Palo Alto Unified School District

Project Awards 2024

Synopsys Silicon Valley Science and Technology Championship

School	Teacher		Student		Award	Title	Gr
Henry M Gunn High School	Rachel	Congress	Stella	Su	Honorable Mention, Biological Science and Engineering Category	Identifying Major Regulators of Cardiac Cell Differentiation using Single-Cell GPT and Gene Network Modeling (Biological Science and Engineering)	11
	David	Deggeller	Ethan	Kou	Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category	Robust Autonomous Vehicle Object Detection in Adverse Weather (Physical Science and Engineering)	12
	Heather	Mellows	Jacob	Chiu	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	Compact ferrofluid pump for laptop liquid cooling to improve cooling performance over heat pipes (Physical Science and Engineering)	10
					IEEE Electro-Technology $25 Amazon gift card and a certificate, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (Part 2)
	Maria	Powell	Carina	Gross	1st Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category	PROTIST: Protist Recognition Optics To Identify Serious Threats: A novel system to monitor drinking safety of water. (Biological Science and Engineering)	9
					$100 and a Certificate of Achievement, Inez M. Lechner Award
					Certificate of Achievement and opportunity to advance to state, national and international competitions, U. S. Stockholm Junior Water Prize
					Certificate of Achievement; Individually Wrapped Award Package from U.S. Air Force, United States Air Force
	Karen	Saxena	Lauren Jungmin	Lee	2nd Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category	Lactobacillus rhamnosus increases growth of Solanum lycopersicum under osmotic stress. (Biological Science and Engineering)	11
	Ning	Xu	Hongyi	Shi	Honorable Mention, Biological Science and Engineering Category	Developing an in silico method (CS-BEC) to discover unclassified carbonic anhydrase for future carbon capture and utilization (Biological Science and Engineering)	11
Palo Alto High School	Margaret	Deng	Adrit	Rao	Honorable Mention, RRI Biological Science and Engineering Category	Accessible Low-Cost Custom 3D Deep Learning System for Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm Detection, Reconstruction, and Analysis (RRI Biological Science and Engineering)	11
	Cecilia	Walsh	Maya	Caren	1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category	A Computational Model of Dark Energy and the Expanding Cosmic Web (Physical Science and Engineering)	10
			Vince	Wu	1st Award, RRI Physical Science and Engineering Category	A Novel Agent-Based Modeling Framework of Farmer Pesticide Usage (RRI Physical Science and Engineering)	11
Stanford (Jane Lathrop) Middle School	Tammy	Parke	Claire	Rao	Nominated to compete envelope to apply for Thermo Fisher JIC, Thermo Fisher JIC - 7th Grade	The Enhancement of Power Output from Living Plants Using Chemically Modified Electrodes (Physical Science and Engineering)	7
					1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category
					IEEE Electro-Technology $25 Amazon gift card and a certificate, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (Part 1)