East Side Union High School District
Project Awards 2011
Synopsys Silicon Valley Science and Technology Championship
School | Teacher | Student | Award | Title | Gr | ||
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Andrew Hill High School | Jonathan | Mach | Sandy | Ho | Honorable Mention, Chemistry Category | LED Lights and the Effect on Chlorophyll (Chemistry) | 11 |
Hoai N. | Van | Honorable Mention, Chemistry Category | LED Lights and the Effect on Chlorophyll (Chemistry) | 11 | |||
Christine Kim | Vu | Honorable Mention, Chemistry Category | LED Lights and the Effect on Chlorophyll (Chemistry) | 11 | |||
Evergreen Valley High School | Doug | Miller | Marissa Alexis | Arango | 2nd Award, Physics Category | What a Drag! The Physics of Swimming and How Drag Affects Overall Performance (Physics) | 9 |
Maharshi Bala | Chitti | 2nd Award, Physics Category | Turbulence Created by Various Slat Designs in a Wind Tunnel (Physics) | 9 | |||
Sarah Ellen | Giovannini | 2nd Award, Physics Category | What a Drag! The Physics of Swimming and How Drag Affects Overall Performance (Physics) | 9 | |||
Andy Dan | Long | Honorable Mention, Physics Category | Does a Change in Height and Speed Change the Width of a Column of Air? (Physics) | 9 | |||
Akshay Mehul | Naik | Honorable Mention, Physics Category | Does a Change in Height and Speed Change the Width of a Column of Air? (Physics) | 9 | |||
Kim | Nguyen | 2nd Award, Physics Category | What a Drag! The Physics of Swimming and How Drag Affects Overall Performance (Physics) | 9 | |||
Ashwath | Ramdas | Honorable Mention, Physics Category | Does a Change in Height and Speed Change the Width of a Column of Air? (Physics) | 9 | |||
Andy | Trinh | 2nd Award, Physics Category | Turbulence Created by Various Slat Designs in a Wind Tunnel (Physics) | 9 | |||
Julie | Trinh | 2nd Award, Physics Category | Turbulence Created by Various Slat Designs in a Wind Tunnel (Physics) | 9 | |||
Barjinder | Sabherwal | Meghana | Bhimarao | Grand Prize Alternate - Outreach Schools - Trip to State Science Fair, Santa Clara Valley Science & Engineering Fair Assn - Board of Directors Awards - High School | Collapsing the Cytoskeleton of Leukemic Cancer Cells Using Its Natural Frequency (Medicine / Health / Gerontology) | 11 | |
Finalist, The Synopsys Outreach Foundation n+1 Prize | |||||||
1st Award, Medicine / Health / Gerontology Category | |||||||
First Place: $100 Cash, Certificate and Goody Bag, Association for Women in Science, Palo Alto Chapter | |||||||
Stacey Amy | Huang | Grand Prize - Best of Championship - Outreach Schools - Trip to Intel ISEF, Santa Clara Valley Science & Engineering Fair Assn - Board of Directors Awards - High School | The Effect of Washout Designs in Swept and Tapered Wings on the Location of Flow Separation During Stall (Physics) | 11 | |||
1st Award, Physics Category | |||||||
GR 11-12: HP WV689AV Laptop Computer, Hewlett-Packard Laboratories | |||||||
Independence High School | Stuart | Briber | Glen Constantino | Alvarez | Honorable Mention, Physics Category | Magnetic Chain Reaction (Physics) | 12 |
Breyden Thien-quoc | Bui | Honorable Mention, Physics Category | Magnetic Chain Reaction (Physics) | 12 | |||
Kevin Duong | Nguyen | Honorable Mention, Physics Category | Magnetic Chain Reaction (Physics) | 12 | |||
Oak Grove High School | John | Allen | Brandon Michael | Adams | Honorable Mention, Chemistry Category | Investigation of the Synthesis of Carbon Nanotubes Using Chemical Vapor Deposition (Chemistry) | 12 |
2nd place, $30 check and a book, Apatite to Zircon, Inc. Award | |||||||
Honorable Mention: T-Shirt, Certificate, Society of Vacuum Coaters (SVC) | |||||||
Adam | Diaz | 2nd Place SJSU College of Engineering certificate of achievement, San Jose State University College of Engineering | What is the Effect of Different Sugars on the Rate of Polymerization. (Chemistry) | 12 | |||
McKenna Pearl | Duzac | 1st Place Certificate, Santa Clara County Integrated Waste Management Program | EcoTreds (Engineering) | 10 | |||
Joshua David | Kuehn | 1st Place $1000 Scholarship to SJSU College of Engineering plus certs, San Jose State University College of Engineering | Alternatives to Permanent Magnets (Engineering) | 12 | |||
2nd Award, Engineering Category | |||||||
Alex Juan | Montes | Gr 9-12, 3rd Place Award - $50 Cash, Magazine subscription, Certificate, ASM International, A Society for Materials, Santa Clara Valley Chapter | Piezoelectricity: A New Green Source (Engineering) | 12 | |||
Emily | To | Grand Prize Alternate - Outreach Schools - Trip to State Science Fair, Santa Clara Valley Science & Engineering Fair Assn - Board of Directors Awards - High School | An Analysis of the Efficacy of Chitosan-Alginate Coated Catalase Microcapsules on Acatalesemia (Medicine / Health / Gerontology) | 11 | |||
Finalist, The Synopsys Outreach Foundation n+1 Prize | |||||||
1st Award, Medicine / Health / Gerontology Category | |||||||
Lynn | Johnson | Michelle Linh | Nguyen | 2nd Award, Environmental Sciences Category | Combating Acid Rain (Environmental Sciences) | 11 | |
Vivian Anna | Vu | 2nd Award, Environmental Sciences Category | Combating Acid Rain (Environmental Sciences) | 11 | |||
Piedmont Hills High School | Angie | Nguyen | Viviane | Nguyen | 2nd Award, Chemistry Category | The Fight Against Blood Sucking Vampires: Comparing the Biological Alternatives to Pesticides using Bacillus thuringiensis, Bacillus sphaericus and Escherichia coli against Culex Mosquitoes (Chemistry) | 11 |
Santa Teresa High School | Debra | Dimas | Quyen Du | Bach | Certificate of Achievement; & opportunity to advance to Stockholm competition, Stockholm Junior Water Prize | Measuring Sugar Content with Laser (Physics) | 12 |
Zoe Alexandra | Bader | HM Certificate of Achievement, United States Metric Association | Ballerinas and How Angular Velocity Changes Their Relative Moment of Inertia (Physics) | 12 | |||
Jessica Lynn | Hauffe | 2nd Award, Physics Category | What Structural Support System Would Absorb an Earthquake the Best? (Physics) | 11 | |||
1st Place HS Award - $100 Cash plus cert, American Society of Civil Engineers | |||||||
2nd place, $30 check and a book, Apatite to Zircon, Inc. Award | |||||||
3rd Place Award - $100 Cash & framed cert, System Safety Society | |||||||
Jackson Minh | Huynh | 3rd Place SJSU College of Engineering certificate of achievement, San Jose State University College of Engineering | Badminton in Motion (Physics) | 11 | |||
1st place $50 and a certificate of Achievement, United States Metric Association | |||||||
Veronica Marie | Miller | HM Certificate of Achievement, United States Metric Association | Ballerinas and How Angular Velocity Changes Their Relative Moment of Inertia (Physics) | 12 | |||
Natalie Phuung | Nguyen | 3rd Place SJSU College of Engineering certificate of achievement, San Jose State University College of Engineering | Badminton in Motion (Physics) | 12 | |||
1st place $50 and a certificate of Achievement, United States Metric Association | |||||||
Crystal | Trang | Certificate of Achievement; & opportunity to advance to Stockholm competition, Stockholm Junior Water Prize | Measuring Sugar Content with Laser (Physics) | 12 | |||
Guillermo | Vasquez | Honorable Mention, Physics Category | Bacteria! As Energy? (Physics) | 12 | |||
Individual: $30 cash and a book, The ROD Women in Science Award | |||||||
Silver Creek High School | Narquiz | Cervantes | Vivian Nha Truc | Bui | Honorable Mention, Physics Category | Metal to Metal (Physics) | 11 |
Honorable Mention Award-Magazine Subscription and Framed Certificate, ASM International, A Society for Materials, Santa Clara Valley Chapter | |||||||
Rachel K. | Do | 3rd Place Award - $50 Cash plus framed cert and subscription, Gr 9-12, SAMPE - Society for the Advancement of Material and Process Engineering | Optimization of Fenton's Reaction to Increase Free Radical Production (Chemistry) | 11 | |||
Preethi | Padmanaban | 1st Award, Environmental Sciences Category | Effect of Zinc Sulfate Concentration on Absorbance Rate of Brassica juncea plants (Environmental Sciences) | 11 | |||
Lilian | Thoi | Honorable Mention, Physics Category | Metal to Metal (Physics) | 11 | |||
Honorable Mention Award-Magazine Subscription and Framed Certificate, ASM International, A Society for Materials, Santa Clara Valley Chapter | |||||||
Alejandro | Mendoza | Soma | Mathur | Honorable Mention, Physics Category | Lunar Apocalypse (Physics) | 9 | |
Huong | Tran | Brian T. | Do | Grand Prize - Best of Championship - Outreach Schools - Trip to Intel ISEF, Santa Clara Valley Science & Engineering Fair Assn - Board of Directors Awards - High School | RNA Activation-Mediated Gene Upregulation in C. elegans (Biochemistry / Microbiology) | 11 | |
1st Award, Biochemistry / Microbiology Category | |||||||
Yerba Buena High School | Ann | Shioji | Delena | Hoang | Honorable Mention-framed cert and subscriptions, Gr 9-12, SAMPE - Society for the Advancement of Material and Process Engineering | Race to the Bottom: Viscosity vs. Temperature (Physics) | 9 |
Ngoc | Nguyen | Honorable Mention-framed cert and subscriptions, Gr 9-12, SAMPE - Society for the Advancement of Material and Process Engineering | Race to the Bottom: Viscosity vs. Temperature (Physics) | 9 | |||