Cupertino Union School District

Project Awards 2017

Synopsys Silicon Valley Science and Technology Championship

School	Teacher		Student		Award	Title	Gr
Cupertino Middle School	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
			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
	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
Kennedy(John F.) Middle School-Cupertino	Thea	Dalvand	Anokhi	Shah	Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category	Giving Fruit Waste a Second Chance: Using Dried Peels as a Binding Agent to Remove Toxic Metals from Contaminated Water (Physical Science and Engineering)	8
					1st Place Award - $100, Popular Science Magazine Subscription, Framed Certificate of Achievement, ASM International, A Society for Materials, Santa Clara Valley Chapter
	Khadija	Iyer	Akash	Dasgupta	BBC Microbit development kit, TechLab Education	Electrical Fire Prevention Device (Physical Science and Engineering)	8
			Anjali	Singh	Honorable Mention Student Award: $40 and Certificate of Achievement, Association for Computing Machinery, San Francisco Bay Area Professional Chapter	Formality Analysis of Written Text Using Machine Learning (Physical Science and Engineering)	8
					Nominated to compete envelope, Broadcom MASTERS - 8th Grade
					1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category
	Marc	Kulla	Arushi	Agastwar	$50 and Certificate of Achievement, Kerry Veenstra Awards	An Innovative Aide to Help Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder Better Confront Daily Struggles Using Visual Learning (Physical Science and Engineering)	8
			Avishi	Agastwar	$50 and Certificate of Achievement, Kerry Veenstra Awards	An Innovative Aide to Help Children with Autism Spectrum Disorder Better Confront Daily Struggles Using Visual Learning (Physical Science and Engineering)	8
	Chris	Scharmen	Sruthi	Mikkilineni	Honorable Mention Certificate + a signed book + breakfast with Bob Zeidman, Zeidman Award	SafeNet: Protect children from the dangers of Internet using Convolutional Neural Networks (Physical Science and Engineering)	8
Lawson Middle School	Joel	Carter	Akshay	Attaluri	2nd Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category	Tsunami Guard: Finding the Most Effective Wave Breaker Design (Physical Science and Engineering)	7
					IEEE Electro-Technology $50 gift card and a certificiate, Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers
			Sinaya	Joshi	Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category	A novel system for the reduction of drowning deaths in young children (Physical Science and Engineering)	7
			Deepa	Mahesh	Middle School Finalist Certificate & Amazon.com gift certificate, Synopsys Outreach Foundation n+1 Prize	Using machine learning to find associations between cardiovascular disease data and clinical information. (Biological Science and Engineering)	8