Private
Project Awards 2025
Synopsys Silicon Valley Science and Technology Championship
| School | Teacher | Student | Award | Title | Gr | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Archbishop Mitty High School | Thuy-Anh | Nguyen | Sudhanva | Belur | 1st Place $150, Valley Water Awards HS | A Novel Chemical Method of Degradation of Microplastics in Water Utilizing Sodium Hydroxide and Dimethyl Sulfoxide (Physical Science and Engineering) | 10 |
| Certificate of Achievement and opportunity to advance to state, national and international competitions, U. S. Stockholm Junior Water Prize | |||||||
| Honorable Mention - Certificate of Achievement, SAMPE - Society for the Advancement of Material and Process Engineering | |||||||
| Raaghav | Chakravarthy | 1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | SyntheticPast: An AI-Powered Application for Comprehensive Event-Specific Primary Source Based Visualization (Physical Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| Anika | Ganu | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Gait Assist: An AI-Driven Arduino-Based Gait Analyzer for Foot Posture Improvement (Physical Science and Engineering) | 10 | |||
| Varini Manish | Kadakia | 2nd Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Hybrid Generative Artificial Intelligence Trajectory Prediction Model for UAVs (Physical Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| Samaira | Mehta | 1st Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | OVision: Raspberry Pi-Powered Portable Framework for Low-Cost Precision Medicine in Cancer Diagnosis Using Deep Learning (Biological Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| Aavya | Mishra | $100 and a Certificate of Achievement, Inez M. Lechner Award | E.A.S.E (Empathy AI for Stressful Encounters): Your AI Guide to Diffuse High Stress Talks with Empathy and Confidence (Physical Science and Engineering) | 9 | |||
| Isabella | Shen | Honorable Mention, Biological Science and Engineering Category | Genetic Mutation-Based Classification of Gliomas (Biological Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| BASIS Independent Silicon Valley School | Kevyn | Adams | Saanvi | Sharma | $100, Robby Beyers Innovative Solutions Awards | Protecting Construction Workers: A Novel 3D Vision-Based System for High-Precision Hazard Detection (Physical Science and Engineering) | 10 |
| Upper Division :- Honorable Mention Student Award: $65 and Certificate of Achievement, Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) | |||||||
| 2nd Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Karen | Allendoerfer | Jason Naoki | Nishio | 2nd Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | Universal Deep Learning Frameworks for Multi-Disease Classification in Neurology: From Alzheimer's to Brain Tumors (Biological Science and Engineering) | 11 | |
| Nelson Kazuki | Nishio | 2nd Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | Universal Deep Learning Frameworks for Multi-Disease Classification in Neurology: From Alzheimer's to Brain Tumors (Biological Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| Swetha | Bhattacharya | Manasvini | Singh | 2nd Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | Transforming MRI Data into Latent Space Embeddings Using Multihead Learning to Understand Alzheimer's Progression (Biological Science and Engineering) | 9 | |
| Chandni | Chadha | Aryan | Tummala | 1st place HS project - $200 and Certificate of Achievement, American Vacuum Society, Northern CA | Reactive Species Detection in DBD Plasma for Wound Healing Applications (RRI Biological Science and Engineering) | 11 | |
| Certificate of Achievement; Individually Wrapped Award Package from U.S. Air Force, United States Air Force | |||||||
| Kyle | Covert | Anav Venkata | Apparaju | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Measuring and Classifying Wildfires Using a Novel Drone-Based Approach (Physical Science and Engineering) | 11 | |
| 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 | |||||||
| Jianli | Fan | Ethan | Guo | 2nd Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Generative Visualizations for Accessible Learning: Bridging Cognitive Gaps in Mathematics through Visual Pathways (Physical Science and Engineering) | 10 | |
| Raeanne | Li | 2nd Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Generative Visualizations for Accessible Learning: Bridging Cognitive Gaps in Mathematics through Visual Pathways (Physical Science and Engineering) | 10 | |||
| Clarence | Lau | Ankith | Burki | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | CrashGuard: A Smart Vehicle Device That Uses Machine Learning & Pattern Recognition to Anticipate and Prevent Accidents (Physical Science and Engineering) | 6 | |
| Rithvik | Burki | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | CrashGuard: A Smart Vehicle Device That Uses Machine Learning & Pattern Recognition to Anticipate and Prevent Accidents (Physical Science and Engineering) | 8 | |||
| Celena | Fu | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Tennis Trajectory: Predict where a tennis ball lands by using Projectile Motion and Arduino (Physical Science and Engineering) | 6 | |||
| Jon | Noble | Dhruv | Sharma | Certificate of Achievement + Letter from Sponsor (regarding free 1 year membership to ASEI), ASEI Award | FIBER: Real-Time Neurofeedback System for Fibromyalgia Pain Management Using EEG-Based Closed-Loop Control (Biological Science and Engineering) | 11 | |
| Ollie | Schindler | Aditrivaishnavi | Balaji | Lower Division :- Honorable Mention Student Award: $65 and Certificate of Achievement, Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) | Cracking the code to Martian Energy: The search for uranium in Mars using Gamma Ray Maps (Physical Science and Engineering) | 8 | |
| Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| IEEE Electro-Technology $25 Amazon gift card and a certificate, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers | |||||||
| Kirti | Tamhane | Tianyi Stanley | Cao | 2nd Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | A Neural Network-Based Heart Rate Monitoring System (Physical Science and Engineering) | 9 | |
| Shivani | Iyer | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | EMPATH AI: Real-Time Adaptation based on emotional non-verbal cues in online tutoring (Physical Science and Engineering) | 10 | |||
| Priyank | Sharma-Tiwari | Lower Division :- Honorable Mention Student Award: $65 and Certificate of Achievement, Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) | Greener Cities, Smarter Rides: Optimizing Public Transit with Dynamic Routing and User Requests (Physical Science and Engineering) | 8 | |||
| Harrison | Wu | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Revolutionizing RAG with Confliction Detection: Transforming Customer Service Chatbots with Large Language Models (Physical Science and Engineering) | 10 | |||
| Julia | Wendel | Krishna | Bhatt | 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 | MesoNet: A Spatio-Temporal Neural Architecture for Massively Energy-Efficient Unsupervised Learning (Physical Science and Engineering) | 10 | |
| 1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Archit | Deepak | GR 9-12: 2nd Place, Certificate of Achievement, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) Intelligent Systems Award | A.U.R.S: Autonomous UAV for Rescue Signaling (Physical Science and Engineering) | 10 | |||
| Bellarmine College Preparatory | Jessica | Lew-Munoz | Ishan | Routray | 2nd Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | BlinkSecure: Live Security Measure (Deter Bot attacks and Spam) (Physical Science and Engineering) | 10 |
| 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 | |||||||
| Nathan | Stibrich | Viraj | Pandey | First place: $500 and Framed Certificate of Achievement, SVACS High School Award for Excellence in Chemistry | A Novel Triad for Clean Energy: Photocatalytic Hydrogen Generation Using GQDs, Titanium Dioxide & Sunlight (Physical Science and Engineering) | 11 | |
| Wesley | Winter | Vihan | Bhattacharjee | 1st Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | Smart Screening: A Novel Object Detection Framework For Early Identification of Lung Adenocarcinoma Using YOLO Models (Biological Science and Engineering) | 10 | |
| Peng | Yav | Ilesh Veliah | Sundar | 2nd Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | RADISM: Using a Novel Ising Model with Machine Learning to Assess Radiation's Impact on Magnetic Materials in Space (Physical Science and Engineering) | 11 | |
| Lisa | Yi | Kevin | Lu | 1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | When Prompts Turn Rogue: Overcoming Limitations with Current Defenses to Prompt Injection Through Context-Based Anomaly (Physical Science and Engineering) | 11 | |
| Challenger - Almaden - SJ | Pronati | Mondal | Annette | Rahardja | $500 + certificate + a signed book + brunch with Bob Zeidman, Zeidman Award | Energy Without Limits: Wireless Induction Charging (Physical Science and Engineering) | 8 |
| 2nd place MS project - $100 and Certificate of Achievement, American Vacuum Society, Northern CA | |||||||
| Exceptional Merit, Certificate (all Grades), SPV Market Research | |||||||
| Challenger - Berryessa - SJ | Steven | Gomes | Vihaan Patnaik | Sundar | 1st Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | Radiation Poration - Effect of EM waves on Cell Porosity (Biological Science and Engineering) | 7 |
| Challenger - Shawnee - SJ | Bonny | Basu | Daksh Singh | Chauhan | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Headband for the Visually Impaired (Physical Science and Engineering) | 8 |
| Bhavish Kumar | Jagani | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | An Autonomous and Vision-Controlled Robotic Oil Spill Cleanup using advanced LiDAR technology (Physical Science and Engineering) | 8 | |||
| Keshav | Ramakrishnan | 2nd Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Hyperloop: Eco Friendly Transportation of the Future (Physical Science and Engineering) | 7 | |||
| Prasanna | Shankar | Isabelle Stone Award for Best Biological Science Projects - Qualified for State Science Fair, Santa Clara Valley Science & Engineering Fair Assn - Board of Directors Awards - Middle School | What is the effect of different species of mushrooms on the amount of oil broken down in soil and the quality of air? (Biological Science and Engineering) | 7 | |||
| 1st Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Challenger - Strawberry Park - SJ | Annie | Chen | Dhanyaa | Chakravarthy | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Secure Steersmanship (Physical Science and Engineering) | 8 |
| Exceptional Merit, Certificate (all Grades), SPV Market Research | |||||||
| Siri | Gudladona | 1st Place $150, Valley Water Awards-MS | AquaPulse: A Sprinkler to Save Water Wastage (Physical Science and Engineering) | 8 | |||
| Manvi | Karadigudda | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | TENGs: Power Sparked From Friction (Physical Science and Engineering) | 7 | |||
| Tanya | Upadhyay | Honorable Mention, Biological Science and Engineering Category | From Biomass to Bioethanol (Biological Science and Engineering) | 7 | |||
| Thiyagesh | Venkatesan | Second Place Award: $125 and framed certificate, SVACS Dave Parker Award for Excellence in Chemistry | Developing Gelatin Biofabric: Paving the way for a new customizable, biodegradable, and high-tech future in textiles (Physical Science and Engineering) | 8 | |||
| Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Jessica | Reinman | Arjun | Goli | 2nd Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | The ultimate Soundscape (Physical Science and Engineering) | 8 | |
| Ritika | Guturi | 3rd place MS project - $50 and Certificate of Achievement, American Vacuum Society, Northern CA | Electrolysis of Water (Physical Science and Engineering) | 7 | |||
| Shrinidhi | Venkatakrishnan | First Place Award: $250 and framed certificate, SVACS Dave Parker Award for Excellence in Chemistry | Eco-Durable Bioplastics (Physical Science and Engineering) | 6 | |||
| 2nd Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Xiao | Yang | 2nd Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Magnetism and Electricity (Physical Science and Engineering) | 6 | |||
| Challenger - Sunnyvale | Ben | Eccleston | Riddhiman Satish | Deshmukh | $125 + certificate + a signed book + brunch with Bob Zeidman, Zeidman Award | A Novel Algorithm for Optimal Detection of Eczema in Children Via Convolutional Neural Networks (Physical Science and Engineering) | 8 |
| Middle School Student - Certificate of Achievement, Letter of Congratulations from the Chief of Naval Research, and Medallion, Office of Naval Research -United States Navy/ US Marine Corps | |||||||
| Challenger Middlefield - Palo Alto | Diane | Rusu | Shreyan | Biswas | 1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Enhancing Pedestrian Safety Using Machine Learning (Physical Science and Engineering) | 6 |
| GR 6-8: 1st Place, Certificate of Achievement, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) Intelligent Systems Award | |||||||
| Saksham | Srivastava | Nominated to compete envelope to apply for Thermo Fisher JIC, Thermo Fisher JIC - 8th Grade | StarQuest: A Celestial GPS (Physical Science and Engineering) | 8 | |||
| 1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Riddhi | Vidyarthi | 2nd Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Auto-Dose: Simplifying Medication Management (Physical Science and Engineering) | 8 | |||
| Gideon Hausner Jewish Day School | Liat | Baranoff | Nathan Meyer | Farber | Honorable Mention, Biological Science and Engineering Category | Catalase vs Hydrogen Peroxide: Which liver wins? (Biological Science and Engineering) | 7 |
| Matthias Joshua | Garzon | 2nd Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Terra Tag (Physical Science and Engineering) | 7 | |||
| Isaac Jinsung | Romanoff | 2nd Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Terra Tag (Physical Science and Engineering) | 7 | |||
| Amron | Seyoum | 2nd Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Terra Tag (Physical Science and Engineering) | 7 | |||
| Danielle | Zomet | Honorable Mention, Biological Science and Engineering Category | Catalase vs Hydrogen Peroxide: Which liver wins? (Biological Science and Engineering) | 7 | |||
| Pooja | Dimba | Anna Reese | Field | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Saving Society from the Naked Egg (Physical Science and Engineering) | 7 | |
| Emma | Krovblit | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Saving Society from the Naked Egg (Physical Science and Engineering) | 7 | |||
| Raju | Rajesh | Noam | Dadon | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Glove with refillable chemical heat pack (Physical Science and Engineering) | 6 | |
| Drake | Dauber | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Glove with refillable chemical heat pack (Physical Science and Engineering) | 6 | |||
| Granada Islamic School | Farhana | Afroz | Raneem | Abu-Nimeh | 2nd Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | Pulse of Light: Revolutionizing Blood Flow Through Optics (Biological Science and Engineering) | 12 |
| Certificate of Achievement; Individually Wrapped Award Package from U.S. Air Force, United States Air Force | |||||||
| Exceptional Merit, Certificate (all Grades), SPV Market Research | |||||||
| First place, $250 Wireless Communications Alliance Award, Wireless Communications Alliance | |||||||
| Malek | Alhussien | Lower Division : 2nd Place Student Award: $325 and Certificate of Achievement, Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) | YogiAI: A Machine Learning Model to Predict Wildfires Due to Power Line Faults (Physical Science and Engineering) | 8 | |||
| Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Letter to apply for $100 and Certificate, The Lemelson Early Inventor Prize | |||||||
| Yusra Reem | Hashmi | Middle School Student - Certificate of Achievement, Letter of Congratulations from the Chief of Naval Research, and Medallion, Office of Naval Research -United States Navy/ US Marine Corps | Fog Harvesting: A Simple Solution to Water Scarcity (Physical Science and Engineering) | 8 | |||
| Emaan Tahseen | Talukdar | Exceptional Merit, Certificate (all Grades), SPV Market Research | It looks like plastic, it feels like plastic, it is not plastic. Jute: A solution to plastic pollution (Physical Science and Engineering) | 8 | |||
| Zeba | Haq | Tasneem | Ismaili | Castro Family Award for Best Physical Science Projects - Qualified for State Science Fair, Santa Clara Valley Science & Engineering Fair Assn - Board of Directors Awards - Middle School | Talk to the Hand : ASL Gesture Recognition Glove (Physical Science and Engineering) | 6 | |
| 1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Jinaan | Mokhtar | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Miraya: The Mirror That Matches Your Color (Physical Science and Engineering) | 7 | |||
| Waleed Ibrahim | Raja | GR 6-8: 2nd Place, Certificate of Achievement, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) Intelligent Systems Award | Safety Design and Enhancements for Off-Road Remote-Controlled All-Terrain Vehicles (Physical Science and Engineering) | 6 | |||
| Miral | Maamoun | Muhammad | Abu-Nimeh | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Energized-Feet (Physical Science and Engineering) | 7 | |
| Maryam Umaymah | Shaahid | 2nd Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Motion to Energy: Sustainable Power from Life's Small Movements (Physical Science and Engineering) | 7 | |||
| IEEE Electro-Technology $25 Amazon gift card and a certificate, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers | |||||||
| Harker School-Middle Campus | Kristen | Morgensen | Rebecca | Ding | 2nd Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | What is the effect of manuka honey on redworm respiration rates? (Biological Science and Engineering) | 8 |
| Aila XiYi | El-Charif | Honorable Mention, Biological Science and Engineering Category | The Effect of Different Types of Tea and Coffee on the Nervous System of Planarian Worms (Biological Science and Engineering) | 8 | |||
| Sarafina | Fung | 2nd Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | What is the effect of manuka honey on redworm respiration rates? (Biological Science and Engineering) | 8 | |||
| Selena | Ghane | 2nd Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Creating durable, biodegradable packaging using mycelium from different mushroom species (Physical Science and Engineering) | 8 | |||
| Rohan | Kaushal | Honorable Mention, Biological Science and Engineering Category | Bioremediation of Different Polyethylene Plastic Bags by Bacillus megaterium (Biological Science and Engineering) | 8 | |||
| Aarav | Kumar | Honorable Mention, Biological Science and Engineering Category | Mycoremediation of Plastics by Mushroom Species (Biological Science and Engineering) | 8 | |||
| Zooey Shan | Lan | Nominated to compete envelope to apply for Thermo Fisher JIC, Thermo Fisher JIC - 8th Grade | A Novel AI Approach to Analyze the Cardiovascular Effects of Artificial Sweeteners Using Daphnia magna (Biological Science and Engineering) | 8 | |||
| 1st Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Aaron | Lau | Isabelle Stone Award for Best Biological Science Projects - Qualified for State Science Fair, Santa Clara Valley Science & Engineering Fair Assn - Board of Directors Awards - Middle School | Comparison of supplements and pesticides on silkworm growth and productivity (Biological Science and Engineering) | 8 | |||
| Nominated to compete envelope to apply for Thermo Fisher JIC, Thermo Fisher JIC - 8th Grade | |||||||
| 1st Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Anya Wing | Lee | Nominated to compete envelope to apply for Thermo Fisher JIC, Thermo Fisher JIC - 8th Grade | A Novel AI Approach to Analyze the Cardiovascular Effects of Artificial Sweeteners Using Daphnia magna (Biological Science and Engineering) | 8 | |||
| 1st Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Bhavani | Linga | Honorable Mention, Biological Science and Engineering Category | Bioremediation of Different Polyethylene Plastic Bags by Bacillus megaterium (Biological Science and Engineering) | 8 | |||
| Sarah | Thiru | Honorable Mention, Biological Science and Engineering Category | Mycoremediation of Plastics by Mushroom Species (Biological Science and Engineering) | 8 | |||
| Heidi | Wang | 2nd Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Creating durable, biodegradable packaging using mycelium from different mushroom species (Physical Science and Engineering) | 8 | |||
| Ethan | Weyn | Isabelle Stone Award for Best Biological Science Projects - Qualified for State Science Fair, Santa Clara Valley Science & Engineering Fair Assn - Board of Directors Awards - Middle School | Comparison of supplements and pesticides on silkworm growth and productivity (Biological Science and Engineering) | 8 | |||
| Nominated to compete envelope to apply for Thermo Fisher JIC, Thermo Fisher JIC - 8th Grade | |||||||
| 1st Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Sophia | Xu | Honorable Mention, Biological Science and Engineering Category | The Effect of Different Types of Tea and Coffee on the Nervous System of Planarian Worms (Biological Science and Engineering) | 8 | |||
| Kathy | Peng | Angela Zhifei | Li | $100 and Certificate of Achievement, Schonert Award | DaphniaTrack: AI-Based Monitoring of Daphnia Magna Behavior for Evaluating Ocean Toxicity in Northern California (Physical Science and Engineering) | 8 | |
| Rohan Giridhar | Rajaram | Honorable Mention, Biological Science and Engineering Category | The Effect of Plant based and Biological Pesticides on Culicidae eggs and Larvae. (Biological Science and Engineering) | 8 | |||
| Shivam Saran | Sharma | Honorable Mention, Biological Science and Engineering Category | The Effect of Plant based and Biological Pesticides on Culicidae eggs and Larvae. (Biological Science and Engineering) | 8 | |||
| Hannah Yuxuan | Tay | $100 and Certificate of Achievement, Schonert Award | DaphniaTrack: AI-Based Monitoring of Daphnia Magna Behavior for Evaluating Ocean Toxicity in Northern California (Physical Science and Engineering) | 8 | |||
| Braden | Yang | Nominated to compete envelope to apply for Thermo Fisher JIC, Thermo Fisher JIC - 8th Grade | Using Machine Learning Visual Recognition Models to Detect Poor Posture and Eye Strain (Physical Science and Engineering) | 8 | |||
| 1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Middle School Student - Certificate of Achievement, Letter of Congratulations from the Chief of Naval Research, and Medallion, Office of Naval Research -United States Navy/ US Marine Corps | |||||||
| Joshua | Pinzas | Maya | Akunuri | 2nd Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | Investigating the Use of Dried Out Contact Lenses for Water Retention in a Lettuce Plant (Lactuca Sativa) (Biological Science and Engineering) | 8 | |
| Dhruva | Gopal | Nominated to compete envelope to apply for Thermo Fisher JIC, Thermo Fisher JIC - 8th Grade | Effect of Various Amounts of Culturing Salts Supplements on the Bioethanol Production of Chlorella Vulgaris Cultures (Biological Science and Engineering) | 8 | |||
| 1st Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Hemansh | Gupta | 2nd Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Hydra: An Application Identifying Optimal Controlled Fire Locations to Restore Ecosystem Health (Physical Science and Engineering) | 8 | |||
| Anusha | Kotalwar | 2nd Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | Investigating the Use of Dried Out Contact Lenses for Water Retention in a Lettuce Plant (Lactuca Sativa) (Biological Science and Engineering) | 8 | |||
| Hailey Shirina | Li | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | The Effect of Different Materials and Structures on Mechanical Properties of Kirigami as a Substitute for Bubble Wrap (Physical Science and Engineering) | 8 | |||
| Rohan | Mahapatra | 2nd Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Hydra: An Application Identifying Optimal Controlled Fire Locations to Restore Ecosystem Health (Physical Science and Engineering) | 8 | |||
| Sophie | Shen | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | The Effect of Different Materials and Structures on Mechanical Properties of Kirigami as a Substitute for Bubble Wrap (Physical Science and Engineering) | 8 | |||
| Tvisha | Singh | Nominated to compete envelope to apply for Thermo Fisher JIC, Thermo Fisher JIC - 8th Grade | Effect of Various Amounts of Culturing Salts Supplements on the Bioethanol Production of Chlorella Vulgaris Cultures (Biological Science and Engineering) | 8 | |||
| 1st Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Maggie | Sun | Nominated to compete envelope to apply for Thermo Fisher JIC, Thermo Fisher JIC - 8th Grade | Utilizing Food Waste to Produce Biodegradable Packaging Material (Physical Science and Engineering) | 8 | |||
| 1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Middle School or High School $150 and a Certificate of Achievement, Northern California Institute of Food Technologists (NCIFT) | |||||||
| Serena | Yuan | Nominated to compete envelope to apply for Thermo Fisher JIC, Thermo Fisher JIC - 8th Grade | Utilizing Food Waste to Produce Biodegradable Packaging Material (Physical Science and Engineering) | 8 | |||
| 1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Middle School or High School $150 and a Certificate of Achievement, Northern California Institute of Food Technologists (NCIFT) | |||||||
| Harker School-Upper Campus | Miriam | Allersma | Vidwat | Shekar | $50 cash award and certificate, Bruce Kawanami Engineering Award | Low-Cost Biodegradable Indoor Air Purifier (Physical Science and Engineering) | 9 |
| Casey | Brown | Aditya | Shivakumar | 2nd Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | HgMap: Ultra-Low-Cost, Real-Time Mercury Detection & Remediation with Physics-Informed NNs and Plasmon Resonance Sensors (Physical Science and Engineering) | 11 | |
| 1st Place $150, Valley Water Awards HS | |||||||
| Certificate of Achievement and opportunity to advance to state, national and international competitions, U. S. Stockholm Junior Water Prize | |||||||
| Trisha | Shivakumar | 2nd Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | HgMap: Ultra-Low-Cost, Real-Time Mercury Detection & Remediation with Physics-Informed NNs and Plasmon Resonance Sensors (Physical Science and Engineering) | 10 | |||
| 1st Place $150, Valley Water Awards HS | |||||||
| Certificate of Achievement and opportunity to advance to state, national and international competitions, U. S. Stockholm Junior Water Prize | |||||||
| Anuradha | Datar | Jayden | Liu | Honorable Mention, Biological Science and Engineering Category | A Multiscale Anchor-Free 3D CNN Integrated with Denoising for Early Lung Nodule Detection in Low-Dose CT Images (Biological Science and Engineering) | 10 | |
| Ishan Krishna | Mysore | 2nd Award, RRI Physical Science and Engineering Category | Predicting Depression Risk for Adolescents through Social Media Post Data: A Machine Learning Approach (RRI Physical Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| Ananya | Pradhan | 1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Early Detection of Alzheimer's Disease with Optical Coherence Tomography, Magnetic-Resonance Imaging, and Deep Learning (Physical Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| Andrew Dongjoo | Shin | 2nd Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | AGEOptimizer: A Novel Multi-Technique Optimization Tool for Enhanced Model Prediction and Discovery of Cancer Biomarkers (Biological Science and Engineering) | 10 | |||
| Eddie | Zhang | 2nd Award, RRI Physical Science and Engineering Category | AI-Surgeon: A Transfer Learning Multimodal Ensemble Transformer based VR Copilot for Action Prediction in Trauma Surgery (RRI Physical Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| Matthew | Harley | Disha | Gupta | Grand Prize Alternate - Biological Sciences - Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), Santa Clara Valley Science & Engineering Fair Assn - Board of Directors Awards - High School | Identifying novel GLS-1 inhibitors with deep chemical models & 3D molecular analysis for rapid cancer drug discovery (Biological Science and Engineering) | 11 | |
| 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 | |||||||
| Upper Division :- Honorable Mention Student Award: $65 and Certificate of Achievement, Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) | |||||||
| 1st Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Yuqin | Ma | Upper Division :- Honorable Mention Student Award: $65 and Certificate of Achievement, Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) | Systematic Assessment of Protected Species Bycatch with Spatio-Temporal Neural Networks in Subpolar and Tropical Pacific (Physical Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| 1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Danielle Alice | Steinbach | $100, Robby Beyers Innovative Solutions Awards | A multi-institution foundation model for EEG biomarkers of brain disorder progression, classification, and drug response (Biological Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| 1st Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| $100 and a certificate, IBM Award | |||||||
| Evan | Zhang | Grand Prize - Best of Championship - Physical Sciences - Qualified to be a Regeneron ISEF Finalist, Santa Clara Valley Science & Engineering Fair Assn - Board of Directors Awards - High School | AI-Driven Artificial Muscle for Cardiac Assist using Hydraulically Amplified Self-Healing Electrostatic Actuators (RRI Biological Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| Certificate of Achievement + Letter from Sponsor (regarding free 1 year membership to ASEI), ASEI Award | |||||||
| 1st Award, RRI Biological Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Swati | Mittal | Anish | Kosaraju | 1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Revolutionizing AI Security: A Novel Multimodal Framework for Detecting, Isolating, & Preventing Data Poisoning Attacks (Physical Science and Engineering) | 10 | |
| 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 | |||||||
| Zane | Moore | Farhan | Ansari | 1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | From Pixels to Pulse: Enhancing Remote Photoplethysmography Accuracy in Compressed Videos (Physical Science and Engineering) | 11 | |
| Aditya | Banwasi | 2nd Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | DeepSleep: A Novel Convolutional Neural Network for Sleep Apnea Detection by Analyzing Electroencephalogram Data (Biological Science and Engineering) | 9 | |||
| Siddhant | Gaur | 2nd Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | The Role of Mutated Plant-Derived VOCs in Mental Illness: A Biological Factor of Suicide studied in the Aokigahara-Jukai (Physical Science and Engineering) | 9 | |||
| Avi | Gupta | 2nd Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | DeepSleep: A Novel Convolutional Neural Network for Sleep Apnea Detection by Analyzing Electroencephalogram Data (Biological Science and Engineering) | 9 | |||
| Danika | Gupta | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Scaling of Textile Pollution Mitigation via Computational Methods: NIRS Fabric Classification and Dye Mycoremediation (Physical Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| Neil | Krishnan | 1st Award, RRI Physical Science and Engineering Category | On the Connectivity of Friends-and-strangers Graphs (RRI Physical Science and Engineering) | 12 | |||
| Phoebe | Lee | 2nd Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | AI-Driven Forecasting: Deep Learning-Based Predictive Modeling of Wind Power Output to Optimize Clean Energy Supply (Physical Science and Engineering) | 10 | |||
| Nathan | Mao | 2nd Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | DeepSleep: A Novel Convolutional Neural Network for Sleep Apnea Detection by Analyzing Electroencephalogram Data (Biological Science and Engineering) | 9 | |||
| Krish | Nachnani | Certificate of Achievement + Letter from Sponsor (regarding free 1 year membership to ASEI), ASEI Award | Recurrent Event Analysis and Biomarker Discovery for Glioblastoma Using mRNA-sequenced Data (Biological Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| 1st Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Brenna | Ren | Honorable Mention, Biological Science and Engineering Category | RBDGuard: Accessible Early Detection of REM Sleep Behavior Disorder Using Single-Lead ECG and Unsupervised Deep Learning (Biological Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| Lily | Shi | 1st Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | OphthaLVLM: A Locally Deployable Large Vision-Language Model for Explainable Eye Disease Diagnosis and Dialogue (Biological Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| Kallie | Wang | Honorable Mention, RRI Biological Science and Engineering Category | Gene Expression Profiles of Different Stage Lung Cancer Cells Under Hypoxia (RRI Biological Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| Claire | Xu | 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 | Non-Invasive Blood-Based Early Alzheimer's Detection Using Sex-Specific Brain-Blood Graph Reinforcement Learning (Biological Science and Engineering) | 10 | |||
| $100, Robby Beyers Innovative Solutions Awards | |||||||
| $375 Cash Prize Voucher from Society for Science and Certificate, Regeneron Biomedical Science Award | |||||||
| Upper Division :- Honorable Mention Student Award: $65 and Certificate of Achievement, Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) | |||||||
| 1st Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Tiffany | Zhu | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Predicting the Survivability and Future Growth of Coral Using Machine Learning (Physical Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| Eric | Nelson | Medha | Choudhry | 1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | A Novel Integration of Multimodal Strategies and Ensemble Learning to Enhance Reliability in Early Skin Cancer Detection (Physical Science and Engineering) | 9 | |
| Hannah | Lin | 1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | MazeAstro: Discovery of High Proper-Motion Y Brown Dwarfs with Shift-Patch Vision Models and Long-Period Infrared Survey (Physical Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| Aditya | Ramanathan | Honorable Mention, RRI Physical Science and Engineering Category | Deconstructing Household Energy Use: A Machine Learning Approach (RRI Physical Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| Elizabeth | Zhang | 2nd Award, RRI Physical Science and Engineering Category | Pioneering the First Ever Blind-Search on Circumbinary Planets Using a Novel Non-periodic Deep-learning Algorithm (RRI Physical Science and Engineering) | 10 | |||
| Mike | Pistacchi | Lucas | Wu | 1st Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | De novo Discovery of a Mucin-1 Inhibitor via Machine Learning (Biological Science and Engineering) | 9 | |
| Chris | Spenner | Pratulya | Rangavazzala | $100 and a certificate, IBM Award | Effect of Wingspan on Airplane efficiency (Physical Science and Engineering) | 10 | |
| Tanisha Supriya | Vaish | Honorable Mention, Biological Science and Engineering Category | Effect of Persimmon Natural Products on Common Household Bacterial Growth (Biological Science and Engineering) | 10 | |||
| Vishwa | Vijay | $100 and a certificate, IBM Award | Effect of Wingspan on Airplane efficiency (Physical Science and Engineering) | 10 | |||
| Linda | Zeng | 1st Award, RRI Physical Science and Engineering Category | Reinforcing Multi-Step Reasoning through Self-Learning in LLMs (RRI Physical Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| Ellie | Zhou | 2nd Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Developing a Non-Contact Cardiac Monitoring System via Remote Photoplethysmography (rPPG) (Physical Science and Engineering) | 10 | |||
| Ran | Tao | Ananya | Gurushankar | 2nd Place - $75, Certificate of Achievement, SAMPE - Society for the Advancement of Material and Process Engineering | Synthesis and Mechanical Analysis of Conductive Alginate Hydrogels for Enhanced Tissue Regeneration (Physical Science and Engineering) | 11 | |
| Hillbrook School - Upper Campus | Michael | Judge | Vikram Xipeng | Devaru | Certificate of Achievement and opportunity to advance to state, national and international competitions, U. S. Stockholm Junior Water Prize | Tracking the movement of microparticles on surfaces across the rainy season in metro San Jose. (Physical Science and Engineering) | 9 |
| Vivienne | Hollenbeck | Certificate of Achievement and opportunity to advance to state, national and international competitions, U. S. Stockholm Junior Water Prize | Tracking the movement of microparticles on surfaces across the rainy season in metro San Jose. (Physical Science and Engineering) | 10 | |||
| Ahren | Kapadia | Certificate of Achievement and opportunity to advance to state, national and international competitions, U. S. Stockholm Junior Water Prize | Tracking the movement of microparticles on surfaces across the rainy season in metro San Jose. (Physical Science and Engineering) | 9 | |||
| Holy Family School | Louella | Dlima | Xavier | Persicone | Honorable Mention, Biological Science and Engineering Category | Our Hearts Beat to Bike, Swim and Run (Biological Science and Engineering) | 7 |
| Kevin | Webster | Honorable Mention, Biological Science and Engineering Category | Our Hearts Beat to Bike, Swim and Run (Biological Science and Engineering) | 7 | |||
| Melanie | Syslo | Nathaniel | Quiles | Middle School Student - Certificate of Achievement, Letter of Congratulations from the Chief of Naval Research, and Medallion, Office of Naval Research -United States Navy/ US Marine Corps | Everlasting French Fry (Which Type of French Fry Stays Preserved the Longest) (Biological Science and Engineering) | 7 | |
| Kehillah Jewish High School | Anthony | Grabowski | Jessica Hannah | Manson | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Using Jacobian matrix determinants and eigenvalues to determine properties of nonlinear iterative equations (Physical Science and Engineering) | 11 |
| Merryhill School - Milpitas | Jeannie | Bui | Rishabh | Aravind | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | ROBOGRIP (Physical Science and Engineering) | 6 |
| Aaron | Jabbar | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | ROBOGRIP (Physical Science and Engineering) | 6 | |||
| Vihasith | Paderthi | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | ROBOGRIP (Physical Science and Engineering) | 6 | |||
| Shilpa | Karlekar | Celine | Sims | $50 to Student and Certificate of Achievement, Al Foster Award | Beat the Heat! Identifying the Effect of Varying Infills on the Surface Temperature of Synthetic Grass (Physical Science and Engineering) | 6 | |
| Quinn | Letan | Atharv | Aravind Rao | 1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Viva Agua: The Smart Lake Health Monitoring System (Physical Science and Engineering) | 7 | |
| Vedanth | Chinta | 1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Viva Agua: The Smart Lake Health Monitoring System (Physical Science and Engineering) | 7 | |||
| Suraj | Tomar | 1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Viva Agua: The Smart Lake Health Monitoring System (Physical Science and Engineering) | 7 | |||
| Jaclyn | Thang | Vivaan | Muraliraja | 1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Aqua Sight (Physical Science and Engineering) | 7 | |
| Roger | Nguyen | 1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Aqua Sight (Physical Science and Engineering) | 7 | |||
| Arjun | Sumith | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Clean Hydrogen Energy for the World (Physical Science and Engineering) | 7 | |||
| Notre Dame High School | Chelsey | Beck | Aanya | Kandala | $50 cash award and certificate, Bruce Kawanami Engineering Award | Fire-Fighting Hydrogels: A Defense Against Flames (Physical Science and Engineering) | 9 |
| 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 | |||||||
| IEEE Electro-Technology $25 Amazon gift card and a certificate, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (Part 2) | |||||||
| Delisha | Manuel | 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 | Harvesting Wasted Thermal Energy Using the Seebeck Effect and PCMs (Physical Science and Engineering) | 9 | |||
| Ashraya | Siruvole | Honorable Mention, Biological Science and Engineering Category | Early Detection of Parkinson's Disease using Facial Biomarkers (Biological Science and Engineering) | 9 | |||
| $100 and a Certificate of Achievement, Inez M. Lechner Award | |||||||
| Varsitaa | Srinivasan | 2nd Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | De Novo Design of Antimicrobial Peptide Binders for Toxins and Structural Proteins in Nosocomial Bacterial Pathogens (Biological Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| Ananya | Vinesh | Honorable Mention, Biological Science and Engineering Category | CardioGuard: Multimodal Deep Learning for Early Heart Attack Prediction Using Imaging and Functional Biomarkers (Biological Science and Engineering) | 9 | |||
| Sabrina | Zhao | 2nd place:$200 and Framed Certificate of Achievement, SVACS High School Award for Excellence in Chemistry | Graphene and Titanium Dioxide Nanocomposites for Improved Oxygen Sensors (RRI Physical Science and Engineering) | 10 | |||
| Presentation High School | Timothy | Goodman | Haripriya | Ramakrishnan | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Beyond the Dermis: Investigating the Efficacy of a Transdermal Patch Reservoir on Targeted Delivery (Physical Science and Engineering) | 10 |
| Iman Zehra | Sagarwala | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Breaking the Cycle (Physical Science and Engineering) | 9 | |||
| Tracy | Hughes | Sneha | Arun | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Backing You Up: A Back Posture Detection Device (Physical Science and Engineering) | 10 | |
| Harika | Chodavarapu | GR 9-12: Honorable Mention, Certificate of Achievement, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) Intelligent Systems Award | Designing a Temperature Control System for Electric Vehicle Batteries (Physical Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| Jeanelle | Dao | 1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Stepio: Foot-Operated Human Interface Device for Intuitive Computer Navigation with Enhanced Control (Physical Science and Engineering) | 10 | |||
| Ananya | Kidambi | 2nd Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | HopeValley: Mobile App for Teens With leukemia (Physical Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| Yana | Perelman | 2nd Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | HopeValley: Mobile App for Teens With leukemia (Physical Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| Saint Francis High School | Mike | Chechelnitsky | Shiven Harshit | Mehta | 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 | Application of Machine Learning to Tennis Shot Quality Analysis (RRI Physical Science and Engineering) | 12 |
| Honorable Mention, RRI Physical Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Kerry | Lewis | Rachael | Jin | $50 and Certificate of Achievement, Kerry Veenstra Awards | Quantifying Media Bias: A Data-Driven Approach to Enhance Media Literacy (Physical Science and Engineering) | 11 | |
| Stanford Online High School (San Mateo County) | Arpy | Khatchirian | Subhang | Bhatti | 1st Award, RRI Biological Science and Engineering Category | A Protein Generative Model for Expanding the Designable Space of Functional Proteins (RRI Biological Science and Engineering) | 10 |
| Stratford Middle School - Milpitas | Lekhana | Revankar | Aditi | Bharadwaj | 2nd Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | Effect Of Temperature on Butterfly Development (Biological Science and Engineering) | 6 |
| Exceptional Merit, Certificate (all Grades), SPV Market Research | |||||||
| Samarth | Iyer | 2nd Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Bright Beginnings (Physical Science and Engineering) | 8 | |||
| Gaogao | Lang | $250 + certificate + a signed book + brunch with Bob Zeidman, Zeidman Award | Smart Irrigate: Efficient Watering For Thriving Plants (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 | |||||||
| Aahana Swapnil | Mhatre | Honorable Mention, Biological Science and Engineering Category | Measuring the Growth of Plants Using Different Amounts and Types of Hydrogels (Biological Science and Engineering) | 6 | |||
| Vivann | Partani | Lower Division : Grand Prize Student Award: $625 and Certificate of Achievement, Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) | Robotic Prosthetic Arm Prototype (Biological Science and Engineering) | 7 | |||
| 2nd Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Saanvi | Powar | Middle School Student - Certificate of Achievement, Letter of Congratulations from the Chief of Naval Research, and Medallion, Office of Naval Research -United States Navy/ US Marine Corps | Cleaning Up Oil Spills (Physical Science and Engineering) | 6 | |||
| Stratford Middle School - Palo Alto | Veronica | Oropeza Ibarra | Theo | Bererton | Lower Division :- Honorable Mention Student Award: $65 and Certificate of Achievement, Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) | Effect of Different Coastal Defenses on Wave Overtopping (Physical Science and Engineering) | 6 |
| Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Nirav | Iyer | Honorable Mention - Certificate of Achievement, SAMPE - Society for the Advancement of Material and Process Engineering | Flex-o-form, the designing of an expanding, multipurpose bag (Physical Science and Engineering) | 7 | |||
| Rhea | Prakash | Exceptional Merit, Certificate (all Grades), SPV Market Research | Efficiency of Fuel Cells (Physical Science and Engineering) | 7 | |||
| Diya | Sawhney | 1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Infrastructural Electromagnetic Suspension (Physical Science and Engineering) | 7 | |||
| IEEE Electro-Technology $25 Amazon gift card and a certificate, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers | |||||||
| Alexis | Sheng | 1st Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | What combination of materials and design features create a comfortable, absorbent, non-toxic sanitary pad? (Biological Science and Engineering) | 6 | |||
| Most Promising Young Scientist, $150 and Certificate (Middle School GR 6-8), SPV Market Research | |||||||
| Adhwaith Sai | Somavarapu | Honorable Mention - Certificate of Achievement, SAMPE - Society for the Advancement of Material and Process Engineering | Flex-o-form, the designing of an expanding, multipurpose bag (Physical Science and Engineering) | 7 | |||
| Shravan | Vijay | 1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Infrastructural Electromagnetic Suspension (Physical Science and Engineering) | 7 | |||
| IEEE Electro-Technology $25 Amazon gift card and a certificate, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers | |||||||
| Stratford Middle School - San Jose | Ana Juliete Brito de Moraes | Alsberg | Vihaan | Mehta | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | DisasterConnect: Enhancing Emergency Communication with Offline Messaging & Rapid Response (Physical Science and Engineering) | 6 |
| Ryan | Mneimneh | 1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Smart Waste Management (Physical Science and Engineering) | 6 | |||
| Krishna Kumar | Virwani | 1st Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | What is the effect of the presence of water on mung, moth, and cress seeds' root velocity? (Biological Science and Engineering) | 6 | |||
| Ambily | Santha | Anwita | Appineni | Most Promising Young Scientist, $150 and Certificate (Middle School GR 6-8), SPV Market Research | Detecting Diabetic Retinopathy with AI (Biological Science and Engineering) | 7 | |
| Stratford Preparatory School | Hui-Hung | Chuang | Eva | Patel | Honorable Mention, Biological Science and Engineering Category | Analyzing Binding Affinities of Various Polyphenols to Abnormal Prion Protein as treatment to Creutzfeldt-Jacob disease (Biological Science and Engineering) | 11 |
| Shannon | Deza | Kirk | Kang | 2nd Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | AcuScale: An innovative approach to a healthy diet. (Biological Science and Engineering) | 8 | |
| Saanjali Sai | Vinay | Isabelle Stone Award for Best Biological Science Projects - Qualified for State Science Fair, Santa Clara Valley Science & Engineering Fair Assn - Board of Directors Awards - Middle School | Sensor Smart Cane (Biological Science and Engineering) | 6 | |||
| Lower Division :- Honorable Mention Student Award: $65 and Certificate of Achievement, Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) | |||||||
| 1st Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Patrick | Oline | Nihar | Bhatt | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Drowsiness and Road Sign Detection System (Physical Science and Engineering) | 11 | |
| The King's Academy (TKA) | Silvia | Boutros | Zoe Siyi | Fan | Nominated to compete envelope to apply for Thermo Fisher JIC, Thermo Fisher JIC - 8th Grade | Discovering Biomarkers within the Delay of Alzheimer's Using Natural Components on Genetically Modified Drosophila. (Biological Science and Engineering) | 8 |
| 1st Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Shuwen | Jin | Nominated to compete envelope to apply for Thermo Fisher JIC, Thermo Fisher JIC - 8th Grade | Discovering Biomarkers within the Delay of Alzheimer's Using Natural Components on Genetically Modified Drosophila. (Biological Science and Engineering) | 8 | |||
| 1st Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Maddie | Kingsolver | Jingwei | Guo | 1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Utilizing Fruit Peel Waste for Contaminated Water Treatment (Physical Science and Engineering) | 7 | |
| 1st Place $150, Valley Water Awards-MS | |||||||
| 1st Place - $100, Certificate of Achievement, SAMPE - Society for the Advancement of Material and Process Engineering | |||||||
| Christine | Wang | 1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Utilizing Fruit Peel Waste for Contaminated Water Treatment (Physical Science and Engineering) | 7 | |||
| 1st Place $150, Valley Water Awards-MS | |||||||
| 1st Place - $100, Certificate of Achievement, SAMPE - Society for the Advancement of Material and Process Engineering | |||||||
| Edward | Njoo | Shin-En | Chen | 2nd Award, RRI Biological Science and Engineering Category | Validation and Improvement of a Method for Quantifying Integrated Hepatitis B Virus DNA (RRI Biological Science and Engineering) | 11 | |
| Valley Christian High School | John | Crandall | Jiren | Liu | 2nd Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Suspension Cable Inspection Robot with Power-Outage Protection Functionality (Physical Science and Engineering) | 10 |
| Jennifer | Gerlach | Sera Linesh | John | $100 and a Certificate of Achievement, Inez M. Lechner Award | Brain Tumor Detection (Physical Science and Engineering) | 9 | |
| Pauline | Haghnazari | Aidan T. | Cao | 1st Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | Plant-Inspired Hygrobots: Harnessing Pinecone Mechanics for Innovative Biomedical Applications (Biological Science and Engineering) | 10 | |
| Jake | MacMillan | Yul | Sung | 1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Comparison of DR-RRT and RRT (Physical Science and Engineering) | 11 | |
| Shawn | Noren | Kushal | Khare | Grand Prize Alternate - Biological Sciences - Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), Santa Clara Valley Science & Engineering Fair Assn - Board of Directors Awards - High School | Cancer-Fighting Lettuce: Engineering Betalain Biosynthesis in Lactuca sativa through CYP76AD1, DODA, and UGT Genes (Biological Science and Engineering) | 11 | |
| 1st Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Scott | VanderVeen | Sophia | Diep | Honorable Mention, Biological Science and Engineering Category | The effect of pH and solvent addition on curcumin solubility and its impact on DNA integrity in E. coli strain HB101. (Biological Science and Engineering) | 11 | |
| Xinyi | Liu | Exceptional Merit, Certificate (all Grades), SPV Market Research | Effects of antibacterial plants on limiting growth of bacteria Campylobacter hyointestinalis (Biological Science and Engineering) | 12 | |||
| Revathi | Mekkoth | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Predictive Model for Ecotoxicity in Daphnia Magna: Impact of Wildfire Retardants on Aquatic Life (Physical Science and Engineering) | 9 | |||
| Bharat | Raj | Honorable Mention, Biological Science and Engineering Category | The effect of pH and solvent addition on curcumin solubility and its impact on DNA integrity in E. coli strain HB101. (Biological Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| Divya | Vattikonda | Honorable Mention, Biological Science and Engineering Category | The effect of pH and solvent addition on curcumin solubility and its impact on DNA integrity in E. coli strain HB101. (Biological Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||