East Side Union High School District

Project Awards 2013

Synopsys Silicon Valley Science and Technology Championship

School Teacher Student Award Title Gr
Evergreen Valley High School  Doug Miller  Shreya  Dash 1st Award, Environmental Sciences Category Cleaning Oil Spills: Which Sorbents are Best (Environmental Sciences) 9
              Honorable Mention - Framed Certificate of Achievement and Popular Science Magazine Subscription, SAMPE - Society for the Advancement of Material and Process Engineering    
        Michelle Ruomei Du Honorable Mention, Behavioral / Social Category Cheating and Factors that Cause It (Behavioral / Social) 9
        Yootak  Jin 1st Award, Physics Category Fractal Antennas: The Effect of the Iteration Number of a Fractal on the Strength of Signal Reception (Physics) 9
              Honorable Mention: Certificate of Achievement, Society of Vacuum Coaters (SVC)    
        Rahul V Joshi 2nd Award, Physics Category Car Seats & Damage Control: What is the Most Optimal Weight & Seating Position for Car Seat Use (Physics) 9
        Viraj  Kadakia 2nd Award, Physics Category Effect of Temperature on Efficiency of a Solar Cell (Physics) 9
        Harika  Kalluri 2nd Award, Physics Category Car Seats & Damage Control: What is the Most Optimal Weight & Seating Position for Car Seat Use (Physics) 9
        Inderpal  Kaur Honorable Mention - Certificate of Achievement, American Society of Civil Engineers Liquefaction in Action: Testing Building Height vs. Liquefaction Resistance (Earth / Space Sciences) 9
              SAGE Certificate and $40 Amazon Gift Certificate, Association for Women Geoscientists, San Francisco Bay Area Chapter    
        Titus C-N. Lagman 1st Award, Environmental Sciences Category Cleaning Oil Spills: Which Sorbents are Best (Environmental Sciences) 11
              Honorable Mention - Framed Certificate of Achievement and Popular Science Magazine Subscription, SAMPE - Society for the Advancement of Material and Process Engineering    
        Aakash  Parikh 2nd Award, Physics Category Effect of Temperature on Efficiency of a Solar Cell (Physics) 9
        Michelle Quynh-Nhu Pham Honorable Mention: Certificate of Achievement, United States Metric Association Degrading Plastic: The Amount of Ultraviolet Light It Takes to Break Plastic (Physics) 9
        Anurima  Polisetty Honorable Mention, Behavioral / Social Category Cheating and Factors that Cause It (Behavioral / Social) 9
        Niharika N. Rane Honorable Mention - Certificate of Achievement, American Society of Civil Engineers Liquefaction in Action: Testing Building Height vs. Liquefaction Resistance (Earth / Space Sciences) 9
              SAGE Certificate and $40 Amazon Gift Certificate, Association for Women Geoscientists, San Francisco Bay Area Chapter    
        Vienna Vy-van Tran Honorable Mention: Certificate of Achievement, United States Metric Association Degrading Plastic: The Amount of Ultraviolet Light It Takes to Break Plastic (Physics) 9
        Kevin  Wang 1st Award, Physics Category Fractal Antennas: The Effect of the Iteration Number of a Fractal on the Strength of Signal Reception (Physics) 9
              Honorable Mention: Certificate of Achievement, Society of Vacuum Coaters (SVC)    
   Barjinder Sabherwal  Nikki  Do Honorable Mention, Botany Category The Effect of Urine on Chlorophyll Concentration (Botany) 10
        Tran  Nguyen Honorable Mention, Botany Category The Effect of Urine on Chlorophyll Concentration (Botany) 10
        Swetha  Revanur Grand Prize - Best of Championship - Outreach Schools - Trip to Intel ISEF, Santa Clara Valley Science & Engineering Fair Assn - Board of Directors Awards - High School Multi-Dimensional Genomic Data Analysis of Hidradenitis Suppurativa (Acne Inversa) and Associated Comorbidities (Bioinformatics) 9
              1st Award, Bioinformatics Category    
              $100 First Place, Certificate of Achievement, and Letter, Inez M. Lechner Award    
              2nd Place: $100 and Certificate of Achievement, UCSF Center For Systems and Synthetic Biology Award    
Oak Grove High School  John Allen  McKenna Pearl Duzac Top finalist High School projects, The Synopsys Outreach Foundation n+1 Prize Berzeliopaper: The Arrangement of Silicon Nanoparticles in a Macroscopic Aggregate Sheet and its Comparison to Buckypaper (Engineering) 12
              Honorable Mention, Engineering Category    
              3rd Place - $50, Framed Certificate of Achievement, and Popular Science Magazine Subscription, SAMPE - Society for the Advancement of Material and Process Engineering    
              Honorable Mention: Certificate of Achievement, Society of Vacuum Coaters (SVC)    
              Honorable Mention: Certificate of Achievement, United States Army    
        Jacob Truong Nguyen Honorable Mention Award - Popular Science Magazine Subscription and Framed Certificate of Achievement, ASM International, A Society for Materials, Santa Clara Valley Chapter Superhydrophobic Soot: Applying the Properties of the Dispersion of Carbon Nanoparticles to Reduce Friction from Newtonian Fluids (Engineering) 12
Piedmont Hills High School  Matt Trask  Andrew Cyril Shacker 3rd Place: $100 and Framed Certificate of Achievement, System Safety Society The Practicality of Satellite-Based Laser Ablation of Space Debris (Engineering) 9
Santa Teresa High School  Debra Dimas  Daniel  Drager 1st Award, Physics Category Magnet Strength and Temperature (Physics) 12
        Chris  Monahan 1st Award, Physics Category Magnet Strength and Temperature (Physics) 11
Silver Creek High School  Narquiz Cervantes  Megan Rosemary Duckering Honorable Mention - Framed Certificate of Achievement and Popular Science Magazine Subscription, SAMPE - Society for the Advancement of Material and Process Engineering Plastic Bottle Solvents (Chemistry) 10
        Tien Lauren Phan Honorable Mention - Framed Certificate of Achievement and Popular Science Magazine Subscription, SAMPE - Society for the Advancement of Material and Process Engineering Plastic Bottle Solvents (Chemistry) 10
   Mary Sommers  Srishti  Dhawan 2nd Award, Chemistry Category Milk and Lactose (Chemistry) 9
        Simran  Pabla Honorable Mention, Physics Category Transmitting Energy Wirelessly (Physics) 9
        Chloe Ann Pears 2nd Award, Chemistry Category Milk and Lactose (Chemistry) 9
Yerba Buena High School  Ann Shioji  Ngoc Han Nguyen 3rd Place Award - $50 Cash and Certificate of Achievement, American Society of Civil Engineers Soil Liquifaction Mitigation (Earth / Space Sciences) 11