Monta Vista High School

Project Awards 2011

Synopsys Silicon Valley Science and Technology Championship

School	Teacher		Student		Award	Title	Gr
Monta Vista High School	Scott	DeRuiter	Anirudh Nagesh	Suvarna	2nd Award, Earth / Space Sciences Category	Comparison of the Via Lactea 2 Simulation to the Andromeda Galaxy (Earth / Space Sciences)	11
	Kavita	Gupta	Angela	Zhang	Grand Prize - Best of Championship - Biological Sciences - Trip to Intel ISEF, Santa Clara Valley Science & Engineering Fair Assn - Board of Directors Awards - High School	New Smart Weapons: Theranostics - A Novel Approach to Combat Cancer (Medicine / Health / Gerontology)	11
					$ 2500 to the winning student or team, The Synopsys Outreach Foundation n+1 Prize
					$100 First Prize, Morgan Lewis
					1st Award, Medicine / Health / Gerontology Category
					Certificate of Outstanding Achievement, Society for In Vitro Biology
					GR 10-12 Second Place, $50, Book, T-shirt, Certificate, Society of Vacuum Coaters (SVC)
					Grade 11 Individual Project - $200 cash award, Genencor Biotechnology Awards
	Pooya	Hajjarian	Paras Jagdish	Jain	$1000 Grand Prize, Morgan Lewis	SmartCheck: Innovating Credit Card Security Through Online and Smartphone Based Transaction Handshake Protocols, Fingerprinting and Encryption (Computers / Mathematics)	9
					2nd Award, Computers / Mathematics Category
					$100 check and certificate, Wireless Communications Alliance
					1st Place Bronze Medallion, Messenger Bag, Certificate of Achievement in an embossed Certificate Folder, United States Army
	Jon	Stark	Akshay Kumar	Agrawal	1st Award, Engineering Category	Plotting Muon Pathways as a Source for Randomness for Encryption Algorithms (Engineering)	11
					HM : Certificate of Achievement, United States Army
			Hemanth Belve	Kini	1st Award, Engineering Category	Plotting Muon Pathways as a Source for Randomness for Encryption Algorithms (Engineering)	11
					HM : Certificate of Achievement, United States Army