Mountain View-Los Altos Union High School District

Project Awards 2023

Synopsys Silicon Valley Science and Technology Championship

School	Teacher		Student		Award	Title	Gr
Los Altos High School	Darren	Dressen	Kavin	Agarwal	2nd place HS student - $50 and Certificate of Achievement, American Vacuum Society, Northern CA	Enhancing Optical Communications by Controlling Reflection-Induced Chaos in Lasers (RRI Physical Science and Engineering)	12
			Rohan	Bhatt	2nd place HS student - $50 and Certificate of Achievement, American Vacuum Society, Northern CA	Enhancing Optical Communications by Controlling Reflection-Induced Chaos in Lasers (RRI Physical Science and Engineering)	12
			Alexandra Keira	Chatwin	Team Award - $300 and Framed Certificate of Achievement, SVACS High School Award for Excellence in Chemistry	Accessible Synthesis of the Tricyclic Core of Forskolin as an Adenylyl Cyclase Activator against Cellular Senescence (Physical Science and Engineering)	12
					2nd Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category
			Woong	Choi	3rd Place Award - $50 and Certificate of Achievement, ASM International, A Society for Materials, Santa Clara Valley Chapter	Storing H2 from nitrogen-based heterocyclic Metal Organic Frameworks linked with Nickel (Physical Science and Engineering)	11
			Bridget Gwyneth	Liu	1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category	Synthesizing analogs of Stearoyl-Coenzyme A Desaturase 1 inhibitors to ameliorate alpha-Syn cytotoxicity in Parkinson's. (Physical Science and Engineering)	11
			Alyssa	Manche	Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category	Design, synthesis, and BCR-AbI targeting activity of novel Dasatinib PROTACs towards the treatment of cancer (Physical Science and Engineering)	12
			Anika	Mehrotra	2nd Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category	Exploring the Explainability of AI Systems and Efficacy of Existing Explanation Systems (Physical Science and Engineering)	11
			Sarah	Su	Team Award - $300 and Framed Certificate of Achievement, SVACS High School Award for Excellence in Chemistry	Accessible Synthesis of the Tricyclic Core of Forskolin as an Adenylyl Cyclase Activator against Cellular Senescence (Physical Science and Engineering)	12
					2nd Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category
			Audrey Rachel	Tsai	1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category	Synthesizing analogs of Stearoyl-Coenzyme A Desaturase 1 inhibitors to ameliorate alpha-Syn cytotoxicity in Parkinson's. (Physical Science and Engineering)	11
			Angely	Vargas	2nd place - $200 and Framed Certificate of Achievement, SVACS High School Award for Excellence in Chemistry	Synthesizing a mGluR5 negative allosteric modulator to minimize the frequency of bulimic tendencies (Physical Science and Engineering)	11
					Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category
	Victoria	Johnson	Yuval	Amit	Exceptional Merit, Certificate (all Grades), SPV Market Research "Most Promising Young Scientist"	A Metascientific Analysis of How Restricting p-Values in Research Journalism Affected Research Trends (Physical Science and Engineering)	12
			Nandini Prasanna	Anantha	Honorable Mention, Biological Science and Engineering Category	Investigating the potential for optogenetic stimulation to regulate cardiac arrhythmias through the C. elegans pharynx (Biological Science and Engineering)	12
			Anagha	Rajesh	Honorable Mention, Biological Science and Engineering Category	Investigating the potential for optogenetic stimulation to regulate cardiac arrhythmias through the C. elegans pharynx (Biological Science and Engineering)	12
			Sreyan	Sarkar	Honorable Mention, RRI Biological Science and Engineering Category	Identifying the receptors involved in detecting valeriana officinalis extracts through chemotaxis assays of C. elegans (RRI Biological Science and Engineering)	12