Henry M Gunn High School

Project Awards 2026

Synopsys Silicon Valley Science and Technology Championship

School	Teacher		Student		Award	Title	Gr
Henry M Gunn High School	Mark Steven	Brassey	Jingzhi	Gu	GR 9-12: Second place, $75 and trophy, Richardson Environmental Awards	The Impact of Urban Light Pollution on Nocturnal Bird Migration in the San Francisco Bay Area. (Physical Science and Engineering)	11
	Tomas	Grim	Nicholas Cheuk-Fung	Lo	Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category	Socioeconomic Impact of Building Efficiency (Physical Science and Engineering)	10
	Daniel	Hahn	Shiqi	Dai	Honorable Mention, RRI Biological Science and Engineering Category	FairGRPO: Fair Reinforcement Learning For Equitable Clinical Reasoning (RRI Biological Science and Engineering)	10
	Michaela	Hlasek	Tianyi Mia	Li	2nd Award, RRI Biological Science and Engineering Category	Defining the Mechanisms that Regulate Transmembrane Protein 106B Dimer Formation in Frontotemporal Dementia (RRI Biological Science and Engineering)	11
	Jena	Lee	Victor	Peng	2nd Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category	Patient-Adaptive Few-Shot Learning in Hyperspectral Imaging for Intraoperative Brain Tumor Margin Assessment (Biological Science and Engineering)	11
	Heather	Mellows	Sharvi	Dhamdhere	2nd Award, RRI Biological Science and Engineering Category	Anti-Inflammatory Potential of Curcumin: Modulation of Cytokine Expression in MCF-7 Breast Cancer Cells (RRI Biological Science and Engineering)	10
	Angela	Merchant	Eleanor	Lee	1st Award, RRI Biological Science and Engineering Category	Time Series of Hair Estradiol as Measured by HPLC-MS/MS (RRI Biological Science and Engineering)	10
	Casey	O'Connell	Sophie	Tong	1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category	Active Illumination-assisted Multiview Camera System for Robust 3D Visual Perception in Challenged Environments (Physical Science and Engineering)	10
	Micah	Wynn	Diya Kacker	Bhagat	Honorable Mention, Biological Science and Engineering Category	Adaptive Sensor-Controlled Irrigation and Fertilization System for Small-Scale Urban Farming (Biological Science and Engineering)	10
	Ning	Xu	McKenna	Chang	1st Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category	Utilizing Machine Learning to Predict Heart Transplant Allocation and Evaluate Gender Disparities (Biological Science and Engineering)	11
			Chloe	Wu	2nd Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category	Smart shoes for feet monitoring (Physical Science and Engineering)	11
					IEEE Electro-Technology $25 Amazon gift card and a certificate, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
	Elana	Zizmor	Aidan	Peng	$100, Robby Beyers Innovative Solutions Awards	Integrating furfural production and pyrolysis for enhanced biomass valorization: a biorefinery optimization study (Physical Science and Engineering)	12
					1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category