San Jose Unified School District
Project Awards 2013
Synopsys Silicon Valley Science and Technology Championship
| School | Teacher | Student | Award | Title | Gr | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Leland High School | Anuradha | Sarkar | Colin Campbell | Aitken | Grand Prize - Best of Championship - Outreach Schools - Trip to Intel ISEF, Santa Clara Valley Science & Engineering Fair Assn - Board of Directors Awards - High School | Dots and Lines: A New Combinatorial Interpretation of the Homotopy Groups of Finite Topologies (Computers / Mathematics) | 12 |
| 1st Award, Computers / Mathematics Category | |||||||
| 2nd place: $150 and Certificate of Achievement, Pauchon Foundation Award | |||||||
| Certificate of Achievement and Letter to Teacher, Mu Alpha Theta | |||||||
| Intel ECS Certificate of Achievement and Forms to Submit for $200, Intel Excellence in Computer Science Award | |||||||
| Eric Sun | Gu | $250 and Framed Certificate of Achievement, California Society for Biomedical Research - Ron Orta Excellence in Biomedical Research Award | The Effect of Ileal Interposition Surgery on MtDNA Copy Number in Transgenic Diabetic Rats (Biochemistry / Microbiology) | 12 | |||
| Ali-Asghar M. | Heera | 1st Award, Botany Category | The Effect of Different Types of Magnetic Fields on Plant Growth (Botany) | 9 | |||
| Luke Jiaen | Hong | 1st Award, Botany Category | The Effect of Different Types of Magnetic Fields on Plant Growth (Botany) | 9 | |||
| Lee J. | Hsieh | Honorable Mention, Medicine / Health / Gerontology Category | Do Sesame Seeds Produce Darker Hair? (Medicine / Health / Gerontology) | 10 | |||
| Joy | Jin | Grand Prize - Best of Championship - Outreach Schools - Trip to Intel ISEF, Santa Clara Valley Science & Engineering Fair Assn - Board of Directors Awards - High School | Hedgehog-Gli Signaling Promotes Cell Proliferation and Epithelial-to-Mesenchymal Transition in Lung Cancer (Biochemistry / Microbiology) | 10 | |||
| 1st Award, Biochemistry / Microbiology Category | |||||||
| Grade 11 or 12 Team Project - $400 award, DuPont Industrial Biosciences | |||||||
| Joshua | Kim | 2nd Award, Environmental Sciences Category | Impact of Water Temperature on Freshwater Invertebrates (Environmental Sciences) | 10 | |||
| 1st Place Award - $150 and Certificate of Achievement, American Association for Laboratory Animal Science, Northern California Branch | |||||||
| Sam | Kumar | Grand Prize Alternate - Outreach Schools - Trip to State Science Fair, Santa Clara Valley Science & Engineering Fair Assn - Board of Directors Awards - High School | True or Fake: A Stylometric Approach to Checking Originality (Behavioral / Social) | 12 | |||
| 1st Award, Behavioral / Social Category | |||||||
| Esther | Lam | 2nd Place Award - $100 Cash and Certificate of Achievement, American Society of Civil Engineers | Water You Putting in Our Rivers? Filtering Domestic Wastewater in Developing Countries. (Engineering) | 12 | |||
| Team: $60 and Book, The ROD Women in Science Award | |||||||
| Deborah | Lee | 1st Award, Medicine / Health / Gerontology Category | How Effective Are the Four Most Popular Teas: Black, White, Oolong and Green Tea in Preventing Tooth Decay? (Medicine / Health / Gerontology) | 10 | |||
| Thomas Michael | Luh | Grand Prize - Best of Championship - Outreach Schools - Trip to Intel ISEF, Santa Clara Valley Science & Engineering Fair Assn - Board of Directors Awards - High School | Hedgehog-Gli Signaling Promotes Cell Proliferation and Epithelial-to-Mesenchymal Transition in Lung Cancer (Biochemistry / Microbiology) | 11 | |||
| 1st Award, Biochemistry / Microbiology Category | |||||||
| Grade 11 or 12 Team Project - $400 award, DuPont Industrial Biosciences | |||||||
| Kathy | Ma | Honorable Mention, Medicine / Health / Gerontology Category | Do Sesame Seeds Produce Darker Hair? (Medicine / Health / Gerontology) | 10 | |||
| Sathvik | Nair | 2nd Award, Environmental Sciences Category | Is Solar Distillation an Effective Form of Water Purification? (Environmental Sciences) | 9 | |||
| Paramjyot S. | Panesar | $50 Cash, San Jose State University Student Affiliates of the American Chemical Society | Solar Energy 24/7: The Investigation of Water Splitting and the Use of Hydrogen Fuel Cells (Chemistry) | 10 | |||
| Certificate of Achievement, NASA Ames Research Center | |||||||
| Ritap | Rastogi | 2nd Award, Environmental Sciences Category | Impact of Water Temperature on Freshwater Invertebrates (Environmental Sciences) | 10 | |||
| 1st Place Award - $150 and Certificate of Achievement, American Association for Laboratory Animal Science, Northern California Branch | |||||||
| Maria Rosa | Ruiz | 2nd Place Award - $100 Cash and Certificate of Achievement, American Society of Civil Engineers | Water You Putting in Our Rivers? Filtering Domestic Wastewater in Developing Countries. (Engineering) | 12 | |||
| Team: $60 and Book, The ROD Women in Science Award | |||||||
| Anubhav | Sarkar | 1st Award, Behavioral / Social Category | How to Improve Test Scores Without Studying More: An Investigation of Glucose as an Ego-Depletion Compensator to Enhance System II Thinking (Behavioral / Social) | 11 | |||
| Anirvin J. | Sikha | 2nd Award, Environmental Sciences Category | Is Solar Distillation an Effective Form of Water Purification? (Environmental Sciences) | 9 | |||
| Odelia | So | 1st Award, Medicine / Health / Gerontology Category | How Effective Are the Four Most Popular Teas: Black, White, Oolong and Green Tea in Preventing Tooth Decay? (Medicine / Health / Gerontology) | 10 | |||
| Emma M. | Sydir | 1st Award, Botany Category | The Effect of Light Exposure on Circumnutation Size (Botany) | 11 | |||
| 1st place, $50 check, and a Book, Apatite to Zircon, Inc. Award | |||||||