Harker School-Middle Campus
Project Awards 2013
Synopsys Silicon Valley Science and Technology Championship
| School | Teacher | Student | Award | Title | Gr | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Harker School-Middle Campus | Shanthi | Adimoolam (Sponsor) | Kaushik | Shivakumar | 1st Award, Physics Category | Effects of Roller Coaster Configurations on the Car's Final Velocity (Physics) | 6 |
| Thomas | Artiss | Aditya Arya | Dhar | 2nd Award, Computers / Mathematics Category | The effect of compression on audio quality in different genres of music and the optimal trade-off between compression and quality (Computers / Mathematics) | 8 | |
| Andrew | Gu | 1st Award, Botany Category | What is the Effect of Stenospermocarpy in Grapes on their Nutritional Value? (Botany) | 8 | |||
| Avi S | Khemani | 1st Award, Biochemistry / Microbiology Category | The Effect of Microwave Denaturation on Proteins Compared to Conventional Cooking Systems (Biochemistry / Microbiology) | 8 | |||
| Jonathan | Liu | Honorable Mention, Biochemistry / Microbiology Category | Drought Resistant Corn vs Normal Corn, and the Concentration of BPA in Both (Biochemistry / Microbiology) | 8 | |||
| Manan Ajay | Shah | 1st Award, Biochemistry / Microbiology Category | The Effect of Microwave Denaturation on Proteins Compared to Conventional Cooking Systems (Biochemistry / Microbiology) | 8 | |||
| Arjun Srikanth | Subramaniam | 2nd Award, Computers / Mathematics Category | The effect of compression on audio quality in different genres of music and the optimal trade-off between compression and quality (Computers / Mathematics) | 8 | |||
| Justin Long | Xie | Honorable Mention, Biochemistry / Microbiology Category | Drought Resistant Corn vs Normal Corn, and the Concentration of BPA in Both (Biochemistry / Microbiology) | 8 | |||
| 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 | |||||||
| Benjamin | Morgensen | Peter | Wu | 2nd Award, Engineering Category | Redesigning Desk Lamps to Maximize Light Output While Reducing Glare (Engineering) | 8 | |
| David | Zhu | 2nd Award, Engineering Category | Redesigning Desk Lamps to Maximize Light Output While Reducing Glare (Engineering) | 8 | |||
| Kristen | Morgensen | Joyce | Huang | 2nd Award, Behavioral / Social Category | The Effects of Increments of Body Visibility on Lie Detection (Behavioral / Social) | 8 | |
| Amrita | Singh | 2nd Award, Engineering Category | A Novel Mechanism for Emulating Male Cricket Wing Stridulation (Engineering) | 8 | |||
| Certificate of Achievement and Lapel Pin, National Society of Professional Engineers | |||||||
| Meilan Eng | Steimle | 2nd Award, Behavioral / Social Category | The Effects of Increments of Body Visibility on Lie Detection (Behavioral / Social) | 8 | |||
| Swetha Priya | Tummala | 2nd Award, Behavioral / Social Category | The Effect of Time on How Long the Afterimage Lasts (Behavioral / Social) | 8 | |||
| Jason | Robertson | Meena | Gudapati | 1st Award, Behavioral / Social Category | Does Heart Rate Affect Memory? (Behavioral / Social) | 7 | |
| Daniel | Sommer | Sandip | Nirmel | Family and Friends Memberships to the Tech Museum, The Tech Museum of Innovation | Usable Electricity from Buildup of Static Electricity in Car Tires (Engineering) | 8 | |
| Venkat Narayanan | Sankar | 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 | Ecology or Economy: How to Have It Both Ways! A Simulation Based Approach for Managing The Impact of Infrastructure Projects on the Population Viability of Endangered Species. (Environmental Sciences) | 8 | |||
| 1st Award, Environmental Sciences Category | |||||||
| 2nd Place: $50 and Certificate of Achievement, UCSF Center For Systems and Synthetic Biology Award | |||||||