Private
Project Awards 2026
Synopsys Silicon Valley Science and Technology Championship
| School | Teacher | Student | Award | Title | Gr | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Archbishop Mitty High School | Thuy-Anh | Nguyen | Vighnesh | Ganti | Upper Division : 2nd Place Student Award: $600 and Certificate of Achievement, Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) | Cost-Effective E-Waste Sorting Solution Via Gantry System and Computer Vision (Physical Science and Engineering) | 11 |
| 2nd Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Anika | Ganu | Honorable Mention, RRI Biological Science and Engineering Category | ParkinSpot: An AI-Based Wearable Device Application to Assess Motor Skills Anomalies Associated with Parkinson's Disease (RRI Biological Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| Satkrutan | Kalidas | Honorable Mention, Biological Science and Engineering Category | NeurAssist: A Deep Learning Based Wearable System for Real-Time Stabilization Support of Involuntary Hand Tremors (Biological Science and Engineering) | 10 | |||
| Yahya | Khan | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | OsteoSense+: A Simulation System for Analyzing Walking Balance and Movement Symmetry (Physical Science and Engineering) | 10 | |||
| Lalit Narayan | Kovvuri | Upper Division : 2nd Place Student Award: $600 and Certificate of Achievement, Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) | Cost-Effective E-Waste Sorting Solution Via Gantry System and Computer Vision (Physical Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| 2nd Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Kewei | Li | Most Promising Young Scientist, $200 and Certificate (High School GR 9-12), SPV Market Research | SafeRide Helmet with Sensing, Alert, and Visibility Systems (Physical Science and Engineering) | 9 | |||
| Kiyan | Raisinghani | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Magnetizing Microplastics (Physical Science and Engineering) | 10 | |||
| 1st Place - $100, Certificate of Achievement, SAMPE - Society for the Advancement of Material and Process Engineering | |||||||
| Vrishank | Ram | Upper Division : 2nd Place Student Award: $600 and Certificate of Achievement, Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) | Cost-Effective E-Waste Sorting Solution Via Gantry System and Computer Vision (Physical Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| 2nd Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Kaushal | Vadlamudi | 2nd Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | An Integrated Food Packaging Sensor System as a Means of Determining Food Freshness to Reduce Waste (Physical Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| BASIS Independent Silicon Valley School | Kevyn | Adams | Rithvik | Burki | 1st Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | A Computational Framework for Rapid, Low-Cost Analysis of Hemodynamic and Structural Factors in Cerebral Aneurysms (Biological Science and Engineering) | 9 |
| Siddharth | Sivaraman | 1st Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | A Computational Framework for Rapid, Low-Cost Analysis of Hemodynamic and Structural Factors in Cerebral Aneurysms (Biological Science and Engineering) | 9 | |||
| Karen | Allendoerfer | Dhiya | Padmanabhan | Honorable Mention, Biological Science and Engineering Category | AI-Guided Discovery of Natural Efflux Pump Inhibitors Targeting AcrB to Combat Antibiotic Resistance (Biological Science and Engineering) | 9 | |
| Swetha | Bhattacharya | Archit | Deepak | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Sentinel: A Vision and Speech-Based Conversational System for Detecting and Preventing Driver Drowsiness (Physical Science and Engineering) | 11 | |
| Vedh Kandi | Reddy | 2nd Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | An Autonomous Robotic Farm Decision Management System to Collect and Analyze Soil and Plant data using Large Data Models (Physical 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 | |||||||
| Chandni | Chadha | Wanqi(Cynthia) | Li | Nominated to compete envelope to apply for Thermo Fisher JIC, Thermo Fisher JIC - 8th Grade | AI model defining Heart Healthy Foods (Biological Science and Engineering) | 8 | |
| 1st Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Francesca Lei | Yang | Honorable Mention, RRI Biological Science and Engineering Category | Applying a Thin Layer of Silicone to Hawley Retainer to Improve Stain and Bacteria Resistance, and Enhance Comfort (RRI Biological Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| Kyle | Covert | Qianmo | Tu | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | The Effect of Preparation Method on the Amount of Sulfur Compound Released by a Cut Onion (Physical Science and Engineering) | 7 | |
| Sonvanndara | Hok | Rini | Ann | 1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | From Price Noise to Market Semantics: A Self-Adapting Language Model Framework for Financial Intelligence. (Physical Science and Engineering) | 10 | |
| Ankith | Burki | Nominated to compete envelope to apply for Thermo Fisher JIC, Thermo Fisher JIC - 7th Grade | Investigating the Effect of Acoustic Frequency in Enhancing Water Generation Efficiency in AWGs (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 | |||||||
| Vincent | Huang | 2nd Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Rolling loops: What is the effect of roller coaster loop shape on the g-forces experienced by a rider? (Physical Science and Engineering) | 7 | |||
| Grayson | Liu | 2nd Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Rolling loops: What is the effect of roller coaster loop shape on the g-forces experienced by a rider? (Physical Science and Engineering) | 7 | |||
| Rishaan | Sharma | Exceptional Merit, Certificate (all Grades), SPV Market Research | Effectiveness of an Internal-Resistance-Adaptive UVLO System in Prolonging Lithium-Ion Battery Cycle Life (Physical Science and Engineering) | 10 | |||
| IEEE Electro-Technology $25 Amazon gift card and a certificate, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers | |||||||
| Yankai | Wang | 2nd Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Rolling loops: What is the effect of roller coaster loop shape on the g-forces experienced by a rider? (Physical Science and Engineering) | 7 | |||
| Brian | Moshofsky | Sruthi | Manoj | 1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Irrigation Scheduling Recommendations and Dataset Construction (LLM-based Meta-analysis) (Physical Science and Engineering) | 10 | |
| Jon | Noble | Krishna | Bhatt | 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 | THALis: Modeling Cortico-Prosthetic Dynamics for Dexterous EEG-Driven Hand Control (Physical Science and Engineering) | 11 | |
| 1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Zimeng | Xiong | 1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | A Generalized Algorithmic Framework for Non-Planar Slicing in Additive Manufacturing (Physical Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| Mayuri | Pochiraju | Naisha | Rathod | Honorable Mention, Biological Science and Engineering Category | ResiliNet: Explainable Multimodal Prediction of Cognitive Resilience for Alzheimer's Disease Clinical Trial Enrichment (Biological Science and Engineering) | 9 | |
| $100 and a Certificate of Achievement, Inez M. Lechner Award | |||||||
| Jaymie | Silva | Aarav | Goel | 1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | SmartCanopy: AI-Powered Urban Green Space Optimization Using Computer Vision and Conversational Agents (Physical Science and Engineering) | 9 | |
| Kirti | Tamhane | Priyank | Sharma-Tiwari | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Aegis:Safety Platform Fusing Edge-AI Driver Monitoring and GNN-Based Cyclist Risk Forecasting to build safer cities. (Physical Science and Engineering) | 9 | |
| Manasvini | Singh | 1st Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | Decoding Alzheimer's Amyloid-Beta Pathology through Astrocytic and Microglial GRNs via Single-Cell AI (Biological Science and Engineering) | 10 | |||
| Ethan Yizhuo | Su | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Detecting a Table Tennis Ball in an uploaded video (Physical Science and Engineering) | 9 | |||
| IEEE Electro-Technology $25 Amazon gift card and a certificate, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (Part 2) | |||||||
| Bellarmine College Preparatory | David | Dutton | Siddarth | Nanniyur | Honorable Mention, Biological Science and Engineering Category | The Connectome Correction Engine: Personalized Control of Brain Network Dynamics in Psychological Disorders (Biological Science and Engineering) | 9 |
| Steve | Flowers | Ishan | Routray | Exceptional Merit, Certificate (all Grades), SPV Market Research | AI Copilot for Mental Health Crisis Counseling with Agentic Context Engineering (Physical Science and Engineering) | 11 | |
| Matt | Foster | Joseph David | Lim | Honorable Mention, RRI Physical Science and Engineering Category | Optimizing Parameterized Physics-Informed Neural Networks to Efficiently Solve Multilayer Collision PDEs (RRI Physical Science and Engineering) | 11 | |
| Kevin | Lu | Honorable Mention, RRI Physical Science and Engineering Category | Optimizing Parameterized Physics-Informed Neural Networks to Efficiently Solve Multilayer Collision PDEs (RRI Physical Science and Engineering) | 12 | |||
| Hanbo | Song | Honorable Mention, RRI Physical Science and Engineering Category | Optimizing Parameterized Physics-Informed Neural Networks to Efficiently Solve Multilayer Collision PDEs (RRI Physical Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| Dan | Judnick | Riddhiman Satish | Deshmukh | 2nd Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | The Unlimited Soundscape (Biological Science and Engineering) | 9 | |
| IEEE Electro-Technology $25 Amazon gift card and a certificate, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (Part 2) | |||||||
| Arjun | Goli | 2nd Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | The Unlimited Soundscape (Biological Science and Engineering) | 9 | |||
| IEEE Electro-Technology $25 Amazon gift card and a certificate, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (Part 2) | |||||||
| Arjun Singh | Khurana | Upper Division :- Honorable Mention Student Award: $50 and Certificate of Achievement, Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) | Non-Invasive Detection of Cognitive Fatigue Using AI (Biological Science and Engineering) | 9 | |||
| Anshuman | Kumar | 2nd Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | The Unlimited Soundscape (Biological Science and Engineering) | 9 | |||
| IEEE Electro-Technology $25 Amazon gift card and a certificate, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (Part 2) | |||||||
| Austin | Paige | Naittick | Dayal | 2nd Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | Detecting a Novel Cortical Thickness Marker for Dyslexia Using Machine Learning (Biological Science and Engineering) | 9 | |
| Samyak | Jain | Honorable Mention, RRI Biological Science and Engineering Category | Pupil Dynamics in Nystagmus Using Computer Vision and Signal Processing (RRI Biological Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| Bowman School | Mathew | Reinhold | August | Jimenez | IEEE Electro-Technology $25 Amazon gift card and a certificate, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers | Nuclear Noodling: Testing the "Honeycomb Hypothesis" in Nuclear Pasta with Esagopenna (Physical Science and Engineering) | 6 |
| Castilleja School | Bethany | Blackwell | Nikita | Ganesh | 1st Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | Finger-Only Smartphone Drawing Tasks with Motion Sensor Data to Detect Motor Pattern Differences in Older Adults (Biological Science and Engineering) | 11 |
| Bryan | Valek | Ashley | Rylander | 1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | The Design of an Accurate Data Collection System to Measure Lift-to-Drag Ratios in Small-Scale Wind Tunnels (Physical Science and Engineering) | 10 | |
| Challenger - Berryessa - SJ | Steven | Gomes | Vihaan Patnaik | Sundar | Nominated to compete envelope to apply for Thermo Fisher JIC, Thermo Fisher JIC - 8th Grade | Code of the Rings: Using Handwriting Changes to Detect Early Signs of Parkinson's (Biological Science and Engineering) | 8 |
| 1st Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Tina | Nguyen | Annabelle | Mao | 2nd Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | An Automated Solar Tracking Light Deflector for Eco-Friendly Lighting (Physical Science and Engineering) | 6 | |
| Christina | Wu | Aashvi Sri | Rangamreddy | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Trust the Truss. What is the effect of truss design on the load and efficiency of bridges made from popsicle sticks? (Physical Science and Engineering) | 6 | |
| Challenger - Shawnee - SJ | Nicolas | Hak | Keshav | Ramakrishnan | Nominated to compete envelope to apply for Thermo Fisher JIC, Thermo Fisher JIC - 8th Grade | Underwater Coral Reef Restoration Eel-Bot (Physical Science and Engineering) | 8 |
| 1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| IEEE Electro-Technology $25 Amazon gift card and a certificate, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (Part 2) | |||||||
| Challenger - Strawberry Park - SJ | Annie | Chen | Yufei | Jiang | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Cement Durability: Chemical Curing Agents and Water-to-Cement Ratio (Physical Science and Engineering) | 8 |
| Manvi | Karadigudda | Nominated to compete envelope to apply for Thermo Fisher JIC, Thermo Fisher JIC - 8th Grade | AI Powered Plant Detector (Physical Science and Engineering) | 8 | |||
| 1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Jivin Arun | Raisinghani | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Slick Sorption Strategy (Physical Science and Engineering) | 6 | |||
| Aditya | Rao | Nominated to compete envelope to apply for Thermo Fisher JIC, Thermo Fisher JIC - 6th Grade | Eco-friendly Microplastic Removal (Physical Science and Engineering) | 6 | |||
| 1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Shreyas | Thodupunoori | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Project AquaNova: A Humidity Harvester (Physical Science and Engineering) | 8 | |||
| Tanya | Upadhyay | Most Promising Young Scientist, $175 and Certificate (Middle School GR 6-8), SPV Market Research | Light-to-Fuel and Heat-to-Power: Green Energy through a Hybrid Photocatalytic and Thermoelectric System (Physical Science and Engineering) | 8 | |||
| IEEE Electro-Technology $25 Amazon gift card and a certificate, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (Part 2) | |||||||
| Shrinidhi | Venkatakrishnan | Nominated to compete envelope to apply for Thermo Fisher JIC, Thermo Fisher JIC - 7th Grade | Natural Filtration Agents in Action: The Impact of Seaweed and Fruit Peels on Water Quality (Physical Science and Engineering) | 7 | |||
| 1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Xiao | Yang | 2nd Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Moving in Different Angles (Physical Science and Engineering) | 7 | |||
| IEEE Electro-Technology $25 Amazon gift card and a certificate, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers | |||||||
| Jessica | Reinman | Sriyangsh | Datta | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Casein Plastic versus PLA elasticity (Physical Science and Engineering) | 7 | |
| Ryan Hyunku | Kim | Honorable Mention, Biological Science and Engineering Category | Daphnia Magna to the Rescue: Water Toxicity (Biological Science and Engineering) | 6 | |||
| Ellie | Lei | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Breaking Down Bioplastics (Physical Science and Engineering) | 7 | |||
| Annie | Li | 2nd Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Packing Peanut Performance (Physical Science and Engineering) | 7 | |||
| Madeleine | Wei | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | The Mist-ical Water Solution (Physical Science and Engineering) | 6 | |||
| GR 6-8: Third place, $50 and trophy, Richardson Environmental Awards | |||||||
| Challenger - Sunnyvale | Ben | Eccleston | Aadya | Saksena | 2nd Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Laundry Wizard: From Mess to Best (Physical Science and Engineering) | 8 |
| Aadhya Ravindra | Udipi | 2nd Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Laundry Wizard: From Mess to Best (Physical Science and Engineering) | 8 | |||
| Challenger Middlefield - Palo Alto | Diane | Rusu | Shreyan | Biswas | 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 | VisionSpeak: A Wearable Edge-AI System That Describes the World Through Synthesized Speech (Physical Science and Engineering) | 7 |
| Lower Division : 2nd Place Student Award: $325 and Certificate of Achievement, Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) | |||||||
| Most Promising Young Scientist, $175 and Certificate (Middle School GR 6-8), SPV Market Research | |||||||
| Nominated to compete envelope to apply for Thermo Fisher JIC, Thermo Fisher JIC - 7th Grade | |||||||
| 1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Aashraya s | Gudihal | Exceptional Merit, Certificate (all Grades), SPV Market Research | Quantum Thermal Interference : Characterization of Thermal Light Interference in Multi-Slit Systems (Physical Science and Engineering) | 7 | |||
| Nominated to compete envelope to apply for Thermo Fisher JIC, Thermo Fisher JIC - 7th Grade | |||||||
| 1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Zizhan | Lu | Nominated to compete envelope to apply for Thermo Fisher JIC, Thermo Fisher JIC - 6th Grade | Effect of Lighting on Accuracy of an AI Model (Physical Science and Engineering) | 6 | |||
| 1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Diyaashree Nithya | Senthilkumar | Honorable Mention, Biological Science and Engineering Category | Human Motion Based System for Bionic Hand Control (Biological Science and Engineering) | 8 | |||
| Aarav | Sharma | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Trash Sorting Robot Arm (Physical Science and Engineering) | 8 | |||
| Cynthia | Xu | Lower Division :- Honorable Mention Student Award: $50 and Certificate of Achievement, Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) | Autonomous Parking Model (Physical Science and Engineering) | 8 | |||
| Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Raewen | Yan | Nominated to compete envelope to apply for Thermo Fisher JIC, Thermo Fisher JIC - 8th Grade | Design and Implementation of a PID-Controlled Small-Scale Electric Torrefaction System for Biomass Processing (Physical Science and Engineering) | 8 | |||
| 1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Gabby Jiabao | Zhou | 2nd Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | Screening Common Synthetic Polymers for Albumin Adsorption to Predict Graft Rejection Potential (Biological Science and Engineering) | 8 | |||
| Fusion Academy - Cupertino | Steve | Solomon | Ava Tan | Bhowmik | Outstanding Project, $200 and Certificate (any field and all grades), SPV Market Research | A Quest for the Fountain of Youth: A Novel Methodology to Quantify the Anti-Aging Potential of Compounds Using Stem Cell (RRI Biological Science and Engineering) | 12 |
| Honorable Mention, RRI Biological Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Gideon Hausner Jewish Day School | Liat | Baranoff | Matthias Joshua | Garzon | Nominated to compete envelope to apply for Thermo Fisher JIC, Thermo Fisher JIC - 8th Grade | GuardianNose (Physical Science and Engineering) | 8 |
| 1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Isaac Jinsung | Romanoff | $500 + certificate + a signed book + brunch with Bob Zeidman, Zeidman Award | Fridge Firefly (Physical Science and Engineering) | 8 | |||
| Nominated to compete envelope to apply for Thermo Fisher JIC, Thermo Fisher JIC - 8th Grade | |||||||
| 1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Laura | Coughlin | Joshua Shel | Sandel | GR 6-8: Second place, $75 and trophy, Richardson Environmental Awards | Urban Oasis: Studying Plant-Based Cooling in Heat Islands (Biological Science and Engineering) | 8 | |
| Khurshid | Gandhi | Eden Alivia | Ross | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Fast Fashion's Footprint (Physical Science and Engineering) | 8 | |
| Danielle | Zomet | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Fast Fashion's Footprint (Physical Science and Engineering) | 8 | |||
| Rachel | Kohls-Lunt | Elijah Lev | Alcheck | Nominated to compete envelope to apply for Thermo Fisher JIC, Thermo Fisher JIC - 7th Grade | MindYourMeds: A Timed Pill Dispenser (Physical Science and Engineering) | 7 | |
| 1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Caden Zachary | Eaton | Nominated to compete envelope to apply for Thermo Fisher JIC, Thermo Fisher JIC - 7th Grade | MindYourMeds: A Timed Pill Dispenser (Physical Science and Engineering) | 7 | |||
| 1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Silvia | Syrowicz | IEEE Electro-Technology $25 Amazon gift card and a certificate, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers | Paw-Thorized Entry: Using Sound Recognition AI to Create an Actuated Pet Panel (Physical Science and Engineering) | 7 | |||
| Raju | Rajesh | Avigail Rimon | Kozodoy | Honorable Mention Certificate + a signed book + brunch with Bob Zeidman, Zeidman Award | Electrical Search "Dog" (Physical Science and Engineering) | 7 | |
| Granada Islamic School | Farhana | Afroz | Muhammad | Abu-Nimeh | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Safe Traverse (Physical Science and Engineering) | 8 |
| Talah Jehad | Abushama | Nominated to compete envelope to apply for Thermo Fisher JIC, Thermo Fisher JIC - 8th Grade | Green Astronomy: A Refractive Telescope Built from Recycled Materials (Physical Science and Engineering) | 8 | |||
| 1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Nooran Ahmed | Ismail | IEEE Electro-Technology $25 Amazon gift card and a certificate, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (Part 2) | The Ultimate Credibility Checker: Fake or Real? (Physical Science and Engineering) | 9 | |||
| Jannat Ahmed | Sallam | 2nd Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | REMMI The Reminder (Physical Science and Engineering) | 8 | |||
| Zeba | Haq | Azka | Bhatti | 2nd Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | AUTOMATING A MANUAL WHEELCHAIR USING A BOLT ON DRIVE KIT (Physical Science and Engineering) | 6 | |
| $50 to Student, Dewayne Hendricks Award | |||||||
| Imani Muntaha | Islam | Nominated to compete envelope to apply for Thermo Fisher JIC, Thermo Fisher JIC - 6th Grade | Soil Saver 3000: The Future of Composting (Physical Science and Engineering) | 6 | |||
| 1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Aamnah | Wasif | IEEE Electro-Technology $25 Amazon gift card and a certificate, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers | The Animal Language Detective (Physical Science and Engineering) | 6 | |||
| Ambreen | Zainul Abideen | Noora Luay | Elshareif | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Need it to Read it; AI Screen Reader Glasses for the Blind (Physical Science and Engineering) | 7 | |
| Tasneem | Ismaili | Lower Division :- Honorable Mention Student Award: $50 and Certificate of Achievement, Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) | Talk to the Hand: ASL Gesture Recognition Glove (Physical Science and Engineering) | 7 | |||
| Nominated to compete envelope to apply for Thermo Fisher JIC, Thermo Fisher JIC - 7th Grade | |||||||
| 1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Harker School-Middle Campus | Erica | Cung | Jacee Chen | Liang | Honorable Mention, Biological Science and Engineering Category | Comparing the Effects of Duckweed and Green Microalgae (Scenedesmus sp.) on the Bioremediation of Paraffin Lamp Oil (Biological Science and Engineering) | 8 |
| Meena Vijaya | Mudigonda | Honorable Mention Certificate + a signed book + brunch with Bob Zeidman, Zeidman Award | ASD-Friendly Ear Muffs to Monitor Heart Rate and HRV (Physical Science and Engineering) | 8 | |||
| 2nd Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Letter to apply for $100 shared with team member(s) and Certificate, The Lemelson Early Inventor Prize | |||||||
| Liv | Sachdev | Honorable Mention Certificate + a signed book + brunch with Bob Zeidman, Zeidman Award | ASD-Friendly Ear Muffs to Monitor Heart Rate and HRV (Physical Science and Engineering) | 8 | |||
| 2nd Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Letter to apply for $100 shared with team member(s) and Certificate, The Lemelson Early Inventor Prize | |||||||
| Eva Zuo | Wang | Honorable Mention, Biological Science and Engineering Category | Comparing the Effects of Duckweed and Green Microalgae (Scenedesmus sp.) on the Bioremediation of Paraffin Lamp Oil (Biological Science and Engineering) | 8 | |||
| Cathy | Hsieh | Nidhi Kandi | Reddy | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Comparison of algae and aquatic earthworm's consumption rate of chicken manure using phosphorus, ammonia and pH (Physical Science and Engineering) | 8 | |
| Christine | Wang | $125 + certificate + a signed book + brunch with Bob Zeidman, Zeidman Award | AI against AI: Detecting and Mitigating Artificial Intelligence-driven Cyber Fraud (Physical Science and Engineering) | 8 | |||
| Lower Division : Grand Prize Student Award: $625 and Certificate of Achievement, Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) | |||||||
| 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) | |||||||
| Leo | Zhang | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Comparison of algae and aquatic earthworm's consumption rate of chicken manure using phosphorus, ammonia and pH (Physical Science and Engineering) | 8 | |||
| Leo Hanchen | Zou | $125 + certificate + a signed book + brunch with Bob Zeidman, Zeidman Award | AI against AI: Detecting and Mitigating Artificial Intelligence-driven Cyber Fraud (Physical Science and Engineering) | 8 | |||
| Lower Division : Grand Prize Student Award: $625 and Certificate of Achievement, Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) | |||||||
| 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) | |||||||
| Tina | Kim | Natalie | Deng | 2nd Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | What are the effects on yellow mealworm consumption of styrofoam with varying food and drink remnants? (Biological Science and Engineering) | 8 | |
| Ivanka | Ren | 2nd Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | What are the effects on yellow mealworm consumption of styrofoam with varying food and drink remnants? (Biological Science and Engineering) | 8 | |||
| Emma | Wang | 2nd Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Brewing a Greener Future: Making Biodegradable Straws and Molds from Everyday Waste (Physical Science and Engineering) | 8 | |||
| Kelly | Wang | 2nd Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Brewing a Greener Future: Making Biodegradable Straws and Molds from Everyday Waste (Physical Science and Engineering) | 8 | |||
| Kristen | Morgensen | Aman | Ahmed | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Food Dye Degradation Through The Fenton Reaction: How Electromagnetic Fields and Soap Concentration Impact Reaction Rate (Physical Science and Engineering) | 8 | |
| Vrinda | Khandelwal | Second Place Award: $200 shared with team member(s) and framed certificate, SVACS Dave Parker Award for Excellence in Chemistry | Water Purification of Lead Nitrate, Potassium Nitrate, and Copper (II) Nitrate Trihydrate By Bamboo (Physical Science and Engineering) | 8 | |||
| Derrick | Li | Honorable Mention, Biological Science and Engineering Category | Reversing Caffeine-Induced Reductions in Heart Rate Variability using Melatonin in Daphnia magna (Biological Science and Engineering) | 8 | |||
| Jessica | Li | Second Place Award: $200 shared with team member(s) and framed certificate, SVACS Dave Parker Award for Excellence in Chemistry | Water Purification of Lead Nitrate, Potassium Nitrate, and Copper (II) Nitrate Trihydrate By Bamboo (Physical Science and Engineering) | 8 | |||
| Steven | Li | Honorable Mention, Biological Science and Engineering Category | What are effects of using cobalt sulfate as a substitute for copper-based algaecides on Chlorella vulgaris? (Biological Science and Engineering) | 8 | |||
| Joshua | Lin | Honorable Mention, Biological Science and Engineering Category | What are effects of using cobalt sulfate as a substitute for copper-based algaecides on Chlorella vulgaris? (Biological Science and Engineering) | 8 | |||
| Joseph | Long | Nominated to compete envelope to apply for Thermo Fisher JIC, Thermo Fisher JIC - 8th Grade | Designing a more eco friendly Amazon package using Musa Textilis (Physical Science and Engineering) | 8 | |||
| 1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Andrew | Park | Honorable Mention, Biological Science and Engineering Category | Reversing Caffeine-Induced Reductions in Heart Rate Variability using Melatonin in Daphnia magna (Biological Science and Engineering) | 8 | |||
| Ryan | Santosh | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Food Dye Degradation Through The Fenton Reaction: How Electromagnetic Fields and Soap Concentration Impact Reaction Rate (Physical Science and Engineering) | 8 | |||
| Ari | Siamwalla | Nominated to compete envelope to apply for Thermo Fisher JIC, Thermo Fisher JIC - 8th Grade | Developing Sustainable Paper Materials from California Invasive Plants and Fruit Peel Fibers (Physical Science and Engineering) | 8 | |||
| 1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Kyle | Xu | Lower Division :- Honorable Mention Student Award: $50 and Certificate of Achievement, Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) | GaitFusion: Using a Multimodal Deep Learning System for Real-Time Detection of Freezing of Gait (Biological Science and Engineering) | 8 | |||
| 2nd Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Fiona | Yan | Nominated to compete envelope to apply for Thermo Fisher JIC, Thermo Fisher JIC - 8th Grade | Developing Sustainable Paper Materials from California Invasive Plants and Fruit Peel Fibers (Physical Science and Engineering) | 8 | |||
| 1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Tien Hua | Yen | Nominated to compete envelope to apply for Thermo Fisher JIC, Thermo Fisher JIC - 8th Grade | Designing a more eco friendly Amazon package using Musa Textilis (Physical Science and Engineering) | 8 | |||
| 1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Laura | Zhang | Andreasen Excellence in Engineering Science Award, $200 and Certificate (all ), SPV Market Research | Grounds to Film: Turning Spent Coffee Grounds Into A Biodegradable Packaging Film (Physical Science and Engineering) | 8 | |||
| 2nd Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| 1st Place - $100, Certificate of Achievement, SAMPE - Society for the Advancement of Material and Process Engineering | |||||||
| Isabella Caixuan | Zhou | Lower Division :- Honorable Mention Student Award: $50 and Certificate of Achievement, Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) | GaitFusion: Using a Multimodal Deep Learning System for Real-Time Detection of Freezing of Gait (Biological Science and Engineering) | 8 | |||
| 2nd Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Moxi | Zhu | Andreasen Excellence in Engineering Science Award, $200 and Certificate (all ), SPV Market Research | Grounds to Film: Turning Spent Coffee Grounds Into A Biodegradable Packaging Film (Physical Science and Engineering) | 8 | |||
| 2nd Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| 1st Place - $100, Certificate of Achievement, SAMPE - Society for the Advancement of Material and Process Engineering | |||||||
| Kathy | Peng | Eric | Gao | Honorable Mention - Certificate of Achievement, SAMPE - Society for the Advancement of Material and Process Engineering | Fruit Waste Bio-Leathers as an Eco-Friendly Alternative to Animal Skin Leathers (Physical Science and Engineering) | 8 | |
| Rohan | Radhakrishna | Honorable Mention - Certificate of Achievement, SAMPE - Society for the Advancement of Material and Process Engineering | Fruit Waste Bio-Leathers as an Eco-Friendly Alternative to Animal Skin Leathers (Physical Science and Engineering) | 8 | |||
| Harker School-Upper Campus | Anuradha | Datar | Raeanne | Li | 2nd Award, RRI Physical Science and Engineering Category | Enhancing Virtual Reconstruction of Herculaneum Scrolls with Deep Learning Segmentation (RRI Physical Science and Engineering) | 11 |
| Ethan | Liang | 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 | ApiSense: A Weather-Aware Multimodal Framework for Environmental Pesticide Detection Using Honey Bees as Biosensors (Biological Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| 1st Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Nathan | Mao | 2nd Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | A Superpixel and Machine Learning based approach to Mineral Identification in Apollo Lunar Basalt Thin Sections (Physical Science and Engineering) | 10 | |||
| Andrew Dongjoo | Shin | 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 | Effect of Dopaminergic Toxicity on Spatiotemporal Network Dynamics in Parkinson's-Induced Human Midbrain Organoids (RRI Biological Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| 1st Award, RRI Biological Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Abigail | Wang | 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 | A Multi-Branch 3D-Aware Deep Learning Framework for Generalizable Small-Molecule Drug Discovery at HTS-Scale Performance (Biological Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| 1st Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Matthew | Harley | Riya | Bharath | First place: $500 and Framed Certificate of Achievement, SVACS High School Award for Excellence in Chemistry | The Effect of Nanoparticle Type and Crystal Facet on the Photocatalytic Removal of Ethinyl Estradiol from Water (Physical Science and Engineering) | 11 | |
| Siddhant | Gaur | 1st Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | Discovery of Heavy Metal Neurotoxicity as a Suicide Biomarker via Multimodal Profiling and Behavioral Endophenotyping (Biological Science and Engineering) | 10 | |||
| Arshia | Sankar | 1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | FreshAlert: A Novel AI-Driven Approach to Food Spoilage Detection for Reducing Household Food Waste (Physical Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| Laya Sai | Sunkara | 1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | FreshAlert: A Novel AI-Driven Approach to Food Spoilage Detection for Reducing Household Food Waste (Physical Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| Eric | Johnson | Selena | Ghane | Honorable Mention, Biological Science and Engineering Category | Quantitative Analysis of Regenerative and Behavioral Biomarkers For Planarians Under Reactive Oxygen Species Stress (Biological Science and Engineering) | 9 | |
| $100 and a Certificate of Achievement, Inez M. Lechner Award | |||||||
| Reyansh | Malla | 1st Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | Modeling Methylmercury's Nutrient-Mimic Uptake Using a Selenomethionine Transporter Competition Assay in C. elegans (Biological Science and Engineering) | 9 | |||
| Samuel | Lederer | Srishti | Dhawan | 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 | Development of a Rapid, Low-Cost Colorimetric Biosensor for Endometrial Cancer Screening (Biological Science and Engineering) | 11 | |
| Nikita | Jain | Honorable Mention, Biological Science and Engineering Category | Effects of Antioxidant N-acetylcysteine Pretreatment on Yeast Survival Under Hydrogen Peroxide-Induced Oxidative Stress (Biological Science and Engineering) | 10 | |||
| Anish | Kosaraju | 1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | A Mechanistic Framework for Identifying and Neutralizing Latent Deception Signatures in Large Language Models (Physical Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| Aanya | Sharma | 3rd place:$200 and Framed Certificate of Achievement, SVACS High School Award for Excellence in Chemistry | Determining the Extraction Effect of Cineole and Decanoic Acid on Microplastics found in Waste Water (Physical Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| Exceptional Merit, Certificate (all Grades), SPV Market Research | |||||||
| Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Claire | Tian | 2nd Award, RRI Biological Science and Engineering Category | Pathogenic Role of Cytotoxic GNLY+ GZMB+ CD8 T Cells in Immune-Related Adverse Events (irAEs) from Cancer Immunotherapy (RRI Biological Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| Swati | Mittal | Lucas | Wu | 1st Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | An End-to-End Deep Generative Pipeline for De Novo Antigen Discovery in Epitope-Based Viral Vaccines (Biological Science and Engineering) | 10 | |
| Terese | Navarra | Michael | Lau | Honorable Mention, Biological Science and Engineering Category | Predicting the Rate of Cognitive Decline in Alzheimer's Patients: A Comparison of Cell Type and Subtype Gene Signatures (Biological Science and Engineering) | 11 | |
| Ian | Lee | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Development of a Self-Healing Biodegradable Plastic from Agricultural Waste (Physical Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| Sam | Li | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Development of a Self-Healing Biodegradable Plastic from Agricultural Waste (Physical Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| Cynthia Xinyao | Wang | Upper Division :- Honorable Mention Student Award: $50 and Certificate of Achievement, Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) | A Novel 3D MRI-Based Multi-Modal Approach for Parkinson's Disease Development and Visualization (Biological Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| Elizabeth | 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 | Orbital Reconstruction and Discovery of Hidden Circumbinary Planets through Eclipse Timing Residuals and N-Body Dynamics (Physical Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| 1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Eric | Nelson | Medha | Choudhry | 1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | NeuroTrace:A Deep Learning Framework for Monitoring Multiple Sclerosis Progression from Oculomotor and Speech Biomarkers (Physical Science and Engineering) | 10 | |
| Dhruva | Gopal | 1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | A TCN Search for Perturbations in Space Probe Ephemerides for Evidence of a Primordial Black Hole Flyby (Physical Science and Engineering) | 9 | |||
| $100 and a Certificate of Achievement, Inez M. Lechner Award | |||||||
| Marina | Peregrino | Sanyi | Yao | 1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Edge-AI Multispectral Imaging System for Detecting Plant Diseases and Stresses (Physical Science and Engineering) | 9 | |
| Mike | Pistacchi | Hanz | Baek | 2nd Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | What is the effect of short and long term mechanical vibrations on regeneration in planarians? (Biological Science and Engineering) | 11 | |
| Isabelle | Niu | McCalmont Engineering Renewable Energy Award, $250 (all grades), SPV Market Research | Beyond Detection: A Novel Deployable Solar Flare Forecasting and Real-Time X-Ray Flux Prediction System (Physical Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| 2nd Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Claire | Xu | Upper Division :- Honorable Mention Student Award: $50 and Certificate of Achievement, Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) | NeuroAxisNet: Brain-Blood AI Model for Early Detection and Progression Mapping in Tauopathy Neurodegenerative Disorders (Biological Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| 1st Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| IEEE Electro-Technology $25 Amazon gift card and a certificate, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers | |||||||
| Evan | Zhang | 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 | Self-Sensing, Shape-Morphing Respiratory Ventilator Using Hydraulically Amplified Self-Healing Electrostatic Actuators (RRI Biological Science and Engineering) | 12 | |||
| $100, Robby Beyers Innovative Solutions Awards | |||||||
| 1st Award, RRI Biological Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| IEEE Electro-Technology $25 Amazon gift card and a certificate, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers | |||||||
| Mala | Raghaven | Aditya | Shivakumar | 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 | Low-Cost Arsenic(V) Detection and Hotspot Mapping with Methylene-Blue-Gold Nanoparticles and Smartphone Spectroscopy (RRI Physical Science and Engineering) | 12 | |
| $500 Grand Prize, Robby Beyers Innovative Solutions Awards | |||||||
| 2nd place:$300 and Framed Certificate of Achievement, SVACS High School Award for Excellence in Chemistry | |||||||
| 1st Award, RRI Physical Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| $200 to Student, Dr. Michael V. McCusker Award | |||||||
| Jeff | Sutton | Anusha | Kotalwar | First place, $250 Wireless Communications Alliance Award, Wireless Communications Alliance | DroneBee: An AI-Driven Autonomous Drone for Precise Flower Detection and Pollination to Support Crop Production (Biological Science and Engineering) | 9 | |
| 2nd Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Evan Matthew | Yuan | Honorable Mention, RRI Biological Science and Engineering Category | Effects of continued reinforcement on pigeons' sequence variability (RRI Biological Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| Ran | Tao | Saria Avril | Lum | 1st Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | PatchPal: A Trypsin-Responsive Hydrogel Eczema Patch for Targeted Ceramide Delivery in Post-Steroid Recovery (Biological Science and Engineering) | 10 | |
| Hillbrook School - Upper Campus | Michael | Judge | Ahren Paresh | Kapadia | IEEE Electro-Technology $25 Amazon gift card and a certificate, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers | A Neural Network Guided Hydrogel Graft for Real Time Electrophysiological Detection and Intervention in Cardiac Ischemia (RRI Biological Science and Engineering) | 10 |
| Chloe Elizabeth | Scott | IEEE Electro-Technology $25 Amazon gift card and a certificate, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers | A Neural Network Guided Hydrogel Graft for Real Time Electrophysiological Detection and Intervention in Cardiac Ischemia (RRI Biological Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| Holy Family School | Melanie | Syslo | Talon | Do | IEEE Electro-Technology $25 Amazon gift card and a certificate, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (Part 2) | Efficient Robotic Arm (Physical Science and Engineering) | 8 |
| John Iain | MacAskill | IEEE Electro-Technology $25 Amazon gift card and a certificate, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (Part 2) | Efficient Robotic Arm (Physical Science and Engineering) | 8 | |||
| Lucas | Victa | IEEE Electro-Technology $25 Amazon gift card and a certificate, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (Part 2) | Efficient Robotic Arm (Physical Science and Engineering) | 8 | |||
| Homeschool - Raju | Narayanan | Raju (PSP) | Wyndia | Ohm | 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 | Calculus Without Calculus (CWC)" A New Branch in Math: (a) CWC to Calculus and (b) a novel WJ-Fractional Calculus (Physical Science and Engineering) | 12 |
| Most Promising Young Scientist, $200 and Certificate (High School GR 9-12), SPV Market Research | |||||||
| 1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Merryhill School - Milpitas | Robert | Bates | Eshaan Rahul | Buddhisagar | 2nd Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Can AI learn to drive? (Physical Science and Engineering) | 7 |
| Abhirath | Sudhindra | Honorable Mention Certificate + a signed book + brunch with Bob Zeidman, Zeidman Award | LifeGuard LiDAR - Pothole Detection System (Physical Science and Engineering) | 7 | |||
| Lower Division :- Honorable Mention Student Award: $50 and Certificate of Achievement, Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) | |||||||
| 2nd Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| IEEE Electro-Technology $25 Amazon gift card and a certificate, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers | |||||||
| Shilpa | Karlekar | Ruthvik | Kandregula | Exceptional Merit, Certificate (all Grades), SPV Market Research | NOVA: Portable AI Assistant (Physical Science and Engineering) | 6 | |
| Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Teja Venkata | Yelisetty | Exceptional Merit, Certificate (all Grades), SPV Market Research | NOVA: Portable AI Assistant (Physical Science and Engineering) | 6 | |||
| Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Notre Dame High School | Amy | Battisti | Clarina | Manuel | Upper Division :- Honorable Mention Student Award: $50 and Certificate of Achievement, Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) | Modeling Polysomnographic EEG Latent-Embedding Drift as a Predictor of Increased Arrhythmogenic Activity (Physical Science and Engineering) | 11 |
| 2nd Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Sabrina | Zhao | 2nd Place - $75, Certificate of Achievement, SAMPE - Society for the Advancement of Material and Process Engineering | Titanium Dioxide and Gold Nanoparticles for Water Purification (Physical Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| 3rd place HS project - $50 and Certificate of Achievement, American Vacuum Society, Northern CA | |||||||
| Chelsey | Beck | Aanya | Kandala | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | EcoPad: Engineering Low-Cost, Biodegradable Menstrual Pads from Lignocellulosic Fibers (Physical Science and Engineering) | 10 | |
| Ananya | Vinesh | 2nd Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | Computational Predictive Modeling of Glioblastoma Multiforme Cancerous Growth using Cyclic Genetic Algorithm-Diffusion (Biological Science and Engineering) | 10 | |||
| Oakwood School | Keith | Hayden | Anwita | Appineni | 2nd Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | CogniCue: Predicting Alzheimer's Onset Through AI-Powered Signal Analysis (Biological Science and Engineering) | 8 |
| Ocean Grove Charter School | Minal | Hasan (PSP) | Yousof | Elwazeer | Honorable Mention, Biological Science and Engineering Category | How Does Skin Tone Affect CNN and LLM Classification Accuracy Across Skin Diseases? (Biological Science and Engineering) | 7 |
| Ali | Hasan | Honorable Mention, Biological Science and Engineering Category | How Does Skin Tone Affect CNN and LLM Classification Accuracy Across Skin Diseases? (Biological Science and Engineering) | 6 | |||
| Old Orchard School | Rommel | Samala | Suhaan | Kanaujia | Honorable Mention, Biological Science and Engineering Category | Risk-Reward Tradeoffs in Physarum Polycephalum (Biological Science and Engineering) | 8 |
| Pinewood High School (7-12) | Christine | Tran | Alan | Rong | Honorable Mention, RRI Physical Science and Engineering Category | End-to-End Scalable Autoencoders for Robust Wireless Communications (RRI Physical Science and Engineering) | 11 |
| IEEE Electro-Technology $25 Amazon gift card and a certificate, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers | |||||||
| Aaron | Xie | Honorable Mention, RRI Physical Science and Engineering Category | End-to-End Scalable Autoencoders for Robust Wireless Communications (RRI Physical Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| IEEE Electro-Technology $25 Amazon gift card and a certificate, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers | |||||||
| Presentation High School | Timothy | Goodman | Sneha | Arun | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | A Wheelchair Mounted Robotic Arm Leveraging Object Detection for Drawer Opening (Physical Science and Engineering) | 11 |
| Jeanelle | Dao | $100, Robby Beyers Innovative Solutions Awards | Horizen: Real-Time Integration of Multisensory Cues for Motion Sickness Reduction in Electric Vehicles (Physical Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| 1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Iman | Sagarwala | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | SafeGuide"A Novel Device To Mitigate Risky Wandering In and Out of the Home (Physical Science and Engineering) | 10 | |||
| Tracy | Hughes | Avni | Desai | 1st Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | What is the effect of using machine learning algorithms on the accuracy of the prediction of dopamine neurotransmitters? (Biological Science and Engineering) | 12 | |
| Ananya | Kidambi | 1st Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | What is the effect of using machine learning algorithms on the accuracy of the prediction of dopamine neurotransmitters? (Biological Science and Engineering) | 12 | |||
| Aleeza Fatima | Sagarwala | Honorable Mention, Biological Science and Engineering Category | Low Cost Neonatal incubator for Resource Limited Settings (Biological Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| Nila | Santhosh | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Leveraging Explainable AI to forecast and interpret county-level COVID-19 excess deaths and socioeconomic impacts (Physical Science and Engineering) | 10 | |||
| Privately Sponsored Project | Artem | Veremey (PSP) | Alexandra | Veremey | 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 | Design and Optimization of a Cylindrical Slot Antenna for Improved Emergency LoRa Communication (Physical Science and Engineering) | 6 |
| $250 + certificate + a signed book + brunch with Bob Zeidman, Zeidman Award | |||||||
| Nominated to compete envelope to apply for Thermo Fisher JIC, Thermo Fisher JIC - 6th Grade | |||||||
| 1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| $50 and Certificate of Achievement, Kerry Veenstra Awards | |||||||
| IEEE Electro-Technology $25 Amazon gift card and a certificate, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers | |||||||
| Saint Francis High School | Bill | Beasley | Preeya | Merchant | IEEE Electro-Technology $25 Amazon gift card and a certificate, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers | Force Sensor for MRI-guided Needle Insertion (RRI Biological Science and Engineering) | 12 |
| Chihiro | Ikezi | Vsevolod | Vankov | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Glasses for Timed Ocular Solution Delivery (Physical Science and Engineering) | 11 | |
| Stratford Middle School - Palo Alto | Veronica | Oropeza Ibarra | Joshua | Burlyga | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Bright and Sustainable:? Creating Natural, Non-Toxic Paint Alternatives (Physical Science and Engineering) | 7 |
| Aarit | Chakraborty | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Treble to Bass Clef Converter (Physical Science and Engineering) | 7 | |||
| Parth | Gupta | Lower Division :- Honorable Mention Student Award: $50 and Certificate of Achievement, Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) | Designing a Bookmark to Help Prevent Myopia (Physical Science and Engineering) | 6 | |||
| Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Aaron | Li | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Bright and Sustainable:? Creating Natural, Non-Toxic Paint Alternatives (Physical Science and Engineering) | 7 | |||
| Rayansh | Sekhri | Nominated to compete envelope to apply for Thermo Fisher JIC, Thermo Fisher JIC - 7th Grade | Peels to Polymers: Food Waste Hydrogels as Low-Cost Alternatives to Commercial Hydrogels for Drought Resilience (Physical Science and Engineering) | 7 | |||
| 1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| GR 6-8: First place, $100 and trophy, Richardson Environmental Awards | |||||||
| Alexis | Sheng | Nominated to compete envelope to apply for Thermo Fisher JIC, Thermo Fisher JIC - 7th Grade | Design of Biodegradable Menstrual Pads Using Naturally Derived Fiber Composites (Biological Science and Engineering) | 7 | |||
| 1st Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Lev | Wiesner | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Using Piezoelectricity from Commuters Footsteps to Power IOT and Low-Power Devices (Physical Science and Engineering) | 7 | |||
| Leo | Xu | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Treble to Bass Clef Converter (Physical Science and Engineering) | 7 | |||
| Stratford Middle School - San Jose | Ciera | Nguyen | Varun | Panchagnula | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | ZenFold: An inventive solution to folding clothes (Physical Science and Engineering) | 7 |
| IEEE Electro-Technology $25 Amazon gift card and a certificate, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers | |||||||
| Sarah | Triolo | Arundhati | Krishnan | IEEE Electro-Technology $25 Amazon gift card and a certificate, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers | SenseStick - Designing an AI based walking stick to detect and notify visually impaired users. (Biological Science and Engineering) | 7 | |
| Vihaan | Mehta | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Gestura: A Bi-Directional Real Time ASL Communication System (Physical Science and Engineering) | 7 | |||
| IEEE Electro-Technology $25 Amazon gift card and a certificate, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers | |||||||
| Stratford Preparatory Blackford | Ashwinder | Kahlon | Vedant | Baji | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Tiltelligence (Physical Science and Engineering) | 6 |
| Sripranav | Pisipati | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Tiltelligence (Physical Science and Engineering) | 6 | |||
| Heather | Mackewicz | Ren | Cai | Honorable Mention, Biological Science and Engineering Category | Quantum Entanglement and Plant Bioelectricity: Testing Cross-Species Electrical Synchronization (Biological Science and Engineering) | 8 | |
| Everett | Song | Nominated to compete envelope to apply for Thermo Fisher JIC, Thermo Fisher JIC - 8th Grade | Artificial Intelligence-Based Vision System for Safety Critical Assembly Quality Monitoring (Physical Science and Engineering) | 8 | |||
| 1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Saanjali Sai | Vinay | Lower Division :- Honorable Mention Student Award: $50 and Certificate of Achievement, Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) | IONIS: An Intelligent Obstacle Detection and Navigation System to Improve Independent Mobility (Biological Science and Engineering) | 7 | |||
| Honorable Mention, Biological Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Neha | Makhijani | Ishan | Chaugule | Third Place Award: $100 shared with team members(s) and framed certificate, SVACS Dave Parker Award for Excellence in Chemistry | Unsticking the Future: Assessing PFAS Reduction Pathways in the Teflon Industry and its Environmental Impact (Physical Science and Engineering) | 8 | |
| Jaime | McIntyre | Rufan | Yin | 1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Real-time Disaster Search & Rescue System utilizing Semantic Segmentation and Object Recognition onboard Fixed-wing UAV (Physical Science and Engineering) | 11 | |
| Anuradha | Murthy | Orchita | Chakraborty | 2nd Award, RRI Physical Science and Engineering Category | Sustainable Bioremediation: Transforming Saccharomyces cerevisiae using CRISPR/CAS9 for oil spill cleanup (RRI Physical Science and Engineering) | 11 | |
| Jayalakshmi | Nair | Eshan | Patel | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Self-Adjusting Lanes for Urban Traffic Optimization (Physical Science and Engineering) | 10 | |
| Stratford Preparatory Milpitas | Viet | Dinh | Saanvi | Agrawal | 2nd Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Mycoremediation of Simulated Fire Retardant Runoff with Species of Pleurotus ostreatus (Physical Science and Engineering) | 7 |
| Samaira | Deshmukh | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | An AI-Assisted Smart Walking Stick for Environmental Awareness and Navigation (Physical Science and Engineering) | 7 | |||
| Aahana Swapnil | Mhatre | 2nd Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Mycoremediation of Simulated Fire Retardant Runoff with Species of Pleurotus ostreatus (Physical Science and Engineering) | 7 | |||
| Shreyan | Poddar | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | An AI-Assisted Smart Walking Stick for Environmental Awareness and Navigation (Physical Science and Engineering) | 7 | |||
| Joshua | Pinzas | Ilina | Bopardikar | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Assessment of Lithium Adsorption Using Bio vs Non-Bio Adsorbents in Soil-Based Filters across Aquatic Environments (Physical Science and Engineering) | 7 | |
| Panash | Chandwani | Honorable Mention, Biological Science and Engineering Category | Polysaccharide Aerogels: A Novel Approach to Oral Drug Delivery - Modeling Insulin Release (Biological Science and Engineering) | 8 | |||
| Grace | Chen | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Assessment of Lithium Adsorption Using Bio vs Non-Bio Adsorbents in Soil-Based Filters across Aquatic Environments (Physical Science and Engineering) | 7 | |||
| Sangam Singh | Dhaliwal | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | HelioThreads Energy Systems (Physical Science and Engineering) | 8 | |||
| Gaogao | Lang | IEEE Electro-Technology $25 Amazon gift card and a certificate, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (Part 2) | Garb0: A Prototype Autonomous Robotic System Employing CNNs for Real-Time Detection and Classification of Urban Waste (Physical Science and Engineering) | 8 | |||
| Antonio Varghese | Muthalaly | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | HelioThreads Energy Systems (Physical Science and Engineering) | 8 | |||
| Vivann | Partani | 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 | Electromyographic Prosthetic Hand Prototype (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 | |||||||
| Prisha Ranya | Rajkumar | Honorable Mention, Biological Science and Engineering Category | Polysaccharide Aerogels: A Novel Approach to Oral Drug Delivery - Modeling Insulin Release (Biological Science and Engineering) | 8 | |||
| Arjun Kushal | Shah | IEEE Electro-Technology $25 Amazon gift card and a certificate, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (Part 2) | Garb0: A Prototype Autonomous Robotic System Employing CNNs for Real-Time Detection and Classification of Urban Waste (Physical Science and Engineering) | 8 | |||
| Lekhana | Revankar | Hiranmayi | Gollakota | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Measuring the Sugar Content of a Liquid (Physical Science and Engineering) | 6 | |
| 3rd place MS project - $50 and Certificate of Achievement, American Vacuum Society, Northern CA | |||||||
| IEEE Electro-Technology $25 Amazon gift card and a certificate, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers | |||||||
| Simran | Khurana | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Water Filtration (Physical Science and Engineering) | 6 | |||
| Meera | Ramanathan | 2nd Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | What is the effect of refrigeration on the amount of vitamin C in different fruits? (Physical Science and Engineering) | 6 | |||
| Arav Govinda | Siruvole | IEEE Electro-Technology $25 Amazon gift card and a certificate, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers | The Effect of Magnetic Strengths on Simulated Drug Targeting (Biological Science and Engineering) | 6 | |||
| Nicole | Wade | Anaka | Ganesh | Nominated to compete envelope to apply for Thermo Fisher JIC, Thermo Fisher JIC - 7th Grade | Trash to Treasure: Eco-Friendly Bricks from Discarded Plastics (Physical Science and Engineering) | 7 | |
| 1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| 2nd Place - $75, Certificate of Achievement, SAMPE - Society for the Advancement of Material and Process Engineering | |||||||
| Neha | Karthick | 2nd Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Synergistic Remediation of Estrogenic Micropollutants from Soil through Biochar-Chitosan-Zeolite Hybrid Adsorbents (Physical Science and Engineering) | 7 | |||
| Saanvi Suraj | Powar | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Purifying Water with Pectin: An Organic Approach to Filtration (Physical Science and Engineering) | 7 | |||
| Praneetha | Santhana Krishnan | Nominated to compete envelope to apply for Thermo Fisher JIC, Thermo Fisher JIC - 7th Grade | Trash to Treasure: Eco-Friendly Bricks from Discarded Plastics (Physical Science and Engineering) | 7 | |||
| 1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| 2nd Place - $75, Certificate of Achievement, SAMPE - Society for the Advancement of Material and Process Engineering | |||||||
| Jiya | Soni | 2nd Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Synergistic Remediation of Estrogenic Micropollutants from Soil through Biochar-Chitosan-Zeolite Hybrid Adsorbents (Physical Science and Engineering) | 7 | |||
| Advika | Vinodh | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Purifying Water with Pectin: An Organic Approach to Filtration (Physical Science and Engineering) | 7 | |||
| Tessellations School | Daniel | Messier | Pranav | Krishnapuram | 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 | Redundancy Degree and Reconstructibility in k-Exact-Perfect numbers (Physical Science and Engineering) | 8 |
| Nominated to compete envelope to apply for Thermo Fisher JIC, Thermo Fisher JIC - 8th Grade | |||||||
| 1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| IEEE Electro-Technology $25 Amazon gift card and a certificate, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (Part 2) | |||||||
| The King's Academy (TKA) | Pauline | Park | Iris | Zheng | Honorable Mention, Biological Science and Engineering Category | In Silico Identification of UHRF1 SRA-Domain Inhibitors in Lung Squamous Cell Carcinoma (Biological Science and Engineering) | 11 |
| Valley Christian High School | John | Crandall | Amaar Manzoor | Chughtai | 1st Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | Personalized Deep Learning Model for Closed-Loop 40 Hz Entrainment to Optimize Theta-Gamma Coupling in Alzheimer's (Biological Science and Engineering) | 11 |
| Jake | MacMillan | Jennifer | Sahil | 2nd Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Investigate how the Densities of Protostellar Jets affect the Efficiency of Star Formation (Physical Science and Engineering) | 12 | |
| Naige | Zhang | 2nd Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Investigate how the Densities of Protostellar Jets affect the Efficiency of Star Formation (Physical Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| Lan | Shen | Kashish | Kapoor | 1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Fighting Ocean Acidification: The Underwater Mapper and Neutralizer ROV (Physical Science and Engineering) | 11 | |
| Scott | VanderVeen | Aidan | Cao | Honorable Mention, Biological Science and Engineering Category | BioNanoSense: Trilayer Bioinspired Hygrobots for pH-Gated Actuation and GI Drug Delivery (Biological Science and Engineering) | 11 | |
| Kaylee Tunhi | Diep | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Development of Biodegradable Chitosan-Cellulose Nanofiber Filter Media for Medical Masks via Electrospinning. (Physical Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| Ellie Mengyuan | Dong | 2nd place HS project - $100 and Certificate of Achievement, American Vacuum Society, Northern CA | How Can Quantum Based Nano-rough Surfaces Combine to Create Superhydrophobic Coatings That Increases Ship Efficiency? (Physical Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| Honorable Mention - Certificate of Achievement, SAMPE - Society for the Advancement of Material and Process Engineering | |||||||
| Bryan Chen | Hu | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Development of Biodegradable Chitosan-Cellulose Nanofiber Filter Media for Medical Masks via Electrospinning. (Physical Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| Aidan | Qi | 2nd Award, RRI Biological Science and Engineering Category | Comparative Inhibitory Effects of a Lysed Vibrio Strain and Nisin on Vibrio Across Concentrations (RRI Biological Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| William | Tsai | 2nd place HS project - $100 and Certificate of Achievement, American Vacuum Society, Northern CA | How Can Quantum Based Nano-rough Surfaces Combine to Create Superhydrophobic Coatings That Increases Ship Efficiency? (Physical Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| Honorable Mention - Certificate of Achievement, SAMPE - Society for the Advancement of Material and Process Engineering | |||||||
| Jiayi | Wang | Honorable Mention, Biological Science and Engineering Category | Identification of Psychological Stress as a Prodromal Biomarker for Alzheimer's Disease (Biological Science and Engineering) | 10 | |||