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Project Awards 2013

Synopsys Silicon Valley Science and Technology Championship

School Teacher Student Award Title Gr
Privately Sponsored Project  Shanthi Adimoolam (Sponsor)  Kaushik  Shivakumar 1st Award, Physics Category Effects of Roller Coaster Configurations on the Car's Final Velocity (Physics) 6
   Gloria Carter (Mentor)  Gautam  Bulusu Honorable Mention, Medicine / Health / Gerontology Category Metadherin (MTDH/AEG1): A Novel Marker of Metastasis and Chemoresistance Expression in Lymph-node Negative Estrogen Positive/HER2 Negative (Luminal A Subtype) Breast Cancer Women (Medicine / Health / Gerontology) 9
   David Fryauf (Mentor)  Ramakrishnan  Menon 2nd Award, Engineering Category Carbon Enhanced Aluminum Oxide Memristor (Engineering) 12
              2nd place student - $50 and Certificate of Achievement, American Vacuum Society, Northern CA Chapter    
   Stefan Heller (Mentor)  Gabriel Sebastian Rossmann 1st Award, Computers / Mathematics Category Microfluidic Chip and Software Interface for Tissue Culturing Experiments (Computers / Mathematics) 11
   Vipin Jain (Mentor)  Diya  Jain 1st place - $150 and Certificate of Achievement, American Society of Civil Engineers An Economical Water Purifier for Under-Developed Countries (Engineering) 6
        Harsh N. Jain 1st place - $150 and Certificate of Achievement, American Society of Civil Engineers An Economical Water Purifier for Under-Developed Countries (Engineering) 8
   Pratibha Jain (Sponsor)  Rishabh  Jain 1st Award, Chemistry Category From Fields to Fuels (Chemistry) 7
   Jay Jawahar (Sponsor)  Shasvat Atman Jawahar 3rd Place Student Award: $50 and Certificate of Achievement, Association for Computing Machinery, San Francisco Bay Area Professional Chapter Diagnosing Breast Cancer using an Artificial Neural Network (Computers / Mathematics) 8
              2nd Award, Computers / Mathematics Category    
        Rohin  Prabhakaran 3rd Place Student Award: $50 and Certificate of Achievement, Association for Computing Machinery, San Francisco Bay Area Professional Chapter Diagnosing Breast Cancer using an Artificial Neural Network (Computers / Mathematics) 8
              2nd Award, Computers / Mathematics Category    
   Bruce Kawanami (Sponsor)  Spoorthi Venkata Davala HP PhotoSmart 6520 printer, Hewlett-Packard Laboratories The Inhibition of Escherichia Coli In Refrigerators Through the Use of Pulsed Electric Field Processing (Engineering) 11
        Ajay  Jain $1000 Grand Prize, Morgan Lewis Rapid Variable Density Map Acquisition Through a Novel Distributed Network of Autonomous Aerial Quadrotors Driven by Computer Vision Based Feature Targeting (Engineering) 9
              1st Award, Engineering Category    
              2nd Place: Messenger Bag, Notepad, Framed Certificate of Achievement, and Letter, United States Army    
              Honorable Mention: Student Membership to AIAA and Certificate of Achievement, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) Intelligent Systems Award    
        Paras  Jain $1000 Grand Prize, Morgan Lewis Rapid Variable Density Map Acquisition Through a Novel Distributed Network of Autonomous Aerial Quadrotors Driven by Computer Vision Based Feature Targeting (Engineering) 11
              1st Award, Engineering Category    
              2nd Place: Messenger Bag, Notepad, Framed Certificate of Achievement, and Letter, United States Army    
              Honorable Mention: Student Membership to AIAA and Certificate of Achievement, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) Intelligent Systems Award    
        Meera Arati Yellamraju Gift Card and Certificate of Achievement, Society of Women Engineers A Cane-Mounted Camera Device to Aid the Visually Impaired at an Intersection: The Application of an Image Analysis Algorithm to Detect Moving Vehicles (Engineering) 11
   Ralph Kling (Mentor)  Michael A. Kling 2nd Award, Engineering Category Magic Pen (Engineering) 11
              Certificate of Achievement and Pewter Medallion Voucher, Yale Science and Engineering Association    
   Manish Pandey (Sponsor)  Mayank  Pandey 2nd place student - $50 and Certificate of Achievement, American Vacuum Society, Northern CA Chapter 3D Optical Microscope (Engineering) 8
   Vibra Radiya (Mentor)  Anika  Radiya-Dixit Grand Prize - Best of Championship - Biological Sciences - Trip to Intel ISEF, Santa Clara Valley Science & Engineering Fair Assn - Board of Directors Awards - High School Comparison of Healthy vs. Diabetic Adipose-Derived Stem-Cell-Seeded Hydrogels for Topical Wound Healing (Medicine / Health / Gerontology) 12
              Top finalist High School projects, The Synopsys Outreach Foundation n+1 Prize    
              1st Award, Medicine / Health / Gerontology Category    
              $200, Certificate of Achievement, and Letter, Dr. Paul X. Callahan in memorium - a Top Biological HS project    
              Grade 12 Individual Project - $200 award, DuPont Industrial Biosciences    
   Roger Terrill (Mentor)  Shivam  Singhal 1st Award, Botany Category A Secret Cure: Evaluation of Curcuma Longa's Ability to Desist Hypothyroidism. (Botany) 6