Project Awards 2015
Synopsys Silicon Valley Science and Technology Championship
| Category | Gr | Award | Student | Teacher | School | Title | Behavioral / Social | 7 | 1st Award | Kanika | Khemka | Shannon | Lum | Challenger - Berryessa | The Effect of warped words on the Stroop Effect | Behavioral / Social | 7 | 2nd Award | Ananya | Jeyappragash | Revanthi | Selvapragaasam (PSP) | Stratford Middle School - Santa Clara | The Effects of Music on Mood and Heartbeat | Behavioral / Social | 7 | Honorable Mention | Tasnim | Saada | Jinaan | Al-Shehabi | Granada Islamic School | Concentration | Behavioral / Social | 7 | Honorable Mention | Rithika Ram | Vatturi | Tini | Raman | Challenger-Middlefield-Palo Alto | Mnemonics as a strategy to improve learning & recall | Behavioral / Social | 7 | Nominated to compete envelope, Broadcom MASTERS - 7th Grade | Kanika | Khemka | Shannon | Lum | Challenger - Berryessa | The Effect of warped words on the Stroop Effect | Behavioral / Social | 8 | 1st Award | Shafieen | Ibrahim | Kristen | Morgensen | Harker School-Middle Campus | Effects of Technology-Assisted vs. Hand-Written Note-Taking Strategies on Teens' Academic Performance on Science and History Assessments | Behavioral / Social | 8 | 1st Award | Keval | Shah | Kristen | Morgensen | Harker School-Middle Campus | Effects of Technology-Assisted vs. Hand-Written Note-Taking Strategies on Teens' Academic Performance on Science and History Assessments | Behavioral / Social | 8 | 2nd Award | Rose Claire | Gatlin | Rachel | McKenna | Sacred Heart Middle School | Now You See It Now You Don't | Behavioral / Social | 8 | Honorable Mention | Tanvee | Joshi | Steve | Greenfield | Miller Middle School | Managing Bias | Behavioral / Social | 8 | Certificate of Achievement, American Psychological Association | Tanvee | Joshi | Steve | Greenfield | Miller Middle School | Managing Bias | Behavioral / Social | 8 | Certificate of Achievement, American Psychological Association | Siddhi Anil | Shah | Leah | Watts | Kennedy(John F.) Middle School-Cupertino | The Effect of Playing Music on Your Creativity | Behavioral / Social | 8 | Nominated to compete envelope, Broadcom MASTERS - 8th Grade | Shafieen | Ibrahim | Kristen | Morgensen | Harker School-Middle Campus | Effects of Technology-Assisted vs. Hand-Written Note-Taking Strategies on Teens' Academic Performance on Science and History Assessments | Behavioral / Social | 8 | Nominated to compete envelope, Broadcom MASTERS - 8th Grade | Keval | Shah | Kristen | Morgensen | Harker School-Middle Campus | Effects of Technology-Assisted vs. Hand-Written Note-Taking Strategies on Teens' Academic Performance on Science and History Assessments | Behavioral / Social | 9 | 2nd Award | Christina C | Lau | Renee | Fallon | Monta Vista High School | The Correlation Between the Time Middle and High School Students Spend on Chores and Their Grade Point Average scores | Behavioral / Social | 9 | $100 First Place, Certificate of Achievement, and Letter, Inez M. Lechner Award | Ujjaini | Mukhopadhyay | Alan | Tan | Leland High School | Group Discussions: Does the medium really matter? | Behavioral / Social | 10 | 2nd Award | Nathan | Wong | Kathleen | McCarty | Monta Vista High School | The correlation between different music aspects and electrodermal activity | Behavioral / Social | 10 | Certificate of Achievement, American Psychological Association | Nathan | Wong | Kathleen | McCarty | Monta Vista High School | The correlation between different music aspects and electrodermal activity | Behavioral / Social | 11 | 1st Award | Jeffrey | Chang | Jason | Lee | Lynbrook High School | The California Vowel Shift: Social Motivations for Language Change | Behavioral / Social | 11 | Certificate of Achievement, American Psychological Association | Mary Theresa | Najibi | Chris | Spenner | Harker School-Upper Campus | The Effect of Joy on Test Scores | Biochemistry / Microbiology | 6 | 2nd Award | Kanav | Mittal | William | Jenkinson | Stratford Middle School - Santa Clara | Spice the Milk | Biochemistry / Microbiology | 7 | 1st Award | Shruti | Sridhar | Sean | Carroll (SSW mentor) | Privately Sponsored Project | The antimicobial effects of common essential oils and facial treatments on staphylococcus | Biochemistry / Microbiology | 7 | 2nd Award | Nidhi Aswini | Gowda | Greg | Lampard | Stratford Middle School - Santa Clara | Which of the drinks that we consume daily is the best choice for a hypoglycemic patient to boost their blood sugar levels quickly? | Biochemistry / Microbiology | 7 | Honorable Mention | Aditya | Behal | Thuy-Anh | Nguyen | Challenger - Sunnyvale | The Effect of Natural vs. Modern Antibiotics on the Prevention of Bacterial Growth of Escherichia Coli | Biochemistry / Microbiology | 7 | Honorable Mention | Nina | Isaka | Pronati | Mondal | Challenger - Almaden | The Effect of Different Biomasses and Heat on the Amount of Biogas Made | Biochemistry / Microbiology | 7 | GR 6-8: 1st Place, $75 and Certificate of Achievement, UCSF Center For Systems and Synthetic Biology | Nidhi Aswini | Gowda | Greg | Lampard | Stratford Middle School - Santa Clara | Which of the drinks that we consume daily is the best choice for a hypoglycemic patient to boost their blood sugar levels quickly? | Biochemistry / Microbiology | 7 | Nominated to compete envelope, Broadcom MASTERS - 7th Grade | Shruti | Sridhar | Sean | Carroll (SSW mentor) | Privately Sponsored Project | The antimicobial effects of common essential oils and facial treatments on staphylococcus | Biochemistry / Microbiology | 8 | 1st Award | Alexander | Young | Thomas | Artiss | Harker School-Middle Campus | Investigating the Rate At Which Bacteria Become Resistant to Antibiotics Under Different Conditions | Biochemistry / Microbiology | 8 | 2nd Award | Derick Rohan | Cutinha | Anuran | Chatterjee (SSW mentor) | Privately Sponsored Project | Effect of cigarette smoke extract/condensate on ROS generation and muscle function in C. elegans | Biochemistry / Microbiology | 8 | Honorable Mention | Nicole Claire | Adamson | Erica | Goldsworthy | Jordan (David Starr) Middle School | The Effect of Different Wavelengths on the Luminescent Output of Pyrocystis fusiformis | Biochemistry / Microbiology | 8 | Certificate of Achievement, Medallion, and Letter, United States Public Health Service | Derick Rohan | Cutinha | Anuran | Chatterjee (SSW mentor) | Privately Sponsored Project | Effect of cigarette smoke extract/condensate on ROS generation and muscle function in C. elegans | Biochemistry / Microbiology | 8 | Certificate of Achievement, Medallion, and Letter, United States Public Health Service | Kiran | Rachamallu | Ibtisam | Khalaf (SSW mentor) | Privately Sponsored Project | Microbiological Identification of bacteria in the Buccal Cavity in Smokers vs Nonsmokers | Biochemistry / Microbiology | 8 | Nominated to compete envelope, Broadcom MASTERS - 8th Grade | Alexander | Young | Thomas | Artiss | Harker School-Middle Campus | Investigating the Rate At Which Bacteria Become Resistant to Antibiotics Under Different Conditions | Biochemistry / Microbiology | 9 | High School Finalist Certficate, The Synopsys Outreach Foundation n+1 Prize | Mythri | Ambatipudi | Linda | Segal | Saint Francis High School | Unleash the Power of AMPK!!! Investigating the Potential Effects of Activating Adenosine Monophosphate-activated Protein Kinase (AMPK) on Neurodegenerative Diseases and Cancer | Biochemistry / Microbiology | 9 | High School Finalist Certficate, The Synopsys Outreach Foundation n+1 Prize | Advait Avinash | Patil | Jason | Lee | Lynbrook High School | CryoSubtilis: A synthetic biological approach to engineering cold resistance in Bacillus subtilis through expression of CspC and ZeAFP proteins | Biochemistry / Microbiology | 9 | 1st Award | Joshua | John | Renee | Fallon | Monta Vista High School | What is the effect of dollar bill value on the amount of germs found present on the bill? | Biochemistry / Microbiology | 9 | 1st Award | Advait Avinash | Patil | Jason | Lee | Lynbrook High School | CryoSubtilis: A synthetic biological approach to engineering cold resistance in Bacillus subtilis through expression of CspC and ZeAFP proteins | Biochemistry / Microbiology | 9 | 2nd Award | Mythri | Ambatipudi | Linda | Segal | Saint Francis High School | Unleash the Power of AMPK!!! Investigating the Potential Effects of Activating Adenosine Monophosphate-activated Protein Kinase (AMPK) on Neurodegenerative Diseases and Cancer | Biochemistry / Microbiology | 9 | 2nd Award | Justin Daisuke | Callahan | Alan | Tan | Leland High School | What is the effect of dissolving active oxygen in unsafe drinking water to oxidize and kill harmful microbes? | Biochemistry / Microbiology | 9 | 2nd Award | Jonathan B | Li | Alan | Tan | Leland High School | What is the effect of dissolving active oxygen in unsafe drinking water to oxidize and kill harmful microbes? | Biochemistry / Microbiology | 9 | Honorable Mention | Bethany | Chen | Anuradha | Murthy | Basis Independent Silicon Valley School | Glowing Dinos: Analyzing Bioluminescence of Pyrocystis fusiformis | Biochemistry / Microbiology | 9 | Honorable Mention | Priscilla | Lee | Malathi | Tuers | Valley Christian Junior High School | Crystal Ball? | Biochemistry / Microbiology | 9 | Honorable Mention | Susan Lining | Zhou | Jason | Lee | Lynbrook High School | The Effects of Sodium Hydroxide and Potassium Chloride on Saccharomyces cerevisiae | Biochemistry / Microbiology | 9 | Honorable Mention Certificate of Achievement, Kindle, MedImmune | Chengzi | Guo | Ibtisam | Khalaf (SSW mentor) | Privately Sponsored Project | Antibacterial Activity of Medical grade Manuka honey and methylglyoxal and synergism between each and ciprofloxacin against Escherichia coli | Biochemistry / Microbiology | 10 | 1st Award | Cassandra Elaine | Overney | Jason | Lee | Lynbrook High School | Genotoxicity Investigation by Measuring the Effect of Metal Concentrations on Garlic Root Bioassays by the Observations of Chromosomal Aberrations | Biochemistry / Microbiology | 10 | 2nd Award | Vardhaan Sai | Ambati | Theresa | Hannon | Archbishop Mitty High School | Modeling the Effect of High Molecular Mass Hyaluronic Acid on Formation of Amyloid-Beta Plaques in Alzheimer's Disease | Biochemistry / Microbiology | 10 | Honorable Mention | Nisarg | Shah | Jason | Lee | Lynbrook High School | A Novel Method for the Bioremediation of Pyrene through Endoyphyte-Plant Symbiosis | Biochemistry / Microbiology | 10 | First Place: $100, Certificate of Achievement, and Goody Bag, Santa Clara County Biotech Education Partnership (SCCBEP) | Michelle Q | Xu | Jill | McCrystal | Saratoga High School | Breaking Antibiotic Resistant Biofilms with Natural Herbs | Biochemistry / Microbiology | 10 | Honorable Mention Certificate of Achievement, Kindle, MedImmune | Vardhaan Sai | Ambati | Theresa | Hannon | Archbishop Mitty High School | Modeling the Effect of High Molecular Mass Hyaluronic Acid on Formation of Amyloid-Beta Plaques in Alzheimer's Disease | Biochemistry / Microbiology | 11 | 1st Award | Ayan | Bandyopadhyay | Ibtisam | Khalaf (SSW mentor) | Privately Sponsored Project | Effect of a Leptothrix discophora biocathode in a microbial fuel cell on power output | Biochemistry / Microbiology | 11 | 1st Award | Charley | Bi | Rita | Huff | Valley Christian High School | How Bacterially Secreted Intrinsic Factor affects Vitamin B12 Transfer | Biochemistry / Microbiology | 11 | 1st Award | Austin Won | Chang | Rita | Huff | Valley Christian High School | How Bacterially Secreted Intrinsic Factor affects Vitamin B12 Transfer | Biochemistry / Microbiology | 11 | 1st Award | Cooper | Ge | Rita | Huff | Valley Christian High School | How Bacterially Secreted Intrinsic Factor affects Vitamin B12 Transfer | Biochemistry / Microbiology | 11 | 2nd Award | Shailja | Somani | Jason | Lee | Lynbrook High School | The Effect of a Bacterial Protein on Plant Growth | Biochemistry / Microbiology | 11 | 2nd Award | Helen Hanh | Thio | Traci | Verna | Silver Creek High School | How do the different conditions (temperature and concentration/quantity) of several essential oils work as anti-fungal agents to stop fungal infections? | Biochemistry / Microbiology | 11 | 2nd Award | Amy | Bugwadia | Rita | Huff | Valley Christian High School | Determining optimal level of 11B-HSD2 for healthy fetal neural development | Biochemistry / Microbiology | 11 | 2nd Award | Angie Luan | Chen | Rita | Huff | Valley Christian High School | Determining optimal level of 11B-HSD2 for healthy fetal neural development | Biochemistry / Microbiology | 11 | Honorable Mention | Pavithra | Margabandu | Rita | Huff | Valley Christian High School | Will oxidative stress cause the accumulation of alpha synuclein, increase markers of lipid peroxidation, and apoptosis in dopaminergic neurons. | Biochemistry / Microbiology | 11 | Honorable Mention | Neha Santhoshi | Pusarla | Ibtisam | Khalaf (SSW mentor) | Privately Sponsored Project | The Effect on the Lipid Storage of Caenorhabditis elegans After Silencing the DAF-16 (Abnormal Dauer Formation) Gene, relating to DAF-2 which resembles the human receptor for insulin-like growth factor (IGF-1), in the Mutated Versus the Wild type Worms | Biochemistry / Microbiology | 11 | 3rd Place Award - $125 and Certificate of Achievement, American Association for Laboratory Animal Science, Northern California Branch | Charles | Nijmeh | Rita | Huff | Valley Christian High School | Mechanisms to Increase Temozolomide Efficacy in Astrocytoma Cells | Biochemistry / Microbiology | 11 | Certificate of Achievement; if registered, medal, subscription & opportunity to advance to national competition for trip to Stockholm, Stockholm Junior Water Prize | Maalini Radha | Bommakanti | Renee | Fallon | Monta Vista High School | Effects of Sunscreen in Coastal Waters on Marine Life: Observing Damage of Hydrogen Peroxide from Sunscreen on Spirulina Cyanobacteria | Biochemistry / Microbiology | 11 | Certificate of Achievement; if registered, medal, subscription & opportunity to advance to national competition for trip to Stockholm, Stockholm Junior Water Prize | Gayathri A | Kalla | Renee | Fallon | Monta Vista High School | Effects of Sunscreen in Coastal Waters on Marine Life: Observing Damage of Hydrogen Peroxide from Sunscreen on Spirulina Cyanobacteria | Biochemistry / Microbiology | 11 | First place High School-Cash Award-$75 and certificate, Northern California Institute of Food Technologists (NCIFT) | Sarita | Berigei | Ibtisam | Khalaf (SSW mentor) | Privately Sponsored Project | Measuring the concentration of antioxidants and measuring preservative ability of rosemary, broccoli, and sunflower seeds, and comparing those qualities to those of synthetic antioxidants and preservatives, by using Ferric Reducing Ability Plasma assay (FRAP) | Biochemistry / Microbiology | 11 | First Place: $100, Certificate of Achievement, and Goody Bag, Santa Clara County Biotech Education Partnership (SCCBEP) | Stephanie | Huang | Jill | McCrystal | Saratoga High School | Breaking Antibiotic Resistant Biofilms with Natural Herbs | Biochemistry / Microbiology | 11 | Honorable Mention Certificate, Santa Clara County Biotech Education Partnership (SCCBEP) | Christian | Justo | Traci | Verna | Silver Creek High School | Bacterial Murderers | Biochemistry / Microbiology | 11 | Honorable Mention Certificate, Santa Clara County Biotech Education Partnership (SCCBEP) | Moses | Rivera | Traci | Verna | Silver Creek High School | Bacterial Murderers | Biochemistry / Microbiology | 12 | 1st Award | Tanvi | Chokshi | Ibtisam | Khalaf (SSW mentor) | Privately Sponsored Project | Title: The Use of Allicin and Vitamins to reduce stress in Wild type Caenorhabditis elegans measured by Immunohistochemistry in order to find a potential treatment to Stress Induced Alopecia | Biochemistry / Microbiology | 12 | 2nd Award | Ilian Hodges | Herzi | Cathy | Messenger | Los Gatos High School | The Effects of Various Chemoattractants on Chemotaxis-Movement Behavior of Escherichia coli and Bacillus subtilis in a Circulatory Modeled System | Biochemistry / Microbiology | 12 | 3rd Place Award - $125 and Certificate of Achievement, American Association for Laboratory Animal Science, Northern California Branch | Gerrit C-Y. Luk | Orthlieb | Rita | Huff | Valley Christian High School | Mechanisms to Increase Temozolomide Efficacy in Astrocytoma Cells | Bioinformatics | 9 | 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 | Holly Marie | Jackson | Victoria | Evashenk | Notre Dame High School | Computational Cardiology: An Automated Algorithm for Heart Murmur Detection | Bioinformatics | 9 | $ 500 to the winning student or team in high school Bio Science, The Synopsys Outreach Foundation n+1 Prize | Holly Marie | Jackson | Victoria | Evashenk | Notre Dame High School | Computational Cardiology: An Automated Algorithm for Heart Murmur Detection | Bioinformatics | 9 | 3rd Place Student Award: $160 and Certificate of Achievement, Association for Computing Machinery, San Francisco Bay Area Professional Chapter | Shadaj | Laddad | Jason | Lee | Lynbrook High School | Applying Concurrency and Distributed Systems to Sequence Alignment Algorithms | Bioinformatics | 9 | High School Finalist Certficate, The Synopsys Outreach Foundation n+1 Prize | Holly Marie | Jackson | Victoria | Evashenk | Notre Dame High School | Computational Cardiology: An Automated Algorithm for Heart Murmur Detection | Bioinformatics | 9 | 1st Award | Holly Marie | Jackson | Victoria | Evashenk | Notre Dame High School | Computational Cardiology: An Automated Algorithm for Heart Murmur Detection | Bioinformatics | 9 | 2nd Award | Shadaj | Laddad | Jason | Lee | Lynbrook High School | Applying Concurrency and Distributed Systems to Sequence Alignment Algorithms | Bioinformatics | 9 | Honorable Mention | Jerry | Chen | Chris | Spenner | Harker School-Upper Campus | Combating the Obesity Epidemic: Computational Analysis to Identify Driver Genes and Virtual High Throughput Screening to Discover Novel Treatments | Bioinformatics | 9 | Honorable Mention | Anastasiya | Grebin | Chris | Spenner | Harker School-Upper Campus | The Classification of SNPs in the SMAD4 Gene on the Development of Pancreatic Cancer in a Human Using a Machine Algorithm | Bioinformatics | 9 | Honorable Mention | Amy | Jin | Chris | Spenner | Harker School-Upper Campus | Combating the Obesity Epidemic: Computational Analysis to Identify Driver Genes and Virtual High Throughput Screening to Discover Novel Treatments | Bioinformatics | 9 | Honorable Mention | Anooshree | Sengupta | Chris | Spenner | Harker School-Upper Campus | The Classification of SNPs in the SMAD4 Gene on the Development of Pancreatic Cancer in a Human Using a Machine Algorithm | Bioinformatics | 9 | $100 First Place, Certificate of Achievement, and Letter, Inez M. Lechner Award | Advith | Gopinath | Debbie | Frazier | Monta Vista High School | Using Machine Learning to Analyze Gait to Assist in the Diagnosis of Parkinson's Disease | Bioinformatics | 9 | Certificate of Achievement and Letter to Teacher, Mu Alpha Theta | Justin Long | Xie | Chris | Spenner | Harker School-Upper Campus | An expanded computer simulation of viral transmission in a real world model. | Bioinformatics | 9 | Certificate of Achievement and ONR Medallion, United States Navy and Marine Corps | Holly Marie | Jackson | Victoria | Evashenk | Notre Dame High School | Computational Cardiology: An Automated Algorithm for Heart Murmur Detection | Bioinformatics | 9 | GR 9-12: 1st Place, $150 and Certificate of Achievement, UCSF Center For Systems and Synthetic Biology | Holly Marie | Jackson | Victoria | Evashenk | Notre Dame High School | Computational Cardiology: An Automated Algorithm for Heart Murmur Detection | Bioinformatics | 9 | Honorable Mention: Certificate of Achievement, and Goody Bag, Association for Women in Science, Palo Alto Chapter | Holly Marie | Jackson | Victoria | Evashenk | Notre Dame High School | Computational Cardiology: An Automated Algorithm for Heart Murmur Detection | Bioinformatics | 9 | Plaque, Certificate of Achievement, iPad Mini, MedImmune | Holly Marie | Jackson | Victoria | Evashenk | Notre Dame High School | Computational Cardiology: An Automated Algorithm for Heart Murmur Detection | Bioinformatics | 10 | Grand Prize - Best of Championship - Outreach Schools - Trip to Intel ISEF and Plaque, Santa Clara Valley Science & Engineering Fair Assn - Board of Directors Awards - High School | Tanisha | Joshi | Carol | Metica-Pongol | Evergreen Valley High School | Comparative efficacy of Lapatinib and Afatinib on ErbB1 and ErbB2/ Neu2 targets on tumor depletion in carcinoma based cancers. | Bioinformatics | 10 | Grand Prize Alternate - Biological Sciences - Trip to State Science Fair and Plaque, Santa Clara Valley Science & Engineering Fair Assn - Board of Directors Awards - High School | Pravin | Ravishanker | Rod | Wong | Bellarmine College Preparatory | AlZCan: Predicting Future Onset of Alzheimer's Using Gender, Genetics, Cognitive Tests, Biomarkers, and Brain Imaging. | Bioinformatics | 10 | 1st Award | Tanisha | Joshi | Carol | Metica-Pongol | Evergreen Valley High School | Comparative efficacy of Lapatinib and Afatinib on ErbB1 and ErbB2/ Neu2 targets on tumor depletion in carcinoma based cancers. | Bioinformatics | 10 | 1st Award | Rahul Ram | Mohan | Rod | Wong | Bellarmine College Preparatory | Stage based cancer classification and identification of disease causing gene pathways and splice junction interactions using deep neural networks | Bioinformatics | 10 | 2nd Award | Rishab Srinivasan | Gargeya | Chris | Spenner | Harker School-Upper Campus | Computer-Aided Grading of Diabetic Retinopathy: A Novel Screening Tool for Automated Recognition of Sight Threatening Diabetic Retinopathy (STDR) | Bioinformatics | 10 | 2nd Award | Pravin | Ravishanker | Rod | Wong | Bellarmine College Preparatory | AlZCan: Predicting Future Onset of Alzheimer's Using Gender, Genetics, Cognitive Tests, Biomarkers, and Brain Imaging. | Bioinformatics | 10 | Honorable Mention | Marilyn Mengyao | Zhang | Jason | Lee | Lynbrook High School | Diagnosing Alzheimer's and Parkinson's Disease with Alzheimer's and Parkinson's-specific Biomarkers in Blood Sample | Bioinformatics | 10 | GR 9-12: 2nd Place, $100 and Certificate of Achievement, UCSF Center For Systems and Synthetic Biology | Nikhil | Cheerla | Debbie | Frazier | Monta Vista High School | Linking Alternative Splicing to Human Brain Development and Synaptic Plasticity | Bioinformatics | 10 | Honorable Mention Certificate, Santa Clara County Biotech Education Partnership (SCCBEP) | Noah Paul | Gundotra | Cathy | Messenger | Los Gatos High School | Comprehensive Prediction of Protein Structures Using Foldit | Bioinformatics | 11 | 1st Award | Nithin | Buduma | Jason | Lee | Lynbrook High School | Comparative Analysis of Transcriptional Networks during Mouse and Human Red Blood Cell Development | Bioinformatics | 11 | 2nd Award | Pranav | Srinivas | Renee | Fallon | Monta Vista High School | Integrative Network Analysis of Epigenetic and Genomic Data for Colorectal Cancer | Bioinformatics | 11 | Honorable Mention Certificate of Achievement, Kindle, MedImmune | Nithin | Buduma | Jason | Lee | Lynbrook High School | Comparative Analysis of Transcriptional Networks during Mouse and Human Red Blood Cell Development | Botany | 6 | 1st Award | Mira | Chiruvolu | Niki | Mitchell | Gardner Bullis Elem. School | Soil Matters: How Soil Quality Affects Plants | Botany | 6 | 1st Award | Molly | Dillon | Niki | Mitchell | Gardner Bullis Elem. School | Soil Matters: How Soil Quality Affects Plants | Botany | 6 | 2nd Award | Elise | Kwan | Martin | Wiedemann | Stratford Middle School - Santa Clara | Which direction Should I Plant Plants Outside My House In Order For Them To Grow The Fastest | Botany | 6 | Honorable Mention | Caroline | Bernal | Arlene | Brown | Saint Christopher School | Can You "Plant" With All the Colors of the Wind...The Effects of Different Colors of Light on Plant Growth | Botany | 6 | Nominated to compete envelope, Broadcom MASTERS - 6th Grade | Mira | Chiruvolu | Niki | Mitchell | Gardner Bullis Elem. School | Soil Matters: How Soil Quality Affects Plants | Botany | 6 | Nominated to compete envelope, Broadcom MASTERS - 6th Grade | Molly | Dillon | Niki | Mitchell | Gardner Bullis Elem. School | Soil Matters: How Soil Quality Affects Plants | Botany | 7 | 1st Award | Divya Reggie | Nair | Shannon | Lum | Challenger - Berryessa | The Effect of Genetically Modified Crops on their Sugar Content | Botany | 7 | 1st Award | Karunya | Krishnan | Nita | Kumar | Delphi Academy-Campbell | Do fertilizers extend plant life during drought and if so what types of fertilizers extend plant life during a drought? | Botany | 7 | 1st Award | Ishanee | Mitra | Nita | Kumar | Delphi Academy-Campbell | Do fertilizers extend plant life during drought and if so what types of fertilizers extend plant life during a drought? | Botany | 7 | 2nd Award | Fionnuala Feeney | LaTourrette | Rachel | McKenna | Sacred Heart Middle School | Tannen-Baum or Tannen-Bummer? | Botany | 7 | Honorable Mention | Anagha Rukmini | Sikha | Kristi | Chung | Stratford Middle School - San Jose | Going Green starts in the Kitchen: A Comparison of Biodegradable Kitchen Sponges | Botany | 7 | Nominated to compete envelope, Broadcom MASTERS - 7th Grade | Karunya | Krishnan | Nita | Kumar | Delphi Academy-Campbell | Do fertilizers extend plant life during drought and if so what types of fertilizers extend plant life during a drought? | Botany | 7 | Nominated to compete envelope, Broadcom MASTERS - 7th Grade | Ishanee | Mitra | Nita | Kumar | Delphi Academy-Campbell | Do fertilizers extend plant life during drought and if so what types of fertilizers extend plant life during a drought? | Botany | 7 | Nominated to compete envelope, Broadcom MASTERS - 7th Grade | Divya Reggie | Nair | Shannon | Lum | Challenger - Berryessa | The Effect of Genetically Modified Crops on their Sugar Content | Botany | 8 | 1st Award | Ishani Pravin | Narwankar | Martin | Wiedemann | Stratford Middle School - Santa Clara | California Water Crisis: Landfill Trash... To The Rescue! | Botany | 8 | Nominated to compete envelope, Broadcom MASTERS - 8th Grade | Ishani Pravin | Narwankar | Martin | Wiedemann | Stratford Middle School - Santa Clara | California Water Crisis: Landfill Trash... To The Rescue! | Botany | 9 | Plaque and $100 check, and Compete for $1000 Outstanding Young Scientist Award, California Association of Professional Scientists | Priscilla | Siow | Renee | Fallon | Monta Vista High School | E.Coli Filtration using Plant Xylem from the Pseudotsuga menziesii | Botany | 10 | Honorable Mention | Trisha | Dwivedi | Gary | Blickenstaff | Harker School-Upper Campus | The Effects on the Growth of Brassica Rapa After Exposure of its Cryptochromes to Magnetic Fields | Botany | 10 | Honorable Mention | Kshithija | Mulam | Gary | Blickenstaff | Harker School-Upper Campus | The Effects on the Growth of Brassica Rapa After Exposure of its Cryptochromes to Magnetic Fields | Botany | 11 | 2nd Award | Manvitha | Talasila | Tracy | Hughes | Presentation High School | What is the effect of non-ionizing radiation emitted from cell phones and cordless phones on the health of pea plants and mustard plants? | Botany | 12 | High School Finalist Certficate, The Synopsys Outreach Foundation n+1 Prize | Olivia Lynn | Woodford-Berry | Cathy | Messenger | Los Gatos High School | A Novel Approach to Improving Drought Tolerance: The Effects of Biochar on Crop Yield | Botany | 12 | 1st Award | Olivia Lynn | Woodford-Berry | Cathy | Messenger | Los Gatos High School | A Novel Approach to Improving Drought Tolerance: The Effects of Biochar on Crop Yield | Chemistry | 6 | 1st Award | Aditi | Bharti | Heather | Mackewicz | Challenger-Strawberry Park-SJ | Hurray! Plastic Just Passed Away! | Chemistry | 6 | 1st Award | Arvind | Ramachandran | Thuy-Anh | Nguyen | Challenger - Sunnyvale | Waste Not, Watt Not: The Effect of Coffee Grounds on Efficiency of Microbial Fuel Cells | Chemistry | 6 | 1st Award | Talya | Kass | Tammy | Parke | Gideon Hausner Jewish Day School | Bread Rising | Chemistry | 6 | 1st Award | Liah | Nudell | Tammy | Parke | Gideon Hausner Jewish Day School | Bread Rising | Chemistry | 6 | 2nd Award | Charlotte Emily | Lara | Jeffrey | Takemoto | Stratford Middle School - San Jose | Finding the Best Electrolyte for the Electrolysis of Water | Chemistry | 6 | 2nd Award | Anahita | Srinivasan | William | Jenkinson | Stratford Middle School - Santa Clara | Antacid Potency | Chemistry | 6 | Honorable Mention | Anushka Haraki | Aritharan | Lisa | Wicht | Saint Joseph of Cupertino Elem School | Smart Perfect Face-saver | Chemistry | 6 | Honorable Mention | Sherese | Eaglin | Gloria | Whitaker-Daniels | Greene Scholars Program | What Methods Can Remove Salt From Water Best? | Chemistry | 6 | Honorable Mention | Nandita | Jayanthi | Jeffrey | Takemoto | Stratford Middle School - San Jose | Does the temperature of the water affect the rate at which the oxygen is produced while water is undergoing electrolysis? | Chemistry | 6 | Honorable Mention | Masha | Korolik | Linh | Pham | Old Orchard School | How does the surface area and temperature affect the speed of diffusion? | Chemistry | 6 | $50 Cash, San Jose State University Student Affiliates of the American Chemical Society | Arvind | Ramachandran | Thuy-Anh | Nguyen | Challenger - Sunnyvale | Waste Not, Watt Not: The Effect of Coffee Grounds on Efficiency of Microbial Fuel Cells | Chemistry | 6 | 3rd Place - $50, Framed Certificate of Achievement, and Popular Science Magazine, SAMPE - Society for the Advancement of Material and Process Engineering | Shachi Shikha | Prasad | Bonny | Basu | Challenger - Shawnee | What is the effect of temperature on the eerie blue light intensity of luminol? | Chemistry | 6 | 3rd Place Award - $50, Popular Science Magazine Subscription and Framed Certificate of Achievement, ASM International, A Society for Materials, Santa Clara Valley Chapter | Shachi Shikha | Prasad | Bonny | Basu | Challenger - Shawnee | What is the effect of temperature on the eerie blue light intensity of luminol? | Chemistry | 6 | GR 6-8, 1st Place: $85 and Certificate of Achievement, T-Shirt, Society of Vacuum Coaters (SVC) | Joon | Luther | Linh | Pham | Old Orchard School | Gelatin Sizing Viscosity And The Making Of Hydrophobic Paper | Chemistry | 6 | GR 6-8, 2nd Place: $50 and Certificate of Achievement, T-Shirt, Society of Vacuum Coaters (SVC) | Masha | Korolik | Linh | Pham | Old Orchard School | How does the surface area and temperature affect the speed of diffusion? | Chemistry | 6 | Nominated to compete envelope, Broadcom MASTERS - 6th Grade | Aditi | Bharti | Heather | Mackewicz | Challenger-Strawberry Park-SJ | Hurray! Plastic Just Passed Away! | Chemistry | 6 | Nominated to compete envelope, Broadcom MASTERS - 6th Grade | Talya | Kass | Tammy | Parke | Gideon Hausner Jewish Day School | Bread Rising | Chemistry | 6 | Nominated to compete envelope, Broadcom MASTERS - 6th Grade | Liah | Nudell | Tammy | Parke | Gideon Hausner Jewish Day School | Bread Rising | Chemistry | 6 | Nominated to compete envelope, Broadcom MASTERS - 6th Grade | Arvind | Ramachandran | Thuy-Anh | Nguyen | Challenger - Sunnyvale | Waste Not, Watt Not: The Effect of Coffee Grounds on Efficiency of Microbial Fuel Cells | Chemistry | 7 | Middle School Finalist Certificate, The Synopsys Outreach Foundation n+1 Prize | Siobhan | Helms | Nicole | Hulgan | Cabrillo Middle School | Bioadhesive | Chemistry | 7 | Middle School Finalist Certificate, The Synopsys Outreach Foundation n+1 Prize | Mariana Lynn | Niblock | Nicole | Hulgan | Cabrillo Middle School | Bioadhesive | Chemistry | 7 | 1st Award | Rithik | Jain | Thuy-Anh | Nguyen | Challenger - Sunnyvale | The Bang for Your Buck - The Effect of the Type of Fuel on Energy Content | Chemistry | 7 | 1st Award | Ayinde Bomar | Olukotun | Gloria | Whitaker-Daniels | Greene Scholars Program | How Does Your Crystal Grow? Understanding the Effects of Temperature on Crystal Growth | Chemistry | 7 | 2nd Award | Elaine Huang | Chu | Robin | Ames | Stanford (Jane Lathrop) Middle School | Hot Ice and the Laws of Thermodynamics | Chemistry | 7 | 2nd Award | Alicia | Tsung | Jeannie | Bui | Merryhill Schools -Milpitas | Composting @ Work | Chemistry | 7 | Honorable Mention | Brandon Riley | McClelland | Nelson | Hori | Cabrillo Middle School | A Gassy Science Project: What Chemical Reaction Expels the Most Gas? | Chemistry | 7 | $50 Cash, San Jose State University Student Affiliates of the American Chemical Society | Shannon Brigette | Miranda | Teresa | Lesieutre | Canyon Heights Academy | A Low Cost Alternate to Commercially Made Ice Packs for Rural Population | Chemistry | 7 | 2nd Place - $75, Framed Certificate of Achievement, and Popular Science Magazine Subscription, SAMPE - Society for the Advancement of Material and Process Engineering | Ayinde Bomar | Olukotun | Gloria | Whitaker-Daniels | Greene Scholars Program | How Does Your Crystal Grow? Understanding the Effects of Temperature on Crystal Growth | Chemistry | 7 | 2nd Place Award - $75, Popular Science Magazine Subscription and Framed Certificate of Achievement, ASM International, A Society for Materials, Santa Clara Valley Chapter | Ayinde Bomar | Olukotun | Gloria | Whitaker-Daniels | Greene Scholars Program | How Does Your Crystal Grow? Understanding the Effects of Temperature on Crystal Growth | Chemistry | 7 | Nominated to compete envelope, Broadcom MASTERS - 7th Grade | Rithik | Jain | Thuy-Anh | Nguyen | Challenger - Sunnyvale | The Bang for Your Buck - The Effect of the Type of Fuel on Energy Content | Chemistry | 7 | Nominated to compete envelope, Broadcom MASTERS - 7th Grade | Ayinde Bomar | Olukotun | Gloria | Whitaker-Daniels | Greene Scholars Program | How Does Your Crystal Grow? Understanding the Effects of Temperature on Crystal Growth | Chemistry | 8 | Middle School Finalist Certificate, The Synopsys Outreach Foundation n+1 Prize | Sanjana S. | Borle | Leah | Watts | Kennedy(John F.) Middle School-Cupertino | Natural vs. Artificial Oil Absorbers to Clean up Oil Spills | Chemistry | 8 | 1st Award | Frederick | Nitta | Linda | Luo | Stanford (Jane Lathrop) Middle School | Anthocyanin and the behavior of electrons | Chemistry | 8 | 2nd Award | Katelyn Ashley | Lemieux | Mala | Udayamurthy | Murphy (Martin) Middle School | Extending the Shelf Life of Milk Using Hydrogen Peroxide | Chemistry | 8 | Honorable Mention | Audrey Grace | Cox | Linh | Pham | Old Orchard School | Which Environmentally-Friendly Material Soaks Up Oil the Best? | Chemistry | 8 | Honorable Mention | Ashli | Jain | Kristen | Morgensen | Harker School-Middle Campus | PET levels after solar exposure in colored water bottles | Chemistry | 8 | Honorable Mention | Sonal | Muthal | Kristen | Morgensen | Harker School-Middle Campus | PET levels after solar exposure in colored water bottles | Chemistry | 8 | $50 Cash, San Jose State University Student Affiliates of the American Chemical Society | Katelyn Ashley | Lemieux | Mala | Udayamurthy | Murphy (Martin) Middle School | Extending the Shelf Life of Milk Using Hydrogen Peroxide | Chemistry | 8 | Nominated to compete envelope, Broadcom MASTERS - 8th Grade | Frederick | Nitta | Linda | Luo | Stanford (Jane Lathrop) Middle School | Anthocyanin and the behavior of electrons | Chemistry | 9 | 2nd Award | Alexander Bao | Vu | Anuradha | Murthy | Basis Independent Silicon Valley School | Magnetic Water Magic: A Study on the Effect of Magnetic Water Treatment on the Scale Formation of Water | Chemistry | 9 | Honorable Mention | Rishabh | Jain | Linda | Segal | Saint Francis High School | The Effect of the Type of Fuel on Energy Density, Combustion Rate, and Pollution Levels | Chemistry | 9 | 2nd place: $40 and Certificate of Achievement, United States Metric Association | Rishabh | Jain | Linda | Segal | Saint Francis High School | The Effect of the Type of Fuel on Energy Density, Combustion Rate, and Pollution Levels | Chemistry | 9 | Certificate of Achievement, American Meteorological Society | Alexander Bao | Vu | Anuradha | Murthy | Basis Independent Silicon Valley School | Magnetic Water Magic: A Study on the Effect of Magnetic Water Treatment on the Scale Formation of Water | Chemistry | 11 | 2nd Place Award - $200 and Framed Certificate of Achievement, American Chemical Society, Santa Clara Valley | Priya | Padmanaban | Narquiz | Cervantes | Silver Creek High School | The Synthesis of Ferromagnetic Nanoparticles for the Decontamination of Oily Water". | Chemistry | 11 | Team award - $300 total and Framed Certificate of Achievement, American Chemical Society, Santa Clara Valley | Nora | Abushaaban | Narquiz | Cervantes | Silver Creek High School | Effects of Metal Cations on the Kinetics of Ortho- Nitrophenyl-Beta Galactoside Hydrolysis by Lactase | Chemistry | 11 | Team award - $300 total and Framed Certificate of Achievement, American Chemical Society, Santa Clara Valley | Whitney J | Lau | Narquiz | Cervantes | Silver Creek High School | Effects of Metal Cations on the Kinetics of Ortho- Nitrophenyl-Beta Galactoside Hydrolysis by Lactase | Chemistry | 11 | Team award - $300 total and Framed Certificate of Achievement, American Chemical Society, Santa Clara Valley | Pratima | Manga | Narquiz | Cervantes | Silver Creek High School | Effects of Metal Cations on the Kinetics of Ortho- Nitrophenyl-Beta Galactoside Hydrolysis by Lactase | Chemistry | 11 | 1st Award | Priya | Padmanaban | Narquiz | Cervantes | Silver Creek High School | The Synthesis of Ferromagnetic Nanoparticles for the Decontamination of Oily Water". | Chemistry | 11 | 2nd Award | Shomik | Jain | Cathy | Messenger | Los Gatos High School | Is Your Sunscreen Safe? A study of sunscreens with photocatalytic particles, their ability to produce hydroxyl radicals in pools, and the effect of these particles on chlorination. | Chemistry | 11 | 2nd Award | Nora | Abushaaban | Narquiz | Cervantes | Silver Creek High School | Effects of Metal Cations on the Kinetics of Ortho- Nitrophenyl-Beta Galactoside Hydrolysis by Lactase | Chemistry | 11 | 2nd Award | Erin Yurim | Kim | Narquiz | Cervantes | Silver Creek High School | Chopsticks: Harmless Wood or a Bane? | Chemistry | 11 | 2nd Award | Whitney J | Lau | Narquiz | Cervantes | Silver Creek High School | Effects of Metal Cations on the Kinetics of Ortho- Nitrophenyl-Beta Galactoside Hydrolysis by Lactase | Chemistry | 11 | 2nd Award | Pratima | Manga | Narquiz | Cervantes | Silver Creek High School | Effects of Metal Cations on the Kinetics of Ortho- Nitrophenyl-Beta Galactoside Hydrolysis by Lactase | Chemistry | 11 | 2nd Place - $75, Framed Certificate of Achievement, and Popular Science Magazine Subscription, SAMPE - Society for the Advancement of Material and Process Engineering | Sampada | Deglurkar | Scott | Lubbs | Evergreen Valley High School | Increasing the Efficiency of Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells: How the Amount of Chiral Molecules Affects the Efficiency of the DSSC | Chemistry | 11 | 2nd Place Award - $75, Popular Science Magazine Subscription and Framed Certificate of Achievement, ASM International, A Society for Materials, Santa Clara Valley Chapter | Sampada | Deglurkar | Scott | Lubbs | Evergreen Valley High School | Increasing the Efficiency of Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells: How the Amount of Chiral Molecules Affects the Efficiency of the DSSC | Chemistry | 11 | Certificate of Achievement; if registered, medal, subscription & opportunity to advance to national competition for trip to Stockholm, Stockholm Junior Water Prize | Priya | Padmanaban | Narquiz | Cervantes | Silver Creek High School | The Synthesis of Ferromagnetic Nanoparticles for the Decontamination of Oily Water". | Chemistry | 12 | 2nd Award | Jennifer Yura | Kim | Narquiz | Cervantes | Silver Creek High School | Chopsticks: Harmless Wood or a Bane? | Chemistry | 12 | Certificate of Achievement, American Meteorological Society | Kevin | Dieu | Patrick | Allamandola | Andrew Hill High School | The Drought's Effect on Creek Water Pollutants | Chemistry | 12 | Outstanding Project: Certificate of Achievement and Voucher for a Safe Boating Course, United States Coast Guard Auxiliary | Kevin | Dieu | Patrick | Allamandola | Andrew Hill High School | The Drought's Effect on Creek Water Pollutants | Computers / Mathematics | 6 | 1st Award | Bharat | Kathi | Subha | Banarjee | Magnolia Science Acad of Santa Clara | Detecto-Bot | Computers / Mathematics | 6 | Nominated to compete envelope, Broadcom MASTERS - 6th Grade | Bharat | Kathi | Subha | Banarjee | Magnolia Science Acad of Santa Clara | Detecto-Bot | Computers / Mathematics | 7 | 3rd Place Student Award: $80 and Certificate of Achievement, Association for Computing Machinery, San Francisco Bay Area Professional Chapter | Swati | Goel | Beth | Carlson | Terman Middle School | Can you win the Word Game? | Computers / Mathematics | 7 | Honorable Mention Student Award: $40 and Certificate of Achievement, Association for Computing Machinery, San Francisco Bay Area Professional Chapter | Malika | Ahuja | Reshma | Hyder | Redwood Middle School | Edible Warfare-An Educational Video Game | Computers / Mathematics | 7 | Honorable Mention Student Award: $40 and Certificate of Achievement, Association for Computing Machinery, San Francisco Bay Area Professional Chapter | Hayaa Asifa | Hyder | Reshma | Hyder | Redwood Middle School | Edible Warfare-An Educational Video Game | Computers / Mathematics | 7 | Honorable Mention Student Award: $40 and Certificate of Achievement, Association for Computing Machinery, San Francisco Bay Area Professional Chapter | Mihir Maheendra | Kasmalkar | Malathi | Tuers | Valley Christian Junior High School | Py++: The Next Programming Language | Computers / Mathematics | 7 | Honorable Mention Student Award: $40 and Certificate of Achievement, Association for Computing Machinery, San Francisco Bay Area Professional Chapter | Pranay | Satya | Sashikala | Katuri (PSP) | Stratford Middle School - Santa Clara | Can "Candle"stick Charts Shine Light on Future of Stock Prices? - Develop and Analyze the Effectiveness of Low-Cost Excel-based Pattern Recognition Capability to Detect Patterns in Stock Prices | Computers / Mathematics | 7 | Honorable Mention Student Award: $40 and Certificate of Achievement, Association for Computing Machinery, San Francisco Bay Area Professional Chapter | Kazuki | Tayama | Muna | Khanna | Champion School | Polyomino Solver | Computers / Mathematics | 7 | 1st Award | Patrick | Yu | Youssef | Ismail (SSW mentor) | Privately Sponsored Project | Developing Efficient Algorithms for Self-Navigating Vehicles | Computers / Mathematics | 7 | 2nd Award | Swati | Goel | Beth | Carlson | Terman Middle School | Can you win the Word Game? | Computers / Mathematics | 7 | 2nd Award | Arav | Chheda | Nelson | Hori | Cabrillo Middle School | Video Game for the Blind | Computers / Mathematics | 7 | 2nd Award | Brandon | Lee | Nelson | Hori | Cabrillo Middle School | Video Game for the Blind | Computers / Mathematics | 7 | Honorable Mention | Aishani | Aatresh | Heather | Mackewicz | Challenger-Strawberry Park-SJ | Allergies in a Nutshell: Correlation Between Immunoglobulin E Levels for Allergens and Allergic Reactions and Cross Reactivity | Computers / Mathematics | 7 | Honorable Mention | Pranay | Satya | Sashikala | Katuri (PSP) | Stratford Middle School - Santa Clara | Can "Candle"stick Charts Shine Light on Future of Stock Prices? - Develop and Analyze the Effectiveness of Low-Cost Excel-based Pattern Recognition Capability to Detect Patterns in Stock Prices | Computers / Mathematics | 7 | Nominated to compete envelope, Broadcom MASTERS - 7th Grade | Patrick | Yu | Youssef | Ismail (SSW mentor) | Privately Sponsored Project | Developing Efficient Algorithms for Self-Navigating Vehicles | Computers / Mathematics | 7 | Sport Bag, Junior Tech Organizer, Certificate of achievement, United States Air Force | Patrick | Yu | Youssef | Ismail (SSW mentor) | Privately Sponsored Project | Developing Efficient Algorithms for Self-Navigating Vehicles | Computers / Mathematics | 8 | $250 + certificate + two books to student + breakfast with Bob, Zeidman Award | Sanjana V. | Shah | Klington | Chang | Kennedy(John F.) Middle School-Cupertino | Text Compression Algorithm based on Popularity using Global English Dictionary | Computers / Mathematics | 8 | 2nd Place Student Award, Outstanding Young Woman in Computing: $160 and Certificate of Achievement, Association for Computing Machinery, San Francisco Bay Area Professional Chapter | Sanjana V. | Shah | Klington | Chang | Kennedy(John F.) Middle School-Cupertino | Text Compression Algorithm based on Popularity using Global English Dictionary | Computers / Mathematics | 8 | Middle School Finalist Certificate, The Synopsys Outreach Foundation n+1 Prize | Karthik V. | Kalyanasundaram | Thuy-Anh | Nguyen | Challenger - Sunnyvale | To or Not To? Applying Steganography Based Information Storage in Medical Imaging. | Computers / Mathematics | 8 | Middle School Finalist Certificate, The Synopsys Outreach Foundation n+1 Prize | Daniel | Ong | Christina | DeGregorio | Terman Middle School | Global minimization of protein energy profile by repeated perturbation and annealing as a method to predict final protein shape from its amino acid sequence. | Computers / Mathematics | 8 | 1st Award | Sanjana V. | Shah | Klington | Chang | Kennedy(John F.) Middle School-Cupertino | Text Compression Algorithm based on Popularity using Global English Dictionary | Computers / Mathematics | 8 | 2nd Award | Viet | Nguyen | Jeannie | Bui | Merryhill Schools -Milpitas | Man vs. Machine | Computers / Mathematics | 8 | Honorable Mention | Deepankar | Joshi | Heather | Mackewicz | Challenger-Strawberry Park-SJ | Hidden Markov Model for Protein Sequencing | Computers / Mathematics | 8 | Nominated to compete envelope, Broadcom MASTERS - 8th Grade | Sanjana V. | Shah | Klington | Chang | Kennedy(John F.) Middle School-Cupertino | Text Compression Algorithm based on Popularity using Global English Dictionary | Computers / Mathematics | 9 | Grand Prize Alternate - Outreach Schools - Trip to State Science Fair and Plaque, Santa Clara Valley Science & Engineering Fair Assn - Board of Directors Awards - High School | Aratrika | Ghatak | Doug | Miller | Evergreen Valley High School | Faster Emergency Response via Vehicle to Signal (V2S) Communication | Computers / Mathematics | 9 | $100 First Prize, Morgan Lewis | Utkarsh | Tandon | Eric | Ferrante | Cupertino High School | Parkinsonian Syndrome Stage Classification through Signal-Processing driven Machine Learning Ensemble Algorithms: A low-cost Wearable Device utilizing novel Feature Engineering for Diagnosing and Monitoring Tremor based Diseases | Computers / Mathematics | 9 | 1st Award | Utkarsh | Tandon | Eric | Ferrante | Cupertino High School | Parkinsonian Syndrome Stage Classification through Signal-Processing driven Machine Learning Ensemble Algorithms: A low-cost Wearable Device utilizing novel Feature Engineering for Diagnosing and Monitoring Tremor based Diseases | Computers / Mathematics | 9 | 2nd Award | Aratrika | Ghatak | Doug | Miller | Evergreen Valley High School | Faster Emergency Response via Vehicle to Signal (V2S) Communication | Computers / Mathematics | 9 | 2nd Award | Anushka Prasad | Jogalekar | Jeffrey | Solomon | Evergreen Valley High School | Computer-Assisted Retinal Disease Detection | Computers / Mathematics | 9 | Gift Card and Certificate of Achievement, Society of Women Engineers | Anushka Prasad | Jogalekar | Jeffrey | Solomon | Evergreen Valley High School | Computer-Assisted Retinal Disease Detection | Computers / Mathematics | 9 | Honorable Mention: Certificate of Achievement, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) Intelligent Systems Award | Nikhil | Ajjarapu | Jason | Lee | Lynbrook High School | Censoring Illicit Content using Machine Learning | Computers / Mathematics | 9 | Honorable Mention: Certificate of Achievement, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) Intelligent Systems Award | Utkarsh | Tandon | Eric | Ferrante | Cupertino High School | Parkinsonian Syndrome Stage Classification through Signal-Processing driven Machine Learning Ensemble Algorithms: A low-cost Wearable Device utilizing novel Feature Engineering for Diagnosing and Monitoring Tremor based Diseases | Computers / Mathematics | 9 | Sport Bag, Junior Tech Organizer, Certificate of achievement, United States Air Force | Aratrika | Ghatak | Doug | Miller | Evergreen Valley High School | Faster Emergency Response via Vehicle to Signal (V2S) Communication | Computers / Mathematics | 10 | Grand Prize Alternate - Physical Sciences - Trip to State Science Fair and Plaque, Santa Clara Valley Science & Engineering Fair Assn - Board of Directors Awards - High School | Vedaad | Shakib | Chris | Spenner | Harker School-Upper Campus | Computer Simulation of Free-Surface Fluid Flow using MPS | Computers / Mathematics | 10 | Honorable Mention Student Award: $50 and Certificate of Achievement, Association for Computing Machinery, San Francisco Bay Area Professional Chapter | Rishi Pulin | Desai | Rita | Huff | Valley Christian High School | Efficient Programming Through Natural Language Processing | Computers / Mathematics | 10 | 1st Award | Manan Ajay | Shah | Eric | Nelson | Harker School-Upper Campus | Improving the Accuracy of Sentiment Classification: a Novel Synthesis of Computational and Analytical Methods | Computers / Mathematics | 10 | 2nd Award | Vedaad | Shakib | Chris | Spenner | Harker School-Upper Campus | Computer Simulation of Free-Surface Fluid Flow using MPS | Computers / Mathematics | 10 | Honorable Mention | Rishi Pulin | Desai | Rita | Huff | Valley Christian High School | Efficient Programming Through Natural Language Processing | Computers / Mathematics | 10 | Certificate of Achievement and ONR Medallion, United States Navy and Marine Corps | Vedaad | Shakib | Chris | Spenner | Harker School-Upper Campus | Computer Simulation of Free-Surface Fluid Flow using MPS | Computers / Mathematics | 10 | One-day immersive trip to Firebase to work on API project, TechLab Education | Rishi Pulin | Desai | Rita | Huff | Valley Christian High School | Efficient Programming Through Natural Language Processing | Computers / Mathematics | 11 | Honorable Mention Student Award: $50 and Certificate of Achievement, Association for Computing Machinery, San Francisco Bay Area Professional Chapter | Anne | Zepecki | Cathy | Messenger | Los Gatos High School | Girls Learn Code - A Lesson in Java for Teenage Girls | Computers / Mathematics | 11 | 1st Award | Timothy John | Varghese | Justin | Proulx | King's Academy | From Sums over Natural Numbers to Sums over Primes | Computers / Mathematics | 11 | 2nd Award | Manogna | Vemulapati | Larry | Steinke | Saint Francis High School | Classification of ECG Arrhythmia Using Manifold Learning and Support Vector Machine | Computers / Mathematics | 11 | Honorable Mention | Sherry | Sarkar | Jason | Lee | Lynbrook High School | The Applications of Coding Theory for the Analysis of Genetic Data | Computers / Mathematics | 12 | Honorable Mention Student Award: $50 and Certificate of Achievement, Association for Computing Machinery, San Francisco Bay Area Professional Chapter | Thomas | Fahrner | Rita | Huff | Valley Christian High School | Efficient Programming Through Natural Language Processing | Computers / Mathematics | 12 | Honorable Mention Student Award: $50 and Certificate of Achievement, Association for Computing Machinery, San Francisco Bay Area Professional Chapter | Tanay | Tandon | Eric | Ferrante | Cupertino High School | Topographical Computer Vision Algorithms for rapid, low-cost Hematological diagnostics and Parasite detection through Random Forests learning and van Leeuwenhoek-type Imaging | Computers / Mathematics | 12 | 2nd Award | Indraneel | Tambe | Jill | McCrystal | Saratoga High School | Inverse Problem Approach to Designing Better Optical Waveguides | Computers / Mathematics | 12 | Honorable Mention | Thomas | Fahrner | Rita | Huff | Valley Christian High School | Efficient Programming Through Natural Language Processing | Computers / Mathematics | 12 | Intel ECS Certificate of Achievement and Forms to Submit for $200, Intel Excellence in Computer Science Award | Tanay | Tandon | Eric | Ferrante | Cupertino High School | Topographical Computer Vision Algorithms for rapid, low-cost Hematological diagnostics and Parasite detection through Random Forests learning and van Leeuwenhoek-type Imaging | Computers / Mathematics | 12 | One-day immersive trip to Firebase to work on API project, TechLab Education | Thomas | Fahrner | Rita | Huff | Valley Christian High School | Efficient Programming Through Natural Language Processing | Earth / Space Sciences | 6 | 1st Award | Andrew | Chiang | Ting-Kuang | Chiang (PSP) | Privately Sponsored Project | Wind Winds Windmills | Earth / Space Sciences | 6 | 1st Award | Abigail Marie | Hooper | Teresa | Lesieutre | Canyon Heights Academy | Lead Should Be Dead | Earth / Space Sciences | 6 | 2nd Award | Harbani Kaur | Jaggi | Tini | Raman | Challenger-Middlefield-Palo Alto | The World is Exhausted | Earth / Space Sciences | 6 | 2nd Award | Jakob Riley | Lelong | Jeffrey | Takemoto | Stratford Middle School - San Jose | Tsunami Simulator | Earth / Space Sciences | 6 | 2nd Award | Isabella | Mclarney | Amy | Brindos | Buchser Middle School | Maglev Magic | Earth / Space Sciences | 6 | Honorable Mention | Louiegail Faith | Nazareno | Rachel | Hilario-Pigg | Saint Joseph School (Mountain View) | How To Improve Wind Turbine Efficiency | Earth / Space Sciences | 6 | Best Project: $50, Certificate of Achievement, and Voucher for a Safe Boating Course, United States Coast Guard Auxiliary | Jakob Riley | Lelong | Jeffrey | Takemoto | Stratford Middle School - San Jose | Tsunami Simulator | Earth / Space Sciences | 6 | Certificate of Achievement, NOAA Medallion, and Letter, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration | Jakob Riley | Lelong | Jeffrey | Takemoto | Stratford Middle School - San Jose | Tsunami Simulator | Earth / Space Sciences | 6 | Certificate of Excellence from National Association of Women Geoscientists, Association for Women Geoscientists, San Francisco Bay Area Chapter | Abigail Marie | Hooper | Teresa | Lesieutre | Canyon Heights Academy | Lead Should Be Dead | Earth / Space Sciences | 6 | Honorable Mention - Certificate of Achievement, American Society of Civil Engineers | Nicole Laguna | Bucton | Caroline | Sloan | Buchser Middle School | Storm Drains | Earth / Space Sciences | 6 | Nominated to compete envelope, Broadcom MASTERS - 6th Grade | Andrew | Chiang | Ting-Kuang | Chiang (PSP) | Privately Sponsored Project | Wind Winds Windmills | Earth / Space Sciences | 6 | Nominated to compete envelope, Broadcom MASTERS - 6th Grade | Abigail Marie | Hooper | Teresa | Lesieutre | Canyon Heights Academy | Lead Should Be Dead | Earth / Space Sciences | 6 | Outstanding Project: Certificate of Achievement and Voucher for a Safe Boating Course, United States Coast Guard Auxiliary | Anjali | Singh | Jamie | Oliveira | Kennedy(John F.) Middle School-Cupertino | I'm Lost - How Accurate is My GPS? | Earth / Space Sciences | 6 | Student Award in Geoscience Excellence from Association for Women Geoscientists Bay Area Chapter, Association for Women Geoscientists, San Francisco Bay Area Chapter | Lia Alana | Escober | Rachel | Hilario-Pigg | Saint Joseph School (Mountain View) | A New Way to Save Water | Earth / Space Sciences | 7 | 1st Award | Anusha | Ghosh | Bonny | Basu | Challenger - Shawnee | Slowing Global Warming using Iron and Nutrient Fertilization of Oceanic Phytoplankton | Earth / Space Sciences | 7 | 2nd Award | Eesha | Pamula | Heather | Mackewicz | Challenger-Strawberry Park-SJ | Studying Earthquake Intensity on Soils with Varying Moisture Levels | Earth / Space Sciences | 7 | 2nd place - $100 and Certificate of Achievement, American Society of Civil Engineers | Eesha | Pamula | Heather | Mackewicz | Challenger-Strawberry Park-SJ | Studying Earthquake Intensity on Soils with Varying Moisture Levels | Earth / Space Sciences | 7 | Certificate of Achievement and ONR Medallion, United States Navy and Marine Corps | Anusha | Ghosh | Bonny | Basu | Challenger - Shawnee | Slowing Global Warming using Iron and Nutrient Fertilization of Oceanic Phytoplankton | Earth / Space Sciences | 7 | Nominated to compete envelope, Broadcom MASTERS - 7th Grade | Anusha | Ghosh | Bonny | Basu | Challenger - Shawnee | Slowing Global Warming using Iron and Nutrient Fertilization of Oceanic Phytoplankton | Earth / Space Sciences | 8 | Certificate of Excellence from National Association of Women Geoscientists, Association for Women Geoscientists, San Francisco Bay Area Chapter | Farah Noor | Masood | Sumizah | Qureshi | Granada Islamic School | Effect of Air Pollutants on Solar Panel Efficiency | Earth / Space Sciences | 9 | 1st Award | Jasper | Huang | Jason | Lee | Lynbrook High School | The Effect of Soil Coarseness and Soil Moisture Content on the Amount of Carbon Dioxide Sequestered by Basalt Sand with Red Harvester Ants as a Biotic Agent | Earth / Space Sciences | 10 | Grand Prize - Best of Championship - Physical Sciences - Trip to Intel ISEF and Plaque, Santa Clara Valley Science & Engineering Fair Assn - Board of Directors Awards - High School | Shashank | Dholakia | Cory | Dobos | Wilcox High School | A Search for Exoplanets in the Open Star Clusters Messier 35 and Koposov 62 Using A Novel Large-Scale Photometric Algorithm for the "Crippled" Kepler Mission. | Earth / Space Sciences | 10 | Grand Prize - Best of Championship - Physical Sciences - Trip to Intel ISEF and Plaque, Santa Clara Valley Science & Engineering Fair Assn - Board of Directors Awards - High School | Shishir | Dholakia | Cory | Dobos | Wilcox High School | A Search for Exoplanets in the Open Star Clusters Messier 35 and Koposov 62 Using A Novel Large-Scale Photometric Algorithm for the "Crippled" Kepler Mission. | Earth / Space Sciences | 10 | 1st Award | Shashank | Dholakia | Cory | Dobos | Wilcox High School | A Search for Exoplanets in the Open Star Clusters Messier 35 and Koposov 62 Using A Novel Large-Scale Photometric Algorithm for the "Crippled" Kepler Mission. | Earth / Space Sciences | 10 | 1st Award | Shishir | Dholakia | Cory | Dobos | Wilcox High School | A Search for Exoplanets in the Open Star Clusters Messier 35 and Koposov 62 Using A Novel Large-Scale Photometric Algorithm for the "Crippled" Kepler Mission. | Earth / Space Sciences | 12 | 1st Award | Yana | Petri | Renee | Fallon | Monta Vista High School | Modeling CMIP5 Projected Climate Change Impacts on Global Terrestrial Mammalian Species-Range Shifts Under RCP Emission Scenarios | Earth / Space Sciences | 12 | $100 and Certificate of Achievement, Trimble Navigation, Ltd. | Yana | Petri | Renee | Fallon | Monta Vista High School | Modeling CMIP5 Projected Climate Change Impacts on Global Terrestrial Mammalian Species-Range Shifts Under RCP Emission Scenarios | Earth / Space Sciences | 12 | Certificate of Achievement, NOAA Medallion, and Letter, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration | Yana | Petri | Renee | Fallon | Monta Vista High School | Modeling CMIP5 Projected Climate Change Impacts on Global Terrestrial Mammalian Species-Range Shifts Under RCP Emission Scenarios | Earth / Space Sciences | 12 | Honorable Mention - Certificate of Achievement, American Society of Civil Engineers | Claudia | Toma | Jennifer | Quan | Oak Grove High School | Sand Particle Size and Structural Stability in Erosion Patterns | Ecology | 6 | 1st Award | Akshaya | Ganesan | Susan | Hansen | Kennedy(John F.) Middle School-Cupertino | FEEDING EARTHWORMS: DO DIFFERENT DIETS AFFECT THE NUTRIENT LEVELS OF VERMICOMPOST ? | Ecology | 6 | 2nd Award | Carissa Mercedes | Ott | Stephanie | Louris | Basis Independent Silicon Valley School | Planty-ful Air, Effects of Plants Operating Air Purification | Ecology | 6 | Honorable Mention | Ishir Arun | Vaidyanath | Jeffrey | Takemoto | Stratford Middle School - San Jose | Saving Water from the Ground Up | Ecology | 6 | Nominated to compete envelope, Broadcom MASTERS - 6th Grade | Akshaya | Ganesan | Susan | Hansen | Kennedy(John F.) Middle School-Cupertino | FEEDING EARTHWORMS: DO DIFFERENT DIETS AFFECT THE NUTRIENT LEVELS OF VERMICOMPOST ? | Ecology | 7 | 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 | Kami | Richardson | Rachel | McKenna | Sacred Heart Middle School | Liquid Gold: The Effect of Light on Maximizing the Production of Algae-Based Biofuels | Ecology | 7 | 1st Award | Kami | Richardson | Rachel | McKenna | Sacred Heart Middle School | Liquid Gold: The Effect of Light on Maximizing the Production of Algae-Based Biofuels | Ecology | 7 | 2nd Award | Soha | Vora | Rajul | Vora (PSP) | Stratford Middle School - Santa Clara | Which is the Best Species of Algae for Biofuel? | Ecology | 7 | Honorable Mention | Shloka | Janapaty | Preethi | Sundaresakumar | Stratford Middle School - San Jose | California Drought: Getting more out of every Drop! | Ecology | 7 | $100 and Certificate of Achievement, Trimble Navigation, Ltd. | Shloka | Janapaty | Preethi | Sundaresakumar | Stratford Middle School - San Jose | California Drought: Getting more out of every Drop! | Ecology | 7 | Nominated to compete envelope, Broadcom MASTERS - 7th Grade | Kami | Richardson | Rachel | McKenna | Sacred Heart Middle School | Liquid Gold: The Effect of Light on Maximizing the Production of Algae-Based Biofuels | Ecology | 8 | 1st Award | Jaydev Niranjan | Bhateja | Anuradha | Murthy | Basis Independent Silicon Valley School | Sweet Drought: Effects of Dry Farming on Sugar Concentrations in Pisum sativum | Ecology | 8 | 2nd Award | Arjun Krishna | Prabhakar | Christina | DeGregorio | Terman Middle School | A Cost-Effective Search for Clean Water | Ecology | 8 | Nominated to compete envelope, Broadcom MASTERS - 8th Grade | Jaydev Niranjan | Bhateja | Anuradha | Murthy | Basis Independent Silicon Valley School | Sweet Drought: Effects of Dry Farming on Sugar Concentrations in Pisum sativum | Ecology | 9 | 2nd Award | Rishi Jatin | Upadhyay | Renee | Fallon | Monta Vista High School | Effect of environmental pollutants on Salmon chromatophores and their use as a biosensor | Ecology | 9 | Honorable Mention | Manav Jitesh | Shah | Renee | Fallon | Monta Vista High School | The Effect of Freshwater Diatoms and Orthosilicate during Nutrient Over-Fertilization in Harmful Algal Blooms to control the Growth Rate of Dinoflagellate Peridinium | Ecology | 9 | $100 First Place, Certificate of Achievement, and Letter, Inez M. Lechner Award | Anika Asawa | Ramachandran | Andrew | Goldenkranz | Monta Vista High School | The Reduction of Carbon Dioxide Levels in Freshwater Using Chlorella vulgaris and Calcium Oxide | Ecology | 9 | book for student and another for her science teacher, Promethium Chapter of Iota Sigma Pi | Anika Asawa | Ramachandran | Andrew | Goldenkranz | Monta Vista High School | The Reduction of Carbon Dioxide Levels in Freshwater Using Chlorella vulgaris and Calcium Oxide | Ecology | 9 | Certificate of Achievement, American Meteorological Society | Manav Jitesh | Shah | Renee | Fallon | Monta Vista High School | The Effect of Freshwater Diatoms and Orthosilicate during Nutrient Over-Fertilization in Harmful Algal Blooms to control the Growth Rate of Dinoflagellate Peridinium | Ecology | 10 | Grand Prize Alternate - Outreach Schools - Trip to State Science Fair and Plaque, Santa Clara Valley Science & Engineering Fair Assn - Board of Directors Awards - High School | Manjot | Kaur | Narquiz | Cervantes | Silver Creek High School | Effect of various metal pollutants on the photosynthetic growth of marine algae under replicated oceanic conditions measured by the resulting concentration of chlorophyll detected through a spectrophotometer | Ecology | 10 | Grand Prize Alternate - Outreach Schools - Trip to State Science Fair and Plaque, Santa Clara Valley Science & Engineering Fair Assn - Board of Directors Awards - High School | Sophia | Lau | Narquiz | Cervantes | Silver Creek High School | Effect of various metal pollutants on the photosynthetic growth of marine algae under replicated oceanic conditions measured by the resulting concentration of chlorophyll detected through a spectrophotometer | Ecology | 10 | 1st Award | Elina B. | Yon | Cathy | Messenger | Los Gatos High School | Effects of Pistia stratiotes Phytoremediation of Nitrogen and Phosphorus, and Effects of Nitrogen and Phosphorus Enriched Pistia Stratiotes as Organic Mulch Fertilizer on growth of Lactua sativa | Ecology | 10 | 1st Award | Manjot | Kaur | Narquiz | Cervantes | Silver Creek High School | Effect of various metal pollutants on the photosynthetic growth of marine algae under replicated oceanic conditions measured by the resulting concentration of chlorophyll detected through a spectrophotometer | Ecology | 10 | 1st Award | Sophia | Lau | Narquiz | Cervantes | Silver Creek High School | Effect of various metal pollutants on the photosynthetic growth of marine algae under replicated oceanic conditions measured by the resulting concentration of chlorophyll detected through a spectrophotometer | Ecology | 10 | 2nd Award | Sarah Elizabeth | Shaw | Cathy | Messenger | Los Gatos High School | The Effect of Mycorrhizae on Reducing Drought Stress on Lolium perenne | Ecology | 10 | $100 and Certificate of Achievement, Schonert Award | Manjot | Kaur | Narquiz | Cervantes | Silver Creek High School | Effect of various metal pollutants on the photosynthetic growth of marine algae under replicated oceanic conditions measured by the resulting concentration of chlorophyll detected through a spectrophotometer | Ecology | 10 | $100 and Certificate of Achievement, Schonert Award | Sophia | Lau | Narquiz | Cervantes | Silver Creek High School | Effect of various metal pollutants on the photosynthetic growth of marine algae under replicated oceanic conditions measured by the resulting concentration of chlorophyll detected through a spectrophotometer | Ecology | 11 | 1st Award | Aditi | Mittal | Tracy | Hughes | Presentation High School | Coral Bleaching by Sunscreens: Effect of Sunscreen Chemicals on the Survival of Coral Symbiont Zooxanthellae Algae | Ecology | 11 | Honorable Mention | Amy | Zhang | Ibtisam | Khalaf (SSW mentor) | Privately Sponsored Project | Bioremediation of Lead Using Shewanelle oneidensis | Ecology | 11 | Certificate of Achievement, American Meteorological Society | Amy | Zhang | Ibtisam | Khalaf (SSW mentor) | Privately Sponsored Project | Bioremediation of Lead Using Shewanelle oneidensis | Ecology | 11 | Certificate of Achievement; if registered, medal, subscription & opportunity to advance to national competition for trip to Stockholm, Stockholm Junior Water Prize | Aditi | Mittal | Tracy | Hughes | Presentation High School | Coral Bleaching by Sunscreens: Effect of Sunscreen Chemicals on the Survival of Coral Symbiont Zooxanthellae Algae | Engineering | 6 | Castro Family Award for Best Physical Science Projects - Trip to State Science Fair, Plaque, and $100 Cash, Santa Clara Valley Science & Engineering Fair Assn - Board of Directors Awards - Middle School | Akhilesh V. | Balasingam | Heather | Mackewicz | Challenger-Strawberry Park-SJ | An Internet-Enabled Shower Usage Monitor as a Nudge Engine for Residential Water Conservation | Engineering | 6 | $125 + certificate + two books to student + breakfast with Bob, Zeidman Award | Srinath | Somasundaram | Youssef | Ismail (SSW mentor) | Privately Sponsored Project | A Novel Design and Evaluation of an Air Cushioning mechanism for Helmets to minimize impact acceleration on the head | Engineering | 6 | 1st Place Award - $500 and Framed Certificate of Achievement, American Chemical Society, Santa Clara Valley | Manasa H. | Bhimaraju | Chris | Scharmen | Kennedy(John F.) Middle School-Cupertino | Low-cost animated teaching tool for the electron structure of elements in the Periodic Table | Engineering | 6 | 2nd Place Student Award: $160 and Certificate of Achievement, Association for Computing Machinery, San Francisco Bay Area Professional Chapter | Akhilesh V. | Balasingam | Heather | Mackewicz | Challenger-Strawberry Park-SJ | An Internet-Enabled Shower Usage Monitor as a Nudge Engine for Residential Water Conservation | Engineering | 6 | 1st Award | Akhilesh V. | Balasingam | Heather | Mackewicz | Challenger-Strawberry Park-SJ | An Internet-Enabled Shower Usage Monitor as a Nudge Engine for Residential Water Conservation | Engineering | 6 | 1st Award | Manasa H. | Bhimaraju | Chris | Scharmen | Kennedy(John F.) Middle School-Cupertino | Low-cost animated teaching tool for the electron structure of elements in the Periodic Table | Engineering | 6 | 2nd Award | Srinath | Somasundaram | Youssef | Ismail (SSW mentor) | Privately Sponsored Project | A Novel Design and Evaluation of an Air Cushioning mechanism for Helmets to minimize impact acceleration on the head | Engineering | 6 | 2nd Award | Lukas George | Anagnos | Niki | Mitchell | Gardner Bullis Elem. School | Electricity Generating Suitcase | Engineering | 6 | 2nd Award | Mark | Schuster | Niki | Mitchell | Gardner Bullis Elem. School | Electricity Generating Suitcase | Engineering | 6 | Honorable Mention | Malini | Nair | Deepak | Nair (PSP) | Privately Sponsored Project | Tsunami Breakers | Engineering | 6 | Honorable Mention | Daniel | Huber | Liat | Baranoff | Gideon Hausner Jewish Day School | All Shook Up | Engineering | 6 | Honorable Mention | Sam | Schube | Liat | Baranoff | Gideon Hausner Jewish Day School | All Shook Up | Engineering | 6 | $50 Cash Award to student, Certificate of Achievement, and Letter, Al Foster Award | Manasa H. | Bhimaraju | Chris | Scharmen | Kennedy(John F.) Middle School-Cupertino | Low-cost animated teaching tool for the electron structure of elements in the Periodic Table | Engineering | 6 | GR 6-8: 1st Place, Certificate of Achievement, and tour of NASA Ames Research Center, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) Intelligent Systems Award | Aalok Nital | Patwa | Jeffrey | Takemoto | Stratford Middle School - San Jose | Building a Self-Balancing Bicycle | Engineering | 6 | Honorable Mention: Certificate of Achievement,T-Shirt, Society of Vacuum Coaters (SVC) | Manasa H. | Bhimaraju | Chris | Scharmen | Kennedy(John F.) Middle School-Cupertino | Low-cost animated teaching tool for the electron structure of elements in the Periodic Table | Engineering | 6 | Nominated to compete envelope, Broadcom MASTERS - 6th Grade | Akhilesh V. | Balasingam | Heather | Mackewicz | Challenger-Strawberry Park-SJ | An Internet-Enabled Shower Usage Monitor as a Nudge Engine for Residential Water Conservation | Engineering | 6 | Nominated to compete envelope, Broadcom MASTERS - 6th Grade | Manasa H. | Bhimaraju | Chris | Scharmen | Kennedy(John F.) Middle School-Cupertino | Low-cost animated teaching tool for the electron structure of elements in the Periodic Table | Engineering | 6 | Sport Bag, Junior Tech Organizer, Certificate of achievement, United States Air Force | Srinath | Somasundaram | Youssef | Ismail (SSW mentor) | Privately Sponsored Project | A Novel Design and Evaluation of an Air Cushioning mechanism for Helmets to minimize impact acceleration on the head | Engineering | 7 | Castro Family Award for Best Physical Science Projects - Trip to State Science Fair, Plaque, and $100 Cash, Santa Clara Valley Science & Engineering Fair Assn - Board of Directors Awards - Middle School | Raghav | Ganesh | Latha | Subramanyan(PSP) | Privately Sponsored Project | Developing an Electronic Wearable and Customizable Solution to Predict and Prevent Autistic Meltdowns | Engineering | 7 | $500 + certificate + two books to student + breakfast with Bob, Zeidman Award | Raghav | Ganesh | Latha | Subramanyan(PSP) | Privately Sponsored Project | Developing an Electronic Wearable and Customizable Solution to Predict and Prevent Autistic Meltdowns | Engineering | 7 | Honorable Mention Certificate, Zeidman Award | Adishree | Ghatare | Bonny | Basu | Challenger - Shawnee | Adjusting Blood Sugar Levels to Address Diabetes | Engineering | 7 | Honorable Mention Student Award: $40 and Certificate of Achievement, Association for Computing Machinery, San Francisco Bay Area Professional Chapter | Matthew | Cho | Kiersten | Kampp | Kennedy(John F.) Middle School-Cupertino | Braille Pad: An electronic braille display using solenoids | Engineering | 7 | 1st Award | Raghav | Ganesh | Latha | Subramanyan(PSP) | Privately Sponsored Project | Developing an Electronic Wearable and Customizable Solution to Predict and Prevent Autistic Meltdowns | Engineering | 7 | 1st Award | Adishree | Ghatare | Bonny | Basu | Challenger - Shawnee | Adjusting Blood Sugar Levels to Address Diabetes | Engineering | 7 | 1st Award | Rashi | Ranjan | Pronati | Mondal | Challenger - Almaden | iCAS: Infant Car Alert System | Engineering | 7 | 1st Award | Isaac Jun Zhe | Lo | Nicole | Hulgan | Cabrillo Middle School | Sensory glasses for the blind | Engineering | 7 | 1st Award | Siddarth | Ramkrishnan | Nicole | Hulgan | Cabrillo Middle School | Sensory glasses for the blind | Engineering | 7 | 1st Award | Brendan Lu | Su | Nicole | Hulgan | Cabrillo Middle School | Sensory glasses for the blind | Engineering | 7 | 2nd Award | Matthew | Cho | Kiersten | Kampp | Kennedy(John F.) Middle School-Cupertino | Braille Pad: An electronic braille display using solenoids | Engineering | 7 | 2nd Award | Nandita Jain | Gupta | Greg | Rice | Stanford (Jane Lathrop) Middle School | A Heliotracking Parabolic Solar Cooker | Engineering | 7 | 2nd Award | Neha | Shetty | Nita | Kumar | Delphi Academy-Campbell | Trapping and Using Carbon Dioxide Using An Environment Beneficial Device that Simulates Photosynthesis | Engineering | 7 | 2nd Award | Anika | Srivastava | Nita | Kumar | Delphi Academy-Campbell | Trapping and Using Carbon Dioxide Using An Environment Beneficial Device that Simulates Photosynthesis | Engineering | 7 | Honorable Mention | Anuj | Kathail | Meghan | Greenbaum | Blach Intermediate School | Remote coffee machine | Engineering | 7 | Honorable Mention | Emily | Zhou | Tini | Raman | Challenger-Middlefield-Palo Alto | Water Conservation with a Monolayer | Engineering | 7 | Honorable Mention | Maya | Abiram | Codrutza | Popescu | Miller Middle School | Creating a Smart Device Application for Entertainment Targeted Towards the Visually Impaired | Engineering | 7 | Honorable Mention | Raka Bhatt | Acharya | Codrutza | Popescu | Miller Middle School | Creating a Smart Device Application for Entertainment Targeted Towards the Visually Impaired | Engineering | 7 | Honorable Mention | Rohan | Kolappa | Jennifer | Lee | Cabrillo Middle School | Umbrella Backpack | Engineering | 7 | Honorable Mention | Nicholas Young | Yu | Jennifer | Lee | Cabrillo Middle School | Umbrella Backpack | Engineering | 7 | $50 and Certificate of Achievement, The Kerry Veenstra Awards | Matthew | Cho | Kiersten | Kampp | Kennedy(John F.) Middle School-Cupertino | Braille Pad: An electronic braille display using solenoids | Engineering | 7 | Certificate of Achievement and ONR Medallion, United States Navy and Marine Corps | Matthew | Cho | Kiersten | Kampp | Kennedy(John F.) Middle School-Cupertino | Braille Pad: An electronic braille display using solenoids | Engineering | 7 | Certificate of Achievement and ONR Medallion, United States Navy and Marine Corps | Raghav | Ganesh | Latha | Subramanyan(PSP) | Privately Sponsored Project | Developing an Electronic Wearable and Customizable Solution to Predict and Prevent Autistic Meltdowns | Engineering | 7 | Certificate of Achievement and ONR Medallion, United States Navy and Marine Corps | Rashi | Ranjan | Pronati | Mondal | Challenger - Almaden | iCAS: Infant Car Alert System | Engineering | 7 | Gift Card and Certificate of Achievement, Society of Women Engineers | Rashi | Ranjan | Pronati | Mondal | Challenger - Almaden | iCAS: Infant Car Alert System | Engineering | 7 | IEEE Award for Electro-Technology ($50 and Framed Certificate), Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers | Matthew | Cho | Kiersten | Kampp | Kennedy(John F.) Middle School-Cupertino | Braille Pad: An electronic braille display using solenoids | Engineering | 7 | IEEE Award for Electro-Technology ($50 and Framed Certificate), Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers | Raghav | Ganesh | Latha | Subramanyan(PSP) | Privately Sponsored Project | Developing an Electronic Wearable and Customizable Solution to Predict and Prevent Autistic Meltdowns | Engineering | 7 | IEEE Award for Electro-Technology ($50 and Framed Certificate), Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers | Adishree | Ghatare | Bonny | Basu | Challenger - Shawnee | Adjusting Blood Sugar Levels to Address Diabetes | Engineering | 7 | Nominated to compete envelope, Broadcom MASTERS - 7th Grade | Raghav | Ganesh | Latha | Subramanyan(PSP) | Privately Sponsored Project | Developing an Electronic Wearable and Customizable Solution to Predict and Prevent Autistic Meltdowns | Engineering | 7 | Nominated to compete envelope, Broadcom MASTERS - 7th Grade | Adishree | Ghatare | Bonny | Basu | Challenger - Shawnee | Adjusting Blood Sugar Levels to Address Diabetes | Engineering | 7 | Nominated to compete envelope, Broadcom MASTERS - 7th Grade | Isaac Jun Zhe | Lo | Nicole | Hulgan | Cabrillo Middle School | Sensory glasses for the blind | Engineering | 7 | Nominated to compete envelope, Broadcom MASTERS - 7th Grade | Siddarth | Ramkrishnan | Nicole | Hulgan | Cabrillo Middle School | Sensory glasses for the blind | Engineering | 7 | Nominated to compete envelope, Broadcom MASTERS - 7th Grade | Rashi | Ranjan | Pronati | Mondal | Challenger - Almaden | iCAS: Infant Car Alert System | Engineering | 7 | Nominated to compete envelope, Broadcom MASTERS - 7th Grade | Brendan Lu | Su | Nicole | Hulgan | Cabrillo Middle School | Sensory glasses for the blind | Engineering | 7 | Special Award: $75 and Certificate of Achievement, Varian Medical Systems | Raghav | Ganesh | Latha | Subramanyan(PSP) | Privately Sponsored Project | Developing an Electronic Wearable and Customizable Solution to Predict and Prevent Autistic Meltdowns | Engineering | 8 | Castro Family Award for Best Physical Science Projects - Trip to State Science Fair, Plaque, and $100 Cash, Santa Clara Valley Science & Engineering Fair Assn - Board of Directors Awards - Middle School | Anika | Cheerla | Khadija | Iyer | Kennedy(John F.) Middle School-Cupertino | Automated Diagnosis of Alzheimer's from MRI Images | Engineering | 8 | Grand Prize Student Award, Outstanding Young Woman in Computing: $320 and Certificate of Achievement, Association for Computing Machinery, San Francisco Bay Area Professional Chapter | Anika | Cheerla | Khadija | Iyer | Kennedy(John F.) Middle School-Cupertino | Automated Diagnosis of Alzheimer's from MRI Images | Engineering | 8 | Grand Prize Student Award: $320 and Certificate of Achievement, Association for Computing Machinery, San Francisco Bay Area Professional Chapter | Shiven | Gupta | Joel | Carter | Lawson Middle School | Wearable Device for the Visually Impaired | Engineering | 8 | Grand Prize Student Award: $320 and Certificate of Achievement, Association for Computing Machinery, San Francisco Bay Area Professional Chapter | Mokshith | Voodarla | Joel | Carter | Lawson Middle School | Wearable Device for the Visually Impaired | Engineering | 8 | Honorable Mention Certificate, Zeidman Award | Anika | Cheerla | Khadija | Iyer | Kennedy(John F.) Middle School-Cupertino | Automated Diagnosis of Alzheimer's from MRI Images | Engineering | 8 | Honorable Mention Certificate, Zeidman Award | Shiven | Gupta | Joel | Carter | Lawson Middle School | Wearable Device for the Visually Impaired | Engineering | 8 | Honorable Mention Certificate, Zeidman Award | Mokshith | Voodarla | Joel | Carter | Lawson Middle School | Wearable Device for the Visually Impaired | Engineering | 8 | Middle School Finalist Certificate, The Synopsys Outreach Foundation n+1 Prize | Anika | Cheerla | Khadija | Iyer | Kennedy(John F.) Middle School-Cupertino | Automated Diagnosis of Alzheimer's from MRI Images | Engineering | 8 | Middle School Finalist Certificate, The Synopsys Outreach Foundation n+1 Prize | Dylon Matthew | Tjanaka | Xuong | Tu | Don Callejon Middle Sch. | Active Skid Detection and Compensation for Autonomous Vehicles | Engineering | 8 | 1st Award | Yusra | Arub | Thuy-Anh | Nguyen | Challenger - Sunnyvale | The Internet of Things (IoT) meets my data binder | Engineering | 8 | 1st Award | Anika | Cheerla | Khadija | Iyer | Kennedy(John F.) Middle School-Cupertino | Automated Diagnosis of Alzheimer's from MRI Images | Engineering | 8 | 1st Award | Jennifer Tuyet | Nguyen | Vivian | Flora | Piedmont Middle School | A 40% Cheaper Alternative to Robotic Feeding Aids | Engineering | 8 | 1st Award | Nihal | Talur | Shannon | Lum | Challenger - Berryessa | A Homemeade Security System That Performs Up To Par With Commercial Security Systems | Engineering | 8 | 1st Award | Shiven | Gupta | Joel | Carter | Lawson Middle School | Wearable Device for the Visually Impaired | Engineering | 8 | 1st Award | Mokshith | Voodarla | Joel | Carter | Lawson Middle School | Wearable Device for the Visually Impaired | Engineering | 8 | 2nd Award | Ayush S. | Gupta | Sue | Pound | Jordan (David Starr) Middle School | Arduino, FFT, Hot-Wire Anemometers: Creating a Device for a Developing Woodwind Player | Engineering | 8 | 2nd Award | Zade | Lobo | Thuy-Anh | Nguyen | Challenger - Sunnyvale | A Night Guard | Engineering | 8 | 2nd Award | Aayush | Shah | Rutesh | Shah | Miller Middle School | Ultrasonic Aid for the DIsabled | Engineering | 8 | 2nd Award | Dylon Matthew | Tjanaka | Xuong | Tu | Don Callejon Middle Sch. | Active Skid Detection and Compensation for Autonomous Vehicles | Engineering | 8 | Honorable Mention | Ruchi | Maheshwari | Rajiv | Maheshwari (PSP) | Privately Sponsored Project | HomeBot: A Home Automation System that Combines and Controls Intelligent Devices in the Home | Engineering | 8 | Honorable Mention | Anish | Muthali | Anuradha | Murthy | Basis Independent Silicon Valley School | Parking Dilemma: Designing an Application for Parking Sensors | Engineering | 8 | Honorable Mention | Cindy Xindi | Wang | Kristen | Morgensen | Harker School-Middle Campus | Creating a Low Cost and Eco-Friendly Water Filtration System for 3rd World Countries | Engineering | 8 | Honorable Mention | Rishab Reddy | Yeddula | Malathi | Tuers | Valley Christian Junior High School | FoodSafe: A Smart Food Allergy Sensor | Engineering | 8 | $100 and Certificate of Achievement, Fair Manager's Graphic Design Award | Anika | Cheerla | Khadija | Iyer | Kennedy(John F.) Middle School-Cupertino | Automated Diagnosis of Alzheimer's from MRI Images | Engineering | 8 | 1st place student - $100 and Certificate of Achievement, American Vacuum Society, Northern CA | Ayush S. | Gupta | Sue | Pound | Jordan (David Starr) Middle School | Arduino, FFT, Hot-Wire Anemometers: Creating a Device for a Developing Woodwind Player | Engineering | 8 | Gift Card and Certificate of Achievement, Society of Women Engineers | Vanessa | Hong | Vivian | Flora | Piedmont Middle School | O-Battery-Chine | Engineering | 8 | Gift Card and Certificate of Achievement, Society of Women Engineers | Charlene | Kong | Vivian | Flora | Piedmont Middle School | O-Battery-Chine | Engineering | 8 | Gift Card and Certificate of Achievement, Society of Women Engineers | Jennifer | Tang | Vivian | Flora | Piedmont Middle School | O-Battery-Chine | Engineering | 8 | IEEE Award for Electro-Technology ($50 and Framed Certificate), Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers | Anika | Cheerla | Khadija | Iyer | Kennedy(John F.) Middle School-Cupertino | Automated Diagnosis of Alzheimer's from MRI Images | Engineering | 8 | Nominated to compete envelope, Broadcom MASTERS - 8th Grade | Yusra | Arub | Thuy-Anh | Nguyen | Challenger - Sunnyvale | The Internet of Things (IoT) meets my data binder | Engineering | 8 | Nominated to compete envelope, Broadcom MASTERS - 8th Grade | Anika | Cheerla | Khadija | Iyer | Kennedy(John F.) Middle School-Cupertino | Automated Diagnosis of Alzheimer's from MRI Images | Engineering | 8 | Nominated to compete envelope, Broadcom MASTERS - 8th Grade | Shiven | Gupta | Joel | Carter | Lawson Middle School | Wearable Device for the Visually Impaired | Engineering | 8 | Nominated to compete envelope, Broadcom MASTERS - 8th Grade | Jennifer Tuyet | Nguyen | Vivian | Flora | Piedmont Middle School | A 40% Cheaper Alternative to Robotic Feeding Aids | Engineering | 8 | Nominated to compete envelope, Broadcom MASTERS - 8th Grade | Nihal | Talur | Shannon | Lum | Challenger - Berryessa | A Homemeade Security System That Performs Up To Par With Commercial Security Systems | Engineering | 8 | Nominated to compete envelope, Broadcom MASTERS - 8th Grade | Mokshith | Voodarla | Joel | Carter | Lawson Middle School | Wearable Device for the Visually Impaired | Engineering | 8 | Special Award: $75 and Certificate of Achievement, Varian Medical Systems | Shiven | Gupta | Joel | Carter | Lawson Middle School | Wearable Device for the Visually Impaired | Engineering | 8 | Special Award: $75 and Certificate of Achievement, Varian Medical Systems | Mokshith | Voodarla | Joel | Carter | Lawson Middle School | Wearable Device for the Visually Impaired | Engineering | 9 | 4th Place Student Award: $120 and Certificate of Achievement, Association for Computing Machinery, San Francisco Bay Area Professional Chapter | Mythili | Bhethanabotla | Jason | Lee | Lynbrook High School | A Smart Gadget: An effective wearable mechanism to better assist and guide the visually impaired | Engineering | 9 | 5th Place Student Award: $80 and Certificate of Achievement, Association for Computing Machinery, San Francisco Bay Area Professional Chapter | Shreya | Khandewale | Simon | Hale | Basis Independent Silicon Valley School | Quivr! - A Mobile Application to Alert via Sensory Notifications | Engineering | 9 | Outstanding Sustainability Project. Weeklong I-SWEEEP Competition, I-SWEEEP | Atul | Raghunathan | Charles | Williams | Cupertino High School | Harvesting the Excess Thermal Energy Produced by Light Emitting Diodes. | Engineering | 9 | 1st Award | Rohan | Dhesikan | Jason | Lee | Lynbrook High School | An Automated Battery Replacement System for Quadcopters | Engineering | 9 | 1st Award | Rajiv | Movva | Chris | Spenner | Harker School-Upper Campus | A Novel Use of RC Circuits to Build a Low-Cost and Non-Invasive Respiratory Monitor | Engineering | 9 | 1st Award | Atul | Raghunathan | Charles | Williams | Cupertino High School | Harvesting the Excess Thermal Energy Produced by Light Emitting Diodes. | Engineering | 9 | 2nd Award | Mythili | Bhethanabotla | Jason | Lee | Lynbrook High School | A Smart Gadget: An effective wearable mechanism to better assist and guide the visually impaired | Engineering | 9 | 2nd Award | Adiyan | Kaul | Joel | Carter | Lawson Middle School | A flexible triboelectric generator that can harness energy induced in triboelectric process to create electric power. | Engineering | 9 | 2nd Award | Aubhro | Sengupta | Jason | Lee | Lynbrook High School | Heat Powered Hearing Aids | Engineering | 9 | Honorable Mention | Shrivats | Kannan | Youssef | Ismail (SSW mentor) | Privately Sponsored Project | Kinetically Powered Everlasting Pacemaker | Engineering | 9 | Honorable Mention | Varun Bhupathiraju | Raju | Jason | Lee | Lynbrook High School | An alternative to compression garments to control abnormal growth of limbs. | Engineering | 9 | Honorable Mention | Angela R | Liu | Jason | Lee | Lynbrook High School | Creating a wearable electronic device that monitors heart health | Engineering | 9 | Honorable Mention | Jessica | Peng | Jason | Lee | Lynbrook High School | Creating a wearable electronic device that monitors heart health | Engineering | 9 | $100 and Certificate of Achievement, Trimble Navigation, Ltd. | Akhil | Arun | Youssef | Ismail (SSW mentor) | Privately Sponsored Project | Designing a Reflective Polarimeter | Engineering | 9 | $100 First Place, Certificate of Achievement, and Letter, Inez M. Lechner Award | Shreya | Khandewale | Simon | Hale | Basis Independent Silicon Valley School | Quivr! - A Mobile Application to Alert via Sensory Notifications | Engineering | 9 | $50 cash award and certificate to student in 9th grade, The Bruce Kawanami Engineering Award | Varun Bhupathiraju | Raju | Jason | Lee | Lynbrook High School | An alternative to compression garments to control abnormal growth of limbs. | Engineering | 9 | $50 cash award and certificate to student in 9th grade, The Bruce Kawanami Engineering Award | Aubhro | Sengupta | Jason | Lee | Lynbrook High School | Heat Powered Hearing Aids | Engineering | 9 | 3rd Place: $100 and Certificate of Achievement, System Safety Society | Shreya | Khandewale | Simon | Hale | Basis Independent Silicon Valley School | Quivr! - A Mobile Application to Alert via Sensory Notifications | Engineering | 9 | Certificate of Achievement, Ricoh Corporation | Aubhro | Sengupta | Jason | Lee | Lynbrook High School | Heat Powered Hearing Aids | Engineering | 9 | Honorable Mention: Certificate of Achievement, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) Intelligent Systems Award | Rohan | Dhesikan | Jason | Lee | Lynbrook High School | An Automated Battery Replacement System for Quadcopters | Engineering | 9 | IEEE Award for Electro-Technology ($50 and Framed Certificate), Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers | Shrivats | Kannan | Youssef | Ismail (SSW mentor) | Privately Sponsored Project | Kinetically Powered Everlasting Pacemaker | Engineering | 9 | Individual: $30 and Book, The ROD Women in Science Award | Labanya | Mukhopadhyay | Doug | Miller | Evergreen Valley High School | Smart Device to Save Young Lives Abandoned in Car | Engineering | 9 | One-day immersive trip to Firebase to work on API project, TechLab Education | Rohan | Dhesikan | Jason | Lee | Lynbrook High School | An Automated Battery Replacement System for Quadcopters | Engineering | 10 | High School Finalist Certficate, The Synopsys Outreach Foundation n+1 Prize | Anurag | Singh | Scott | DeRuiter | Monta Vista High School | Handwashing Hound: Computer Vision System for Monitoring Effective Hand Hygiene | Engineering | 10 | High School Finalist Certficate, The Synopsys Outreach Foundation n+1 Prize | Kaushik | Tandon | Scott | DeRuiter | Monta Vista High School | Handwashing Hound: Computer Vision System for Monitoring Effective Hand Hygiene | Engineering | 10 | 1st Award | Anish G | Krishnan | Renee | Fallon | Monta Vista High School | A Non-invasive Low-Cost Electronic Nose Breath Analyzer To Detect the Deadliest Cancer. | Engineering | 10 | 1st Award | Arjun Srikanth | Subramaniam | Chris | Spenner | Harker School-Upper Campus | Think-to-Type: A Machine Learning Algorithm for the Classification of Different Letters Based on EEG Patterns | Engineering | 10 | 2nd Award | Ankita | Chatterjee | Renee | Fallon | Monta Vista High School | A Low-Cost Novel Construction of a Stacked E. coli-Based Fuel Cell System | Engineering | 10 | 2nd Award | Anurag | Singh | Scott | DeRuiter | Monta Vista High School | Handwashing Hound: Computer Vision System for Monitoring Effective Hand Hygiene | Engineering | 10 | 2nd Award | Kaushik | Tandon | Scott | DeRuiter | Monta Vista High School | Handwashing Hound: Computer Vision System for Monitoring Effective Hand Hygiene | Engineering | 10 | 2nd Award | Andrew | Tang | Jason | Lee | Lynbrook High School | The Optimization of the Real-Time Analysis of Malicious Web User Behavior | Engineering | 10 | Honorable Mention | Ganesh | Valliappan | David | Greenstein | Monta Vista High School | Smart Home Safety System | Engineering | 10 | Honorable Mention | Anirudh | Balasubramaniam | Ted | Shinta | Monta Vista High School | A Semi-Autonomous Vehicle that Searches a Natural Disaster Area for Survivors. | Engineering | 10 | Honorable Mention | Nilay Sanjay | Sawant | Ted | Shinta | Monta Vista High School | A Semi-Autonomous Vehicle that Searches a Natural Disaster Area for Survivors. | Engineering | 10 | $100 and Certificate of Achievement, Wireless Communications Alliance | Elizabeth Ye | Wang | Youssef | Ismail (SSW mentor) | Privately Sponsored Project | Operation Fire Ant: Rescuing Natural Disaster Survivors Via Collective Control of Swarm Robots | Engineering | 10 | 1st Place Award - $150 Cash and Certificate of Achievement, American Society of Civil Engineers | Saumya | Baswant | Daniel | Stavis | Cupertino High School | A Safer Reorganization to a Landfill | Engineering | 10 | 1st Place Award - $150 Cash and Certificate of Achievement, American Society of Civil Engineers | Swethasree | Bhattaram | Daniel | Stavis | Cupertino High School | A Safer Reorganization to a Landfill | Engineering | 10 | 2nd Place Award - $100 Cash and Certificate of Achievement, American Society of Civil Engineers | Connor Lawton | Tinsley | Cathy | Messenger | Los Gatos High School | Storm Drain Filter For Removal of Common Suburban Pollutants Found in Rainwater Run-off | Engineering | 10 | Certificate of Achievement; if registered, medal, subscription & opportunity to advance to national competition for trip to Stockholm, Stockholm Junior Water Prize | Connor Lawton | Tinsley | Cathy | Messenger | Los Gatos High School | Storm Drain Filter For Removal of Common Suburban Pollutants Found in Rainwater Run-off | Engineering | 10 | Gift Card and Certificate of Achievement, Society of Women Engineers | Elizabeth Ye | Wang | Youssef | Ismail (SSW mentor) | Privately Sponsored Project | Operation Fire Ant: Rescuing Natural Disaster Survivors Via Collective Control of Swarm Robots | Engineering | 10 | GR 9-12: 1st Place, Certificate of Achievement, and tour of NASA Ames Research Center, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) Intelligent Systems Award | Elizabeth Ye | Wang | Youssef | Ismail (SSW mentor) | Privately Sponsored Project | Operation Fire Ant: Rescuing Natural Disaster Survivors Via Collective Control of Swarm Robots | Engineering | 10 | Honorable Mention-$50, Northern California Institute of Food Technologists (NCIFT) | Anurag | Singh | Scott | DeRuiter | Monta Vista High School | Handwashing Hound: Computer Vision System for Monitoring Effective Hand Hygiene | Engineering | 10 | Honorable Mention-$50, Northern California Institute of Food Technologists (NCIFT) | Kaushik | Tandon | Scott | DeRuiter | Monta Vista High School | Handwashing Hound: Computer Vision System for Monitoring Effective Hand Hygiene | Engineering | 10 | One-day immersive trip to Firebase to work on API project, TechLab Education | Arjun Srikanth | Subramaniam | Chris | Spenner | Harker School-Upper Campus | Think-to-Type: A Machine Learning Algorithm for the Classification of Different Letters Based on EEG Patterns | Engineering | 10 | Sport Bag, Junior Tech Organizer, Certificate of achievement, United States Air Force | Elizabeth Ye | Wang | Youssef | Ismail (SSW mentor) | Privately Sponsored Project | Operation Fire Ant: Rescuing Natural Disaster Survivors Via Collective Control of Swarm Robots | Engineering | 11 | Grand Prize - Best of Championship - Physical Sciences - Trip to Intel ISEF and Plaque, Santa Clara Valley Science & Engineering Fair Assn - Board of Directors Awards - High School | Maya | Varma | Tracy | Hughes | Presentation High School | A Wireless Smartphone-Based System for Diagnosis of Pulmonary Illnesses | Engineering | 11 | $100 First Prize, Morgan Lewis | Maya | Varma | Tracy | Hughes | Presentation High School | A Wireless Smartphone-Based System for Diagnosis of Pulmonary Illnesses | Engineering | 11 | Grand Prize Student Award: $640 and Certificate of Achievement, Association for Computing Machinery, San Francisco Bay Area Professional Chapter | Amrita | Venkatraman | John | Shelby | Homestead High School | Eyes On The Road: Building an Android Application to Test Alertness Before Drivers Take the Wheel | Engineering | 11 | 1st Award | Maya | Varma | Tracy | Hughes | Presentation High School | A Wireless Smartphone-Based System for Diagnosis of Pulmonary Illnesses | Engineering | 11 | 1st Award | Amrita | Venkatraman | John | Shelby | Homestead High School | Eyes On The Road: Building an Android Application to Test Alertness Before Drivers Take the Wheel | Engineering | 11 | 2nd Award | Pransu | Dash | Jason | Lee | Lynbrook High School | Enhancing public safety by using the internet and Wide-Area Control Systems to remotely disable firearms | Engineering | 11 | 2nd Award | Edward | Lee | Jason | Lee | Lynbrook High School | The Optimization of the Real-Time Analysis of Malicious Web User Behavior | Engineering | 11 | 2nd Award | Charles | Tang | Jason | Lee | Lynbrook High School | The Optimization of the Real-Time Analysis of Malicious Web User Behavior | Engineering | 11 | Honorable Mention | Lawrence | Cheng | Youssef | Ismail (SSW mentor) | Privately Sponsored Project | A Novel Approach to Detecting Respiratory Blockage Through Portable Internal CO2 Level Monitoring via Transcutaneous Sensors | Engineering | 11 | 1st Place: $250 Cash and Certificate of Achievement, System Safety Society | Andrew Cyril | Shacker | Matt | Trask | Piedmont Hills High School | Spark Big Data Streaming Application in Pattern Development to Predict Adverse Aviation Conditions | Engineering | 11 | 3rd Place Award - $50 Cash and Certificate of Achievement, American Society of Civil Engineers | Aashia | Bajwa | Tracy | Hughes | Presentation High School | Grey Water Recycling and Sustainability | Engineering | 11 | Certificate of Achievement and ONR Medallion, United States Navy and Marine Corps | Lawrence | Cheng | Youssef | Ismail (SSW mentor) | Privately Sponsored Project | A Novel Approach to Detecting Respiratory Blockage Through Portable Internal CO2 Level Monitoring via Transcutaneous Sensors | Engineering | 11 | First Place: $100, Certificate of Achievement, and Goody Bag, Association for Women in Science, Palo Alto Chapter | Maya | Varma | Tracy | Hughes | Presentation High School | A Wireless Smartphone-Based System for Diagnosis of Pulmonary Illnesses | Engineering | 11 | Honorable Mention: Certificate of Achievement, and Goody Bag, Association for Women in Science, Palo Alto Chapter | Amulya Bhupathiraju | Raju | Jason | Lee | Lynbrook High School | Controlling Obstructive Sleep Apnea with the Usage of Mucoadhesive Strips | Engineering | 11 | IEEE Award for Electro-Technology ($50 and Framed Certificate), Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers | Lawrence | Cheng | Youssef | Ismail (SSW mentor) | Privately Sponsored Project | A Novel Approach to Detecting Respiratory Blockage Through Portable Internal CO2 Level Monitoring via Transcutaneous Sensors | Engineering | 11 | Individual: $30 and Book, The ROD Women in Science Award | Amulya Bhupathiraju | Raju | Jason | Lee | Lynbrook High School | Controlling Obstructive Sleep Apnea with the Usage of Mucoadhesive Strips | Engineering | 12 | Grand Prize Alternate - Physical Sciences - Trip to State Science Fair and Plaque, Santa Clara Valley Science & Engineering Fair Assn - Board of Directors Awards - High School | Neil | Movva | Ken | Schmahl (SSW mentor) | Privately Sponsored Project | (In)security Everywhere: Machine Learning Assisted Deep Power Analysis Fundamentally Defeats Software Cryptography | Engineering | 12 | $100 First Prize, Morgan Lewis | Neil | Movva | Ken | Schmahl (SSW mentor) | Privately Sponsored Project | (In)security Everywhere: Machine Learning Assisted Deep Power Analysis Fundamentally Defeats Software Cryptography | Engineering | 12 | 1st Place: $1000 Scholarship to SJSU College of Engineering and Certificate of Achievement, San Jose State University College of Engineering | Shiloh S. | Curtis | Youssef | Ismail (SSW mentor) | Privately Sponsored Project | Enabling Situational Awareness: A Hat-Based Hands-Free Haptic Navigational Aid for the Visually Impaired | Engineering | 12 | 2nd Place Student Award: $320 and Certificate of Achievement, Association for Computing Machinery, San Francisco Bay Area Professional Chapter | Shiloh S. | Curtis | Youssef | Ismail (SSW mentor) | Privately Sponsored Project | Enabling Situational Awareness: A Hat-Based Hands-Free Haptic Navigational Aid for the Visually Impaired | Engineering | 12 | 2nd Place: SJSU College of Engineering Certificate of Achievement, San Jose State University College of Engineering | Justin | Hao | Scott | Lubbs | Evergreen Valley High School | Hybrid AC and DC Electric Supplies: An Efficient Approach to Consuming Solar and Wind Power | Engineering | 12 | 3rd Place: SJSU College of Engineering Certificate of Achievement, San Jose State University College of Engineering | Obaid | Khan | Mike | Targgart | Archbishop Mitty High School | Applying the Internet of Things to a School Binder | Engineering | 12 | High School Finalist Certficate, The Synopsys Outreach Foundation n+1 Prize | Shiloh S. | Curtis | Youssef | Ismail (SSW mentor) | Privately Sponsored Project | Enabling Situational Awareness: A Hat-Based Hands-Free Haptic Navigational Aid for the Visually Impaired | Engineering | 12 | Honorable Mention Student Award: $50 and Certificate of Achievement, Association for Computing Machinery, San Francisco Bay Area Professional Chapter | Chinmay Manish | Vaidya | Cathy | Messenger | Los Gatos High School | An In Vitro Study of The Mitigation of Atherosclerosis via Magnetic Hyperthermia | Engineering | 12 | Outstanding Sustainability Project. Weeklong I-SWEEEP Competition, I-SWEEEP | Shiloh S. | Curtis | Youssef | Ismail (SSW mentor) | Privately Sponsored Project | Enabling Situational Awareness: A Hat-Based Hands-Free Haptic Navigational Aid for the Visually Impaired | Engineering | 12 | 1st Award | Shiloh S. | Curtis | Youssef | Ismail (SSW mentor) | Privately Sponsored Project | Enabling Situational Awareness: A Hat-Based Hands-Free Haptic Navigational Aid for the Visually Impaired | Engineering | 12 | 1st Award | Jessica | Macmillan | Rita | Huff | Valley Christian High School | Amoeba Filtration through native clothing and materials | Engineering | 12 | 2nd Award | Neil | Movva | Ken | Schmahl (SSW mentor) | Privately Sponsored Project | (In)security Everywhere: Machine Learning Assisted Deep Power Analysis Fundamentally Defeats Software Cryptography | Engineering | 12 | 2nd Award | Leron | Perez | Cathy | Messenger | Los Gatos High School | Cost-Effective Prosthetics: Utilization of Artificial Muscles in a 3D Printed Arm | Engineering | 12 | $100 and Certificate of Achievement, Fair Manager's Graphic Design Award | Neil | Movva | Ken | Schmahl (SSW mentor) | Privately Sponsored Project | (In)security Everywhere: Machine Learning Assisted Deep Power Analysis Fundamentally Defeats Software Cryptography | Engineering | 12 | $50 and Certificate of Achievement, The Kerry Veenstra Awards | Jessica | Macmillan | Rita | Huff | Valley Christian High School | Amoeba Filtration through native clothing and materials | Engineering | 12 | 2nd Place: $150 and Certificate of Achievement, System Safety Society | Shiloh S. | Curtis | Youssef | Ismail (SSW mentor) | Privately Sponsored Project | Enabling Situational Awareness: A Hat-Based Hands-Free Haptic Navigational Aid for the Visually Impaired | Engineering | 12 | 3rd Place - $50, Framed Certificate of Achievement, and Popular Science Magazine Subscription, SAMPE - Society for the Advancement of Material and Process Engineering | Michela | Gori | Cathy | Messenger | Los Gatos High School | The Transformation of Casein into Biodegradable Plastic | Engineering | 12 | 3rd Place Award - $50, Popular Science Magazine Subscription and Framed Certificate of Achievement, ASM International, A Society for Materials, Santa Clara Valley Chapter | Michela | Gori | Cathy | Messenger | Los Gatos High School | The Transformation of Casein into Biodegradable Plastic | Engineering | 12 | Certificate of Achievement and ONR Medallion, United States Navy and Marine Corps | Shiloh S. | Curtis | Youssef | Ismail (SSW mentor) | Privately Sponsored Project | Enabling Situational Awareness: A Hat-Based Hands-Free Haptic Navigational Aid for the Visually Impaired | Engineering | 12 | Certificate of Achievement and ONR Medallion, United States Navy and Marine Corps | Neil | Movva | Ken | Schmahl (SSW mentor) | Privately Sponsored Project | (In)security Everywhere: Machine Learning Assisted Deep Power Analysis Fundamentally Defeats Software Cryptography | Engineering | 12 | IEEE Award for Electro-Technology ($50 and Framed Certificate), Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers | Chinmay Manish | Vaidya | Cathy | Messenger | Los Gatos High School | An In Vitro Study of The Mitigation of Atherosclerosis via Magnetic Hyperthermia | Engineering | 12 | Individual: $30 and Book, The ROD Women in Science Award | Michela | Gori | Cathy | Messenger | Los Gatos High School | The Transformation of Casein into Biodegradable Plastic | Engineering | 12 | One-day immersive trip to Firebase to work on API project, TechLab Education | Neil | Movva | Ken | Schmahl (SSW mentor) | Privately Sponsored Project | (In)security Everywhere: Machine Learning Assisted Deep Power Analysis Fundamentally Defeats Software Cryptography | Medicine / Health / Gerontology | 6 | 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 | Prathik | Kakarlamudi | Kanchan | Bhandare | Merryhill Schools -Milpitas | Can we measure the concentration of glucose in our eye tears by simple means? | Medicine / Health / Gerontology | 6 | 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 | Aditya Umesh | Udgaonkar | Kanchan | Bhandare | Merryhill Schools -Milpitas | Can we measure the concentration of glucose in our eye tears by simple means? | Medicine / Health / Gerontology | 6 | 1st Award | Michelle Melody | Nazareth | Ibtisam | Khalaf (SSW mentor) | Privately Sponsored Project | Inhaler Inhibitors?: Comparing steroid and nonsteroid asthmatic treatment on the height rate of Drosophila Melanogaster | Medicine / Health / Gerontology | 6 | 1st Award | Prathik | Kakarlamudi | Kanchan | Bhandare | Merryhill Schools -Milpitas | Can we measure the concentration of glucose in our eye tears by simple means? | Medicine / Health / Gerontology | 6 | 1st Award | Aditya Umesh | Udgaonkar | Kanchan | Bhandare | Merryhill Schools -Milpitas | Can we measure the concentration of glucose in our eye tears by simple means? | Medicine / Health / Gerontology | 6 | Honorable Mention | Irum | Han | Hope | Oliver | Harte (Bret) Middle School | Is Ripe Good? | Medicine / Health / Gerontology | 6 | GR 6-8: 2nd Place, $50 and Certificate of Achievement, UCSF Center For Systems and Synthetic Biology | Michelle Melody | Nazareth | Ibtisam | Khalaf (SSW mentor) | Privately Sponsored Project | Inhaler Inhibitors?: Comparing steroid and nonsteroid asthmatic treatment on the height rate of Drosophila Melanogaster | Medicine / Health / Gerontology | 6 | Nominated to compete envelope, Broadcom MASTERS - 6th Grade | Prathik | Kakarlamudi | Kanchan | Bhandare | Merryhill Schools -Milpitas | Can we measure the concentration of glucose in our eye tears by simple means? | Medicine / Health / Gerontology | 6 | Nominated to compete envelope, Broadcom MASTERS - 6th Grade | Michelle Melody | Nazareth | Ibtisam | Khalaf (SSW mentor) | Privately Sponsored Project | Inhaler Inhibitors?: Comparing steroid and nonsteroid asthmatic treatment on the height rate of Drosophila Melanogaster | Medicine / Health / Gerontology | 6 | Nominated to compete envelope, Broadcom MASTERS - 6th Grade | Aditya Umesh | Udgaonkar | Kanchan | Bhandare | Merryhill Schools -Milpitas | Can we measure the concentration of glucose in our eye tears by simple means? | Medicine / Health / Gerontology | 7 | Middle School Finalist Certificate, The Synopsys Outreach Foundation n+1 Prize | Tarun | Chiruvolu | Heather | Mackewicz | Challenger-Strawberry Park-SJ | A Wearable Device for Heart Rate and Blood Oxygen Saturation Tracking and Health Management | Medicine / Health / Gerontology | 7 | 1st Award | Tanshi | Jain | Thuy-Anh | Nguyen | Challenger - Sunnyvale | A Healthier Filter: The Effect of Different Natural Materials on Purity of Water | Medicine / Health / Gerontology | 7 | 2nd Award | Tarun | Chiruvolu | Heather | Mackewicz | Challenger-Strawberry Park-SJ | A Wearable Device for Heart Rate and Blood Oxygen Saturation Tracking and Health Management | Medicine / Health / Gerontology | 7 | 2nd Award | Ananya | Vadlakonda | Elaina | Chambers (SSW mentor) | Privately Sponsored Project | A Novel Treatment for Parkinson's Disease - Preventing Oxidative Stress with Chocolate | Medicine / Health / Gerontology | 7 | Honorable Mention | Oriel Christopher | Zagazeta | Rachel | McKenna | Sacred Heart Middle School | Cancer - DNA Damage From Tobacco? | Medicine / Health / Gerontology | 7 | 1st Place Award - $200 and Certificate of Achievement, American Association for Laboratory Animal Science, Northern California Branch | Ananya | Vadlakonda | Elaina | Chambers (SSW mentor) | Privately Sponsored Project | A Novel Treatment for Parkinson's Disease - Preventing Oxidative Stress with Chocolate | Medicine / Health / Gerontology | 7 | First place Middle School-Cash Award-$75 and certificate, Northern California Institute of Food Technologists (NCIFT) | Korrie Paige | Han | Preethi | Sundaresakumar | Stratford Middle School - San Jose | Yogurt Power- can it help with lactose intolerance? | Medicine / Health / Gerontology | 7 | Nominated to compete envelope, Broadcom MASTERS - 7th Grade | Tanshi | Jain | Thuy-Anh | Nguyen | Challenger - Sunnyvale | A Healthier Filter: The Effect of Different Natural Materials on Purity of Water | Medicine / Health / Gerontology | 8 | 1st Award | Krish | Kapadia | Kristen | Morgensen | Harker School-Middle Campus | Determining the Efficacy of Different Methods to Assess the Level of Dehydration Using Human Saliva. | Medicine / Health / Gerontology | 8 | 1st Award | Anjay | Saklecha | Kristen | Morgensen | Harker School-Middle Campus | Determining the Efficacy of Different Methods to Assess the Level of Dehydration Using Human Saliva. | Medicine / Health / Gerontology | 8 | 2nd Award | Anika | Sanyal | Ibtisam | Khalaf (SSW mentor) | Privately Sponsored Project | Effects of Vitamin B12 on the Lifespan/Motility of Diabetic Mutated versus Wild Type C. elegans strains: A Representation Concentration of Glucose in Women with Gestational Diabetes | Medicine / Health / Gerontology | 8 | 2nd Award | Ruhi | Sayana | Elaina | Chambers (SSW mentor) | Privately Sponsored Project | Discovery of Monosodium Glutamate as an Inducing Factor of Increased Lipid Storage Through Expression of Adenosine Monophosphate-activated Protein Kinase | Medicine / Health / Gerontology | 8 | Certificate of Achievement, Medallion, and Letter, United States Public Health Service | Ruhi | Sayana | Elaina | Chambers (SSW mentor) | Privately Sponsored Project | Discovery of Monosodium Glutamate as an Inducing Factor of Increased Lipid Storage Through Expression of Adenosine Monophosphate-activated Protein Kinase | Medicine / Health / Gerontology | 8 | Nominated to compete envelope, Broadcom MASTERS - 8th Grade | Krish | Kapadia | Kristen | Morgensen | Harker School-Middle Campus | Determining the Efficacy of Different Methods to Assess the Level of Dehydration Using Human Saliva. | Medicine / Health / Gerontology | 8 | Nominated to compete envelope, Broadcom MASTERS - 8th Grade | Anjay | Saklecha | Kristen | Morgensen | Harker School-Middle Campus | Determining the Efficacy of Different Methods to Assess the Level of Dehydration Using Human Saliva. | Medicine / Health / Gerontology | 9 | 1st Award | Isha | Mehrotra | Jason | Lee | Lynbrook High School | The effect of natural compounds Curcumin and Nicotinamide on alpha-Synuclein accumulation in a Caenorhabditis elegans model of Parkinson's Disease | Medicine / Health / Gerontology | 9 | 1st Award | Rohan | Mehrotra | Jason | Lee | Lynbrook High School | The effect of natural compounds Curcumin and Nicotinamide on alpha-Synuclein accumulation in a Caenorhabditis elegans model of Parkinson's Disease | Medicine / Health / Gerontology | 9 | Honorable Mention | Nachiket Nitin | Ingle | Jason | Lee | Lynbrook High School | The Parts of the Brain that Filters Out Distractions | Medicine / Health / Gerontology | 10 | 1st Award | Rupsa Bhatt | Acharya | Jason | Lee | Lynbrook High School | The effect of Carica papaya leaf extract on the lifespan of C. elegans with fatal germ line tumors. | Medicine / Health / Gerontology | 10 | 2nd Award | Neymika | Jain | Gary | Blickenstaff | Harker School-Upper Campus | The Effect of Metformin on Transgenic Ab1-42 Caenorhabditis elegans: An in vitro study on Alzheimer's Disease | Medicine / Health / Gerontology | 10 | Honorable Mention | Zunera | Ghalib | Renee | Fallon | Monta Vista High School | The Effects of Curcumin On Rotenone-induced Drosophila Models of Parkinson's Disease | Medicine / Health / Gerontology | 10 | Honorable Mention | Shriya Reddy | Perati | Renee | Fallon | Monta Vista High School | The Effect of Melatonin on Antibiotic Resistance | Medicine / Health / Gerontology | 10 | 1 certificate and possible trip to Arizona, ASU Walton Sustainability Solutions Initiatives | Neymika | Jain | Gary | Blickenstaff | Harker School-Upper Campus | The Effect of Metformin on Transgenic Ab1-42 Caenorhabditis elegans: An in vitro study on Alzheimer's Disease | Physics | 6 | 1st Award | Kate Elizabeth | Jackson | Linh | Pham | Old Orchard School | Demonstrating Doppler: Determining the Speed of an Object with Sound | Physics | 6 | 1st Award | Conor | Padmanabhan | Kellie | Fletcher | Jordan (David Starr) Middle School | The Effect of Air Temperature on Sound Energy | Physics | 6 | 1st Award | Parin Rajiv | Patel | William | Jenkinson | Stratford Middle School - Santa Clara | Catching the Wave | Physics | 6 | 1st Award | Vineet Abhay | Ranade | Martin | Wiedemann | Stratford Middle School - Santa Clara | The Sweet Spot | Physics | 6 | 1st Award | Amanda | Nguyen | Kanchan | Bhandare | Merryhill Schools -Milpitas | Riding on Air | Physics | 6 | 1st Award | Victoria | Truong | Kanchan | Bhandare | Merryhill Schools -Milpitas | Riding on Air | Physics | 6 | 2nd Award | Mwinso Gabriel | Denkabe | Tini | Raman | Challenger-Middlefield-Palo Alto | Does the volume of a balloon affect how far it can travel | Physics | 6 | 2nd Award | Nicky | Gianchandani | Hope | Oliver | Harte (Bret) Middle School | Will Drop Distance and Greater Angle Result in Increased Acceleration? | Physics | 6 | 2nd Award | Caitlin Maya | Gorin | Martin | Wiedemann | Stratford Middle School - Santa Clara | Which type of thermos keeps water/rice the "hottest"? | Physics | 6 | 2nd Award | Tejal Ashvin | Patel | Linh | Pham | Old Orchard School | Thermal Insulating Properties of different Clothing Materials | Physics | 6 | 2nd Award | Isaac | Heintze | Liat | Baranoff | Gideon Hausner Jewish Day School | The Science of Drinking Birds: Do Drinking birds still work in different temperatures/climates and how do they work? | Physics | 6 | 2nd Award | Ian | Jacobs | Liat | Baranoff | Gideon Hausner Jewish Day School | The Science of Drinking Birds: Do Drinking birds still work in different temperatures/climates and how do they work? | Physics | 6 | Honorable Mention | Jessica | Hsu | Martin | Wiedemann | Stratford Middle School - Santa Clara | Surface Tension: The Mysterious Floating Button | Physics | 6 | Honorable Mention | Srikar Pranav | Kolluru | Shannon | Lum | Challenger - Berryessa | Amazing Lights: Effect of slit distance on wave pattern | Physics | 6 | Honorable Mention | Angelina | Lue | Tini | Raman | Challenger-Middlefield-Palo Alto | Effects of Slope and Mass on Speed | Physics | 6 | Honorable Mention | Nikhil | Murthy | Martin | Wiedemann | Stratford Middle School - Santa Clara | Overcoming the Albedo Effect! The Thermal Insulation Properties of a Living Roof | Physics | 6 | Honorable Mention | Misbah Mariam | Syed | Sumizah | Qureshi | Granada Islamic School | Water, Water Everywhere ... Not a Drop to Drink ! | Physics | 6 | $50 and Certificate of Achievement, Hegland Award | Caitlin Maya | Gorin | Martin | Wiedemann | Stratford Middle School - Santa Clara | Which type of thermos keeps water/rice the "hottest"? | Physics | 6 | $50 and Certificate of Achievement, Hegland Award | Vineet Abhay | Ranade | Martin | Wiedemann | Stratford Middle School - Santa Clara | The Sweet Spot | Physics | 6 | Certificate of Achievement and ONR Medallion, United States Navy and Marine Corps | Kate Elizabeth | Jackson | Linh | Pham | Old Orchard School | Demonstrating Doppler: Determining the Speed of an Object with Sound | Physics | 6 | Honorable Mention: Certificate of Achievement,T-Shirt, Society of Vacuum Coaters (SVC) | Alex Christian | Loriau | Rachel | McKenna | Sacred Heart Middle School | Thermal Expansion | Physics | 6 | IEEE Award for Electro-Technology ($50 and Framed Certificate), Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers | Kate Elizabeth | Jackson | Linh | Pham | Old Orchard School | Demonstrating Doppler: Determining the Speed of an Object with Sound | Physics | 6 | Nominated to compete envelope, Broadcom MASTERS - 6th Grade | Kate Elizabeth | Jackson | Linh | Pham | Old Orchard School | Demonstrating Doppler: Determining the Speed of an Object with Sound | Physics | 6 | Nominated to compete envelope, Broadcom MASTERS - 6th Grade | Amanda | Nguyen | Kanchan | Bhandare | Merryhill Schools -Milpitas | Riding on Air | Physics | 6 | Nominated to compete envelope, Broadcom MASTERS - 6th Grade | Conor | Padmanabhan | Kellie | Fletcher | Jordan (David Starr) Middle School | The Effect of Air Temperature on Sound Energy | Physics | 6 | Nominated to compete envelope, Broadcom MASTERS - 6th Grade | Parin Rajiv | Patel | William | Jenkinson | Stratford Middle School - Santa Clara | Catching the Wave | Physics | 6 | Nominated to compete envelope, Broadcom MASTERS - 6th Grade | Vineet Abhay | Ranade | Martin | Wiedemann | Stratford Middle School - Santa Clara | The Sweet Spot | Physics | 6 | Nominated to compete envelope, Broadcom MASTERS - 6th Grade | Victoria | Truong | Kanchan | Bhandare | Merryhill Schools -Milpitas | Riding on Air | Physics | 7 | 1st Award | Siddharth | Ganesan | Greg | Lampard | Stratford Middle School - Santa Clara | Wireless Power Transfer - The Effect of Changing the Diameter on the Power Transferred | Physics | 7 | 1st Award | Jared Aidan | Lyon | Kristi | Chung | Stratford Middle School - San Jose | The Effect of Parachute Shape and Venting on Parachute Performance | Physics | 7 | 1st Award | Siya | Sharma | Subha | Banarjee | Magnolia Science Acad of Santa Clara | Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells vs. Silicon Based Solar Cells: Which one is more efficient? | Physics | 7 | 1st Award | Isabel | Sperandio | Greg | Rice | Stanford (Jane Lathrop) Middle School | Does the color of light and the temperature of solar panels improve the efficiency? | Physics | 7 | 1st Award | Paolo Stefano | Giovanardi | Kanchan | Bhandare | Merryhill Schools -Milpitas | Bernoulli's Principle in Action | Physics | 7 | 1st Award | Krisna Dahra | Sam | Kanchan | Bhandare | Merryhill Schools -Milpitas | Bernoulli's Principle in Action | Physics | 7 | 2nd Award | Venugopal | Chillal | Greg | Lampard | Stratford Middle School - Santa Clara | The Effect of Water Path Curvature on Energy Generated | Physics | 7 | 2nd Award | Harsha | Ramachandran | Martin | Wiedemann | Stratford Middle School - Santa Clara | Effect of Surface Area on the Lift Produced by an Airfoil | Physics | 7 | 2nd Award | Srivas | Sarva | Subha | Banarjee | Magnolia Science Acad of Santa Clara | Does the shape of an object change how much light is reflected off it? | Physics | 7 | 2nd Award | Amelia Ashlund | Creemer | Tamara | Juarez | Terman Middle School | How's the Air Up There? | Physics | 7 | 2nd Award | Antonia Zoe | Quake | Tamara | Juarez | Terman Middle School | How's the Air Up There? | Physics | 7 | 2nd Award | Abigail Rose | Walker | Tamara | Juarez | Terman Middle School | How's the Air Up There? | Physics | 7 | Honorable Mention | Mate | Aranyosi | Nita | Kumar | Delphi Academy-Campbell | Efficient Boat Propeller Design | Physics | 7 | Honorable Mention | Vyomika | Gupta | Lori | Monahan | Jordan (David Starr) Middle School | Experimentation on the COANDA Effect | Physics | 7 | Honorable Mention | Marcus | Ma | Peter | Cheng | Carden Day School of San Jose | Watts on Your Hat? How Does the Angle of a Solar Panel Affect How Much Electricity It Generates? | Physics | 7 | Honorable Mention | Siddhartha | Parekh | Nicole | Hulgan | Cabrillo Middle School | Rockin' the Boat | Physics | 7 | Honorable Mention | Arjun | Prabhu | Preethi | Sundaresakumar | Stratford Middle School - San Jose | The effect of different rotor designs on the energy generated by wind | Physics | 7 | Honorable Mention | Kalie Esther | Ching | Nelson | Hori | Cabrillo Middle School | True North vs. Magnetic North | Physics | 7 | Honorable Mention | Matthew Sai | Malto | Nelson | Hori | Cabrillo Middle School | Stopping Piracy | Physics | 7 | Honorable Mention | Anjali | Mathi | Nelson | Hori | Cabrillo Middle School | True North vs. Magnetic North | Physics | 7 | Honorable Mention | Vincent | Nguyen | Nelson | Hori | Cabrillo Middle School | Stopping Piracy | Physics | 7 | Honorable Mention | Palaniappan | Sithambaram | Nelson | Hori | Cabrillo Middle School | Stopping Piracy | Physics | 7 | 1st Place - $100, Framed Certificate of Achievement, and Popular Science Magazine Subscription, SAMPE - Society for the Advancement of Material and Process Engineering | Jishnu | Swamy | Joel | Carter | Lawson Middle School | Waterproof Fabric - A study and comparison of common waterproofing materials, natural and synthetic, to measure water resistance | Physics | 7 | 1st Place Award - $100, Popular Science Magazine Subscription, Framed Certificate of Achievement, ASM International, A Society for Materials, Santa Clara Valley Chapter | Jishnu | Swamy | Joel | Carter | Lawson Middle School | Waterproof Fabric - A study and comparison of common waterproofing materials, natural and synthetic, to measure water resistance | Physics | 7 | 3rd place - $50 and Certificate of Achievement, American Society of Civil Engineers | Victoria | Scurto | Preethi | Sundaresakumar | Stratford Middle School - San Jose | What is the Best Material to Insulate a House? | Physics | 7 | Nominated to compete envelope, Broadcom MASTERS - 7th Grade | Siddharth | Ganesan | Greg | Lampard | Stratford Middle School - Santa Clara | Wireless Power Transfer - The Effect of Changing the Diameter on the Power Transferred | Physics | 7 | Nominated to compete envelope, Broadcom MASTERS - 7th Grade | Paolo Stefano | Giovanardi | Kanchan | Bhandare | Merryhill Schools -Milpitas | Bernoulli's Principle in Action | Physics | 7 | Nominated to compete envelope, Broadcom MASTERS - 7th Grade | Jared Aidan | Lyon | Kristi | Chung | Stratford Middle School - San Jose | The Effect of Parachute Shape and Venting on Parachute Performance | Physics | 7 | Nominated to compete envelope, Broadcom MASTERS - 7th Grade | Krisna Dahra | Sam | Kanchan | Bhandare | Merryhill Schools -Milpitas | Bernoulli's Principle in Action | Physics | 7 | Nominated to compete envelope, Broadcom MASTERS - 7th Grade | Siya | Sharma | Subha | Banarjee | Magnolia Science Acad of Santa Clara | Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells vs. Silicon Based Solar Cells: Which one is more efficient? | Physics | 7 | Nominated to compete envelope, Broadcom MASTERS - 7th Grade | Isabel | Sperandio | Greg | Rice | Stanford (Jane Lathrop) Middle School | Does the color of light and the temperature of solar panels improve the efficiency? | Physics | 8 | 1st Award | Phillip | Chau | Pronati | Mondal | Challenger - Almaden | The Effect of Increasing the Chord Length of a Propeller on Its Efficiency | Physics | 8 | 1st Award | Mackenzie | Lee | Michael | Lee (PSP) | Privately Sponsored Project | The Effect of Vane Tilt Angles on the Speed of a Revolving Lantern | Physics | 8 | 1st Award | Priya | Goel | Thea | Dalvand | Kennedy(John F.) Middle School-Cupertino | Effect of Impurities on Surface Tension of Water | Physics | 8 | 1st Award | Ankita | Vinod | Thea | Dalvand | Kennedy(John F.) Middle School-Cupertino | Effect of Impurities on Surface Tension of Water | Physics | 8 | 2nd Award | Chethan Anand | Bhateja | Simon | Hale | Basis Independent Silicon Valley School | Builder's Fault: Testing Robustness and Stability of Various Structures During Earthquakes | Physics | 8 | 2nd Award | Arjun Michael | Miklos | Christina | DeGregorio | Terman Middle School | Just For Kicks: The Biomechanics of Kicking a Soccer Ball | Physics | 8 | 2nd Award | Visala Rozalia | Tallavarjula | Amanda | Ehly | Magnolia Science Acad of Santa Clara | Studies to Improve the Efficiency of Parabolic Solar Reflector to boil water and desalinate for drinking and irrigational purposes | Physics | 8 | Honorable Mention | Ronit Rishi | Dey | Youssef | Ismail (SSW mentor) | Privately Sponsored Project | Reducing Joint Injuries During Impact in Contact Sports Using Energy Absorbing Protective Gear | Physics | 8 | Honorable Mention | Siddharth | Jain | Fred | Berghout | Stanford (Jane Lathrop) Middle School | The effect of a strong magnetic field on the flow of alpha particles | Physics | 8 | Honorable Mention | Samiksha | Patil | Priya | Srinath | Miller Middle School | The Magic of Fading Colors | Physics | 8 | Honorable Mention | Colin Richard | Schultz | Fred | Berghout | Stanford (Jane Lathrop) Middle School | What is the effect of air pressure on the intensity of sound? | Physics | 8 | 1st place - $150 and Certificate of Achievement, American Society of Civil Engineers | Chethan Anand | Bhateja | Simon | Hale | Basis Independent Silicon Valley School | Builder's Fault: Testing Robustness and Stability of Various Structures During Earthquakes | Physics | 8 | 1st place student - $100 and Certificate of Achievement, American Vacuum Society, Northern CA | Colin Richard | Schultz | Fred | Berghout | Stanford (Jane Lathrop) Middle School | What is the effect of air pressure on the intensity of sound? | Physics | 8 | 2nd place student - $50 and Certificate of Achievement, American Vacuum Society, Northern CA | Arjun Michael | Miklos | Christina | DeGregorio | Terman Middle School | Just For Kicks: The Biomechanics of Kicking a Soccer Ball | Physics | 8 | 3rd place student - $25 and Certificate of Achievement, American Vacuum Society, Northern CA | Priya | Goel | Thea | Dalvand | Kennedy(John F.) Middle School-Cupertino | Effect of Impurities on Surface Tension of Water | Physics | 8 | 3rd place student - $25 and Certificate of Achievement, American Vacuum Society, Northern CA | Siddharth | Jain | Fred | Berghout | Stanford (Jane Lathrop) Middle School | The effect of a strong magnetic field on the flow of alpha particles | Physics | 8 | 3rd place student - $25 and Certificate of Achievement, American Vacuum Society, Northern CA | Ankita | Vinod | Thea | Dalvand | Kennedy(John F.) Middle School-Cupertino | Effect of Impurities on Surface Tension of Water | Physics | 8 | Certificate of Achievement and ONR Medallion, United States Navy and Marine Corps | Kaushik | Shivakumar | Kristen | Morgensen | Harker School-Middle Campus | Harnessing Wasted Heat from Jet Engines: Factors Influencing the Conversion of Heat into Electricity Using Thermoelectric Materials | Physics | 8 | Certificate of Achievement and ONR Medallion, United States Navy and Marine Corps | Rohin Kiranapani | Tangirala | Heather | Mackewicz | Challenger-Strawberry Park-SJ | The Venturi Effect: Varying Shroud Intake Diameter to Improve the Efficiency of a Horizontal Axis Wind Turbine | Physics | 8 | Nominated to compete envelope, Broadcom MASTERS - 8th Grade | Phillip | Chau | Pronati | Mondal | Challenger - Almaden | The Effect of Increasing the Chord Length of a Propeller on Its Efficiency | Physics | 8 | Nominated to compete envelope, Broadcom MASTERS - 8th Grade | Priya | Goel | Thea | Dalvand | Kennedy(John F.) Middle School-Cupertino | Effect of Impurities on Surface Tension of Water | Physics | 8 | Nominated to compete envelope, Broadcom MASTERS - 8th Grade | Mackenzie | Lee | Michael | Lee (PSP) | Privately Sponsored Project | The Effect of Vane Tilt Angles on the Speed of a Revolving Lantern | Physics | 8 | Nominated to compete envelope, Broadcom MASTERS - 8th Grade | Ankita | Vinod | Thea | Dalvand | Kennedy(John F.) Middle School-Cupertino | Effect of Impurities on Surface Tension of Water | Physics | 9 | 1st Award | Teja Sai | Veeramacheneni | William | Abb | Archbishop Mitty High School | A Novel Study on the Effect of Direct Electric Fields on a Simulated Mitotic Spindle. | Physics | 9 | 2nd Award | Ria Swetha | Gopu | Daniel | Stavis | Cupertino High School | Best Combination of Insulating Materials (In Terms of Heat Retention) | Physics | 9 | 2nd Award | Anushka Sachin | Narvekar | Daniel | Stavis | Cupertino High School | Best Combination of Insulating Materials (In Terms of Heat Retention) | Physics | 9 | Honorable Mention | Tian | Chen | Megan | Thaler | Gunn (Henry M.) High School | A Mathematical Proof of Heat Gradient Induced Convection Resolving Mpemba Paradox | Physics | 10 | 2nd Award | Matthew M. | Hase-Liu | Jason | Lee | Lynbrook High School | A Novel Study on the Improvement of Electronic Transport Characteristics in a Dye-Sensitized Solar Cell | Physics | 10 | Honorable Mention | Sneha S. | Bhetanabhotla | Chris | Spenner | Harker School-Upper Campus | Simulating Galaxy Mergers Using Gravitational Equations | Physics | 10 | 1st Place - $100, Framed Certificate of Achievement, and Popular Science Magazine Subscription, SAMPE - Society for the Advancement of Material and Process Engineering | Matthew M. | Hase-Liu | Jason | Lee | Lynbrook High School | A Novel Study on the Improvement of Electronic Transport Characteristics in a Dye-Sensitized Solar Cell | Physics | 10 | 1st Place Award - $100, Popular Science Magazine Subscription, Framed Certificate of Achievement, and Certificate & Medallion from ASM Educational Foundation, ASM International, A Society for Materials, Santa Clara Valley Chapter | Matthew M. | Hase-Liu | Jason | Lee | Lynbrook High School | A Novel Study on the Improvement of Electronic Transport Characteristics in a Dye-Sensitized Solar Cell | Physics | 10 | GR 9-12, 3rd Place: $35 and Certificate of Achievement, T-Shirt, Society of Vacuum Coaters (SVC) | Matthew M. | Hase-Liu | Jason | Lee | Lynbrook High School | A Novel Study on the Improvement of Electronic Transport Characteristics in a Dye-Sensitized Solar Cell | Physics | 11 | Honorable Mention | Jasper | Gan | Alan | Tan | Leland High School | Dimples on a Boat: An Innovative Way to Improve Hydrodynamics | Physics | 11 | 1st place: $60 and Certificate of Achievement, United States Metric Association | Paul August | Dennig | Adam | Randall | Los Altos High School | The Effect of Geometrical Factors on the Energy Storage of Lateral Graphene Supercapacitors | Physics | 11 | Certificate of Achievement and Pewter Medallion Voucher, Yale Science and Engineering Association | Paul August | Dennig | Adam | Randall | Los Altos High School | The Effect of Geometrical Factors on the Energy Storage of Lateral Graphene Supercapacitors | Physics | 12 | Honorable Mention | Nikunj | Khetan | Jason | Lee | Lynbrook High School | The Energy Efficient Deposition of Carbon Nanotubes Using Waste-Derived Carbon Dioxide as a Precursor Gas | RRI Biological Sciences | 10 | 1st Award | Varun J | Venkatesh | Jason | Lee | Lynbrook High School | A Study on Using Hydrogen Deuterium Exchange Mass Spectroscopy to Determine Protein Structure in the Coagulation Cascade | RRI Biological Sciences | 10 | 2nd Award | Amrita | Singh | Chris | Spenner | Harker School-Upper Campus | A Study of Snail Shell Taphonomy to Determine what Traits Affect Shell Damage Across Multiple Species in Costa Rica | RRI Biological Sciences | 10 | Honorable Mention | Pranav Varasri | Lalgudi | Jason | Lee | Lynbrook High School | Novel Molecular Dynamics Simulations and Modelling of Periplasmic Proteins and Peptidoglycan Interactions of Escherichia coli | RRI Biological Sciences | 10 | Honorable Mention | Venkat N | Sankar | Chris | Spenner | Harker School-Upper Campus | Investigating the mechanisms of BHLH-mediated reprogramming of fibroblasts into neurons | RRI Biological Sciences | 11 | 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 | Jonathan Q | Ma | Chris | Spenner | Harker School-Upper Campus | Systematic Rational Identification of Sex-Linked Molecular Alterations and Therapies in Cancer | RRI Biological Sciences | 11 | 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 | Sadhika S | Malladi | Chris | Spenner | Harker School-Upper Campus | Systematic Rational Identification of Sex-Linked Molecular Alterations and Therapies in Cancer | RRI Biological Sciences | 11 | 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 | Anin | Sayana | Debjani | Roy | Bellarmine College Preparatory | Novel Design and Optimization of an EGFRvIII-based Cancer Peptide Vaccine for Glioblastoma: a Computational and Biological Paradigm for Improving Vaccine Efficacy | RRI Biological Sciences | 11 | Grand Prize - Best of Championship - Outreach Schools - Trip to Intel ISEF and Plaque, Santa Clara Valley Science & Engineering Fair Assn - Board of Directors Awards - High School | Swetha | Revanur | David | Walz | Evergreen Valley High School | A Global-Scale Meta-Analysis of Gene Expression Distributions to Determine Detection Calls | RRI Biological Sciences | 11 | Grand Prize Alternate - Biological Sciences - Trip to State Science Fair and Plaque, Santa Clara Valley Science & Engineering Fair Assn - Board of Directors Awards - High School | Durga | Ganesh | Jason | Lee | Lynbrook High School | Identification of NUSAP1 as a novel therapeutic target for aggressive prostate cancer: evaluating cell invasion, migration, proliferation, and morphology in androgen sensitive and insensitive cell lines | RRI Biological Sciences | 11 | $250 Best Biological-science Project, Whitney Education Foundation | Jonathan Q | Ma | Chris | Spenner | Harker School-Upper Campus | Systematic Rational Identification of Sex-Linked Molecular Alterations and Therapies in Cancer | RRI Biological Sciences | 11 | $250 Best Biological-science Project, Whitney Education Foundation | Sadhika S | Malladi | Chris | Spenner | Harker School-Upper Campus | Systematic Rational Identification of Sex-Linked Molecular Alterations and Therapies in Cancer | RRI Biological Sciences | 11 | $250 Best Outreach Project, Whitney Education Foundation | Swetha | Revanur | David | Walz | Evergreen Valley High School | A Global-Scale Meta-Analysis of Gene Expression Distributions to Determine Detection Calls | RRI Biological Sciences | 11 | 1st Award | Durga | Ganesh | Jason | Lee | Lynbrook High School | Identification of NUSAP1 as a novel therapeutic target for aggressive prostate cancer: evaluating cell invasion, migration, proliferation, and morphology in androgen sensitive and insensitive cell lines | RRI Biological Sciences | 11 | 1st Award | Ken Kyung-Hyun | Noh | Jena | Lee | Gunn (Henry M.) High School | Basophil Activation Test: Evaluating Innate Immune Response in Allergic Patients with Fever | RRI Biological Sciences | 11 | 1st Award | Swetha | Revanur | David | Walz | Evergreen Valley High School | A Global-Scale Meta-Analysis of Gene Expression Distributions to Determine Detection Calls | RRI Biological Sciences | 11 | 1st Award | Anin | Sayana | Debjani | Roy | Bellarmine College Preparatory | Novel Design and Optimization of an EGFRvIII-based Cancer Peptide Vaccine for Glioblastoma: a Computational and Biological Paradigm for Improving Vaccine Efficacy | RRI Biological Sciences | 11 | 1st Award | Jonathan Q | Ma | Chris | Spenner | Harker School-Upper Campus | Systematic Rational Identification of Sex-Linked Molecular Alterations and Therapies in Cancer | RRI Biological Sciences | 11 | 1st Award | Sadhika S | Malladi | Chris | Spenner | Harker School-Upper Campus | Systematic Rational Identification of Sex-Linked Molecular Alterations and Therapies in Cancer | RRI Biological Sciences | 11 | 2nd Award | Vineet Sai | Kosaraju | Chris | Spenner | Harker School-Upper Campus | Towards Rational RNA Therapeutics: 3D RNA Engineering in a Massive Open Laboratory | RRI Biological Sciences | 11 | 2nd Award | Marissa Paige | Patterson | Tracy | Hughes | Presentation High School | What quantity of micronized silica creates the most stable Activated Partial Thromboplastin Time (APTT) assay in a micro-mechanical coagulometer? | RRI Biological Sciences | 11 | 2nd Award | Chandler Anne | Sutherland | Tracy | Hughes | Presentation High School | What quantity of micronized silica creates the most stable Activated Partial Thromboplastin Time (APTT) assay in a micro-mechanical coagulometer? | RRI Biological Sciences | 11 | Honorable Mention | Julia | Cho | Pamela | Chow | Monta Vista High School | Microfabricated hydrogel-based vascular networks for the metastasis study of circulating tumor cells | RRI Biological Sciences | 11 | Certificate of Achievement, Society for In Vitro Biology | Julia | Cho | Pamela | Chow | Monta Vista High School | Microfabricated hydrogel-based vascular networks for the metastasis study of circulating tumor cells | RRI Biological Sciences | 11 | Special Award: $75 and Certificate of Achievement, Varian Medical Systems | Anin | Sayana | Debjani | Roy | Bellarmine College Preparatory | Novel Design and Optimization of an EGFRvIII-based Cancer Peptide Vaccine for Glioblastoma: a Computational and Biological Paradigm for Improving Vaccine Efficacy | RRI Biological Sciences | 12 | 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 | Joy Qiu | Jin | Bill | Dunbar | Gunn (Henry M.) High School | Identification and Characterization of a Rare Subpopulation with Cancer Stem Cell Properties in Lung Cancer | RRI Biological Sciences | 12 | 1st Award | Rahul | Jayaraman | Chris | Spenner | Harker School-Upper Campus | Evaluation of Novel Mechanisms of Heart Failure in Children with Congenital Heart Disease Identifies the Potential for Pediatric-Specific Heart Failure Therapies | RRI Biological Sciences | 12 | 1st Award | Joy Qiu | Jin | Bill | Dunbar | Gunn (Henry M.) High School | Identification and Characterization of a Rare Subpopulation with Cancer Stem Cell Properties in Lung Cancer | RRI Biological Sciences | 12 | 2nd Award | Madhuri B. | Nori | Chris | Spenner | Harker School-Upper Campus | Rescuing Declining Integration Rates of Transplanted Retinal Photoreceptors in Host Mouse Retina with a Microglia-derived Factor | RRI Biological Sciences | 12 | Honorable Mention | Gauri | Patil | Jason | Lee | Lynbrook High School | Effect of Single Nucleotide Variations in the DIXDC1 Gene on Wnt-beta - Catenin Signaling Pathway Activation | RRI Biological Sciences | 12 | $200, Certificate of Achievement, and Letter, Dr. Paul X. Callahan in Memoriam Award | Joy Qiu | Jin | Bill | Dunbar | Gunn (Henry M.) High School | Identification and Characterization of a Rare Subpopulation with Cancer Stem Cell Properties in Lung Cancer | RRI Biological Sciences | 12 | 2nd Place Award - $175 and Certificate of Achievement, American Association for Laboratory Animal Science, Northern California Branch | Madhuri B. | Nori | Chris | Spenner | Harker School-Upper Campus | Rescuing Declining Integration Rates of Transplanted Retinal Photoreceptors in Host Mouse Retina with a Microglia-derived Factor | RRI Biological Sciences | 12 | Honorable Mention: Certificate of Achievement, and Goody Bag, Association for Women in Science, Palo Alto Chapter | Joy Qiu | Jin | Bill | Dunbar | Gunn (Henry M.) High School | Identification and Characterization of a Rare Subpopulation with Cancer Stem Cell Properties in Lung Cancer | RRI Physical Sciences | 9 | High School Finalist Certficate, The Synopsys Outreach Foundation n+1 Prize | Amy | Dunphy | Chris | Spenner | Harker School-Upper Campus | Preventing Urushiol (Poison Oak)- Induced Dermatitis by Deactivating the Allergen | RRI Physical Sciences | 9 | Honorable Mention | Amy | Dunphy | Chris | Spenner | Harker School-Upper Campus | Preventing Urushiol (Poison Oak)- Induced Dermatitis by Deactivating the Allergen | RRI Physical Sciences | 10 | 2nd Award | Jerry | Hong | Radu | Toma | Palo Alto High School | The Investigation of Anomalous Lithium Detections in Red Giants of Globular Clusters | RRI Physical Sciences | 10 | Honorable Mention | Evani | Radiya-Dixit | Chris | Spenner | Harker School-Upper Campus | Automatic Extraction of Cancerous Lesion Characteristics from Imaging Reports Through a Novel Integration of Natural Language Processing Techniques | RRI Physical Sciences | 11 | $ 500 to the winning student or team in high school Physical Science, The Synopsys Outreach Foundation n+1 Prize | Jonathan F | Fung | Renee | Fallon | Monta Vista High School | Surface Specific Rationally Self-Assembling Au-Fe Oxide Nanoparticles: A Potential Multi-Modal Imaging Agent Platform for Early Tumor Diagnosis | RRI Physical Sciences | 11 | $100 First Prize, Morgan Lewis | Anjini | Karthik | Jennifer | Thomas | Saint Francis High School | Combating Viral Pandemics Through the Development of a Novel Tool for the Rapid Detection of Viruses Using Polymer Imprinting Strategies. | RRI Physical Sciences | 11 | High School Finalist Certficate, The Synopsys Outreach Foundation n+1 Prize | Jonathan F | Fung | Renee | Fallon | Monta Vista High School | Surface Specific Rationally Self-Assembling Au-Fe Oxide Nanoparticles: A Potential Multi-Modal Imaging Agent Platform for Early Tumor Diagnosis | RRI Physical Sciences | 11 | 2nd Award | Anjini | Karthik | Jennifer | Thomas | Saint Francis High School | Combating Viral Pandemics Through the Development of a Novel Tool for the Rapid Detection of Viruses Using Polymer Imprinting Strategies. | RRI Physical Sciences | 11 | 2nd Award | Kristine Alexandra | Zhang | Jill | McCrystal | Saratoga High School | A New Molecular Model for Congo Red-Amyloid-Beta Interaction: Implications for Diagnosis and Inhibition of Brain Plaque Formation in Alzheimer's Disease | RRI Physical Sciences | 11 | Honorable Mention | Jonathan F | Fung | Renee | Fallon | Monta Vista High School | Surface Specific Rationally Self-Assembling Au-Fe Oxide Nanoparticles: A Potential Multi-Modal Imaging Agent Platform for Early Tumor Diagnosis | RRI Physical Sciences | 11 | Best Project: $50, Certificate of Achievement, and Voucher for a Safe Boating Course, United States Coast Guard Auxiliary | Ajay | Jain | Scott | DeRuiter | Monta Vista High School | Distributed Robotic Pursuit and Evasion: Navigation and State Estimation | RRI Physical Sciences | 11 | Certificate of Achievement and ONR Medallion, United States Navy and Marine Corps | Ajay | Jain | Scott | DeRuiter | Monta Vista High School | Distributed Robotic Pursuit and Evasion: Navigation and State Estimation | RRI Physical Sciences | 11 | GR 9-12, 2nd Place: $70, Book, and Certificate of Achievement, T-Shirt, Society of Vacuum Coaters (SVC) | Jonathan F | Fung | Renee | Fallon | Monta Vista High School | Surface Specific Rationally Self-Assembling Au-Fe Oxide Nanoparticles: A Potential Multi-Modal Imaging Agent Platform for Early Tumor Diagnosis | RRI Physical Sciences | 11 | One-day immersive trip to Firebase to work on API project, TechLab Education | Ajay | Jain | Scott | DeRuiter | Monta Vista High School | Distributed Robotic Pursuit and Evasion: Navigation and State Estimation | RRI Physical Sciences | 12 | Grand Prize - Best of Championship - Physical Sciences - Trip to Intel ISEF and Plaque, Santa Clara Valley Science & Engineering Fair Assn - Board of Directors Awards - High School | Nitya | Mani | Chris | Spenner | Harker School-Upper Campus | Characterizing the Constructible n-Division Points of the Rational Hypocycloids Through Straightedge and Compass Constructions | RRI Physical Sciences | 12 | Grand Prize - Best of Championship - Physical Sciences - Trip to Intel ISEF and Plaque, Santa Clara Valley Science & Engineering Fair Assn - Board of Directors Awards - High School | Ruchi Sandeep | Pandya | Jason | Lee | Lynbrook High School | Design and synthesis of a novel paper based biosensor platform for health diagnostics. | RRI Physical Sciences | 12 | $100 First Prize, Morgan Lewis | Vamsi | Gadiraju | Chris | Spenner | Harker School-Upper Campus | Defect-Mediated Electrocatalytic Activity of Palladium-Graphene Quantum Dot Nanocomposites | RRI Physical Sciences | 12 | $1000 Grand Prize, Morgan Lewis | Ruchi Sandeep | Pandya | Jason | Lee | Lynbrook High School | Design and synthesis of a novel paper based biosensor platform for health diagnostics. | RRI Physical Sciences | 12 | $250 Best Physical-science Project, Whitney Education Foundation | Nitya | Mani | Chris | Spenner | Harker School-Upper Campus | Characterizing the Constructible n-Division Points of the Rational Hypocycloids Through Straightedge and Compass Constructions | RRI Physical Sciences | 12 | High School Finalist Certficate, The Synopsys Outreach Foundation n+1 Prize | Sharon Y. | Chen | Bill | Dunbar | Gunn (Henry M.) High School | Exploring the Time-of-Flight Capability of BrainPET: A Radio Frequency Field-Penetrable Positron Emission Tomography Insert for Simultaneous PET/MR Brain Imaging | RRI Physical Sciences | 12 | High School Finalist Certficate, The Synopsys Outreach Foundation n+1 Prize | Ruchi Sandeep | Pandya | Jason | Lee | Lynbrook High School | Design and synthesis of a novel paper based biosensor platform for health diagnostics. | RRI Physical Sciences | 12 | Honorable Mention Student Award: $50 and Certificate of Achievement, Association for Computing Machinery, San Francisco Bay Area Professional Chapter | Leo | Yu | Chris | Spenner | Harker School-Upper Campus | A Novel Machine Learning Model for Optimal Climate Projections | RRI Physical Sciences | 12 | 1st Award | Manfred Virgil | Ambat | Debjani | Roy | Bellarmine College Preparatory | The Nature of Variability of the Ultraviolet & Optical Spectral Energy Distribution of Active Galactic Nuclei | RRI Physical Sciences | 12 | 1st Award | Vamsi | Gadiraju | Chris | Spenner | Harker School-Upper Campus | Defect-Mediated Electrocatalytic Activity of Palladium-Graphene Quantum Dot Nanocomposites | RRI Physical Sciences | 12 | 1st Award | Nitya | Mani | Chris | Spenner | Harker School-Upper Campus | Characterizing the Constructible n-Division Points of the Rational Hypocycloids Through Straightedge and Compass Constructions | RRI Physical Sciences | 12 | 1st Award | Ruchi Sandeep | Pandya | Jason | Lee | Lynbrook High School | Design and synthesis of a novel paper based biosensor platform for health diagnostics. | RRI Physical Sciences | 12 | 1 certificate and possible trip to Arizona, ASU Walton Sustainability Solutions Initiatives | Leo | Yu | Chris | Spenner | Harker School-Upper Campus | A Novel Machine Learning Model for Optimal Climate Projections | RRI Physical Sciences | 12 | Certificate of Achievement and Letter to Teacher, Mu Alpha Theta | Nitya | Mani | Chris | Spenner | Harker School-Upper Campus | Characterizing the Constructible n-Division Points of the Rational Hypocycloids Through Straightedge and Compass Constructions | RRI Physical Sciences | 12 | Certificate of Achievement and Letter to Teacher, Mu Alpha Theta | Leo | Yu | Chris | Spenner | Harker School-Upper Campus | A Novel Machine Learning Model for Optimal Climate Projections | RRI Physical Sciences | 12 | Certificate of Achievement, NOAA Medallion, and Letter, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration | Leo | Yu | Chris | Spenner | Harker School-Upper Campus | A Novel Machine Learning Model for Optimal Climate Projections | RRI Physical Sciences | 12 | GR 9-12, 1st Place: $110, Book, and Certificate of Achievement, T-Shirt, Society of Vacuum Coaters (SVC) | Ruchi Sandeep | Pandya | Jason | Lee | Lynbrook High School | Design and synthesis of a novel paper based biosensor platform for health diagnostics. | RRI Physical Sciences | 12 | Honorable Mention: Certificate of Achievement, T-Shirt, Society of Vacuum Coaters (SVC) | Vamsi | Gadiraju | Chris | Spenner | Harker School-Upper Campus | Defect-Mediated Electrocatalytic Activity of Palladium-Graphene Quantum Dot Nanocomposites | Zoology | 7 | 1st Award | Tanvi Vikram | Gaitonde | Greg | Lampard | Stratford Middle School - Santa Clara | Effect of Third Hand Nicotine on Daphnia Magna | Zoology | 7 | Nominated to compete envelope, Broadcom MASTERS - 7th Grade | Tanvi Vikram | Gaitonde | Greg | Lampard | Stratford Middle School - Santa Clara | Effect of Third Hand Nicotine on Daphnia Magna | Zoology | 8 | 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 | Laura Lynn | Powers | Sue | Greathouse | Homeschool (Greathouse) | How Does Crumb Rubber Leachate Affect Paramecium? | Zoology | 8 | Middle School Finalist Certificate, The Synopsys Outreach Foundation n+1 Prize | Laura Lynn | Powers | Sue | Greathouse | Homeschool (Greathouse) | How Does Crumb Rubber Leachate Affect Paramecium? | Zoology | 8 | 1st Award | Laura Lynn | Powers | Sue | Greathouse | Homeschool (Greathouse) | How Does Crumb Rubber Leachate Affect Paramecium? | Zoology | 8 | 2nd Award | Ananya | Karthik | Thuy-Anh | Nguyen | Challenger - Sunnyvale | Shedding Light on the Hormone of Darkness: Investigating the Effect of Exogenous Melatonin on the Heart Rate of Daphnia magna | Zoology | 8 | Honorable Mention | Nishka | Ayyar | Kristen | Morgensen | Harker School-Middle Campus | Effect of Larval Diet on Offspring Development to Wild Type Drisophila Melongaster | Zoology | 8 | Honorable Mention | Srija | Gadiraju | Kristen | Morgensen | Harker School-Middle Campus | Effect of Larval Diet on Offspring Development to Wild Type Drisophila Melongaster | Zoology | 8 | Nominated to compete envelope, Broadcom MASTERS - 8th Grade | Laura Lynn | Powers | Sue | Greathouse | Homeschool (Greathouse) | How Does Crumb Rubber Leachate Affect Paramecium? | Zoology | 9 | 1st Award | Gina | Yang | Renee | Fallon | Monta Vista High School | Effects of Agricultural Adjuvant on the Olfactory Associative Learning and Memory of Honeybees (Apis mellifera L.) | Zoology | 10 | 2nd Award | Niharika | Desaraju | Rita | Huff | Valley Christian High School | Drosophila melanogaster's immunity/longevity of life with daily supplements of regular probiotics | Zoology | 11 | 2nd Award | Viet | Nguyen | Sean | Carroll (SSW mentor) | Privately Sponsored Project | Video Analysis of Daphnia | Zoology | 11 | 2nd Award | Joshua Paul | Bevis | Rita | Huff | Valley Christian High School | The Effect of Drought on the Skeletal Development of Danio Rerio (Zebrafish) | Zoology | 11 | 2nd Award | Nathan Ryan | Chang | Rita | Huff | Valley Christian High School | The Effect of Drought on the Skeletal Development of Danio Rerio (Zebrafish) |
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