Los Gatos High School

Project Awards 2019

Synopsys Silicon Valley Science and Technology Championship

School	Teacher		Student		Award	Title	Gr
Los Gatos High School	Cathy	Messenger	Lubat	Asadova	2nd Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category	Testing the Effect of Heat Shock On the Behavior Response and on the Neuron Activity in C. Elegans (Biological Science and Engineering)	12
			Maciej	Buszko	Honorable Mention Student Award: $50 and Certificate of Achievement, Association for Computing Machinery, San Francisco Bay Area Professional Chapter	Swarm Navigation Control Systems for Connecting Tetrahedral Linear Actuator Robots (Physical Science and Engineering)	10
					2nd Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category
					Intel ECS Certificate of Achievement and Forms to Submit for $200, Intel Excellence in Computer Science Award
			Anna	Castello	Honorable Mention, Biological Science and Engineering Category	Testing the Efficacy of Coconut Oil and its Components in Protection Against Amyloid Toxicity in Transgenic C. elegans (Biological Science and Engineering)	12
			Dylan Rose	Chin	Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category	Ability of Ferrofluids to Remove Organophosphates from Ocean Water (Physical Science and Engineering)	10
					Certificate of Achievement, American Meteorological Society
			Zeeshaan	Chunawala	Honorable Mention, Biological Science and Engineering Category	Magnetization of Incorporated Iron Oxide Nanoparticles as a Method for Combatting Candida albicans Biofilm Growth (Biological Science and Engineering)	12
			Ana	Cismaru	1st Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category	Parkinson's Disease Classification via Convolutional Neural Networks using DaTscans (Biological Science and Engineering)	12
					Honorable Mention Certificate, Santa Clara County Biotech Education Partnership (SCCBEP)
			Ashley	Dang	3rd Place $75, Santa Clara Valley Water District	Removing Heavy Metals and Pathogens from Water Using Biosand Filters Containing Plant Biomass (Physical Science and Engineering)	11
					Certificate of Achievement and letter, Ricoh Corporation
					Certificate of Achievement and opportunity to advance to national and international competitions, Stockholm Junior Water Prize
			Kelly Sachi	Ferguson	Honorable Mention, Biological Science and Engineering Category	Testing for Abnormal Heart Rate as a Side Effect of Passiflora incarnata in Wingless Drosophila melanogaster (Biological Science and Engineering)	10
			Nicholas James	Hotelling	Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category	Estimating Volleyball Speed Real-time Using an Apple iPhone (Physical Science and Engineering)	10
			Ryan M	Judy	Honorable Mention, Biological Science and Engineering Category	Determining the effect of ascorbic acid on viability of drosophila melanogaster with developmental nicotine exposure (Biological Science and Engineering)	12
			Joshita	Kamalakannan	Honorable Mention, Biological Science and Engineering Category	Using Aronia melanocarpa Extract to Analyze the Effects of Antioxidant-Rich Foods on the Health Span of Drosophila (Biological Science and Engineering)	12
			Nicole	Krockenberger	1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category	Creating a Renewable and Biodegradable Bioplastic from Bambusa multiplex (Physical Science and Engineering)	10
			Emerson Laine	Martin	Honorable Mention, Biological Science and Engineering Category	Evaluating the Protective Effects of Cyanocobalamin and Methylcobalamin when C.elegans are exposed to Bisphenol-A (Biological Science and Engineering)	11
			Alice	Martynova	$100, Morgan Lewis	An Affordable, AI-Enhanced Device to Diagnosis Strep Throat and Prevent Rheumatic Fever in Developing Countries (Biological Science and Engineering)	12
					2nd Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category
			Liam Sebastian	McHugh	Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category	Engineering Magnetorheological Fluid for Optimal Performance in a Variable Compression Damper (Physical Science and Engineering)	11
			Beatrice Maria	Mihalache	1st Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category	Effects of Polyethylene Microbeads on Lactuca sativa var. Longifolia (Biological Science and Engineering)	10
			Annika Hope	Mittelhauser	Honorable Mention, Biological Science and Engineering Category	Can Air Pollution Damage Memory? Impact of Varying NO2 Exposure Times on Memory of Drosophila Melanogaster (Biological Science and Engineering)	12
					HS student - Certificate of Achievement, Medallion and $50 gift card, United States Navy and Marine Corps
			Ada Isabelle	Peschanskiy	Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category	Reducing Radio Frequency Exposure to Mobile Phone Users by Disabling WiFi, Mobile Data and Bluetooth During Phone Calls (Physical Science and Engineering)	11
			Justin Nicholas	Quan	Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category	Network of Checkpoints and RFID-Equipped Apparel for Campus Security and Nonintrusive Tracking in Schools (Physical Science and Engineering)	12
			Nishan Kuraparti	Reddy	2nd Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category	Testing the effects of the herbicide, Glyphosate, on motor neurons within C. elegans (Biological Science and Engineering)	10
			Greg W.	Santangeli	1st Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category	Effect of Dissolved Urea on the Reproductive Rate and ROS Production of Dinoflagellates Under Thermal Stress (Biological Science and Engineering)	12
					HS student - Certificate of Achievement, Medallion and $50 gift card, United States Navy and Marine Corps
			Christina E	Wong	2nd Award, RRI Biological Science and Engineering Category	Visualizing Tumor Heterogeneity and Predicting Metastasis with Machine Learning (RRI Biological Science and Engineering)	11