Los Gatos-Saratoga Union High School District

Project Awards 2021

Synopsys Silicon Valley Science and Technology Championship

School	Teacher		Student		Award	Title	Gr
Los Gatos High School	Cathy	Messenger	Ananya	Aswanikumar	Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair	The Effects of Vitamin B2 on Dexamethasone Induced Depression in C. elegans of different age groups (Biological Science and Engineering)	11
					2nd Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category
			Cameron Nicole	Bosio-Kim	Honorable Mention, Biological Science and Engineering Category	The effects of PM2.5 concentrations on Drosophila with and without a microbiota concerning glucose metabolism (Biological Science and Engineering)	11
			Rodrigo	Cantu Valadez	Exceptional Merit, Certificate, SPV Market Research "Most Promising Young Scientist"	Using aerogel to increase efficiency and power output by lowering panel temperature in photovoltaic Gratzel cells (Physical Science and Engineering)	10
					IEEE Electro-Technology $50 gift card and a certificate, Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers
			Christina	Dorofeev	2nd Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category	Machine learning model for reducing background noise in gravitational wave data from LIGO/Virgo interferometers (Physical Science and Engineering)	11
			Kamron Reza	Emami	Honorable Mention, Biological Science and Engineering Category	Creating a low cost model for home plastic degradation utilizing the readable available fungi (Biological Science and Engineering)	10
			Kelly Sachi	Ferguson	Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category	Creating a Bioleather out of Acetic Acid Bacteria and Osmophilic Yeast Species and Copernicia prunifera Wax (Physical Science and Engineering)	12
			Manasi	Gajjalapurna	Honorable Mention, Biological Science and Engineering Category	The effects of beta-carotene and retinol palmitate on beta-amyloid toxicity in C. elegans to model Alzheimer's disease (Biological Science and Engineering)	10
			Clara Maria	Hansen	Honorable Mention, Biological Science and Engineering Category	Examining the effects of curcumin and olive oil on Neurofibromatosis Type 1 (NF1) in Drosophila melanogaster (Biological Science and Engineering)	11
			Herin	Kang	Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category	Recycling energy in data centers with the application of Thermoelectric Generators (TEGs) (Physical Science and Engineering)	11
					IEEE Electro-Technology $50 gift card and a certificate, Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers
			Nicole	Krockenberger	Honorable Mention, Biological Science and Engineering Category	The Effects of Particulate Matter Air Pollutants on Human Lung Microbiota as a Possible Cause for Asthma (Biological Science and Engineering)	12
			Serine Whasun	Kugler	2nd Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category	Testing Different Concentrations of (+) Catechin Hydrate on the Suppression of Parkinson's disease in a Drosophila Model (Biological Science and Engineering)	11
			Letizia	Pastore	Honorable Mention, Biological Science and Engineering Category	Testing the effect of indole 3-carbinol on the aggregation of dhs-3 protein in C.elegans strain LIU1. (Biological Science and Engineering)	10
			Faris	Raza	$100 for Individual projects, IBM Award	Development of Motion-Tracking Gloves to Automate the Real-Time Translation of American Sign Language to Spoken English (Physical Science and Engineering)	10
					HS student - Certificate of Achievement, Medallion and business card to complete award ($50 gift card) and letter of congratulations, United States Navy and Marine Corps
			Stanley	Shen	1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category	Developing A Novel Two Stage Mapping Method for the Visually Impaired (Physical Science and Engineering)	10
			Adrina	Tang	2nd Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category	Examining the effect of Vitamin C and E on the motor function of SOD-1 mutant C. elegans modeling ALS (Biological Science and Engineering)	12
Saratoga High School	Janny	Cahatol	Rishi	Gupta	2nd Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category	An application to help users identify IgE cross reactivity based on sequence identity (Biological Science and Engineering)	10
			Riya	Gupta	Grand Prize - Best of Championship - Biological Sciences - Qualified to be a Regeneron ISEF Finalist - $500 Cash, Santa Clara Valley Science & Engineering Fair Assn - Board of Directors Awards - High School	Analyzing Gene Expression Data to Identify Biomarkers for Infectious and Autoimmune Diseases (RRI Biological Science and Engineering)	11
					Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair
					1st Award, RRI Biological Science and Engineering Category
			Ishan	Kar	Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair	Novel Approach to Convolution in the Frequency Domain (Physical Science and Engineering)	10
					Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category
			Ethan Sun	Zuo	Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category	Optimization Of Novel Two-phase Jet Impingement Cooling for Practical Datacenter Implementation with CFD and Experiments (Physical Science and Engineering)	11
	Thomas	Wang	Aeshon	Balasubramanian	2nd Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category	Engineering an Affordable and Compact Social Distancing and Obstacle Avoidance Device for the Blind (Physical Science and Engineering)	11
			Nidhi	Mathihalli	Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair	A Physical Device to Help the Visually Impaired Read Money Using AI/Machine Learning in Third World Countries (Physical Science and Engineering)	10
					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