Mountain View-Los Altos Union High School District
Project Awards 2025
Synopsys Silicon Valley Science and Technology Championship
| School | Teacher | Student | Award | Title | Gr | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Los Altos High School | Darren | Dressen | Anastasia Magda | Aliashvili | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Selective Non-Nucleoside Inhibition of Foot-and-Mouth Disease Virus: Synthesizing T-1105 Analogs for Better Specificity (Physical Science and Engineering) | 11 |
| Camelia Sophia | Burnham | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Selective Non-Nucleoside Inhibition of Foot-and-Mouth Disease Virus: Synthesizing T-1105 Analogs for Better Specificity (Physical Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| Linuki | Ekenayake | Honorable Mention, Biological Science and Engineering Category | Bio-orthogonal activation of a NRAS targeting prodrug for metastatic melanomas (Biological Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| Tom | Freda Eskenazi | Team Award - $300 and Framed Certificate of Achievement, SVACS High School Award for Excellence in Chemistry | Synthesizing and testing novel ligands for passivation and improved stability of perovskite films in solar cells (Physical Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| 2nd Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Joseph | Gerdyman | Team Award - $300 and Framed Certificate of Achievement, SVACS High School Award for Excellence in Chemistry | Synthesizing and testing novel ligands for passivation and improved stability of perovskite films in solar cells (Physical Science and Engineering) | 12 | |||
| 2nd Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Milan | Grbovic | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Design of a Thermoelectric Generator"Phase Change Material system for waste heat recovery in air conditioning (Physical Science and Engineering) | 12 | |||
| Ria | Kohli | Honorable Mention, Biological Science and Engineering Category | Synthesizing a curcumin cyclodextrin complex to target cell proliferation of A549 cell line (Biological Science and Engineering) | 12 | |||
| Ashley | Lim | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Selective Non-Nucleoside Inhibition of Foot-and-Mouth Disease Virus: Synthesizing T-1105 Analogs for Better Specificity (Physical Science and Engineering) | 12 | |||
| Dylan | Po | 1st Award, RRI Biological Science and Engineering Category | Improving Sleep Apnea Diagnosis: Are Ensemble and Deep Learning Models a Cost-Effective Alternative to Polysomnography? (RRI Biological Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| Avni | Rajagopal | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Comparing LLM Fine-Tuning and RAG for Natural Language Tasks Related to Scientific Literature (Physical Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| Sarika | Rajan | Honorable Mention, Biological Science and Engineering Category | Bio-orthogonal activation of a NRAS targeting prodrug for metastatic melanomas (Biological Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| Dhruv | Ramasubban | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Biodegradable, Porous Polymer Sensor Embedded with Natural Dyes for Volatile Organic Compound Sensing in Food Spoilage (Physical Science and Engineering) | 12 | |||
| Middle School or High School $200 and a Certificate of Achievement, Northern California Institute of Food Technologists (NCIFT) | |||||||
| Parker | Woo | Team Award - $300 and Framed Certificate of Achievement, SVACS High School Award for Excellence in Chemistry | Synthesizing and testing novel ligands for passivation and improved stability of perovskite films in solar cells (Physical Science and Engineering) | 12 | |||
| 2nd Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Abby Jiaqi | Zhou | 2nd place HS project - $100 and Certificate of Achievement, American Vacuum Society, Northern CA | Optimizing Energy Recovery LINAC Particle Accelerators to Minimize Beam Breakup Instability for EUV-Lithography (Physical Science and Engineering) | 12 | |||
| Exceptional Merit, Certificate (all Grades), SPV Market Research | |||||||
| Stephen | Hine | Arush | Garg | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | GenAI Cane: A White Cane with Machine Learning (Physical Science and Engineering) | 11 | |
| Victoria | Johnson | Axelle Marie Francesca | Allanic | 1st Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | Observing the effects of climate change-associated variables on Elysia Crispata (Biological Science and Engineering) | 12 | |
| Roya Camille | Bahman | Honorable Mention, Biological Science and Engineering Category | Using L-carnitine to increase NADPH levels in order to treat Autosomal Dominant Polycystic Kidney Disease (Biological Science and Engineering) | 12 | |||
| Juliana | Baltz | Honorable Mention, Biological Science and Engineering Category | Treating Circadian Rhythm Disruption with Ramelteon to Investigate Neurodegeneration in Drosophila Models of Parkinson's (Biological Science and Engineering) | 12 | |||
| Takumi | Britt | 1st Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | Beyond Behavioral Quiescence: Uncovering aptf-1's Impact on Sleep-Wake Disorders & Sensory Misperception in C. elegan (Biological Science and Engineering) | 12 | |||
| Kaveri Reya | Desai | Honorable Mention, Biological Science and Engineering Category | Using L-carnitine to increase NADPH levels in order to treat Autosomal Dominant Polycystic Kidney Disease (Biological Science and Engineering) | 12 | |||
| Ari | Elovson | 1st Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | Observing the effects of climate change-associated variables on Elysia Crispata (Biological Science and Engineering) | 12 | |||
| Suya | Fang | 2nd Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | The role of the Drosophila histone acetyltransferase Enok in modulating ethanol tolerance following induced relapse (Biological Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| Shreya Rajesh | Goyalpatel | Honorable Mention, Biological Science and Engineering Category | Reducing Cellular Immortalization in Cancer Cells Utilizing a Combination Therapy of MST-312, Quercetin, & Curcumin (Biological Science and Engineering) | 12 | |||
| Abhinav | Kasturi | 1st Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | Beyond Behavioral Quiescence: Uncovering aptf-1's Impact on Sleep-Wake Disorders & Sensory Misperception in C. elegan (Biological Science and Engineering) | 12 | |||
| Joanne | Lin | 2nd Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | The role of the Drosophila histone acetyltransferase Enok in modulating ethanol tolerance following induced relapse (Biological Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| Kelsey | Nguyen | Honorable Mention, Biological Science and Engineering Category | Treating Circadian Rhythm Disruption with Ramelteon to Investigate Neurodegeneration in Drosophila Models of Parkinson's (Biological Science and Engineering) | 12 | |||
| Nicole Maeli | Park | 1st Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | Observing the effects of climate change-associated variables on Elysia Crispata (Biological Science and Engineering) | 12 | |||
| Liv | Weiner | Honorable Mention, Biological Science and Engineering Category | Reducing Cellular Immortalization in Cancer Cells Utilizing a Combination Therapy of MST-312, Quercetin, & Curcumin (Biological Science and Engineering) | 12 | |||
| Heather | Laederich | Rohan | Desai | Honorable Mention, Biological Science and Engineering Category | Comparing and developing technology analyzing single cell data of different types (Biological Science and Engineering) | 10 | |
| Peter | Lin | Honorable Mention, Biological Science and Engineering Category | Comparing and developing technology analyzing single cell data of different types (Biological Science and Engineering) | 10 | |||
| Mountain View High School | Jenna | Adams | Lara Alexandra | Leon | 2nd Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | The Effect of Blue Light Wavelengths on Phytoplankton: Engineering a Sustainable Growth Method. (Physical Science and Engineering) | 10 |
| Meital | Zayats | 2nd Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | The Effect of Blue Light Wavelengths on Phytoplankton: Engineering a Sustainable Growth Method. (Physical Science and Engineering) | 9 | |||
| Marcia | Babiak | Kirati | Bollineni | Honorable Mention, RRI Physical Science and Engineering Category | Post Covid-19, Direct and Indirect Economic Impacts from Taylor Swift's Era's Tour (RRI Physical Science and Engineering) | 10 | |
| David | Cmaylo | Anuj | Jain | Honorable Mention, RRI Biological Science and Engineering Category | FenBT: Enzyme Therapy for Treating Fentanyl Overdose and Addiction (RRI Biological Science and Engineering) | 11 | |
| Ann | Nguyen | Aria Rani | Sindledecker | 2nd Award, RRI Biological Science and Engineering Category | Enhanced Cell Proliferation Driven by Overexpression of Autism-Linked Genes SCN2A and KMT5B (RRI Biological Science and Engineering) | 11 | |