East Side Union High School District
Project Awards 2012
Synopsys Silicon Valley Science and Technology Championship
| School | Teacher | Student | Award | Title | Gr | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Andrew Hill High School | Pat | Allamandola | Chuong Huu | Duong | 2nd Place SJSU College of Engineering certificate of achievement, San Jose State University College of Engineering | Power of Resistance (Chemistry) | 12 |
| Honorable Mention, Chemistry Category | |||||||
| Giang Thanh | Ho | 1st Place $1000 Scholarship to SJSU College of Engineering plus certs, San Jose State University College of Engineering | Saturated vs Unsaturated Fatty Acids (Biochemistry / Microbiology) | 12 | |||
| Honorable Mention, Biochemistry / Microbiology Category | |||||||
| Sandy | Ho | 2nd Award, Chemistry Category | Do Dark/Light Environments Affect Corrosion For Common Metals? (Chemistry) | 12 | |||
| Christina | Luong | 3rd Place SJSU College of Engineering certificate of achievement, San Jose State University College of Engineering | Hydrogen Fuel Cell vs Flat Panel Solar Cell (Chemistry) | 12 | |||
| Honorable Mention, Chemistry Category | |||||||
| Jenny | Ngo | 3rd Place SJSU College of Engineering certificate of achievement, San Jose State University College of Engineering | Hydrogen Fuel Cell vs Flat Panel Solar Cell (Chemistry) | 12 | |||
| Honorable Mention, Chemistry Category | |||||||
| Anh Tuyet Ngoc | Nguyen | 1st Place $1000 Scholarship to SJSU College of Engineering plus certs, San Jose State University College of Engineering | Saturated vs Unsaturated Fatty Acids (Biochemistry / Microbiology) | 12 | |||
| Honorable Mention, Biochemistry / Microbiology Category | |||||||
| Thao Phuong | Nguyen | 1st Place $1000 Scholarship to SJSU College of Engineering plus certs, San Jose State University College of Engineering | Saturated vs Unsaturated Fatty Acids (Biochemistry / Microbiology) | 12 | |||
| Honorable Mention, Biochemistry / Microbiology Category | |||||||
| Brian | On | 2nd Place SJSU College of Engineering certificate of achievement, San Jose State University College of Engineering | Power of Resistance (Chemistry) | 12 | |||
| Honorable Mention, Chemistry Category | |||||||
| Christine Kim | Vu | 2nd Award, Chemistry Category | Do Dark/Light Environments Affect Corrosion For Common Metals? (Chemistry) | 12 | |||
| Evergreen Valley High School | Scott | Lubbs | Stacey Amy | Huang | Honorable Mention, Physics Category | Fit for Flying? On the Viability of Optical Lift: The Effect of Optical Wing Composition on its Perpendicular Displacement (Physics) | 12 |
| Gr 9-12-$50 Gift Certificate, Certificate of Achievement, letter of congratulations, ONR Medallion, United States Navy and Marine Corps | |||||||
| Doug | Miller | Himani Eddy | Aligireddy | Honorable Mention, Physics Category | Camera's Speed (Physics) | 9 | |
| Omneha | Amujala | 1st Award, Physics Category | Sturdy Birdie (Physics) | 9 | |||
| Brigitte | Dang | Honorable Mention, Physics Category | Camera's Speed (Physics) | 9 | |||
| Elaine Nguyen | Luu | 1st Award, Physics Category | Sturdy Birdie (Physics) | 9 | |||
| Alexander | Wang | 2nd Award, Physics Category | TRUSSworthy Bridges-How the Central Angle Affects the Force Supported (Physics) | 9 | |||
| Vivian | Zhang | 2nd Award, Physics Category | TRUSSworthy Bridges-How the Central Angle Affects the Force Supported (Physics) | 9 | |||
| KIPP San Jose Collegiate | Jessica | Goldstein | Olgaby | Martinez | HM : Certificate of Achievement, United States Army | Effectiveness of Sunscreen at Preventing Solar UV-Induced Alterations of Human Stratum Corneum (Medicine / Health / Gerontology) | 12 |
| Oak Grove High School | John | Allen | Sinjin Michael | Baglin | Honorable Mention Award-Popular Science Magazine Subscription and Framed Certificate, ASM International, A Society for Materials, Santa Clara Valley Chapter | Maximizing the Energy to Volume Ratio of a Compact Vandium Reduction Oxidation Battery (Engineering) | 11 |
| Alberto | Diaz | 1st Award, Chemistry Category | Superhydrophobicity (Chemistry) | 12 | |||
| 3rd place student - High School - $30 plus cert, American Vacuum Society, Northern CA Chapter | |||||||
| McKenna Pearl | Duzac | Grand Prize - Best of Championship - Outreach Schools - Trip to Intel ISEF, Santa Clara Valley Science & Engineering Fair Assn - Board of Directors Awards - High School | The Synthesis of Quantum Dots for Application in Solar Cell Efficiency (Engineering) | 11 | |||
| 1st Award, Engineering Category | |||||||
| GR 9-12: First Place, $100, Book, T-shirt,Certificate, Society of Vacuum Coaters (SVC) | |||||||
| HM : Certificate of Achievement, United States Army | |||||||
| Avisha | Kumar | 1st Place HS Award - $150 Cash plus cert, American Society of Civil Engineers | Monitoring Earthquake Damage Through Frequency, Soil Displacement and Foundation Damage (Physics) | 10 | |||
| 2nd Place Award - $150 Cash & framed cert, System Safety Society | |||||||
| Team: $60 cash to share and a book to each winner, The ROD Women in Science Award | |||||||
| Joseph Nguyen | Le | 1st Award, Chemistry Category | Superhydrophobicity (Chemistry) | 11 | |||
| 3rd place student - High School - $30 plus cert, American Vacuum Society, Northern CA Chapter | |||||||
| Jacob Truong | Nguyen | Honorable Mention Award-Popular Science Magazine Subscription and Framed Certificate, ASM International, A Society for Materials, Santa Clara Valley Chapter | Maximizing the Energy to Volume Ratio of a Compact Vandium Reduction Oxidation Battery (Engineering) | 11 | |||
| Abha | Pandey | 1st Place HS Award - $150 Cash plus cert, American Society of Civil Engineers | Monitoring Earthquake Damage Through Frequency, Soil Displacement and Foundation Damage (Physics) | 10 | |||
| 2nd Place Award - $150 Cash & framed cert, System Safety Society | |||||||
| Team: $60 cash to share and a book to each winner, The ROD Women in Science Award | |||||||
| Sana | Rahim | 1st Place HS Award - $150 Cash plus cert, American Society of Civil Engineers | Monitoring Earthquake Damage Through Frequency, Soil Displacement and Foundation Damage (Physics) | 10 | |||
| 2nd Place Award - $150 Cash & framed cert, System Safety Society | |||||||
| Team: $60 cash to share and a book to each winner, The ROD Women in Science Award | |||||||
| Navjot | Singh | Grand Prize Alternate - Outreach Schools - Trip to State Science Fair, Santa Clara Valley Science & Engineering Fair Assn - Board of Directors Awards - High School | Utilization of X-Ray Triboluminescence from Stick-Slip Friction in Peeling Tape (Engineering) | 11 | |||
| Finalist, The Synopsys Outreach Foundation n+1 Prize | |||||||
| 1st Award, Engineering Category | |||||||
| IEEE Award for Electro-Technology ($50 & Framed Certificate), Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers | |||||||
| Emily | To | Grand Prize - Best of Championship - Outreach Schools - Trip to Intel ISEF, Santa Clara Valley Science & Engineering Fair Assn - Board of Directors Awards - High School | Implementing Novel Cellular Plasma Membrane-Infused Artificial Bilayers for Drug Screening and Electrophysiological Characterization (Engineering) | 12 | |||
| Finalist, The Synopsys Outreach Foundation n+1 Prize | |||||||
| 1st Award, Engineering Category | |||||||
| Lynn | Johnson | Robert John | DeGregorio | Finalist, The Synopsys Outreach Foundation n+1 Prize | Assessing Aggregate Absorption of Lead and Nickel Through the Phytoremediation of Cucumus sativus, Raphanus sativus, and Brassica nigra (Environmental Sciences) | 12 | |
| 1st Award, Environmental Sciences Category | |||||||
| First Place: $100 Cash, Achievement Certificate and Goody Bag, Santa Clara County Biotech Education Partnership (SCCBEP) | |||||||
| Bill | Nguyen | Finalist, The Synopsys Outreach Foundation n+1 Prize | Assessing Aggregate Absorption of Lead and Nickel Through the Phytoremediation of Cucumus sativus, Raphanus sativus, and Brassica nigra (Environmental Sciences) | 12 | |||
| 1st Award, Environmental Sciences Category | |||||||
| First Place: $100 Cash, Achievement Certificate and Goody Bag, Santa Clara County Biotech Education Partnership (SCCBEP) | |||||||
| Santa Teresa High School | Debra | Dimas | Samantha | Gonzalez | Honorable Mention, Physics Category | What's Your Shooting Angle? (Physics) | 12 |
| Claire Marie | Huestis | 2nd place $40 and a Certificate of Achievement, United States Metric Association | Powerful Wind Power (Physics) | 11 | |||
| Kamini | Nirula | Rebeka | Dawit | Certificate of Outstanding Achievement, American Meteorological Society | How DoWindpower Turbines Affect the Aquatic Life Surrounding Them? (Environmental Sciences) | 11 | |
| Kimberly | Dien | Outstanding Sustainability Project. Weeklong I-SWEEEP competition, including hotel and accomodations for up to two students and one advisor. Certificate, I-SWEEEP | The Effects of Changes in Environmental Conditions and Pollution on the Bioluminescence Capabilities of Pyrocystis fusiformis (Biochemistry / Microbiology) | 12 | |||
| 1st Award, Biochemistry / Microbiology Category | |||||||
| Jasmine Nicole | Green | Certificate of Outstanding Achievement, American Meteorological Society | How DoWindpower Turbines Affect the Aquatic Life Surrounding Them? (Environmental Sciences) | 11 | |||
| Kellie Miyeko | Melton | 2nd Place HS Award - $100 Cash plus cert, American Society of Civil Engineers | The Effects of Urban Runoff in Storm Drains on Marine Life (Environmental Sciences) | 11 | |||
| Kristine Thanh | Nguyen | Outstanding Sustainability Project. Weeklong I-SWEEEP competition, including hotel and accomodations for up to two students and one advisor. Certificate, I-SWEEEP | The Effects of Changes in Environmental Conditions and Pollution on the Bioluminescence Capabilities of Pyrocystis fusiformis (Biochemistry / Microbiology) | 12 | |||
| 1st Award, Biochemistry / Microbiology Category | |||||||
| Gerline Gueco | Reyes | 2nd Place HS Award - $100 Cash plus cert, American Society of Civil Engineers | The Effects of Urban Runoff in Storm Drains on Marine Life (Environmental Sciences) | 11 | |||
| Silver Creek High School | Narquiz | Cervantes | Sebastian James | McGriff | 1st place student- High School - $100 plus cert, American Vacuum Society, Northern CA Chapter | Creating Sustainable Energy Using a Stirling Engine (Engineering) | 10 |
| Preethi | Padmanaban | Grand Prize Alternate - Outreach Schools - Trip to State Science Fair, Santa Clara Valley Science & Engineering Fair Assn - Board of Directors Awards - High School | GM Plants: Manipulating Extracellular pH to Reduce Antibiotic Resistance Transformation in E. coli (Environmental Sciences) | 12 | |||
| 1st Award, Environmental Sciences Category | |||||||
| Ashley | Valdivia | 1st place student- High School - $100 plus cert, American Vacuum Society, Northern CA Chapter | Creating Sustainable Energy Using a Stirling Engine (Engineering) | 12 | |||
| Huong | Tran | Brian Tshao | Do | 2nd Award, Medicine / Health / Gerontology Category | Genes On Steriods: Gene Upregulation by Promoter - Targeting RNAs in Caenorphabditis elegans (Medicine / Health / Gerontology) | 12 | |
| 1st Place Award - $150 Cash and cert, American Association for Laboratory Animal Science, Northern California Branch | |||||||
| Naushaba Akhtar | Khan | 2nd Award, Biochemistry / Microbiology Category | Stimulating Reduction of Paracetamol Toxicity Using Arthrospira platensis and Arthrospira maxima (Biochemistry / Microbiology) | 12 | |||