Saratoga High School

Project Awards 2017

Synopsys Silicon Valley Science and Technology Championship

School	Teacher		Student		Award	Title	Gr
Saratoga High School	Jill	McCrystal	Aayush	Gupta	2nd Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category	A Better Uber: Reinforcement Learning Pricing to Help Users in the On-demand Economy (Physical Science and Engineering)	11
					Certificate of Achievement and letter, Ricoh Corporation
			Raj	Janardhan	Honorable Mention, Biological Science and Engineering Category	The Effect of Music on Brain Competency (Biological Science and Engineering)	9
			Sohini	Kar	4th Place Student Award: $120 and Certificate of Achievement, Association for Computing Machinery, San Francisco Bay Area Professional Chapter	Factorization of Recurrence Relations (Physical Science and Engineering)	11
					2nd Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category
			Sohil	Pokharna	Honorable Mention, Biological Science and Engineering Category	IoT enabled Neonatal Incubator for Monitoring and Storage of Vital Data for Predicting Short and Long Term Ailments (Biological Science and Engineering)	10
					Special Award: $75 and Certificate of Achievement, Varian Medical Systems
			Arian Salil	Raje	ASEI Silicon Valley Emerging Technology Certificate of Achievement Award and Membership to American Society of Engineers of Indian Origin, American Society of Engineers of Indian Origin Award	Pharma.AI: A Novel Approach to QSAR Using Gradient Boosting and DNNs in the Prediction of Drug-Target Interactions (RRI Biological Science and Engineering)	10
			Karthik	Ramachandran	Honorable Mention, RRI Biological Science and Engineering Category	Breaking Down Barriers: Using RNAi on ABC Transporter Genes to Determine Role in Organism Survival and Toxin Resistance (RRI Biological Science and Engineering)	11
			Amulya	Vadlakonda	Certificate of Achievement, American Psychological Association	The Effects of Awareness Models on the Sustainability of our Organ Donation System (Biological Science and Engineering)	12