Mountain View-Los Altos Union High School District

Project Awards 2018

Synopsys Silicon Valley Science and Technology Championship

School	Teacher		Student		Award	Title	Gr
Los Altos High School	Darren	Dressen	Sarah Elizabeth	Cliff	2nd Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category	Theoretical examination of the effect a quantum dark subspace has on the efficiency of qubits (Physical Science and Engineering)	12
					HS student - Certificate of Achievement, Medallion and $50 gift card, United States Navy and Marine Corps
			Geoffrey Roy	Glass	1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category	Inside The Black Box: How Deep Neural Networks Converge to Optimal Algorithms (Physical Science and Engineering)	12
					Certificate of Achievement plus Letter, Mu Alpha Theta
			Tanya Theresa	Matthew	1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category	Synthesizing Inhibitors of Isocitrate Dehydrogenase to Inhibit Glutamine-Dependent Reductive Carboxylation in Tumors (Physical Science and Engineering)	12
			Ella Anne	Milliken	2nd Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category	Synthesizing Analogs of 6-(Carbobenzyloxyamino) caproic acid to Inhibit FcYRIIa in Tumor Associated Macrophages (Biological Science and Engineering)	12
			Jacob Nicholas	Ouyang	Honorable Mention Student Award: $50 and Certificate of Achievement, Association for Computing Machinery, San Francisco Bay Area Professional Chapter	Reinforcement Learning to Optimize Lane Changing: A Study for Self Driving Cars in a Simulated Highway Environment (Physical Science and Engineering)	12
			Samira	Sriram	GR 9-12 Most Promising Female Researcher, $150, Framed Certificate, Society of Vacuum Coaters (SVC)	Synthesizing (La(NO3)3) additive with pyrrolidinium and piperidinium based ionic liquid electrolytes in a Li-S battery (Physical Science and Engineering)	12
					High School Finalist Certficate & Amazon.com gift certficate, Synopsys Outreach Foundation n+1 Prize
					Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category
					Certificate and nomination to enter 2018 Sustainability Soutions Festival in Arizona, Arizona State University Walton Sustainability Solutions Initiatives
					Honorable Mention - Framed Certificate of Achievement and Popular Science Magazine Subscription, SAMPE - Society for the Advancement of Material and Process Engineering
			Ananya	Subramanian	$100 High School Plant Science, California Botanical Society	Enhancement of mitochondrial function and seed germination by pterostilbene, ellagic acid, and nicotinamide riboside (Biological Science and Engineering)	12
			Serhat	Suzer	Certificate and nomination to enter 2018 Sustainability Soutions Festival in Arizona, Arizona State University Walton Sustainability Solutions Initiatives	Synthesizing small molecule activators of AMPk to reduce aging in humans. (Physical Science and Engineering)	12
	Meghan	Strazicich	Anya	Gupta	1st Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category	Effects of various antioxidants on the CEP-1 promoter gene in C. Elegans; CEP-1 tumor suppressor protein quantification (Biological Science and Engineering)	11
			Romella Katherine	Sagatelian	1st Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category	Effects of various antioxidants on the CEP-1 promoter gene in C. Elegans; CEP-1 tumor suppressor protein quantification (Biological Science and Engineering)	11