The Top 300 Broadcom MASTERS semi-finalists were selected on September 2nd. Thirty-four students from the Synopsys Championship were among the Top 300 and are listed below. A complete list of MASTERS with a state-by-state breakdown is on the web site for the Society for Science & the Public.
Anish Bhethanabotla from Joaquin Miller Middle School and Anika Pallapothu from The Harker School are among the Top 30 Broadcom MASTERS finalists. In October they competed virtually for over $100,000 in prizes.
| SCVSEFA Broadcom MASTERS | |
|---|---|
| Anish Bhethanabotla | Joaquin Miller Middle School |
| Gautam Bhooma | The Harker School |
| Zachary Blue | The Harker School |
| Karen Glen | Gideon Hausner Jewish Day School |
| Adit Golwala | Stratford School – Sunnyvale Raynor Middle School |
| Yash Golwala | Stratford School – Sunnyvale Raynor Middle School |
| Ramit Goyal | The Harker School |
| Elisa Grothe | Homeschool |
| Tanisha Gupta | Stratford School – Sunnyvale Raynor Middle School |
| Vedant Janapaty | Stratford Middle School – San Jose |
| Diya Kadadi | Cupertino Middle School |
| Bhargava Kanakapura | Stratford School – Sunnyvale Raynor Middle School |
| Arin Kathapurkar | Merryhill School |
| Jordan Labio | The Harker School |
| Ella Lan | The Harker School |
| Hubert Lau | The Harker School |
| Serena Lau | The Harker School |
| Heidi Lu | The Harker School |
| Anika Maji | The Harker School |
| Harsha Manamala | Merryhill School |
| Ishana Manikandan | Challenger School – Strawberry Park |
| Anika Mantripragada | The Harker School |
| Aziza Mohammed | Granada Islamic School |
| Anika Pallapothu | The Harker School |
| Brenna Ren | The Harker School |
| Praneel Shah | John F. Kennedy Middle School |
| Aahan Shah | Stratford Middle School - Milpitas |
| Sanskriti Singh | Rolling Hills Middle School |
| Ananya Sriram | The Harker School |
| Sonia Swamy | Challenger School – Sunnyvale |
| Rebeca Urdaneta | Homeschool |
| Kallie Wang | The Harker School |
| Carissa Wu | The Harker School |
| Henry Yao | BASIS Independent Silicon Valley |
In 2020, given the unprecedented circumstances due to COVID-19, the Broadcom MASTERS application was opened to middle school students who were registered for their Society-affiliated science fair. The result was the largest pool of applicants the competition has seen, with 3,476 students from 42 states and Puerto Rico, including 169 applicants from the Synopsys Championship.
In previous years, the Broadcom MASTERS nominees represented the top 10 percent of 6th, 7th and 8th grade projects entered in Society-affiliated fairs around the United States. The official nominees from the Synopsys Championship to Broadcom MASTERS are:
| Anish | Bhethanabotla |
| Gautam | Bhooma |
| Zachary | Blue |
| Sanjit | Borle |
| Iris | Cai |
| Aman | Chandra |
| Samarjit | Deshmukh |
| Brandon | Do |
| Gabriel | Futsum |
| Serena | Gandhi |
| Aryan | Ganesh |
| Ramit | Goyal |
| Elisa | Grothe |
| Alex | Guo |
| Connor | Houle |
| Diya | Kadadi |
| Micah | Keegan |
| Usman | Khan |
| Alon | Knaan |
| Soham | Kulkarni |
| Jordan | Labio |
| Ella | Lan |
| Hubert | Lau |
| Serena | Lau |
| Nathan | Liu |
| Heidi | Lu |
| Gavin | Mace |
| Himani | Manjunath |
| Zara | Mody |
| Dylan | Ng |
| Aryah | Oztanir |
| Aryan | Ponnuru |
| Aashna | Prasad |
| Eshan | Rachapudi |
| Noam | Radwin |
| Adhip | Raghunathan |
| Brenna | Ren |
| Emily | Ren |
| Ananya | Sriram |
| Sonia | Swamy |
| James | Tsaggaris |
| Rebeca | Urdaneta |
| Kallie | Wang |
