Monta Vista High School

Project Awards 2012

Synopsys Silicon Valley Science and Technology Championship

School	Teacher		Student		Award	Title	Gr
Monta Vista High School	Renee	Fallon	Vishnu	Shankar	Honorable Mention, Computers / Mathematics Category	An Intelligent Simulation Approach Using Computer Based Algorithm to Trace the Onset of Pandemic (Computers / Mathematics)	10
					Intel ECS Certificate & Verification form and W-9 to submit for $200 cash, Intel Excellence in Computer Science Award
					Student memberships to AIAA, certificates, and programmable robots, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) Intelligent Systems Award
	Kavita	Gupta	Soumya Lakshmi	Kurnool	Certificate of Outstanding Achievement, Society for In Vitro Biology	Molecular Mechanisms of Tumor Suppression: Overexpression of p53 in Mouse Lung Tumor Cells (Medicine / Health / Gerontology)	11
	Pooya	Hajjarian	Spoorthi Venkata	Davala	2nd Award, Engineering Category	Increasing the Efficiency of Photovoltaic Modules Even Under Cloudy Weather Conditions (Engineering)	10
					1st Place Award - $100 Cash, American Society of Heating, Refrigeration and Air Conditioning Engineers
	Bruce	Kawanami	Kadhirvel	Manickam	HM Certificate of Achievement, United States Metric Association	Facio (Emergency Solar Heat Powered Cooking Apparatus) (Engineering)	11
			Christopher	Oh	HM Certificate of Achievement, United States Metric Association	Facio (Emergency Solar Heat Powered Cooking Apparatus) (Engineering)	11
	Joe	Kim	Natalie	Ng	Grand Prize - Best of Championship - Physical Sciences - Trip to Intel ISEF, Santa Clara Valley Science & Engineering Fair Assn - Board of Directors Awards - High School	Gene Expression Profiling of Heterogeneous Tumor Samples Using Statistical Deconvolution Methods (Bioinformatics)	10
					1st Award, Bioinformatics Category
	Lora	Lerner	Siddharth	Prasad	2nd Award, Engineering Category	Wrist-aid: a Strain Sensitive Wrist Bandage for Keyboard Users to Maintain Correct Position to Prevent Carpal Tunnel Syndrome (Engineering)	9
					Certificate of Achievement, United States Air Force
	Ben	Lowell	Yanbing	Zhu	$50 Cash award, San Jose State University Student Affiliates of the American Chemical Society	Esterification of Anthocyanin to Maximize Dye-sensitized Solar Cell Efficiency (Chemistry)	11
					1st Place Award - $100 Cash plus framed certs and Popular Science Magazine subscription, Gr 9-12, SAMPE - Society for the Advancement of Material and Process Engineering
					2nd place, $30 check and a book, Apatite to Zircon, Inc. Award
					Gr 9-12-$50 Gift Certificate, Certificate of Achievement, letter of congratulations, ONR Medallion, United States Navy and Marine Corps
					Honorable Mention: T-Shirt, Certificate, Society of Vacuum Coaters (SVC)
	Elizabeth	McCracken	Adyota	Gupta	Finalist, The Synopsys Outreach Foundation n+1 Prize	Smart Vest: A Novel Approach to Bulletproof Vests (Engineering)	10
					1st Award, Engineering Category
					1st Place Messenger Bag, Polo Shirt. Certificate of Achievement, United States Army
					Gr 9-12-$50 Gift Certificate, Certificate of Achievement, letter of congratulations, ONR Medallion, United States Navy and Marine Corps
					Honorable Mention: T-Shirt, Certificate, Society of Vacuum Coaters (SVC)
					Victory Sport Bag, Sonic Sound Speaker, Junior Tech Organizer, and Award Certificate in Folder, United States Air Force
	Jon	Stark	Ajay Uday	Mandlekar	Grand Prize Alternate - Physical Sciences - Trip to State Science Fair, Santa Clara Valley Science & Engineering Fair Assn - Board of Directors Awards - High School	Utilization of Recombination Techniques and Pseudorandom Sequences in Sound Steganography (Engineering)	12
					Finalist, The Synopsys Outreach Foundation n+1 Prize
					1st Award, Engineering Category
					Certificate of Achievement, letter to teacher, Mu Alpha Theta
			Jingyu	Oh	Grand Prize Alternate - Physical Sciences - Trip to State Science Fair, Santa Clara Valley Science & Engineering Fair Assn - Board of Directors Awards - High School	Utilization of Recombination Techniques and Pseudorandom Sequences in Sound Steganography (Engineering)	12
					Finalist, The Synopsys Outreach Foundation n+1 Prize
					1st Award, Engineering Category
					Certificate of Achievement, letter to teacher, Mu Alpha Theta