Cupertino High School

Project Awards 2026

Synopsys Silicon Valley Science and Technology Championship

School Teacher Student Award Title Gr
Cupertino High School  Ted McLeod  Arjun  Surendar Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category ChytridSense: A Stacked Surveillance System for Chytridiomycosis Outbreaks and Spread with Adaptive Sampling (Physical Science and Engineering) 10
   Amanda Slowikowski  Anirudh  Iyengar Certificate of Achievement and letter - medallion and cert will be received in mail after student fills out the online link, Yale Science and Engineering Association A Customized Multi-Modal Neuroimaging Feedback System for Cognitive Restructuring in Adolescents with Anxiety and Stress (Biological Science and Engineering) 11
        Paarth  Nawani $100, Robby Beyers Innovative Solutions Awards A Multistage Deep Learning Pipeline for Staging and Progression Prediction of Glaucoma (Biological Science and Engineering) 12
              Upper Division :- Honorable Mention Student Award: $50 and Certificate of Achievement, Association for Computing Machinery (ACM)    
              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    
        Aayushya Ajaykumar Patel 1st Award, RRI Biological Science and Engineering Category Development of a Multimodal Geometry-Aware 6-DoF Robotic Arm for Safe Closed-Loop Cold Plasma Wound Dosimetry (RRI Biological Science and Engineering) 11
        Sidharth  Swaminathan 1st Award, RRI Biological Science and Engineering Category Development of a Multimodal Geometry-Aware 6-DoF Robotic Arm for Safe Closed-Loop Cold Plasma Wound Dosimetry (RRI Biological Science and Engineering) 11
   Daniel Stavis  Ziya  Ahmad Honorable Mention, Biological Science and Engineering Category PulsePath: A Transformer-GRU Hybrid Model for Monitoring SV Arrhythmias Using Wearable Arduino ECG for WPW's Patients (Biological Science and Engineering) 10
        Ayana  Kadkol Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category Using SSML to Develop an Application & Acoustic Health Index of Dolphins & Whales to Aid Research (Physical Science and Engineering) 9
        Kovid  Kaushik GR 9-12: First place, $100 and trophy, Richardson Environmental Awards STARS Initiative: Strategic Tree-planting for Accelerated Resilience and Sustainability (Physical Science and Engineering) 9
        Rohan  Keshari Exceptional Merit, Certificate (all Grades), SPV Market Research Sleep Disorder Classification Model based on EEG, Accelolometry, and Heart Rate Measurements (Physical Science and Engineering) 9
              2nd Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category    
        Netra  Khot Honorable Mention, Biological Science and Engineering Category PulsePath: A Transformer-GRU Hybrid Model for Monitoring SV Arrhythmias Using Wearable Arduino ECG for WPW's Patients (Biological Science and Engineering) 10
        Kai  Nagashima 1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category Peripheral Vision Testing and Anomaly Detection Using the Apple Vision Pro (Physical Science and Engineering) 10
        Rohan  Vellamcheti Honorable Mention, Biological Science and Engineering Category AI-Powered Analysis to Identify Potential Patient-Specific Therapy for Crohns Disease Using Single-Cell RNA Sequencing (Biological Science and Engineering) 10