Cupertino Union School District
Project Awards 2016
Synopsys Silicon Valley Science and Technology Championship
| School | Teacher | Student | Award | Title | Gr | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cupertino Middle School | Youssef | Ismail (SSW mentor) | Kaushik Sai | Tota | Castro Family Award for Best Physical Science Projects - Trip to State Science Fair, Plaque, and $100 Cash, Santa Clara Valley Science & Engineering Fair Assn - Board of Directors Awards - Middle School | Developing Magnesium-Air Fuel Cells (Physical Science and Engineering) | 7 |
| Honorable Mention Certificate + a signed book + breakfast with Bob Zeidman, Zeidman Award | |||||||
| Nominated to compete envelope, Broadcom MASTERS - 7th Grade | |||||||
| 1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| 1st Place Award - $100, Popular Science Magazine Subscription, Framed Certificate of Achievement, ASM International, A Society for Materials, Santa Clara Valley Chapter | |||||||
| GR 6-8, 1st Place: $85 and Certificate of Achievement, T-Shirt, Tote bag, Society of Vacuum Coaters (SVC) | |||||||
| Kennedy(John F.) Middle School-Cupertino | Kai | Brown | Anjali | Singh | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | IoT Device System for Tracking Hand Motions Of Senior Citizens in Morse Code (Physical Science and Engineering) | 7 |
| Thea | Dalvand | Rushil | Saha | $100 and a Certificate of Achievement, IBM Award | Wearable Device for Dementia Patients to Log Activity and Location, and R Analysis of Data to Find Trends in Movements (Physical Science and Engineering) | 8 | |
| Kirtan | Shah | Nominated to compete envelope, Broadcom MASTERS - 8th Grade | Image Compression: Which algorithm performs the best? (Physical Science and Engineering) | 8 | |||
| 1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Susan | Hansen | Suhas | Prasad | Nominated to compete envelope, Broadcom MASTERS - 8th Grade | Do Hamiltonian Bugs Always Converge? A Computer-Inspired Proof (Physical Science and Engineering) | 8 | |
| 1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Youssef | Ismail (SSW mentor) | Patrick | Yu | Honorable Mention Student Award: $40 and Certificate of Achievement, Association for Computing Machinery, San Francisco Bay Area Professional Chapter | A Novel Approach to Leaf and Image Recognition (Physical Science and Engineering) | 8 | |
| Middle School Finalist Certificate & Amazon.com gift certificate, The Synopsys Outreach Foundation n+1 Prize | |||||||
| 2nd Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| $100 and Certificate of Achievement, Trimble Award | |||||||
| Khadija | Iyer | Matthew | Cho | $250 + certificate + a signed book + breakfast with Bob Zeidman, Zeidman Award | Smart Shoes: An innovative method to analyze and correct improper gait (Physical Science and Engineering) | 8 | |
| 2nd Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| One-day immersive trip to Firebase to work on API project, TechLab Education | |||||||
| Athena | Fung | Nominated to compete envelope, Broadcom MASTERS - 8th Grade | A Bluer Ocean: Replacing Microplastics with Water-Soluble Bioplastics (Physical Science and Engineering) | 8 | |||
| 1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| $50 and Certificate of Achievement, The Kerry Veenstra Awards | |||||||
| 2nd Place Award - $75, Popular Science Magazine Subscription and Framed Certificate of Achievement, ASM International, A Society for Materials, Santa Clara Valley Chapter | |||||||
| Lawson Middle School | Joel | Carter | Deepa | Mahesh | 2nd Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Analyzing Images to Help with Obstacle Avoidance for the Blind (Physical Science and Engineering) | 7 |
| Miller Middle School | Mahasweta | Ganai (PSP) | Milan | Ganai | Nominated to compete envelope, Broadcom MASTERS - 8th Grade | Wearable Therapeutic Device with Bluetooth for Sarcopenia Patients and Caregivers (Physical Science and Engineering) | 8 |
| 1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Shree | Murthy (PSP) | Chinmay K | Lalgudi | 2nd Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | The Development of a Thermoelectric Generator Integrated Laptop Case to Charge Computers using their own Heat (Physical Science and Engineering) | 8 | |
| Maneesha | Ranabhor (PSP) | Shounak Kiran | Ranabhor | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Angel's Eye - The Heat Battalion (Physical Science and Engineering) | 8 | |
| Kim | Stinson | Krithi Vishesh | Koodli | 2nd Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Computer Simulation of Intersecting Orbits of Celestial Bodies (Physical Science and Engineering) | 6 | |
| Certificate of Achievement and ONR Medallion, United States Navy and Marine Corps | |||||||
| Latha | Subramanyan(PSP) | Raghav | Ganesh | $500 + certificate + a signed book + breakfast with Bob Zeidman, Zeidman Award | Characterizing Brain Activity using Facial Feature Recognition and Gaze Tracking (Physical Science and Engineering) | 8 | |
| Grand Prize Student Award: $320 and Certificate of Achievement, Association for Computing Machinery, San Francisco Bay Area Professional Chapter | |||||||
| Middle School Finalist Certificate & Amazon.com gift certificate, The Synopsys Outreach Foundation n+1 Prize | |||||||
| Certificate of Achievement and ONR Medallion, United States Navy and Marine Corps | |||||||
| IEEE Electro-Technology $50 gift card and a certificiate, Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers | |||||||
| Dipa | Trivedi (PSP) | Kavish | Trivedi | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Preventing Crime using a Smart Doorbell (Physical Science and Engineering) | 8 | |