Private
Project Awards 2019
Synopsys Silicon Valley Science and Technology Championship
| School | Teacher | Student | Award | Title | Gr | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Archbishop Mitty High School | Thuy-Anh | Nguyen | Adarsh Sairam | Ambati | Honorable Mention, RRI Biological Science and Engineering Category | An In-Field Diagnostic to Detect a Chytrid Fungal Amphibian Pathogen Using Ribosome Display and Lateral Flow Assays (RRI Biological Science and Engineering) | 9 |
| Jason Jin | Chen | Exceptional Merit, Framed Certificate, SPV Market Research "Most Promising Young Scientist" | Optimizing Simultaneous Saccharification and Fermentation of Invasive Undaria Pinnatifida to Create Bioethanol (Physical Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| Maria | Korolik | 2nd Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | The Role of Fluid Elasticity on Droplet Rebound on Various Surfaces (Physical Science and Engineering) | 10 | |||
| Khushi | Parikh | 2nd Award, RRI Biological Science and Engineering Category | The Effect of Virtual Reality Application on the Pain Perception of Patients Undergoing Allergy Testing and Treatment (RRI Biological Science and Engineering) | 10 | |||
| Chaelee | Park | Honorable Mention, RRI Biological Science and Engineering Category | Role of morphine in the microglial TLR4-mediated inflammatory response to ischemia (RRI Biological Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| Aalok Nital | Patwa | 1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Computationally Efficient, Accurate and Real-Time Detection of Colon Polyps Using Deep Neural Networks (Physical Science and Engineering) | 10 | |||
| Van-Khanh | Tran | Honorable Mention: Certificate of Achievement, and Goody Bag, Association for Women in Science, Palo Alto Chapter | The Effect of Glia on Neural Excitability (RRI Biological Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| Ronald | Nicoletti | Akhilesh Varadan | Balasingam | 1st Award, RRI Physical Science and Engineering Category | The Search for a Better Synapse for Neurocomputing: A KMC Study of Defect-Modulated Non-Filamentary RRAMS Under Pulsing (RRI Physical Science and Engineering) | 10 | |
| $100, IBM Award | |||||||
| Kate | Slevin | Anousha A | Athreya | IEEE Electro-Technology $50 gift card and a certificate, Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers | Investigating the Effect of Low-Cost Graphene on Different Kinds of Solar Cells (Physical Science and Engineering) | 9 | |
| Nishita | Belur | 2nd Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | An Innovative APProach to Augment Mobile Hospital Care: Prescreening and Virtually Connecting Rural Patients to Doctors (Physical Science and Engineering) | 10 | |||
| Veer Hemal | Doshi | $100 and Certificate of Achievement, Trimble Award | Aiding Wildfire Rescue Operations through Mobile Geolocation Tracking, Geofencing and Data-Driven Prediction Modeling (Physical Science and Engineering) | 9 | |||
| ASEI Silicon Valley Emerging Technology Membership to American Society of Engineers of Indian Origin, American Society of Engineers of Indian Origin Award | |||||||
| Ishani Pravin | Narwankar | 2nd Award, RRI Physical Science and Engineering Category | Engineering an Unmanned Autonomous Vehicle for Use in Search and Rescue Missions Post Natural Disasters (RRI Physical Science and Engineering) | 12 | |||
| BASIS Independent Silicon Valley School | Anastasia | Batrachenko | Diptanshu | Sikdar | 2nd Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Novel Hybrid Thermal Management Solution for Photovoltaic Systems (Physical Science and Engineering) | 9 |
| $50 cash award and certificate, Bruce Kawanami Engineering Award | |||||||
| Plaque and letter of invitation to Tour of Stanford Chemistry Department Labs, Stanford University Chemistry Department | |||||||
| Thomas | Dornhoffer | Deepesh | Aggarwal | Honorable Mention, Biological Science and Engineering Category | Effects of Different Spices on Yeast Production (Biological Science and Engineering) | 9 | |
| Veda Sahithi | Kamaraju | Honorable Mention Student Award: $50 and Certificate of Achievement, Association for Computing Machinery, San Francisco Bay Area Professional Chapter | Mobile Urban Sensing System: A Novel, Smart City Approach to Detect, Analyze, and Prevent Air Pollutants (Physical Science and Engineering) | 9 | |||
| 1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| ASEI Silicon Valley Emerging Technology Membership to American Society of Engineers of Indian Origin, American Society of Engineers of Indian Origin Award | |||||||
| Tharika | Thambidurai | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Reducing Global Air Pollution Using A Self-Cleaning Photocatalyst (Physical Science and Engineering) | 10 | |||
| Rachna | Sharma | Henry | Yao | 1st Place - $100, Certificate of Achievement, SAMPE - Society for the Advancement of Material and Process Engineering | From Food Waste to Food Guard: Creating Chitosan-Based Bioplastic, and Its Effect on Food Packaging and Preservation (Physical Science and Engineering) | 7 | |
| Middle School $50 and letter of recognition, Northern California Institute of Food Technologists (NCIFT) | |||||||
| Middle School Student - Certificate of Achievement and Medallion, United States Navy and Marine Corps | |||||||
| Bellarmine College Preparatory | Brad | Lindemann | Munir Nafea | Bshara | $100, IBM Award | Protecting Digital Information in Post Quantum Computing Era (Physical Science and Engineering) | 10 |
| Arnav | Jhingran | High School Finalist Certficate & $50 barnesandnoble.com gift certficate, Synopsys Outreach Foundation n+1 Prize | HeartSense: Detecting cardiac abnormalities using a simple stethoscope recorder and analysis using a deep learning model (Biological Science and Engineering) | 10 | |||
| Honorable Mention, Biological Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Debjani | Roy | Aditya | Behal | Honorable Mention, RRI Biological Science and Engineering Category | Novel Drug Development To Inhibit Nipah Virus Glycoprotein G Binding to Human Ephrin-B2 and Ephrin-B3 Receptors (RRI Biological Science and Engineering) | 11 | |
| Tarun | Chiruvolu | 1st Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | Toward Automated Pathology: Deep Learning for Breast Cancer Classification and Genomic Characterization (Biological Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| Aadit | Trivedi | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Third Eye: A Smart Braille Assistant for the Visually Impaired (Physical Science and Engineering) | 10 | |||
| Intel ECS Certificate of Achievement and Forms to Submit for $200, Intel Excellence in Computer Science Award | |||||||
| Canyon Heights Academy | De Leys | Hamm | Maria | Grothe | Honorable Mention, Biological Science and Engineering Category | Do Acute Bladder Snails Have Memory That Enables Them To Learn? (Biological Science and Engineering) | 8 |
| Aidan Michael | Miranda | $50 to student, Certificate of Achievement, and Letter, Al Foster Award | A Greener Environmentally Friendly De-icing Solution (Physical Science and Engineering) | 6 | |||
| Castilleja School | Ann | Greyson | Supriya | Lall | 2nd Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | A novel approach to Gunshot Detection using Machine Learning (Physical Science and Engineering) | 10 |
| HS student - Certificate of Achievement, Medallion and $50 gift card, United States Navy and Marine Corps | |||||||
| Challenger - Berryessa - SJ | Shannon | Deza | Aaleesha Sanjiv | Doshi | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | The design of an algorithm to detect road quality through vibrations, user input, and connection with Google Maps (Physical Science and Engineering) | 8 |
| Honorable Mention: Certificate of Achievement, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) Intelligent Systems Award | |||||||
| Namrata | Nair | Nominated to compete envelope, Broadcom MASTERS - 8th Grade | The Effect of Different Metal Nanoparticles on the Growth of E. coli (Biological Science and Engineering) | 8 | |||
| 1st Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Niti Kowkuntla | Reddy | Honorable Mention, Biological Science and Engineering Category | ColorMania (Biological Science and Engineering) | 7 | |||
| Rohit | Vakkalagadda | 2nd Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Benevolent Bioplastics: What is the effect of the materials used to make a bioplastic bag on the mass it can hold? (Physical Science and Engineering) | 7 | |||
| Challenger - Shawnee - SJ | Bonny | Basu | Rohit | Mekkoth | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Fuel Cells to the Rescue (Physical Science and Engineering) | 6 |
| Vaibhav | Rau | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Suppressing Evaporation (Physical Science and Engineering) | 6 | |||
| Dashmi | Singh | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Agrofuel: The Future (Physical Science and Engineering) | 7 | |||
| Brad | Bowden | Samanya | Girish | Nominated to compete envelope, Broadcom MASTERS - 6th Grade | Novel and Accurate Method to Measure the Performance of a Linear Accelerator (Physical Science and Engineering) | 6 | |
| 1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| IEEE Electro-Technology $50 gift card and a certificate, Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers | |||||||
| Danica | Kubota | Nominated to compete envelope, Broadcom MASTERS - 8th Grade | Biodegradable Take - Out Sauce Containers. (Biological Science and Engineering) | 8 | |||
| 1st Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Challenger - Strawberry Park - SJ | Sandip | Panesar | Sahas | Goli | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Filter of the Future (Physical Science and Engineering) | 7 |
| Sanjana | Manikandan | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | A Solution to Pollution - Mycoremediation: Growing Mushrooms to Clean the Air (Physical Science and Engineering) | 8 | |||
| Certificate of Achievement, NASA Earth System Science Award | |||||||
| Sudeepthi | Ravipati | 2nd Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | Sunscreen Science (Biological Science and Engineering) | 7 | |||
| Kameswari | Rayaprolu | Arhana Vepa | Aatresh | 2nd Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Over the Wing: investigating the effect of wind speed, wing angle, and propeller speed on a blown wing's lift force (Physical Science and Engineering) | 8 | |
| Eshan | Rachapudi | 2nd Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Extracting Water from Humidity (Physical Science and Engineering) | 7 | |||
| Arya Shriya | Srivastava | Middle School Finalist Certificate & $25 barnesandnoble.com gift certificate, Synopsys Outreach Foundation n+1 Prize | One More Shot at Hearing: Making Cost Efficient Bone Conduction Technology to Aid People with Conductive Hearing Loss (Biological Science and Engineering) | 8 | |||
| Honorable Mention, Biological Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Challenger - Sunnyvale | Ben | Eccleston | Pranav | Amarnath | 2nd Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Effect of acid on activity of salivary amylase enzyme in digesting starch (Physical Science and Engineering) | 8 |
| Samarjit | Deshmukh | 2nd Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | The Anticoagulant Properties of Garlic, Ginger, Turmeric and Fish Oil (Biological Science and Engineering) | 6 | |||
| Safaa | Hussain | Nominated to compete envelope, Broadcom MASTERS - 8th Grade | Reward, Praise, and Criticism: What Works Best? (Biological Science and Engineering) | 8 | |||
| 1st Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Joyce Boying | Yang | Honorable Mention, Biological Science and Engineering Category | What is the effect of food-waste on the growth rate of Allium fistulosum? (Biological Science and Engineering) | 8 | |||
| Swapna | Mayya | Anagha | Badriprasad | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Biofuel: Testing Alternative Sources for Sustainable Biodiesel Production (Physical Science and Engineering) | 7 | |
| Honorable Mention - Certificate of Achievement, SAMPE - Society for the Advancement of Material and Process Engineering | |||||||
| Diya Deepak | Kadadi | $250 to the winning student or team in middle school Bio Science, Synopsys Outreach Foundation n+1 Prize | Bioplastics from Biowaste (Biological Science and Engineering) | 7 | |||
| Middle School Finalist Certificate & $25 barnesandnoble.com gift certificate, Synopsys Outreach Foundation n+1 Prize | |||||||
| Nominated to compete envelope, Broadcom MASTERS - 7th Grade | |||||||
| 1st Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Adhip | Raghunathan | Nominated to compete envelope, Broadcom MASTERS - 7th Grade | Novel Electrochromic System to Regulate Internal Lighting (Physical Science and Engineering) | 7 | |||
| 1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Exceptional Merit, Framed Certificate, SPV Market Research "Most Promising Young Scientist" | |||||||
| Nikita | Senthil | Isabelle Stone Award for Best Biological Science Projects - Trip to State Science Fair and Certificate, Santa Clara Valley Science & Engineering Fair Assn - Board of Directors Awards - Middle School | Feed the Diatoms: The Effect of Iron Filings on the Oxygen Production of Thalassiosira Diatoms (Biological Science and Engineering) | 8 | |||
| Nominated to compete envelope, Broadcom MASTERS - 8th Grade | |||||||
| 1st Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Shobi | Murali | Swathi | Badrinarayanan | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | A Renewable Energy Device Providing Rural Electrification to the Last Billion (Physical Science and Engineering) | 8 | |
| $100 and Certificate, The Lemelson Early Inventor Prize | |||||||
| Most Promising Young Scientist (Female), $100 and Framed Certificate (GR 6-8), SPV Market Research "Most Promising Young Scientist" | |||||||
| Ishwar | Suriyaprakash | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Factors affecting the amplitude of sound propagating through a tube (Physical Science and Engineering) | 7 | |||
| Sonia | Swamy | Nominated to compete envelope, Broadcom MASTERS - 7th Grade | BioDeDye: An eco-friendly, low-cost, agro-waste biosorbent for the reduction of dye contaminants in aqueous wastes (Physical Science and Engineering) | 7 | |||
| 1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Hoshita Venkatasai | Undella | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Testing blade angles, number of blades and blade designs of a Wind Turbine for Maximum Voltage Output (Physical Science and Engineering) | 7 | |||
| Exceptional Merit, Framed Certificate, SPV Market Research "Most Promising Young Scientist" | |||||||
| Art | Wellersdick | Anirudh | Venkatraman | Nominated to compete envelope, Broadcom MASTERS - 8th Grade | Tremor Monitor (Physical Science and Engineering) | 8 | |
| 1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Challenger-Middlefield-Palo Alto | Caren | Furtado | Elaine | Lee | 2nd Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Impact of disposable water bottles on our oceans (Physical Science and Engineering) | 7 |
| Certificate of Achievement and letter, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration | |||||||
| Paulina | Xu | 2nd Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | A New Way Of Travel (Physical Science and Engineering) | 7 | |||
| Champion School (grades 9-12) | Sameer | Khanna | Anissa | Aribi | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Cost Effective Slow Motion for Medical Diagnostics (Physical Science and Engineering) | 10 |
| Champion School (K-8) | Muna | Khanna | Romina | Jately | 2nd Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | FitTreat (Physical Science and Engineering) | 8 |
| Ananya Venkata | Jilla | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Machine Learning (ML) Driven Diabetes Predictor (Physical Science and Engineering) | 7 | |||
| Sanjana S | Jilla | $100 Certificate of Achievement, Inez M. Lechner Award | ML/DNA Driven Disease Susceptibility Analyzer (Physical Science and Engineering) | 9 | |||
| ASEI Silicon Valley Emerging Technology Membership to American Society of Engineers of Indian Origin, American Society of Engineers of Indian Origin Award | |||||||
| Sidharth Nitin | Kalje | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Water-Efficient Sprinkler System (Physical Science and Engineering) | 7 | |||
| Sangyani | Sinha | 2nd Place $75, Santa Clara Valley Water District | AquaWise: An Intelligent Irrigation System (Physical Science and Engineering) | 7 | |||
| Shreya | Sinha | 2nd Award, RRI Biological Science and Engineering Category | Analyzing the Role of Chromothripsis in Cancer via Telomere Modification (RRI Biological Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| Rohan | Siva | 2nd Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | The Bane of Vulcan (Physical Science and Engineering) | 8 | |||
| Gideon Hausner Jewish Day School | Liat | Baranoff | Raya Idell | Farber | Isabelle Stone Award for Best Biological Science Projects - Trip to State Science Fair and Certificate, Santa Clara Valley Science & Engineering Fair Assn - Board of Directors Awards - Middle School | What is the effect of color on the appearance and timing of afterimages? (Biological Science and Engineering) | 6 |
| Nominated to compete envelope, Broadcom MASTERS - 6th Grade | |||||||
| 1st Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Micah Ariel | Nassi | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Sound Adventure: An audio and touch-based game for people with limited vision (Physical Science and Engineering) | 6 | |||
| Jared Meyer | Saal | Nominated to compete envelope, Broadcom MASTERS - 6th Grade | How Particle Size Affects Viscosity In Chocolate (Physical Science and Engineering) | 6 | |||
| 1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Middle School $50 and letter of recognition, Northern California Institute of Food Technologists (NCIFT) | |||||||
| Zoe Pearl | Stern | Isabelle Stone Award for Best Biological Science Projects - Trip to State Science Fair and Certificate, Santa Clara Valley Science & Engineering Fair Assn - Board of Directors Awards - Middle School | What is the effect of color on the appearance and timing of afterimages? (Biological Science and Engineering) | 6 | |||
| Nominated to compete envelope, Broadcom MASTERS - 6th Grade | |||||||
| 1st Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Anna | Suvorova | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Sound Adventure: An audio and touch-based game for people with limited vision (Physical Science and Engineering) | 6 | |||
| Mazikeen | Wagner | Noah Eli | Fond | Honorable Mention, Biological Science and Engineering Category | Tempo Master: Testing Human Sensitivity to Tempo Changes (Biological Science and Engineering) | 7 | |
| Ben | Freda-Eskenazi | Honorable Mention, Biological Science and Engineering Category | Medkit AI: developing a CNN (Convolutional Neural Network) to diagnose skin level injuries, and conditions (Biological Science and Engineering) | 7 | |||
| Dov Jack | Morris | Honorable Mention, Biological Science and Engineering Category | Medkit AI: developing a CNN (Convolutional Neural Network) to diagnose skin level injuries, and conditions (Biological Science and Engineering) | 7 | |||
| Navon Haim | Soussan | Honorable Mention, Biological Science and Engineering Category | Medkit AI: developing a CNN (Convolutional Neural Network) to diagnose skin level injuries, and conditions (Biological Science and Engineering) | 7 | |||
| Danny | Watson | Doron | Bentov | 2nd Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | The WASP (wearable aerosol spray protection) (Physical Science and Engineering) | 6 | |
| Ori Isaac | Gillai | 2nd Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | The WASP (wearable aerosol spray protection) (Physical Science and Engineering) | 6 | |||
| Alon | Knaan | 2nd Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Bionic Xylophone Arm (Physical Science and Engineering) | 7 | |||
| IEEE Electro-Technology $50 gift card and a certificate, Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers | |||||||
| Isaac Reed | Zucker | 2nd Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | The WASP (wearable aerosol spray protection) (Physical Science and Engineering) | 6 | |||
| Granada Islamic School | Farhana | Afroz | Iyaad Faiz | Ahammed | Honorable Mention, Biological Science and Engineering Category | Magical Microbes:Producing clean energy using microbial fuel cells (Biological Science and Engineering) | 8 |
| Ateef Ayman | Mahmud | Best Project: $50, Certificate of Achievement, and Voucher for a Safe Boating Course. Completion of Course Awards Additional $50., United States Coast Guard Auxiliary | Eutrophication: The De-oxygenating Epidemic in Water Bodies (Physical Science and Engineering) | 8 | |||
| Rayyan Tawseef | Talukdar | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | "Compost at Work: Bioremediation of Pesticide/Herbicide Contaminated Soil". (Physical Science and Engineering) | 8 | |||
| Zeynep Sena | Tokuz | Honorable Mention, Biological Science and Engineering Category | Effects of Hazardous Chemicals on pregnancy: Using planaria as a model (Biological Science and Engineering) | 8 | |||
| Zeba | Haq | Maryam | Ismail | Nominated to compete envelope, Broadcom MASTERS - 6th Grade | Eliminating the Zit: Finding an Effective Treatment for Exterminating Bacteria (Biological Science and Engineering) | 6 | |
| 1st Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Haadiyah | Razzack | Mamoon Rahman | Khan | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Effect of Concentrations of Ammonium Nitrate on the Temperature of a Cold Pack (Physical Science and Engineering) | 6 | |
| Najia | Zaman | Sadik | Aref | Nominated to compete envelope, Broadcom MASTERS - 7th Grade | Investigating effects of decongestant and coenzymeQ-10 on the heart rate of Daphnia (Biological Science and Engineering) | 7 | |
| 1st Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Fatimah | Ismail | Honorable Mention, Biological Science and Engineering Category | Developing a Realistic Model of an Artificial Pancreas to Deal with Type 1 Diabetes (Biological Science and Engineering) | 7 | |||
| Aziza Amin | Mohammed | 2nd Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Investigating Kombucha biofilm as an alternative for other flexible materials (Physical Science and Engineering) | 7 | |||
| 2nd Place - $75, Certificate of Achievement, SAMPE - Society for the Advancement of Material and Process Engineering | |||||||
| Harker School-Middle Campus | Tina | Kim | Arjun Jay | Barrett | 2nd Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Using Machine Learning and Infrared Imagery to Detect Drunk Individuals (Physical Science and Engineering) | 8 |
| Rohan Tan | Bhowmik | 2nd Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Using Machine Learning and Infrared Imagery to Detect Drunk Individuals (Physical Science and Engineering) | 8 | |||
| Gordon Zhou | Chen | Nominated to compete envelope, Broadcom MASTERS - 8th Grade | Inhibiting Rabies at the Molecular Level (Physical Science and Engineering) | 8 | |||
| 1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Jacob Zuguang | Huang | Nominated to compete envelope, Broadcom MASTERS - 8th Grade | Inhibiting Rabies at the Molecular Level (Physical Science and Engineering) | 8 | |||
| 1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Arissa | Huda | Honorable Mention, Biological Science and Engineering Category | The Effect of Fear on Spacial Perception (Biological Science and Engineering) | 8 | |||
| Michelle | Jin | Honorable Mention, Biological Science and Engineering Category | The Effect of Fear on Spacial Perception (Biological Science and Engineering) | 8 | |||
| Jeremy | Ko | 2nd Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | The Effect of Fast-Paced Video Games on Short-Term Concentration (Biological Science and Engineering) | 8 | |||
| Stephen | Xia | 2nd Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | The Effect of Fast-Paced Video Games on Short-Term Concentration (Biological Science and Engineering) | 8 | |||
| Kristen | Morgensen | Riya | Gupta | Honorable Mention, Biological Science and Engineering Category | Problem-solving Capabilities of Physarum Polycephalum (Biological Science and Engineering) | 8 | |
| Connie Ping | Jiang | Honorable Mention, Biological Science and Engineering Category | Problem-solving Capabilities of Physarum Polycephalum (Biological Science and Engineering) | 8 | |||
| Jai Vir | Mehta | Nominated to compete envelope, Broadcom MASTERS - 8th Grade | Shorter Days: The Effect of the Day/Night Cycle on Plant Growth in Indoor Farming (Biological Science and Engineering) | 8 | |||
| 1st Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Nicholas | Wei | Nominated to compete envelope, Broadcom MASTERS - 8th Grade | Shorter Days: The Effect of the Day/Night Cycle on Plant Growth in Indoor Farming (Biological Science and Engineering) | 8 | |||
| 1st Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Annli | Zhu | 2nd Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | The Effect of Water on the Strength of Retted Fiber (Biological Science and Engineering) | 8 | |||
| Sabrina | Zhu | 2nd Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | The Effect of Water on the Strength of Retted Fiber (Biological Science and Engineering) | 8 | |||
| Kathy | Peng | Brian | Chen | 2nd Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | Validating Novel Algorithm-Generated Crop Rotations: A Second Year Study (Biological Science and Engineering) | 8 | |
| $100 Middle School Plant Science (Amazon Gift Card), California Botanical Society | |||||||
| Eileen | Ma | Honorable Mention, Biological Science and Engineering Category | How Do Different Types of Bacteria Affect the Growth of Lepidium sativum? (Biological Science and Engineering) | 8 | |||
| Sally | Zhu | Honorable Mention, Biological Science and Engineering Category | How Do Different Types of Bacteria Affect the Growth of Lepidium sativum? (Biological Science and Engineering) | 8 | |||
| Harker School-Upper Campus | Thomas | Artiss | Betsy | Tian | Honorable Mention, RRI Physical Science and Engineering Category | The Location of Fe II Emission in AGNs and the Response of Fe II Emission to Changes in the Continuum (RRI Physical Science and Engineering) | 10 |
| Anita | Chetty | Sahil | Jain | IEEE Electro-Technology $50 gift card and a certificate, Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers | Binary Classification for Entity Linking Disambiguation with TFIDF Vectorization and SVM Linear Models (RRI Physical Science and Engineering) | 11 | |
| Anu | Datar | Alice | Feng | 2nd Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | DeepGuide: A Deep Learning Based Mobile System to Assist Visually Impaired Pedestrians To Cross Intersections (Physical Science and Engineering) | 9 | |
| Certificate of Achievement, System Safety Society | |||||||
| Krishay | Mukhija | High School Finalist Certficate & $50 barnesandnoble.com gift certficate, Synopsys Outreach Foundation n+1 Prize | Using Deep Learning Techniques to Develop Novel Inhibitors of Tyrosine Kinase (Physical Science and Engineering) | 10 | |||
| 1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Srivishnu | Pyda | High School Finalist Certficate & $50 barnesandnoble.com gift certficate, Synopsys Outreach Foundation n+1 Prize | Using Deep Learning Techniques to Develop Novel Inhibitors of Tyrosine Kinase (Physical Science and Engineering) | 10 | |||
| 1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Matthew | Harley | Kavita S | Murthy | $100 Certificate of Achievement, Inez M. Lechner Award | The Amount of Heat-resistant Escherichia coli Found in Organically and Conventionally Grown Spinacia oleracea (Biological Science and Engineering) | 9 | |
| High School $50 and letter of recognition, Northern California Institute of Food Technologists (NCIFT) | |||||||
| Andrew | Irvine | Harper Lee | Forbes | Honorable Mention, Biological Science and Engineering Category | Investigation of Compounds responsible for scorpion fluorescence and cuticle light sensitivity (Biological Science and Engineering) | 10 | |
| 1st Place $125 and Certificate of Achievement, American Association for Laboratory Animal Science, Northern California Branch | |||||||
| Prakrit | Jain | Honorable Mention, Biological Science and Engineering Category | Investigation of Compounds responsible for scorpion fluorescence and cuticle light sensitivity (Biological Science and Engineering) | 9 | |||
| 1st Place $125 and Certificate of Achievement, American Association for Laboratory Animal Science, Northern California Branch | |||||||
| Smriti | Koodanjeri | Aditi | Ghalsasi | Grand Prize Alternate - Physical Sciences - Trip to State Science Fair and Certificate, Santa Clara Valley Science & Engineering Fair Assn - Board of Directors Awards - High School | A Novel Approach to Creating Ideal 3D-Printable Polymers via Functionalization of PCL (RRI Physical Science and Engineering) | 11 | |
| $100, Morgan Lewis | |||||||
| 3rd Place Award - $200 and Framed Certificate of Achievement, American Chemical Society, Silicon Valley, SVACS | |||||||
| 2nd Award, RRI Physical Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| 2nd Place Award - $75 and Certificate of Achievement, ASM International, A Society for Materials, Santa Clara Valley Chapter | |||||||
| 2nd place HS student - $50 and Certificate of Achievement, American Vacuum Society, Northern CA | |||||||
| Eric | Nelson | Shray | Alag | 2nd Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Applying Natural Language Processing to Mine Clinical Trials Data to Extract Unique Insights about Diseases, Drugs, SNPs (Physical Science and Engineering) | 10 | |
| Rishab Xinrui | Parthasarathy | $500 to the winning student or team in high school Bio Science, Synopsys Outreach Foundation n+1 Prize | SkinSight: A Novel Implementation of a Convolutional Neural Network to Recognize Skin Diseases (Biological Science and Engineering) | 9 | |||
| High School Finalist Certficate & $50 barnesandnoble.com gift certficate, Synopsys Outreach Foundation n+1 Prize | |||||||
| 1st Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Katherine Feifei | Zhang | 1st Award, RRI Biological Science and Engineering Category | Multiple Disease Prediction with Machine Learning on Large Microbiome Metagenomic Datasets (RRI Biological Science and Engineering) | 12 | |||
| William | Zhao | $500 to the winning student or team in high school Bio Science, Synopsys Outreach Foundation n+1 Prize | SkinSight: A Novel Implementation of a Convolutional Neural Network to Recognize Skin Diseases (Biological Science and Engineering) | 9 | |||
| High School Finalist Certficate & $50 barnesandnoble.com gift certficate, Synopsys Outreach Foundation n+1 Prize | |||||||
| 1st Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Mike | Pistacchi | Michael Chen | Eng | Honorable Mention, RRI Biological Science and Engineering Category | Role of Host Cell Receptors in the Uptake of the Fungus Candida Albicans (RRI Biological Science and Engineering) | 10 | |
| Anika | Fuloria | Honorable Mention, RRI Physical Science and Engineering Category | Vibrotactile Rendering of Virtual Sculptures Using Wave Voxel Synthesis (RRI Physical Science and Engineering) | 10 | |||
| Jason Chen | Lin | Certificate of Achievement, American Psychological Association | The Role of Relational Reasoning in College Student Learning (RRI Biological Science and Engineering) | 10 | |||
| Chris | Spenner | Cynthia | Chen | Grand Prize - Best of Championship - Biological Sciences - Trip to Intel ISEF and Certificate, Santa Clara Valley Science & Engineering Fair Assn - Board of Directors Awards - High School | Decoding Neural Networks: Novel Computational Methods to Discover Anti-Tumor B-Cell Receptor Binding Motifs (RRI Biological Science and Engineering) | 11 | |
| 1st Award, RRI Biological Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Allison Sihan | Jia | Grand Prize - Best of Championship - Biological Sciences - Trip to Intel ISEF and Certificate, Santa Clara Valley Science & Engineering Fair Assn - Board of Directors Awards - High School | Modeling Neurodegeneration in vitro: A Dynamic Study of Tau in a Microfluidic Chamber System Via Quantum Dot Labeling (RRI Biological Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| 1st Award, RRI Biological Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Certificate of Achievement, Society for In Vitro Biology | |||||||
| Ruhi | Sayana | Grand Prize - Best of Championship - Biological Sciences - Trip to Intel ISEF and Certificate, Santa Clara Valley Science & Engineering Fair Assn - Board of Directors Awards - High School | Precision Care for Cancer: Discovery of Novel Therapeutics for High-Risk ALL via Epigenetic and Computational Profiling (RRI Biological Science and Engineering) | 12 | |||
| $100, Morgan Lewis | |||||||
| 1st Award, RRI Biological Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Elizabeth | Szeto | 2nd Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | The Effectiveness of Raw and Treated Cotton and Kapok Fibers for Oil Spill Cleanup (Physical Science and Engineering) | 10 | |||
| Jeff | Sutton | Sasvath | Ramachandran | 1st Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | The Effects of UVA Radiation on Hypsibius dujardini Reproduction Capabilities (Biological Science and Engineering) | 9 | |
| Aditya | Tadimeti | 1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | The Effects of Different Aquatic Environments on the Rate of Polyethylene Biodegradation by Bacillus subtilis (Physical Science and Engineering) | 10 | |||
| Kehillah Jewish High School | Daniel | Kelley | Benjamin | Lipman | Grand Prize Alternate - Biological Sciences - Trip to State Science Fair and Certificate, Santa Clara Valley Science & Engineering Fair Assn - Board of Directors Awards - High School | Accurate Identification of Cardiac Anomalies Through Deep Learning (Biological Science and Engineering) | 11 |
| 2nd Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Merryhill Schools - Milpitas | Kanchan | Bhandare | Brandon Richard | Do | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | The Self-driving Car (Physical Science and Engineering) | 6 |
| Mallika Suvali | Ghante | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | No Wifi? No Problem! (Physical Science and Engineering) | 7 | |||
| Abhinav | Harikrishna | Isabelle Stone Award for Best Biological Science Projects - Trip to State Science Fair and Certificate, Santa Clara Valley Science & Engineering Fair Assn - Board of Directors Awards - Middle School | Need A Hand (Biological Science and Engineering) | 7 | |||
| Grand Prize Student Award: $320 and Certificate of Achievement, Association for Computing Machinery, San Francisco Bay Area Professional Chapter | |||||||
| Nominated to compete envelope, Broadcom MASTERS - 7th Grade | |||||||
| 1st Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Neel | Jagdish | Nominated to compete envelope, Broadcom MASTERS - 6th Grade | Blue Light Exposed (Physical Science and Engineering) | 6 | |||
| 1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Anika | Kulkarni | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | No Wifi? No Problem! (Physical Science and Engineering) | 7 | |||
| Rucha Sunil | Mujumdar | Nominated to compete envelope, Broadcom MASTERS - 6th Grade | Edible Membranes to Protect the Environment (Physical Science and Engineering) | 6 | |||
| 1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Siddharth Anand | Phatak | Nominated to compete envelope, Broadcom MASTERS - 6th Grade | Blue Light Exposed (Physical Science and Engineering) | 6 | |||
| 1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Reva Chidella | Sharma | Nominated to compete envelope, Broadcom MASTERS - 6th Grade | Edible Membranes to Protect the Environment (Physical Science and Engineering) | 6 | |||
| 1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Tanish | Swarnapuri | Isabelle Stone Award for Best Biological Science Projects - Trip to State Science Fair and Certificate, Santa Clara Valley Science & Engineering Fair Assn - Board of Directors Awards - Middle School | Need A Hand (Biological Science and Engineering) | 7 | |||
| Grand Prize Student Award: $320 and Certificate of Achievement, Association for Computing Machinery, San Francisco Bay Area Professional Chapter | |||||||
| Nominated to compete envelope, Broadcom MASTERS - 7th Grade | |||||||
| 1st Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Shama | Mohamed | Arin | Kathapurkar | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Duck Cover Hold (Physical Science and Engineering) | 6 | |
| Harsha | Manamala | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Duck Cover Hold (Physical Science and Engineering) | 6 | |||
| Harsha Rohan | Rajkumar | Nominated to compete envelope, Broadcom MASTERS - 8th Grade | Naturogenic Cloud (Physical Science and Engineering) | 8 | |||
| 1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Certificate of Achievement, NASA Earth System Science Award | |||||||
| Milpitas Christian School (6-8) | Lindon | Richards | Terry | Hsu | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Robotic Control On Puppets- a First Study On Bionics (Physical Science and Engineering) | 7 |
| Himani | Manjunath | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Natural Water Purifier: Using Banana Peels to Remove Lead From Water (Physical Science and Engineering) | 7 | |||
| Honorable Mention Award and Certificate of Achievement, ASM International, A Society for Materials, Santa Clara Valley Chapter | |||||||
| Notre Dame High School | Christine | Koltermann | Sophia Ayame Fujieda | Barwegen | 1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | The Effect of Light Pollution on Sky Brightness and the Calvin Cycle of Wildflowers in Yosemite National Park (Physical Science and Engineering) | 12 |
| A certificate, chance to apply to the Genius Olympiad, NY, Genius Olympiad-State University of New York, Oswego | |||||||
| Certificate of Excellence from National Association of Women Geoscientists, Association for Women Geoscientists, San Francisco Bay Area Chapter | |||||||
| Shreya | Garg | 1st Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | Determining the Roles of CuSB, Flagellin, and AcrAB-TolC in Bacterial Responses to Nonlethal Concentrations of AgNPs (Biological Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| Plaque and letter of invitation to Tour of Stanford Chemistry Department Labs, Stanford University Chemistry Department | |||||||
| Charlotte Emily | Lara | $50 High School Plant Science (Amazon Gift Card), California Botanical Society | Allelopathic Effects of California Native Trees on a California Native Grass, Festuca Californica (Biological Science and Engineering) | 10 | |||
| Atreyi Leela | Mukherjee | 1st Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | The effect of electronic cigarette liquid on the viability of Lumbriculus variegatus (Biological Science and Engineering) | 10 | |||
| Sahana | Rajmohan | IEEE Electro-Technology $50 gift card and a certificate, Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers | The Effect of Laundering Polyester Fabric on the Dispersion of Microfibers in Washing Machine Wastewater (Physical Science and Engineering) | 10 | |||
| Kami Elise | Richardson | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Coral Collapse: Investigating and Reducing Environmental Stress Factors in LPS Corals with Delayed Release Substrate (Physical Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| Certificate of Achievement and letter, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration | |||||||
| Certificate of Achievement and letter, Ricoh Corporation | |||||||
| Karthyayani | Sajeev | Certificate of Achievement and opportunity to advance to national and international competitions, Stockholm Junior Water Prize | What is the effect of various nitrate concentrations on freshwater hydrophyte development? (Physical Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| Shruti | Sridhar | Honorable Mention, RRI Biological Science and Engineering Category | Investigating Genetic Mechanisms of the Tumor Endothelium Using scRNA-Seq Analytics & Developmental Trajectory Mapping (RRI Biological Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| Honorable Mention: Certificate of Achievement, and Goody Bag, Association for Women in Science, Palo Alto Chapter | |||||||
| Jocelyn Elizabeth | Swift | 2nd Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | The Effects of Natural and Artificial Sweeteners on Gut Bacteria as Modeled by E. coli (Biological Science and Engineering) | 9 | |||
| Oakwood High School | Sean | Wilmot | Danya | Balagopal | 2nd Place $100, Santa Clara Valley Water District | The Effect of Bio-coagulants on the Adsorption of Waste Oil and the Reduction of Turbidity from Oil-Produced Waters (Physical Science and Engineering) | 9 |
| 1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Best Project: $50, Certificate of Achievement, and Voucher for a Safe Boating Course. Completion of Course Awards Additional $50., United States Coast Guard Auxiliary | |||||||
| Certificate of Achievement and opportunity to advance to national and international competitions, Stockholm Junior Water Prize | |||||||
| Kate Elizabeth | Jackson | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | The Effect of Limestone in Removing Excess Fluoride from Water (Physical Science and Engineering) | 10 | |||
| Old Orchard School | Tim | Ainoa | Nicolas Joaquin | Quijano | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Probing Haptic Glove for the Visually Impaired (Physical Science and Engineering) | 7 |
| $50 and Certificate of Achievement, Kerry Veenstra Awards | |||||||
| Maya | Schechtman | Honorable Mention Award and Certificate of Achievement, ASM International, A Society for Materials, Santa Clara Valley Chapter | Magnetism and Temperature (Physical Science and Engineering) | 6 | |||
| Jaimee | Burch | Ava | Hultquist | 3rd place - $50 and Certificate of Achievement, American Society of Civil Engineers- San Jose Branch | Do cities make rivers dirtier? Measuring the change of biotoxicity and organic chemical content of my city's rivers (Physical Science and Engineering) | 7 | |
| Student Award in Geoscience Excellence from Association for Women Geoscientists Bay Area Chapter, $40, Association for Women Geoscientists, San Francisco Bay Area Chapter | |||||||
| Gael Keren | Neighbors | Nominated to compete envelope, Broadcom MASTERS - 7th Grade | Which type of starch makes a stronger bioplastic? (Physical Science and Engineering) | 7 | |||
| 1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| 3rd Place - $50, Certificate of Achievement, SAMPE - Society for the Advancement of Material and Process Engineering | |||||||
| Isabelle | Shay | 2nd Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Comparing Plants' Ability to Block Phosphate (Physical Science and Engineering) | 7 | |||
| Ada Sophia | Yoder | 2nd Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | Can plants survive without sunlight? (Biological Science and Engineering) | 6 | |||
| Pinewood High School (7-12) | Monica | Ventrice | Srinivas | Balagopal | 2nd Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Bio-wall:Retooling walls into Carbon and VOC sinks (Physical Science and Engineering) | 11 |
| Plaque and letter of invitation to Tour of Stanford Chemistry Department Labs, Stanford University Chemistry Department | |||||||
| Presentation High School | Tracy | Hughes | Jadelynn Kim | Dao | 1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Using Reinforcement Learning in Detection Systems to Modernize Traffic Control Algorithms (Physical Science and Engineering) | 10 |
| Advit | Deepak | 1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Using Reinforcement Learning in Detection Systems to Modernize Traffic Control Algorithms (Physical Science and Engineering) | 10 | |||
| Anusha | Ghosh | Second Place: University of Toronto "Swag Bag", University of Toronto Award | Detection and Translation of American Sign Language through Deep Learning (Physical Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| 1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| ASEI Silicon Valley Emerging Technology Membership to American Society of Engineers of Indian Origin, American Society of Engineers of Indian Origin Award | |||||||
| Caitlin Maya | Gorin | 1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | A Multi-Faceted Material Strength Testing Machine for 3D Printed Plastics (Physical Science and Engineering) | 10 | |||
| 1st Place Award - $100 and Certificate of Achievement from ASM Materials Education Foundation and Ribbon, ASM International, A Society for Materials, Santa Clara Valley Chapter | |||||||
| Keshav | Gurushankar | Honorable Mention, RRI Biological Science and Engineering Category | Investigating the Role of Oxidative Phosphorylation in Myofiber Type Under Microgravity Conditions (RRI Biological Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| Shloka V. | Janapaty | $100, Morgan Lewis | A Novel, Fast, Low-Cost Approach to Achieve Near 100% LDPE Degradation: Bioremedial Landfill Implementation (Biological Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| 1st Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Nikitha Venkatesh | Kalahasti | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | The effect of plant recolonisation on soil properties post fire exposure during drought stress (Physical Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| Student Award in Geoscience Excellence from Association for Women Geoscientists Bay Area Chapter, $40, Association for Women Geoscientists, San Francisco Bay Area Chapter | |||||||
| Shannon Brigette | Miranda | 3rd Place $75, Santa Clara Valley Water District | An Environmentally Friendly Wetland Nitrate Filtration Method with Reduced Global Warming Gases (Physical Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| Certificate of Achievement and opportunity to advance to national and international competitions, Stockholm Junior Water Prize | |||||||
| Ria Umesh | Nawathe | Honorable Mention, RRI Biological Science and Engineering Category | Investigating the Role of Oxidative Phosphorylation in Myofiber Type Under Microgravity Conditions (RRI Biological Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| Tanaya Umesh | Nawathe | Honorable Mention, RRI Biological Science and Engineering Category | Investigating the Role of Oxidative Phosphorylation in Myofiber Type Under Microgravity Conditions (RRI Biological Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| Evelyn | Rubinchik | Honorable Mention, Biological Science and Engineering Category | The Effect of Blue Light Exposure on the Retinal Degeneration of Light and Dark Eyes (Biological Science and Engineering) | 12 | |||
| Anjali | Sinha | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Fighting Flames: Heat-Activated Dispenser for Fire Retardant (Physical Science and Engineering) | 12 | |||
| Samantha | Yang | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Fighting Flames: Heat-Activated Dispenser for Fire Retardant (Physical Science and Engineering) | 12 | |||
| Privately Sponsored Project | Yun-pei | Chang (PSP) | Aralyn | Connolly | Nominated to compete envelope, Broadcom MASTERS - 7th Grade | The effect of temperature and light exposure on pigments in picked leafy greens (Physical Science and Engineering) | 7 |
| 1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Claire | Tsai | Nominated to compete envelope, Broadcom MASTERS - 7th Grade | The effect of temperature and light exposure on pigments in picked leafy greens (Physical Science and Engineering) | 7 | |||
| 1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Sunil | Chhaya (PSP) | Om Sunil | Chhaya | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Wearable Personalized Health Information System (Physical Science and Engineering) | 8 | |
| Hari | Kosaraju (PSP) | Reshma | Kosaraju | Castro Family Award for Best Physical Science Projects - Trip to State Science Fair and Certificate, Santa Clara Valley Science & Engineering Fair Assn - Board of Directors Awards - Middle School | Application of Meteorological Data to Predict the Chances of a Forest Fire Using Machine Learning and Neural Networks (Physical Science and Engineering) | 7 | |
| $250 + certificate + a signed book + breakfast with Bob Zeidman, Zeidman Award | |||||||
| Nominated to compete envelope, Broadcom MASTERS - 7th Grade | |||||||
| 1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Tanuja | Madhavapeddi (PSP) | Anish | Bhethanabotla | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | An elegant and cost effective way of measuring air quality using Arduino (Physical Science and Engineering) | 6 | |
| Aadtiya | Mahajan | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | An elegant and cost effective way of measuring air quality using Arduino (Physical Science and Engineering) | 6 | |||
| Rossinca-Carden International STEAM Academy | Avi | Gardner | Austin | Hu | 2nd Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | Is Mouthwash as Effective as It Claims? (Biological Science and Engineering) | 7 |
| Sacred Heart Middle School | Susan | Greathouse | Lillian | Kaelber | Honorable Mention, Biological Science and Engineering Category | How does the amount of algae in water affect the size of the microorganism population? (Biological Science and Engineering) | 7 |
| Christian John | Moran | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Maximizing Golf Ball Performance by Studying the Effect of the Deepness of Its Dimples (Physical Science and Engineering) | 8 | |||
| 1st place MS student - $100 and Certificate of Achievement, American Vacuum Society, Northern CA | |||||||
| Eva | Talamantez | Honorable Mention, Biological Science and Engineering Category | How does the amount of algae in water affect the size of the microorganism population? (Biological Science and Engineering) | 7 | |||
| Saint Christopher School | Caitlin | Brady | Joseph Philip | Thomas | Nominated to compete envelope, Broadcom MASTERS - 8th Grade | Transfer Learning from Deep ImageNet Models to Simpler Models for Rapid Binary Classification (Physical Science and Engineering) | 8 |
| 1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Saint Francis High School | Chihiro | Ikezi | Ananya | Karthik | Grand Prize Alternate - Physical Sciences - Trip to State Science Fair and Certificate, Santa Clara Valley Science & Engineering Fair Assn - Board of Directors Awards - High School | Ultrasound-activated Nanoparticles for Targeted Drug Delivery to the Brain (RRI Physical Science and Engineering) | 12 |
| $1500 Grand Prize, Morgan Lewis | |||||||
| 2nd Award, RRI Physical Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| 1st Place - $100, Certificate of Achievement, SAMPE - Society for the Advancement of Material and Process Engineering | |||||||
| Daniel | Meyer | Shlok | Shah | 2nd Place Student Award: $320 and Certificate of Achievement, Association for Computing Machinery, San Francisco Bay Area Professional Chapter | Creating a Non-intrusive Elder Care System (Physical Science and Engineering) | 9 | |
| 2nd Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| $100 Certificate of Achievement, Inez M. Lechner Award | |||||||
| IEEE Electro-Technology $50 gift card and a certificate, Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers | |||||||
| Terry | O'Donnell | Pujita | Tangirala | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Comparing Correlation between Color and Metallicity in Cluster vs Non-Cluster Galaxies (Physical Science and Engineering) | 9 | |
| Larry | Steinke | Shivam | Singhal | Honorable Mention, Biological Science and Engineering Category | A Non-Invasive Tool for Cancer Diagnosis through the Optimization of Cell-free RNA and DNA (Biological Science and Engineering) | 12 | |
| ASEI Silicon Valley Emerging Technology Membership to American Society of Engineers of Indian Origin, American Society of Engineers of Indian Origin Award | |||||||
| Schmahl Science Workshop | Sonia | Cuellar (mentor) | Anushka | Sanyal | 2nd Award, RRI Biological Science and Engineering Category | Exploring the role of G-protein Signaling Pathway interactions with nAChR alpha-7 in D. melanogaster Alzheimer's models (RRI Biological Science and Engineering) | 10 |
| Amy | Devitt (mentor) | Ruchika Sunil | Dixit | 2nd Place $100 and Certificate of Achievement, American Association for Laboratory Animal Science, Northern California Branch | Comparing the Effects of Renilla to Firefly Luciferase When Genetically Inserted Into the Drosophila Melanogaster Genome (RRI Biological Science and Engineering) | 10 | |
| Youssef | Ismail (mentor) | Ishan Zhisheng | Juluri | 2nd Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | The Effect of Tuned Mass Dampers on Oscillating Buildings (Physical Science and Engineering) | 6 | |
| Richard | Williams (mentor) | Nidhya | Shivakumar | Middle School Finalist Certificate & $25 barnesandnoble.com gift certificate, Synopsys Outreach Foundation n+1 Prize | A Machine Learning Approach to Evaluate the Long Term Health Effects Of Forest Fires (Biological Science and Engineering) | 8 | |
| Inez | Yuwanita (mentor) | Triya | Roy | 1st Award, RRI Biological Science and Engineering Category | The Effect of a High-Sugar Diet on Drosophila melanogaster (RRI Biological Science and Engineering) | 11 | |
| Stanford Online High School | Alex | McKale | Andrew C. | Chiang | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | 3D LED Volumetric Display with Eccentric Rotating Blades (Physical Science and Engineering) | 10 |
| Shahram | Mostarshed | Krithi | Koodli | 2nd Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | A Novel Method of Distinguishing Habitable Rocky Planets from Uninhabitable Gas Giants using Machine Learning (Physical Science and Engineering) | 9 | |
| Stratford Middle School - Milpitas | Tatiana | Braun | Hrishikesh | Ankireddi | Packet with over-the-shoulder sling pack, dog tag USB flash memory drive, USB car charger, power bank charger and certificate in folder, United States Air Force | Impact of Ice on Aircraft Engines (Physical Science and Engineering) | 6 |
| Aahan | Shah | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Effect of Mass and Thrust on the Speed of Propeller Zipline Cable Car (Physical Science and Engineering) | 6 | |||
| Stratford Middle School - San Jose | Kristi | Chung | Vir | Bhutani | 2nd Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Which Natural Fat is the Most Unsaturated? (Physical Science and Engineering) | 6 |
| Aarush | Gogineni | Honorable Mention, Biological Science and Engineering Category | The Effect of Different Foods on the Concentration of Glucose based on Glycemic Index after Digestion (Biological Science and Engineering) | 6 | |||
| Krish | Maheshwari | Honorable Mention, Biological Science and Engineering Category | Effect of Wi-Fi signals on the growth of pea shoot plants. (Biological Science and Engineering) | 6 | |||
| Ayush Avinash | Sodani | 2nd Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | What is the effect of more turns in the coil on the amount of electricity created? (Physical Science and Engineering) | 6 | |||
| James | Tsaggaris | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | The Effect of Heat on the Strength of Ferrite Magnets (Physical Science and Engineering) | 6 | |||
| Honorable Mention Award and Certificate of Achievement, ASM International, A Society for Materials, Santa Clara Valley Chapter | |||||||
| Lindsay | Holt | Ayush | Ghosh | Castro Family Award for Best Physical Science Projects - Trip to State Science Fair and Certificate, Santa Clara Valley Science & Engineering Fair Assn - Board of Directors Awards - Middle School | Reducing Ocean Acidification Using Aquatic Plants (Physical Science and Engineering) | 6 | |
| Nominated to compete envelope, Broadcom MASTERS - 6th Grade | |||||||
| 1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Certificate of Achievement, American Meteorological Society | |||||||
| Nilansh Dey | Ghosh | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Search for a Low-Cost Material to Improve Air Quality. (Physical Science and Engineering) | 7 | |||
| 2nd Place Award - $75 and Certificate of Achievement, ASM International, A Society for Materials, Santa Clara Valley Chapter | |||||||
| Jeffrey | Takemoto | Ishaan | Agrawal | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | A Wireless Piezoelectric Auto-Charging Backpack for Mobile Devices (Physical Science and Engineering) | 8 | |
| Anika | Pandey | Middle School Finalist Certificate & $25 barnesandnoble.com gift certificate, Synopsys Outreach Foundation n+1 Prize | Designing an Environmentally Friendly and Efficient Supercapacitor/Battery with Nanoparticulate Graphene (Physical Science and Engineering) | 8 | |||
| 1st Place Award - $100 and Certificate of Achievement from ASM Materials Education Foundation and Ribbon, ASM International, A Society for Materials, Santa Clara Valley Chapter | |||||||
| Rayan | SenGupta | 3rd Place $50, Santa Clara Valley Water District | Clean Water Transportation (Physical Science and Engineering) | 7 | |||
| Nicole | Tsioutsioulikli | 3rd Place $50, Santa Clara Valley Water District | The effect of the material at the bottom of the desalination device on the amount of the water produced by condensation. (Physical Science and Engineering) | 7 | |||
| Juliana | West | Jennifer Ann | Dick-Peddie | Nominated to compete envelope, Broadcom MASTERS - 7th Grade | Designing an Autogyro to Accurately Deliver a Payload to a Designated Landing Zone with the Slowest Descent Rate (Physical Science and Engineering) | 7 | |
| 1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Vedant V. | Janapaty | 2nd Place $75, Santa Clara Valley Water District | Water conservation - Drastically reducing surface water evaporation with improved water delivery techniques (Physical Science and Engineering) | 7 | |||
| Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Neel | Sudhakaran | 3rd Place Award - $50 and Certificate of Achievement, ASM International, A Society for Materials, Santa Clara Valley Chapter | A New Fuel Cell Design (Physical Science and Engineering) | 7 | |||
| Stratford Middle School - Sunnyvale Raynor | Heather | Mackewicz | Arti | Gnanasekar | Honorable Mention Certificate + a signed book + breakfast with Bob Zeidman, Zeidman Award | Memory Vision: Using Artificial Intelligence to Improve Symptoms of Dementia in Alzheimer's Patients (Physical Science and Engineering) | 8 |
| Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Tanisha V | Gupta | Honorable Mention, Biological Science and Engineering Category | What is the Effect of Different Levels of Insect Repellent Containing DEET on the Viability of bacteria found on humans? (Biological Science and Engineering) | 7 | |||
| Sanika | Iyer | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Creating a Smart Fridge Using RFID Sensors to Eliminate Food Wastage (Physical Science and Engineering) | 7 | |||
| Dhwani Mehul | Kharidia | IEEE Electro-Technology $50 gift card and a certificate, Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers | Power Line Fire Hazard Detection System (Physical Science and Engineering) | 8 | |||
| Eleanore Jane | Kirshner | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | No More Ocean Garbage: The Solution to Removing Microplastics (Physical Science and Engineering) | 8 | |||
| 2nd place - $100 and Certificate of Achievement, American Society of Civil Engineers- San Jose Branch | |||||||
| Middle School Student - Certificate of Achievement and Medallion, United States Navy and Marine Corps | |||||||
| Outstanding Project: Certificate of Achievement and Voucher for a Safe Boating Course. Completion of Course Awards $50., United States Coast Guard Auxiliary | |||||||
| Sritej | Ponna | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | What is the Effect of Different Frequencies, Amplitudes, and Distances of Sound Waves on Fire (Physical Science and Engineering) | 8 | |||
| 3rd place MS student - $25 and Certificate of Achievement, American Vacuum Society, Northern CA | |||||||
| Aanya | Virmani | Honorable Mention Certificate + a signed book + breakfast with Bob Zeidman, Zeidman Award | Memory Vision: Using Artificial Intelligence to Improve Symptoms of Dementia in Alzheimer's Patients (Physical Science and Engineering) | 8 | |||
| Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Jonathan | Yu | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | A Simple Way to Save Oceans (Physical Science and Engineering) | 7 | |||
| Certificate of Achievement and letter, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration | |||||||
| Natraj | Narayanswami | Aaryan | Doshi | Nominated to compete envelope, Broadcom MASTERS - 6th Grade | Fight the Fire: An Innovative Software-Based Approach to Fire Prevention and Protection using Android Development (Physical Science and Engineering) | 6 | |
| 1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Swastik S | Purathepparambil | 2nd Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | The Ergonomic Lunch Box (Physical Science and Engineering) | 7 | |||
| Kevin | Seago | Charles Zhang | Huang | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Dual-Purpose Boba Straw (Physical Science and Engineering) | 7 | |
| Vishnu | Potharaju | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Help Save the Planet - TrashRight (Physical Science and Engineering) | 7 | |||
| Meimei | Wang | Uday | Chaudhary | Nominated to compete envelope, Broadcom MASTERS - 8th Grade | What is the effect of using compound wood boards on the overall flammability, durability and strength of the wood board? (Physical Science and Engineering) | 8 | |
| 1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Aadit | Golwala | Middle School Finalist Certificate & $25 barnesandnoble.com gift certificate, Synopsys Outreach Foundation n+1 Prize | Making an Offshore Wind Turbine Where the Entire Structure Turns into the Wind (Physical Science and Engineering) | 7 | |||
| Nominated to compete envelope, Broadcom MASTERS - 7th Grade | |||||||
| 1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Most Promising Young Scientist (Male), $100 and Framed Certificate (GR 6-8), SPV Market Research "Most Promising Young Scientist" | |||||||
| Kinjal | Govil | Nominated to compete envelope, Broadcom MASTERS - 8th Grade | What is the effect of using compound wood boards on the overall flammability, durability and strength of the wood board? (Physical Science and Engineering) | 8 | |||
| 1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Valley Christian High School | George | Sousa | Ansel Robert | Austin | $100, Morgan Lewis | Clean Water For All: a Novel Filtration and Maintenance Mechanism for Improving India Mark II Water Pump Performance (Physical Science and Engineering) | 11 |
| Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Most Promising Young Scientist (Male), $100 and Framed Certificate (GR 9-12), SPV Market Research "Most Promising Young Scientist" | |||||||
| Shiva | Balachander | Certificate of Achievement plus Letter, Mu Alpha Theta | Analysis of Long Short-Term Memory Neural Network Structures on the Accuracy of Stock Price Predictions (RRI Physical Science and Engineering) | 12 | |||
| Abida | Diep | 2nd Place $100, Santa Clara Valley Water District | Keeping the Ocean Clean: A Novel Self-Sustaining Boat that Collects and Sorts Trash in the Ocean (Physical Science and Engineering) | 12 | |||
| 1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| 3rd Place Award - $50 and Certificate of Achievement, American Society of Civil Engineers- San Jose Branch | |||||||
| Certificate of Achievement and opportunity to advance to national and international competitions, Stockholm Junior Water Prize | |||||||
| Vittal | Thirumalai | 2nd Place $100, Santa Clara Valley Water District | Keeping the Ocean Clean: A Novel Self-Sustaining Boat that Collects and Sorts Trash in the Ocean (Physical Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| 1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| 3rd Place Award - $50 and Certificate of Achievement, American Society of Civil Engineers- San Jose Branch | |||||||
| Certificate of Achievement and opportunity to advance to national and international competitions, Stockholm Junior Water Prize | |||||||
| Scott | VanderVeen | Ethan Ramirez | Kim | Honorable Mention, Biological Science and Engineering Category | The Effects Of Vitamins A,B and D on colon cancer cell line LoVo (Biological Science and Engineering) | 11 | |
| Raymond | Kuan | 1st Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | Effects of phycocyanin in spirulina platensis on planarian tumor growth (Biological Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| Wesley B | Liao | Certificate of Achievement, Society for In Vitro Biology | Comparison of Beta Amyloid Production by BACE1 and BACE2 Enzymes (Biological Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| Supriya Alyssa | Mula | 2nd Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | The Effects of TNF-beta on Harmful A1 Astrocyte Differentiation in Glial Scars (Biological Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| Katelyn | Stone | Certificate of Achievement, Society for In Vitro Biology | Comparison of Beta Amyloid Production by BACE1 and BACE2 Enzymes (Biological Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| Derek | Tan | 1st Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | Effects of phycocyanin in spirulina platensis on planarian tumor growth (Biological Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||