Homestead High School

Project Awards 2024

Synopsys Silicon Valley Science and Technology Championship

School	Teacher		Student		Award	Title	Gr
Homestead High School	Dara	Alleyne-Levy	Bhavya	Krishnan	1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category	Autonomous Brain Inspired Mapping with 6DoF Navigation for Drone Swarms in GPS Denied and RF Jammed Hostile Environments (Physical Science and Engineering)	11
					$100 for Individual projects and a certificate, IBM Award
					GR 9-12: Honorable Mention, Certificate of Achievement, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) Intelligent Systems Award
	Sam	Fung	Vibha	Bengani	Honorable Mention - Certificate of Achievement, SAMPE - Society for the Advancement of Material and Process Engineering	Separation of Textile Fibers in Discarded Garments to Minimize Landfill Waste (Physical Science and Engineering)	10
	Daniel	Nunez	Diya	Bengani	1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category	GUI for Real-Time Force and Kinematics Data Using Low-Cost Instrumented Sensors and a Nonlinear Data Model (Physical Science and Engineering)	12
					Certificate + ASEI Silicon Valley Emerging Technology Membership + Optional MentorConnect matching for 1 year, American Society of Engineers of Indian Origin Award - ASEI
					IEEE Electro-Technology $25 Amazon gift card and a certificate, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (Part 2)
			Alexandru Thomas	Cismaru	2nd Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category	Using Transformer Machine Learning Models on EEG Data to Aid the Diagnosis of ADHD in Children (Biological Science and Engineering)	11
			Dylan	Dale	Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category	Applying Unsupervised Learning Techniques to Automated EEG Artifact Removal and Seizure Detection (Physical Science and Engineering)	11
			Samuel	Yuan	2nd place HS project - $50 and Certificate of Achievement, American Vacuum Society, Northern CA	SuperDiff: Diffusion Models for Conditional Generation of Hypothetical Superconductors (RRI Physical Science and Engineering)	11
	Kathleen	Shreve	Armaan Christopher	Gomes	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	Clear: Utilizing Glasses-Embedded Beamformers to Enhance Speech Clarity and Spatial Context for the Hearing Impaired (Biological Science and Engineering)	11
					$500 Grand Prize, Robby Beyers Innovative Solutions Awards
					Andreasen Excellence in Engineering Science Award (all grades) $325, SPV Market Research
					1st Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category
					$100 for Individual projects and a certificate, IBM Award
					$50 and Certificate of Achievement, Kerry Veenstra Awards