Recent Regional Winners and Their Research Projects:
2008 – Sunil Bodapati, Schmahl Science Workshop, San Jose, CA, Using Photoacustics to Validate Cy 5.5 RGD as a Novel Imaging Agent
Zachary Stauber, Mira Loma High School, Sacramento, CA, Non-toxic Silicon Nanoparticles for Cellular Imaging and In Vivo Detection of Lymphoid Cancers
2007 – Nilesh Tripuraneni, Clovis West High School, Fresno, CA, A Novel Chlorophyll Based Nanocrystalline Photoelectrochemical Cell: A Promising Approach to Hydrogen Production via the Light-Driven Redox of Seawater (First Place National Winner in the Physical Science and Astronomy Category)
Daya Raman, Presentation High School, San Jose, CA, Bioprospecting for Effective Mosquito Larvicides and Adulticides, (Second Place National Winner in the Environmental Science Category)
2006 – Vinay Tripuraneni, Clovis West High School, Fresno, CA, Inhibition of Cell Recognition by Chitin and Chitinase in the Sponge Microciona prolifera (A possible model for the cause and effects of Reactive Airway Disease) (National JSHS Top Six in the Life Sciences and 2007 Student of the Year at the California State Science Fair)
Sonia Singhal, Carlmont High School, Belmont, CA, A Study of the Solitary Sea Anemone, Anthopleura sola, as an indicator Of Global Warming in the Northern California Rocky Intertidal
2005 - Samuel Leachman, Tracy High School, Tracy, CA Assessing the Properties of a Fluorescence-based Assay of the Digestive Potencies of Rattlesnake Venom
Joshua Kroll, The York School, Monterey, CA, Security Through Chaos: On the Relationship Between Encryption and Information Entropy, (Second Place Winner at National JSHS)
2004 - Moriah Nachbaur, Crystal Springs Uplands School, Hillsborough,CA Translatability of Gene Function Between Plant Species:from Arabidopsis thaliana to Nicotiana tabacum
2003 - Edward (Tedd) Smith, Willits High School, Willits, CA. A Newer More Efficient Computer Sorting Algorithm
2002 – Allan Chu, Saratoga High School, Saratoga , CA. LZAC Lossless Data Compression: A Novel Approach to Minimum Redundancy Coding (Second Place Winner at National JSHS)
2001 – Jesse Levinson, Crystal Springs Uplands School, Hillsborough, CA. Computer Simulated Evolution of Behavior (First Place Winner at National JSHS)
2000 – Etan Karni, Leigh High School, San Jose, CA. A Remote Flight Data Collection and Analysis System (Second Place Winner at National JSHS)
1999 - Andrew Gardner, Reno High School, Reno, NV Quantification and Prediction of the Effects of Increased Numbers of Canada>Goose Upon the Trophic Status of Limnological Environments
1998 -Erika Ebbel, Crystal Springs Uplands School, Hillsborough, CA Elucidation of the Chemical Functionality Associated with the Anti-Viral Agents Isolated from Taraxicum Mongolicum by Hildebrand Solution Theory (First Place Winner at National JSHS)
1997- Bennett Landman, Miramonte High School, Orinda, CA Virtual Tremors: Dynamic Finite Element Analysis of StructuralResponse to Seismic Motion (Third Place Winner at National JSHS)
1996 – Mandy Gruber, Piedmont High School, Piedmont, CA The Correlation of Galvanic Skin Response to Saccadic Movement During Television Violence