Sheldon High School
BIOTECH ACADEMY
A Distinguished California Partnership Academy
Recognition
Congratulations to these students for their outstanding achievement.
Internships with California Institute for Regenerative Cures at UC Davis Medical Center
Internships with California Institute for Regenerative Cures at UC Davis Medical Center. Of the 10 available research positions offered by the California Institute for Regenerative Cures at UC Davis Medical Center, 7 fellowships were offered to Sheldon Biotech students!! This is an extremely competitive and valuable experience. Each student will be paired up with a leading stem cell researcher to design and carry out their own experiment. In addition to an incredible research opportunity, each student will receive up to $4000 in scholarship money. Please congratulate the following! Their hard work and dedication to success is remarkable!
Sonia Shaheen(2023)
Brianna Pham(2023)
Momina Jaffar(2023)
Aaron Hidalgo(2023)
Yenna Dip(2023)
Jenna Cecil (2022)
Naomi Jannae Ferrer (2021)
Kitty Lin (2021)
Matthew Nguyen (2022)
Teen Biotech Challenge
Sheldon Biotech students competed in a Biotech Website Competition for all of Northern California. With high schools from all over Northern/Central California, we were very fortunate to fare so well. Not only did our students earn over $1100 in cash prizes, they also will have the opportunity to work in research laboratories this summer.
TBC Awardees 2022
Agricultural Biotechnology
Intermediate 1st Place- Leyna Le "Sustainably Caffeinating the World by Applying Biotechnology to Coffee"
Intermediate 2nd Place- Savi Sandhu "Vertical Farming: The New Future"
Intermediate Honorable Mention-Tyler Louie "Hooked a Feeling: How Bio-Engineered Salmon could stop Over-fishing"
Intermediate Honorable Mention-Allyssa Ton "The Secret of Vertical Farming"
Intermediate Honorable Mention-Heather Tran "Vertical Farming: Feeding the Future"
Intermediate Honorable Mention-Justin Zhang "GMO Effect on Organisms and Ecosystems"
Computational & Genomic Biology
Intermediate 1st Place- Karla Dang "Designer Babies: the Children of Our Future"
Intermediate 2nd Place(Tie)- Kaydance Vang "The Human Microbiome and Its Effects on Health"
Intermediate 2nd Place(Tie)- Bahar Zahir "Human Health and the Microbiome"
Intermediate 3rd Place- Shaylyn Carthen "Designer Babies: A Future of Society Genetically Modified to Perfection?"
Intermediate Honorable Mention- Aaron Hidalgo "Cloning in Biotechnology: Enhancing Lives and Improving Society"
Intermediate Honorable Mention- Gianna Nguyen "Gene Cloning:The Future"
Biomanufacturing-Health Related
Intermediate 1st Place- Tara Phung "Musical Manufacturing: The Fungal Violin"
Intermediate 2nd Place(Tie)- Brianna Pham "Vitality Secret: Using Biologic Drugs to Defy the Immune System"
Intermediate 2nd Place(Tie)- Leyna Thai "Leprosy"
Intermediate 3rd Place- Lina Hoang "CAR T-Cell Therapy: The 'Living Drug' That Fights Cancer"
Intermediate Honorable Mention- Neha Naidu "Transgenesis For Pharmaceutical Advancements and Therapeutics"
Intermediate Honorable Mention- Yukiva Sharma "Bio-manufacturing/Drug Discovery: Biopharming"
Molecular Tools: Nanotechnology, Synthetic Biology & Genetic Engineering
Intermediate 1st Place- Maria Josy "CRISPIR:A Promising Solution to Genetic Engineering"
Intermediate 2nd Place(Tie)- Ashleigh Lecitona "Fighting the Bite-Controlling Disease-Spreading Mosquitoes With Modern Biotechnology"
Intermediate 2nd Place(Tie)- Jolin Su"Application of Nanotechnology in Nano-Drug Delivery and its Treatment in Cardiovascular Diseases."
Intermediate 3rd Place(Tie)- Jaclyn Ngo "CAR T-Cell Therapy:The Cure of the Future"
Intermediate 3rd Place(Tie)-Hanna Archie "CAR T-Cell Therapy:Finding the Cure for Cancer"
Senior First place- Jin Zhou "Nano-biotechnology: Future of medicine"
Senior Honorable Mention- Sukhman Kaur "The Future of CRISPR is Now"
Biomanufacturing- Food Related
Intermediate 1st Place(Tie)- Kaitlyn Ly "Changing the Culture of Meat"
Intermediate 1st Place(Tie)- Kitty Pan "Is Your Food Made With Science?"
Environmental Biotechnology & Planetary Health
Intermediate 1st Place-Sonia Shaheen "Artificial Photosynthesis: A Greener World"
Intermediate 2nd Place(Tie)- Letcia Caban "They Eat What we Can't; the Application of Anaerobic Digestion in Biotechnology"
Intermediate 2nd Place(Tie)- Misty Escobar "Fashion for the Future-Bio-plastic in Clothing"
Intermediate 3rd Place- Jimmy Le "Harnessing Carbon Capture to Address Ocean Acidification"
Intermediate Honorable Mention- Jocelyn Nguyen "PETase and MHETase- Plastic Eating Enzymes
Regenerative Medicine & Biomedical Engineering
Intermediate 2nd Place- Luna Osornio "Insulin Has a Whole New Look"
Intermediate Honorable Mention- Victoria Nguyen "Battling Type 1 Diabetes with Stem Cells"
Intermediate Honorable Mention- Jia Li Zhou "Heartless People Aren't In Vein: Saving Lives With Artificial Heart Technology"
Senior 1st Place- Yenna Dip "The End of a Shortage: 3D Printed Artificial Organs"
Senior Honorable Mention- Shang Wu "Tissue Engineering:Science's Revolution of the Future"
Congress of Future Medical Leaders
The Congress of Future Medical Leaders provides students who want to go into medical sciences, in their future, an opportunity to be recognized. The Congress of Future Medical Leaders was created by the National Academy of Future Physicians and Medical Scientists in order to have students adhere to their passion to pursue a career in the medical field, especially due to the fact that our country needs more physicians and medical scientists.​ For more information, click here.
Science Olympiad
Our Science Olympiad team placed second at Regionals. The team is comprised of 15 members. The top three finishes this year were in the topics of Anatomy and Physiology, Ornithology, and a tie between Forensics and Write it CAD it.
Sacramento STEM Fair
Congratulations to the CCL team of Aishleen, Sukhman, Amanpreet, and Parneet for winning the Biology and Health Science category at the Sacramento STEM science fair. The Biotech Academy is so proud of you!! Good luck at the state finals.
JAX Scholarship Program
The JAX Scholarship Program provides three awardees $10,000 scholarships to students who aim to pursue careers in research or medicine. Alumni, Monserath Mendoza received the scholarship will use the scholarship towards her education at the University of California, Davis. For additional information, click here.