Monta Vista High School
Project Awards 2014
Synopsys Silicon Valley Science and Technology Championship
| School | Teacher | Student | Award | Title | Gr | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Monta Vista High School | Scott | DeRuiter | Ajay | Jain | Honorable Mention Student Award: $50 and Certificate of Achievement, Association for Computing Machinery, San Francisco Bay Area Professional Chapter | An Autonomous Networked Robotic Nurse for Patients and the Elderly for Care, Monitoring, Diagnostics and Supply Delivery (Engineering) | 10 |
| 1st Award, Engineering Category | |||||||
| $100 cash prize for Internet of Things project, TechLab Education | |||||||
| 1st Place: Certificate of Achievement, and Programmable Robot, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) Intelligent Systems Award | |||||||
| One-day immersive trip to Firebase to work on API project, TechLab Education | |||||||
| Shuheng | Niu | Honorable Mention, Computers / Mathematics Category | Removing Topic-Specific Words to Improve Accuracy of Authorship Attribution (Computers / Mathematics) | 9 | |||
| Renee | Fallon | Anusha | Agarwal | 2nd Place Award - $125 and Certificate of Achievement, American Association for Laboratory Animal Science, Northern California Branch | The Effects of Temperature on Somatic Pain (Behavioral / Social) | 9 | |
| Jonathan F | Fung | 2nd Award, Bioinformatics Category | Prognostic Biomarker Tool for Glioblastoma: A Multi-Dimensional Cluster Analysis to Identify Target Genomic Signatures (Bioinformatics) | 10 | |||
| Ameena | Golding | Honorable Mention, Behavioral / Social Category | Short Term Memory Retrieval via Visual and Verbal Stimuli: The Effects of Age and Sex (Behavioral / Social) | 11 | |||
| Abishak | Govindarajan | Honorable Mention, Biochemistry / Microbiology Category | Creating Green Energy from Paper Towels through Microbial Fuel Cells (Biochemistry / Microbiology) | 9 | |||
| Scott Carson | Haskell | 2nd Award, Biochemistry / Microbiology Category | Effects of Extremely Low Frequency (ELF) Magnetic Fields on Daphnia and their Population Growth (Biochemistry / Microbiology) | 11 | |||
| 3rd Place Award - $100 and Certificate of Achievement, American Association for Laboratory Animal Science, Northern California Branch | |||||||
| Aditi | Jain | 2nd Award, Botany Category | Can the Laccase Enzyme Released from Botrytis cinerea (Noble Rot) During Wine Fermentation Treat Candida Yeast Infections? (Botany) | 9 | |||
| Honorable Mention Certificate, Santa Clara County Biotech Education Partnership (SCCBEP) | |||||||
| Keerthi Vasan | Krishnan | Honorable Mention, Bioinformatics Category | Reducing false-positive biopsies: a unique RT image processing technique as a filter on mammography images for BI-RADS 4 assessment and new thresholds for intervention. (Bioinformatics) | 10 | |||
| Julia H | Miao | 2nd Award, Computers / Mathematics Category | Mammographic Diagnosis for Breast Cancer Biopsy Predictions Using Support Vector Machine (SVM) Learning Classification (Computers / Mathematics) | 11 | |||
| Bhavana | Pabbisetti | 2nd Award, Environmental Sciences Category | What is the effect of the amount of selenium in soil on the selenium intake in plants? (Environmental Sciences) | 10 | |||
| Shriya Reddy | Perati | Honorable Mention: Certificate of Achievement, and Goody Bag, Association for Women in Science, Palo Alto Chapter | The Effect of Pesticides and Herbicides on Nitrogen Fixing Bacteria Isolated from Legumes and Soil (Environmental Sciences) | 9 | |||
| Yana | Petri | 1st Award, Zoology Category | The effects of ingestion of spores and proteinaceous parasporal crystals produced by Bacillus thuringiensis on the survival and olfactory associative learning performance of adult honeybees of the species Apis mellifera. (Zoology) | 11 | |||
| Honorable Mention: Certificate of Achievement, and Goody Bag, Association for Women in Science, Palo Alto Chapter | |||||||
| Plaque and $100 check, and Compete for $1000 Outstanding Young Scientist Award, California Association of Professional Scientists | |||||||
| Rhea | Rangarajan | 2nd Award, Environmental Sciences Category | Ocean Acidification: The Effect of Carbonate on Mussel Shells (Environmental Sciences) | 9 | |||
| Aiswarya Sunil | Sankar | 1st Award, Medicine / Health / Gerontology Category | Reducing Hyper-excitation in Autism: A Test of Various Medicinal Herb's Ability to Increase Inhibition in the Roots of Arabidopsis Thaliana (Medicine / Health / Gerontology) | 11 | |||
| Certificate of Achievement, Medallion, and Letter, United States Public Health Service Award | |||||||
| Soumya | Siravara | 2nd Award, Chemistry Category | Determination of Residual Effect of Silver Nanoparticles on Food (Chemistry) | 9 | |||
| 1st place: $100, Certificate of Achievement, Letter, and IFT Information, Northern California Institute of Food Technologists (NCIFT) | |||||||
| Honorable Mention: Certificate of Achievement, and Goody Bag, Association for Women in Science, Palo Alto Chapter | |||||||
| Elizabeth Ye | Wang | 2nd Award, Engineering Category | A Novel, Bio-inspired Soft Robot For Disaster Relief Via Raspberry Pi Command System and Cutting Edge Movement Mechanism (Engineering) | 9 | |||
| Best Project: $50, Certificate of Achievement, and Voucher for Materials and a Safe Boating Course, United States Coast Guard Auxiliary | |||||||
| Debbie | Frazier | Nadine Christina | Aderhold | High School Finalist Letter, The Synopsys Outreach Foundation n+1 Prize | The Effect of Temperature and Humidity on the Tensile Strength of Synthetic Spider Silk Grown From E. Coli (Biochemistry / Microbiology) | 9 | |
| 2nd Award, Biochemistry / Microbiology Category | |||||||
| Certificate of Achievement, NASA Ames Research Center | |||||||
| Nikhil | Cheerla | 1st Award, Bioinformatics Category | Accurate Detection of Skin Cancer Using Multi-Stage Neural Networks (Bioinformatics) | 9 | |||
| Special Award: $75 and Certificate of Achievement, Varian Medical Systems | |||||||
| Ajay | Gopinath | Honorable Mention, Computers / Mathematics Category | Characterizing the deformation of leukemic neutrophils from large deformations to understand cancer cell migration (Computers / Mathematics) | 11 | |||
| Josephine | Koe | 2nd Award, Computers / Mathematics Category | Generating the Infinite List of Prime Numbers (Computers / Mathematics) | 9 | |||
| Anurag | Singh | 1st Award, Engineering Category | Parking Pigeon: Application for Enhanced Localization in Multi Story Parking Lots (Engineering) | 9 | |||
| $100 and Certificate of Achievement, Fair Manager's Graphic Design Award | |||||||
| Kaushik | Tandon | 1st Award, Engineering Category | Parking Pigeon: Application for Enhanced Localization in Multi Story Parking Lots (Engineering) | 9 | |||
| $100 and Certificate of Achievement, Fair Manager's Graphic Design Award | |||||||
| Andrew | Goldenkranz | Dhanya | Mahesh | Certificate of Achievement; if registered, medal, subscription & opportunity to advance to national competition for trip to Stockholm, Stockholm Junior Water Prize | The Effect of Charcoal Filtering on Chemical Composition of Water (Environmental Sciences) | 9 | |
| Ishaan T | Shah | 2nd Award, Medicine / Health / Gerontology Category | The Contribution of Ethanol in the Extracellular Matrix on Lipoppolysaccharide-Challenged White Blood Cells from Sheep Blood to Lactate Production. (Medicine / Health / Gerontology) | 10 | |||
| Vamsee | Vemulapalli | 2nd Award, Medicine / Health / Gerontology Category | The Contribution of Ethanol in the Extracellular Matrix on Lipoppolysaccharide-Challenged White Blood Cells from Sheep Blood to Lactate Production. (Medicine / Health / Gerontology) | 10 | |||
| Kavita | Gupta | Disha | Bahl | 2nd Award, Biochemistry / Microbiology Category | Role of Wnt3a in Restoring the Osteogenic Capacity of Aged Bone Marrow (Biochemistry / Microbiology) | 11 | |
| Shruthi Reddy | Perati | 1st Award, Medicine / Health / Gerontology Category | A Histological Study of the Effects of Wnt Signaling on Cementum Thickness and Regeneration in the First Maxillary Molar (Medicine / Health / Gerontology) | 12 | |||
| Anshul | Ramachandran | 1st Award, Chemistry Category | Determination of Accurate Molecular Models of Polyatomic Ions in Aqueous Solutions by Molecular Dynamics Simulations (Chemistry) | 12 | |||
| David I-Hsuan | Wang | Certificate of Achievement, Ricoh Corporation | Practicality of Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide Capture by Bubbling Ambient Air through Sodium Hydroxide Solution (Environmental Sciences) | 11 | |||
| Joe | Kim | Natalie | Ng | 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 | An Intragenomic Screening Tool to Identify Functional Regulatory Single Nucleotide Polymorphisms (rSNPs) Impacting Disease (Bioinformatics) | 12 | |
| $1000 Grand Prize, Morgan Lewis | |||||||
| 1st Award, Bioinformatics Category | |||||||
| Supriya | Moore | Donghoon | Kang | Honorable Mention, Environmental Sciences Category | The Effect of Photodegradation of Escherichia Coli on Water Quality Parameters (Environmental Sciences) | 11 | |
| Jon | Stark | Siddharth | Prasad | 2nd Award, Computers / Mathematics Category | Walks on Primes in Imaginary Quadratic Fields (Computers / Mathematics) | 11 | |
| Certificate of Achievement and Letter to Teacher, Mu Alpha Theta | |||||||
| Certificate of Achievement and Pewter Medallion Voucher, Yale Science and Engineering Association | |||||||
| Intel ECS Certificate of Achievement and Forms to Submit for $200, Intel Excellence in Computer Science Award | |||||||