Monta Vista High School

Project Awards 2013

Synopsys Silicon Valley Science and Technology Championship

School Teacher Student Award Title Gr
Monta Vista High School  Sheila Altmann  YoungJean  Han 2nd Award, Behavioral / Social Category The Correlation Between the Bed Time Variability and Short-Term Memory Retrieval (Behavioral / Social) 10
   Jim Birdsong  Julia H Miao Honorable Mention, Computers / Mathematics Category Breast Cancer Diagnosis and Prognosis Using Machine Learning Based on Backpropagation Neural Network (Computers / Mathematics) 10
              Certificate of Achievement and Letter to Teacher, Mu Alpha Theta    
              Gift Card and Certificate of Achievement, Society of Women Engineers    
              IEEE Award for Electro-Technology ($100 to Team and Framed Certificate), Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers    
        Kathleen H. Miao Honorable Mention, Computers / Mathematics Category Breast Cancer Diagnosis and Prognosis Using Machine Learning Based on Backpropagation Neural Network (Computers / Mathematics) 12
              Certificate of Achievement and Letter to Teacher, Mu Alpha Theta    
              Gift Card and Certificate of Achievement, Society of Women Engineers    
              IEEE Award for Electro-Technology ($100 to Team and Framed Certificate), Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers    
   Renee Fallon  Disha  Bahl 1st Award, Botany Category The Effect of Taraxacum officinale on Escherichia coli and Serratia marscecens (Botany) 10
        Sumanth  Balaraman 2nd Award, Engineering Category Using Smartphones to Screen for and Correct Hearing Loss (Engineering) 11
              Certificate of Achievement and Pewter Medallion Voucher, Yale Science and Engineering Association    
              Honorable Mention: Certificate of Achievement, United States Army    
        Jiangyan  Du Honorable Mention, Environmental Sciences Category Effect of Surrounding Conditions on Shewanella oneidensis in the Reduction of Chromium (VI) (Environmental Sciences) 11
        Jonathan F Fung 1st Award, Biochemistry / Microbiology Category Monosodium Glutamate: A Potential Ligand for mGluRs One and Five that causes Microtubule Depolymerization in Alzheimer's disease? (Biochemistry / Microbiology) 9
              $100 and Certificate of Achievement, Fair Manager's Graphic Design Award    
              Honorable Mention: Certificate of Achievement and Goody Bag, Santa Clara County Biotech Education Partnership (SCCBEP)    
        Nishant  Jain $100 First Prize, Morgan Lewis 3D Markerless Tracking in Augmented Reality:A Moblie Interface for the Global Deployment of Spatial Anatomical Education (Computers / Mathematics) 11
              3rd Place Student Award: $120 and Certificate of Achievement, Association for Computing Machinery, San Francisco Bay Area Professional Chapter    
              Honorable Mention, Computers / Mathematics Category    
        Venkata Soumith Jonnakuti Honorable Mention, Medicine / Health / Gerontology Category Effectiveness of Serratia Marcescens on the Friability of Atherosclerotic Plaque (Medicine / Health / Gerontology) 11
              Special Award: $75 and Certificate of Achievement, Varian Medical Systems    
        Sandhya  Kannan 2nd Award, Biochemistry / Microbiology Category Testing Biofilm Disassembly Using Glycoside Hydrolase Enzymes on E.coli Biofilm Matrices (Biochemistry / Microbiology) 9
        Ashish  Samaddar Honorable Mention, Medicine / Health / Gerontology Category Effectiveness of Serratia Marcescens on the Friability of Atherosclerotic Plaque (Medicine / Health / Gerontology) 11
              Special Award: $75 and Certificate of Achievement, Varian Medical Systems    
        Aiswarya Sunil Sankar Honorable Mention, Medicine / Health / Gerontology Category Reduction of Glutamate Levels in a Saline Solution through the Combined Administration of Insulin and Glucagon (Medicine / Health / Gerontology) 10
              Honorable Mention: Certificate of Achievement and Goody Bag, Santa Clara County Biotech Education Partnership (SCCBEP)    
        Vishnu  Shankar 2nd Award, Bioinformatics Category Application Of a Novel De-Novo and Homology-based Algorithm to Predict the 3D Structure and Dynamics of Human DP G-Protein Coupled Receptor for Cardiovascular and Immune Systems (Bioinformatics) 11
        Anika N. Ullah Honorable Mention, Medicine / Health / Gerontology Category Is There a Difference Between Genders In the Neuronal Markers of Myenteric Plexus, and Could this Explain Why Some Common G1 Ailments Preferentially Affect Females? (Medicine / Health / Gerontology) 11
              First Place: $100, Certificate of Achievement, and Goody Bag, Association for Women in Science, Palo Alto Chapter    
        Molly M. Vora 2nd Award, Medicine / Health / Gerontology Category Facial Dysmorphologies Caused By an Imbalance in Wnt Signaling (Medicine / Health / Gerontology) 11
        Jeremy Chi-Chao Wang 1st Award, Botany Category The Effect of Taraxacum officinale on Escherichia coli and Serratia marscecens (Botany) 10
        Kathryn Sarah Wong Honorable Mention Certificate of Achievement, MedImmune Pharmacokinetics study of FC-FLT3L (Medicine / Health / Gerontology) 12
   Debbie Frazier  Ajay B Gopinath Honorable Mention, Computers / Mathematics Category Computational Modeling of Phytoplanktonic Organisms to Resolve "The Paradox of the Plankton" in Aquatic Biology (Computers / Mathematics) 10
        Yuhui (Anna)  Liu First Place: $1000 American Express Gift Card and Framed Certificate of Achievement, Agilent Technologies Graphene as a Fluorescence Quencher in Quantitative Polymerase Chain Reaction (Biochemistry / Microbiology) 11
        Namrata  Ramani Honorable Mention, Physics Category The Optimization of The Strength of Porous Scaffolds in Tissue Engineering Through Silicon Coating (Physics) 11
              2nd Place - $75, Framed Certificate of Achievement, and Popular Science Magazine Subscription, SAMPE - Society for the Advancement of Material and Process Engineering    
   Kavita Gupta  Shruthi Reddy Perati Grand Prize Alternate - Biological Sciences - Trip to State Science Fair, Santa Clara Valley Science & Engineering Fair Assn - Board of Directors Awards - High School A Molecular Study of Ror2/Wnt Signaling Pathways and Their Effects on Facial Deformities During Embryonic Development (Medicine / Health / Gerontology) 11
              1st Award, Medicine / Health / Gerontology Category    
              Certificate of Achievement, Society for In Vitro Biology    
        Anshul Asawa Ramachandran 2nd Award, Computers / Mathematics Category Substructure Mining by Application of Weighted Molecular Bonds to a Simplicial Complex Representation of Molecules (Computers / Mathematics) 11
              Intel ECS Certificate of Achievement and Forms to Submit for $200, Intel Excellence in Computer Science Award    
   Joe Kim  Natalie  Ng Grand Prize - Best of Championship - Biological Sciences - Trip to Intel ISEF, Santa Clara Valley Science & Engineering Fair Assn - Board of Directors Awards - High School Advancing Precision Medicine: MicroRNA Prognostic Signatures and Prediction Models for Distant Metastasis-Free Survival in Breast Cancer (Bioinformatics) 11
              1st Award, Bioinformatics Category    
              Honorable Mention Certificate of Achievement, MedImmune    
   Jon Stark  Adyota  Gupta 1st Award, Engineering Category SmartVest: Redesigning and Revolutionizing the Conventional Bulletproof Vest (Engineering) 11
              1st Place: Messenger Bag, Notepad, Framed Certificate of Achievement, Letter, and Silver Medal, United States Army