Cupertino High School

Project Awards 2015

Synopsys Silicon Valley Science and Technology Championship

School Teacher Student Award Title Gr
Cupertino High School Joel Carter Adiyan  Kaul 2nd Award, Engineering Category A flexible triboelectric generator that can harness energy induced in triboelectric process to create electric power. (Engineering) 9
  Eric Ferrante Tanay  Tandon Honorable Mention Student Award: $50 and Certificate of Achievement, Association for Computing Machinery, San Francisco Bay Area Professional Chapter Topographical Computer Vision Algorithms for rapid, low-cost Hematological diagnostics and Parasite detection through Random Forests learning and van Leeuwenhoek-type Imaging (Computers / Mathematics) 12
            Intel ECS Certificate of Achievement and Forms to Submit for $200, Intel Excellence in Computer Science Award    
      Utkarsh  Tandon $100 First Prize, Morgan Lewis Parkinsonian Syndrome Stage Classification through Signal-Processing driven Machine Learning Ensemble Algorithms: A low-cost Wearable Device utilizing novel Feature Engineering for Diagnosing and Monitoring Tremor based Diseases (Computers / Mathematics) 9
            1st Award, Computers / Mathematics Category    
            Honorable Mention: Certificate of Achievement, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) Intelligent Systems Award    
  Ibtisam Khalaf (SSW mentor) Tanvi  Chokshi 1st Award, Biochemistry / Microbiology Category Title: The Use of Allicin and Vitamins to reduce stress in Wild type Caenorhabditis elegans measured by Immunohistochemistry in order to find a potential treatment to Stress Induced Alopecia (Biochemistry / Microbiology) 12
  Daniel Stavis Saumya  Baswant 1st Place Award - $150 Cash and Certificate of Achievement, American Society of Civil Engineers A Safer Reorganization to a Landfill (Engineering) 10
      Swethasree  Bhattaram 1st Place Award - $150 Cash and Certificate of Achievement, American Society of Civil Engineers A Safer Reorganization to a Landfill (Engineering) 10
      Ria Swetha Gopu 2nd Award, Physics Category Best Combination of Insulating Materials (In Terms of Heat Retention) (Physics) 9
      Anushka Sachin Narvekar 2nd Award, Physics Category Best Combination of Insulating Materials (In Terms of Heat Retention) (Physics) 9
  Charles Williams Atul  Raghunathan Outstanding Sustainability Project. Weeklong I-SWEEEP Competition, I-SWEEEP Harvesting the Excess Thermal Energy Produced by Light Emitting Diodes. (Engineering) 9
            1st Award, Engineering Category