Los Gatos-Saratoga Union High School District
Project Awards 2023
Synopsys Silicon Valley Science and Technology Championship
| School | Teacher | Student | Award | Title | Gr | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Los Gatos High School | Jennifer | Lee | Lakshya | Agrawal | 2nd Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Fabricating a Novel Air Engine Capable of Maintaining a Certain Mechanical Efficiency and Studying Viability for Car Use (Physical Science and Engineering) | 10 |
| Sydney Layne | Mortensen | Honorable Mention, Biological Science and Engineering Category | Using Apiin to Disrupt TGF-beta Signaling Pathway for the Prevention of Alzheimer's Disease in a C. elegans Model (Biological Science and Engineering) | 10 | |||
| Mina | Nakamura | Honorable Mention, Biological Science and Engineering Category | The Effects of Mealworm Frass, Post Polystyrene Consumption in Brassica rapa (Biological Science and Engineering) | 10 | |||
| Sophia Isabelle Lee | Nguyen | 1st Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | The effects of artificial flavorings on intestinal barrier permeability in Drosophila melanogaster (Biological Science and Engineering) | 10 | |||
| Medha Renuka | Sarkar | Honorable Mention, Biological Science and Engineering Category | Testing if pectin can disrupt the TGF-beta pathway to avoid misfolding in a C. elegans model of Alzheimer's disease (Biological Science and Engineering) | 10 | |||
| David | Wang | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Testing Data Augmentation through Homogeneity-Based Audio Segmentation in Music Genre Classification (Physical Science and Engineering) | 10 | |||
| Cathy | Messenger | Victoria | Anderson | Honorable Mention, Biological Science and Engineering Category | Effects of Vitamin B12 on Bacteria and Fungi Promoting Dysbiosis in Multiple Sclerosis Patients Microbiome In Vitro (Biological Science and Engineering) | 12 | |
| Sasha | Balasingam | 1st Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | Testing Shank 3-deficient C. elegans as an Autism model on repetitive/social deficits from my last study on NLG-1 mutant (Biological Science and Engineering) | 12 | |||
| Rodrigo | Cantu Valadez | 1st Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | Can lipase from Candida rugosa positively affect Gymnodinium sp. health by degradation of environmental microplastics? (Biological Science and Engineering) | 12 | |||
| Pria | Chandarana | 2nd Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | Inducing Rb knockdown to generate a stable Drosophila Melanogaster retinoblastoma model (Biological Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| Grace Frances | Crites | Certificate of Achievement and opportunity to advance to national and international competitions, U. S. Stockholm Junior Water Prize | Comparison between Pontederia cordata and Pontederia crassipes in phytoremediation of heavy metals (Biological Science and Engineering) | 10 | |||
| Lynn | Dai | 1st Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | Reduced Psoriasis Skin Irritation Symptoms through the Effects of Chinese Herbal Medicines on Planarial Stem Cells (Biological Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| Kamron Reza | Emami | 2nd Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | Examining the Anti-diabetic Properties of Norisoboldine on a Diet Induced Hyperglycemic Drosophila melanogaster model (Biological Science and Engineering) | 12 | |||
| Lisa | Fung | Honorable Mention, RRI Physical Science and Engineering Category | Developing a Coupled Matrix-Tensor Factorization Model in Python to Analyze Mobility Data for Disaster Response (RRI Physical Science and Engineering) | 12 | |||
| Manasi | Gajjalapurna | Honorable Mention, Biological Science and Engineering Category | Using unsupervised learning to identify which antihyperglycemic drugs best improve fertility biomarkers in PCOS patients (Biological Science and Engineering) | 12 | |||
| Brandon | Ha | 1st Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | Expediting the Regenerative Process in Planaria Using Low Frequency Sound Frequency Waves (Biological Science and Engineering) | 10 | |||
| Cadence | Ho | 2nd Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | Investigating the effects of bee salivary enzymes on incised Brassica rapa maturation (Biological Science and Engineering) | 10 | |||
| Taara | Jayaraj | 2nd Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | Can Rutin disrupt the TGF-beta Signaling Pathway in C. elegans Model as a Possible Mechanism for Parkinson's? (Biological Science and Engineering) | 12 | |||
| Olivia | Li | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Using sentiment analysis to generate a color palette from words for graphic design purposes (Physical Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| Claire | Liu | 2nd Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | Testing the effect of bromoform on Halobacterium growth, modeling methane production (Biological Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| Jeremy Ty | Lu | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | A Novel Approach to Optimize Memory Reconstruction Using Joint Multimodal Networks (Physical Science and Engineering) | 12 | |||
| Letizia | Pastore | Honorable Mention, Biological Science and Engineering Category | The effect of a diet high in processed foods on intestinal E.coli growth associated with Inflammatory Bowel Disease. (Biological Science and Engineering) | 12 | |||
| Faris | Raza | Honorable Mention, Biological Science and Engineering Category | Employing Generative Adversarial Networks and Cascaded CNNs to Reconstruct Cryo-EM Images at High Speeds and Resolutions (Biological Science and Engineering) | 12 | |||
| Stanley | Shen | 3rd Place - $50, Certificate of Achievement, SAMPE - Society for the Advancement of Material and Process Engineering | Reducing the Impact of Circuit Boards through Flax Composites Substrates and Laser Ablation Patterning (Physical Science and Engineering) | 12 | |||
| Howard Yongshou | Shu | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Investigating how polymer doping for the electron transport layer affects efficiency in tin-based perovskite solar cells (Physical Science and Engineering) | 12 | |||
| 1st place HS student - $100 and Certificate of Achievement, American Vacuum Society, Northern CA | |||||||
| Honorable Mention Award and Certificate of Achievement, ASM International, A Society for Materials, Santa Clara Valley Chapter | |||||||
| Elizabeth Margaret | Snyder | 1st Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | Observing The Effect of Polyethylene Microplastic Exposure on Glyphosate Toxicity in Staurastrum, sp. Algae (Biological Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| Junhao | Wang | Honorable Mention, Biological Science and Engineering Category | Testing the Antibacterial Effects of Essential Oil Coated Hydroxyapatite Nanoparticles (Biological Science and Engineering) | 10 | |||
| Collin Arthur | Wentzien | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Using CNNs for object detection and avoidance for use on an autonomous bicycle. (Physical Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| GR 9-12: Honorable Mention, Certificate of Achievement, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) Intelligent Systems Award | |||||||
| Janice | Mortensen | Diana | Martynova | 2nd Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Intelligent Slime Robot (Physical Science and Engineering) | 9 | |
| Saratoga High School | Janny | Cahatol | Arahan | Balasubramanian | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | A Novel Multi-Layered Realtime Approach to Ensure Distracted Young Driver's Safety using Deep Learning and Geolocation. (Physical Science and Engineering) | 9 |
| Zeyneb N | Kaya | 1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | MADLIBS: A Novel Multilingual Data Augmentation Approach for Low-Resource Neural Machine Translation (Physical Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| Kyleen | Liao | 2nd Award, RRI Physical Science and Engineering Category | Forecasting Air Quality in California By Modeling the Effects of Meteorology and Wildfires Using Graph Neural Networks (RRI Physical Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| Nidhi | Mathihalli | $100, Robby Beyers Innovative Solutions Awards | Using Comp Eng and AI/ML to Create a Currency Detection Device for the Visually Impaired in Third World Countries (Physical Science and Engineering) | 12 | |||
| Exceptional Merit- Betterment of Humanity, $200 Certificate (all grades), SPV Market Research "Most Promising Young Scientist" | |||||||
| 1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| A Certificate, a Letter and apply for a Social Media Toolkit, U. S. Agency for International Development (USAID) | |||||||
| First place- $50 gift check and certificate, Access Braille Awards | |||||||
| Yash | Sharma | Certificate of Achievement and opportunity to advance to national and international competitions, U. S. Stockholm Junior Water Prize | A Novel Drought Forecasting System Using Deep Learning Techniques (Physical Science and Engineering) | 9 | |||
| Nolan | Woo | 2nd Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Absolute Pitch: Recognizing Live Music to Automatically Scroll Through Sheet Music (Physical Science and Engineering) | 9 | |||
| Cheryl | Lenz | Sanjoli | Gupta | 1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Changing Climate Will Cause Internal Climate Migration in Brazil, Pakistan and Somalia (Physical Science and Engineering) | 11 | |