Cupertino Union School District

Project Awards 2017

Synopsys Silicon Valley Science and Technology Championship

School	Teacher		Student		Award	Title	Gr
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