Kennedy(John F.) Middle School-Cupertino

Project Awards 2016

Synopsys Silicon Valley Science and Technology Championship

School	Teacher		Student		Award	Title	Gr
Kennedy(John F.) Middle School-Cupertino	Kai	Brown	Anjali	Singh	Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category	IoT Device System for Tracking Hand Motions Of Senior Citizens in Morse Code (Physical Science and Engineering)	7
	Thea	Dalvand	Rushil	Saha	$100 and a Certificate of Achievement, IBM Award	Wearable Device for Dementia Patients to Log Activity and Location, and R Analysis of Data to Find Trends in Movements (Physical Science and Engineering)	8
			Kirtan	Shah	Nominated to compete envelope, Broadcom MASTERS - 8th Grade	Image Compression: Which algorithm performs the best? (Physical Science and Engineering)	8
					1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category
	Susan	Hansen	Suhas	Prasad	Nominated to compete envelope, Broadcom MASTERS - 8th Grade	Do Hamiltonian Bugs Always Converge? A Computer-Inspired Proof (Physical Science and Engineering)	8
					1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category
	Khadija	Iyer	Matthew	Cho	$250 + certificate + a signed book + breakfast with Bob Zeidman, Zeidman Award	Smart Shoes: An innovative method to analyze and correct improper gait (Physical Science and Engineering)	8
					2nd Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category
					One-day immersive trip to Firebase to work on API project, TechLab Education
			Athena	Fung	Nominated to compete envelope, Broadcom MASTERS - 8th Grade	A Bluer Ocean: Replacing Microplastics with Water-Soluble Bioplastics (Physical Science and Engineering)	8
					1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category
					$50 and Certificate of Achievement, The Kerry Veenstra Awards
					2nd Place Award - $75, Popular Science Magazine Subscription and Framed Certificate of Achievement, ASM International, A Society for Materials, Santa Clara Valley Chapter