Palo Alto Unified School District
Project Awards 2011
Synopsys Silicon Valley Science and Technology Championship
| School | Teacher | Student | Award | Title | Gr | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gunn (Henry M.) High School | Bill | Dunbar | Andrew Bo | Liu | Grand Prize - Best of Championship - Physical Sciences - Trip to Intel ISEF, Santa Clara Valley Science & Engineering Fair Assn - Board of Directors Awards - High School | Accounting for Cross-talk Between Signaling Pathways Identifies Novel Model for Early and Late Post-transplant Acute Rejection (Computers / Mathematics) | 12 |
| Finalist, The Synopsys Outreach Foundation n+1 Prize | |||||||
| 1st Award, Computers / Mathematics Category | |||||||
| Intel ECS Certificate & Verification form and W-9 to submit for $200 cash, Intel Excellence in Computer Science Award | |||||||
| Heather | Mellows | Jonah S. | Kaye | 2nd Award, Behavioral / Social Category | Read All About It: Does Reading from a Printed Page Versus a Digital Screen Affect Reading Comprehension (Behavioral / Social) | 10 | |
| Angela | Merchant | Emily Siming | Wang | 2nd Award, Zoology Category | Observing to Understand the Foraging Skills of Captive Giant Pandas (Zoology) | 9 | |
| Katherine | Moser | Yasmin | Aghajan | Honorable Mention Certificate, MedImmune | The Role of Chemokines in Dendritic-Cell-Influenced T-cell Migration (Medicine / Health / Gerontology) | 12 | |
| Katie | Settle | Isabel Nadine | Goronzy | 1st Award, Medicine / Health / Gerontology Category | Stress Hormones, DNA Damage Repair and Cellular Aging (Medicine / Health / Gerontology) | 9 | |
| Amy A | Shen | Outstanding Sustainability Project. Weeklong I-SWEEEP competition, including hotel and accomodations for up to two students and one advisor. Certificate, I-SWEEEP | Smart Rain: An Intelligent Sprinkler Control System (Engineering) | 9 | |||
| Rajeev | Virmani | Charles Xin | Liu | HM : Certificate of Achievement, United States Army | Faces In a Crowd: Recognition System Identifies Individuals From a Multitude (Computers / Mathematics) | 9 | |
| Jordan (David Starr) Middle School | Robin | Levy | Erin Rae | Mittmann | Honorable Mention, Physics Category | Electromagnetic Launch! (Physics) | 6 |
| Sarah | Pierce | Chirag Kapil | Akella | 1st Award, Behavioral / Social Category | Do You Believe in Home Field Advantage? (Behavioral / Social) | 6 | |
| Santa Clara County Judging Committee Middle School First Place Award of $25 and Certificate of Award from National APA, American Psychological Association | |||||||
| Nihar Roy | Mitra | $50 Cash Award to student (split if team), certificate(s), letter(s), Al Foster Award | Why Can't My Robot Walk Like Me? (Engineering) | 6 | |||
| IEEE Award for Electro-Technology ($50 & Framed Certificate), Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers | |||||||
| One free week-long class at the Tech Summer Camps 2011, The Tech Summer Camps | |||||||
| Sue | Pound | Joseph | Chang | Honorable Mention, Physics Category | What Affects the Trajectory of a Curve Ball? The Physics of Rotating Objects (Physics) | 8 | |
| Palo Alto High School | Kathy | Himmelberger | Christine | Chang | 1st Award, Computers / Mathematics Category | Beethoven Reborn-A Novel Approach Employing Markov Model to Synthesize Music in Great Composers' Styles (Computers / Mathematics) | 10 |
| Stanford (Jane Lathrop) Middle School | Leonel | Argumedo | Jeremy E. | Trilling | Honorable Mention, Chemistry Category | Does Milling Black Powder Accelerate its Combustion? (Chemistry) | 6 |
| Fred | Berghout | Ashil | Koranne | 1st Award, Chemistry Category | Comparing VitaminC Amounts in Juices (Chemistry) | 8 | |
| Armin Justin | Namavari | 1st Award, Physics Category | What Effect Does Sugar Concentration in Water have on its Index of Refraction? (Physics) | 8 | |||
| Noel | Berghout | Veronica | Pu | 3rd pl MS- $25 plus cert, American Society of Civil Engineers | Soil Type Affect Its Ability to Absorb Liquid (Earth / Space Sciences) | 6 | |
| Maya Ratnam | Sankar | 1st Award, Earth / Space Sciences Category | Earth's Energy (Earth / Space Sciences) | 6 | |||
| Jennifer | Carleton | Nuan-Yu Gloria | Pan | Certificate of Achievement and VIP visit to NASA-Ames, NASA Ames Research Center | Will High Gravity Field Induce Resistance of E-Coli to Antimicrobial Agents? (Biochemistry / Microbiology) | 7 | |
| Hayley | Dupuy | Aaron Zachary | Schultz | Certificate of Achievement and VIP visit to NASA-Ames, NASA Ames Research Center | Do Dimpled Rockets Fly Farther? (Physics) | 6 | |
| Travis & Wells Charging Stand, Computer Backpack, Leeds Scripto Flash Jotter Bundle Set and Award Certificate in Folder, United States Air Force | |||||||
| Ann | Lorey | Iris Marie | Chin | 2nd Award, Chemistry Category | How Does the Type of Solute Affect the Number of Drops of an Aqueous Solution Which Will fit onto a Penny? (Chemistry) | 8 | |
| Ethan | Hickman | Honorable Mention, Physics Category | Magnets Launching Bearings (Physics) | 8 | |||
| Greg | Rice | Maya Danielle | Miklos | 1st Award, Physics Category | Tire Pressure: Pump It Up! (Physics) | 7 | |
| $100 Cash Award to Grades 7-8 plus cert, Trimble Navigation, Ltd. | |||||||
| Terman Middle School | Beth | Carlson | Katina | Yong | 2nd Award, Biochemistry / Microbiology Category | Dissolving Eggshells (Biochemistry / Microbiology) | 7 |
| Tamara | Juarez | Emily Lois | Aiken | Honorable Mention, Physics Category | Understanding Overtones (Physics) | 8 | |
| Grant | Fong | 1st Award, Behavioral / Social Category | Enhancing Performance by Delaying Incentives (Behavioral / Social) | 8 | |||
| Nitya Sai | Kasturi | Honorable Mention, Behavioral / Social Category | Video Games: The Effect on Career Choices (Behavioral / Social) | 8 | |||
| Trevor S. | Wang | Honorable Mention, Medicine / Health / Gerontology Category | Can It Bee? (Medicine / Health / Gerontology) | 8 | |||