1999 Galileo Scholarship Winners

From left to right, the scholarship winners and other distinguished people in the photo are:
Glenn Carl,  AIAA San Francisco Section Chair,
Dr. Henry McDonald, Award Presenter and Director of NASA Ames Research Center,
Roma Jhaveri,
Christina Lee,
Kenneth Mah,
Jeremiah Torres,
Guha Jayachandran,
Lynda Haines, Chair of the Galileo Scholarship Program for NASA Ames, also Deputy Director of the Aviation Operations Systems Program,
Dr. Ganapathi Srinivasan,  AIAA member of the Galileo Scholarship selection committee as well as a researcher at NASA Ames,
Sidney Sun, member of the Galileo Scholarship selection committee and Staff Assistant to the Deputy Director at NASA Ames,
At the presentation, Lynda Haines announced that all five recipients received top honors this year. Their schools and interests are as follows:

Roma Jhaveri

• Carlmont High School, Belmont
• Will attend Stanford
• Intended major: Computer Systems Engineering
• Other interests: Badminton, Tennis, instrumental in getting a $2M youth center built in San Carlos

  Christina Lee

• Monte Vista High School, Danville
• Will attend Yale
• Intended major: Chemistry leading to Medicine
• Other interests: Piano, Chemistry teaching assistant and web master, developer of Honors Chemistry tutorials for the web site, hospital volunteer, mentors 6th grade girls

  Kenneth Mah

• Monta Vista High School, Cupertino
• Will attend U.C. Berkeley
• Intended major: Engineering (Biomedical, Electrical Engineering and Computer Science)
• Other interests: Basketball, Soccer, Piano, Robotics team, Eagle Scout, student intern at Stanford Medical Center in Radiology

  Jeremiah Torres

• Palo Alto Senior High, Palo Alto
• Will attend Stanford
• Intended major: Symbolic Systems and Physics
• Other interests: Piano, Wrestling, Kiwanis youth (Key) club president

  Guha Jayachandran

• Monta Vista High School, Cupertino
• Will attend Stanford
• Intended major: Biomedical Engineering
• Other interests: Track and Field - long and triple jumper, SHARP student at Ames with Regenerative Life Support Group, Founder & president of humanitarian service club