East Side Union High School District

Project Awards 2025

Synopsys Silicon Valley Science and Technology Championship

School Teacher Student Award Title Gr
Andrew Hill High School  Wayland Shih  Melanie  Nguyen 2nd Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category Deciphering the Role of Wnt and Notch Signaling in Hydra Head and Foot Regeneration (Biological Science and Engineering) 12
Evergreen Valley High School  Cris Kuch  Ishir  Gupta Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category Flexible Cable-Driven Robotic Arm for Precise Object Manipulation (Physical Science and Engineering) 11
        Laksh apurva Zaveri Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category Flexible Cable-Driven Robotic Arm for Precise Object Manipulation (Physical Science and Engineering) 11
   Alice Li  Sumedh  Kamat Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category Optimizing Deep Neural Networks for Emotion Detection and Facial Analysis (Physical Science and Engineering) 11
   Eric Maestas  Ojas Satyavrat Prabhune 1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category Factors affecting voltage generation of deep-design soil-based microbial fuel cells (Physical Science and Engineering) 9
   Ihwa Miao  Aarush  Parikh GR 9-12: Honorable Mention, Certificate of Achievement, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) Intelligent Systems Award Predicting Wildfire Spread using Graph Neural Networking (Physical Science and Engineering) 11
   Garry Redillas  Akshaj  Devireddy Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category Post-Quantum Hashing Using Chaotic Double Pendulum Dynamics (Physical Science and Engineering) 10
   Rebecca Taylor  Sreekar  Baddepudi Honorable Mention, Biological Science and Engineering Category Personalized Aphasia Recovery Roadmaps: Simulating Treatment Outcomes using Deep Learning (Biological Science and Engineering) 11
Piedmont Hills High School  Jason Dries  Swara Anand Ahire 2nd Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category Sublinsulin: A Novel Approach to Diabetes Management (Biological Science and Engineering) 11
        Eden Chau Ng 2nd Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category Sublinsulin: A Novel Approach to Diabetes Management (Biological Science and Engineering) 11
   Rey Enriquez  Siyuan  Huang 2nd Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category Minimizing Fossil Fuel Energy Consumption For Public Transportation (Physical Science and Engineering) 11
Silver Creek High School  Michelle Advincula  Adityavardhan  Singh Upper Division :- Honorable Mention Student Award: $65 and Certificate of Achievement, Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) AI Assistant for Visually impaired (Physical Science and Engineering) 11
              Second place- $25 Check and Certificate, Access Braille Award    
   Sahar Ghorashi  Dhyana  Desai $100 and a certificate, IBM Award RadioAssist: An Explainable AI Based Framework for Advanced Anomaly Detection and Classification in MR Images (Biological Science and Engineering) 9
   Bich Nguyen  Ishaan Reddy Mandala 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 Enhancing CAR T-Cell Precision and Efficacy in Targeting CD25+ T-Cell Malignancies via Bispecific Aptamer Modulation (Biological Science and Engineering) 11
              1st Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category