East Side Union High School District

Project Awards 2023

Synopsys Silicon Valley Science and Technology Championship

School	Teacher		Student		Award	Title	Gr
Andrew Hill High School	Patrick	Allamandola	Erick	Zaragoza	Exceptional Merit, Certificate (all Grades), SPV Market Research "Most Promising Young Scientist"	Effects of Solar Radiation Pressure on Orbital Trajectory of Long Duration Uncrewed Missions to Mars (Physical Science and Engineering)	12
Evergreen Valley High School	Arjun	Ashokkumar	Mahita	Arun	Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category	Diagnosing Melanoma in Diverse Skin Types using Convolutional Neural Networks (CNN) (Physical Science and Engineering)	10
	Sangeeta	Bhatnagar	Saurish	Srivastava	2nd Award, RRI Biological Science and Engineering Category	Scant Evidence for Domain-General Metacognition (RRI Biological Science and Engineering)	12
			Kshitij	Teotia	Grand Prize Alternate - Outreach Schools - Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), Santa Clara Valley Science & Engineering Fair Assn - Board of Directors Awards - High School	SMILES Encoding and Deep Learning to Predict Quantitative Efficacy of Structurally Distinct Molecules for Antibiotics (Biological Science and Engineering)	11
					1st Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category
	Alice	Li	Ayush Avinash	Sodani	Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category	Measuring Home Water Usage using a Differential Pressure Sensor (Physical Science and Engineering)	10
	Ihwa	Miao	Akhil	Agarwal	Honorable Mention, RRI Biological Science and Engineering Category	Dynamics of Two Competing Viruses over Large-Scale Networks (RRI Biological Science and Engineering)	11
	David	Walz	Raghav Venkata	Garimella	Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category	Predicting the Probability and Severity of Forest Fires Using a Multi-Layer Perceptron Classifier on Meteorological Data (Physical Science and Engineering)	10
Piedmont Hills High School	Suzette	Pangrle	Himani	Manjunath	2nd Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category	"Ap-peeling" Bioplastic: Investigating the Effect of Adding Cocos nucifera Shells to Potato Peel Bioplastics (Physical Science and Engineering)	11
					2nd Place - $75, Certificate of Achievement, SAMPE - Society for the Advancement of Material and Process Engineering
Silver Creek High School	Narquiz	Cervantes	Sahana	Chowlur	Grand Prize Alternate - Outreach Schools - Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), Santa Clara Valley Science & Engineering Fair Assn - Board of Directors Awards - High School	Can an AI model be implemented to identify & predict a type of cancer based on different biomarkers? (Biological Science and Engineering)	11
					1st Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category
			Ananya	Raman	Grand Prize Alternate - Outreach Schools - Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), Santa Clara Valley Science & Engineering Fair Assn - Board of Directors Awards - High School	Can an AI model be implemented to identify & predict a type of cancer based on different biomarkers? (Biological Science and Engineering)	12
					1st Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category
	Bich	Nguyen	Vedant Venkatasai	Janapaty	Grand Prize - Best of Championship - Outreach Schools - Qualified to be a Regeneron ISEF Finalist, Santa Clara Valley Science & Engineering Fair Assn - Board of Directors Awards - High School	A Novel Physics Based Predictive Model For Wetland Eutrophication (Physical Science and Engineering)	11
					1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category
	James	Staten	Ananya	Dasaka	Grand Prize - Best of Championship - Outreach Schools - Qualified to be a Regeneron ISEF Finalist, Santa Clara Valley Science & Engineering Fair Assn - Board of Directors Awards - High School	A Model to Optimize Subthalamic Deep Brain Stimulation for Parkinson's Disease (Biological Science and Engineering)	11
					1st Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category
			Ishaan Reddt	Mandala	Certificate of Achievement and opportunity to advance to national and international competitions, U. S. Stockholm Junior Water Prize	Generating Fresh Water from the Atmosphere: Exploring the Effects of Temperature on Water Vaporization (Physical Science and Engineering)	9