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CONGRATULATIONS
to the following winners of the 2015 Synopsys Sacramento Regional
STEM Fair, and THANK YOU to ALL of our student participants for
another great year!
GRAND PRIZE AWARD WINNERS OF 2015
1st Place
Prem Talwai from Mira Loma High School
In Math & Computer Science for his project
“Model Order Reduction of Cell Signaling Pathways – An Investigation of
the Invasive Mechanism of Ebola Virus”
2nd Place
Maya Jayanth from Mira Loma High School
In Biological Sciences for her project
“Designing and Creating a Primer to Detect Multiple Viruses”
3rd Place
Nathaniel Varghese from Folsom High School
In Chemistry & Health Sciences for his project
“Advancing Western Blotting: Improving the Sensitivity of Protein
Detection with Smaller Well Engineering”
CATEGORY AWARD WINNERS OF 2015
High School Division
Behavioral & Social Sciences
1st Place
Abberamee Visvanathan
“High Tech Learners”
(Vista del Lago High School)
2nd Place
Nicholas Wong
“What factors influence currency bill tracking?”
(John F. Kennedy High School)
3rd Place
Anant Singh, Ayman Dewan, & Asef Islam
“Subconscious Perception of Stimuli during Sleep”
(Mira Loma High School)
Honorable Mention
Sara Matto, Carla Luna, & Isher Singh
“The effect of distractions on reaction time”
(River City High School)
Raffaella Carrillo
“Good Grades or Good Sleep: Can you have the best of both worlds?”
(Inderkum High School)
Biological Sciences
1st Place
Maya Jayanth
“Designing and Creating a Primer to Detect Multiple Viruses”
(Mira Loma High School)
2nd Place
Will Buelna
“The Effect of Pollution on Plants”
(The Met Sacramento)
3rd Place
Hla Elkhatib, Makayla Benjamin, & Reeta Asmai
“Science of Film Photography”
(Folsom High School)
Honorable Mention
Marisa Patel
“Caffinated Rats”
(River City High School)
Jimmy (Cheng) Zhou
“Use of CRISPRS in Regenerative Medicine”
(Davis Senior High School)
Chemistry & Health Sciences
1st Place
Nathaniel Varghese
“Advancing Western Blotting: Improving the Sensitivity of Protein
Detection with Smaller Well Engineering”
(Folsom High School)
2nd Place
Brian Phong
“From Chickens to Mice to Cancer Patients? Boosting Immune Status
with Amino Acids”
(Monterey Trail High School)
3rd Place
Adith Arun
“Mathematical Modeling and Algorithms to Design More Efficient
Cancer Therapeutics”
(Mira Loma High School)
Honorable Mention
Henry Low
“Assessing the Mutagenicity of Common Herbicides Using a Novel
Reverse Mutation Assay”
(Western Sierra Collegiate Academy)
Karthik Raju
“Discovery of a novel polypeptide ligand targeting α6β4-expressing
pancreatic adenocarcinoma cells”
(Mira Loma High School)
Energy & Transportation
1st Place
Sanika Mane
“Determination of Most Beneficial Natural Occurring Enzyme or
Chemical Type to Maximize Efficiency When Producing 2nd Generation
Biofuel from Inedible Biomass”
(Vista Del Lago High School)
2nd Place
Nathan Bergen, Kareem Ahmad, & Eashaan Katiyar
“Passive Solar Energy Generation”
(Vista Del Lago High School)
3rd Place
Jacquelyn Davila
“A Coral Safe Sunscreen”
(School of Engineering and Sciences)
Honorable Mention
Anthony Cordova, Trejon Croffet, Maribel Campos
“Is Water from our school’s drinking fountain safe?”
(John F. Kennedy High School)
Peter Milam & Darius Gordon-Gregor
“Rock You like a Hurricane”
(School of Engineering and Sciences)
Engineering
1st Place
Julie Fukunaga
“HappyGarden: An Internet of Things Aquaponic System”
(Tokay High)
2nd Place
Henry Jorrick, Wyatt Lacroix, & Logan Matti
“Project Titan”
(Academy of Personalized Learning)
3rd Place
Fouad Alamedine
“Solving Problems with Drones”
(Folsom High School)
Honorable Mention
Kyle Maw, Natalie De Valle, & Gabriel Corbella
“Bradshaw Robotics”
(Bradshaw Christian High School)
Neel Lal
“Testing the structural integrity of bridges using a stress analysis test in
Autodesk inventor”
(Granite Bay High School)
Math & Computer Sciences
1st Place
Prem Talwai
“Model Order Reduction of Cell Signalling Pathways – An Investigation
of the Invasive Mechanism of Ebola Virus”
(Mira Loma High School)
2nd Place
*No Award
3rd Place
*No Award
Physical Sciences
1st Place
Catherine Colella
“Spacecraft, Micrometeoroids and Photons - A Model of Micrometeoroid
Impingement using thin gauge metals to simulate thermal shielding”
(Western Sierra Collegiate Academy)
2nd Place
Siddharth Karthikeyan, Geoffrey Embry, & Victor Fu
“Gravity and Buoyancy Machine”
(Vista Del Lago High School)
3rd Place
Echo Sit & Attie Sit
“Graphene quantum dots: Determining the light intensity from natural
resource of graphite powder, graphite rock, activated charcoal, and
coal”
(Tracy High School)
Honorable Mention
Shoumik Chaudhuri
“Orbital Period and Distance”
(Inderkum High School)
Viktoriya Gracheva
“How Many Pulleys”
(School of Engineering and Sciences)
Middle School Division
Behavioral & Social Sciences
1st Place
Rhitishah Yuva Raju
“Illuminate Your Life with Light and Color”
(Winston Churchill Middle School)
2nd Place
Abaigael Reilly & Julia Hayes
“Does Screen and Text Color affect Retention?”
(Our Lady of Assumption)
3rd Place
Julia Heckey & Sophia Sidley
“Cellphones”
(Leonardo Da Vinci)
4th Place
Emma Macon
“Success or Bomb”
(EV Cain STEM Charter Middle School)
5th Place
Alison Wright
“Rock on or Relax? Do Different Types of Music Influence Cognitive
Performance?”
(EV Cain STEM Charter Middle School)
Honorable Mention
Maya Steinhart
“It’s all in the Eyes”
(Sutter Middle School Sacramento)
Bryce Baughman
“Do We Eat with Our Eyes”
(EV Cain STEM Charter Middle School
Biological Sciences
1st Place
Autumn Peak
“What color of light inhibits algal growth the most?”
(EV Cain STEM Charter Middle School)
2nd Place
Patrick Lomperski
“Who is going to be next?”
(Albert Einstein Middle School)
3rd Place
Sydney Walthall
“Water Disinfection - Testing a Simple Solar Disinfection Approach”
(Sutter Middle School Sacramento)
4th Place
Chloe Moore
“Hand Sanitizer: Are you getting the bang for your buck”
(EV Cain STEM Charter Middle School)
5th Place
Chance Clements
“Which Lights Attract the Most Bugs”
(EV Cain STEM Charter Middle School)
Honorable Mention
Aditya Rajavelu
“Does Music Really Make Plants Grow Taller?”
(Winston Churchill Middle School)
Sophia Peavy & Lola Jan
“Home Clean Home”
(Leonardo Da Vinci)
Chemistry & Health Sciences
1st Place
Alex Fera
“Whether the Obstruction of Pyrocystis Fusiformis’ Circadian Rhythm
will affect how bright its bioluminescent flashes are”
(EV Cain STEM Charter Middle School)
2nd Place
Ben Powell
“Tums, Tums Tums Tums Tums?”
(Leonardo Da Vinci)
3rd Place
Csandra Lorena & Charai Mandolph-Coleman
“The Glowing Truth”
(WE Mitchell Middle School)
4th Place
Alexa Gray & Bridget Herbert
“Are your Hands Really Clean?”
(Leonardo Da Vinci)
5th Place
Izabella Duchaine
“Does Organic Food or Conventional Food have more Pesticides?”
(EV Cain STEM Charter Middle School)
Honorable Mention
Elisabeth Low
“Get the Soap Out”
(Sam Brannan Middle School)
Nitya Kotha
“Factors that Affect a Chemical Reaction”
(Sutter Middle School Folsom)
Energy & Transportation
1st Place
Alexandria Martinez
“Tide Pools: Exploring Sea Life”
(Our Lady of Assumption)
2nd Place
Surabhi Hareendranath
“Can Bioplastics Be a Viable Alternative to Conventional Plastic?”
(Bethany Elementary)
3rd Place
Noah Cardelli
“Splish, Splash: Which water is cleanest?”
(EV Cain STEM Charter Middle School)
4th Place
Deeraj Gurram
“The generation of sustainable energy using the sun and water cycle”
(Folsom Middle School)
5th Place
Mary O’Callaghan
“How Does Acid Rain Affect Aquatic Ecosystems?”
(Our Lady of Assumption)
Honorable Mention
Lexi Ballard & Makenna Ballard
“How Does Water Pollution Effect Our Water Species?”
(W.E. Mitchell Middle School)
Suditi Bhatt, Akshara Legala, & Nishita Bagaria
“What type of filter is best for filtering grey water to safely reuse water
in a household?”
(Folsom Middle School)
Engineering
1st Place
Will Gaudreau
“What’s Cooking?”
(Leonardo Da Vinci)
2nd Place
Sinchana Shivaprasad
“Fingerprint Sensor”
(Sutter Middle School Folsom)
3rd Place
Amaan Mohammed
“Project RC-PA”
(Sutter Middle School Folsom)
4th Place
Vance Byer
“What materials block or at least weaken a WiFi signal?”
(EV Cain STEM Charter Middle School)
5th Place
Zachary Follett
“See the Light: Household vs. Recommended Items”
(EV Cain STEM Charter Middle School)
Honorable Mention
Alex DeNuzzo
“Why no WiFi?”
(Leonardo Da Vinci)
Colby Christierson
“Potato Battery, an Alternative Source for iPhone Charging”
(Sutter Middle School Folsom)
Math & Computer Sciences
1st Place
Samyak Surti
“Lane Merge Algorithm for Autonomous Cars”
(Folsom Middle School)
2nd Place
Adam Hutchings
“The Riemann Hypothesis and the Distribution of Primes”
(Willett Elementary)
3rd Place
Albert Qin
“The Spread of Drug Resistance: A Computer Simulation”
(Winston Churchill Middle School)
4th Place
Kenny Duong & Tommy Hoang
“Want to make a video game? Here's how!”
(Sutter Middle School Sacramento)
5th Place
Sean Cohen
“The True Randomness of Rock Paper Scissors”
(Sutter Middle School Folsom)
Honorable Mention
*No Award
Physical Sciences
1st Place
Manasi Deshpande
“Cleaning Oil Spills Using Nanotechnology”
(Sutter Middle School Folsom)
2nd Place
Ameya Naik
“The Effect of Voltage in an Electromagnet”
(Winston Churchill Middle School)
3rd Place
Darin Thao
“A Breath of Fresh Air”
(Leonardo Da Vinci)
4th Place
Jonathan Varghese
“A Comparitive Study of AM and FM Radio Transimissions”
(Folsom Middle School)
5th Place
Megan Eckels
“Which Mute Mutes the Best?”
(Sutter Middle School Folsom)
Honorable Mention
Gautam Pradeep
“The Mpemba Effect: Does it Work?”
(Winston Churchill Middle School)
Shriya Nagulapally
“When making a Solar Oven what thickness of tin foil reflects more
sunlight for heat?”
(Sutter Middle School Folsom)
SPECIAL AWARD WINNERS OF 2015
American Meteorological Society
Parth Trivedi
(Folsom High School)
American Psychological Association
Asef Islam, Ayman Dewan & Anant Singh
(Mira Loma High School)
ASM Materials Education Foundation
Shriya Nimmagadda & Reshma Kodimerla
(Folsom High School)
Association for Women Geoscientists
Teevyah Yuva Raju
(Mira Loma High School)
ASU Rob and Melani Walton
Sustainability Solutions Initiatives
Kaiyue (David) Wang
(Davis Senior High School)
Hiba Elkhatib & Medah Aiyah
(Folsom High School)
California Air Resources Board
Energy
Kareem Ahmad, Nathan Bergen, & Eashaan Katiyar
(Vista Del Lago High School)
Climate
Kaiyue (David) Wang
(Davis Senior High School)
Air Polution
Sanika Mane
(Vista Del Lago High School)
Honorable Mentions
Christopher Cimino
(Our Lady of the Assumption)
Parth Trivedi
(Folsom High School)
Will Buelna
(The Met Sacramento)
Jordan Leslie, Zachary Leslie, & Mike Ashen
(Our Lady of the Assumption)
Jacob Artho
(Sutter Middle School Sacramento)
California Association of Professional Scientists (CAPS)
Adith Arun
(Mira Loma High School)
California Biomedical Research
Karthik Raju
(Mira Loma High School)
GENIUS Olympiad
Sanika Mane
(Vista Del Lago High School)
Hiba Elkhatib & Medah Aiyah
(Folsom High School)
Intel Excellence in Computer Science
Prem Talwai
(Mira Loma High School)
I-SWEEEP
Pending
Jinan – Sacramento Sister Cities Corporation
JSSCC International Award
1st Place Junlin Liu
Intel Award - Yifan Luan
Honorable Mention
Ziyan Li & Hongrui Fan
Wenhao Jiang
Jiasheng Li
Chenda Dan
Shunyao Yu
MU Alpha Theta
Prem Talwai
(Mira Loma High School)
National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration
Kareem Ahmad, Nathan Bergen & Eashaan Katiyar
(Vista Del Lago High School)
Northern California Regional Chapter of the Society of Toxicology
(NorCal SOT)
High School
Henry Low
(Western Sierra Collegiate Academy)
Middle School
Makenna Ballard & Lexi Ballard
(WE Mitchell Middle School)
Honorable Mentions
Quincy Johnston
(Sutter Middle School Sacramento)
Mary O’Callaghan
(Our Lady of Assumption)
Izabella Duchaine
(EV Cain STEM Charter Middle School)
Lucy Lindgren
(Leonardo Da Vinci)
Jacquelyn Davila
(School of Engineering and Sciences)
Bala Chanadraskaran & Vivian Yang
(Mira Loma High School)
Sowmya Jasti
(Lincoln High School)
Karthik Raju
(Mira Loma High School)
Brian Phong
(Monterey Trail High School)
Adith Arun
(Mira Loma High School)
Office of Naval Research (US Navy/US Marine Corps)
Pending
Professional Engineers in California Government
Julie Fukunaga
(Tokay High School)
Project Lead the Way
Fouad Alamedine
(Folsom High School)
Kian Orang & Miles Galindo
(Sutter Middle School)
Ramesh Innovation
Prem Talwai
(Mira Loma High School)
RICOH Americas Corporation
Julie Fukunaga
(Tokay High)
Younger Member Forum of the American Society of Civil Engineers
(Sac YMF)
High School
Neel Lal
(Granite Bay High School)
Teevyah Yuva Raju
(Mira Loma High School)
Middle School
Sydney Walthall
(Sutter Middle School Sacramento)
Lexi Ballard & Makenna Ballard
(WE Mitchell Middle School)
SMUD Best in Energy Award
Kaiyue (David) Wang
(Davis Senior High School)
Society for In Vitro Biology
Jimmy (Cheng) Zhou
(Davis Senior High School)
Stockholm Junior Water Prize
Julie Fukunaga
(Tokay High)
Surya Sundararajan
(Mira Loma High School)
Caitlin Moher
(Folsom High School)
US Air Force
Catherine Colella
(Western Sierra Collegiate Academy)
Ryan Walsh
(Jesuit High School)
Connor King & Jack Minor
(Our Lady of the Assumption)
US Metric Association
Akshay Srinivasan
(Winston Churchill Middle School)
Henry Low
(Western Sierra Collegiate Academy)
US Public Health Service
Karthik Raju
(Mira Loma High School)
Yale Science & Engineering Association
Julie Fukunaga
(Tokay High)
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