological Science and Engineering Category | Comparing the Retention of Scent Aversion Through Metamorphosis in V. cardui and M. sexta (Biological Science and Engineering) | 12 | |||
| Julia Isabel | Hansen | Honorable Mention, Biological Science and Engineering Category | The Effect of Ammonium Chloride on the Reproductive Behavior of Daphnia Magna (Biological Science and Engineering) | 10 | |||
| 3rd Place Award - $75 and Certificate of Achievement, American Association for Laboratory Animal Science, Northern California Branch | |||||||
| Caitlin | Huang | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Combining a Neural Network with a Decision Tree Model to Forecast the Federal Funds Rate (Physical Science and Engineering) | 12 | |||
| Certificate of Achievement plus Letter, Mu Alpha Theta | |||||||
| Shomil | Jain | Certificate of Achievement and letter, Ricoh Corporation | Solar-Powered Water Purification through a Portable & Cost-Efficient Vapor Compression Distillation Apparatus (Physical Science and Engineering) | 12 | |||
| Certificate of Achievement and opportunity to advance to national and international competitions, Stockholm Junior Water Prize | |||||||
| Charlotta Giselle | Lebedenko | $ 500 to the winning student or team in high school Bio Science, Synopsys Outreach Foundation n+1 Prize | Evaluating the Effects of Artificial Sweeteners and Caffeine on Human Gut Microbiota to Prevent Glucose Intolerance (Biological Science and Engineering) | 12 | |||
| High School Finalist Certficate & Amazon.com gift certficate, Synopsys Outreach Foundation n+1 Prize | |||||||
| 1st Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| First Place: $100, Certificate of Achievement, and Goody Bag, Association for Women in Science, Palo Alto Chapter | |||||||
| High School-Cash Award-$50 and letter of recognition, Northern California Institute of Food Technologists (NCIFT) | |||||||
| Emmy Laine | Martin | Honorable Mention, Biological Science and Engineering Category | Oxybenzone Toxicity Study on the Reproductive Rates of Drosophila (Biological Science and Engineering) | 10 | |||
| Alice | Martynova | Grand Prize - Best of Championship - Physical Sciences - Trip to Intel ISEF and Certificate, Santa Clara Valley Science & Engineering Fair Assn - Board of Directors Awards - High School | Using Generative Adversarial Networks to Enhance an Affordable Microscope for Epidemic Prevention in Developing Areas (Physical Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| $100 First Prize, Morgan Lewis | |||||||
| First Place: One Week DEEP Summer Academy at the University of Toronto, Std Residence Package, and Travel Stipend, University of Toronto Award | |||||||
| 1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Liam Sebastian | McHugh | GR 9-12, 2nd Place: $200 and Framed Certificate of Achievement, Society of Vacuum Coaters (SVC) | The Use of Rubidium Cations to Economically Produce Perovskite Solar Cells (Physical Science and Engineering) | 10 | |||
| 2nd Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Plaque and letter of invitation to Tour of Stanford Chemistry Department Labs, Stanford University Chemistry Department | |||||||
| Avi | Patel | 2nd Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | A Study of the Variation of Metallicities in Galaxy Clusters with Relation to their Morphologies (Physical Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| Justin | Quan | Honorable Mention Student Award: $50 and Certificate of Achievement, Association for Computing Machinery, San Francisco Bay Area Professional Chapter | Intelligent Switch Employing Modular Sensors For Improved Power Control With a Focus on Energy Efficiency (Physical Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| 1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| $100 and Certificate of Achievement, Trimble Award | |||||||
| 5 Students will be awarded a check for $100 each, IBM Award | |||||||
| IEEE Electro-Technology $50 gift card and a certificate, Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers | |||||||
| Yukino | Torrey | 1st Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | The effect of the Phytoestrogen Genistin, estrogen therapy on Fragile-X Drosophila Melanogaster. (Biological Science and Engineering) | 12 | |||
| Tuong | Tran | 2nd Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | Comparing the effects of Gingko Biloba and Donepezil on Amyloid Beta Toxicity using Trans C.elegans Model in AD Research (Biological Science and Engineering) | 12 | |||
| Honorable Mention Certificate, Santa Clara County Biotech Education Partnership (SCCBEP) | |||||||
| Wilma L | Wei | Plaque and letter of invitation to Tour of Stanford Chemistry Department Labs, Stanford University Chemistry Department | Testing Combinations of Plasticizer and Carrageenan Extract from Rhodymenia To Form a Biodegradable and Flexible Polymer (Physical Science and Engineering) | 10 | |||
| Christina E | Wong | 2nd Place Student Award: $400 and Certificate of Achievement, Association for Computing Machinery, San Francisco Bay Area Professional Chapter | Creating an Android App for Gait Synchronization via Music Therapy (Physical Science and Engineering) | 10 | |||
| Saratoga High School | Jill | McCrystal | Aayush | Gupta | 1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Generating CT images from MRI images and vice versa (Physical Science and Engineering) | 12 |
| ASEI Silicon Valley Emerging Technology Certificate of Achievement Award and Membership to American Society of Engineers of Indian Origin, American Society of Engineers of Indian Origin Award | |||||||
| Raj | Janardhan | 1st Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | The Effect of Music On The Brain Using Machine Learning (Biological Science and Engineering) | 10 | |||
| Sohini | Kar | 1st Award, RRI Physical Science and Engineering Category | Factorizing Delayed Powers of Generalized Fibonacci Sequence (RRI Physical Science and Engineering) | 12 | |||
| Sohil | Pokharna | Third Place: University of Toronto "Swag Bag", University of Toronto Award | Super fast wireless charging of smartphones (Physical Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| $100 and Certificate of Achievement, Wireless Communications Alliance | |||||||
| Kiran | Rachamallu | 2nd Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | A Novel Method of Screening for Parkinson's (Biological Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| Arian | Raje | 2nd Award, RRI Biological Science and Engineering Category | Predicting the Biological Mechanisms in Protein-Protein Interactions Using Paired Feature Boosting (RRI Biological Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||