Los Altos High School

Project Awards 2017

Synopsys Silicon Valley Science and Technology Championship

School Teacher Student Award Title Gr
Los Altos High School  Karen Davis  Wesley  Luh Outstanding Project: Certificate of Achievement and Voucher for a Safe Boating Course, United States Coast Guard Auxiliary Optimizing Machine Learning Based Ocean Oil Spill Detection using Genetic Algorithm Techniques (RRI Physical Science and Engineering) 10
        Justin Vincent Yu Outstanding Project: Certificate of Achievement and Voucher for a Safe Boating Course, United States Coast Guard Auxiliary Optimizing Machine Learning Based Ocean Oil Spill Detection using Genetic Algorithm Techniques (RRI Physical Science and Engineering) 11
   Darren Dressen  Alana Marthe Phan Beyer Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category Assessing the accuracy of WordtoVec Assisted Translations of Uncommon Languages (Physical Science and Engineering) 12
        Nicolas Arthur Chan 1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category Evaluating and Developing Algorithms for Computer Music Composition (Physical Science and Engineering) 12
        Jordan Davis Gorospe Honorable Mention, Biological Science and Engineering Category Green tea catechins inhibitory effects on tumorigenisis (Biological Science and Engineering) 12
        Anisha  Palasamudrum 1st Place Award - $500 and Framed Certificate of Achievement, American Chemical Society, Santa Clara Valley Testing Vitamin E Isomers to downregulate VEGF Receptors and inhibit angiogenesis. (Physical Science and Engineering) 12
        Varvara Alexeevna Shvareva 2nd Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category Upregulating the levels of the microtubule severing protein spastin in neuroblastomas to model axonal regeneration (Biological Science and Engineering) 12