Harker School-Upper Campus
Project Awards 2024
Synopsys Silicon Valley Science and Technology Championship
| School | Teacher | Student | Award | Title | Gr | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Harker School-Upper Campus | Mark | Brada | Marcus C | Blennemann | 3rd Place - $50, Certificate of Achievement, SAMPE - Society for the Advancement of Material and Process Engineering | Effect of Using Laminated Bamboo Instead of Steel as Rebar on the Strength of Reinforced Concrete (RRI Physical Science and Engineering) | 11 |
| IEEE Electro-Technology $25 Amazon gift card and a certificate, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (Part 2) | |||||||
| Stanley | Chen | 2nd Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Developing a novel 3D Graphormer model for screening and predicting potential oxide electrocatalysts with more accuracy (Physical Science and Engineering) | 10 | |||
| Nelson | Gou | 3rd Place - $50, Certificate of Achievement, SAMPE - Society for the Advancement of Material and Process Engineering | Effect of Using Laminated Bamboo Instead of Steel as Rebar on the Strength of Reinforced Concrete (RRI Physical Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| IEEE Electro-Technology $25 Amazon gift card and a certificate, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (Part 2) | |||||||
| Casey | Brown | Daniel Ma | Chen | 2nd Award, RRI Physical Science and Engineering Category | Investigating the pseudocapacitive behavior of manganese dioxide as a composite with microporous graphene aerogels. (RRI Physical Science and Engineering) | 11 | |
| 1st Place - $100, Certificate of Achievement, SAMPE - Society for the Advancement of Material and Process Engineering | |||||||
| Kallie | Wang | Honorable Mention, RRI Physical Science and Engineering Category | A Finite State Method (FSM) for Computational Fluid Dynamic (CFD) Simulations (RRI Physical Science and Engineering) | 10 | |||
| Anita | Chetty | Ava Tan | Bhowmik | 2nd Award, RRI Biological Science and Engineering Category | A Quest for the Fountain of Youth: A Methodology to Quantify the Anti-Aging Potential of Compounds Using Stem Cells (RRI Biological Science and Engineering) | 10 | |
| Anuradha | Datar | Juliana | Li | 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 | Ensemble Deep Learning and Generating a Novel 3D Model of Branching Airway Networks for Lung Cancer Detection (RRI Biological Science and Engineering) | 11 | |
| Outstanding Project, Certificate (any field and all grades) $200, SPV Market Research | |||||||
| 1st Award, RRI Biological Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| $100 for Individual projects and a certificate, IBM Award | |||||||
| Andrew | Liang | 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 | GaitNet: Assessing Gait Impairment Severity in Parkinson's Disease using 2-Stream Spatial-Temporal Neural Network (Biological Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| 1st Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Yuqin | Ma | 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 | An Ensemble, Spatiotemporal System against California Harmful Algal Blooms: Prediction, Source-Tracing, Biotoxin Defense (Physical Science and Engineering) | 10 | |||
| 1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Lily | Shi | 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 | Bringing Interpretability and Medical Explainability to Deep Learning: Diagnosis of Age-Related Macular Degeneration (Biological Science and Engineering) | 10 | |||
| 1st Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Eddie | Zhang | 2nd Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | The Creation of SPIRo: An AI Based Origami Soft Robot with Multidimensional Locomotion for Infrastructure Assessments (Physical Science and Engineering) | 10 | |||
| IEEE Electro-Technology $25 Amazon gift card and a certificate, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (Part 1) | |||||||
| Evan | Zhang | 2nd Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | The Creation of SPIRo: An AI Based Origami Soft Robot with Multidimensional Locomotion for Infrastructure Assessments (Physical Science and Engineering) | 10 | |||
| IEEE Electro-Technology $25 Amazon gift card and a certificate, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (Part 1) | |||||||
| Susan | King | Raeanne | Li | 1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Discovering Public Discourse: Natural Language Processing in Change.org E-Petitions (Physical Science and Engineering) | 9 | |
| Hannah Rachel | Lin | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Mazeboard: A Novel Biphasal Token-Based Continuous Gliding Input Method Harnessing Large-Scale Deep Learning Generation (Physical Science and Engineering) | 10 | |||
| Swati | Mittal | Nathan Tyler | Yee | $100, Robby Beyers Innovative Solutions Awards | Developing Optimized Semantic Segmentation Deep Learning Model for Automated Coronary Artery Calcification Prediction (Biological Science and Engineering) | 9 | |
| Zane | Moore | Neil | Krishnan | Honorable Mention, Biological Science and Engineering Category | Novel Use of Spectral Indices in Predicting Alfalfa Water Stress (Biological Science and Engineering) | 11 | |
| Aarush | Vailaya | Honorable Mention, Biological Science and Engineering Category | Novel Use of Spectral Indices in Predicting Alfalfa Water Stress (Biological Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| Eric | Nelson | Audrey M | Cheng | 1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | A Novel Implementation of Semi-Supervised Many-to-Many Low-Resource Neural Machine Translation (Physical Science and Engineering) | 11 | |
| Ariel | Zhang | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Unmasking Victims of Human Trafficking: Application and Ethics of Micro-expression Recognition (Physical Science and Engineering) | 10 | |||
| Marina | Peregrino | Krish | Arora | Certificate of Achievement and letter, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) | EcoSat: Detecting Greenhouse Gas Emissions Worldwide using Satellite Imagery (Physical Science and Engineering) | 10 | |
| Aishani | Singh | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | EcoGraph: A Graph Neural Network Architecture to Discover Novel Chemical Catalysts for Renewable Energy Storage (Physical Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| Mike | Pistacchi | Young E | Min | Certificate + ASEI Silicon Valley Emerging Technology Membership + Optional MentorConnect matching for 1 year, American Society of Engineers of Indian Origin Award - ASEI | Developmentof a Novel Cell-penetrating Peptide (CPP) For Anti-Pancreatic Cancer Therapy (RRI Biological Science and Engineering) | 11 | |
| Abby | Wang | 1st Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | BeeTrack: Developing an Artificial Intelligence Flight Path Tracking System to Assess Honeybee Learning and Memory (Biological Science and Engineering) | 9 | |||
| Elizabeth | Zhang | 1st Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | BeeTrack: Developing an Artificial Intelligence Flight Path Tracking System to Assess Honeybee Learning and Memory (Biological Science and Engineering) | 9 | |||
| Mala | Raghaven | Shiven | Balaji | Honorable Mention, Biological Science and Engineering Category | The Multi-Tier Artificial Intelligence Prediction Architecture: A Novel Approach to Intracranial Hemorrhage Detection (Biological Science and Engineering) | 11 | |
| Chris | Spenner | Oskar | Baumgarte | 2nd Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | Identifying Fin Whales in Ocean Audio Recordings using a Deep Neural Network (Biological Science and Engineering) | 11 | |
| Disha | Gupta | 2nd Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | Using a Generative AI Pipeline & Hybrid DL Architecture to Reduce Breast Cancer Mortality with Early, Low-Cost Diagnosis (Biological Science and Engineering) | 10 | |||
| Certificate + ASEI Silicon Valley Emerging Technology Membership + Optional MentorConnect matching for 1 year, American Society of Engineers of Indian Origin Award - ASEI | |||||||
| Mendy | Mao | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Effect of varying B-tricalcium phosphate amounts on strengthening hydroxyapatite-based tooth enamel replacements (Physical Science and Engineering) | 10 | |||
| Brenna | Ren | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Simulation-Based QBER Comparison Between Quantum Key Distribution Protocols (Physical Science and Engineering) | 10 | |||
| Michelle | Wei | 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 | Solving Second-order Cone Programs in Matrix Multiplication Time (RRI Physical Science and Engineering) | 12 | |||
| 1st Award, RRI Physical Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Certificate + ASEI Silicon Valley Emerging Technology Membership + Optional MentorConnect matching for 1 year, American Society of Engineers of Indian Origin Award - ASEI | |||||||
| Ella | Yee | 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 | DEList: Identifying Cancer Genes Associated With Circadian Regulator Arntl2 Using a Novel RNA-Seq Multi-Dataset Strategy (RRI Biological Science and Engineering) | 12 | |||
| $375 Cash Prize Voucher from Society for Science and Certificate, Regeneron Biomedical Science Award | |||||||
| 1st Award, RRI Biological Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| $100 for Individual projects and a certificate, IBM Award | |||||||
| Melody | Yin | 2nd Award, RRI Biological Science and Engineering Category | Histone and Sequence-Based Bimodal Deep Learning Framework Improves Cell-Specific Prediction of Transcription Initiation (RRI Biological Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| Koby | Yu | 2nd Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | What are the most effective methods of algae control between nutrient, light, and organism factors? (Biological Science and Engineering) | 10 | |||
| Linda | Zeng | 2nd Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Toward Equitable Human-Machine Interaction: Large Language Models Address Data Scarcity for Code-Mixing (Physical Science and Engineering) | 10 | |||
| Jeffrey | Zhang | 2nd Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | Identifying Fin Whales in Ocean Audio Recordings using a Deep Neural Network (Biological Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||