Valley Christian High School
Project Awards 2025
Synopsys Silicon Valley Science and Technology Championship
| School | Teacher | Student | Award | Title | Gr | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Valley Christian High School | John | Crandall | Jiren | Liu | 2nd Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Suspension Cable Inspection Robot with Power-Outage Protection Functionality (Physical Science and Engineering) | 10 |
| Jennifer | Gerlach | Sera Linesh | John | $100 and a Certificate of Achievement, Inez M. Lechner Award | Brain Tumor Detection (Physical Science and Engineering) | 9 | |
| Pauline | Haghnazari | Aidan T. | Cao | 1st Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | Plant-Inspired Hygrobots: Harnessing Pinecone Mechanics for Innovative Biomedical Applications (Biological Science and Engineering) | 10 | |
| Jake | MacMillan | Yul | Sung | 1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Comparison of DR-RRT and RRT (Physical Science and Engineering) | 11 | |
| Shawn | Noren | Kushal | Khare | Grand Prize Alternate - Biological Sciences - Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), Santa Clara Valley Science & Engineering Fair Assn - Board of Directors Awards - High School | Cancer-Fighting Lettuce: Engineering Betalain Biosynthesis in Lactuca sativa through CYP76AD1, DODA, and UGT Genes (Biological Science and Engineering) | 11 | |
| 1st Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Scott | VanderVeen | Sophia | Diep | Honorable Mention, Biological Science and Engineering Category | The effect of pH and solvent addition on curcumin solubility and its impact on DNA integrity in E. coli strain HB101. (Biological Science and Engineering) | 11 | |
| Xinyi | Liu | Exceptional Merit, Certificate (all Grades), SPV Market Research | Effects of antibacterial plants on limiting growth of bacteria Campylobacter hyointestinalis (Biological Science and Engineering) | 12 | |||
| Revathi | Mekkoth | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Predictive Model for Ecotoxicity in Daphnia Magna: Impact of Wildfire Retardants on Aquatic Life (Physical Science and Engineering) | 9 | |||
| Bharat | Raj | Honorable Mention, Biological Science and Engineering Category | The effect of pH and solvent addition on curcumin solubility and its impact on DNA integrity in E. coli strain HB101. (Biological Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| Divya | Vattikonda | Honorable Mention, Biological Science and Engineering Category | The effect of pH and solvent addition on curcumin solubility and its impact on DNA integrity in E. coli strain HB101. (Biological Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||