Santa Clara Unified School District
Project Awards 2013
Synopsys Silicon Valley Science and Technology Championship
| School | Teacher | Student | Award | Title | Gr | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Buchser Middle School | Stephen | Chandler | Kari Melissa | Marquis | Honorable Mention - Certificate of Achievement, American Society of Civil Engineers | Stand My Ground (Earth / Space Sciences) | 7 |
| Angelina Josephine | Pavao | Honorable Mention - Certificate of Achievement, American Society of Civil Engineers | Stand My Ground (Earth / Space Sciences) | 7 | |||
| Rachel | Hager | Sean McCrory | Mignosa | 1st Award, Environmental Sciences Category | Getting Solar Energy in Focus (Environmental Sciences) | 7 | |
| Yevgeniya | Orzhekhovska | Honorable Mention, Environmental Sciences Category | Recycling Greywater (Environmental Sciences) | 7 | |||
| Amy | Reeber | Amy Grace | Kennedy | Honorable Mention, Botany Category | It's a Seed, It's a Weed, It's a Full Grown Plant! (Botany) | 6 | |
| Sofia Bass | Kritikopoulos | Honorable Mention, Environmental Sciences Category | Where's my Oxygen? (Environmental Sciences) | 6 | |||
| Caroline | Sloan | Devin Bruce | Wong | 1st Award, Biochemistry / Microbiology Category | Yeast Yeast Everywhere (Biochemistry / Microbiology) | 6 | |
| Don Callejon Middle Sch. | Vanessa | Hayden | Bryon Nicholas | Tjanaka | 2nd Place Student Award: $120 and Certificate of Achievement, Association for Computing Machinery, San Francisco Bay Area Professional Chapter | Dynamic Tilt Compensation to Improve Vehicle Stability on Sloping Terrains (Engineering) | 8 |
| Honorable Mention, Engineering Category | |||||||
| Certificate of Achievement, Letter of Congratulations, and ONR Medallion, United States Navy and Marine Corps | |||||||
| Honorable Mention: Student Membership to AIAA, Certificate of Achievement, and Programmable Microcontroller, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) Intelligent Systems Award | |||||||
| HP 35s Scientific Calculator, Hewlett-Packard Laboratories | |||||||
| Xuong | Tu | Dylon Matthew | Tjanaka | Top finalist Middle School projects, The Synopsys Outreach Foundation n+1 Prize | Up-Down Stair Climbing Robot Using Push-Pull Wheel Mechanism (Engineering) | 6 | |
| 2nd Award, Engineering Category | |||||||
| Peterson Middle School | Demetrius | Asekomeh | Christian | Chiong | 2nd Award, Botany Category | What is the Effect of Changing the type of Aquatic Plant on the Amount of Oxygen Generated? (Botany) | 6 |
| Surendra | Ghentiyala | 2nd Award, Botany Category | What is the Effect of Changing the type of Aquatic Plant on the Amount of Oxygen Generated? (Botany) | 6 | |||
| Nancy | Fohner | Shashank H. | Dholakia | $1000 to the Top Project in Physical Science, The Synopsys Outreach Foundation n+1 Prize | A Photometric Study of Variable Stars and Extra Solar Planetary Systems (Physics) | 8 | |
| Top finalist Middle School projects, The Synopsys Outreach Foundation n+1 Prize | |||||||
| 1st Award, Physics Category | |||||||
| Shishir H. | Dholakia | $1000 to the Top Project in Physical Science, The Synopsys Outreach Foundation n+1 Prize | A Photometric Study of Variable Stars and Extra Solar Planetary Systems (Physics) | 8 | |||
| Top finalist Middle School projects, The Synopsys Outreach Foundation n+1 Prize | |||||||
| 1st Award, Physics Category | |||||||
| Wilcox High School | Craig | Young | Suraj R. | Setty | Certificate of Achievement, NASA Ames Research Center | Increasing the Efficiency of Wind Turbines (Engineering) | 10 |
| Hershel P. | Shah | Certificate of Achievement, NASA Ames Research Center | Increasing the Efficiency of Wind Turbines (Engineering) | 10 | |||