Challenger Middlefield - Palo Alto

Project Awards 2026

Synopsys Silicon Valley Science and Technology Championship

School	Teacher		Student		Award	Title	Gr
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