Monta Vista High School
Project Awards 2019
Synopsys Silicon Valley Science and Technology Championship
| School | Teacher | Student | Award | Title | Gr | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Monta Vista High School | Jim | Birdsong | Akash | Dasgupta | Honorable Mention, RRI Physical Science and Engineering Category | Low-temperature Methods for Creating Stable, Optimal Efficiency Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells and Perovskite Solar Cells (RRI Physical Science and Engineering) | 10 |
| Bogdan | Kovtun | 2nd Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | The Future of Unmanned Aircraft Systems: A Novel, Cost-Effective, Modular UAS Concept (Physical Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| Steven | Long | 2nd Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | The Future of Unmanned Aircraft Systems: A Novel, Cost-Effective, Modular UAS Concept (Physical Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| Raj S. | Palleti | 1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | What Dimensional Isomorphisms Extend the Eulerian Sequence? A Computer-Inspired Analysis (Physical Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| Certificate of Achievement plus Letter, Mu Alpha Theta | |||||||
| Suhas | Prasad | 1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | What Dimensional Isomorphisms Extend the Eulerian Sequence? A Computer-Inspired Analysis (Physical Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| Certificate of Achievement plus Letter, Mu Alpha Theta | |||||||
| Katie | Collins | Iris Xinran | Xia | 2nd Award, RRI Physical Science and Engineering Category | The Effects of Burrowing Animals and Mass Extinctions on Marine Ecosystems Through Earth History (RRI Physical Science and Engineering) | 11 | |
| John | Conlin | Matthew | Cho | Honorable Mention Student Award: $50 and Certificate of Achievement, Association for Computing Machinery, San Francisco Bay Area Professional Chapter | A novel device for detecting objects using artificial intelligence and sound localization for the visually impaired (Physical Science and Engineering) | 11 | |
| Scott | DeRuiter | Fiona Lin | Luo | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Soil Contamination Detection and Identification through Soil Spectroscopy using Deep Convolutional Neural Networks (Physical Science and Engineering) | 10 | |
| Gautham | Raghupathi | Honorable Mention, RRI Physical Science and Engineering Category | Tracking Clathrin-Mediated Endocytosis in Stem Cells via Segmentation with Deep 4D Convolutional Neural Networks (RRI Physical Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| Rohit Venkatasai | Tanikella | 1st Award, RRI Biological Science and Engineering Category | Diagnosing Mental Disorders in 9-10 year olds using MRI scans and Deep Learning (RRI Biological Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| Claire Qi-Yue | Wen | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Soil Contamination Detection and Identification through Soil Spectroscopy using Deep Convolutional Neural Networks (Physical Science and Engineering) | 10 | |||
| Renee | Fallon | Ramya | Chamkeri | 2nd Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | Effect of Mixture with Varying Ratios of Manuka Honey to Silver Nanoparticles on Biofilm Formation of Micrococcus Luteus (Biological Science and Engineering) | 9 | |
| Myung Suh | Choi | 2nd Place Award - $300 and Framed Certificate of Achievement, American Chemical Society, Silicon Valley, SVACS | Comparing the photoprotection capabilities of the phytochemical anthocyanin to oxybenzone in commercial sunscreen (Biological Science and Engineering) | 9 | |||
| 2nd Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Seung Ah | Choi | 2nd Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | Increasing the Efficiency of the Topical Medication Triamcinolone Acetonide in the Oral Cavity (Biological Science and Engineering) | 10 | |||
| $100, IBM Award | |||||||
| Ashvin Saikumar | Irrinki | Honorable Mention, Biological Science and Engineering Category | A Novel Biomarker for Detecting CTE Utilizing TDP-43 Aggregated Deposits in Relation to Elevated Tau Concentration (Biological Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| Vivek Vijay | Kamarshi | 1st Award, RRI Biological Science and Engineering Category | Cellular Pathways for Increasing Fusion and Decreasing Replication of Varicella Zoster Virus (RRI Biological Science and Engineering) | 12 | |||
| Zechen | Liu | Honorable Mention, Biological Science and Engineering Category | The effect of salinity on the nitrogen-fixation effects of Azospirillum Brasilense (Biological Science and Engineering) | 9 | |||
| Aishwarya | Manoj | Honorable Mention, Biological Science and Engineering Category | The effects of propylene glycol on heart rate in Daphnia Magna (Biological Science and Engineering) | 9 | |||
| Jordan Arfai | Naddaf | HS student - Certificate of Achievement, Medallion and $50 gift card, United States Navy and Marine Corps | Increased Airborne Zinc Concentration and the Onset of Anosmia using Drosophila melanogaster (Biological Science and Engineering) | 10 | |||
| James | Ouyang | Honorable Mention, Biological Science and Engineering Category | The Healing Abilities of Antioxidants on Drosophila with Blue Light Induced Photoreceptor Degeneration (Biological Science and Engineering) | 10 | |||
| Rhea | Rai | Honorable Mention, Biological Science and Engineering Category | Effect of Potassium Nitrate on Growth of Escherichia Coli (Biological Science and Engineering) | 9 | |||
| Samika | Swamy | 1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | CogniGuard: A novel, herb-based treatment for protection against neurotoxicity from lead pollution. (Physical Science and Engineering) | 9 | |||
| Jonah | Tien | Honorable Mention, Biological Science and Engineering Category | Measuring the Effect of Varying Electrical Current Frequencies on Controlled Stimulation of Cephalopod Chromatophores (Biological Science and Engineering) | 9 | |||
| Alexander Kailong | Wu | Honorable Mention, Biological Science and Engineering Category | In vitro models of meningeal lymphatic clearance on diffusion across the blood cerebrospinal fluid barrier (Biological Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| William Na | Yang | $100, Morgan Lewis | Separating and counting red blood cells using microfluidic magnetophoresis, phone imaging, and machine learning analysis (Biological Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| Megha Reddy | Yengoti | 2nd Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | Effect of Mixture with Varying Ratios of Manuka Honey to Silver Nanoparticles on Biofilm Formation of Micrococcus Luteus (Biological Science and Engineering) | 10 | |||
| David | Greenstein | Janya | Budaraju | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Using Predictive Analytics to More Effectively Determine the Impact of Earthquakes on Mortality & Infrastructure (Physical Science and Engineering) | 10 | |
| Grace | Kuo | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Using Predictive Analytics to More Effectively Determine the Impact of Earthquakes on Mortality & Infrastructure (Physical Science and Engineering) | 10 | |||
| Safaa Aicha | Mouline | Honorable Mention, Biological Science and Engineering Category | Application that Enhances Comprehension of Real Time Speech for People with Auditory Processing Disorder (Biological Science and Engineering) | 10 | |||
| $50 and Certificate of Achievement, Kerry Veenstra Awards | |||||||
| ASEI Silicon Valley Emerging Technology Membership to American Society of Engineers of Indian Origin, American Society of Engineers of Indian Origin Award | |||||||
| First Place: $100, Certificate of Achievement, and Goody Bag, Association for Women in Science, Palo Alto Chapter | |||||||
| Pooya | Hajjarian | Pratya | Poosala | Honorable Mention, Biological Science and Engineering Category | Testing whether the use of simulated laboratory experiments correlates to increased understanding of concepts (Biological Science and Engineering) | 11 | |
| Purnima | Venkat | Honorable Mention, Biological Science and Engineering Category | Testing whether the use of simulated laboratory experiments correlates to increased understanding of concepts (Biological Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| Kyle | Jones | Devin | Gupta | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | The Effects of Cellulose/Polypyrrole Composite on Energy Retention Rates in Specialized Paper Thin Batteries (Physical Science and Engineering) | 9 | |
| Joe | Kim | Audrey Yining | Cui | $500 and Certificate for Best grade 9-12 entry for Software Engineering amongst girls, Synopsys - Society of Women Engineers | From Pixels to Paragraph: A Deep Artwork Passage Generator (Physical Science and Engineering) | 11 | |
| 2nd Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Rushil | Saha | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | A Novel Approach to Image Registration with Fourier Transforms for Improved Accuracy and Efficiency (Physical Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| Cody | King | Tom | Zhang | 1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Real Time Prediction of Vehicle Steering Angles using Convolutional Networks and Computer Vision on Dashcam Video (Physical Science and Engineering) | 11 | |
| Kathleen | Koch | Mahit Vishnusai | Tanikella | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Human Protein Atlas Image Classification (Physical Science and Engineering) | 9 | |
| Kathleen | McCarty | Rishi Ramji | Pankhaniya | 1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | A Portable Pollen Counter (Physical Science and Engineering) | 9 | |
| Mia | Onodera | Anjali | Singh | $500 and Certificate for Best grade 9-12 entry for Electrical Engineering amongst girls, Synopsys - Society of Women Engineers | Creating Adversarial Examples for Face Recognition Algorithms to Secure Privacy of Online Photographs (Physical Science and Engineering) | 10 | |
| David | Taylor | Phillip | Chau | 3rd place HS student - $25 and Certificate of Achievement, American Vacuum Society, Northern CA | Deposition and Characterization of Ultra Thin Zinc Oxide Films (RRI Physical Science and Engineering) | 12 | |
| Honorable Mention Award and Certificate of Achievement, ASM International, A Society for Materials, Santa Clara Valley Chapter | |||||||