Monta Vista High School

Project Awards 2020

Synopsys Silicon Valley Science and Technology Championship

School Teacher Student Award Title Gr
Monta Vista High School  Sushma Bana  Dinesh Kumar Thirumavalavan ASEI Silicon Valley Emerging Technology Membership to American Society of Engineers of Indian Origin, American Society of Engineers of Indian Origin Award Using a convolution LSTM-based deep neural network to accurately identify and classify hate speech on Twitter. (Physical Science and Engineering) 11
   Pamela Chow  Christine  Xu 2nd Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category How does isolation affect a Drosophila's ability to learn mazes (Biological Science and Engineering) 9
   Katie Collins  Fiona Lin Luo Grand Prize - Best of Championship - Physical Sciences - Qualified to be a Regeneron ISEF Finalist - $500 Cash, Santa Clara Valley Science & Engineering Fair Assn - Board of Directors Awards - High School Identification of Novel Antimicrobial Peptides with Designed Activity through a QSAR Based Machine Learning Model (Physical Science and Engineering) 11
              Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair    
              1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category    
   John Conlin  Divya  Venkataraman Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category Picture Perfect Diet: An app to classify food products, with OCR, for recommending substitutes based on a chosen diet (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    
   Scott DeRuiter  Niranjan  Bhatia Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category Detection and classification of recyclable items to help recyclable facility robots identify and pick them up correctly (Physical Science and Engineering) 11
        Brandon  Guo Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair Hamiltonian Cycles Generating Eulerian Polytopes: A Computer-Inspired Analysis (Physical Science and Engineering) 12
              1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category    
        Ojas Mahavir Karnavat Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category Designing a public alert system that provides available exit routes when fire is detected in an enterprise facility (Physical Science and Engineering) 10
              ASEI Silicon Valley Emerging Technology Membership to American Society of Engineers of Indian Origin, American Society of Engineers of Indian Origin Award    
        Minjeong  Kim 2nd Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category Detecting Pain in Children with Autism using 68 Points on Facial Expressions (Physical Science and Engineering) 9
        Suhas  Prasad Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair Hamiltonian Cycles Generating Eulerian Polytopes: A Computer-Inspired Analysis (Physical Science and Engineering) 12
              1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category    
        Chaitra  Raghupathi Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category What Properties of DNA Sequencing Reads Determine the Optimal K-mer Size for De Bruijn Graph Construction? (Physical Science and Engineering) 10
        Gautham  Raghupathi Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category What Properties of DNA Sequencing Reads Determine the Optimal K-mer Size for De Bruijn Graph Construction? (Physical Science and Engineering) 12
        Mahit Vishnusai Tanikella $100 for Individual projects. $50 for each student for Team Projects, IBM Award Automatic Quantification of Lymphocytes as Prognostic Marker in Cancer Tissue (Biological Science and Engineering) 10
   Renee Fallon  Myung Suh  Choi 2nd Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category The capabilities of various phytochemicals to inhibit bacterial quorum sensing modeled by Serratia Marcescens (Biological Science and Engineering) 10
        Malavika  Eby 2nd Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category Effect of Varying Levels of Apoptosis on the Efficacy of Phenytoin in Seizure-Susceptible Drosophila (Biological Science and Engineering) 11
        Anoushka  Lakshmi Honorable Mention, Biological Science and Engineering Category The Effects of the Azadirachtin on the Reproductive Rates of Daphnia Pulex (water flea) (Biological Science and Engineering) 10
        Sophia W. Liu 2nd Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category The effect of a metalloprotease inhibitor on the molting and mortality of C. elegans as an anti-aneurysmal growth model (Biological Science and Engineering) 10
        Atmaja  Patil Honorable Mention, Biological Science and Engineering Category Effects of food waste addition to broth of Rhizobium Leguminosarum and its capacity to raise interest in biofertilizers (Biological Science and Engineering) 10
        Jonah  Tien Honorable Mention, RRI Biological Science and Engineering Category Brainteract: An Integrated Improvement Aiding Brain-Computer-Interfaces and Disabilities Using Visual-Evoked Stimuli (RRI Biological Science and Engineering) 10
        Kelly Hui-Chin Tung Honorable Mention, Biological Science and Engineering Category Investigating the Functions of xpa-1 and him-1 Genes in UV Resistance of Caenorhabditis elegans by Combinatorial RNAi (Biological Science and Engineering) 9
   David Greenstein  Janya  Budaraju 2nd Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category Using Natural Language Processing to More Effectively Conduct Qualitative Mental Health Research (Physical Science and Engineering) 11
        Safaa Aicha Mouline Honorable Mention, Biological Science and Engineering Category A Customizable Voice that Improves Comprehension of Speech for Children with Language Impairments (Biological Science and Engineering) 11
   Kyle Jones  Sanjana S Jilla Grand Prize Alternate - Physical Sciences - Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF) - $250 Cash, Santa Clara Valley Science & Engineering Fair Assn - Board of Directors Awards - High School Identifying Lead-free Perovskites Using Machine Learning for High Efficiency Solar Cells (Physical Science and Engineering) 10
              Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair    
              1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category    
        Avani  Kulshreshtha 2nd Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category What is the effect of nutrient enhancement on biohydrogen gas production of the green algae Chlamydomonas reinhardtii? (Biological Science and Engineering) 9
        Anika Kiran Nagavara Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair The Effect of Different Amounts of Zinc on Asthma in Drosophila Melanogaster (Biological Science and Engineering) 10
              1st Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category    
        Samika  Swamy Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair Effect of environmental Aluminum on neurotoxicity and novel herb-based treatment to reduce inflammation-mediated neurona (Physical Science and Engineering) 10
              1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category    
   Joe Kim  Audrey Yining Cui 2nd Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category From Pixels to Paragraph and Paragraph to Pixels: A Deep Neural Art Critic & Artist (Physical Science and Engineering) 12
        Joseph  Seok $100 and Certificate of Achievement, Trimble Award Infrastructure-less Vehicular Position Tracking based on RTT measurement of Wi-Fi signals (Physical Science and Engineering) 10
              First Place, $125 Wireless Communications Alliance Award, Wireless Communications Alliance    
   Josh Kuo  Arushi  Agastwar 2nd Award, RRI Biological Science and Engineering Category Biomimetic Tissue Regeneration: Activation of Wnt-3a Pathway in Presence of Bone Xenograft (RRI Biological Science and Engineering) 11
        Avishi  Agastwar 2nd Award, RRI Biological Science and Engineering Category Biomimetic Tissue Regeneration: Activation of Wnt-3a Pathway in Presence of Bone Xenograft (RRI Biological Science and Engineering) 11
   Supriya Moore  Samhita  Srivatsan Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category Developing Artificial Neural Network Models to Predict Eutrophication of United States Freshwater Bodies (Physical Science and Engineering) 9