Harker School-Upper Campus
Project Awards 2019
Synopsys Silicon Valley Science and Technology Championship
| School | Teacher | Student | Award | Title | Gr | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Harker School-Upper Campus | Thomas | Artiss | Betsy | Tian | Honorable Mention, RRI Physical Science and Engineering Category | The Location of Fe II Emission in AGNs and the Response of Fe II Emission to Changes in the Continuum (RRI Physical Science and Engineering) | 10 |
| Anita | Chetty | Sahil | Jain | IEEE Electro-Technology $50 gift card and a certificate, Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers | Binary Classification for Entity Linking Disambiguation with TFIDF Vectorization and SVM Linear Models (RRI Physical Science and Engineering) | 11 | |
| Anu | Datar | Alice | Feng | 2nd Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | DeepGuide: A Deep Learning Based Mobile System to Assist Visually Impaired Pedestrians To Cross Intersections (Physical Science and Engineering) | 9 | |
| Certificate of Achievement, System Safety Society | |||||||
| Krishay | Mukhija | High School Finalist Certficate & $50 barnesandnoble.com gift certficate, Synopsys Outreach Foundation n+1 Prize | Using Deep Learning Techniques to Develop Novel Inhibitors of Tyrosine Kinase (Physical Science and Engineering) | 10 | |||
| 1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Srivishnu | Pyda | High School Finalist Certficate & $50 barnesandnoble.com gift certficate, Synopsys Outreach Foundation n+1 Prize | Using Deep Learning Techniques to Develop Novel Inhibitors of Tyrosine Kinase (Physical Science and Engineering) | 10 | |||
| 1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Matthew | Harley | Kavita S | Murthy | $100 Certificate of Achievement, Inez M. Lechner Award | The Amount of Heat-resistant Escherichia coli Found in Organically and Conventionally Grown Spinacia oleracea (Biological Science and Engineering) | 9 | |
| High School $50 and letter of recognition, Northern California Institute of Food Technologists (NCIFT) | |||||||
| Andrew | Irvine | Harper Lee | Forbes | Honorable Mention, Biological Science and Engineering Category | Investigation of Compounds responsible for scorpion fluorescence and cuticle light sensitivity (Biological Science and Engineering) | 10 | |
| 1st Place $125 and Certificate of Achievement, American Association for Laboratory Animal Science, Northern California Branch | |||||||
| Prakrit | Jain | Honorable Mention, Biological Science and Engineering Category | Investigation of Compounds responsible for scorpion fluorescence and cuticle light sensitivity (Biological Science and Engineering) | 9 | |||
| 1st Place $125 and Certificate of Achievement, American Association for Laboratory Animal Science, Northern California Branch | |||||||
| Smriti | Koodanjeri | Aditi | Ghalsasi | Grand Prize Alternate - Physical Sciences - Trip to State Science Fair and Certificate, Santa Clara Valley Science & Engineering Fair Assn - Board of Directors Awards - High School | A Novel Approach to Creating Ideal 3D-Printable Polymers via Functionalization of PCL (RRI Physical Science and Engineering) | 11 | |
| $100, Morgan Lewis | |||||||
| 3rd Place Award - $200 and Framed Certificate of Achievement, American Chemical Society, Silicon Valley, SVACS | |||||||
| 2nd Award, RRI Physical Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| 2nd Place Award - $75 and Certificate of Achievement, ASM International, A Society for Materials, Santa Clara Valley Chapter | |||||||
| 2nd place HS student - $50 and Certificate of Achievement, American Vacuum Society, Northern CA | |||||||
| Eric | Nelson | Shray | Alag | 2nd Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Applying Natural Language Processing to Mine Clinical Trials Data to Extract Unique Insights about Diseases, Drugs, SNPs (Physical Science and Engineering) | 10 | |
| Rishab Xinrui | Parthasarathy | $500 to the winning student or team in high school Bio Science, Synopsys Outreach Foundation n+1 Prize | SkinSight: A Novel Implementation of a Convolutional Neural Network to Recognize Skin Diseases (Biological Science and Engineering) | 9 | |||
| High School Finalist Certficate & $50 barnesandnoble.com gift certficate, Synopsys Outreach Foundation n+1 Prize | |||||||
| 1st Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Katherine Feifei | Zhang | 1st Award, RRI Biological Science and Engineering Category | Multiple Disease Prediction with Machine Learning on Large Microbiome Metagenomic Datasets (RRI Biological Science and Engineering) | 12 | |||
| William | Zhao | $500 to the winning student or team in high school Bio Science, Synopsys Outreach Foundation n+1 Prize | SkinSight: A Novel Implementation of a Convolutional Neural Network to Recognize Skin Diseases (Biological Science and Engineering) | 9 | |||
| High School Finalist Certficate & $50 barnesandnoble.com gift certficate, Synopsys Outreach Foundation n+1 Prize | |||||||
| 1st Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Mike | Pistacchi | Michael Chen | Eng | Honorable Mention, RRI Biological Science and Engineering Category | Role of Host Cell Receptors in the Uptake of the Fungus Candida Albicans (RRI Biological Science and Engineering) | 10 | |
| Anika | Fuloria | Honorable Mention, RRI Physical Science and Engineering Category | Vibrotactile Rendering of Virtual Sculptures Using Wave Voxel Synthesis (RRI Physical Science and Engineering) | 10 | |||
| Jason Chen | Lin | Certificate of Achievement, American Psychological Association | The Role of Relational Reasoning in College Student Learning (RRI Biological Science and Engineering) | 10 | |||
| Barbara | Schremp | Arya | Maheshwari | 2nd Award, RRI Physical Science and Engineering Category | Automated Classification of a Mysterious Population of "Weak CN" Stars in the Andromeda Galaxy (RRI Physical Science and Engineering) | 10 | |
| Chris | Spenner | Cynthia | Chen | Grand Prize - Best of Championship - Biological Sciences - Trip to Intel ISEF and Certificate, Santa Clara Valley Science & Engineering Fair Assn - Board of Directors Awards - High School | Decoding Neural Networks: Novel Computational Methods to Discover Anti-Tumor B-Cell Receptor Binding Motifs (RRI Biological Science and Engineering) | 11 | |
| 1st Award, RRI Biological Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Allison Sihan | Jia | Grand Prize - Best of Championship - Biological Sciences - Trip to Intel ISEF and Certificate, Santa Clara Valley Science & Engineering Fair Assn - Board of Directors Awards - High School | Modeling Neurodegeneration in vitro: A Dynamic Study of Tau in a Microfluidic Chamber System Via Quantum Dot Labeling (RRI Biological Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| 1st Award, RRI Biological Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Certificate of Achievement, Society for In Vitro Biology | |||||||
| Ruhi | Sayana | Grand Prize - Best of Championship - Biological Sciences - Trip to Intel ISEF and Certificate, Santa Clara Valley Science & Engineering Fair Assn - Board of Directors Awards - High School | Precision Care for Cancer: Discovery of Novel Therapeutics for High-Risk ALL via Epigenetic and Computational Profiling (RRI Biological Science and Engineering) | 12 | |||
| $100, Morgan Lewis | |||||||
| 1st Award, RRI Biological Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Elizabeth | Szeto | 2nd Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | The Effectiveness of Raw and Treated Cotton and Kapok Fibers for Oil Spill Cleanup (Physical Science and Engineering) | 10 | |||
| Jeff | Sutton | Sasvath | Ramachandran | 1st Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | The Effects of UVA Radiation on Hypsibius dujardini Reproduction Capabilities (Biological Science and Engineering) | 9 | |
| Aditya | Tadimeti | 1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | The Effects of Different Aquatic Environments on the Rate of Polyethylene Biodegradation by Bacillus subtilis (Physical Science and Engineering) | 10 | |||