Bellarmine College Preparatory

Project Awards 2014

Synopsys Silicon Valley Science and Technology Championship

School Teacher Student Award Title Gr
Bellarmine College Preparatory  Brad Lindemann  Rahul Ram Mohan 5th Place Student Award: $80 and Certificate of Achievement, Association for Computing Machinery, San Francisco Bay Area Professional Chapter A Novel Method to detect and track the progression of Parkinson's disease using smartphone data (Computers / Mathematics) 9
              1st Award, Computers / Mathematics Category    
              Certificate of Achievement, Medallion, and Letter, United States Public Health Service Award    
   Debjani Roy  Shreyan  Jain GR 9-12, 3rd Place: $25 per student and Certificate of Achievement, T-Shirt, Society of Vacuum Coaters (SVC) A Computational Investigation of Iridium Hydride and Other Metastable Metal Hydrides for Optimizing Hydrogen Storage in a Fuel Cell (Chemistry) 10
              Honorable Mention Award - Popular Science Magazine Subscription and Framed Certificate of Achievement, ASM International, A Society for Materials, Santa Clara Valley Chapter    
        Christopher Alan Powers 1st Award, Earth / Space Sciences Category Investigating Vegetation as a Natural Barrier to Reduce Tsunami Power (Earth / Space Sciences) 11
              1st Place Award - $150 Cash and Certificate of Achievement, American Society of Civil Engineers    
        Hersh Jasmine Sanghvi 2nd Award, Biochemistry / Microbiology Category Modeling Novel Sensory Uses of Graphene Nanopores to Detect Urinary Nucleoside Biomarkers 1-Methyladenosine, Cytidine, 8-Hydroxyguanosine (Biochemistry / Microbiology) 11
        Omkar  Savant GR 9-12, 3rd Place: $25 per student and Certificate of Achievement, T-Shirt, Society of Vacuum Coaters (SVC) A Computational Investigation of Iridium Hydride and Other Metastable Metal Hydrides for Optimizing Hydrogen Storage in a Fuel Cell (Chemistry) 11
              Honorable Mention Award - Popular Science Magazine Subscription and Framed Certificate of Achievement, ASM International, A Society for Materials, Santa Clara Valley Chapter    
        Anin  Sayana 2nd Award, Medicine / Health / Gerontology Category The Unfolded Protein Response in Cancer Resistance: A Novel Therapeutic Target for Alveolar Rhabdomyosarcoma (Medicine / Health / Gerontology) 10
        Akhil  Surapaneni 2nd Award, Biochemistry / Microbiology Category Modeling Novel Sensory Uses of Graphene Nanopores to Detect Urinary Nucleoside Biomarkers 1-Methyladenosine, Cytidine, 8-Hydroxyguanosine (Biochemistry / Microbiology) 12
        Siddharth  Venkatraman Certificate of Achievement, NASA Ames Research Center Theoretical Design to Beam Helium-3 Energy from the Moon (Engineering) 10
   Rod Wong  Milan  Gambhir Grand Prize - Best of Championship - Biological Sciences - Trip to Intel ISEF and Plaque, Santa Clara Valley Science & Engineering Fair Assn - Board of Directors Awards - High School A Wearable Ultrasonic Device for the Early Detection of Tumor Recurrence (Medicine / Health / Gerontology) 10
              High School Finalist Letter, The Synopsys Outreach Foundation n+1 Prize    
              1st Award, Medicine / Health / Gerontology Category    
              First Place: $500 American Express Gift Card and Certificate of Achievement, Agilent Technologies    
        Pravin  Ravishanker 1st Award, Computers / Mathematics Category Genetics or Gender: Assessing the impact of APOE-e4 and Gender in age-specific cognitive and structural rates of decline in Alzheimer's disease (Computers / Mathematics) 9