Private
Project Awards 2011
Synopsys Silicon Valley Science and Technology Championship
| School | Teacher | Student | Award | Title | Gr | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| A Schmahl Science Workshop | Belinda | Schmahl | Sathya | Baskaran | HM Certificate of Award (from National APA org), American Psychological Association | Does Socialization Affect Interest in Activities? (Behavioral / Social) | 8 |
| Deepika C | Bodapati | $100 First Prize, Morgan Lewis | Engineering Peptides for Prostate Cancer Detection (Engineering) | 10 | |||
| 2nd Award, Engineering Category | |||||||
| Gift Card and Certificate, Society of Women Engineers | |||||||
| Audrey | DeGuzman | 2nd Award, Biochemistry / Microbiology Category | Testing Rates of Fermentation (Biochemistry / Microbiology) | 11 | |||
| Apoorva Rajiv | Dharmadhikari | Plaque and a $100 check, California Association of Professional Scientists | An Alternative Approach to the Sterile Insect Technique (Biochemistry / Microbiology) | 11 | |||
| Rachel Christine | Jue | 2nd Award, Biochemistry / Microbiology Category | Testing Rates of Fermentation (Biochemistry / Microbiology) | 11 | |||
| Anjini | Karthik | Isabelle Stone Award for Best Biological Science Projects - Trip to State Science Fair, Plaque, and $100, Santa Clara Valley Science & Engineering Fair Assn - Board of Directors Awards - Middle School | Green Gold: Maximizing Algal Biomass Production of Chlorella and Scenedesmus for Use in Biofuel (Environmental Sciences) | 7 | |||
| 1st Award, Environmental Sciences Category | |||||||
| Nitya | Mani | 1st Award, Environmental Sciences Category | Can Jatropha Oil be Converted into a Usable and Cost-Efficient Green Alternative Fuel? (Environmental Sciences) | 8 | |||
| Natalie | Ng | 1st Award, Biochemistry / Microbiology Category | Discovery of Macrophage Migration Inhibitory Factor (MIF) Antagonists by Large-Scale Structure-Based Virtual Screening (Biochemistry / Microbiology) | 9 | |||
| Certificate of Achievement and VIP visit to NASA-Ames, NASA Ames Research Center | |||||||
| Nisha | Parmeshwar | 2nd Place Award - $200, American Chemical Society, Santa Clara Valley Local Section | A Study of the Link Between Leucine at Position 374 of the MATP Protein and Hypopigmentation in Humans (Biochemistry / Microbiology) | 11 | |||
| GR 10-12 Third place $75 & certificate, Pauchon Foundation Award | |||||||
| Vishwaesh | Rajiv | 1st Award, Biochemistry / Microbiology Category | An Investigation of the Effects of Silencing HIF-1 in C.elegans to Study Hypoxic Stress Survival (Biochemistry / Microbiology) | 10 | |||
| 3rd Place Award - $100 each, American Chemical Society, Santa Clara Valley Local Section | |||||||
| Pranav G | Reddy | 1st Award, Biochemistry / Microbiology Category | The Effect of Natural Remedies on the Growth of Strep. pneumoneae & E. coli In Vitro. (Biochemistry / Microbiology) | 8 | |||
| Ahon | Sarkar | 1st Award, Medicine / Health / Gerontology Category | Effect of 3 SIRT-1 Inducers on the Production of Alzheimer's Causing Beta-Amyloid Plaques. (Medicine / Health / Gerontology) | 11 | |||
| Certificate of Outstanding Achievement, Society for In Vitro Biology | |||||||
| Check for $200 and certificate, Dr. Paul X. Callahan in memorium - a Top Biological HS project | |||||||
| Anin | Sayana | 1st Award, Medicine / Health / Gerontology Category | A Novel Therapeutic Solution for Rheumatoid Arthritis Using TNF and c-Fms Targeted Tyrosine Kinase Inhibition with 2,4-diaminopyrimidine and Arnica (Medicine / Health / Gerontology) | 7 | |||
| Nikash Dev | Shankar | Isabelle Stone Award for Best Biological Science Projects - Trip to State Science Fair, Plaque, and $100, Santa Clara Valley Science & Engineering Fair Assn - Board of Directors Awards - Middle School | Striking a Blow in Alzheimer's: Role of ApoE-Mediated Inflammatory Pathways on Tau Phosphorylation (Medicine / Health / Gerontology) | 8 | |||
| 1st Award, Medicine / Health / Gerontology Category | |||||||
| Vishnu | Shankar | Honorable Mention, Engineering Category | Naturally Efficient Computing Techniques to Build Molecular Logic Circuits (Engineering) | 9 | |||
| Certificate of Achievement and VIP visit to NASA-Ames, NASA Ames Research Center | |||||||
| Amrita | Singh | 2nd Award, Zoology Category | The Effect of Different Pairings of Male and Female Crickets on chirps (Zoology) | 6 | |||
| 2nd Place Award - $125 Cash and cert, American Association for Laboratory Animal Science, Northern California Branch | |||||||
| Sriram | Somasundaram | 1st Award, Medicine / Health / Gerontology Category | The Effect of Curcumin on Heliobacter pylori Growth, Probiotic Growth, and Iron Absorption in Vitro (Medicine / Health / Gerontology) | 8 | |||
| Amrita | Venkatraman | 1st Award, Biochemistry / Microbiology Category | Drink This Instead: Investigating the Various Antioxidants of Different Teas (Biochemistry / Microbiology) | 7 | |||
| 1st place $100 cash plus certificate, Northern California Institute of Food Technologists (NCIFT) | |||||||
| Steven Michael | Wang | 1st Award, Biochemistry / Microbiology Category | In Vitro Analysis of Gold Nanoparticles: Cancer Cell Uptake Kinetics and Novel IPL Treatment Modeled by Monte Carlo Simulations (Biochemistry / Microbiology) | 8 | |||
| GR 6-9: First Place, $75, T-shirt, Certificate, Society of Vacuum Coaters (SVC) | |||||||
| Archbishop Mitty High School | Ronald | Nicoletti | Arjun V | Balasingam | 1st Award, Engineering Category | M2D2: A Mechatronic Medicine Dispensing Device, Engineered From the Ground Up and Enabled with Computer Vision for Assisted Living at Home (Engineering) | 9 |
| IEEE Award for Electro-Technology ($50 & Framed Certificate), Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers | |||||||
| Bellarmine College Preparatory | Patrick | Adams | Nikhil | Buduma | 2nd Award, Biochemistry / Microbiology Category | Investigating the Effects of Histamine and Anti-histamines on Tetrahymena: A Model for Drug Discovery (Biochemistry / Microbiology) | 10 |
| First Place: $100 Cash, Achievement Certificate and Goody Bag, Santa Clara County Biotech Education Partnership (SCCBEP) | |||||||
| David | Cobb | Guillaume Daniel | Delepine | Honorable Mention Certificate, MedImmune | Longitudinal Profiling of Autoantibodies to Cytokines and Chemokines in Murine SLE Models (Biochemistry / Microbiology) | 12 | |
| 1st Award, Biochemistry / Microbiology Category | |||||||
| Michael | Janda | Alex | Powers | Grand Prize - Best of Championship - Physical Sciences - Trip to Intel ISEF, Santa Clara Valley Science & Engineering Fair Assn - Board of Directors Awards - High School | Investigation of Ideal Conditions to Retain Ascorbic Acid in Common Cooking Methods (Chemistry) | 10 | |
| 1st Award, Chemistry Category | |||||||
| Robert | Janke | Abrar | Choudhury | 1st Award, Earth / Space Sciences Category | Analyzing the Effects of M31 on its dSphs (Earth / Space Sciences) | 11 | |
| Carden Academy of Santa Clara | Anuradha | Murthy | Neha | Dhayanand | Family and Friends memberships to the Tech Museum, The Tech Museum of Innovation | Muscle Power to Electric Power (Engineering) | 7 |
| Gift Card and Certificate, Society of Women Engineers | |||||||
| Nithya Sai | Gundlapalli | 2nd Award, Chemistry Category | Do You C? Testing Ascorbic Acid and Glucose Levels in Oranges (Chemistry) | 7 | |||
| Aleksandar George | Kalman | GR 6-8 Certificate of Achievement, letter of congratulation, ONR Medallion, United States Navy and Marine Corps | Pulleys, the Force Magnifiers (Physics) | 7 | |||
| Saarini Bisana | Madhava | 2nd Award, Environmental Sciences Category | Toxic Ground : The Effect Of Phthalates On the Growth of Plants (Environmental Sciences) | 7 | |||
| Aditi | Mittal | 2nd Award, Environmental Sciences Category | Toxic Ground : The Effect Of Phthalates On the Growth of Plants (Environmental Sciences) | 7 | |||
| Vandana Karempudi | Reddy | 1st Award, Environmental Sciences Category | Goo Be Gone: Absorptivity of Different Sorbents to Clean Up Oil Spills (Environmental Sciences) | 6 | |||
| Kanika | Seth | 1st Award, Environmental Sciences Category | Goo Be Gone: Absorptivity of Different Sorbents to Clean Up Oil Spills (Environmental Sciences) | 6 | |||
| Samika Prakash | Shenoy | 2nd place $60 cash plus certificate, Northern California Institute of Food Technologists (NCIFT) | A Spice a Day Keeps the Doctor Away: Antimicrobial Activity of Spices (Biochemistry / Microbiology) | 8 | |||
| Book and certificate, Promethium Chapter of Iota Sigma Pi | |||||||
| Neha Agarwal | Tibrewal | GR 6-8 Certificate of Achievement, letter of congratulation, ONR Medallion, United States Navy and Marine Corps | Does Water Have Tension? Propelling a Raft by Changing Surface Tension (Physics) | 8 | |||
| Mallika Nithya | Yeleswarapu | 1st Award, Biochemistry / Microbiology Category | Too Salty? Optimizing Salt Concentration for DNA Extraction (Biochemistry / Microbiology) | 6 | |||
| Carden Day School of San Jose | David | Pardue | Benjamin J. | Ma | 1st Award, Physics Category | How to Fly a Coconut Without the Aid of a Swallow (Physics) | 6 |
| GR 06-08: HP 35s Scientific Calculator, Hewlett-Packard Laboratories | |||||||
| Clayton | Moore | 2nd Award, Chemistry Category | Do Sports Drinks Contain More Electrolytes Than Everyday Drinks (Chemistry) | 6 | |||
| Challenger - Middlefield -Palo Alto | Tini | Raman | Kriti | Lall | 2nd Award, Environmental Sciences Category | A Study of Mutant Algae for Hydrogen Production (Environmental Sciences) | 8 |
| Shai Manish | Mohan | 2nd Award, Environmental Sciences Category | Greywater: "To Sewage or To Plants?" (Effects of Greywater on Plants, Soil, and Worms) (Environmental Sciences) | 8 | |||
| Mayuka | Sarukkai | 2nd Award, Behavioral / Social Category | iPad Based Theory of Mind Screening Tool: Application for Autism Spectrum Disorders (Behavioral / Social) | 8 | |||
| Ericka | Rossi | Leela J. | Amladi | 2nd Award, Engineering Category | Designing Better Walking Devices (Engineering) | 8 | |
| IEEE Award for Electro-Technology ($50 & Framed Certificate), Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers | |||||||
| Anushka | Das | 1st Award, Environmental Sciences Category | A Study of Oil Spill Bioremediation Using Algae (Environmental Sciences) | 8 | |||
| Paramjyot | Singh | GR 6-8 Certificate of Achievement, letter of congratulation, ONR Medallion, United States Navy and Marine Corps | Green Eco-Friendly Computer Data Centers (Physics) | 8 | |||
| Challenger - Sunnyvale | Thuy-Anh | Nguyen | Nikhil | Bopardikar | 1st Award, Chemistry Category | Cholesterol Busters! (Chemistry) | 7 |
| Shreyan | Jain | 1st Award, Botany Category | Hydroponics vs.Aquaponics: Can Fish Wastes Provide Enough Nutrients to Sustain Plant Growth? (Botany) | 7 | |||
| Vidya Srinivas | Raghvendra | HM Certificate of Award (from National APA org), American Psychological Association | Facial Recognition with Imperfect Images (Behavioral / Social) | 8 | |||
| Arpita | Singhal | 2nd Award, Biochemistry / Microbiology Category | Relative Protein Content of Milk from Several Species. (Biochemistry / Microbiology) | 7 | |||
| Rachna Rajesh | Unadkat | Honorable Mention, Chemistry Category | Food Packaging - Do It Right! (Chemistry) | 8 | |||
| Challenger -Strawberry Park | Julie | Blackwell | Yuyuan | Chen | 2nd Award, Engineering Category | Speaking Roads! (Engineering) | 8 |
| Heather | Pelayo | Namrata Ramya | Balasingam | 1st Award, Physics Category | The Physics of the Party Balloon: On Laplace's Law, Nonlinear Elasticity, and their Implications to Cardiovascular Biomechanics (Physics) | 8 | |
| GR 6-8 Certificate of Achievement, letter of congratulation, ONR Medallion, United States Navy and Marine Corps | |||||||
| Balakumaran | Balasubramanian | Family and Friends memberships to the Tech Museum, The Tech Museum of Innovation | Hover Scooter (Engineering) | 6 | |||
| Rehan Sohail | Durrani | Family and Friends memberships to the Tech Museum, The Tech Museum of Innovation | Robo Emo (Engineering) | 6 | |||
| Arnav | Raha | Honorable Mention, Engineering Category | Floating Wind Turbines (Engineering) | 6 | |||
| Aleezah | Salmaan | Gift Card and Certificate, Society of Women Engineers | Water Conservation (Engineering) | 7 | |||
| Andrew Stanley | Sundaram | 1st Award, Behavioral / Social Category | Multi-tasking: Efficient or Counterproductive? (Behavioral / Social) | 7 | |||
| Delphi Academy of Santa Clara | Nita | Kumar | Akshay | Chacko | Honorable Mention, Environmental Sciences Category | Algae Cultivation for Use as a Biofuel (Environmental Sciences) | 7 |
| Anjali | Ganguly | Honorable Mention, Environmental Sciences Category | Algae Cultivation for Use as a Biofuel (Environmental Sciences) | 7 | |||
| Varun | Joshi | Honorable Mention, Environmental Sciences Category | Algae Cultivation for Use as a Biofuel (Environmental Sciences) | 8 | |||
| Granada Islamic School | Shagufta | Akhtar | Feroz Ahmed | Abbassi | Honorable Mention, Computers / Mathematics Category | Turbo Wi-Fi (Computers / Mathematics) | 7 |
| Sumizah | Qureshi | Hiba Ziyad | Dahbour | Honorable Mention, Chemistry Category | Synthesis of Biodiesel (Chemistry) | 8 | |
| Roxanna | Hashemi | 1st Award, Physics Category | The Effect of the Length, Weight, Shape, and Material on Maximizing Wind Energy (Physics) | 6 | |||
| $50 Cash Award, Hegland Award | |||||||
| Certificate of Achievement, Ricoh Corporation | |||||||
| Zahra Bismah | Masood | Certificate of Outstanding Achievement, American Meteorological Society | Carbon Dioxide and Global Warming (Environmental Sciences) | 6 | |||
| Greene Scholars Program | Gloria | Whitaker-Daniels | Toure Erik | Oliver | $50 Cash award, San Jose State University Student Affiliates of the American Chemical Society | Glowing Water (Chemistry) | 6 |
| Harker School - High School Campus | Richard | Barber | Shreya A | Nathan | 1st Award, Chemistry Category | Maximizing Device Efficiency and Stability in Organic P3HT:PCBOD Based Photovoltaic Cells (Chemistry) | 12 |
| 3rd Place Award - $100 each, American Chemical Society, Santa Clara Valley Local Section | |||||||
| Gr 9-12, 2nd Place Award - $75 Cash, magazine Subscription, Certificate, ASM International, A Society for Materials, Santa Clara Valley Chapter | |||||||
| GR: 10-12: Third Place, $25, T-Shirt, Certificate, Society of Vacuum Coaters (SVC) | |||||||
| Chris | Spenner | Prag | Batra | Grade 11 or 12 team - $400 cash award, Genencor Biotechnology Awards | Novel Methods of Identifying Dark Matter (Physics) | 11 | |
| Special Award :$75 &Certificate, Varian Medical Systems | |||||||
| Paulomi | Bhattacharya | 1st Award, Environmental Sciences Category | Optimizing the Microbial Fuel Cell-Microbial Electrolysis Cell Coupled System: A Novel Anaerobic Design for Hydrogen Generation (Environmental Sciences) | 10 | |||
| Certificate of Achievement and VIP visit to NASA-Ames, NASA Ames Research Center | |||||||
| Certificate, NOAA Medallion, letter, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration | |||||||
| Gr 9-12-$50 Gift Certificate, Certificate of Achievement, letter of congratulations, ONR Medallion, United States Navy and Marine Corps | |||||||
| Vikas Chandra | Bhetanabhotla | Grand Prize - Best of Championship - Physical Sciences - Trip to Intel ISEF, Santa Clara Valley Science & Engineering Fair Assn - Board of Directors Awards - High School | A Theoretical Study of Factors Affecting Molecular Specificity in Hyperpolarized MRI Scans (Physics) | 9 | |||
| 1st Award, Physics Category | |||||||
| Certificate of Achievement and VIP visit to NASA-Ames, NASA Ames Research Center | |||||||
| Lucy | Cheng | Honorable Mention, Medicine / Health / Gerontology Category | Evaluating Mitigation Strategies for Infectious Disease Through Analysis of Social Networks (Medicine / Health / Gerontology) | 11 | |||
| Zareen | Choudhury | Honorable Mention, Environmental Sciences Category | Combating Sudden Oak Death: Testing Novel Treatments to Immunize Foliar Hosts Against P. ramorum (Environmental Sciences) | 9 | |||
| Govinda | Dasu | Grade 11 or 12 team - $400 cash award, Genencor Biotechnology Awards | Novel Methods of Identifying Dark Matter (Physics) | 11 | |||
| Special Award :$75 &Certificate, Varian Medical Systems | |||||||
| Frederic Nicholas | Enea | 2nd Award, Engineering Category | Improving Photovoltaic Panel Efficiency via Dual Axis Sun Tracking (Engineering) | 11 | |||
| HM : Certificate of Achievement, United States Army | |||||||
| Varun | Gudapati | Honorable Mention, Medicine / Health / Gerontology Category | Correlations Between Ethnicity, Anthropometric Data, Metabolic Abnormalities, and Cardiovascular Health (Medicine / Health / Gerontology) | 10 | |||
| Anika | Gupta | 2nd Award, Biochemistry / Microbiology Category | The Fight Against Superbugs: Relative Efficacies of Different Combinations in Destroying P. fluorescens and S. epidermidis (Biochemistry / Microbiology) | 9 | |||
| Divyahans | Gupta | Certificate of Achievement, letter to teacher, Mu Alpha Theta | A Comparative Analysis of Common Sorting Algorithms with an Optimization of Mergesort (Engineering) | 9 | |||
| Abhinav | Khanna | 1st Award, Behavioral / Social Category | The Effects of Caffeine on Short Term Memory Retention (Behavioral / Social) | 11 | |||
| Revanth | Kosaraju | Grand Prize - Best of Championship - Biological Sciences - Trip to Intel ISEF, Santa Clara Valley Science & Engineering Fair Assn - Board of Directors Awards - High School | A Novel Perfusion-Based Protocol for Decellularization of Adipose Tissue on a Bioreactor (Biochemistry / Microbiology) | 11 | |||
| Finalist, The Synopsys Outreach Foundation n+1 Prize | |||||||
| 1st Award, Biochemistry / Microbiology Category | |||||||
| Payal N. | Modi | 3rd Place HS Award - $25 Cash plus cert, American Society of Civil Engineers | The Relationship between Porosities and Dry Percolation Rates in Various Soil Samples. (Environmental Sciences) | 10 | |||
| Varun | Mohan | $100 Cash Award to Grades 9-10 plus cert, Trimble Navigation, Ltd. | The Butterfly Effect and Chaos: The Study of Double Pendulum (Physics) | 9 | |||
| Avinash | Nayak | 2nd Place Award - $75 Cash plus framed cert and subscription, Gr 9-12, SAMPE - Society for the Advancement of Material and Process Engineering | Frequency and Acoustic SoundProofing (Physics) | 9 | |||
| GR 09-10: HP PW460t Digital Camera, Hewlett-Packard Laboratories | |||||||
| Suchita | Nety | 2nd Award, Chemistry Category | Investigation of Synthetic Complex Coacervates as Medical Adhesives. (Chemistry) | 10 | |||
| $50 Cash award, San Jose State University Student Affiliates of the American Chemical Society | |||||||
| 1st Place Award - $100 Cash plus framed certs and subscription, Gr 9-12, SAMPE - Society for the Advancement of Material and Process Engineering | |||||||
| Daniel Ryan | Pak | Certificate of Achievement; & opportunity to advance to Stockholm competition, Stockholm Junior Water Prize | Affordable and Effective Methods to Test Water Quality (Environmental Sciences) | 9 | |||
| Anika | Radiya-Dixit | 2nd Award, Medicine / Health / Gerontology Category | The Efficacy of Single, Personalized Nutritive Scores for Foods in Making Healthy Diet Choices (Medicine / Health / Gerontology) | 10 | |||
| Ramya | Rangan | Honorable Mention, Medicine / Health / Gerontology Category | Evaluating Mitigation Strategies for Infectious Disease Through Analysis of Social Networks (Medicine / Health / Gerontology) | 11 | |||
| Pooja Dimple | Shah | Honorable Mention Award-Magazine Subscription and Framed Certificate, ASM International, A Society for Materials, Santa Clara Valley Chapter | Understanding the Corrosive Behavior of Stents for Life Science Applications (Chemistry) | 10 | |||
| Rahul | Sridhar | $100 First Prize, Morgan Lewis | Multidocument Text Summarization Using Spectral Clustering (Computers / Mathematics) | 9 | |||
| 1st Award, Computers / Mathematics Category | |||||||
| Special Award :$75 &Certificate, Varian Medical Systems | |||||||
| Christopher Steven | Sund | 1st Award, Physics Category | The Effect of an Electromagnet Field on the Spontaneous Emission of Crystals (Physics) | 10 | |||
| Vikram | Sundar | $100 First Prize, Morgan Lewis | An Algorithm to Determine Protein Structure Using Secondary and Tertiary Structure Prediction (Engineering) | 9 | |||
| 2nd Award, Engineering Category | |||||||
| Ravi | Tadinada | 1st Award, Physics Category | The Effect of an Electromagnet Field on the Spontaneous Emission of Crystals (Physics) | 10 | |||
| Claudia Kaya | Tischler | 2nd Award, Botany Category | Growing Up with the Vitamin B Family (Botany) | 9 | |||
| Kiran N | Vodrahalli | 1st Award, Engineering Category | Increasing Silicon Solar Cell Efficiency by Improving Light Absorbance with a Near-Zero Reflectance Nano-Textured Surface (Engineering) | 12 | |||
| $50 check and certificate, Wireless Communications Alliance | |||||||
| 1st place student- High School - $100 plus cert, American Vacuum Society, Northern CA Chapter | |||||||
| IEEE Award for Electro-Technology ($50 & Framed Certificate), Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers | |||||||
| Travis & Wells Charging Stand, Computer Backpack, Leeds Scripto Flash Jotter Bundle Set and Award Certificate in Folder, United States Air Force | |||||||
| Harker School - Middle School Campus | Lorna | Claerbout | Samyukta | Yagati | 1st Award, Botany Category | The Effects of Sulfur Deprivation on Hydrogen Production in Algae (Botany) | 8 |
| Ilona | Davies | Vineet Sai | Kosaraju | Honorable Mention, Environmental Sciences Category | The Effect of Electrode Material on the Efficiency of a Microbial Fuel Cell (Environmental Sciences) | 7 | |
| 1st Place Award - $100 Cash plus framed certs and subscription, Gr 6-8, SAMPE - Society for the Advancement of Material and Process Engineering | |||||||
| GR 6-9: Second Place, $50, T-shirt, Certificate, Society of Vacuum Coaters (SVC) | |||||||
| Archana | Podury | Honorable Mention, Botany Category | Transpiration: A Freshwater Source (Botany) | 8 | |||
| Scott | Kley Contini | Andrew Cheng | Jin | 1st Award, Biochemistry / Microbiology Category | Effects of Triclosan on Anti-Bacterial Resistance (Biochemistry / Microbiology) | 8 | |
| Stanley | Xie | 1st Award, Biochemistry / Microbiology Category | Effects of Triclosan on Anti-Bacterial Resistance (Biochemistry / Microbiology) | 8 | |||
| Benjamin | Morgensen | Sneha Shri | Bhetanabhotla | 1st Award, Physics Category | A Study of Osmotic Energy (Physics) | 6 | |
| Certificate of Achievement, Ricoh Corporation | |||||||
| GR 6-8 Certificate of Achievement, letter of congratulation, ONR Medallion, United States Navy and Marine Corps | |||||||
| Daniel | Sommer | Rishabh | Jain | 2nd Award, Physics Category | Hybrid Solar Cells: The Best of Both Worlds? (Physics) | 8 | |
| Certificate of Achievement and VIP visit to NASA-Ames, NASA Ames Research Center | |||||||
| Gr 6-8, 2nd Place Award - $75 Cash, Magazine Subscription, Certificate, ASM International, A Society for Materials, Santa Clara Valley Chapter | |||||||
| Neil Kamal | Movva | 2nd Award, Physics Category | Hybrid Solar Cells: The Best of Both Worlds? (Physics) | 8 | |||
| Certificate of Achievement and VIP visit to NASA-Ames, NASA Ames Research Center | |||||||
| Gr 6-8, 2nd Place Award - $75 Cash, Magazine Subscription, Certificate, ASM International, A Society for Materials, Santa Clara Valley Chapter | |||||||
| Holy Family School | Phil | Mariant | Saloni | Gupta | Honorable Mention, Engineering Category | Senselind (Engineering) | 7 |
| Justine Marie | Knappenberger | 2nd Place Certificate, Santa Clara County Integrated Waste Management Program | The Effect of Yeast on the Decomposition of Fruit (Biochemistry / Microbiology) | 6 | |||
| Howe STEM Leadership Academy | John | Howe | Bolun | Liu | 1st Award, Physics Category | An Innovative Predictive Model of Catapult Performance (Physics) | 11 |
| Certificate of Achievement and instructions for Pewter Medallion (to come), Yale Science and Engineering Association | |||||||
| GR 11-12: HP WV689AV Laptop Computer, Hewlett-Packard Laboratories | |||||||
| HM : Certificate of Achievement, United States Army | |||||||
| Merry | Mou | 1st Award, Botany Category | Phenotypic and Genotypic Analysis of Oryza sativa (rice) T-DNA Lines (Botany) | 11 | |||
| Merryhill Schools -Milpitas | Kanchan | Bhandare | Melina | Luu | Honorable Mention, Chemistry Category | Fluoride Protection (Chemistry) | 6 |
| Renee | Radusewicz | Honorable Mention, Chemistry Category | Fluoride Protection (Chemistry) | 6 | |||
| Pritha | Roy | Andrew Cyril | Shacker | Certificate of Achievement and VIP visit to NASA-Ames, NASA Ames Research Center | Jupiter Talking (Earth / Space Sciences) | 7 | |
| Travis & Wells Charging Stand, Computer Backpack, Leeds Scripto Flash Jotter Bundle Set and Award Certificate in Folder, United States Air Force | |||||||
| Milpitas Christian School | Lindon | Richards | Ashna | Mangla | Honorable Mention, Behavioral / Social Category | Multi-Tasking: Efficient, or Not? (Behavioral / Social) | 7 |
| Most Holy Trinity | Stephanie | Jordan | Quang-Van Thanh | Tran | Honorable Mention, Physics Category | Denims Are Not Equal: A Scientific Way to Select Denim Jeans (Physics) | 7 |
| Mountain View Academy | Jim | Marxmiller | Doug Daniel | Abbott | 1st Award, Chemistry Category | Egg Shell Quality: Free-Range vs. Caged (Chemistry) | 11 |
| Gretchen Taeza | Estoesta | 1st Award, Environmental Sciences Category | What Would Earthworms Do? The Effects of Batteries on Earthworm Habitats (Environmental Sciences) | 11 | |||
| Old Orchard School | Sue | Greathouse | Emily Taylor | Cox | Honorable Mention, Physics Category | Fuel Efficiency: Mastering The Art of Basket Cooking (Physics) | 8 |
| Saba Kelly | Gebremedhin | 2nd Award, Physics Category | The Desalination Process (Physics) | 8 | |||
| Vadim | Korolik | 1st Award, Physics Category | Refraction of Light - Using Refraction of Light to Study Mass Transfer in Liquids (Physics) | 8 | |||
| GR 6-8 Certificate of Achievement, letter of congratulation, ONR Medallion, United States Navy and Marine Corps | |||||||
| Calvin Qui Nam | Le | 2nd Award, Environmental Sciences Category | Effects of oil on aquatic plants (Environmental Sciences) | 8 | |||
| Christopher Alan | Powers | 2nd Award, Physics Category | Easily Accessible Insulation -Good or Bad? (Physics) | 8 | |||
| Mikala Ann | Ross | 2nd Award, Physics Category | The Desalination Process (Physics) | 8 | |||
| Dylan Zongxu | Zhang | 2nd Award, Environmental Sciences Category | Effects of oil on aquatic plants (Environmental Sciences) | 8 | |||
| Linh | Pham | Ethan Schuyler | Bair | 1st Award, Physics Category | Preventing Broken Bridges (Physics) | 7 | |
| 2nd pl MS- $50 plus cert, American Society of Civil Engineers | |||||||
| Gabriel Oliver | Hyun | Honorable Mention, Behavioral / Social Category | How To Maximize Your Video Game Score (Behavioral / Social) | 6 | |||
| Kurt Kian | Lechner | Honorable Mention, Behavioral / Social Category | How To Maximize Your Video Game Score (Behavioral / Social) | 6 | |||
| Presentation High School | Nicole | Odell | Elizabeth Marie | Bernal | 1st Award, Botany Category | Genetic Mutations of the Second Generation Brassica rapa Due to UV-A and UV-C Radiation of First Generation Seeds (Botany) | 11 |
| Caroline Emi | Fukawa | 2nd Place HS Award - $50 Cash plus cert, American Society of Civil Engineers | How Do Different Variables in Nature Affect the Level of Oxygen in Los Alamitos Creek? (Environmental Sciences) | 9 | |||
| Certificate of Achievement; & opportunity to advance to Stockholm competition, Stockholm Junior Water Prize | |||||||
| Kyra Mika | Fukawa | 1st Award, Medicine / Health / Gerontology Category | The Effect of Three Different 'Over The Counter' Medications on the Heart Rate of Daphnia magna (Medicine / Health / Gerontology) | 10 | |||
| Ramana Academy (homeschool) | Mamtha | Adiseshan | Athman Ramana | Adiseshan | Finalist, The Synopsys Outreach Foundation n+1 Prize | Persuasive Power of On-Line Videos (Behavioral / Social) | 10 |
| Santa Clara County Judging Committee High School Award of Excellence, $ 50 and Certificate of Award from National APA, American Psychological Association | |||||||
| Saint Christopher School | JoElle | Hernandez | Grace Louise | Bernal | Certificate of Achievement and VIP visit to NASA-Ames, NASA Ames Research Center | The Effect of an Outer Space Environment on Cinnamon Basil Seeds (Botany) | 6 |
| Ellen Ann | Evans | Honorable Mention, Chemistry Category | Burn Baby Burn (Chemistry) | 6 | |||
| $100 Cash Award, certificate, Fair Manager's Graphic Design Award | |||||||
| Emma | Fontana | 1st Award, Environmental Sciences Category | Organic vs Non-Organic Fertilizers: What is the Effect of Fertilizer Run off on Aquatic Life? (Environmental Sciences) | 6 | |||
| 1st Place - Multi-volume Set of Books on the Marine Environment, Monterey Bay Aquarium | |||||||
| GR 6-9: Second place $50 & certificate, Pauchon Foundation Award | |||||||
| Tyler Daniel | Gonzalez | Honorable Mention, Chemistry Category | Burn Baby Burn (Chemistry) | 6 | |||
| $100 Cash Award, certificate, Fair Manager's Graphic Design Award | |||||||
| Saint Francis High School | Jennifer | Thomas | Shubha Srinivas | Raghvendra | Grand Prize - Best of Championship - Biological Sciences - Trip to Intel ISEF, Santa Clara Valley Science & Engineering Fair Assn - Board of Directors Awards - High School | Effects of Diabetes Mellitus on Vasculogenesis Capacities of Mesechymal Stem Cells (Medicine / Health / Gerontology) | 11 |
| 1st Award, Medicine / Health / Gerontology Category | |||||||
| Certificate of Outstanding Achievement, Society for In Vitro Biology | |||||||
| Saint Joseph of Cupertino Elementary School | Lisa | Wicht | Anna Marie | Pereira | $50 Cash award, San Jose State University Student Affiliates of the American Chemical Society | Does Temperature Affect How Long a Soap Bubble Will Last? (Chemistry) | 6 |
| Saint Mary's School (Los Gatos) | Lynne | Dickerson | Emily Emelinda | Carollo | Honorable Mention, Chemistry Category | Fromages Artisanaux: Homemade Cheeses - The Effect of Milk Type on Cheese Density (Chemistry) | 7 |
| Francesca Anne | LaBianca | Honorable Mention, Chemistry Category | Fromages Artisanaux: Homemade Cheeses - The Effect of Milk Type on Cheese Density (Chemistry) | 7 | |||
| Giulianna Alexandria | Pendleton | 1st Award, Physics Category | The Power of the Wind: The Effect of Blade Length on Energy Production (Physics) | 7 | |||
| Stratford Middle School - San Jose | Krista | Howell | Vardhaan Sai | Ambati | 2nd Award, Biochemistry / Microbiology Category | Is Garlic an Anti-Bacterial Agent? (Biochemistry / Microbiology) | 6 |
| Snigdha | Banda | 2nd Award, Physics Category | Watts Up With Torque! Multiple Rotors: "A Highly Efficient Windmill Design" (Physics) | 7 | |||
| Karina | Dandia | 2nd Award, Chemistry Category | Does Using Hydrogen Peroxide to Lighten Hair Color Affect How the Hair Reacts to Humidity? (Chemistry) | 7 | |||
| Ishani Aniruddha | Karmarkar | 2nd Award, Physics Category | Pulleys - Diameter, Type and Angle of Effort (Physics) | 6 | |||
| Manush | Mobarhan | Certificate of Excellence from National AWG, Association for Women Geoscientists, San Francisco Bay Area Chapter | Water Pollution in Bay Area Lakes (Environmental Sciences) | 6 | |||
| Outstanding Project: certificate plus voucher for course materials and attendance at a safe boating course., United States Coast Guard Auxiliary | |||||||
| Isabelle L | Truong | Honorable Mention, Biochemistry / Microbiology Category | Testing the Five Seconds Rule. (Biochemistry / Microbiology) | 7 | |||
| Neha | Makhijani | Supriva | Agarwal | Honorable Mention, Environmental Sciences Category | Which Detergent Removes Oil Off Feathers the Best? (Environmental Sciences) | 7 | |
| Vinay | Ayyappan | Honorable Mention, Physics Category | Harnessing the Sun's Energy - Made Efficient (Physics) | 7 | |||
| Priya | Choudhary | 1st Award, Chemistry Category | Biodiesel: How Viable? (Chemistry) | 7 | |||
| Akansha | Dey | GR 6-8 Certificate of Achievement, letter of congratulation, ONR Medallion, United States Navy and Marine Corps | Finding the Wavelength of Electromagnetic Waves in a Microwave (Physics) | 8 | |||
| Meera | Krishnamoorthy | 2nd Award, Computers / Mathematics Category | Predicting the Evolution of Vocabulary in English Writing Through Probability Analysis (Computers / Mathematics) | 8 | |||
| Certificate of Achievement and VIP visit to NASA-Ames, NASA Ames Research Center | |||||||
| Tarun Aditya | Midde | 1st Award, Engineering Category | Automated Roadway Track System (Engineering) | 8 | |||
| Priyanka Deepak | Pabari | Honorable Mention, Environmental Sciences Category | Which Detergent Removes Oil Off Feathers the Best? (Environmental Sciences) | 7 | |||
| Rahul | Rameshbabu | Honorable Mention, Engineering Category | Eco-Friendly Smart Parking System (Engineering) | 7 | |||
| Omkar Shivanand | Savant | 1st Award, Engineering Category | Automated Roadway Track System (Engineering) | 8 | |||
| Anish | Seshadri | Castro Family Award for Best Physical Science Project - Trip to State Science Fair, Plaque, and $100 Cash, Santa Clara Valley Science & Engineering Fair Assn - Board of Directors Awards - Middle School | Dye Sensitized Solar Cells and Every Day Foods (Physics) | 6 | |||
| 1st Award, Physics Category | |||||||
| Certificate of Achievement, Ricoh Corporation | |||||||
| Gr 6-8, 1st Place Award - $100 Cash, Magazine Subscrtiption, Certicate; ISEF Cert & medallion mailed from ASM Educational Foundation,, ASM International, A Society for Materials, Santa Clara Valley Chapter | |||||||
| GR 6-9:Third Place, $25, T-Shirt, Certificate, Society of Vacuum Coaters (SVC) | |||||||
| Stratford Middle School - Santa Clara | Kristen | Morgensen | Ruhi Kinnari | Buddharaju | Honorable Mention, Physics Category | Insulators: Which Material Has the Best Insulation Properties? (Physics) | 6 |
| Rahul | Devarapalli | 2nd Award, Chemistry Category | Rust Defense: Protecting Nails from Rust (Chemistry) | 6 | |||
| Gr 6-8, 3rd Place Award - $50 Cash, Magazine subscription, Certificate, ASM International, A Society for Materials, Santa Clara Valley Chapter | |||||||
| Khush Mehul | Kharidia | 2nd Award, Engineering Category | Smart Cane with Sonic Vision (Engineering) | 8 | |||
| Certificate of Achievement, lapel pin, and chance to win $1000, National Society of Professional Engineers | |||||||
| GR 06-08: HP 35s Scientific Calculator, Hewlett-Packard Laboratories | |||||||
| GR 6-9: First place $75 & certificate, Pauchon Foundation Award | |||||||
| Keshav B | Kundassery | 1st Award, Physics Category | The Best Pulley Combination for Reducing Workload (Physics) | 6 | |||
| Rohan Manish | Patel | 2nd Award, Physics Category | Color's Effect on Solar Power (Physics) | 6 | |||
| Andrea | Tsai | Honorable Mention, Biochemistry / Microbiology Category | Yeast Growth with Different Liquids (Biochemistry / Microbiology) | 6 | |||
| The Pye School (Homeschool) | David | Arnold | Samuel Michael | Arnold | 2nd Award, Engineering Category | 3-Client, Electronic, Consultant's Punch-clock (Engineering) | 10 |
| Valley Christian | Patrick | Adams | Jenny Anoush | Balabanian | 2nd Award, Biochemistry / Microbiology Category | Investigating the Effects of Histamine and Anti-histamines on Tetrahymena: A Model for Drug Discovery (Biochemistry / Microbiology) | 12 |
| First Place: $100 Cash, Achievement Certificate and Goody Bag, Santa Clara County Biotech Education Partnership (SCCBEP) | |||||||
| Jennifer | Gerlach | Jae Hoon | Kang | Certificate of Achievement, lapel pin, and chance to win $1000, National Society of Professional Engineers | Computer Case Fan with Built-In Dust Sensor (Engineering) | 10 | |
| Honorable Mention: T-Shirt, Certificate, Society of Vacuum Coaters (SVC) | |||||||
| Yavneh Day School | David | Oliver | Nathan Ari | Milgram | Honorable Mention, Medicine / Health / Gerontology Category | Lung Capacity: What Matters? (Medicine / Health / Gerontology) | 6 |
| Eitan Lev | Myron | Honorable Mention, Medicine / Health / Gerontology Category | Lung Capacity: What Matters? (Medicine / Health / Gerontology) | 6 | |||