Homestead High School

Project Awards 2014

Synopsys Silicon Valley Science and Technology Championship

School	Teacher		Student		Award	Title	Gr
Homestead High School	Jillian	Fackrell	Karthik	Srivatsan	2nd place, $30 check, and a Book, Apatite to Zircon, Inc. Award	Radiant Heat Cellphone Charger (Engineering)	11
			Amrita	Venkatraman	Grand Prize Student Award: $640 and Certificate of Achievement, Association for Computing Machinery, San Francisco Bay Area Professional Chapter	Building A Mobile Sensor to Detect Hand Tremors for the Determination of Psychosocial and Pathological Conditions (Engineering)	10
					2nd Award, Engineering Category
					One-day immersive trip to Firebase to work on API project, TechLab Education
	Sam	Fung	David	Liang	2nd Award, Botany Category	Thigmotropic response in Passion Fruit Tendrils (Botany)	11
			Shaunak	Modak	2nd Award, Behavioral / Social Category	Does knowledge of the amount of time allowed influence the ability to perform a task? (Behavioral / Social)	9
					Certificate of Achievement, American Psychological Association
			William Christopher	Scott	2nd Award, Behavioral / Social Category	Does knowledge of the amount of time allowed influence the ability to perform a task? (Behavioral / Social)	9
					Certificate of Achievement, American Psychological Association
	Connie	Murray	Anisha	Braganza	Honorable Mention, Physics Category	Excited Oxygen Chemistry in Disks around Young Stars (Physics)	11