Los Gatos High School

Project Awards 2013

Synopsys Silicon Valley Science and Technology Championship

School Teacher Student Award Title Gr
Los Gatos High School  Dan Burns  Jessica  Chiu 1st Place: Student Membership to AIAA, Certificate of Achievement, and Programmable Robot, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) Intelligent Systems Award The Passive Aeroelastic Response of Morphing Wing Designs Utilizing Memory Shape Alloy Actuators (Engineering) 11
              Honorable Mention: Certificate of Achievement, United States Army    
   Cathy Messenger  Brooke Murphy Ahmed Individual: $30 and Book, The ROD Women in Science Award An Experimental Study on the Effects of Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide and Oceanic Acidity and Hypoxia on Calcifying Marine Organisms (Environmental Sciences) 11
        XinNi E. Chai Honorable Mention: Certificate of Achievement, Society of Vacuum Coaters (SVC) Evaluation of a Novel Microbial Fuel Cell (Engineering) 10
        Adam Kevin O'Regan Honorable Mention, Environmental Sciences Category The Effect of Different Soil Bacteria Species on Phytoremediation of Volatile Benzene from an Indoor Environment (Environmental Sciences) 10
        Hannah Belle Spinner 1st Award, Botany Category The Effects of Mycorrhizal Networks on the Communicative Abilities of Zea mays (Botany) 11
        Olivia Lynn Woodford-Berry 2nd place, $30 check, and a Book, Apatite to Zircon, Inc. Award An Analysis of a Potential Factor in Global Warming: The Effects of Varying Salt Water pH on Chaetomorpha (Environmental Sciences) 10
              Certificate of Achievement, NOAA Medallion, and Letter, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration