Los Altos High School

Project Awards 2024

Synopsys Silicon Valley Science and Technology Championship

School Teacher Student Award Title Gr
Los Altos High School  Darren Dressen  Serina  Cao 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 Synthesis of Small Molecule Triazine Derivatives as Potential PD-1/PD-L1 Binding Inhibitors as Antiproliferative Agents (Physical Science and Engineering) 12
              1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category    
        Carter  Capetz 1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category Tensorized Physics-Informed Neural Network for Solving Nonlinear PDEs (Physical Science and Engineering) 12
        Adit  Chintamaneni Honorable Mention, Biological Science and Engineering Category A Deep Learning Model for Predicticting Adverse Events (AEs) from Drug-Drug Interactions Between Cardiac Medications (Biological Science and Engineering) 12
        Woong  Choi Honorable Mention, Biological Science and Engineering Category A Deep Learning Model for Predicticting Adverse Events (AEs) from Drug-Drug Interactions Between Cardiac Medications (Biological Science and Engineering) 12
        Aviv  Kanarik Exceptional Merit, Certificate (all Grades), SPV Market Research Forecasting Solar F10.7 Index with Machine Learning to Mitigate Solar Flare Damage (Physical Science and Engineering) 12
        Matthew  Kim Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category Detecting the prevalence of microaggression generations in natural language generation (NLG) models (Physical Science and Engineering) 12
        Ashley  Lim 2nd Place - $75, Certificate of Achievement, SAMPE - Society for the Advancement of Material and Process Engineering Synthesizing guanidine derivatives to optimize polyethylene terephthalate depolymerization. (Physical Science and Engineering) 11
        Indira  Mariya Exceptional Merit, Certificate (all Grades), SPV Market Research Forecasting Solar F10.7 Index with Machine Learning to Mitigate Solar Flare Damage (Physical Science and Engineering) 12
        Tohar  Markovich 2nd Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category Applications of topological quantum computing to improving novel cryptographic algorithms and protocols (Physical Science and Engineering) 12
        Riya  Mehrotra Exceptional Merit, Certificate (all Grades), SPV Market Research How Square is a Square? (Physical Science and Engineering) 9
              2nd Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category    
              IEEE Electro-Technology $25 Amazon gift card and a certificate, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (Part 1)    
        Gabor  Szita Upper Division :- Honorable Mention Student Award: $50 and Certificate of Achievement, Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Developing a robot that autonomously collects LIDAR data and improving loop closure detection in SLAM (Physical Science and Engineering) 12
              GR 9-12: 1st Place, Certificate of Achievement, and virtual tour of NASA Ames Research Center, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) Intelligent Systems Award    
        Angely  Vargas $500 and Framed Certificate of Achievement, SVACS High School Award for Excellence in Chemistry Synthesis of 5-HT2A serotonin agonists to target Body Dysmorphic Disorder (BDD) (Physical Science and Engineering) 12
              Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category    
   Victoria Johnson  Polina  Bortok Honorable Mention, Biological Science and Engineering Category Synthesis and evaluation of a sulfonamide-based DNMT3B inhibitor to promote re-expression of tumor suppressor genes (Biological Science and Engineering) 12
        Takumi Joe Britt 1st Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category Polytherapy of Urolithin A and Caloric Deficit repairs neuronal function in C. elegans with neurodegeneration. (Biological Science and Engineering) 11
        Grace  Chang 2nd Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category Determining the underlying mechanisms of strictosamide in managing the apoptotic marker, Bcl-2 in acute lung injury. (Biological Science and Engineering) 12
        Shreya Rajesh Goyalpatel Honorable Mention, Biological Science and Engineering Category Regulating TERT Promoter Methylation with CRISPR TET1CD-dCas9 to Prevent Cell Immortalization (Biological Science and Engineering) 11
        Abhinav Sriram Kasturi 1st Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category Polytherapy of Urolithin A and Caloric Deficit repairs neuronal function in C. elegans with neurodegeneration. (Biological Science and Engineering) 11
        Madison  Lee 2nd Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category Using Non-Steroidal Anti-Inflammatory Drugs (NSAIDs) as a possible treatment for neuroinflammatory diseases (Biological Science and Engineering) 12
        Bridget Gwyneth Liu 1st Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category Investigating novel SCD1 inhibitor structures as a Parkinson's treatment (Biological Science and Engineering) 12
        Caroline  Martin Honorable Mention, Biological Science and Engineering Category Using the Compound 2-n-hexyl LKE-P to Induce Autophagy in Drosophila as a Potential Treatment for Parkinson's (Biological Science and Engineering) 12
        Ariana  Motaghiannezam 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 Multi-omic profiling IDs p63 as a novel genetic determinant driving lung fibrosis and cancer, targetable for treatment (RRI Biological Science and Engineering) 11
              1st Award, RRI Biological Science and Engineering Category    
        Ethan Younghoon Park Honorable Mention, Biological Science and Engineering Category Latent Space inducing Convolutional Neural Network classifier for Schizophrenia using multi-modality neuroimaging data (Biological Science and Engineering) 11
        Emma  Rensin Honorable Mention, Biological Science and Engineering Category Using the Compound 2-n-hexyl LKE-P to Induce Autophagy in Drosophila as a Potential Treatment for Parkinson's (Biological Science and Engineering) 12
        Nicole  Stavrakos Honorable Mention, Biological Science and Engineering Category Synthesis and evaluation of a sulfonamide-based DNMT3B inhibitor to promote re-expression of tumor suppressor genes (Biological Science and Engineering) 12
        Audrey Rachel Tsai 1st Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category Investigating novel SCD1 inhibitor structures as a Parkinson's treatment (Biological Science and Engineering) 12
        Aarthi  Venkatraman Honorable Mention, RRI Biological Science and Engineering Category Functional characterization of aberrant splicing using paired a DNA-RNA approach (RRI Biological Science and Engineering) 12
        Liv  Weiner Honorable Mention, Biological Science and Engineering Category Regulating TERT Promoter Methylation with CRISPR TET1CD-dCas9 to Prevent Cell Immortalization (Biological Science and Engineering) 11
        Josephine Shing Oi Wong 2nd Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category Determining the underlying mechanisms of strictosamide in managing the apoptotic marker, Bcl-2 in acute lung injury. (Biological Science and Engineering) 12