Los Gatos-Saratoga Union High School District
Project Awards 2025
Synopsys Silicon Valley Science and Technology Championship
| School | Teacher | Student | Award | Title | Gr | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Los Gatos High School | Cathy | Messenger | Anya | Chauhan | 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 | Leveraging a Context-Aware Graph Neural Network for Drug Target Discovery in Alzheimer's Disease (RRI Biological Science and Engineering) | 11 |
| $500 Grand Prize, Robby Beyers Innovative Solutions Awards | |||||||
| 1st Award, RRI Biological Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Naitik | Gupta | 1st Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | Transforming Skin Cancer Detection: Adaptive Procedure for Detection of Skin Cancers Using ANN Learning Techniques (Biological Science and Engineering) | 10 | |||
| Julian | Juan | 1st Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | Transforming Skin Cancer Detection: Adaptive Procedure for Detection of Skin Cancers Using ANN Learning Techniques (Biological Science and Engineering) | 10 | |||
| Lucas (Zihe) | Wang | 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 | A Context-Aware Recoloring Framework using Visual-Driven Segmentation and Guided Filters (Physical Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| Upper Division :- Honorable Mention Student Award: $65 and Certificate of Achievement, Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) | |||||||
| 1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Brandon | Wong | 1st Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | Transforming Skin Cancer Detection: Adaptive Procedure for Detection of Skin Cancers Using ANN Learning Techniques (Biological Science and Engineering) | 10 | |||
| Lucas | Xu | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Quantifying the Effects of Heat Discrepancy on Airfoil Efficiency: Enhancing Sustainability in Commercial Aircraft (Physical Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| IEEE Electro-Technology $25 Amazon gift card and a certificate, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (Part 2) | |||||||
| Andrew | Zheng | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Quantifying the Effects of Heat Discrepancy on Airfoil Efficiency: Enhancing Sustainability in Commercial Aircraft (Physical Science and Engineering) | 12 | |||
| IEEE Electro-Technology $25 Amazon gift card and a certificate, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (Part 2) | |||||||
| Saratoga High School | Janny | Cahatol | Arahan | Balasubramanian | 2nd Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Human vs Artificial: Precision & Recall in AI-Generated Text Detection with Expert LLMs (Physical Science and Engineering) | 11 |
| Jennifer | Lee | Kevin | Chen | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Using Low-Frequency Acoustic Waves for Effective Aqueous Microplastic Removal from Water (Physical Science and Engineering) | 10 | |
| Kirby | Fung | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Wildfire Smoke Hazard Analysis and Mitigation in High-Risk Communities (Physical Science and Engineering) | 12 | |||
| High School Student - Certificate of Achievement, Letter of Congratulations from the Chief of Naval Research, Medallion and $50 gift card (redeemable online), Office of Naval Research -United States Navy/ US Marine Corps | |||||||
| Alicia Tianyun | Huang | Honorable Mention, RRI Biological Science and Engineering Category | Rapid Rabies Virus Screening Using LAMP Technique: Developing a Low-Cost Portable Kit (RRI Biological Science and Engineering) | 10 | |||
| Ryan | Miao | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Using Low-Frequency Acoustic Waves for Effective Aqueous Microplastic Removal from Water (Physical Science and Engineering) | 10 | |||
| Mridhula Menaja | Vudali | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Motorized Assist for Dog Wheelchairs: Using Tilt/Force Sensors to Enhance Mobility (Physical Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| Ashley | Xu | Exceptional Merit, Certificate (all Grades), SPV Market Research | Advanced Real-Time Drowsiness Detection Leveraging AI and Dual CMOS-IR Sensor Integration (Physical Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| Ellis | Yang | Honorable Mention, RRI Biological Science and Engineering Category | Rapid Rabies Virus Screening Using LAMP Technique: Developing a Low-Cost Portable Kit (RRI Biological Science and Engineering) | 10 | |||
| Ethan | Yang | Certificate of Achievement + Letter from Sponsor (regarding $25 gift card redeemable online + internship opportunity with ASEI Industry Partner + free 1 year membership to ASEI), ASEI Award | Predicting Large Language Model Hallucinations in Chess Using Confidence Metrics (Physical Science and Engineering) | 12 | |||
| 2nd Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| IEEE Electro-Technology $25 Amazon gift card and a certificate, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (Part 2) | |||||||