Los Gatos-Saratoga Union High School District
Project Awards 2020
Synopsys Silicon Valley Science and Technology Championship
| School | Teacher | Student | Award | Title | Gr | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Los Gatos High School | Cathy | Messenger | Tyler Christian | Adams | 3rd Place Award - $150 and Framed Certificate of Achievement, American Chemical Society, Silicon Valley, SVACS | Designing a Mesocellular Foam that Utilizes Functionalized-Amines to Capture Carbon Dioxide (Physical Science and Engineering) | 12 |
| Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Ananya | Aswani Kumar | $50 High School Plant Science (Amazon Gift Card), California Botanical Society | The effects of biochar treated soil on the ability of Escherichia coli to infect plants (Biological Science and Engineering) | 10 | |||
| Eleni Christine | Bauman | 2nd Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Designing a Submerged Bed Fungal Bioreactor to Degrade Polyethylene Microplastics for Water Treatment (Physical Science and Engineering) | 12 | |||
| Dylan Rose | Chin | Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair | Testing the Effect of Polyethylene Microplastics on Dinoflagellates (Biological Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| 1st Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Ashley | Dang | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Biodegradable Bioplastics from Starch and Mealworm-Derived (Tenebrio molitor) Chitin and Chitosan (Physical Science and Engineering) | 12 | |||
| Clara Maria | Hansen | Honorable Mention, Biological Science and Engineering Category | Examining the Effects of Water Temperature and Oxybenzone on the Bioluminescence and ROS of Marine Dinoflagellates (Biological Science and Engineering) | 10 | |||
| Madeline | Ho | Honorable Mention, Biological Science and Engineering Category | Testing the Effects of Broccoli and Broccoli-derived Glucoraphanin on Paralysis from B-Amyloid Aggregation in C. elegans (Biological Science and Engineering) | 10 | |||
| Alisha | Kalley | 2nd Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | Examination of Cow Ghee as a Neuroprotective Agent on C. elegans Exposed to Neurotoxin Bisphenol A (Biological Science and Engineering) | 10 | |||
| Nicole | Krockenberger | High School $50 and letter of recognition, Northern California Institute of Food Technologists (NCIFT) | Using In Vitro Gut Simulation to Evaluate the Effects of Various Dietary Fats on Human Gut Microbiota (Biological Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| Liam Sebastian | McHugh | Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair | Synthesis of Ultra Absorbent Microcrystalline Cellulose Aerogels for Efficient Oil Spill Cleanup (Physical Science and Engineering) | 12 | |||
| 1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Logan Walker | Morley | Honorable Mention, Biological Science and Engineering Category | The Effects of Chemical UV Filters on the Development of Drosophila melanogaster (Biological Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| Ryan | Mostafavi | Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair | The Use of Glandular Trichome Containing Plant Matter as Insecticides Against Ants (Biological Science and Engineering) | 10 | |||
| 1st Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Margaret | Radke | 2nd Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | Evaluating if sanguinarine and berberine can inhibit the TGF-B signalling pathway using transgenic C. elegans (Biological Science and Engineering) | 12 | |||
| Anoushka | Rao | Honorable Mention, Biological Science and Engineering Category | Examining the Effect of a PP2A Enhancer on the Locomotive Velocity of C. elegans in a Model of Neurofibrillary Tauopathy (Biological Science and Engineering) | 12 | |||
| Dawson Jingshi | Xuan | Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair | Using Drosophila melanogaster as a Model Organism for Artificial Social Hierarchy Creation (Biological Science and Engineering) | 10 | |||
| 1st Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Alex | Shultz | Stanley | Shen | GR 9-12: Honorable Mention, Certificate of Achievement, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) Intelligent Systems Award | Development of a Novel Machine Learning Model to Automate the Creation of Interchangeable Wings for Multipurpose UAVs (Physical Science and Engineering) | 9 | |
| Saratoga High School | Jill | McCrystal | Ishan | Kar | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | A new method to compute Hadamard product of two rational functions (Physical Science and Engineering) | 9 |
| Karen | Lei | $100 for Individual projects. $50 for each student for Team Projects, IBM Award | Characteristics and Identification of an Unknown 21 cm HI emission (Physical Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| First Place: Paperweight, Patch, Certificate and Office Tour, SETI Institute | |||||||
| Aileen | Liao | Honorable Mention, RRI Biological Science and Engineering Category | Microscopic orientation of early stage post-traumatic osteoarthritic articular cartilage. (RRI Biological Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| Nidhi | Mathihalli | Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair | An Application to help the Visually Impaired read Money using AI/Machine Learning (Physical Science and Engineering) | 9 | |||
| 1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| ASEI Silicon Valley Emerging Technology Membership to American Society of Engineers of Indian Origin, American Society of Engineers of Indian Origin Award | |||||||
| Ethan | Zuo | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Two-Phase Jet Impingement Cooling for Data Center High Power-Density Processors (Physical Science and Engineering) | 10 | |||
| Thomas | Wang | Aeshon | Balasubramanian | 1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Invasive Species Detector : A Novel, Portable Approach with Deep Learning (Physical Science and Engineering) | 10 | |
| Audrey | Warmuth | Isha | Jagadish | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Improving Awareness of the Visually Impaired with a Wearable Device Using Computer Vision, AI, and a Voice-Driven App (Physical Science and Engineering) | 9 | |
| ASEI Silicon Valley Emerging Technology Membership to American Society of Engineers of Indian Origin, American Society of Engineers of Indian Origin Award | |||||||