Privately Sponsored Project

Project Awards 2018

Synopsys Silicon Valley Science and Technology Championship

School	Teacher		Student		Award	Title	Gr
Privately Sponsored Project	Shanthi	Adimoolam (Mentor)	Nidhya	Shivakumar	Nominated to compete envelope, Broadcom MASTERS - 7th Grade	SPOILER ALERT! An Arduino Sensor-Based Approach to Detecting Food Spoilage (Biological Science and Engineering)	7
					1st Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category
	Yunpei	Chang (PSP)	Claire	Tsai	IEEE Electro-Technology $50 gift card and a certificate, Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers	Hamster Fitt: Hamster Runs for Prize! Hamster Goes Nuts for Pinata! (Physical Science and Engineering)	6
			Lori	Yang	IEEE Electro-Technology $50 gift card and a certificate, Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers	Hamster Fitt: Hamster Runs for Prize! Hamster Goes Nuts for Pinata! (Physical Science and Engineering)	6
	Jingshu	Guo (PSP)	William Yang	Zhang	$ 250 to the winning student or team in middle school Physical Science, Synopsys Outreach Foundation n+1 Prize	An Inexpensive and Convenient Way of Making Millions of Existing Old-style Sprinkler Control Systems Conserve Water (Physical Science and Engineering)	6
					Middle School Finalist Certificate & Amazon.com gift certificate, Synopsys Outreach Foundation n+1 Prize
	Poorva	Gupta (PSP)	Riya	Gupta	Middle School Finalist Certificate & Amazon.com gift certificate, Synopsys Outreach Foundation n+1 Prize	Producing pleasing guitar chord progressions algorithmically (Physical Science and Engineering)	8
	Rajeev	Koodli (PSP)	Krithi	Koodli	Nominated to compete envelope, Broadcom MASTERS - 8th Grade	Distinguishing Between Binary and Non-Binary Star Systems Using Machine Learning (Physical Science and Engineering)	8
					1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category
					Middle School Student - Certificate of Achievement and Medallion, United States Navy and Marine Corps
	Bhimaraju	Prasad (PSP)	Sriram Venugopal	Bhimaraju	$125 + certificate + a signed book + breakfast with Bob Zeidman, Zeidman Award	Low-Cost Archery Assistant with an Interface for the Visually Impaired (Physical Science and Engineering)	6
					Nominated to compete envelope, Broadcom MASTERS - 6th Grade
					1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category
					IEEE Electro-Technology $50 gift card and a certificate, Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers
	Chris	Wilson (PSP)	Rory James Cui	Wilson	IEEE Electro-Technology $50 gift card and a certificate, Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers	Can we power a space elevator using lights and solar cells? (Physical Science and Engineering)	7