Private
Project Awards 2022
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 | Designing Region-Specific, Mutation-Resistant COVID-19 RNA Therapeutics Using Correlative Analysis & Machine Learning (RRI Biological Science and Engineering) | 12 |
| Anshul | Gupta | GR 9-12: Honorable Mention, Certificate of Achievement, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) Intelligent Systems Award | Gensic: Generative music therapy based on physiological properties for individuals on the autism spectrum (Physical Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| Sritej | Ponna | 2nd Place $100, Valley Water Awards HS | An Automated Vessel That Utilizes Infrared Technology to Detect, Trace, and Clean Oil Spills (Physical Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| IEEE Electro-Technology $50 Amazon gift card and a certificate, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers | |||||||
| Letter of Encouragement, Environment Protection Agency | |||||||
| Aarav | Sharma | $50 and Certificate of Achievement, Kerry Veenstra Awards | Diagnosing Breast Cancer Using A Novel-Dual Layered Random Forest with Null Handling (Biological Science and Engineering) | 9 | |||
| HS student - Certificate of Achievement, Medallion and business card to complete award ($50 gift card) and letter of congratulations, Office of Naval Research -United States Navy/ US Marine Corps | |||||||
| Kian Anvari | Totonchi | Letter of Encouragement, Environment Protection Agency | An Investigation Using Duckweed to Measure Water Quality from Local Resevoirs (Physical Science and Engineering) | 10 | |||
| BASIS Independent Silicon Valley School | Karen | Allendoerfer | Indeever | Madireddy | Grand Prize Alternate - Biological Sciences - Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), Santa Clara Valley Science & Engineering Fair Assn - Board of Directors Awards - High School | Stably Integrating an Inducible CRISPR-Cas9 to Augment the Mammalian Immune System to Protect Against Viral Infections (RRI Biological Science and Engineering) | 11 |
| Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair | |||||||
| 1st Award, RRI Biological Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Swetha | Bhattacharya | Garv | Mehdiratta | Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair | Predicting BAP1 Mutations and Metastases in Uveal Melanoma Patients Using Deep Learning-Based Pathology Image Analysis (Biological Science and Engineering) | 11 | |
| 1st Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Neha | Naveen | 1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | A Deep Learning Approach to Detect and Classify AFB-Infected Bee Hives (Physical Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| Vishak | Srikanth | GR 9-12: Honorable Mention, Certificate of Achievement, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) Intelligent Systems Award | A Novel Game Theoretic Approach to Causality in AI/ML Models: Causal Socioeconomic Factors Affecting Spread of COVID-19 (RRI Physical Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| Randa | Iskander | Timothy | Hu | $50 High School Plant Science AND Certificate of Achievement, California Botanical Society | A Novel Deep Learning and Graphical-QSAR Approach to Assess the Pharmacognostic Properties of Yucatan Plants (Physical Science and Engineering) | 11 | |
| Akarsh | Ojha | $50 High School Plant Science AND Certificate of Achievement, California Botanical Society | A Novel Deep Learning and Graphical-QSAR Approach to Assess the Pharmacognostic Properties of Yucatan Plants (Physical Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| Kirti | Tamhane | Sanskriti | Singh | Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair | Automated Coronary Calcium Scoring using U-Net Models through Semi-supervised Learning on Non-Gated CT Scans (Physical Science and Engineering) | 10 | |
| 1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Bellarmine College Preparatory | Kim | Bathker | Sonny Wei | Lowe | Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair | Detecting, Charting, and Predicting Tent Cities Using Satellite Imaging and YOLO recognition algorithms (Physical Science and Engineering) | 11 |
| 1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Certificate of Achievement plus Letter, Mu Alpha Theta | |||||||
| Matthew Vincent | Naidu | Honorable Mention, Biological Science and Engineering Category | Determining optimal conditions for peroxidase through variations in enzyme & substrate concentration, pH, & temperature (Biological Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| Dan | Judnick | Philip | Oberhart | Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair | Toilet Splatter Prevention Device (Physical Science and Engineering) | 9 | |
| 1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| $50 cash award and certificate, Bruce Kawanami Engineering Award | |||||||
| Lisa | Yi | Aarnav | Sawant | Letter of Encouragement, Environment Protection Agency | WildfireDL: A Real-Time Wildfire Detection System using Deep Learning (Physical Science and Engineering) | 11 | |
| Challenger - Berryessa - SJ | Samantha | Carlisle | Avni Hiren | Desai | 2nd place $75 andCertificate, Valley Water Awards-MS | Carbon Cleansing: The Effect of the Type of Activated Carbon Filter on its Ability to Filter Contaminants from Water (Physical Science and Engineering) | 8 |
| Swara | Shah | Honorable Mention Student Award: $40 and Certificate of Achievement, Association for Computing Machinery, ACM- Lower Division | RecycleRight: An Intelligent Solution to Waste Disposal Classification (Physical Science and Engineering) | 8 | |||
| Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Certificate, $250 Dollar Gift Certificate,RaspberryPi Foundation Personal Computer Kit, Broadcom Coding with Commitment Award | |||||||
| Challenger - Shawnee - SJ | Bonny | Basu | Aman Prashant | Chandra | $250 + certificate + a signed book + breakfast with Bob Zeidman, Zeidman Award | Smart Traffic Lights (Physical Science and Engineering) | 8 |
| 2nd Place Student Award: $160 and Certificate of Achievement, Association for Computing Machinery, ACM- Lower Division | |||||||
| Nominated to compete envelope to apply for Broadcom MASTERS, Broadcom MASTERS - 8th Grade | |||||||
| Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair | |||||||
| 1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Sharanya Munjal | Chudgar | Nominated to compete envelope to apply for Broadcom MASTERS, Broadcom MASTERS - 7th Grade | Marblellous Viscosity! (Physical Science and Engineering) | 7 | |||
| Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair | |||||||
| 1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Vivan Hemal | Doshi | $500 + certificate + a signed book + breakfast with Bob Zeidman, Zeidman Award | Detect Distracted, Drowsy, and Drunk Drivers through Facial Recognition using CNN and Override to Self-Driving AI (Physical Science and Engineering) | 8 | |||
| Sera | John | Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair | Let It Glow (Physical Science and Engineering) | 6 | |||
| Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| IEEE Electro-Technology $50 Amazon gift card and a certificate, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers | |||||||
| Haripriya | Ramakrishnan | Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair | Syringe Chromatography (Physical Science and Engineering) | 7 | |||
| Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Challenger - Strawberry Park - SJ | Kameswari | Rayaprolu | Sudhanva Sathyabodha | Belur | Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair | Eco-coco (Physical Science and Engineering) | 7 |
| 2nd Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Anika Sachin | Ganu | Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair | Antioxidative Power of Fruits and Vegetables (Biological Science and Engineering) | 7 | |||
| Honorable Mention, Biological Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Sanvi | Mishra | Nominated to compete envelope to apply for Broadcom MASTERS, Broadcom MASTERS - 8th Grade | Ring for Life Rescue (Physical Science and Engineering) | 8 | |||
| Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair | |||||||
| 1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Kiyan Arun | Raisinghani | Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair | Defying Gravity Using Capillary Action (Physical Science and Engineering) | 6 | |||
| 2nd Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| 1st Place - $100, Certificate of Achievement, SAMPE - Society for the Advancement of Material and Process Engineering | |||||||
| IEEE Electro-Technology $50 Amazon gift card and a certificate, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers | |||||||
| Yash | Sharma | Middle School Student - Certificate of Achievement and Medallion and letter of congratulations, Office of Naval Research -United States Navy/ US Marine Corps | Fire Fighting Drone (Physical Science and Engineering) | 8 | |||
| Challenger-Middlefield-Palo Alto | Diane | Rusu | Shruti | Dusankar | IEEE Electro-Technology $50 Amazon gift card and a certificate, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers | Rock, Paper, Speaker! (Physical Science and Engineering) | 6 |
| Champion School (grades 9-12) | Sameer | Khanna | Ansh | Thakkar | Nominated to compete envelope to apply for Broadcom MASTERS, Broadcom MASTERS - 8th Grade | A Raspberry Pi based automatically maintained and monitored Hydroponics system (Biological Science and Engineering) | 8 |
| Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair | |||||||
| 1st Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Gideon Hausner Jewish Day School | Liat | Baranoff | Ahroon Anchal | Bhalla-Levine | Nominated to compete envelope to apply for Broadcom MASTERS, Broadcom MASTERS - 6th Grade | To Compost, Or Not To Compost? (Physical Science and Engineering) | 6 |
| Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair | |||||||
| 1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Miriam Shifra | Goldhaber-Fiebert | Nominated to compete envelope to apply for Broadcom MASTERS, Broadcom MASTERS - 6th Grade | Milk Dispensing Spoon (Physical Science and Engineering) | 6 | |||
| Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair | |||||||
| 1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Lia Ziva | Maydan | 3rd Place - $50, Certificate of Achievement, SAMPE - Society for the Advancement of Material and Process Engineering | Tempering Chocolate Machine (Physical Science and Engineering) | 6 | |||
| Maya | Mazin | Honorable Mention, Biological Science and Engineering Category | Soil, Hydroponics, Plants, and CO2 (Biological Science and Engineering) | 6 | |||
| Orli Kenna | Roy | Nominated to compete envelope to apply for Broadcom MASTERS, Broadcom MASTERS - 6th Grade | Milk Dispensing Spoon (Physical Science and Engineering) | 6 | |||
| Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair | |||||||
| 1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Laura | Coughlin | Eli Paz | Kozodoy | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | A Device To Keep Glasses Fog-Free (Physical Science and Engineering) | 7 | |
| Granada Islamic School | Farhana | Afroz | Raneem Faisal | Abu-Nimeh | IEEE Electro-Technology $50 Amazon gift card and a certificate, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers | Air: Is It breathable? Determining the Post Wildfire Air Particles Using Laser Technology (Physical Science and Engineering) | 8 |
| Middle School Student - Certificate of Achievement and Medallion and letter of congratulations, Office of Naval Research -United States Navy/ US Marine Corps | |||||||
| Ayman Heshaam | Fallah | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | The Burning Question: Will Whey Improve the Water Percolation of Post Wildfire Soil in Napa Valley? (Physical Science and Engineering) | 8 | |||
| Zeba | Haq | Umar Muhammed | Khan | Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair | Photovoltaic Heat Island Effect on Climate Change (Physical Science and Engineering) | 6 | |
| 2nd Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Zahra Yawar | Nahvi | 3rd Place $50 and Certificate, Valley Water Awards-MS | Designing and building an automatic irrigation system with a soil moisture detector and Arduino microcontroller (Physical Science and Engineering) | 6 | |||
| Sadaf | Khalil | Tarek | Aref | Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair | Effect of Household Chemicals on the Bioluminescence of Dinoflagellates (Biological Science and Engineering) | 7 | |
| Honorable Mention, Biological Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Abeer | Khan | GR 6-8: $40 and Student Award in Geoscience Excellence from Association for Women Geoscientists Bay Area Chapter,, Association for Women Geoscientists, San Francisco Bay Area Chapter | Can We Reduce CO2 From the Atmosphere Through Filtration From Different Chemicals? (Physical Science and Engineering) | 7 | |||
| Harker School-Middle Campus | Tina | Kim | Hubert | Lau | Honorable Mention, Biological Science and Engineering Category | Comparison of Electricity Generation Using Rotting and Fresh Fruit (Biological Science and Engineering) | 8 |
| Serena | Lau | Honorable Mention, Biological Science and Engineering Category | Comparison of Electricity Generation Using Rotting and Fresh Fruit (Biological Science and Engineering) | 8 | |||
| Sofia Chawla | Shah | Nominated to compete envelope to apply for Broadcom MASTERS, Broadcom MASTERS - 8th Grade | Change and Improvement of Antioxidant Levels in Different Fruits and Storage Environments (Biological Science and Engineering) | 8 | |||
| Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair | |||||||
| 1st Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Aditya | Shivakumar | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Developing a 3D-Printable Roof Shingle to Solve the Problem of Structural Damage Caused by Falling Trees (Physical Science and Engineering) | 8 | |||
| Rahul Sharma | Sundaresan | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Developing a 3D-Printable Roof Shingle to Solve the Problem of Structural Damage Caused by Falling Trees (Physical Science and Engineering) | 8 | |||
| Jonathan Alexander | Szeto | Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair | A Cost-Effective Method Using Ash to Improve the Efficacy of Oil Spill Bioremediation with Bacillus subtilis (Physical Science and Engineering) | 8 | |||
| 2nd Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Kallie | Wang | Nominated to compete envelope to apply for Broadcom MASTERS, Broadcom MASTERS - 8th Grade | Change and Improvement of Antioxidant Levels in Different Fruits and Storage Environments (Biological Science and Engineering) | 8 | |||
| Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair | |||||||
| 1st Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Benjamin | Morgensen | Rory Crystal | Hu | Nominated to compete envelope to apply for Broadcom MASTERS, Broadcom MASTERS - 6th Grade | The Effects of Pesticides, Caffeine & Tea Polyphenols on the Visual and Olfactory Learning and Memory of the Honey Bee (Biological Science and Engineering) | 6 | |
| Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair | |||||||
| 1st Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Kristen | Morgensen | Janam | Chahal | Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair | Antagonistic Neurochemicals and Their Effects on the Heart Rate of Daphnia magna (Biological Science and Engineering) | 8 | |
| 2nd Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Jaden rao | Fu | Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair | Real-Time Prediction of Crop Yields for California based on the Environmental Variables (Biological Science and Engineering) | 8 | |||
| 2nd Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Minal | Jalil | Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair | Antagonistic Neurochemicals and Their Effects on the Heart Rate of Daphnia magna (Biological Science and Engineering) | 8 | |||
| 2nd Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Ashley | Mo | Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair | The Effects of Different Nutrients Used in Ocean Fertilization on Growth of Algae (Biological Science and Engineering) | 8 | |||
| Honorable Mention, Biological Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Team Award: $250 and framed cert, SVACS Dave Parker Award for Excellence in Chemistry | |||||||
| Audrey | Yang | $50 Middle School Plant Science, California Botanical Society | A thermal imaging-based methodology to predict plant stress (Biological Science and Engineering) | 8 | |||
| Tiffany Zhu | Zhu | Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair | The Effects of Different Nutrients Used in Ocean Fertilization on Growth of Algae (Biological Science and Engineering) | 8 | |||
| Honorable Mention, Biological Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Team Award: $250 and framed cert, SVACS Dave Parker Award for Excellence in Chemistry | |||||||
| Kathy | Peng | Disha | Gupta | Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair | Improving Outcomes: Early Detection of Autism Using fMRI and Phenotypic Data with Convolutional Neural Networks (Biological Science and Engineering) | 8 | |
| 2nd Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Mikhil | Kiran | 2nd Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Ceye: The app to assist the visually impaired with currency differentiation (Physical Science and Engineering) | 8 | |||
| $50 gift check and certificate, Access Braille Awards | |||||||
| Krish | Nachnani | 2nd Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Ceye: The app to assist the visually impaired with currency differentiation (Physical Science and Engineering) | 8 | |||
| $50 gift check and certificate, Access Braille Awards | |||||||
| Tanvi | Sivakumar | Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair | Improving Outcomes: Early Detection of Autism Using fMRI and Phenotypic Data with Convolutional Neural Networks (Biological Science and Engineering) | 8 | |||
| 2nd Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Rajasree | Swaminathan | Abby | Wang | $100 Middle School Plant Science, California Botanical Society | Robee: Developing a Novel AI-based Plant Pollination System that Surpasses Natural Bees in Efficiency and Uniformity (Biological Science and Engineering) | 7 | |
| Exceptional Merit- Betterment of Humanity, $200 Certificate (all grades), SPV Market Research "Most Promising Young Scientist" | |||||||
| Harker School-Upper Campus | Victor | Adler | Natalie | Gergov | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Game of Life: The Effect of Network Topology on the Lifetime of a Dynamical System (Physical Science and Engineering) | 11 |
| Andrew | Pluzhnikov | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Game of Life: The Effect of Network Topology on the Lifetime of a Dynamical System (Physical Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| Miriam | Allersma | Sonia | Yu | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Origami Based Modular Smart Greenhouse Integrated With LED Lighting for Vertical Farming (Physical Science and Engineering) | 9 | |
| Exceptional Merit, Certificate (all grades), SPV Market Research "Most Promising Young Scientist" | |||||||
| IEEE Electro-Technology $50 Amazon gift card and a certificate, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers | |||||||
| Thomas | Artiss | Sasvath M | Ramachandran | 2nd Award, RRI Biological Science and Engineering Category | Genomic Reconstruction & Phylogenetic Analyses of Cycloclasticus, a Dominant Microbe at the Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill (RRI Biological Science and Engineering) | 12 | |
| Mark | Brada | Nicole | Tian | Grand Prize - Best of Championship - Physical Sciences - Qualified to be a Regeneron ISEF Finalist, Santa Clara Valley Science & Engineering Fair Assn - Board of Directors Awards - High School | The Study of Globular Cluster Systems in Virgo Cluster Dwarf Galaxies (RRI Physical Science and Engineering) | 12 | |
| Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair | |||||||
| 1st Award, RRI Physical Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Anita | Chetty | Anika | Pandey | 3rd Place - $50, Certificate of Achievement, SAMPE - Society for the Advancement of Material and Process Engineering | Nanofabrication of a Conductive Hydrogel Smart Bandage for Wireless Localized Wound Healing (RRI Biological Science and Engineering) | 11 | |
| Anuradha | Datar | Ritu Madhura | Belani | 2nd Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Improved Diagnosis of Language Disorders in Bilingual Children through Computational Modeling of Code-Switching (Physical Science and Engineering) | 10 | |
| $100 for Individual projects and a certificate, IBM Award | |||||||
| Nidhya | Shivakumar | 1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Real-Time Analysis of Aerial Images Using Deep Learning to Identify Critical Areas in Natural Disasters (Physical Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| Michelle | Wei | Grand Prize Alternate - Physical Sciences - Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), Santa Clara Valley Science & Engineering Fair Assn - Board of Directors Awards - High School | Reducing Residential Energy Consumption using 2D Spectral Analysis with High-Frequency Non-intrusive Load Monitoring (Physical Science and Engineering) | 10 | |||
| Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair | |||||||
| 1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| IEEE Electro-Technology $50 Amazon gift card and a certificate, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers | |||||||
| Letter of Encouragement, Environment Protection Agency | |||||||
| Most Promising Young Scientist (Female), $250 and Certificate (GR 9-12), SPV Market Research "Most Promising Young Scientist" | |||||||
| Jonathan | Xue | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Applying Differential Privacy to Data-Driven Algorithms Using Transfer Learning from Advanced Natural Language Models (Physical Science and Engineering) | 9 | |||
| Melody | Yin | Honorable Mention, Biological Science and Engineering Category | Developing a Multi-Module Machine Learning System to Identify Clinically Important Traumatic Brain Injuries in Children (Biological Science and Engineering) | 9 | |||
| Honorable Mention, Certificate Only, American Society of Engineers of Indian Origin Award - ASEI | |||||||
| Matthew | Harley | Nicholas | Wei | Grand Prize - Best of Championship - Biological Sciences - Qualified to be a Regeneron ISEF Finalist, Santa Clara Valley Science & Engineering Fair Assn - Board of Directors Awards - High School | Investigating Epigenetic Chromosome Modifications in Cardiomyocyte Differentiation for Heart Disease Treatment (Biological Science and Engineering) | 11 | |
| Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair | |||||||
| 1st Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Eric | Johnson | Varun Krishna | Thvar | Honorable Mention, Biological Science and Engineering Category | Project Apollo: Antibodies for Mycobacterium (Biological Science and Engineering) | 9 | |
| Eric | Nelson | Amruta | Dharmapurikar | 4th place Valley Water Items, Valley Water Awards HS | Predicting Lead Contamination in School Drinking Water Using only Publicly Available Data (Physical Science and Engineering) | 11 | |
| Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Certificate of Achievement and opportunity to advance to national and international competitions, U. S. Stockholm Junior Water Prize | |||||||
| Letter of Encouragement, Environment Protection Agency | |||||||
| Ashwin | Kuppahally | Honorable Mention, RRI Physical Science and Engineering Category | The North American Carbon Flux Model: Predicting Carbon Flux Using Inversely Estimated Data with a Neural Network (RRI Physical Science and Engineering) | 10 | |||
| Alexander Yunze | Lan | Grand Prize - Best of Championship - Biological Sciences - Qualified to be a Regeneron ISEF Finalist, Santa Clara Valley Science & Engineering Fair Assn - Board of Directors Awards - High School | Variant Effect Prediction Using Deep Neural Networks for Alzheimer's Disease (RRI Biological Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair | |||||||
| 1st Award, RRI Biological Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Ella Selina | Lan | Grand Prize - Best of Championship - Biological Sciences - Qualified to be a Regeneron ISEF Finalist, Santa Clara Valley Science & Engineering Fair Assn - Board of Directors Awards - High School | Performer: A Novel PPG to ECG Reconstruction Transformer For a Digital Biomarker of Cardiovascular Disease Detection (Biological Science and Engineering) | 10 | |||
| Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair | |||||||
| 1st Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Johnathan Y | Mo | Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair | Using an Ensemble of GANs and CNNs to More Accurately Diagnose Skin Conditions in Diverse Skin Types (Physical Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| 1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Grant | Sims | Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair | Using an Ensemble of GANs and CNNs to More Accurately Diagnose Skin Conditions in Diverse Skin Types (Physical Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| 1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Robert | Zhang | Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair | Using an Ensemble of GANs and CNNs to More Accurately Diagnose Skin Conditions in Diverse Skin Types (Physical Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| 1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Marina | Peregrino | Aishani | Singh | Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair | Netra: Utilizing AI on Smart Glasses to Help Visually Challenged People Navigate the World Safely (Physical Science and Engineering) | 9 | |
| 1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Chris | Spenner | Dhruv | Aron | ASEI Silicon Valley Emerging Technology Membership to American Society of Engineers of Indian Origin, American Society of Engineers of Indian Origin Award - ASEI | Predicting Heart Disease Accurately with Machine Learning and Common Biological Factors (Biological Science and Engineering) | 11 | |
| Rohan Tan | Bhowmik | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | A Multi-Modal Wildfire Prediction and Personalized Early-Warning System (Physical Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| Letter of Encouragement, Environment Protection Agency | |||||||
| Tiffany | Chang | Honorable Mention, Biological Science and Engineering Category | Understanding Sex Differences in Major Depressive Disorder through Network Analysis of the Human Connectome (Biological Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| Brian | Chen | Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair | First Identification of Cratonic Upper-Mantle Earthquakes in Canada (RRI Physical Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| 1st Award, RRI Physical Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Letter of Encouragement, Environment Protection Agency | |||||||
| Gordon | Chen | Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair | Developing the Next Generation of COVID Vaccines with Enhanced Safety, Precision, and Efficacy (RRI Biological Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| 1st Award, RRI Biological Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Aeliya Indra | Grover | Letter of Encouragement, Environment Protection Agency | Comparing the Quantity of Micro-plastics in Wild and Farmed Fish (Physical Science and Engineering) | 10 | |||
| Emily Isabella | Kwan | Letter of Encouragement, Environment Protection Agency | ReefAtlas: A Novel Machine Learning Model to Predict and Map Coral Reef Bleaching (Physical Science and Engineering) | 10 | |||
| Adrian | Liu | 2nd Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | Intra-articular (IA) injected agarose beads as a delivery system for Ibuprofen in a simulated arthrofibrotic environment (Biological Science and Engineering) | 10 | |||
| Vikram | Mani | 2nd Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | The effect of Alzheimer's disease on microglial gene activation (Biological Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| Natasha | Matta | $100, Robby Beyers Innovative Solutions Awards | Evaluating News Outlets' Adherence to Suicide Reporting Guidelines Across Social Media Platforms (RRI Biological Science and Engineering) | 12 | |||
| Pranav | Tadepalli | Honorable Mention Student Award: $50 and Certificate of Achievement, Association for Computing Machinery, ACM-Upper Division | Using Difference Imaging to Study Photometrically Variable Stars in the Andromeda Galaxy (Physical Science and Engineering) | 12 | |||
| 2nd Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Alina | Yuan | Grand Prize - Best of Championship - Physical Sciences - Qualified to be a Regeneron ISEF Finalist, Santa Clara Valley Science & Engineering Fair Assn - Board of Directors Awards - High School | 27th Compact Hierarchical Trinary System Discovered Using Machine Learning (RRI Physical Science and Engineering) | 12 | |||
| Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair | |||||||
| 1st Award, RRI Physical Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Sabrina | Zhu | Honorable Mention, RRI Biological Science and Engineering Category | A Novel MiRNA Therapeutic for Drug Addiction: Effects of Oxycodone Self-Administration on Gene Expression in the Rat NAc (RRI Biological Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| Outstanding Project, Certificate (all grades), SPV Market Research "Most Promising Young Scientist" | |||||||
| Sally | Zhu | Honorable Mention Student Award: $50 and Certificate of Achievement, Association for Computing Machinery, ACM-Upper Division | Using Difference Imaging to Study Photometrically Variable Stars in the Andromeda Galaxy (Physical Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| 2nd Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Kehillah Jewish High School | Zachi | Baharav | Henri | Sayag | Grand Prize Student Award: $640 and Certificate of Achievement, Association for Computing Machinery, ACM-Upper Division | AI-based computer interface for enhanced accessibility (Physical Science and Engineering) | 10 |
| Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Wendy | Gibbons | Joshua Aaron | Lipman | 3rd place - $200 and Framed Certificate of Achievement, SVACS High School Award for Excellence in Chemistry | Effect of qubit count on the calculated ground state energy and molecular structure of H2O using quantum computation (Physical Science and Engineering) | 11 | |
| Merryhill Schools - Milpitas | Shama | Mohamed | Kunaal | Garapaty | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Helmet G-force Indicator (Physical Science and Engineering) | 7 |
| Ayush | Thoren | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Machine Learning: Handwriting Recognition (Physical Science and Engineering) | 7 | |||
| Dipti | Shingnapurkar | Vivaan Ashish | Kathapurkar | 1st Place $100 and Certificate, Valley Water Awards-MS | Did You Just Say Water Equals To Electricity? (Physical Science and Engineering) | 6 | |
| Spencer | Liu | 1st Place $100 and Certificate, Valley Water Awards-MS | Did You Just Say Water Equals To Electricity? (Physical Science and Engineering) | 6 | |||
| Riya | Rakesh | Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair | Mud to Electricity: Creating, Comparing, and Finding ways to Improve an MFC (Physical Science and Engineering) | 7 | |||
| Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Raya | Sai | Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair | Mud to Electricity: Creating, Comparing, and Finding ways to Improve an MFC (Physical Science and Engineering) | 7 | |||
| Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Milpitas Christian School (6-8) | Eric | Cho | Atharva | Manjunath | Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair | Investigating the Inhibitory Effect of Medicinal Plants on Alpha Amylase Enzyme (Biological Science and Engineering) | 7 |
| 2nd Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Individual Award: $125 and framed cert, SVACS Dave Parker Award for Excellence in Chemistry | |||||||
| Notre Dame High School | Natasha | Fazeli | Snikitha | Banda | Grand Prize - Best of Championship - Physical Sciences - Qualified to be a Regeneron ISEF Finalist, Santa Clara Valley Science & Engineering Fair Assn - Board of Directors Awards - High School | Predicting Survival and Recurrence of Cancer Patients using MIBI Scans in Tumor-Immune Microenvironment (RRI Physical Science and Engineering) | 11 |
| Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair | |||||||
| 1st Award, RRI Physical Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Madeleine | Lloyd | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | The Effect of Chlorella Vulgaris and Scenedesmus Quadricauda on the Amount of Microplastics in Aquatic Environments (Physical Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| Dora | Martelli | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | The Effect of Copper (II) Sulfate Concentrations on Eleocharis acicularis Growth Rates (Physical Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| Letter of Encouragement, Environment Protection Agency | |||||||
| Namrata | Nair | Honorable Mention, RRI Physical Science and Engineering Category | Deep Learning for Drug Discovery: Designing a Model to Predict Molecular Solubility, Lipophilicity, and Toxicity (RRI Physical Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| Anya | Rocque | $100 High School Plant Science, California Botanical Society | The SCU Complex wildfire's effect on the composition of topsoil and the seed germination of Eschscholzia californica (Physical Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| Letter of Encouragement, Environment Protection Agency | |||||||
| Joyce Boying | Yang | Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair | SMaRt: A Toxicity Classification System through SMILES and Multimodal Representation to Cross-check Hazardous Chemicals (Physical Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| 1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Christopher | Kuszmaul | Anchal | Bhardwaj | ASEI Silicon Valley Emerging Technology Membership to American Society of Engineers of Indian Origin, American Society of Engineers of Indian Origin Award - ASEI | Using LASSO to classify Schizophrenia according to unique RNA Expressions, and analyzing Applications of MRI/OCT scans (Physical Science and Engineering) | 10 | |
| Sumayyah | Ismail | ASEI Silicon Valley Emerging Technology Membership to American Society of Engineers of Indian Origin, American Society of Engineers of Indian Origin Award - ASEI | Using LASSO to classify Schizophrenia according to unique RNA Expressions, and analyzing Applications of MRI/OCT scans (Physical Science and Engineering) | 10 | |||
| Old Orchard School | Tim | Ainoa | Shauryan Shobhit | Kanaujia | $125 + certificate + a signed book + breakfast with Bob Zeidman, Zeidman Award | A Computer Vision-Based Distracted Driver Notification System (Physical Science and Engineering) | 8 |
| Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Presentation High School | Tracy | Hughes | Arshiya Ishi | Anand | Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair | Reduced Circuit Wiring for a Vehicle's 12 Volt System (Specifically Lights and A.C.) by Eliminating Signal Wires (Physical Science and Engineering) | 11 |
| 1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| First place, $75 Wireless Communications Alliance Award, Wireless Communications Alliance | |||||||
| Saanvi | Bapat | $100 and a Certificate of Achievement, Inez M. Lechner Award | Medicine Reminder System (Physical Science and Engineering) | 9 | |||
| Jia Sidhu | Gill | Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair | Using Reinforcement Learning to Optimize the Placement of Firebreaks (Physical Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| 1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Danica Leigh | Kubota | Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair | Using Reinforcement Learning to Optimize the Placement of Firebreaks (Physical Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| 1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Alexandra Virginia | Mull | Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair | Reduced Circuit Wiring for a Vehicle's 12 Volt System (Specifically Lights and A.C.) by Eliminating Signal Wires (Physical Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| 1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| First place, $75 Wireless Communications Alliance Award, Wireless Communications Alliance | |||||||
| Paulina | Plater | Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair | Fluidic Optics Using Liquid Surface Tension in a Neutral Buoyancy Environment (RRI Physical Science and Engineering) | 10 | |||
| 2nd Award, RRI Physical Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Tanisha | Prasad | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | LivingGreen: An App That Tracks a Household's Greenhouse Gas Footprint (Physical Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| Letter of Encouragement, Environment Protection Agency | |||||||
| Maanasa | Ramprasad | Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair | Formulating Ready-To-Use Therapeutic Foods with Locally-Sourced Ingredients for Severe Acute Malnutrition in Nigeria. (Biological Science and Engineering) | 10 | |||
| 2nd Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Middle School or High School $200 and a letter of recognition, Northern California Institute of Food Technologists (NCIFT) | |||||||
| Sangyani | Sinha | Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair | OmniGraphia: A Novel Intelligent Robot Replacement for all Optical Laboratory Instruments (Physical Science and Engineering) | 10 | |||
| Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Privately Sponsored Project | Mohit | Daswani (PSP) | Siddhartha Patel | Daswani | Honorable Mention Student Award: $40 and Certificate of Achievement, Association for Computing Machinery, ACM- Lower Division | A novel deep learning approach for open area smoke detection (Physical Science and Engineering) | 7 |
| Nominated to compete envelope to apply for Broadcom MASTERS, Broadcom MASTERS - 7th Grade | |||||||
| Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair | |||||||
| 1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Kumar | Deepak (psp) | Archit | Deepak | Honorable Mention Student Award: $40 and Certificate of Achievement, Association for Computing Machinery, ACM- Lower Division | A Wearable Device to Prevent Tripping and Falling (Physical Science and Engineering) | 7 | |
| IEEE Electro-Technology $50 Amazon gift card and a certificate, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers | |||||||
| Christos | Faloutsos (mentor) | Lalithsai | Posam | Grand Prize Alternate - Biological Sciences - Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), Santa Clara Valley Science & Engineering Fair Assn - Board of Directors Awards - High School | Time series simulation and analysis for seizure detection (RRI Biological Science and Engineering) | 11 | |
| Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair | |||||||
| 1st Award, RRI Biological Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Honorable Mention, Certificate Only, American Society of Engineers of Indian Origin Award - ASEI | |||||||
| Victoria | Fox (mentor) | Ravi Uday | Prabhune | Honorable Mention, RRI Biological Science and Engineering Category | The Effects of DLK-1 on Induced Pluripotent Stem Cell Growth and Cell-Cell Interdependency (RRI Biological Science and Engineering) | 10 | |
| Emaan | Hariri (Mentor) | Tyler JiaLin | Chow | Honorable Mention, RRI Physical Science and Engineering Category | Predicting the Type of Pitch Thrown in a Baseball Game (RRI Physical Science and Engineering) | 11 | |
| Rahul | Kapoor (PSP) | Kashish | Kapoor | Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair | Investigating and comparing the amount of Allicin extracted from different varieties of Garlic. (Biological Science and Engineering) | 7 | |
| 2nd Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Kyongmee | Kim (mentor) | Hankyu | Koo | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Portable Refrigerator for Transporting COVID Vaccine (Physical Science and Engineering) | 8 | |
| Hari | Kosaraju (PSP) | Anish | Kosaraju | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Optimizing Crop Type Using Machine Learning to Maximize Agricultural Productivity (Physical Science and Engineering) | 7 | |
| Marty | Martynov (PSP) | Diana | Martynova | Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair | Novel Data-Driven Sepsis Diagnosis Using Biomarkers (Biological Science and Engineering) | 8 | |
| Honorable Mention, Biological Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Moni | Mau (PSP) | Sokunthea | Mau | Letter of Encouragement, Environment Protection Agency | Finding the Most Optimal Way of Producing Ecofriendly Cellophane with Biodegradable Materials (Physical Science and Engineering) | 10 | |
| Keshav | Murthy | Samskrith Keshav | Raghav | ASEI Silicon Valley Emerging Technology Membership to American Society of Engineers of Indian Origin, American Society of Engineers of Indian Origin Award - ASEI | Interactive Road Quality Reporting using sensors and human input (Physical Science and Engineering) | 9 | |
| Usha | Palaniswamy (mentor) | Sadik | Aref | Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair | Effect of Nigella sativa and Andrographis paniculata on the regeneration of planaria (RRI Biological Science and Engineering) | 10 | |
| Honorable Mention, RRI Biological Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Sandeep | Patel (PSP) | Taren | Patel | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | American Sign Language Translator (Physical Science and Engineering) | 10 | |
| Chanho | Ryu (PSP) | Eunseo | Ryu | Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair | Conserving Energy At Home With Solar Pump And Low-Maintenance Pool Water Circulation System Without PG&E Utility (Physical Science and Engineering) | 9 | |
| 2nd Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Exceptional Merit, Certificate (all grades), SPV Market Research "Most Promising Young Scientist" | |||||||
| Minseo | Ryu | Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair | Conserving Energy At Home With Solar Pump And Low-Maintenance Pool Water Circulation System Without PG&E Utility (Physical Science and Engineering) | 9 | |||
| 2nd Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Exceptional Merit, Certificate (all grades), SPV Market Research "Most Promising Young Scientist" | |||||||
| Sreevani | Singaraju (PSP) | Vishnu Sai | Duggirala | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Voith?, A robot with photosenors that can assist people with visual disabilities in picking produce. (Physical Science and Engineering) | 8 | |
| Sophie | Sun (PSP) | Dylan | Zuo | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Optimization of Novel Aerodynamic Features to Increase the Range of an Electric Car (Physical Science and Engineering) | 7 | |
| Shida | Tan (PSP) | Ava Tan | Bhowmik | Nominated to compete envelope to apply for Broadcom MASTERS, Broadcom MASTERS - 8th Grade | A Novel Low-Cost Portable Apparatus to Assess Face Mask and Instrument Cover Efficacy (Physical Science and Engineering) | 8 | |
| Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair | |||||||
| 1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Most Promising Young Scientist (Female), $225 and Certificate (GR 6-8), SPV Market Research "Most Promising Young Scientist" | |||||||
| Ge (mentor) | Wang | Emmy S. | Wei | Honorable Mention Student Award: $50 and Certificate of Achievement, Association for Computing Machinery, ACM-Upper Division | Aliasing-Free Convolutional Nonlinear Networks Using Implicitly Defined Functions (Physical Science and Engineering) | 11 | |
| 2nd Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| HS student - Certificate of Achievement, Medallion and business card to complete award ($50 gift card) and letter of congratulations, Office of Naval Research -United States Navy/ US Marine Corps | |||||||
| Ying | Ye (PSP) | Jayden | Liu | Nominated to compete envelope to apply for Broadcom MASTERS, Broadcom MASTERS - 7th Grade | Studying the multiple variables and their effects on a home-built aquaponics system (Physical Science and Engineering) | 7 | |
| Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair | |||||||
| 1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| 1st Place $100 and Certificate, Valley Water Awards-MS | |||||||
| Xu | Zhou (mentor) | Caroline | Zhou | Honorable Mention, Biological Science and Engineering Category | Study of Light Wavelength Effects On Plant Growth Using Home Built Greenhouse (Biological Science and Engineering) | 7 | |
| Saint Francis High School | Mike | Chechelnitsky | Ayush | Raj | 2nd Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | A Novel Image Data Augmentation Technique for Clinical Machine Learning Applications (Physical Science and Engineering) | 11 |
| Daniel | Meyer | Pranav | Amarnath | Letter of Encouragement, Environment Protection Agency | U.S. Pollution: Analyzing Air Quality from 4 Major Pollutants Since 2000 (Physical Science and Engineering) | 11 | |
| Jennifer | Thomas | Ajay Subramaniam | Krishnan | 1st Place - $100, Certificate of Achievement, SAMPE - Society for the Advancement of Material and Process Engineering | High Efficiency Process to Extract Terpenes from Plants (RRI Physical Science and Engineering) | 11 | |
| Joanna | Vollucci | Claire | Luo | Honorable Mention, Biological Science and Engineering Category | Blood Vessel Segmentation Using Machine Learning for Detection of Retinal Abnormalities (Biological Science and Engineering) | 11 | |
| Ruhi | Yusuf | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Portable Smart Camera Subsystem for Improving Driver Safety (Physical Science and Engineering) | 10 | |||
| Stratford Middle School - Milpitas | Lekhana | Revankar | Vihan | Bhattacharjee | 2nd Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Smart Irrigation System (Physical Science and Engineering) | 7 |
| Anirudh Rajkumar | Iyengar | Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair | What is the effect of different chemical activators of charcoal on the purification of used cooking oil ? (Physical Science and Engineering) | 7 | |||
| Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| 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 | |||||||
| Clarina | Manuel | Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair | Energy Harvesting From Human Thermoregulation (Physical Science and Engineering) | 7 | |||
| 2nd Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Exceptional Merit, Certificate (all grades), SPV Market Research "Most Promising Young Scientist" | |||||||
| Stratford Middle School - San Jose | Alison | Gee | Krishna | Bhatt | Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair | A Device to Limit Obesity (Physical Science and Engineering) | 7 |
| 2nd Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Jeanelle | Dao | Honorable Mention Certificate + a signed book + breakfast with Bob Zeidman, Zeidman Award | Controlling Doors Using Interface Technology with Steps for People with Hand Disabilities (Physical Science and Engineering) | 7 | |||
| Nominated to compete envelope to apply for Broadcom MASTERS, Broadcom MASTERS - 7th Grade | |||||||
| Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair | |||||||
| 1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| IEEE Electro-Technology $50 Amazon gift card and a certificate, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers | |||||||
| Parinaz Behzad | Dastur | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Sensing Objects For The Blind (Physical Science and Engineering) | 7 | |||
| $25 gift check and certificate, Access Braille Awards | |||||||
| Nikethana | Karthikeyan | Honorable Mention Certificate + a signed book + breakfast with Bob Zeidman, Zeidman Award | Collision Prevention Prototype for Sharp and Blinded Road Curves (Physical Science and Engineering) | 7 | |||
| Honorable Mention Student Award: $40 and Certificate of Achievement, Association for Computing Machinery, ACM- Lower Division | |||||||
| 2nd Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Aditi | Panchagnula | 2nd Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Operation Fall Detection (Physical Science and Engineering) | 6 | |||
| Jeffrey | Takemoto | Nevaan Sain | Rajaram | 2nd Place Award - $75 and Certificate of Achievement, ASM International, A Society for Materials, Santa Clara Valley Chapter | What is the effect of biowaste fillers reinforcement on the qualities and properties of a bioplastic? (Biological Science and Engineering) | 6 | |
| Aayush | Trivedi | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | How Far Can You Go: The Effect of the Distance Between the Magnetic Stages on a Linear Accelerator (Physical Science and Engineering) | 6 | |||
| Stratford Middle School - Sunnyvale Raynor | Shannon | Deza | Orchita | Chakraborty | Nominated to compete envelope to apply for Broadcom MASTERS, Broadcom MASTERS - 7th Grade | Protecting Coral Reefs from Oil Spills using a Bio-inspired Underwater ROV with Chitosan and Unified Google Earth Model (Physical Science and Engineering) | 7 |
| Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair | |||||||
| 1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Middle School Student - Certificate of Achievement and Medallion and letter of congratulations, Office of Naval Research -United States Navy/ US Marine Corps | |||||||
| Ananya | Mehta | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Screen Time to Green Time (Physical Science and Engineering) | 7 | |||
| Samaira | Mehta | Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair | Automatic Assessment of Ovarian Cancer Features & MSLN Protein Overexpression from Histopathological Images using DL (Biological Science and Engineering) | 8 | |||
| Honorable Mention, Biological Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Middle School Student - Certificate of Achievement and Medallion and letter of congratulations, Office of Naval Research -United States Navy/ US Marine Corps | |||||||
| Enya | Sharma | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | The Carbon Dioxide Killer (Physical Science and Engineering) | 7 | |||
| Saanvi | Sharma | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Unfizzinator (Physical Science and Engineering) | 6 | |||
| Aditi | Vaduri | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Decoding The Unpredictable Behaviors Of ASD Students (Physical Science and Engineering) | 8 | |||
| Gr 6-8: Honorable Mention, Certificate of Achievement, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) Intelligent Systems Award | |||||||
| Heather | Mackewicz | Yash | Golwala | Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair | Solar powered buoy to detect and report rip currents (Physical Science and Engineering) | 8 | |
| 2nd Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| IEEE Electro-Technology $50 Amazon gift card and a certificate, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers | |||||||
| Middle School Student - Certificate of Achievement and Medallion and letter of congratulations, Office of Naval Research -United States Navy/ US Marine Corps | |||||||
| Most Promising Young Scientist (Male), $225 and Certificate (GR 6-8), SPV Market Research "Most Promising Young Scientist" | |||||||
| The King's Academy (TKA) | Angi | Deng | Aaditya | Pillai | 3rd Place $75, Valley Water Awards HS | Green Energy from Ocean Waves: A Simple Wave Energy Converter Prototype (Physical Science and Engineering) | 10 |
| Certificate of Achievement and letter, Ricoh USA, Inc | |||||||
| Most Promising Young Scientist (Male), $250 and Certificate (GR 9-12), SPV Market Research "Most Promising Young Scientist" | |||||||
| Valley Christian High School | Dwain | Fairweather | Sivani | Ryali | 2nd Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Identifying the Category of Foliar Disease in Apple Trees using Machine Learning Methods (Physical Science and Engineering) | 9 |
| Stephen | Huber | David | Bai | ASEI Silicon Valley Emerging Technology Membership to American Society of Engineers of Indian Origin, American Society of Engineers of Indian Origin Award - ASEI | Optimized Prosthetic Limb Performance for Somatosense-affected Amputees using Machine Learning (Physical Science and Engineering) | 11 | |
| Advay | Balakrishnan | ASEI Silicon Valley Emerging Technology Membership to American Society of Engineers of Indian Origin, American Society of Engineers of Indian Origin Award - ASEI | Optimized Prosthetic Limb Performance for Somatosense-affected Amputees using Machine Learning (Physical Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| Theodore | Shim | Gahyeon | Yoon | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Capacity Planning in Renewable Energy Deployment Considering Climate Change with a California Case Study (Physical Science and Engineering) | 9 | |
| Sihyeon | Yoon | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Capacity Planning in Renewable Energy Deployment Considering Climate Change with a California Case Study (Physical Science and Engineering) | 10 | |||
| Scott | VanderVeen | Allison | Bang | 2nd Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | Neutralizing effects of monoclonal antibody 1A9 as a fusion inhibitor targeting the S2 subunit of SARS-CoV-2 pseudovirus (Biological Science and Engineering) | 11 | |
| Crystal Anne | Chang | Honorable Mention, Biological Science and Engineering Category | The Effect of Caffeine on Drosophila Circadian Cycles (Biological Science and Engineering) | 12 | |||
| Sheryl | Hsu | Grand Prize - Best of Championship - Physical Sciences - Qualified to be a Regeneron ISEF Finalist, Santa Clara Valley Science & Engineering Fair Assn - Board of Directors Awards - High School | Explore-and-Fuse: A Physarum-Inspired Approach to the Steiner Tree Problem (RRI Physical Science and Engineering) | 12 | |||
| Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair | |||||||
| 1st Award, RRI Physical Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Certificate of Achievement plus Letter, Mu Alpha Theta | |||||||
| IEEE Electro-Technology $50 Amazon gift card and a certificate, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers | |||||||
| Angela Yong | Li | Honorable Mention, Biological Science and Engineering Category | The Effect of Caffeine on Drosophila Circadian Cycles (Biological Science and Engineering) | 12 | |||
| Ronak | Mohapatra | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Real time emotion detection in smart cars to alert drivers using Artificial Intelligence (Physical Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| Sanjana | Ryali | Letter of Encouragement, Environment Protection Agency | Life Cycle Carbon Efficiency of Liquid Solvent Based Direct Air Capture System (RRI Physical Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| Sarieli Lakshmi | Sribhashyam | Honorable Mention, Biological Science and Engineering Category | The Effect of the Amount of PQ401 on the Growth of Pancreatic Cancer Cells (Biological Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| Yavneh Day School | Sharon | Elia | Sofia | Fischer Hotimsky | Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair | SPF & UV beads (Biological Science and Engineering) | 6 |
| Honorable Mention, Biological Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Delilah | Hahn Tapper | Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair | SPF & UV beads (Biological Science and Engineering) | 6 | |||
| Honorable Mention, Biological Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Ethan | Mutchnik | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | New type of wind turbine (Physical Science and Engineering) | 6 | |||
| Silver Zemmie | Rothstien | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | New type of wind turbine (Physical Science and Engineering) | 6 | |||