San Jose Unified School District
Project Awards 2026
Synopsys Silicon Valley Science and Technology Championship
| School | Teacher | Student | Award | Title | Gr | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Harte (Bret) Middle School | Jenna | Patton | Ridhi | Balaji | 2nd Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | HydroScan: Food Spoilage Prevention through Water Activity Analysis (Biological Science and Engineering) | 8 |
| Vidyut Raj | Karthik | IEEE Electro-Technology $25 Amazon gift card and a certificate, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers | FORFIRE - Forest fire remote sensing and early detection system (Physical Science and Engineering) | 6 | |||
| Shaan | Sridhara | Nominated to compete envelope to apply for Thermo Fisher JIC, Thermo Fisher JIC - 8th Grade | A Smart Toothbrush with AI-Based Plaque Detection and Real-Time Brushing Guidance (Biological Science and Engineering) | 8 | |||
| 1st Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Aditya | Sunkam | IEEE Electro-Technology $25 Amazon gift card and a certificate, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers | FORFIRE - Forest fire remote sensing and early detection system (Physical Science and Engineering) | 6 | |||
| Leland High School | Rob | Wallace | Gowri | Paliwal | Honorable Mention, RRI Physical Science and Engineering Category | Discovery of close-in small planets in the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) data using a deep neural network (RRI Physical Science and Engineering) | 10 |
| University Preparatory Academy (UPA) | Elisheva | Bailey | Amaani K | Charan | 2nd Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | Effects of Biofilm-Covered Microplastics on the Learning and Memory of Drosophila Melanogaster (Biological Science and Engineering) | 10 |
| Katlynn | Lindeman | Samarth | Iyer | IEEE Electro-Technology $25 Amazon gift card and a certificate, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (Part 2) | Smart Farming and Autonomous Harvesting Systems (Physical Science and Engineering) | 8 | |
| Vedant | Iyer | IEEE Electro-Technology $25 Amazon gift card and a certificate, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (Part 2) | Smart Farming and Autonomous Harvesting Systems (Physical Science and Engineering) | 8 | |||
| Jacqueline | White | Novak Momir | Avlijas | IEEE Electro-Technology $25 Amazon gift card and a certificate, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (Part 2) | Eco-Shield: A Comparative Analysis of Thermal Conductivity in Sustainable vs. Synthetic Insulation Materials (Physical Science and Engineering) | 9 | |