Santa Clara Unified School District
Project Awards 2019
Synopsys Silicon Valley Science and Technology Championship
| School | Teacher | Student | Award | Title | Gr | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cabrillo Middle School | Nelson | Hori | Marisa Ai | Malto | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | The Wildfire Drone and Fire Detection System (Physical Science and Engineering) | 7 |
| Nadine Paula Tan | Ngo | 2nd Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | The Smart Socket? (Biological Science and Engineering) | 7 | |||
| Nikhil | Ramkrishnan | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | The Wildfire Drone and Fire Detection System (Physical Science and Engineering) | 7 | |||
| Kabir Singh | Sahni | Nominated to compete envelope, Broadcom MASTERS - 7th Grade | Improving Oil Cleanup Equipment To Help Clean Up Oil Spills (Physical Science and Engineering) | 7 | |||
| 1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Kaushik | Salem | $125 + certificate + a signed book + breakfast with Bob Zeidman, Zeidman Award | A target acquisition system for landing aircrafts in constrained spaces using modified Hough Transform (Physical Science and Engineering) | 8 | |||
| 2nd Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Aasees Kaur | Sandhu | 2nd Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | The Smart Socket? (Biological Science and Engineering) | 7 | |||
| Shelby Rose | Schuberg | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | O.R.C.A (Physical Science and Engineering) | 7 | |||
| Sanjay | Selvakumar | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | The Wildfire Drone and Fire Detection System (Physical Science and Engineering) | 7 | |||
| Neel | Sharma | Nominated to compete envelope, Broadcom MASTERS - 7th Grade | Improving Oil Cleanup Equipment To Help Clean Up Oil Spills (Physical Science and Engineering) | 7 | |||
| 1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Ashar Ahmad | Siddiqui | Nominated to compete envelope, Broadcom MASTERS - 7th Grade | Improving Oil Cleanup Equipment To Help Clean Up Oil Spills (Physical Science and Engineering) | 7 | |||
| 1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Stephanie Thai | Vu | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | O.R.C.A (Physical Science and Engineering) | 7 | |||
| Chaela Rafael | Zaide | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | O.R.C.A (Physical Science and Engineering) | 7 | |||
| Glenn | Lillie | Sherif | Abdou | Honorable Mention Student Award: $40 and Certificate of Achievement, Association for Computing Machinery, San Francisco Bay Area Professional Chapter | Building a rescue robot (Physical Science and Engineering) | 8 | |
| Adreema Tasnova | Ahsan | 2nd Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | How to save a life " CPR dummy remodeled" (Physical Science and Engineering) | 8 | |||
| Sahana | Moogi | Honorable Mention Student Award: $40 and Certificate of Achievement, Association for Computing Machinery, San Francisco Bay Area Professional Chapter | In A HeartBeat: Heart Disease Detecting Device and App (Physical Science and Engineering) | 8 | |||
| Second Place $100 and Certificate Letter of Recognition, Middle Grades STEM Award | |||||||
| Aryo | Nabyzadeh | 1st place - $150 and Certificate of Achievement, American Society of Civil Engineers- San Jose Branch | Creating a more efficient storm drain design (Physical Science and Engineering) | 8 | |||
| Kaitlyn Dinh | Nguyen | Honorable Mention Student Award: $40 and Certificate of Achievement, Association for Computing Machinery, San Francisco Bay Area Professional Chapter | In A HeartBeat: Heart Disease Detecting Device and App (Physical Science and Engineering) | 8 | |||
| Second Place $100 and Certificate Letter of Recognition, Middle Grades STEM Award | |||||||
| Saee Kunal | Pole | 2nd Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | How to save a life " CPR dummy remodeled" (Physical Science and Engineering) | 8 | |||
| Dario Romano | Quintero | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Measuring the Capillary Action of Various Kinds of Paper (Physical Science and Engineering) | 8 | |||
| Kavinaya | Rajesh | Honorable Mention Student Award: $40 and Certificate of Achievement, Association for Computing Machinery, San Francisco Bay Area Professional Chapter | In A HeartBeat: Heart Disease Detecting Device and App (Physical Science and Engineering) | 8 | |||
| Second Place $100 and Certificate Letter of Recognition, Middle Grades STEM Award | |||||||
| James | Thornton | 1st place - $150 and Certificate of Achievement, American Society of Civil Engineers- San Jose Branch | Creating a more efficient storm drain design (Physical Science and Engineering) | 8 | |||
| Kaitlyn Huygn-Lan Cloke | Venator | 2nd Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | How to save a life " CPR dummy remodeled" (Physical Science and Engineering) | 8 | |||
| Austin Mathew | Wu | Honorable Mention Student Award: $40 and Certificate of Achievement, Association for Computing Machinery, San Francisco Bay Area Professional Chapter | Building a rescue robot (Physical Science and Engineering) | 8 | |||
| Sarah | Rahman | Javeria | Ahmed | 2nd Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | The Greenhouse of the future (Physical Science and Engineering) | 7 | |
| Noah Isaac | Barlahan | Nominated to compete envelope, Broadcom MASTERS - 7th Grade | Making Hydropower More Environmentally Friendly (Physical Science and Engineering) | 7 | |||
| 1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Romina | Blanco-Sarmiento | Nominated to compete envelope, Broadcom MASTERS - 7th Grade | Operation Cut Free (OCF) (Physical Science and Engineering) | 7 | |||
| 1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Ynna Sophia Bondad | Buriel | 2nd Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | The Greenhouse of the future (Physical Science and Engineering) | 7 | |||
| Rosie | Chen | 2nd Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | The Greenhouse of the future (Physical Science and Engineering) | 7 | |||
| Ryan Pierce | Co | Nominated to compete envelope, Broadcom MASTERS - 7th Grade | Making Hydropower More Environmentally Friendly (Physical Science and Engineering) | 7 | |||
| 1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Jeremy Zhou | Flint | Nominated to compete envelope, Broadcom MASTERS - 7th Grade | Making Hydropower More Environmentally Friendly (Physical Science and Engineering) | 7 | |||
| 1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Miranda Rose | Gutierrez | Nominated to compete envelope, Broadcom MASTERS - 7th Grade | Operation Cut Free (OCF) (Physical Science and Engineering) | 7 | |||
| 1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Sarah Christine | Honer | Nominated to compete envelope, Broadcom MASTERS - 7th Grade | Operation Cut Free (OCF) (Physical Science and Engineering) | 7 | |||
| 1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Caitlin Minh Thy | Nguyen | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Smart Car Seat (Physical Science and Engineering) | 7 | |||
| Lauren Maha | Taffe | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Smart Car Seat (Physical Science and Engineering) | 7 | |||
| Taylor Kristyn | Wong | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Smart Car Seat (Physical Science and Engineering) | 7 | |||
| Michelle | Scilingo | Tanisha | Grover | Grand Prize Student Award, Outstanding Young Woman in Computing: $320 and Certificate of Achievement, Association for Computing Machinery, San Francisco Bay Area Professional Chapter | So Many Houses, But Which One To Choose? (Physical Science and Engineering) | 8 | |
| Kimberly Carol | Maddox | Grand Prize Student Award, Outstanding Young Woman in Computing: $320 and Certificate of Achievement, Association for Computing Machinery, San Francisco Bay Area Professional Chapter | So Many Houses, But Which One To Choose? (Physical Science and Engineering) | 8 | |||
| Wilson | Tsang | Ruhi | Batchu | $50 Middle School Plant Science (Amazon Gift Card), California Botanical Society | Watering Efficiently (Biological Science and Engineering) | 7 | |
| Vyshnavi | Katta | $50 Middle School Plant Science (Amazon Gift Card), California Botanical Society | Watering Efficiently (Biological Science and Engineering) | 7 | |||
| Santa Clara High School | Suzanne | Miller-Moody | Aleena | Bosky | Honorable Mention, Biological Science and Engineering Category | Is watching television more beneficial to one's short-term memory than exercising for ten minutes? (Biological Science and Engineering) | 9 |
| Kaitlyn Celeste | Butcher | Honorable Mention, Biological Science and Engineering Category | Is watching television more beneficial to one's short-term memory than exercising for ten minutes? (Biological Science and Engineering) | 9 | |||
| Jason Robert | Co | High School Finalist Certficate & $50 barnesandnoble.com gift certficate, Synopsys Outreach Foundation n+1 Prize | The Multipurpose Prosthetic: Using 3D printing to create various attachments for amputees (Biological Science and Engineering) | 9 | |||
| 1st Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Saurav Saumil | Gandhi | 1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | A Hand Dynamometer Controlled Computer Vision based AI Robotic Navigation System for the Visually Impaired and Elderly (Physical Science and Engineering) | 9 | |||
| $100 Certificate of Achievement, Inez M. Lechner Award | |||||||
| Honorable Mention: Certificate of Achievement, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) Intelligent Systems Award | |||||||
| Shailee | Nanavati | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Modeling Quantum Levitation with Superconductors (Physical Science and Engineering) | 9 | |||
| Akshita Lakshmi | Ponnuru | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Sustainable Affordable Housing for Homeless (Physical Science and Engineering) | 9 | |||
| $50 cash award and certificate, Bruce Kawanami Engineering Award | |||||||
| Stephanie | Samame | Honorable Mention, Biological Science and Engineering Category | Is watching television more beneficial to one's short-term memory than exercising for ten minutes? (Biological Science and Engineering) | 9 | |||
| Alan | Tan | Sakshi | Kumar | 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 | An Alternative to the Pitot Tube For Measuring Airspeed (Physical Science and Engineering) | 10 | |
| Arushi | Patel | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Use of AI Base Image Recognition for Delta Smelt Substrate Mapping (Physical Science and Engineering) | 10 | |||
| Sriya | Sridhar | 1st Place $150, Santa Clara Valley Water District | Water Footprint! (Physical Science and Engineering) | 10 | |||
| Wilcox High School | William | Beadell | Ahmad | Ismail | Honorable Mention, Biological Science and Engineering Category | Exploring a Treatment for Candidiasis by Investigating Interactions Between Candida and Bacteria (Biological Science and Engineering) | 9 |
| David | Iverson | Visala R | Tallavarjula | $500 to the winning student or team in high school Physical Science, Synopsys Outreach Foundation n+1 Prize | Water Use Optimization for Irrigation in Desert Sand Using Percolation Control Layer (Physical Science and Engineering) | 12 | |
| High School Finalist Certficate & $50 barnesandnoble.com gift certficate, Synopsys Outreach Foundation n+1 Prize | |||||||
| 2nd Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| $100 and Certificate of Achievement, Schonert Award | |||||||
| HS student - Certificate of Achievement, Medallion and $50 gift card, United States Navy and Marine Corps | |||||||
| Jerry | Knaack | Impana R | Chimmalagi | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | ThumbsUp: Designing an Optimal Cryo-Brace to Treat Texting Thumb (Physical Science and Engineering) | 9 | |
| Tavleen | Kaur | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | ThumbsUp: Designing an Optimal Cryo-Brace to Treat Texting Thumb (Physical Science and Engineering) | 9 | |||