Mountain View-Los Altos Union High School District

Project Awards 2022

Synopsys Silicon Valley Science and Technology Championship

School	Teacher		Student		Award	Title	Gr
Los Altos High School	Darren	Dressen	Alexandra Keira	Chatwin	1st Place Award - $400 and Framed Certificate of Achievement, SVACS High School Award for Excellence in Chemistry	Synthesizing novel cinnamic acid analogs as small molecule inhibitors of EP2 towards the treatment of cognitive decline (Physical Science and Engineering)	11
					Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair
					Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category
			Dominic Crosby	Christiansen	$100, Robby Beyers Innovative Solutions Awards	Synthesis of Tryptamine Derivatives: Potentially Constricting Melatonin Synthesis via Inhibition of AANAT (Physical Science and Engineering)	12
			Alyssa	Manche	2nd Place Award - $300 and Framed Certificate of Achievement, SVACS High School Award for Excellence in Chemistry	Synthesis of novel Ibrutinib derivative towards the targeted inhibition of BTK mediated anaphylaxis (Physical Science and Engineering)	11
					Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair
					2nd Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category
			Aidan Carpenter	Mitchell	Letter of Encouragement, Environment Protection Agency	Investigating the impact of rising sea temperatures on Ampelisca Eschrichtii Populations (Biological Science and Engineering)	12
			Parker J	Neugebauer	Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category	On the Nature of Wavefunction Collapse (Physical Science and Engineering)	12
			Tara Sophia	Pande	Honorable Mention, Biological Science and Engineering Category	Engineering immunosilenced T-cell epitopes by a genetic algorithm to facilitate CRISPR-Cas9 in vivo gene therapy. (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 - ASEI
			Ada Defne	Tur	Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category	Deep Learning-Based Conversational AI Models to Identify and Create Influential Political Speeches (Physical Science and Engineering)	12
			Solomon Pinchos	Wechter	$100, Robby Beyers Innovative Solutions Awards	Synthesis of Tryptamine Derivatives: Potentially Constricting Melatonin Synthesis via Inhibition of AANAT (Physical Science and Engineering)	12
Mountain View High School	Allison	Pfeifer	Saarang	Bondalapati	Letter of Encouragement, Environment Protection Agency	Advancing Computer Vision AI Models for Waste Classification using modern Weak Supervision with Programmatic Labeling (Physical Science and Engineering)	11