Homestead High School

Project Awards 2021

Synopsys Silicon Valley Science and Technology Championship

School	Teacher		Student		Award	Title	Gr
Homestead High School	Gary	Auten	Vivek	Bharati	Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category	A Mobile Phone-Based Indoor Situational Awareness and Walking Navigational Aid for the Visually Impaired (Physical Science and Engineering)	11
	Sam	Fung	Hemal	Kurani	ASEI Silicon Valley Emerging Technology Membership to American Society of Engineers of Indian Origin, American Society of Engineers of Indian Origin Award	Noninvasive pathogen detection device to monitor the environment and test for pathogens including COVID-19 virus (Biological Science and Engineering)	10
					Exceptional Merit, Certificate, SPV Market Research "Most Promising Young Scientist"
			Hetal	Kurani	ASEI Silicon Valley Emerging Technology Membership to American Society of Engineers of Indian Origin, American Society of Engineers of Indian Origin Award	Noninvasive pathogen detection device to monitor the environment and test for pathogens including COVID-19 virus (Biological Science and Engineering)	10
					Exceptional Merit, Certificate, SPV Market Research "Most Promising Young Scientist"
	John	Shelby	Anirudh	Venkatraman	Grand Prize Student Award: $640 and Certificate of Achievement, Association for Computing Machinery, San Francisco Bay Area Professional Chapter	Using Machine Learning to Optimize Drug Discovery and Development to Counter Viral Proteins (Physical Science and Engineering)	10
	Kathleen	Shreve	Kinjal	Govil	Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category	Evaluation of temporal subtraction techniques in image recognition machine learning models for wildfire detection (Physical Science and Engineering)	10
	Ed	Taylor	Arnuv	Tandon	Honorable Mention, RRI Physical Science and Engineering Category	Deep neural networks for recovering tear film thickness profiles from hyperspectral interferograms. (RRI Physical Science and Engineering)	11
	Andrea	Westgate	Nathaniel Sarin	Thomas	2nd Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category	Using a Mask-Region-Based Convolutional Neural Network (RCNN) to detect and classify waste (Physical Science and Engineering)	10