Private
Project Awards 2017
Synopsys Silicon Valley Science and Technology Championship
| School | Teacher | Student | Award | Title | Gr | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Archbishop Mitty High School | Thuy-Anh | Nguyen | Vardhaan Sai | Ambati | Honorable Mention, RRI Biological Science and Engineering Category | Personalized Cancer and Viral Therapy: Clostridium-based Cell Delivery System coupled to CRISPR/Cas9 Nanotherapeutic (RRI Biological Science and Engineering) | 12 |
| Yusra | Arub | $100 TechLab IoT prize; BBC Microbit development kit, TechLab Education | Smart+Connected Doorbell with real-time coordinated Continuum of Care Information - A path to end all homelessness (Physical Science and Engineering) | 10 | |||
| 2nd Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Certificate of Achievement and letter, Ricoh Corporation | |||||||
| Chaelee | Park | 2nd Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | The Effect of Herbal Extracts in Combination with Metformin in C. Elegans Subjected to a High Glucose Environment (Biological Science and Engineering) | 9 | |||
| Akaash | Tawade | Honorable Mention, RRI Physical Science and Engineering Category | Operation Pulse: Quantifying the Impact of Precipitation and Inundation on Pulsed Salt Marsh Greenhouse Gas Fluxes (RRI Physical Science and Engineering) | 12 | |||
| $100 and Certificate of Achievement, Schonert Award | |||||||
| Certificate of Achievement, American Meteorological Society | |||||||
| BASIS Independent Silicon Valley School | Kevyn | Adams | Andrew C. | Chiang | $500 + certificate + a signed book + breakfast with Bob Zeidman, Zeidman Award | Manipulation of Ultrasonic Force Field (Physical Science and Engineering) | 8 |
| Nominated to compete envelope, Broadcom MASTERS - 8th Grade | |||||||
| 1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| IEEE Electro-Technology $50 gift card and a certificiate, Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers | |||||||
| Akshar | Sarvesh | Honorable Mention Student Award: $40 and Certificate of Achievement, Association for Computing Machinery, San Francisco Bay Area Professional Chapter | Neural Networks for Heart Disease Classification (Physical Science and Engineering) | 8 | |||
| 2nd Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Isita Nandana | Talukdar | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Navigational Techniques In Self Driving Cars (Physical Science and Engineering) | 7 | |||
| Casey | Brown | Spencer Harrison | Cha | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Electricity Outputs From Different Exothermic Processes (Physical Science and Engineering) | 7 | |
| Ashwin | Kannan | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Electricity Outputs From Different Exothermic Processes (Physical Science and Engineering) | 7 | |||
| Anuradha | Murthy | Shiven | Gupta | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | IoT-Enabled Universal Remote for Entertainment Systems (Physical Science and Engineering) | 10 | |
| Sriya Tulasi | Jonnakuti | ASEI Silicon Valley Emerging Technology Certificate of Achievement Award and Membership to American Society of Engineers of Indian Origin, American Society of Engineers of Indian Origin Award | The Patterns of Exon Gene Mutations in Key Diseases in Specific Organs (Biological Science and Engineering) | 9 | |||
| Sowmya Prathika | Kolluru | Honorable Mention, Biological Science and Engineering Category | The Effect of Oxidative Stress on the Germination and Growth of Glycine max Plants (Biological Science and Engineering) | 10 | |||
| Srikar Pranav | Kolluru | 2nd Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | Effects of Natural Antioxidants on Sodium Bicarbonate Deposits: Application for Amelioration of Atherosclerosis (Biological Science and Engineering) | 8 | |||
| Mahati | Manda | Honorable Mention, Biological Science and Engineering Category | Modeling Angioplasty: Detection of Density of Calcium Carbonate Deposits in Tubes (Biological Science and Engineering) | 7 | |||
| Bellarmine College Preparatory | Debjani | Roy | Arvind P | Sridhar | Grand Prize - Best of Championship - Biological Sciences - Trip to Intel ISEF and Plaque, Santa Clara Valley Science & Engineering Fair Assn - Board of Directors Awards - High School | Toward Precision Medicine: Harnessing Graphene Hydrogels, iPSCs, and Computational Models for Cardiac Tissue Engineering (RRI Biological Science and Engineering) | 12 |
| $100 First Prize, Morgan Lewis | |||||||
| GR 9-12, 2nd Place: $200 and Certificate of Achievement, T-Shirt, Society of Vacuum Coaters (SVC) | |||||||
| 1st Award, RRI Biological Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| $100 and a Certificate of Achievement, IBM Award | |||||||
| 3rd Place Award - $50, Popular Science Magazine Subscription and Framed Certificate of Achievement, ASM International, A Society for Materials, Santa Clara Valley Chapter | |||||||
| Quang-Dan Thanh | Tran | 2nd Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Magnetic Shock Absorbers for Machines and Vehicles (Physical Science and Engineering) | 9 | |||
| High school - One packet with Letter, Certificate of Achievement, ONR Medallion, and form for $50 gift card, United States Navy and Marine Corps | |||||||
| Rod | Wong | Pravin | Ravishanker | Grand Prize - Best of Championship - Biological Sciences - Trip to Intel ISEF and Plaque, Santa Clara Valley Science & Engineering Fair Assn - Board of Directors Awards - High School | ALZCan: Predicting Future Onset of Alzheimer's Disease Using Polygenic Risk Scores and Multiple Neuroimaging Modalities (Biological Science and Engineering) | 12 | |
| 1st Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Eric Kevin | Wang | Honorable Mention, RRI Physical Science and Engineering Category | Flow Characterization of Airwakes Around a Naval Ship Model (RRI Physical Science and Engineering) | 12 | |||
| High school - One packet with Letter, Certificate of Achievement, ONR Medallion, and form for $50 gift card, United States Navy and Marine Corps | |||||||
| Canyon Heights Academy | De Leys | Hamm | Jasmine Isabella | Clancy | 2nd Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | Grow, Grow, Grow Your Plants (Biological Science and Engineering) | 6 |
| Castilleja School | Tiffany | Crist-Studley | Supriya | Lall | 2nd Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Gunshot Detector (Physical Science and Engineering) | 8 |
| Challenger - Almaden | Pronati | Mondal | Grace | Li | Nominated to compete envelope, Broadcom MASTERS - 8th Grade | A Natural Insulator: What is the effect of different plant types covering roofs on the temperature of the buildings? (Biological Science and Engineering) | 8 |
| 1st Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Arya | Rajesh | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | An IoT For Detecting Forest Fires (Physical Science and Engineering) | 7 | |||
| Challenger - Berryessa | Shannon | Deza | Nithika | Karthikeyan | 2nd Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | The effect of genotypes on the phytoremediation of heavy metals, introduced by fracking, in soil. (Biological Science and Engineering) | 7 |
| Namrata Reggie | Nair | Certificate of Excellence from National Association of Women Geoscientists, Association for Women Geoscientists, San Francisco Bay Area Chapter | The Effect of Types of Polymer Materials in Soil on the Moisture of the Soil (Physical Science and Engineering) | 6 | |||
| Honorable Mention - Certificate of Achievement, American Society of Civil Engineers- San Jose Branch | |||||||
| Shlok | Shah | $250 + certificate + a signed book + breakfast with Bob Zeidman, Zeidman Award | Autonomous vehicle crash avoidance algorithm (Physical Science and Engineering) | 7 | |||
| Nominated to compete envelope, Broadcom MASTERS - 7th Grade | |||||||
| 1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Divya | Sundar | Honorable Mention, Biological Science and Engineering Category | The Effect of Different Concentrations of Biopesticides and Chemical Pesticides on Earthworm Mass and Growth (Biological Science and Engineering) | 7 | |||
| Challenger - Harwood | Tina | Kim | Manasvini | Kothari | Honorable Mention, Biological Science and Engineering Category | Name that Hue (Biological Science and Engineering) | 6 |
| Challenger - Shawnee | Bonny | Basu | Shreyas | Basu | 2nd Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Changing the Speed of Light (Physical Science and Engineering) | 7 |
| Jia S. | Gill | Honorable Mention - Certificate of Achievement, American Society of Civil Engineers- San Jose Branch | How Different Types of Foundations Affect a Building's Resiliency Towards Earthquakes (Physical Science and Engineering) | 6 | |||
| Samarth | Girish | 2nd Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | Watch Your Back: A Portable Device For Posture Detection (Biological Science and Engineering) | 8 | |||
| Shachi Shikha | Prasad | BBC Microbit development kit, TechLab Education | Mobile Medicine Tracker (Physical Science and Engineering) | 8 | |||
| Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Aadit | Trivedi | 3rd Place Student Award: $80 and Certificate of Achievement, Association for Computing Machinery, San Francisco Bay Area Professional Chapter | Drive Smart, Drive Safe: Designing an Anti-Collision Vehicular Network (Physical Science and Engineering) | 8 | |||
| 2nd Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| 1st Place: $100 Cash and Certificate of Achievement, System Safety Society | |||||||
| Challenger - Sunnyvale | Shalini | D'Souza | Keshav | Balaji | BBC Microbit development kit, TechLab Education | Third Eye: The Helpful Eye for the Visually Impaired (Physical Science and Engineering) | 7 |
| Alexander | Grindrod | 2nd Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | The FitShock (Physical Science and Engineering) | 8 | |||
| Safaa Fareeha | Hussain | Nominated to compete envelope, Broadcom MASTERS - 6th Grade | To Praise or Not to Praise? (Biological Science and Engineering) | 6 | |||
| 1st Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Certificate of Achievement, American Psychological Association | |||||||
| Certificate of Achievement, NASA Earth System Science Award | |||||||
| Riteka | Murugesh | BBC Microbit development kit, TechLab Education | Baby Alert - Did You Miss Me? (Physical Science and Engineering) | 8 | |||
| Khushi | Nigam | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Home Robot 9267X - Make Life Great Again (Physical Science and Engineering) | 6 | |||
| Rishi Ramji | Pankhaniya | BBC Microbit development kit, TechLab Education | Designing a Wristband to Aid the Visually Disabled (Physical Science and Engineering) | 7 | |||
| Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| IEEE Electro-Technology $50 gift card and a certificiate, Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers | |||||||
| Khushi | Parikh | 2nd Place Student Award, Outstanding Young Woman in Computing: $160 and Certificate of Achievement, Association for Computing Machinery, San Francisco Bay Area Professional Chapter | Creating a Computer Algorithm to Accurately Predict the Next Season's Influenza Virus Strain (Physical Science and Engineering) | 8 | |||
| Certificate of Achievement, Society of Women Engineers | |||||||
| Nikita | Senthil | 2nd Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | Investigating the effect of different stress factors on the lipid production in green microalgae (Biological Science and Engineering) | 6 | |||
| Samika | Swamy | Nominated to compete envelope, Broadcom MASTERS - 7th Grade | BioFresh Food Smarts: An eco-friendly, smart solution to reduce wastage of climacteric produce. (Physical Science and Engineering) | 7 | |||
| 1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Anirudh | Venkatraman | Castro Family Award for Best Physical Science Projects - Trip to State Science Fair, Plaque, Certificate, and $100 Cash, Santa Clara Valley Science & Engineering Fair Assn - Board of Directors Awards - Middle School | Production of Bioplastics from Vegetable Waste (Physical Science and Engineering) | 6 | |||
| 2nd Place Award - $200 and Framed Certificate of Achievement, American Chemical Society, Santa Clara Valley | |||||||
| Nominated to compete envelope, Broadcom MASTERS - 6th Grade | |||||||
| 1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Joyce Boying | Yang | Nominated to compete envelope, Broadcom MASTERS - 6th Grade | What is the effect of time and temperature on the amount of sodium nitrate and nitrite contained in processed meats? (Physical Science and Engineering) | 6 | |||
| 1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Deepali | Deshmukh | Arnav | Garg | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Rescuebot, in search for survivors! (Physical Science and Engineering) | 8 | |
| Shobi | Murali | Roshan | Bellary | 2nd Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | The effect of an intensification of a beam of light and time on the energy output of a solar panel (Physical Science and Engineering) | 6 | |
| Emma | Lu | 2nd Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Which type of french fries has the shortest shelf life? (Physical Science and Engineering) | 8 | |||
| Honorable Mention-$50, Northern California Institute of Food Technologists (NCIFT) | |||||||
| Challenger-Middlefield-Palo Alto | Caren | Furtado | William Quincy | Chang | Nominated to compete envelope, Broadcom MASTERS - 8th Grade | Global Warming Affects Buoyancy? (Physical Science and Engineering) | 8 |
| 1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Michelle | Chen | Nominated to compete envelope, Broadcom MASTERS - 6th Grade | Exploring the mechanical strength of stent unit cells with different patterns, widths, and thickness (Physical Science and Engineering) | 6 | |||
| 1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Justin Han | Gubbens | Honorable Mention Award - Popular Science Magazine Subscription and Framed Certificate of Achievement, ASM International, A Society for Materials, Santa Clara Valley Chapter | How quickly does a focused picosecond green laser cut different metal and non-metal materials with accuracy? (Physical Science and Engineering) | 7 | |||
| Aasia Irene | Hasan | Honorable Mention, Biological Science and Engineering Category | How will phosphorus supplements affect growth of the stem and development of leaves of a plant grown with hydroponics? (Biological Science and Engineering) | 7 | |||
| Neeraj | Rattehalli | BBC Microbit development kit, TechLab Education | An Iot Approach to a Smart Stove (Physical Science and Engineering) | 8 | |||
| Keshiv Shaan | Tandon | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Energy Conservation Using Color of Paint on Houses (Physical Science and Engineering) | 7 | |||
| Challenger-Strawberry Park-SJ | Heather | Mackewicz | Akhilesh Varadan | Balasingam | Castro Family Award for Best Physical Science Projects - Trip to State Science Fair, Plaque, Certificate, and $100 Cash, Santa Clara Valley Science & Engineering Fair Assn - Board of Directors Awards - Middle School | Manhattan Fluidics: On Optimizing Network Geometry by Circuit Analogy for Low-cost 3D-Printed Lab-on-a-Chip Devices (Physical Science and Engineering) | 8 |
| GR 6-8, 1st Place: $200 and Certificate of Achievement, T-Shirt, Society of Vacuum Coaters (SVC) | |||||||
| Nominated to compete envelope, Broadcom MASTERS - 8th Grade | |||||||
| 1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| 1st place MS student - $100 and Certificate of Achievement, American Vacuum Society, Northern CA | |||||||
| Nishita Sathyabodha | Belur | Nominated to compete envelope, Broadcom MASTERS - 8th Grade | A Tele-Health Smartphone App to Virtually Connect Rural Patients in Underdeveloped Countries to Doctors and Hospitals (Physical Science and Engineering) | 8 | |||
| 1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Aditi | Bharti | Middle School Finalist Certificate & Amazon.com gift certificate, Synopsys Outreach Foundation n+1 Prize | KnowYourAntibiotic: A Mobile App To Fight Antibiotic Resistance (Physical Science and Engineering) | 8 | |||
| Mihir Bhushan | Heda | Nominated to compete envelope, Broadcom MASTERS - 8th Grade | Eco-Friendly Calculator (Physical Science and Engineering) | 8 | |||
| 1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Pareekshith Hosalli | Krishna | 2nd Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | What is the effect of Seaweed on a Potato Plant's Growth? (Biological Science and Engineering) | 6 | |||
| Arya Shriya | Srivastava | Honorable Mention, Biological Science and Engineering Category | Fighting Food Waste: The effect of E. coli on excess food (Biological Science and Engineering) | 6 | |||
| Pujita Srilalitha | Tangirala | Castro Family Award for Best Physical Science Projects - Trip to State Science Fair, Plaque, Certificate, and $100 Cash, Santa Clara Valley Science & Engineering Fair Assn - Board of Directors Awards - Middle School | A Green, Low-Cost Adsorbent for the Removal of Dye from Aqueous Solutions (Physical Science and Engineering) | 7 | |||
| $ 250 to the winning student or team in middle school Physical Science, Synopsys Outreach Foundation n+1 Prize | |||||||
| Middle School Finalist Certificate & Amazon.com gift certificate, Synopsys Outreach Foundation n+1 Prize | |||||||
| Nominated to compete envelope, Broadcom MASTERS - 7th Grade | |||||||
| 1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Champion School (K-9) | Muna | Khanna | Parth Nimish | Hathalia | Nominated to compete envelope, Broadcom MASTERS - 6th Grade | Moisture Detection Platform (Physical Science and Engineering) | 6 |
| 1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Sanjana Saisuma | Jilla | 2nd Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Tempus Genie 2.0 (Physical Science and Engineering) | 7 | |||
| Simon Young | Koski | IEEE Electro-Technology $50 gift card and a certificiate, Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers | Going Up? Using a Genetic Algorithm to Optimize Elevator Controllers (Physical Science and Engineering) | 6 | |||
| Manvitha | Pabbathi | Grand Prize Student Award, Outstanding Young Woman in Computing: $320 and Certificate of Achievement, Association for Computing Machinery, San Francisco Bay Area Professional Chapter | Mobile Sleeper (Physical Science and Engineering) | 7 | |||
| Gideon Hausner Jewish Day School | Megan | Babat | Naomi Gavriella | Barkan | Middle School-Cash Award-$75 and letter of recognition, Northern California Institute of Food Technologists (NCIFT) | Keeping apples beautiful: Which fruit's juice is the best for preserving apples? (Physical Science and Engineering) | 7 |
| Gabby Irit | Farber | Middle School-Cash Award-$75 and letter of recognition, Northern California Institute of Food Technologists (NCIFT) | Keeping apples beautiful: Which fruit's juice is the best for preserving apples? (Physical Science and Engineering) | 7 | |||
| Natalie | Perrochon | Middle School-Cash Award-$75 and letter of recognition, Northern California Institute of Food Technologists (NCIFT) | Keeping apples beautiful: Which fruit's juice is the best for preserving apples? (Physical Science and Engineering) | 7 | |||
| Liat | Baranoff | Cole Trane | Bregman | Grand Prize Student Award: $320 and Certificate of Achievement, Association for Computing Machinery, San Francisco Bay Area Professional Chapter | The creation of a system that will free a dog during a fire (Physical Science and Engineering) | 7 | |
| Yahli | Einav | BBC Microbit development kit, TechLab Education | Automatic dry dog food dispenser (Physical Science and Engineering) | 7 | |||
| 2nd Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Nathaniel Read | Hahn | Grand Prize Student Award: $320 and Certificate of Achievement, Association for Computing Machinery, San Francisco Bay Area Professional Chapter | The creation of a system that will free a dog during a fire (Physical Science and Engineering) | 7 | |||
| Guy | Knaan | $125 + certificate + a signed book + breakfast with Bob Zeidman, Zeidman Award | Voice Swap (Physical Science and Engineering) | 7 | |||
| Yoav | Segev | BBC Microbit development kit, TechLab Education | Automatic dry dog food dispenser (Physical Science and Engineering) | 7 | |||
| 2nd Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Genevieve | Greene | Zach | Berman | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Motorized Egg Cracker (Physical Science and Engineering) | 6 | |
| $50 Cash Award to student, Certificate of Achievement, and Letter, Al Foster Award | |||||||
| Sammy Isaac | Burns | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Motorized Egg Cracker (Physical Science and Engineering) | 6 | |||
| $50 Cash Award to student, Certificate of Achievement, and Letter, Al Foster Award | |||||||
| Granada Islamic School | Farhana | Afroz | Malak Wael | Ashmawi | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Blood Splattering Patterns: Effect of Height, Viscosity, and Surface on the Splatter of simulated Blood (Physical Science and Engineering) | 8 |
| Misbah Mariam | Syed | 2nd Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Catch the Wave! Energy obtained by harnessing ocean wave power. (Physical Science and Engineering) | 8 | |||
| Certificate of Achievement, Hegland Award | |||||||
| IEEE Electro-Technology $50 gift card and a certificiate, Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers | |||||||
| Jinaan | Al-Shehabi | Ahmad | Ismail | Isabelle Stone Award for Best Biological Science Projects - Trip to State Science Fair, Plaque, Certificate, and $100, Santa Clara Valley Science & Engineering Fair Assn - Board of Directors Awards - Middle School | Effect of structure and behavior of antifungal agents on the treatment of Candidiasis (Biological Science and Engineering) | 7 | |
| Nominated to compete envelope, Broadcom MASTERS - 7th Grade | |||||||
| 1st Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Aliya | Shafquat | Yusuf Ali | Atesoglu | Nominated to compete envelope, Broadcom MASTERS - 6th Grade | The Effect of plastic bottles on reducing copper from contaminated water (Physical Science and Engineering) | 6 | |
| 1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Honorable Mention Award - Popular Science Magazine Subscription and Framed Certificate of Achievement, ASM International, A Society for Materials, Santa Clara Valley Chapter | |||||||
| Talha | Aziz | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Burning Biomass Briquettes (Physical Science and Engineering) | 6 | |||
| Harker School-Middle Campus | Thomas | Artiss | Arohee | Bhoja | $ 250 to the winning student or team in middle school Bio Science, Synopsys Outreach Foundation n+1 Prize | An Investigation of the Effects of Super-Absorbent Polymers on the Germination rates of Seeds (Biological Science and Engineering) | 8 |
| Middle School Finalist Certificate & Amazon.com gift certificate, Synopsys Outreach Foundation n+1 Prize | |||||||
| Honorable Mention, Biological Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Sidra | Xu | Middle School Finalist Certificate & Amazon.com gift certificate, Synopsys Outreach Foundation n+1 Prize | A Novel Solution to Algal Blooms by Inhibiting Photosynthesis Using Polystyrene Balls (Biological Science and Engineering) | 8 | |||
| 2nd Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Russell | Yang | Middle School Finalist Certificate & Amazon.com gift certificate, Synopsys Outreach Foundation n+1 Prize | A Novel Solution to Algal Blooms by Inhibiting Photosynthesis Using Polystyrene Balls (Biological Science and Engineering) | 8 | |||
| 2nd Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Kristen | Morgensen | Alexandra Anne | Baeckler | Nominated to compete envelope, Broadcom MASTERS - 8th Grade | The Effect of Given Names on a Shelter Animal's Adoptability (Biological Science and Engineering) | 8 | |
| 1st Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Certificate of Achievement, NASA Earth System Science Award | |||||||
| Nilisha | Baid | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | How Egg Substitutes Affect Baking (Physical Science and Engineering) | 8 | |||
| Arya | Maheshwari | 2nd Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Analyzing Trajectories: The Aerodynamics of Different Badminton Shuttlecocks (Physical Science and Engineering) | 8 | |||
| Vaishnavi Gorantla | Murari | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | How Egg Substitutes Affect Baking (Physical Science and Engineering) | 8 | |||
| Luisa | Pan | Certificate of Achievement, NASA Earth System Science Award | Studies of the Learning Behavior of the Single Cell Organism, Stentor coeruleus, Under Various Types of Stimuli (Biological Science and Engineering) | 8 | |||
| James | Pflaging | 2nd Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Analyzing Trajectories: The Aerodynamics of Different Badminton Shuttlecocks (Physical Science and Engineering) | 8 | |||
| Betsy | Tian | Certificate of Achievement, NASA Earth System Science Award | Studies of the Learning Behavior of the Single Cell Organism, Stentor coeruleus, Under Various Types of Stimuli (Biological Science and Engineering) | 8 | |||
| Annamma Jijen | Vazhaeparambil | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | A Method of Efficiently Purifying Gray Water in Homes to Use in Neighborhood Backyards (Physical Science and Engineering) | 8 | |||
| Aditi | Vinod | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | A Method of Efficiently Purifying Gray Water in Homes to Use in Neighborhood Backyards (Physical Science and Engineering) | 8 | |||
| Kathy | Peng | Ankita | Kundu | Middle School Finalist Certificate & Amazon.com gift certificate, Synopsys Outreach Foundation n+1 Prize | Finding the Most Effective Two-Step Filtration System to Remove Biological, Mineral, and Chemical Contaminants in Water (Biological Science and Engineering) | 8 | |
| Honorable Mention, Biological Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Akshay Josyula | Manglik | Nominated to compete envelope, Broadcom MASTERS - 8th Grade | A mobile software application to educate citizens with accurate, up to date, and accessible political information (Physical Science and Engineering) | 8 | |||
| 1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Elizabeth | Szeto | Middle School Finalist Certificate & Amazon.com gift certificate, Synopsys Outreach Foundation n+1 Prize | Finding the Most Effective Two-Step Filtration System to Remove Biological, Mineral, and Chemical Contaminants in Water (Biological Science and Engineering) | 8 | |||
| Honorable Mention, Biological Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Harker School-Upper Campus | Gary | Blickenstaff | Akhil | Arun | 2nd Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | A Machine Learning Based Approach to Skin Lesion Segmentation using Superpixels (Biological Science and Engineering) | 11 |
| ASEI Silicon Valley Emerging Technology Certificate of Achievement Award and Membership to American Society of Engineers of Indian Origin, American Society of Engineers of Indian Origin Award | |||||||
| Divija Anantasai | Bhimaraju | Honorable Mention, RRI Biological Science and Engineering Category | Determining the Effect of the Age of the Environment on the Incidence of Cellular Senescence (RRI Biological Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| Cynthia | Chen | 2nd Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Fighting Malnutrition: Automated Optimization of Nutrition Using Novel n-Dimensional Linear Programming Models. (Physical Science and Engineering) | 9 | |||
| $100 First Place, Certificate of Achievement, and Letter, Inez M. Lechner Award | |||||||
| Jeffrey | Fung | Honorable Mention, Biological Science and Engineering Category | Variations in Salinity and Growth Effects ofthe Marine Microalga Nannochloropsis (Biological Science and Engineering) | 9 | |||
| Aarzu | Gupta | 1st Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | The Efficacy of Combinations of Plant Based Natural Antibiotics in Aiding the Fight Against Superbugs (Biological Science and Engineering) | 9 | |||
| Richard | Hu | Certificate of Achievement, NOAA Medallion, and letter, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration | The Impact of Solar Plants on Microclimate (Physical Science and Engineering) | 9 | |||
| Allison Sihan | Jia | Honorable Mention, Biological Science and Engineering Category | Using EEG to Analyze Common High School Distractions While Studying (Biological Science and Engineering) | 9 | |||
| Karena | Kong | Honorable Mention Student Award: $50 and Certificate of Achievement, Association for Computing Machinery, San Francisco Bay Area Professional Chapter | Traffic Network Management: Novel Approach Using a Deep-Learning System Driven by Dynamic Data (Physical Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| 1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Eileen | Li | BBC Microbit development kit, TechLab Education | Addressing the Global Landfill Problem: A Novel Automatic Waste Sorting Algorithm Based on Machine Learning Methods (Physical Science and Engineering) | 9 | |||
| Millie | Lin | Certificate and nomination to enter 2018 Sustainability Soutions Festival in Arizona, Arizona State University Walton Sustainability Solutions Initiatives | The Prevalence of Parent-Teacher Interactions and their Influence on Student Outcomes in Developing Countries (RRI Biological Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| Certificate of Achievement, American Psychological Association | |||||||
| Honorable Mention: Certificate of Achievement, and Goody Bag, Association for Women in Science, Palo Alto Chapter | |||||||
| Emily | Liu | BBC Microbit development kit, TechLab Education | Addressing the Global Landfill Problem: A Novel Automatic Waste Sorting Algorithm Based on Machine Learning Methods (Physical Science and Engineering) | 9 | |||
| Neelesh Krishna | Ramachandran | Honorable Mention, RRI Biological Science and Engineering Category | Determining the Effect of the Age of the Environment on the Incidence of Cellular Senescence (RRI Biological Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| Maya | Shukla | 1st Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | The Efficacy of Combinations of Plant Based Natural Antibiotics in Aiding the Fight Against Superbugs (Biological Science and Engineering) | 9 | |||
| Sahana Gorantla | Srinivasan | 2nd Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | A Machine Learning Based Approach to Skin Lesion Segmentation using Superpixels (Biological Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| ASEI Silicon Valley Emerging Technology Certificate of Achievement Award and Membership to American Society of Engineers of Indian Origin, American Society of Engineers of Indian Origin Award | |||||||
| Jasmine Kimberly | Wiese | Honorable Mention, Biological Science and Engineering Category | Using EEG to Analyze Common High School Distractions While Studying (Biological Science and Engineering) | 9 | |||
| Catherinez | Zhao | Honorable Mention, Biological Science and Engineering Category | Variations in Salinity and Growth Effects ofthe Marine Microalga Nannochloropsis (Biological Science and Engineering) | 9 | |||
| David | Casso | Krish | Kapadia | $ 500 to the winning student or team in high school Bio Science, Synopsys Outreach Foundation n+1 Prize | The Use of Salivary Proteins as Novel Biomarkers for Concussion (RRI Biological Science and Engineering) | 10 | |
| High School Finalist Certficate & Amazon.com gift certficate, Synopsys Outreach Foundation n+1 Prize | |||||||
| 1st Award, RRI Biological Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Anjay | Saklecha | $ 500 to the winning student or team in high school Bio Science, Synopsys Outreach Foundation n+1 Prize | The Use of Salivary Proteins as Novel Biomarkers for Concussion (RRI Biological Science and Engineering) | 10 | |||
| High School Finalist Certficate & Amazon.com gift certficate, Synopsys Outreach Foundation n+1 Prize | |||||||
| 1st Award, RRI Biological Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Ruhi | Sayana | 2nd Award, RRI Biological Science and Engineering Category | Exploitation of Cell Survival Mechanisms to Induce Apoptosis for High-Risk Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia (RRI Biological Science and Engineering) | 10 | |||
| Katherine | Tian | 1st Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | Seizure Prediction Using Deep Learning (Biological Science and Engineering) | 10 | |||
| Kevin | Xu | Certificate of Achievement, American Psychological Association | Modeling the Dual Effect of Governmental Aid and Hospital Subsidization on Hospital Performance: An Affordable Care Act (Biological Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| Raymond | Xu | Certificate of Achievement, American Psychological Association | Modeling the Dual Effect of Governmental Aid and Hospital Subsidization on Hospital Performance: An Affordable Care Act (Biological Science and Engineering) | 12 | |||
| Katherine Feifei | Zhang | 1st Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | Seizure Prediction Using Deep Learning (Biological Science and Engineering) | 10 | |||
| Anu | Datar | Kaushik | Shivakumar | Honorable Mention, Biological Science and Engineering Category | A Machine-Learning Approach to Correlate Environmental and Demographic Factors to Cancer Incidences Across US Counties (Biological Science and Engineering) | 10 | |
| Certificate and nomination to enter 2018 Sustainability Soutions Festival in Arizona, Arizona State University Walton Sustainability Solutions Initiatives | |||||||
| Kelly | Horan | Shreyas | Chandrashekaran | Honorable Mention, Biological Science and Engineering Category | The Effects of Age on Distracted Driving Reaction Times (Biological Science and Engineering) | 11 | |
| Certificate of Achievement, United States Public Health Service | |||||||
| Robbie | Korin | Shaya | Zarkesh | Honorable Mention Student Award: $50 and Certificate of Achievement, Association for Computing Machinery, San Francisco Bay Area Professional Chapter | A Novel Approach to Semantic Parsing of Mathematical Word Problems with Neural Networks (Physical Science and Engineering) | 11 | |
| Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Eric | Nelson | Jerry | Chen | High school - One packet with Letter, Certificate of Achievement, ONR Medallion, and form for $50 gift card, United States Navy and Marine Corps | Modeling the Internal Rotation and Dispersion of Distant Galaxies (z ~ 1.0) Using Multi-PA Keck DEIMOS Slit Spectra (RRI Physical Science and Engineering) | 11 | |
| Amy | Dunphy | IEEE Electro-Technology $50 gift card and a certificate, Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers | Ditch the Keyboard: A Novel Touchless Input Scheme (RRI Physical Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| Amy | Jin | Grand Prize - Best of Championship - Physical Sciences - Trip to Intel ISEF and Plaque, Santa Clara Valley Science & Engineering Fair Assn - Board of Directors Awards - High School | Deep learning-based automated tool detection and analysis of surgical videos to assess operative skill (RRI Physical Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| 1st Award, RRI Physical Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| $100 and a Certificate of Achievement, IBM Award | |||||||
| Cameron Cole | Jones | 2nd Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | Intelligent Hearing Aids: Improving Speech Intelligibility and Separation in Noisy Environments through Deep Learning (Biological Science and Engineering) | 10 | |||
| Scott | Pflaumer | Arnav Sameer | Joshi | High School Finalist Certficate & Amazon.com gift certficate, Synopsys Outreach Foundation n+1 Prize | A novel system for detecting COPD, asthma, and other obstructive lung diseases early in low-resource environments (Biological Science and Engineering) | 9 | |
| 2nd Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Chris | Spenner | Rishab Srinivasan | Gargeya | $100 First Prize, Morgan Lewis | EyeLogic: All-Purpose Vision Disease Detection in Clinic-Sourced and Low-Cost Smartphone-Based Retinal Images (RRI Physical Science and Engineering) | 12 | |
| 2nd Award, RRI Physical Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Anastasiya | Grebin | 1st Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | Common crop higher plant growth impairment from human pharmaceuticals present in surface water. (Biological Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| Jimmy | Lin | 1st Award, RRI Biological Science and Engineering Category | Automated Breast Cancer Diagnosis: A Novel Assessment of Tumor-Associated Stroma Using Deep Learning Algorithms (RRI Biological Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| Rajiv | Movva | Honorable Mention, RRI Biological Science and Engineering Category | Machine Learning-Based Discovery of Synergistic Drug Combinations for Rapid and Effective Cancer Treatment (RRI Biological Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| Sandip | Nirmel | 2nd Award, RRI Physical Science and Engineering Category | The Biological Pump in a Changing Climate: Identifying Drivers of Sinking of Antarctic Phytoplankton and Ice Algae (RRI Physical Science and Engineering) | 12 | |||
| Certificate of Achievement, American Meteorological Society | |||||||
| Evani | Radiya-Dixit | 2nd Award, RRI Biological Science and Engineering Category | Identification of Therapeutic Cancer Targets Across Adenocarcinomas Using Genome-wide DNA Methylation Analyses (RRI Biological Science and Engineering) | 12 | |||
| ASEI Silicon Valley Emerging Technology Certificate of Achievement Award and Membership to American Society of Engineers of Indian Origin, American Society of Engineers of Indian Origin Award | |||||||
| Manan Ajay | Shah | Grand Prize - Best of Championship - Biological Sciences - Trip to Intel ISEF and Plaque, Santa Clara Valley Science & Engineering Fair Assn - Board of Directors Awards - High School | Deep Learning Assessment of Tumor Proliferation in Histological Images for Comprehensive Breast Cancer Severity Analysis (RRI Biological Science and Engineering) | 12 | |||
| 1st Award, RRI Biological Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| $100 and a Certificate of Achievement, IBM Award | |||||||
| ASEI Silicon Valley Emerging Technology Certificate of Achievement Award and Membership to American Society of Engineers of Indian Origin, American Society of Engineers of Indian Origin Award | |||||||
| Arjun | Subramaniam | Grand Prize Alternate - Biological Sciences - Trip to State Science Fair and Plaque, Santa Clara Valley Science & Engineering Fair Assn - Board of Directors Awards - High School | CadML: Computational Antibody Design Through Deep Learning and Structural Protein Analysis (RRI Biological Science and Engineering) | 12 | |||
| 2nd Award, RRI Biological Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| ASEI Silicon Valley Emerging Technology Certificate of Achievement Award and Membership to American Society of Engineers of Indian Origin, American Society of Engineers of Indian Origin Award | |||||||
| Jeff | Sutton | Maddie | Huynh | 1st Place Award - $150 Cash and Certificate of Achievement, American Society of Civil Engineers- San Jose Branch | Effects of Runoff Water on Aquatic Plants (Physical Science and Engineering) | 9 | |
| Michelle | Kwan | 1st Place Award - $150 Cash and Certificate of Achievement, American Society of Civil Engineers- San Jose Branch | Effects of Runoff Water on Aquatic Plants (Physical Science and Engineering) | 9 | |||
| Carolyn | Lu | 1st Place Award - $150 Cash and Certificate of Achievement, American Society of Civil Engineers- San Jose Branch | Effects of Runoff Water on Aquatic Plants (Physical Science and Engineering) | 9 | |||
| Kehillah Jewish High School | Anthony | Grabowski | David | Lipman | 2nd Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Algorithmic search of the Automated Planet Finder spectra to identify extraterrestrial laser signals (Physical Science and Engineering) | 11 |
| Certificate of Achievement plus Letter, Mu Alpha Theta | |||||||
| Merryhill Schools -Milpitas | Kanchan | Bhandare | Ushoshi | Basumallick | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Let the Light Decide - Testing the compositions of common household liquids using a home made SpectroPhotoMeter (Physical Science and Engineering) | 7 |
| Diya Kaur | Dhindsa | 1st place - $150 and Certificate of Achievement, American Society of Civil Engineers- San Jose Branch | Creating an Earthquake-Resistant Building (Physical Science and Engineering) | 7 | |||
| Nina | Phatak | 1st place - $150 and Certificate of Achievement, American Society of Civil Engineers- San Jose Branch | Creating an Earthquake-Resistant Building (Physical Science and Engineering) | 7 | |||
| Aru | Rastogi | 1st place - $150 and Certificate of Achievement, American Society of Civil Engineers- San Jose Branch | Creating an Earthquake-Resistant Building (Physical Science and Engineering) | 7 | |||
| Jeannie | Bui | Emma | Lenchenkova | Nominated to compete envelope, Broadcom MASTERS - 6th Grade | Saline Hydroponics (Biological Science and Engineering) | 6 | |
| 1st Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Shama | Mohamed | Anika Rajendra | Bhatia | Nominated to compete envelope, Broadcom MASTERS - 8th Grade | Go Grey - Laundry to Landscape Irrigation System (Physical Science and Engineering) | 8 | |
| 1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Sahana | Rajmohan | Nominated to compete envelope, Broadcom MASTERS - 8th Grade | Go Grey - Laundry to Landscape Irrigation System (Physical Science and Engineering) | 8 | |||
| 1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Sruthi | Ramesh Kumar | Nominated to compete envelope, Broadcom MASTERS - 8th Grade | Go Grey - Laundry to Landscape Irrigation System (Physical Science and Engineering) | 8 | |||
| 1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Notre Dame High School | Victoria | Evashenk | Kami E | Richardson | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Ocean Rx: Reducing Pharmaceutical Water Pollution. Utilizing organic materials as a novel alternative to nanoparticles. (Physical Science and Engineering) | 9 |
| Certificate of Achievement, NOAA Medallion, and letter, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration | |||||||
| Shruti | Sridhar | 1st Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | Bridging Vectorcardiography and Computational Genetics: A Novel Approach to Noninvasive Early Detection of Heart Disease (Biological Science and Engineering) | 9 | |||
| Lisa | Yi | Sophia | Barwegen | Certificate of Achievement, American Meteorological Society | The Effect of Wildfire on Seqoiadendron giganteum Growth and CO2 Flux (Physical Science and Engineering) | 10 | |
| Holly Marie | Jackson | Grand Prize - Best of Championship - Physical Sciences - Trip to Intel ISEF and Plaque, Santa Clara Valley Science & Engineering Fair Assn - Board of Directors Awards - High School | Unlocking History: An Algorithm to Virtually Unfold 3D Computed Tomography Scans of Unopened Historical Documents (RRI Physical Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| $ 500 to the winning student or team in high school Physical Science, Synopsys Outreach Foundation n+1 Prize | |||||||
| High School Finalist Certficate & Amazon.com gift certficate, Synopsys Outreach Foundation n+1 Prize | |||||||
| 1st Award, RRI Physical Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| $100 and a Certificate of Achievement, IBM Award | |||||||
| IEEE Electro-Technology $50 gift card and a certificate, Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers | |||||||
| Riana Ali | Karim | 1st Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | The Effect of Different Probiotic Bacterial Strains on Ammonia (NH3) Production Levels (Biological Science and Engineering) | 12 | |||
| Sharon Kim | Truong | 1st Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | The Effect of Different Probiotic Bacterial Strains on Ammonia (NH3) Production Levels (Biological Science and Engineering) | 12 | |||
| Oakwood Country School | Nisanti | Wilmot | Danya | Balagopal | Nominated to compete envelope, Broadcom MASTERS - 7th Grade | Recycling Food Waste to Sequester Carbon, Improve Soil Nutrition, and Growth of Plants in Urban Environments (Physical Science and Engineering) | 7 |
| 1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Ayana Rose | Wilmot | GR 6-8 Most Promising Female Researcher, $100, Certificate, T-Shirt, Society of Vacuum Coaters (SVC) | LED Gloves: A Communication Solution for the Hearing Impaired in the Dark (Physical Science and Engineering) | 6 | |||
| 2nd Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Oakwood High School | Sean | Wilmot | Ashwin | Viswesvaran | BBC Microbit development kit, TechLab Education | The Making of a Maker: How I built my 3D Printer (Physical Science and Engineering) | 10 |
| 1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| 1st place HS student - $100 and Certificate of Achievement, American Vacuum Society, Northern CA | |||||||
| Old Orchard School | Tim | Ainoa | Ben Robert | Gleixner | Outstanding Project: Certificate of Achievement and Voucher for a Safe Boating Course, United States Coast Guard Auxiliary | Save The Ship (Physical Science and Engineering) | 6 |
| Kate Elizabeth | Jackson | Nominated to compete envelope, Broadcom MASTERS - 8th Grade | Sustainable Play: Comparing the Safety of Renewable Alternatives to Commercial Playground Surface Materials (Physical Science and Engineering) | 8 | |||
| 1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| $100 and Certificate of Achievement, Trimble Award | |||||||
| 2nd Place - $75, Framed Certificate of Achievement, and Popular Science Magazine Subscription, SAMPE - Society for the Advancement of Material and Process Engineering | |||||||
| Masha | Korolik | Honorable Mention: Certificate of Achievement,T-Shirt, Society of Vacuum Coaters (SVC) | Refraction of Light: Its Dependence on the Density and Nature of a Solution (Physical Science and Engineering) | 8 | |||
| 2nd place MS student - $50 and Certificate of Achievement, American Vacuum Society, Northern CA | |||||||
| Pinewood High School (7-12) | Val | Monticue | Srinivas | Balagopal | 1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Amending desert soil to reverse desertification (Physical Science and Engineering) | 9 |
| Certificate of Achievement, American Meteorological Society | |||||||
| Presentation High School | Tracy | Hughes | Annika | Bhanot | 2nd Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | The Effect of Oxybenzone on the Viability of Zebrafish Embryos (Biological Science and Engineering) | 10 |
| Anusha | Ghosh | $100 First Place, Certificate of Achievement, and Letter, Inez M. Lechner Award | Automated Treatment of Type 2 Diabetes using Closed Loop Glucose Monitoring (Biological Science and Engineering) | 9 | |||
| Shloka | Janapaty | 1st Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | The Effects of Pseudomonas Putida Bioremediation of Agricultural Runoff on Low-density Polyethylene Decomposition rates (Biological Science and Engineering) | 9 | |||
| Honorable Mention: Certificate of Achievement, and Goody Bag, Association for Women in Science, Palo Alto Chapter | |||||||
| Plaque and Tour of Stanford Chemistry Department Labs, Stanford University Chemistry Department | |||||||
| Roma Swarna | Kidambi | 2nd Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | The Effect of Oxybenzone on the Viability of Zebrafish Embryos (Biological Science and Engineering) | 10 | |||
| Shannon Brigette | Miranda | 2nd Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | An Effective Flame Resistant Household Paint (Physical Science and Engineering) | 9 | |||
| Kanika Nirmal | Nair | 1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Is red marine seaweed able to detoxify plastic pollutants in the Brine Shrimp population? (Physical Science and Engineering) | 12 | |||
| Swathi | Ramprasad | 1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Is red marine seaweed able to detoxify plastic pollutants in the Brine Shrimp population? (Physical Science and Engineering) | 12 | |||
| Zara Anzum | Shariff | 2nd Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | The Effect of Diluted Bleach on Ice Plants vs. Echeveria (Biological Science and Engineering) | 9 | |||
| Anjali | Sinha | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Automated Atomizer: Releasing Essential Oils to Control Varroa Mites (Physical Science and Engineering) | 10 | |||
| Regina | Ta | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Automated Atomizer: Releasing Essential Oils to Control Varroa Mites (Physical Science and Engineering) | 10 | |||
| Alyssa | Ungerer | Certificate of Achievement, NOAA Medallion, and letter, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration | Copper Poisoning in Freshwater: The Effect of Copper on Zebrafish (Physical Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| Privately Sponsored Project | Shanthi | Adimoolam (Mentor) | Nidhya | Shivakumar | Nominated to compete envelope, Broadcom MASTERS - 6th Grade | Halophytes:A Potential Solution for the Remediation of Soil in Saline Wastelands (Physical Science and Engineering) | 6 |
| 1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Michael | Askins (SSW mentor) | Josh | Sanyal | 2nd Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | The Homework Machine: Helps students work smarter, not harder, and collaborate with peers, teachers, and parents (Physical Science and Engineering) | 8 | |
| Sean | Carroll (SSW mentor) | Ruchika Sunil | Dixit | Nominated to compete envelope, Broadcom MASTERS - 8th Grade | How Quorum Sensing and Media affect Bacterial Bioluminescence (Biological Science and Engineering) | 8 | |
| 1st Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Sachin | Narayan | Honorable Mention Award - Popular Science Magazine Subscription and Framed Certificate of Achievement, ASM International, A Society for Materials, Santa Clara Valley Chapter | The Design and Construction of an Underwater Oil Cleanup Device for Platforms and Ships to Contain Oil Plumes (RRI Physical Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| Siddhi | Shah | 2nd Award, RRI Biological Science and Engineering Category | The Effect of Glutamine Synthetase 2, a Glial-Specific Gene, on Long-Term Memory Formation in Drosophila (RRI Biological Science and Engineering) | 10 | |||
| Kaushik Sai | Tota | 2nd Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Portable Water Bottle Which Utilizes a Ceramic Filter to Provide Clean Water to Areas with a Polluted Water Supply (Physical Science and Engineering) | 8 | |||
| Vivek Srinivas | Veluvali | Middle School Finalist Certificate & Amazon.com gift certificate, Synopsys Outreach Foundation n+1 Prize | A novel method of forward osmosis involving iron nanopaticles (Physical Science and Engineering) | 8 | |||
| Jin | Cheng (PSP) | Brian | Chen | 2nd Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | RotorCar: A Novel Idea to Reduce Traffic Using Flying Cars (Physical Science and Engineering) | 6 | |
| Sonia | Cuellar (SSW mentor) | Anushka | Sanyal | Isabelle Stone Award for Best Biological Science Projects - Trip to State Science Fair, Plaque, Certificate, and $100, Santa Clara Valley Science & Engineering Fair Assn - Board of Directors Awards - Middle School | Developing a tool for studying Alzheimer's: A bacterial expression vector for the M3-M4 fragment of the nAChR alpha-7 (Biological Science and Engineering) | 8 | |
| Nominated to compete envelope, Broadcom MASTERS - 8th Grade | |||||||
| 1st Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Shailendra | Deva (mentor) | Rohan | Dhesikan | 2nd Award, RRI Physical Science and Engineering Category | Fabrication and Manipulation of Magnet Micro Robots for Complex Engineering Applications (RRI Physical Science and Engineering) | 11 | |
| Poorva | Gupta (PSP) | Riya | Gupta | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Dance Imagination: Projecting Real-Time Special Effects Based on a Dancer's Motion (Physical Science and Engineering) | 7 | |
| Apoorva Ameya | Talwalkar | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Dance Imagination: Projecting Real-Time Special Effects Based on a Dancer's Motion (Physical Science and Engineering) | 6 | |||
| Youssef | Ismail (SSW mentor) | Siddharth | Jain | 1st Award, RRI Physical Science and Engineering Category | Brain Impact Suppresion - Building a Better Helmet (RRI Physical Science and Engineering) | 10 | |
| Suhas | Kotha | 3rd place HS student - $25 and Certificate of Achievement, American Vacuum Society, Northern CA | Piezoelectric Energy Harvester (RRI Physical Science and Engineering) | 9 | |||
| ASEI Silicon Valley Emerging Technology Certificate of Achievement Award and Membership to American Society of Engineers of Indian Origin, American Society of Engineers of Indian Origin Award | |||||||
| Maya | Nayak | GR 9-12: 1st Place, Programable Robotics Kit, Certificate of Achievement, and tour of NASA Ames Research Center, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) Intelligent Systems Award | Self-Navigating Wheelchair (RRI Physical Science and Engineering) | 9 | |||
| Srivishnu | Pyda | Honorable Mention: Certificate of Achievement,T-Shirt, Society of Vacuum Coaters (SVC) | Developing Bio-Composite Materials: Carbon Fiber Reinforced Chitin Matrix (Physical Science and Engineering) | 8 | |||
| Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| 2nd Place Award - $75, Popular Science Magazine Subscription and Framed Certificate of Achievement, ASM International, A Society for Materials, Santa Clara Valley Chapter | |||||||
| Anika | Sanyal | First Place: One Week DEEP Summer Academy at the University of Toronto, Std Residence Package, and Travel Stipend, University of Toronto Award | An Inexpensive, Digital Frequency Elimination Device: To Help Autistics and Others with Hearing Sensitivities (RRI Physical Science and Engineering) | 10 | |||
| Keval | Shah | IEEE Electro-Technology $50 gift card and a certificate, Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers | Smart Bio-Sensor Data Acquisition System (RRI Biological Science and Engineering) | 10 | |||
| Diptanshu | Sikdar | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Wireless charging via an Ultrasonic - Piezoelectric Bridge (Physical Science and Engineering) | 7 | |||
| IEEE Electro-Technology $50 gift card and a certificiate, Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers | |||||||
| Middle school - One packet with Letter, Certificate of Achievement, and ONR Medallion, United States Navy and Marine Corps | |||||||
| Srinath | Somasundaram | Nominated to compete envelope, Broadcom MASTERS - 8th Grade | A Novel Design and Evaluation of a Temperature Controlled Smart Sock with Fuzzy Logic Control (Physical Science and Engineering) | 8 | |||
| 1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| GR 6-8: 1st Place, Programable Robotics Kit, Certificate of Achievement, and tour of NASA Ames Research Center, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) Intelligent Systems Award | |||||||
| Sacred Heart Middle School | Susan | Greathouse | David Wynne | Kipp | 2nd Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Downhill Coasting (Physical Science and Engineering) | 6 |
| Christian John | Moran | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Energy Production During the Year (Physical Science and Engineering) | 6 | |||
| Saint Christopher School | Arlene | Brown | Brayden T. | Callan | 2nd Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Which Seawall Shape Best Mitigates Storm Surges? (Physical Science and Engineering) | 6 |
| Middle school - One packet with Letter, Certificate of Achievement, and ONR Medallion, United States Navy and Marine Corps | |||||||
| Saint Francis High School | Chihiro | Ikezi | Nikita | Goyal | 5th Place Student Award: $80 and Certificate of Achievement, Association for Computing Machinery, San Francisco Bay Area Professional Chapter | HappiNec (Physical Science and Engineering) | 11 |
| Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Linda | Segal | Mythri | Ambatipudi | Grand Prize - Best of Championship - Biological Sciences - Trip to Intel ISEF and Plaque, Santa Clara Valley Science & Engineering Fair Assn - Board of Directors Awards - High School | Combating Neurovirulence of ZIKA and Flavivirus Epidemics Using In Silico Phylogenetic Analysis and RNAi Gene Silencing (Biological Science and Engineering) | 11 | |
| 1st Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Honorable Mention Certificate, Santa Clara County Biotech Education Partnership (SCCBEP) | |||||||
| Honorable Mention: Certificate of Achievement, and Goody Bag, Association for Women in Science, Palo Alto Chapter | |||||||
| Ishana | Deb | 2nd Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | Why is the pruning of Purkinje cell and Climbing Fiber synapses in the Cerebellum, impaired in autistic children? (Biological Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| Adishree | Ghatare | $50 and Certificate of Achievement, Kerry Veenstra Awards | Assessment of Cognitive Health and Assistance in Daily Life for the Elderly (Physical Science and Engineering) | 9 | |||
| Saint Joseph of Cupertino School | Lisa | Wicht | Anushka Haraki | Aritharan | Nominated to compete envelope, Broadcom MASTERS - 8th Grade | What is the effect of different ingredients in skin moisturizers on the retention of moisture in the model human skin? (Physical Science and Engineering) | 8 |
| 1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Stanford Online High School | Gary | Oas | Krithi Vishesh | Koodli | GR 6-8, 3rd Place: $50 and Certificate of Achievement, T-Shirt, Society of Vacuum Coaters (SVC) | Design of an Energy Device using Computer Simulation of Ionization (Physical Science and Engineering) | 7 |
| Martina | Steiner | Geeta | Shankar | 2nd Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | A computer simulation to investigate the change of allele frequencies of Sickle Cell Disease based on biogeography (Biological Science and Engineering) | 11 | |
| ASEI Silicon Valley Emerging Technology Certificate of Achievement Award and Membership to American Society of Engineers of Indian Origin, American Society of Engineers of Indian Origin Award | |||||||
| Allison | Yih | 2nd Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | A computer simulation to investigate the change of allele frequencies of Sickle Cell Disease based on biogeography (Biological Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| ASEI Silicon Valley Emerging Technology Certificate of Achievement Award and Membership to American Society of Engineers of Indian Origin, American Society of Engineers of Indian Origin Award | |||||||
| Juergen | Willmann | Gaeun | Kim | Grand Prize Alternate - Biological Sciences - Trip to State Science Fair and Plaque, Santa Clara Valley Science & Engineering Fair Assn - Board of Directors Awards - High School | Assessing treatment response in colorectal cancer patients through novel volumetric contrast-enhanced ultrasound methods (RRI Biological Science and Engineering) | 11 | |
| 2nd Award, RRI Biological Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Stratford Middle School - Milpitas | Tatiana | Braun | Andrea Xinyu | Liu | Nominated to compete envelope, Broadcom MASTERS - 7th Grade | Paddle Choices for Optimal Speed (Physical Science and Engineering) | 7 |
| 1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| 3rd Place - $50, Framed Certificate of Achievement, and Popular Science Magazine, SAMPE - Society for the Advancement of Material and Process Engineering | |||||||
| Stratford Middle School - San Jose | Kristi | Chung | Adarsh Sairam | Ambati | Middle School Finalist Certificate & Amazon.com gift certificate, Synopsys Outreach Foundation n+1 Prize | Low-Cost Cloud-based Contactless Vital Signs Monitor using Photo Plethysmographic Imaging & Infrared Sensing Techniques (Biological Science and Engineering) | 7 |
| Nominated to compete envelope, Broadcom MASTERS - 7th Grade | |||||||
| 1st Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Middle school - One packet with Letter, Certificate of Achievement, and ONR Medallion, United States Navy and Marine Corps | |||||||
| Allyson | Chiu | Honorable Mention Student Award: $40 and Certificate of Achievement, Association for Computing Machinery, San Francisco Bay Area Professional Chapter | Forget Me Not Child Warning System (Physical Science and Engineering) | 7 | |||
| Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Madeleine Zee | Chow | Honorable Mention, Biological Science and Engineering Category | Remove CO2 From Water Using Plants And Macroalgae (Biological Science and Engineering) | 7 | |||
| Anna | Jun | Middle school - One packet with Letter, Certificate of Achievement, and ONR Medallion, United States Navy and Marine Corps | Strength of Honeycomb Structures (Physical Science and Engineering) | 7 | |||
| Rahil | Kapadia | 2nd Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Cooling Arm Sleeve (Physical Science and Engineering) | 7 | |||
| Camilla Jasmine | Lindh | 2nd Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Visually Impaired Navigator (Physical Science and Engineering) | 7 | |||
| Honorable Mention: Certificate of Achievement, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) Intelligent Systems Award | |||||||
| Jislaine | Elsayed | Anousha Anand | Athreya | 2nd Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | The Effect of Light on the Potency of Antioxidants in Spices (Physical Science and Engineering) | 7 | |
| Herin | Kang | 2nd Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Algae Oxygen Generator (Physical Science and Engineering) | 7 | |||
| Jeffrey | Takemoto | Ishaan | Agrawal | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | The Affect of different Modifications on a Structure's ability to withstand Seismic Waves (Physical Science and Engineering) | 6 | |
| 3rd place - $50 and Certificate of Achievement, American Society of Civil Engineers- San Jose Branch | |||||||
| Snikitha | Banda | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Graffiti Removal (Physical Science and Engineering) | 6 | |||
| Allison | Bang | Nominated to compete envelope, Broadcom MASTERS - 6th Grade | Which Ball Creates the Least Drag? (Physical Science and Engineering) | 6 | |||
| 1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Sophia Charlotte | Campbell | Nominated to compete envelope, Broadcom MASTERS - 6th Grade | Earthworms' Diet and their Effect on Soil (Physical Science and Engineering) | 6 | |||
| 1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Anika | Pandey | Honorable Mention: Certificate of Achievement,T-Shirt, Society of Vacuum Coaters (SVC) | Effect of Nano-particle Hydrophobic Paint on the Surface Tension and Surface Bonding of Water (Physical Science and Engineering) | 6 | |||
| 2nd Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Honorable Mention Award - Popular Science Magazine Subscription and Framed Certificate of Achievement, ASM International, A Society for Materials, Santa Clara Valley Chapter | |||||||
| Kavya Manasa | Pandrangi | Isabelle Stone Award for Best Biological Science Projects - Trip to State Science Fair, Plaque, Certificate, and $100, Santa Clara Valley Science & Engineering Fair Assn - Board of Directors Awards - Middle School | Which indoor plant absorbs the most carbon dioxide? (Biological Science and Engineering) | 6 | |||
| Nominated to compete envelope, Broadcom MASTERS - 6th Grade | |||||||
| 1st Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Arya Tara | Prabhu | 2nd Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Up, Up, and Away! Aerodynamics (Physical Science and Engineering) | 6 | |||
| Stratford Middle School - Sunnyvale | Greg | Lampard | Ronan | Ellerby | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Effect of Chicken Living Conditions on Eggshell Properties (Physical Science and Engineering) | 7 |
| Krishna Srinivasan | Mani | Nominated to compete envelope, Broadcom MASTERS - 7th Grade | Building an Endurance UAV (Physical Science and Engineering) | 7 | |||
| 1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Aylin Gela | Salahifar | Nominated to compete envelope, Broadcom MASTERS - 7th Grade | Comparing Biodegradable versus Biobased Laundry Greywater on Plants (Biological Science and Engineering) | 7 | |||
| 1st Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Sovie Prasad | Shekhar | 2nd Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | The Amount of Time Taken for the Oil Spill Polymer, Enviro Bond 403, to Add-on to Different Oils in Tap and Salt Water. (Physical Science and Engineering) | 7 | |||
| $100 and Certificate of Achievement, Fair Manager's Graphic Design Award | |||||||
| Annika | Viswesh | Honorable Mention Student Award: $40 and Certificate of Achievement, Association for Computing Machinery, San Francisco Bay Area Professional Chapter | Oculus Patch Assistant (Physical Science and Engineering) | 7 | |||
| Nominated to compete envelope, Broadcom MASTERS - 7th Grade | |||||||
| 1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Kevin | Seago | Koena | Gupta | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | How Does Temperature Affect The Bounciness of a Bouncy Ball? (Physical Science and Engineering) | 6 | |
| Preethi | Sundaresakumar | Rohan | Bansal | Nominated to compete envelope, Broadcom MASTERS - 6th Grade | Let's Fly - The Effect Of Airfoil Design On Lift (Physical Science and Engineering) | 6 | |
| 1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Arti | Gnanasekar | Nominated to compete envelope, Broadcom MASTERS - 6th Grade | Investigating the Effects of Different Chemical Composition of Pesticides on the Survival of Honey Bees (Biological Science and Engineering) | 6 | |||
| 1st Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Sydney Maya | Gorin | GR 6-8, 2nd Place: $150 and Certificate of Achievement, T-Shirt, Society of Vacuum Coaters (SVC) | Solar Cell Optimization (Physical Science and Engineering) | 6 | |||
| Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Ishan | Kar | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Hands Free Motion and Obstacle Detector for the Visually Impaired (Physical Science and Engineering) | 6 | |||
| Eleanore Jane | Kirshner | 3rd place MS student - $25 and Certificate of Achievement, American Vacuum Society, Northern CA | Soggy Sandwich Conundrum : Condensation-Free Ice Packs (Physical Science and Engineering) | 6 | |||
| Middle school - One packet with Letter, Certificate of Achievement, and ONR Medallion, United States Navy and Marine Corps | |||||||
| Leyla Mathilde | Murgia | 2nd Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Warkawater Tree (Physical Science and Engineering) | 6 | |||
| Siddharth | Sai | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | STOP underwater noise pollution! (Physical Science and Engineering) | 6 | |||
| Martin | Wiedemann | Caitlin Maya | Gorin | Nominated to compete envelope, Broadcom MASTERS - 8th Grade | Filtering Electromagnetic Fields on Cellular Devices (Physical Science and Engineering) | 8 | |
| 1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| 1st Place - $100, Framed Certificate of Achievement, and Popular Science Magazine Subscription, SAMPE - Society for the Advancement of Material and Process Engineering | |||||||
| Middle school - One packet with Letter, Certificate of Achievement, and ONR Medallion, United States Navy and Marine Corps | |||||||
| Thinking Minds Academy (homeschool) | Firdous | Gousia | Aisha Ibrahim | Kazi | 2nd Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Walk n Light (Physical Science and Engineering) | 6 |
| Ibrahim | Kazi | Fatima Ibrahim | Kazi | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Bring 'em home - Help reunite missing children with their loved ones (Physical Science and Engineering) | 10 | |
| Valley Christian High School | Brian | Cronquist | Jennifer | Huang | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Analyzing the Effects of Differing Musical Tone Colors on the Frequency Spectrum Using Spectrum Analysis (Physical Science and Engineering) | 12 |
| Rita | Huff | Arnav Prashant | Gattani | 1st Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | Water Usage Meter (Biological Science and Engineering) | 9 | |
| Amar Piyush | Kothary | 1st Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | Effects of Pharmacological Agents on the Nonamyloidogenic Processing of the Beta-amyloid Precursor Protein (Biological Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| Sophia Waye | Patterson | 1st Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | Effects of Pharmacological Agents on the Nonamyloidogenic Processing of the Beta-amyloid Precursor Protein (Biological Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| Zachary Andrew | Shah | 2nd Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | Hormonal Regulation of Hexosaminidase: Implications for Tay Sachs Disease (Biological Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| Packet of Bag, flash drive, car charger, and battery, United States Air Force | |||||||
| Michelle Trieu-My | Tang | 2nd Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | Hormonal Regulation of Hexosaminidase: Implications for Tay Sachs Disease (Biological Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| Packet of Bag, flash drive, car charger, and battery, United States Air Force | |||||||
| Vittal | Thirumalai | 1st Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | Water Usage Meter (Biological Science and Engineering) | 9 | |||
| Alexander Bao | Vu | 1st Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | The Effect of Probiotic Bacteria on the Passage of Allergens through the Intestinal Epithelium (Biological Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| Packet of Bag, flash drive, car charger, and battery, United States Air Force | |||||||
| Niviru | Wijayaratne | Certificate of Achievement and opportunity to advance to national and international competitions, Stockholm Junior Water Prize | Water conserving irrigation apparatus for small and large scale horticulture (Physical Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| George | Sousa | Ansel Robert | Austin | High school - One packet with Letter, Certificate of Achievement, ONR Medallion, and form for $50 gift card, United States Navy and Marine Corps | 3D Printable Shock-Absorbing Surfaces: Comparative Testing of Various Auxetic Designs (Physical Science and Engineering) | 9 | |
| Danning | Liang | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Spray Paint Can Nozzle that reduce the air flowing paint particles (Physical Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| Nicholas James | Liu | ASEI Silicon Valley Emerging Technology Certificate of Achievement Award and Membership to American Society of Engineers of Indian Origin, American Society of Engineers of Indian Origin Award | Voice Control for Electronic Wheelchairs (Physical Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| Jianan | Wang | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Spray Paint Can Nozzle that reduce the air flowing paint particles (Physical Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| Eric Shengwen | Zhang | ASEI Silicon Valley Emerging Technology Certificate of Achievement Award and Membership to American Society of Engineers of Indian Origin, American Society of Engineers of Indian Origin Award | Voice Control for Electronic Wheelchairs (Physical Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| Valley Christian Junior High School | Clarissa | Chaplin | Parth | Kasmalkar | 2nd Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Earthquakes: How much shaking can these buildings take? (Physical Science and Engineering) | 6 |
| 2nd place - $100 and Certificate of Achievement, American Society of Civil Engineers- San Jose Branch | |||||||
| Certificate of Achievement, Hegland Award | |||||||
| Yavneh Day School | Trevor | Davis | Noa | Talmor | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | How does changing temperature of a magnet affect its magnetic field strength? (Physical Science and Engineering) | 7 |
| Aurora | Zeltser | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | How does changing temperature of a magnet affect its magnetic field strength? (Physical Science and Engineering) | 7 | |||