Lynbrook High School
Project Awards 2025
Synopsys Silicon Valley Science and Technology Championship
| School | Teacher | Student | Award | Title | Gr | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Lynbrook High School | Nicole | DellaSantina | Shreshta | Ramji | 2nd Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | Rhizobacteria and Activated Charcoal on Dracaena trifasciata's Phytoremediation to Attenuate VOC-Induced Pollution (Biological Science and Engineering) | 10 |
| Sathvika | Siva | 2nd Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | Rhizobacteria and Activated Charcoal on Dracaena trifasciata's Phytoremediation to Attenuate VOC-Induced Pollution (Biological Science and Engineering) | 10 | |||
| Jeremy | Dybdahl | William | Wang | 2nd Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | EmoVision - Depression Detection using Machine Learning (Biological Science and Engineering) | 11 | |
| Bradley | Fulk | Kush | Goel | First place- $50 Check and Certificate, Access Braille Award | A novel software solution to help the visually impaired navigate dynamic areas by combining SLAM and voice recognition (Physical Science and Engineering) | 11 | |
| Kenneth | Iams | Vrishank | Chandrasekhar | Grand Prize - Best of Championship - Biological Sciences - Qualified to be a Regeneron ISEF Finalist, Santa Clara Valley Science & Engineering Fair Assn - Board of Directors Awards - High School | Discovery of a Novel Digital Biomarker for Early Pan-Cancer Survival and Recurrence Prediction via Clinical Narratives (Biological Science and Engineering) | 12 | |
| 1st Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Jason | Lee | Emma | Chang | Honorable Mention, Biological Science and Engineering Category | Quantifying chemotherapeutic drugs for adaptive chemotherapy with electrochemical-aptamer based biosensors (Biological Science and Engineering) | 11 | |
| Lester | Leung | Jay Youngjun | An | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | AgriDrone: The Design and Construction of an Autonomous Drone for Agricultural Surveying and Crop Management (Physical Science and Engineering) | 11 | |
| IEEE Electro-Technology $25 Amazon gift card and a certificate, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (Part 2) | |||||||
| Richard | Li | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | AgriDrone: The Design and Construction of an Autonomous Drone for Agricultural Surveying and Crop Management (Physical Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| IEEE Electro-Technology $25 Amazon gift card and a certificate, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (Part 2) | |||||||
| Dale | Liu | 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 | A Theoretical Correction for the Properties of NK Fitness Landscapes and Extension of the Model to K Random Interactions (Physical Science and Engineering) | 10 | |||
| 1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Bolang Allen | Zhu | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | AgriDrone: The Design and Construction of an Autonomous Drone for Agricultural Surveying and Crop Management (Physical Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| IEEE Electro-Technology $25 Amazon gift card and a certificate, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (Part 2) | |||||||
| Thanh | Nguyen | Haoyuan | Deng | 2nd Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | The Design and Fabrication of an Autonomous Drone-to-Drone Battery Replacement System without the Need of a Base Station (Physical Science and Engineering) | 11 | |
| GR 9-12: 1st Place, Certificate of Achievement, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) Intelligent Systems Award | |||||||
| Hao | Gu | 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 | Novel High-Permittivity Low Young Modulus Elastomer Dielectrics (RRI Physical Science and Engineering) | 12 | |||
| 1st Award, RRI Physical Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| 1st Place - $100, Certificate of Achievement, SAMPE - Society for the Advancement of Material and Process Engineering | |||||||
| Isaac | Pallone | Andy | Chen | Exceptional Merit, Certificate (all Grades), SPV Market Research | The design and construction of a LIDAR-based alert system to prevent dooring accidents for cyclists' safety (Physical Science and Engineering) | 10 | |
| Anna | Chen | 2nd Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | The Design and Construction of a Motion Activated Sink Handle Disinfector for Manually Operated Sinks (Physical Science and Engineering) | 9 | |||
| IEEE Electro-Technology $25 Amazon gift card and a certificate, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (Part 2) | |||||||
| Max Jia-Rui | Chiang | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | The design and construction of an IoT-based phone pouch to prevent phone usage in class for teachers (Physical Science and Engineering) | 9 | |||
| Daniel | Cionca | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | The design and construction of an object recognition algorithm to optimize traffic flow at high traffic intersections (Physical Science and Engineering) | 9 | |||
| Jerry | Gao | Honorable Mention, Biological Science and Engineering Category | The design and construction of a bedsore risk detection system (Biological Science and Engineering) | 9 | |||
| Victoria | Huang | Exceptional Merit, Certificate (all Grades), SPV Market Research | The design and construction of a LIDAR-based alert system to prevent dooring accidents for cyclists' safety (Physical Science and Engineering) | 9 | |||
| Shripriya | Kalbhavi | 2nd Award, RRI Biological Science and Engineering Category | Identifying Novel Genetic Drivers of ALS: Multiomic and RNA-Seq Analyses Implicate MAPK Pathway in Motor Neuron Survival (RRI Biological Science and Engineering) | 10 | |||
| Anika | Khanna | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | The design and construction of a wearable training device to detect elbow angles to improve form consistency for archers (Physical Science and Engineering) | 9 | |||
| Advait | Lalwani | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | The design and construction of an IoT-based phone pouch to prevent phone usage in class for teachers (Physical Science and Engineering) | 9 | |||
| Sharon | Lu | 2nd Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | A Novel Approach to Anomaly-Corrected Economic Metrics: AI-Driven Modeling of Discrepancy-Induced Shifts in Lorenz Curve (Physical Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| Shresth | Mishra | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | The design and construction of an object recognition algorithm to optimize traffic flow at high traffic intersections (Physical Science and Engineering) | 10 | |||
| Aafrin | Muhammad Kasim | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | The design and construction of a Foot strike sensor to detect fouls in racewalk competitions. (Physical Science and Engineering) | 9 | |||
| Raunak | Pradhan | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | The design and construction of an object recognition algorithm to optimize traffic flow at high traffic intersections (Physical Science and Engineering) | 9 | |||
| Pranav | Saharan | Honorable Mention, Biological Science and Engineering Category | The design and construction of a bedsore risk detection system (Biological Science and Engineering) | 10 | |||
| Amolika | Sudhir | 2nd Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | A Novel Approach to Anomaly-Corrected Economic Metrics: AI-Driven Modeling of Discrepancy-Induced Shifts in Lorenz Curve (Physical Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| Rowan Thomas Kyrouz | Sumanaweera | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | The design and construction of an IoT-based phone pouch to prevent phone usage in class for teachers (Physical Science and Engineering) | 10 | |||
| Jenny (Zihao) | Tian | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | The design and construction of a Foot strike sensor to detect fouls in racewalk competitions. (Physical Science and Engineering) | 9 | |||
| Siddharth | Upadhyay | 2nd Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | The Design and Construction of a Motion Activated Sink Handle Disinfector for Manually Operated Sinks (Physical Science and Engineering) | 9 | |||
| IEEE Electro-Technology $25 Amazon gift card and a certificate, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (Part 2) | |||||||
| Judy | Yu | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | The design and construction of a wearable training device to detect elbow angles to improve form consistency for archers (Physical Science and Engineering) | 9 | |||
| David | Taylor | Ryan | Bansal | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Biomimicry inspired innovations to boost wind turbine efficiency and power output. (Physical Science and Engineering) | 10 | |
| Ava | Chen | 1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Implementation of a High-Speed Photocopier with Computer Vision and a Page-Turning Mechanism (Physical Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| $100 and a certificate, IBM Award | |||||||
| High School Student - Certificate of Achievement, Letter of Congratulations from the Chief of Naval Research, Medallion and $50 gift card (redeemable online), Office of Naval Research -United States Navy/ US Marine Corps | |||||||
| IEEE Electro-Technology $25 Amazon gift card and a certificate, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers | |||||||