Lynbrook High School
Project Awards 2013
Synopsys Silicon Valley Science and Technology Championship
| School | Teacher | Student | Award | Title | Gr | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lynbrook High School | Amanda | Alonzo | Noorsher | Ahmed | 3rd Place: SJSU College of Engineering Certificate of Achievement, San Jose State University College of Engineering | Quenching the World's Thirst: Rapid Distillation and Treatment of Ocean Water into Potable Drinking Water Using Electromagnetic Waves in the Microwave Frequency (Engineering) | 12 |
| Nuha | Ahmed | Honorable Mention, Engineering Category | Magnetic Braking System for Automobiles (Engineering) | 9 | |||
| Sneha | Annamaneni | Honorable Mention, Medicine / Health / Gerontology Category | The Effect of Physical Exercise on Neurogenesis in the Nematode Caenorhabdins elegans (Medicine / Health / Gerontology) | 11 | |||
| Certificate of Achievement, Medallion, and Letter, United States Public Health Service Award | |||||||
| Nithin | Buduma | Honorable Mention, Biochemistry / Microbiology Category | Correlating the number of CAG repeats in the huntingtin protein with cytotoxicity: A prognostic marker for the severity of Huntington's Disease (Biochemistry / Microbiology) | 9 | |||
| Yuyuan | Chen | Certificate of Achievement, NASA Ames Research Center | Cosmic Ray Effects on Cellphone and Laptop Applications (Physics) | 10 | |||
| Anand B | Chukka | Honorable Mention, Computers / Mathematics Category | Video Analysis Algorithm to Differentiate the Beating Patterns of Adult and Fetal Cardiomyocytes (Computers / Mathematics) | 10 | |||
| First Place: $100, Certificate of Achievement, and Goody Bag, Association for Women in Science, Palo Alto Chapter | |||||||
| Durga | Ganesh | 1st Award, Medicine / Health / Gerontology Category | Determining the Most Effective Preservative to Increase the Lungs Viability over time before Transfer (Medicine / Health / Gerontology) | 9 | |||
| Albert | Ge | 2nd Award, Medicine / Health / Gerontology Category | Evaluation of the Interleukin-16 Knockout Mouse as a Novel Model of Human Autoimmune Lymphoproliferative Syndrome ALPS (Medicine / Health / Gerontology) | 12 | |||
| Akruti Mahesh | Gupta | 2nd place, $30 check, and a Book, Apatite to Zircon, Inc. Award | A Novel Design for Wind Technology that Harnesses Wind Energy in Urban Areas (Engineering) | 11 | |||
| Amrita Vaishnavi | Iyer | 1st Award, Medicine / Health / Gerontology Category | The Effect of Resveratrol on the Lifespan of Overfed Drosophila melanogaster (Medicine / Health / Gerontology) | 9 | |||
| Adish | Jain | 1st Award, Behavioral / Social Category | The Effectiveness of Lowering Senior Citizens' Social Isolation Through a Website (Behavioral / Social) | 9 | |||
| Maitreyee Ramprasad | Joshi | 1st Award, Engineering Category | Use of Haptic Rendering Devices to Bring Tactile Sensation to Upper Extremity Prosthetics (Engineering) | 11 | |||
| Honorable Mention: Certificate of Achievement, United States Army | |||||||
| Eesha | Khare | Grand Prize - Best of Championship - Physical Sciences - Trip to Intel ISEF, Santa Clara Valley Science & Engineering Fair Assn - Board of Directors Awards - High School | Design and Synthesis of Hydrogenated TiO2-Polyaniline Nanorods for Flexible High-Performance Supercapacitors (Chemistry) | 12 | |||
| $100 First Prize, Morgan Lewis | |||||||
| Top finalist High School projects, The Synopsys Outreach Foundation n+1 Prize | |||||||
| 1st Award, Chemistry Category | |||||||
| $50 Voucher, Certificate of Achievement, Letter of Congratulations, and ONR Medallion, United States Navy and Marine Corps | |||||||
| 2nd Place Award - $75, Popular Science Magazine Subscription, and Certificate of Achievement, ASM International, A Society for Materials, Santa Clara Valley Chapter | |||||||
| 2nd Place: $50, Book, and Certificate of Achievement, Society of Vacuum Coaters (SVC) | |||||||
| 2nd Place: Messenger Bag, Notepad, Framed Certificate of Achievement, and Letter, United States Army | |||||||
| Somya | Khare | 2nd Award, Biochemistry / Microbiology Category | Improving Binding Affinity of the Calbindin-9k Protein to Develop an Efficient Calcium Biosensor (Biochemistry / Microbiology) | 10 | |||
| Timothy W. | Lin | First Place: $100, Certificate of Achievement, and Goody Bag, Santa Clara County Biotech Education Partnership (SCCBEP) | Effect of Chinese Herbal Medicine on C. elegans Genetically Modified to Exhibit Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis Symptoms. (Medicine / Health / Gerontology) | 11 | |||
| James | Ma | IEEE Award for Electro-Technology ($50 and Framed Certificate), Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers | Design, Fabrication and Calibration of a Temperature Gradient Sensor for Use in the Study of Life in the Extreme. (Engineering) | 11 | |||
| Nidhi Ajay | Navaratna | Certificate of Achievement, NASA Ames Research Center | Pattern Identification and Prediction of M-and-X-class Solar Flares and Coronal Mass Ejections Through Computerized Analysis of Solar Magnetograms (Earth / Space Sciences) | 10 | |||
| Akhil Amar | Padmanabha | 1st Award, Behavioral / Social Category | The Effectiveness of Lowering Senior Citizens' Social Isolation Through a Website (Behavioral / Social) | 9 | |||
| Ruchi Sandeep | Pandya | 2nd Award, Environmental Sciences Category | A practical approach to water purification using filtration by photoactivated Degussa P25 making use of nanoparticles to eliminate pathogens and organic impurities. (Environmental Sciences) | 10 | |||
| $100 and Certificate of Achievement, Schonert Award | |||||||
| Sonia S. | Raghuram | Honorable Mention, Computers / Mathematics Category | Video Analysis Algorithm to Differentiate the Beating Patterns of Adult and Fetal Cardiomyocytes (Computers / Mathematics) | 10 | |||
| First Place: $100, Certificate of Achievement, and Goody Bag, Association for Women in Science, Palo Alto Chapter | |||||||
| Kimberly Mary | Vaz | 1st Place: $1000 Scholarship to SJSU College of Engineering and Certificate of Achievement, San Jose State University College of Engineering | The Development of a User-Friendly Automated Sprinkler Control System with Emphasis on Water Optimization Customized for Different Plants. (Engineering) | 12 | |||
| Nancy Jianing | Zhou | 2nd Award, Biochemistry / Microbiology Category | The Effects of Sources Attempting the Renaturation of Denatured Catalase on its Enzymatic Activity (Biochemistry / Microbiology) | 11 | |||
| Jason | Lee | Arka | Bagchi | 1st Award, Environmental Sciences Category | The Maximization of CO2 Intake Through Phytochrome Genetic Overexpression, Chemical Enhancement, and Fungal Alteration (Environmental Sciences) | 9 | |
| Rachit | Kataria | 1st Award, Environmental Sciences Category | The Maximization of CO2 Intake Through Phytochrome Genetic Overexpression, Chemical Enhancement, and Fungal Alteration (Environmental Sciences) | 10 | |||
| Ankush | Rayabhari | Honorable Mention, Engineering Category | Electronic Touch Sensor for Detecting Human Alertness (Engineering) | 9 | |||
| Kathleen | Loia | Vishwajit | Kode | Top finalist High School projects, The Synopsys Outreach Foundation n+1 Prize | Development of Magnetite Expressing Bacteriophage and Cells for High Resolution MRI Tracking In Vivo (Medicine / Health / Gerontology) | 11 | |
| Ashwin | Srikant | Honorable Mention, Biochemistry / Microbiology Category | An Analysis of the Effect of Histone Deacytelase Inhibitors on Cohesin Function in Wild-type and Mutant varieties of Saccharomyces cerevisae (Biochemistry / Microbiology) | 11 | |||
| Roy | Rocklin | Vibhav Satsheel | Altekar | 2nd Award, Engineering Category | The Quest to Engineer a Cheap Efficient Microbial Fuel Cell (Engineering) | 11 | |
| Aayush | Gupta | Certificate of Achievement, NASA Ames Research Center | The Effect of the Magnetic Poles of the Planets on the Sun (Earth / Space Sciences) | 9 | |||
| Sherry | Sarkar | Certificate of Achievement, NOAA Medallion, and Letter, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration | A Way to Stop Algae Blooms: Separating Fertilizer from Storm Drain Runoff (Environmental Sciences) | 9 | |||
| Brittany | Stevens | Hima Varsha | Rajana | 1st Award, Behavioral / Social Category | This Is Your Brain on Music : The Effect of Music on Academic Performance in Teenagers (Behavioral / Social) | 10 | |