East Side Union High School District

Project Awards 2014

Synopsys Silicon Valley Science and Technology Championship

School Teacher Student Award Title Gr
Evergreen Valley High School  Gary Hubbs  Tara  Iyer Grand Prize Alternate - Outreach Schools - Trip to State Science Fair and Plaque, Santa Clara Valley Science & Engineering Fair Assn - Board of Directors Awards - High School Gender Differences in the Prevalence of Co-Morbid Disorders Affecting the ASD Population (Bioinformatics) 11
              1st Award, Bioinformatics Category    
   Mary-Kate Lesoine  Tanisha M Joshi Grand Prize - Best of Championship - Outreach Schools - Trip to Intel ISEF and Plaque, Santa Clara Valley Science & Engineering Fair Assn - Board of Directors Awards - High School Quantitative analysis of macro-cellular biomarkers in early stage Ductal Carninoma in situ (DCIS) immuno-histochemical cytopathology images using machine learning. (Bioinformatics) 9
              1st Award, Bioinformatics Category    
              $200, Certificate of Achievement, and Letter, Callahan Award    
   Doug Miller  Kevin  Cao 1st Place: $250 Cash and Certificate of Achievement, System Safety Society 2 DOF Motion Platform (Engineering) 9
        Sampada  Deglurkar Honorable Mention: Certificate of Achievement, T-Shirt, Society of Vacuum Coaters (SVC) Water-Splitting Fuel Cells: An Efficient Way to Store Renewable Energy (Chemistry) 10
        Davis Ck Gu 1st Award, Physics Category Frost: How the Angle of Glass Affect the Amount of Frost Buildup (Physics) 9
        Nagaganesh  Jaladanki Honorable Mention Student Award: $50 and Certificate of Achievement, Association for Computing Machinery, San Francisco Bay Area Professional Chapter Leap off the Screen: A Novel Approach for 3D Mouses (Engineering) 9
        Christine  Pham 1st Award, Physics Category Frost: How the Angle of Glass Affect the Amount of Frost Buildup (Physics) 10
        Gaurav  Sharma Certificate of Achievement, NASA Ames Research Center Effect of Nozzle Shape on Thrust Force (Physics) 9
        Kushal  Sharma Certificate of Achievement, NASA Ames Research Center Effect of Nozzle Shape on Thrust Force (Physics) 9
   David Walz  Swetha  Revanur Grand Prize - Best of Championship - Outreach Schools - Trip to Intel ISEF and Plaque, Santa Clara Valley Science & Engineering Fair Assn - Board of Directors Awards - High School Factomics: A Cloud-Enabled Web Portal Incorporating Genomic Association Studies Facilitating Disease Correlation and Causation Analysis (Bioinformatics) 10
              1st Award, Bioinformatics Category    
              First Place: $100, Certificate of Achievement, and Goody Bag, Santa Clara County Biotech Education Partnership (SCCBEP)    
              GR 9-12: 1st Place, $150 and Certificate of Achievement, UCSF Center For Systems and Synthetic Biology Award    
Oak Grove High School  John Allen  Madeleine Annette Barryte Certificate of Achievement, NASA Ames Research Center Effect of Cathodes and Catalysts on Electrical Output of Microbial Fuel Cell Batteries (Biochemistry / Microbiology) 11
        Rahael  Mengistab 2nd Place: SJSU College of Engineering Certificate of Achievement, San Jose State University College of Engineering Radiation Shield (Chemistry) 12
        Warda Abdirzak Osman 2nd Place: SJSU College of Engineering Certificate of Achievement, San Jose State University College of Engineering Radiation Shield (Chemistry) 12
        Abha  Pandey Grand Prize Alternate - Outreach Schools - Trip to State Science Fair and Plaque, Santa Clara Valley Science & Engineering Fair Assn - Board of Directors Awards - High School Rapid First Response by Creating a Rescue UAV to Locate Trapped Victims. (Engineering) 12
              1st Award, Engineering Category    
              Certificate of Achievement, NASA Ames Research Center    
Piedmont Hills High School  Matt Trask  Andrew  Shacker 1st Award, Engineering Category Economical Attitude Detection Using a Single GPS Antenna (Engineering) 10
Santa Teresa High School  Debra Dimas  Dani June Bader Honorable Mention, Physics Category Magnetic fields (Physics) 12
        Jeremy Micheal Browne 1st place: $60 and Certificate of Achievement, United States Metric Association How Does the Volume of Helium Directly Relate to Its Buoyancy (Physics) 10
        Vikram  Kalahasthi Honorable Mention, Physics Category Extinguishing Flames Using Sound (Physics) 11
        Rami  Khadder 1st place: $60 and Certificate of Achievement, United States Metric Association How Does the Volume of Helium Directly Relate to Its Buoyancy (Physics) 10
        Lindon  Tran Honorable Mention, Physics Category Magnetic fields (Physics) 12
Silver Creek High School  Narquiz Cervantes  Simran  Pabla Honorable Mention, Earth / Space Sciences Category Classification of Celestial Objects Based On Magnitude (Earth / Space Sciences) 10
              Certificate of Achievement, NASA Ames Research Center