Private
Project Awards 2018
Synopsys Silicon Valley Science and Technology Championship
| School | Teacher | Student | Award | Title | Gr | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Archbishop Mitty High School | Thuy-Anh | Nguyen | Yusra | Arub | $500 - best grade 9-12 entry for either Electrical Engineering or Software Engineering amongst girls, Synopsys - Society of Women Engineers | Smart+Connected Doorbell with Real-time Coordinated Continuum of Care Information: A Path to End All Homelessness (Physical Science and Engineering) | 11 |
| Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| William | Bai | Honorable Mention, Biological Science and Engineering Category | Reengineering Haptic Feedback for a White Cane (Biological Science and Engineering) | 10 | |||
| Nishita Sathyabodha | Belur | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | A Novel, Low-Cost, Efficient Alternative to Photo ElectroChemical Oxidation (PECO) Air Purifiers Using Titanium Dioxide (Physical Science and Engineering) | 9 | |||
| 3rd Place - $50, Framed Certificate of Achievement, and Popular Science Magazine Subscription, SAMPE - Society for the Advancement of Material and Process Engineering | |||||||
| Kevin Gabriel | Kuehn | 1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Two-phase immersion cooling (Physical Science and Engineering) | 12 | |||
| HS student - Certificate of Achievement, Medallion and $50 gift card, United States Navy and Marine Corps | |||||||
| Prerita | Pandya | Certificate of Achievement, Society for In Vitro Biology | A Study of Cell Cycle Control in Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells (RRI Biological Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| Khushi | Parikh | 2nd Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | Creating a Device to Detect the Presence of Allergens (Biological Science and Engineering) | 9 | |||
| Chaelee | Park | High School Finalist Certficate & Amazon.com gift certficate, Synopsys Outreach Foundation n+1 Prize | The Effect of Bittermelon with Metformin on Oxidative Stress and Insulin Signaling Pathways in Hyperglycemic C. elegans (Biological Science and Engineering) | 10 | |||
| Aalok Nital | Patwa | 1st Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | Find My Pet: UnLEASHING the Power of Image Neural Networks to Unite Lost Pets with Their Owners (Biological Science and Engineering) | 9 | |||
| ASEI Silicon Valley Emerging Technology Certificate of Achievement Award and Membership to American Society of Engineers of Indian Origin, American Society of Engineers of Indian Origin Award | |||||||
| Malavika Mysore | Ramarao | 2nd Award, RRI Biological Science and Engineering Category | Investigation into Neural Stem Cells and how they Influence Brain Growth (RRI Biological Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| Ronald | Nicoletti | Akhilesh Varadan | Balasingam | GR 9-12, 1st Place: $300, and Framed Certificate of Achievement, Society of Vacuum Coaters (SVC) | Gossamer: A Monte Carlo Simulator for the Optimal Design of Soft Nanowire Composites for Wearable Biomedical Electronics (RRI Physical Science and Engineering) | 9 | |
| 2nd Award, RRI Physical Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| 1st Place - $100, Framed Certificate of Achievement, and Popular Science Magazine Subscription, SAMPE - Society for the Advancement of Material and Process Engineering | |||||||
| Packet with Bag, flash drive, car charger, and battery, United States Air Force | |||||||
| Kate | Slevin | Maria | Korolik | Honorable Mention: Framed Certificate of Achievement,, Society of Vacuum Coaters (SVC) | Heat transfer for energy-efficient window design: What properties of gas affect its ability to conduct heat? (Physical Science and Engineering) | 9 | |
| 1st Place Award - $100, Popular Science Magazine Subscription, Framed Certificate of Achievement, and Certificate & Medallion from ASM Educational Foundation, ASM International, A Society for Materials, Santa Clara Valley Chapter | |||||||
| 1st place HS student - $100 and Certificate of Achievement, American Vacuum Society, Northern CA | |||||||
| BASIS Independent Silicon Valley School | Kevyn | Adams | Shiven | Gupta | ASEI Silicon Valley Emerging Technology Certificate of Achievement Award and Membership to American Society of Engineers of Indian Origin, American Society of Engineers of Indian Origin Award | A Wearable Device for Real-Time Fall Detection for the Elderly (Physical Science and Engineering) | 11 |
| Thomas | Dornhoffer | Anushka Himanshu | Goel | Honorable Mention Certificate, Santa Clara County Biotech Education Partnership (SCCBEP) | Using Neural Nets and Molecular Clocks to Predict which Influenza Strains should be Included in the Seasonal Flu Vaccine (Biological Science and Engineering) | 10 | |
| Sanoja | Kikkeri | 2nd Place Award - $100 and Certificate of Achievement, American Association for Laboratory Animal Science, Northern California Branch | Inducing apoptotic pathway effects of the ced-9 gene in cancer C. elegans offspring and the cure against human diseases. (RRI Biological Science and Engineering) | 10 | |||
| Eva | Prakash | 2nd Award, RRI Biological Science and Engineering Category | Interpretable Support Vector Machines for Variant Interpretation and Motif Discovery in Genomics (RRI Biological Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| Anjali | Sadarangani | Certificate of Achievement, Society for In Vitro Biology | Investigating Retinitis Pigmentosa: Gene Expression of iPSC's Derived from Retinal Pigment Epithelial Cells (RRI Biological Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| Shreya Sai | Shekhar | $100 First Prize, Morgan Lewis | Predicting Pharmacogenomic Biomarkers Using RNA Sequencing (RRI Biological Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| Anita | Taft | 2nd Place Award - $100 and Certificate of Achievement, American Association for Laboratory Animal Science, Northern California Branch | Inducing apoptotic pathway effects of the ced-9 gene in cancer C. elegans offspring and the cure against human diseases. (RRI Biological Science and Engineering) | 10 | |||
| Aditi | Venkatesh | 1st Award, RRI Biological Science and Engineering Category | The Effect of Exercise on Brown Adipose Tissue (RRI Biological Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| HS student - Certificate of Achievement, Medallion and $50 gift card, United States Navy and Marine Corps | |||||||
| Bellarmine College Preparatory | Debjani | Roy | Aditya | Behal | Honorable Mention, Biological Science and Engineering Category | A Novel Investigation of Sonic Impact on Bacterial Metabolism (Biological Science and Engineering) | 10 |
| Tarun | Chiruvolu | 1st Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | Point-Of-Care Detection of Cancer Mutations (Biological Science and Engineering) | 10 | |||
| Special Award: $75 and Certificate of Achievement, Varian Medical Systems | |||||||
| Samarth | Girish | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Launch-alyzer: A Silver Bullet to Predict Rocket Launch Failures (Physical Science and Engineering) | 9 | |||
| Arnav | Jhingran | Honorable Mention, Biological Science and Engineering Category | A Machine-learning based approach to model the patterns of muscle movements caused by motor tics in Tourette's Syndrome (Biological Science and Engineering) | 9 | |||
| Aadit | Trivedi | 1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | SafeSeat: Designing a Smart and Safe Car Seat for Children (Physical Science and Engineering) | 9 | |||
| 1st Place: $100 Cash and Certificate of Achievement, System Safety Society | |||||||
| Canyon Heights Academy | De Leys | Hamm | Sharon | Mathew | Middle School Finalist Certificate & Amazon.com gift certificate, Synopsys Outreach Foundation n+1 Prize | Smart Container: A Container That Can Detect Mold (Biological Science and Engineering) | 6 |
| Katherine Alexandra | Wales | 2nd Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | How Effective Are Laundry Detergents? (Physical Science and Engineering) | 6 | |||
| Carden Academy of Almaden | Hadeel | Abutouk | Nikko Koshiyama | Baird | Nominated to compete envelope, Broadcom MASTERS - 7th Grade | What is the effect of different conifer type sapwood on filtering bacteria sized dye from water (Biological Science and Engineering) | 7 |
| 1st Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Andrew Ramesh | Chandra | Outstanding Project: Certificate of Achievement and Voucher for a Safe Boating Course. Completion of Course Awards $50., United States Coast Guard Auxiliary | Swimming Faster with High-Tech Swim Suits (Physical Science and Engineering) | 6 | |||
| Challenger - Almaden | Pronati | Mondal | Zella Jane | Harper | Honorable Mention, Biological Science and Engineering Category | Stretch It! (Biological Science and Engineering) | 6 |
| Arjun | Rajaram | Honorable Mention, Biological Science and Engineering Category | The effect of different plants on firescaping. (Biological Science and Engineering) | 8 | |||
| $50 Middle School Plant Science, California Botanical Society | |||||||
| Challenger - Berryessa | Shannon | Deza | Aaleesha | Doshi | 2nd Place - $75, Framed Certificate of Achievement, and Popular Science Magazine Subscription, SAMPE - Society for the Advancement of Material and Process Engineering | The Effect of Different Heat Settings for the Type of Filament on its Durability for 3D Printing (Physical Science and Engineering) | 7 |
| Nithika | Karthikeyan | GR 6-8 Most Promising Female Researcher, $100, Framed Certificate, Society of Vacuum Coaters (SVC) | The design of an algorithm to encode ASCII characters using amino acids for use by IT archival systems. (Physical Science and Engineering) | 8 | |||
| Nominated to compete envelope, Broadcom MASTERS - 8th Grade | |||||||
| 1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Shlok R. | Shah | $500 + certificate + a signed book + breakfast with Bob Zeidman, Zeidman Award | The Creation of an Autonomous Lifeguard System (Physical Science and Engineering) | 8 | |||
| Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| GR 6-8: 1st Place, Certificate of Achievement, and tour of NASA Ames Research Center, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) Intelligent Systems Award | |||||||
| Nimai | Talur | Honorable Mention: Certificate of Achievement, Society of Vacuum Coaters (SVC) | A Smart Device to Effectively Monitor Blood and Vascular Tissue Characteristics (Biological Science and Engineering) | 8 | |||
| Challenger - Shawnee | Bonny | Basu | Shweta | Arun | Honorable Mention, Biological Science and Engineering Category | Wrist Watch: A device to detect unhealthy wrist posture (Biological Science and Engineering) | 8 |
| Alex Khoa-Nguyen | Bui | Honorable Mention Student Award: $40 and Certificate of Achievement, Association for Computing Machinery, San Francisco Bay Area Professional Chapter | Put a HALT! to Smoking (Physical Science and Engineering) | 8 | |||
| Jia Sidhu | Gill | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Bioenergy - Natural Energy From Your Compost Bin (Physical Science and Engineering) | 7 | |||
| Sunny | Vinay | 1st place MS student - $100 and Certificate of Achievement, American Vacuum Society, Northern CA | Effect of temperature on the speed of sound (Physical Science and Engineering) | 7 | |||
| Brad | Bowden | Nandana | Shankar | 2nd Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | Blooms from the garbage pile (Biological Science and Engineering) | 6 | |
| Dashmi Kaur | Singh | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Does Temperature affect Chemistry? (Physical Science and Engineering) | 6 | |||
| Challenger - Sunnyvale | Shalini | D'Souza | Navya | Agrawal | 2nd Place Student Award, Outstanding Young Woman in Computing: $160 and Certificate of Achievement, Association for Computing Machinery, San Francisco Bay Area Professional Chapter | MyStressRelief (Physical Science and Engineering) | 8 |
| Swathi | Badrinarayanan | Middle School Finalist Certificate & Amazon.com gift certificate, Synopsys Outreach Foundation n+1 Prize | Eye Pushups - a novel tool for vision therapy (Biological Science and Engineering) | 7 | |||
| Honorable Mention, Biological Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Anagha | Badriprasad | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | The Effect of the Type of Prescription Bottle on Ultraviolet Ray Blockage (Physical Science and Engineering) | 6 | |||
| Safaa Fareeha | Hussain | 2nd Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | Beauty is in the Eye of the Beholder (Biological Science and Engineering) | 7 | |||
| Jeena | Mahajan | Honorable Mention, Biological Science and Engineering Category | The Science Behind Gratification (Biological Science and Engineering) | 8 | |||
| Adhip | Raghunathan | 2nd Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Smart Lighting System to Ensure Uniform Illumination and to Conserve Power (Physical Science and Engineering) | 6 | |||
| Nikita | Senthil | Nominated to compete envelope, Broadcom MASTERS - 7th Grade | Eliminating E.coli: The Effect of Nanosilver Particles on E.coli Growth (Biological Science and Engineering) | 7 | |||
| 1st Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Ishwar | Suriyaprakash | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Light Sleep (Physical Science and Engineering) | 6 | |||
| Anirudh | Venkatraman | 2nd Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Friction Flashlight (Physical Science and Engineering) | 7 | |||
| Henry | Yao | Nominated to compete envelope, Broadcom MASTERS - 6th Grade | The Effect of Time and Temperature on Nitrite Level in Cooked Foods (Physical Science and Engineering) | 6 | |||
| 1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| 2nd Place Award - $200 and Framed Certificate of Achievement, American Chemical Society, Silicon Valley, SVACS | |||||||
| Middle School-Cash Award-$50 and letter of recognition, Northern California Institute of Food Technologists (NCIFT) | |||||||
| Deepali | Deshmukh | Sama | Karim | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | The Effect of Burnt Materials on the pH of soil (Physical Science and Engineering) | 6 | |
| Mahi | Ravi | $50 and Certificate of Achievement, Kerry Veenstra Awards | Sugar it Down: An easy diet management tool designed to track the calorie and sugar intake of diabetic patients (Physical Science and Engineering) | 8 | |||
| Samika | Swamy | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Water Wise: An eco-friendly, low cost system to remove and monitor heavy metal contamination in aqueous wastes (Physical Science and Engineering) | 8 | |||
| Sonia | Swamy | Nominated to compete envelope, Broadcom MASTERS - 6th Grade | AlgalPlast- Sustainable Bioplastic from Algae and its Effect on Tensile Strength, Water Resistance, and Compostability (Physical Science and Engineering) | 6 | |||
| 1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Certificate of Achievement, NASA Earth System Science Award | |||||||
| Youssef | Ismail (mentor) | Diptanshu | Sikdar | Honorable Mention Certificate + a signed book + breakfast with Bob Zeidman, Zeidman Award | Energy Harvesting Utilizing a Wind Driven Triboelectric Generator (Physical Science and Engineering) | 8 | |
| Nominated to compete envelope, Broadcom MASTERS - 8th Grade | |||||||
| 1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| IEEE Electro-Technology $50 gift card and a certificate, Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers | |||||||
| Challenger-Middlefield-Palo Alto | Caren | Furtado | Prithi Anjana | SRINIVASAN | 2nd place MS student - $50 and Certificate of Achievement, American Vacuum Society, Northern CA | A Novel Approach to ReducingWater Salinity in Natural Disaster Scenarios (Physical Science and Engineering) | 8 |
| Keshiv Shaan | Tandon | 2nd Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | How the Weight or Speed of an RC Car Affects the Electricity Produced Using a Thermoelectric Strip (Physical Science and Engineering) | 8 | |||
| Challenger-Strawberry Park-SJ | Heather | Mackewicz | Arhana | Aatresh | Nominated to compete envelope, Broadcom MASTERS - 7th Grade | Up, Up and Away: the effect of substrate type, substrate temperature, and load on hover engines on hovering efficiency (Physical Science and Engineering) | 7 |
| 1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Middle School Student - Certificate of Achievement and Medallion, United States Navy and Marine Corps | |||||||
| Ram | Gorthi | Honorable Mention Student Award: $40 and Certificate of Achievement, Association for Computing Machinery, San Francisco Bay Area Professional Chapter | Brain Drive (Physical Science and Engineering) | 8 | |||
| 2nd Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Pareekshith Hosalli | Krishna | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Natural Roof-Cooling Technology Blocking Excessive Heat from the Sun Using Low-Cost Shading (Physical Science and Engineering) | 7 | |||
| Sanjana | Manikandan | Middle School Finalist Certificate & Amazon.com gift certificate, Synopsys Outreach Foundation n+1 Prize | Renewable Energy Harvester: A Hybrid Piezoelectric - Photovoltaic Roof Tile Suitable for Various Weather (Physical Science and Engineering) | 7 | |||
| 2nd Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Certificate of Achievement, American Meteorological Society | |||||||
| Eshan | Rachapudi | Nominated to compete envelope, Broadcom MASTERS - 6th Grade | Plant Water Conservation (Physical Science and Engineering) | 6 | |||
| 1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Arya Shriya | Srivastava | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | An Eco-Friendly Solution Using Azadirachta indica To Reduce Toxic pH Levels and Tannic Acid Chemicals in Water (Physical Science and Engineering) | 7 | |||
| Certificate of Achievement, NASA Earth System Science Award | |||||||
| Pujita | Tangirala | Nominated to compete envelope, Broadcom MASTERS - 8th Grade | A Green, Low-Cost Solution for the Removal and Recovery of Dye from Industrial Wastewater (Physical Science and Engineering) | 8 | |||
| 1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| 1st Place Award - $500 and Framed Certificate of Achievement, American Chemical Society, Silicon Valley, SVACS | |||||||
| Champion School (K-9) | Muna | Khanna | Parth Nimish | Hathalia | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Mapping And Geo-fencing Platform (Physical Science and Engineering) | 7 |
| Ananya Venkata | Jilla | 2nd Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Debate Detective (Physical Science and Engineering) | 6 | |||
| Abhineet I. | Pal | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Real-Time Indoor Air Quality Monitor (Physical Science and Engineering) | 7 | |||
| Oviya | Seeniraj | Grand Prize Student Award, Outstanding Young Woman in Computing: $320 and Certificate of Achievement, Association for Computing Machinery, San Francisco Bay Area Professional Chapter | Homework Admin (Physical Science and Engineering) | 8 | |||
| Honorable Mention Student Award: $40 and Certificate of Achievement, Association for Computing Machinery, San Francisco Bay Area Professional Chapter | |||||||
| 2nd Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Sangyani | Sinha | Nominated to compete envelope, Broadcom MASTERS - 6th Grade | CYAN: Clean Your Air Now: An Indoor Air Pollution Control System (Physical Science and Engineering) | 6 | |||
| 1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Connecting Waters Charter School, Modesto | Fayaz | Syed (PSP) | Adeeb | Syed | Honorable Mention - Certificate of Achievement, American Society of Civil Engineers- San Jose Branch | Which truss bridge will support the most weight? (Physical Science and Engineering) | 7 |
| Delphi Academy-Campbell | Manpreet | Kaur | Samik | Pattanayak | 2nd Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | Does Screen Time before Bedtime Impinge on the Quality of Sleep? (Biological Science and Engineering) | 6 |
| Gideon Hausner Jewish Day School | Liat | Baranoff | Tate Jett | Bregman | $50 Cash Award to student, Certificate of Achievement, and Letter, Al Foster Award | Termite farts to electricity (Physical Science and Engineering) | 6 |
| Ari S | Katsav | $50 Cash Award to student, Certificate of Achievement, and Letter, Al Foster Award | Termite farts to electricity (Physical Science and Engineering) | 6 | |||
| Ari Jack | Strober | $50 Cash Award to student, Certificate of Achievement, and Letter, Al Foster Award | Termite farts to electricity (Physical Science and Engineering) | 6 | |||
| Girls Middle School | Alicia | Dantzker | Aditi Mittal | Jain | 2nd Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | L.A.S.E.R (Light Aided Sugar EstimatoR) (Physical Science and Engineering) | 7 |
| Granada Islamic School | Yasmine | Abusaif | Najia Muhiedine | Maaz | 1st place - $150 and Certificate of Achievement, American Society of Civil Engineers- San Jose Branch | Best type of soil to build small structures on (Physical Science and Engineering) | 7 |
| Certificate of Excellence from National Association of Women Geoscientists, Association for Women Geoscientists, San Francisco Bay Area Chapter | |||||||
| Rayyan Tawseef | Talukdar | Nominated to compete envelope, Broadcom MASTERS - 7th Grade | Bamboo to use: Making it 100% Biodegradable (Physical Science and Engineering) | 7 | |||
| 1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Honorable Mention - Framed Certificate of Achievement and Popular Science Magazine, SAMPE - Society for the Advancement of Material and Process Engineering | |||||||
| Farhana | Afroz | Nasrin Yassin | Indris | Honorable Mention - Certificate of Achievement, American Society of Civil Engineers- San Jose Branch | The Helpful Homeless Housing Project (Physical Science and Engineering) | 8 | |
| Ahmad | Ismail | Isabelle Stone Award for Best Biological Science Projects - Trip to State Science Fair and Certificate, Santa Clara Valley Science & Engineering Fair Assn - Board of Directors Awards - Middle School | Effect of Combination Antifungal Therapy on the Treatment of Candidiasis (Biological Science and Engineering) | 8 | |||
| Nominated to compete envelope, Broadcom MASTERS - 8th Grade | |||||||
| 1st Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Haadiyah | Razzack | Iffat | Alamgir | Nominated to compete envelope, Broadcom MASTERS - 6th Grade | Effect of Nanosilver in Consumer Products on Pond Life (Biological Science and Engineering) | 6 | |
| 1st Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Middle School Student - Certificate of Achievement and Medallion, United States Navy and Marine Corps | |||||||
| Fatimah | Ismail | Isabelle Stone Award for Best Biological Science Projects - Trip to State Science Fair and Certificate, Santa Clara Valley Science & Engineering Fair Assn - Board of Directors Awards - Middle School | Developing an Artificial Pancreas to Deal with Diabetes (Biological Science and Engineering) | 6 | |||
| Nominated to compete envelope, Broadcom MASTERS - 6th Grade | |||||||
| 1st Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Middle School Student - Certificate of Achievement and Medallion, United States Navy and Marine Corps | |||||||
| Harker School-Middle Campus | Shanthi | Adimoolam (Mentor) | Nidhya | Shivakumar | Nominated to compete envelope, Broadcom MASTERS - 7th Grade | SPOILER ALERT! An Arduino Sensor-Based Approach to Detecting Food Spoilage (Biological Science and Engineering) | 7 |
| 1st Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Thomas | Artiss | Zachary Spencer | Clark | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | What is the effect of high temperatures on the strength of Neodymium magnets and Samarium-Cobalt Magnets? (Physical Science and Engineering) | 8 | |
| Honorable Mention Award - Popular Science Magazine Subscription and Framed Certificate of Achievement, ASM International, A Society for Materials, Santa Clara Valley Chapter | |||||||
| Syna Sushrut | Gogte | 2nd Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | Bioremediation of Oil Spills Using Green Algaes, Chlorella, Ulothrix, and Scenedesmus (Biological Science and Engineering) | 8 | |||
| Kate Y-Lan | Olsen | 2nd Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | Bioremediation of Oil Spills Using Green Algaes, Chlorella, Ulothrix, and Scenedesmus (Biological Science and Engineering) | 8 | |||
| Brandon Minjoon | Park | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | What is the effect of high temperatures on the strength of Neodymium magnets and Samarium-Cobalt Magnets? (Physical Science and Engineering) | 8 | |||
| Honorable Mention Award - Popular Science Magazine Subscription and Framed Certificate of Achievement, ASM International, A Society for Materials, Santa Clara Valley Chapter | |||||||
| Jingshu | Guo (PSP) | William Yang | Zhang | $ 250 to the winning student or team in middle school Physical Science, Synopsys Outreach Foundation n+1 Prize | An Inexpensive and Convenient Way of Making Millions of Existing Old-style Sprinkler Control Systems Conserve Water (Physical Science and Engineering) | 6 | |
| Middle School Finalist Certificate & Amazon.com gift certificate, Synopsys Outreach Foundation n+1 Prize | |||||||
| Kristen | Morgensen | Alice | Feng | Nominated to compete envelope, Broadcom MASTERS - 8th Grade | The effect of nutrients, substrates, and mushroom types on the properties of a novel biodegradable material: mycelium (Physical Science and Engineering) | 8 | |
| 1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Angela | Gao | Honorable Mention, Biological Science and Engineering Category | Bacteria Growth in Different Types of Baby Formulae (Biological Science and Engineering) | 8 | |||
| Angela | Jia | Honorable Mention, Biological Science and Engineering Category | Bacteria Growth in Different Types of Baby Formulae (Biological Science and Engineering) | 8 | |||
| Aaron | Lo | Honorable Mention, Biological Science and Engineering Category | Testing Different Ways on the Growth of a Green Algae Mixture to Eliminate Blue-Green Cyanobacteria in the Effective Way (Biological Science and Engineering) | 8 | |||
| Anishka | Raina | Middle School-Cash Award-$50 and letter of recognition, Northern California Institute of Food Technologists (NCIFT) | The Effects of Different Combinations of Natural Food Preservatives on The Growth of E. coli and Bacillus Subtilis (Biological Science and Engineering) | 8 | |||
| Riyaa K | Randhawa | Certificate of Achievement, American Psychological Association | Fidget Spinners: Focusing Agents or Major Distractions (Biological Science and Engineering) | 8 | |||
| Liza Andrea | Shchegrov | Certificate of Achievement, American Psychological Association | Fidget Spinners: Focusing Agents or Major Distractions (Biological Science and Engineering) | 8 | |||
| Arely | Sun | Nominated to compete envelope, Broadcom MASTERS - 8th Grade | The effect of nutrients, substrates, and mushroom types on the properties of a novel biodegradable material: mycelium (Physical Science and Engineering) | 8 | |||
| 1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Zeel | Thakkar | Honorable Mention, Biological Science and Engineering Category | The Effects of Using Hand-Written Versus Digital Flashcards on Memorization Skills (Biological Science and Engineering) | 8 | |||
| Nicole | Tian | Honorable Mention, Biological Science and Engineering Category | Testing Different Ways on the Growth of a Green Algae Mixture to Eliminate Blue-Green Cyanobacteria in the Effective Way (Biological Science and Engineering) | 8 | |||
| Thresiamma Jijen | Vazhaeparambil | Middle School-Cash Award-$50 and letter of recognition, Northern California Institute of Food Technologists (NCIFT) | The Effects of Different Combinations of Natural Food Preservatives on The Growth of E. coli and Bacillus Subtilis (Biological Science and Engineering) | 8 | |||
| Melody | Yazdi | Honorable Mention, Biological Science and Engineering Category | The Effects of Using Hand-Written Versus Digital Flashcards on Memorization Skills (Biological Science and Engineering) | 8 | |||
| Kathy | Peng | Akhilesh | Chegu | Nominated to compete envelope, Broadcom MASTERS - 8th Grade | The Effect of Interrupted Sleep on Life Expectancy, Cognitive Behavior, and Neurophysiology in Drosophila melanogaster (Biological Science and Engineering) | 8 | |
| 1st Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| 1st Place Award - $125 and Certificate of Achievement, American Association for Laboratory Animal Science, Northern California Branch | |||||||
| Harsh | Deep | 2nd Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | The Effect of T4 Bacteriophages on Antibiotic Resistant Strains of E-coli. (Biological Science and Engineering) | 8 | |||
| Shounak | Ghosh | 2nd Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | The Effect of T4 Bacteriophages on Antibiotic Resistant Strains of E-coli. (Biological Science and Engineering) | 8 | |||
| Pranav | Gupta | 2nd Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | What is the effect of UV light on a Uroctonus Mordax scorpion's ability to find cover? (Biological Science and Engineering) | 8 | |||
| Prakrit | Jain | 2nd Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | What is the effect of UV light on a Uroctonus Mordax scorpion's ability to find cover? (Biological Science and Engineering) | 8 | |||
| Rishi | Jain | 2nd Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | The effects of environmental factors in biodegrading polystyrene foam through mealworm consumption (Biological Science and Engineering) | 8 | |||
| Ishaan | Mantripragada | 2nd Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | The effects of environmental factors in biodegrading polystyrene foam through mealworm consumption (Biological Science and Engineering) | 8 | |||
| Deven Chawla | Shah | Nominated to compete envelope, Broadcom MASTERS - 8th Grade | The Effect of Interrupted Sleep on Life Expectancy, Cognitive Behavior, and Neurophysiology in Drosophila melanogaster (Biological Science and Engineering) | 8 | |||
| 1st Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| 1st Place Award - $125 and Certificate of Achievement, American Association for Laboratory Animal Science, Northern California Branch | |||||||
| Bhimaraju | Prasad (PSP) | Sriram Venugopal | Bhimaraju | $125 + certificate + a signed book + breakfast with Bob Zeidman, Zeidman Award | Low-Cost Archery Assistant with an Interface for the Visually Impaired (Physical Science and Engineering) | 6 | |
| Nominated to compete envelope, Broadcom MASTERS - 6th Grade | |||||||
| 1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| IEEE Electro-Technology $50 gift card and a certificate, Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers | |||||||
| Harker School-Upper Campus | Miriam | Allersma | Allison Sihan | Jia | $100 First Prize, Morgan Lewis | A System with Functional Quantum Dot Labeled Tau and a Microfluidic Chamber for a Dynamic Study of Taupathologies (RRI Biological Science and Engineering) | 10 |
| 2nd Award, RRI Biological Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Martin | Baynes | Ankita | Kundu | $100 First Place, Certificate of Achievement, and Letter, Inez M. Lechner Award | Converting Passive Kinetic Energy into Electrical Energy to Charge Electronic Devices (Physical Science and Engineering) | 9 | |
| Keval Amish | Shah | Honorable Mention, Biological Science and Engineering Category | FundusX: A Machine Learning Model for Disease Diagnosis in Fundus Images (Biological Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| Johnny Young | Wang | High School Finalist Certficate & Amazon.com gift certficate, Synopsys Outreach Foundation n+1 Prize | Flexible Capacitive Graphene-Based Touch Sensor with macOS Application (Physical Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| Honorable Mention: Framed Certificate of Achievement,, Society of Vacuum Coaters (SVC) | |||||||
| 1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Lizhi | Yang | High School Finalist Certficate & Amazon.com gift certficate, Synopsys Outreach Foundation n+1 Prize | Flexible Capacitive Graphene-Based Touch Sensor with macOS Application (Physical Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| Honorable Mention: Framed Certificate of Achievement,, Society of Vacuum Coaters (SVC) | |||||||
| 1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Gary | Blickenstaff | Sahil | Jain | ASEI Silicon Valley Emerging Technology Certificate of Achievement Award and Membership to American Society of Engineers of Indian Origin, American Society of Engineers of Indian Origin Award | Stem Cell Engineering and Immunofluorescence Quantification of GABAergic and Glutamatergic Neurons (RRI Biological Science and Engineering) | 10 | |
| Krish Brij | Kapadia | Grand Prize - Best of Championship - Biological Sciences - Trip to Intel ISEF and Certificate, Santa Clara Valley Science & Engineering Fair Assn - Board of Directors Awards - High School | Salivary Proteins: Novel Biomarkers in Traumatic Brain Injury (RRI Biological Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| 1st Award, RRI Biological Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Eileen | Li | Honorable Mention, Biological Science and Engineering Category | A Deep Learning Approach for Early Detection of Lung Cancer (Biological Science and Engineering) | 10 | |||
| Ayush Magan | Pancholy | Honorable Mention, Biological Science and Engineering Category | Detection of Skin Cancers with a Machine Learning Model (Biological Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| Anjay | Saklecha | Grand Prize - Best of Championship - Biological Sciences - Trip to Intel ISEF and Certificate, Santa Clara Valley Science & Engineering Fair Assn - Board of Directors Awards - High School | Salivary Proteins: Novel Biomarkers in Traumatic Brain Injury (RRI Biological Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| 1st Award, RRI Biological Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Sidra Yang | Xu | 2nd Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | Designing a Machine Learning Based Decision-Making Application to Predict the Surgical Mortality of Lung Cancer Patients (Biological Science and Engineering) | 9 | |||
| Russell Anthony | Yang | 2nd Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | Designing a Machine Learning Based Decision-Making Application to Predict the Surgical Mortality of Lung Cancer Patients (Biological Science and Engineering) | 9 | |||
| David | Casso | Shreya | Dasari | Honorable Mention, RRI Biological Science and Engineering Category | Comprehensive Identification and Quantification of Mouse Lung Alveolar Epithelial Cell Subtypes (RRI Biological Science and Engineering) | 11 | |
| Ruhi | Sayana | Grand Prize - Best of Championship - Biological Sciences - Trip to Intel ISEF and Certificate, Santa Clara Valley Science & Engineering Fair Assn - Board of Directors Awards - High School | A Precision Medicine Approach: Epigenetic Inhibitors Induce Highly-Specific Apoptosis in High Risk Acute Leukemia (RRI Biological Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| $100 First Prize, Morgan Lewis | |||||||
| 1st Award, RRI Biological Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Youssef | Ismail (mentor) | Anika | Fuloria | IEEE Electro-Technology $50 gift card and a certificate, Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers | A novel, low-cost approach to reduce motorcycle accidents using ultrasound technology (RRI Physical Science and Engineering) | 9 | |
| Eric | Nelson | Ayush | Alag | 1st Award, RRI Biological Science and Engineering Category | Epigenetic Biomarkers for Diagnosing Food Allergy: A Deep Learning Approach (RRI Biological Science and Engineering) | 11 | |
| Cynthia | Chen | 1st Award, RRI Biological Science and Engineering Category | Type 2 Diabetes Prediction Using Longitudinal Machine Learning Analyses and Integrative Personal Omics Profiling (RRI Biological Science and Engineering) | 10 | |||
| Cameron Cole | Jones | Grand Prize - Best of Championship - Physical Sciences - Trip to Intel ISEF and Certificate, Santa Clara Valley Science & Engineering Fair Assn - Board of Directors Awards - High School | Automated Identification of Organic Molecular Structure and Relative Concentrations from Infrared Spectral Data (RRI Physical Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| Honorable Mention Student Award: $50 and Certificate of Achievement, Association for Computing Machinery, San Francisco Bay Area Professional Chapter | |||||||
| 1st Award, RRI Physical Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Kaushik | Shivakumar | Intel ECS Certificate of Achievement and Forms to Submit for $200, Intel Excellence in Computer Science Award | A Weak Supervision Machine Learning Approach to Classification Using an XGBoost Model (RRI Physical Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| Katherine Feifei | Zhang | Grand Prize Alternate - Biological Sciences - Trip to State Science Fair and Certificate, Santa Clara Valley Science & Engineering Fair Assn - Board of Directors Awards - High School | Deep Learning Analysis of Human Gut Microbiome Metagenomic Data with Applications in Geolocation and Disease Prediction (RRI Biological Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| 1st Award, RRI Biological Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Chris | Spenner | Amy | Dunphy | 2nd Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Using Biopolymers to Reduce Heavy Metal Soil Pollution (Physical Science and Engineering) | 12 | |
| Swapnil | Garg | 1st Award, RRI Biological Science and Engineering Category | Automated Clear Cell Renal Carcinoma Grade Classification with Prognostic Significance (RRI Biological Science and Engineering) | 12 | |||
| Michael | Kwan | ASEI Silicon Valley Emerging Technology Certificate of Achievement Award and Membership to American Society of Engineers of Indian Origin, American Society of Engineers of Indian Origin Award | Aiding the Aid: Early Clinical Diagnosis of Electronic Health Records Through Text Classification (RRI Biological Science and Engineering) | 12 | |||
| Rajiv | Movva | 2nd Award, RRI Biological Science and Engineering Category | SNPpet: Deep Learning the Human Epigenome Reveals Regulatory Sequence Patterns and Genomic Mechanisms of Disease (RRI Biological Science and Engineering) | 12 | |||
| Katherine | Tian | 1st Award, RRI Biological Science and Engineering Category | Automated Clear Cell Renal Carcinoma Grade Classification with Prognostic Significance (RRI Biological Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| Justin Long | Xie | Honorable Mention, RRI Physical Science and Engineering Category | A New Light: Type Ia Supernovae Mechanism Identification Through Spectral Analysis and Comparison to Theoretical Models (RRI Physical Science and Engineering) | 12 | |||
| Rich | Williams (mentor) | Arnav Sameer | Joshi | 2nd Award, RRI Physical Science and Engineering Category | Predicting asthmatic risk and asthma related hospital visits using a novel machine learning solution (RRI Physical Science and Engineering) | 10 | |
| Homeschool - Thinking Minds Academy | Ibrahim | Kazi (PSP) | Aisha Ibrahim | Kazi | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | A Better Brick - Designing a home to be shipped in a box for under $500 (Physical Science and Engineering) | 7 |
| Khan Lab School | Denise | Gurer | Nikhil | Gargeya | 1st Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | Characterizing North Atlantic Whale Calls Using Acoustic Data (Biological Science and Engineering) | 9 |
| Certificate of Achievement, NOAA Medallion, and letter, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration | |||||||
| Merryhill Schools -Milpitas | Kanchan | Bhandare | Terry | Hsu | Nominated to compete envelope, Broadcom MASTERS - 6th Grade | Flip It Around (Physical Science and Engineering) | 6 |
| 1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Anika P | Kulkarni | Certificate of Achievement, American Meteorological Society | What's Up With the Weather Nowadays? (Physical Science and Engineering) | 6 | |||
| Tvisha | Nepani | 2nd Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Crude Awakening - The Spoils of Oil (Physical Science and Engineering) | 6 | |||
| Harsha Rohan | Rajkumar | Middle School Finalist Certificate & Amazon.com gift certificate, Synopsys Outreach Foundation n+1 Prize | Glaze The Glaciers (Physical Science and Engineering) | 7 | |||
| Nominated to compete envelope, Broadcom MASTERS - 7th Grade | |||||||
| 1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Saloni Himanshu | Shah | 2nd Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Crude Awakening - The Spoils of Oil (Physical Science and Engineering) | 6 | |||
| Milpitas Christian School (6-8) | Eric | Cho | Isabelle Unhae | Cho | Honorable Mention, Biological Science and Engineering Category | The effect of storage temperature variations on the glucose content of fruits (Biological Science and Engineering) | 6 |
| Himani | Manjunath | Honorable Mention, Biological Science and Engineering Category | The effect of storage temperature variations on the glucose content of fruits (Biological Science and Engineering) | 6 | |||
| Lindon | Richards | Charlize | Nishitoyo | 2nd Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | Seed Size vs. Growth Rates in Beans (Biological Science and Engineering) | 7 | |
| Notre Dame High School | Christine | Koltermann | Shreya | Garg | 2nd Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | Testing the Antimicrobial Properties of Green Cellulose-Mediated Silver Nanoparticles (Biological Science and Engineering) | 10 |
| Atreyi Leela | Mukherjee | 2nd Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | Can ultrasound alone be used to reduce the viability of E. coli in milk better than pasteurization? (Biological Science and Engineering) | 9 | |||
| Certificate and $100 check, and Compete for $1000 Outstanding Young Scientist Award, California Association of Professional Scientists (CAPS) | |||||||
| High School-Cash Award-$50 and letter of recognition, Northern California Institute of Food Technologists (NCIFT) | |||||||
| Honorable Mention: Certificate of Achievement, and Goody Bag, Association for Women in Science, Palo Alto Chapter | |||||||
| Kami Elise | Richardson | A certificate, chance to apply to the Genius Olympiad, NY, Genius Olympiad-State University of New York, Oswego | Water Body Mapping: Water Quality and Fluid Dynamics In Relation to Freshwater Mussel Absorption Rate and Development of (Physical Science and Engineering) | 10 | |||
| Lee | Pruett | Sophia Ayame Fujieda | Barwegen | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Various Particulate Matter Effects on Ice Melting Rates (Physical Science and Engineering) | 11 | |
| Student Award in Geoscience Excellence from Association for Women Geoscientists Bay Area Chapter, $40, Association for Women Geoscientists, San Francisco Bay Area Chapter | |||||||
| Oakwood High School | Sean | Wilmot | Jashan | Pabla | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Virtual Vision (Physical Science and Engineering) | 10 |
| Ashwin | Viswesvaran | 2nd Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Analyzing 2D-CNN's ability to learn obstacle avoidance in self-driving applications. (Physical Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| Oakwood School | Nisanti | Wilmot | Ayana Rose | Wilmot | Isabelle Stone Award for Best Biological Science Projects - Trip to State Science Fair and Certificate, Santa Clara Valley Science & Engineering Fair Assn - Board of Directors Awards - Middle School | Factors Affecting the Rate of Photosynthesis of California Lichens (Biological Science and Engineering) | 7 |
| Nominated to compete envelope, Broadcom MASTERS - 7th Grade | |||||||
| 1st Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| $100 Middle School Plant Science, California Botanical Society | |||||||
| Sean | Wilmot | Danya Simran | Balagopal | 2nd Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Constructing a sustainable, low-cost herbal biosorbent filter to remove heavy metals from contaminated groundwater (Physical Science and Engineering) | 8 | |
| Certificate of Achievement, NASA Earth System Science Award | |||||||
| Old Orchard School | Tim | Ainoa | Faye | Neighbors | GR 6-8, 2nd Place: $150 and Framed Certificate of Achievement, Society of Vacuum Coaters (SVC) | Effect of an Optically Active Substance on Polarized Light (Physical Science and Engineering) | 8 |
| Jaimee | Burch | Olivia Da Silva | Wahl | 2nd Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | Cleaning water on a dime:Which method of purifying water is cheap, quick, easy to use and reduces the most contaminants? (Biological Science and Engineering) | 7 | |
| Pinewood High School (7-12) | Haggai | Mark | Srinivas Brinda | Balagopal | 1st Award, RRI Physical Science and Engineering Category | Evaluating the Impact of Nonlinear Regression on Air Pollutant Forecasts to Recalibrate AQI in a San Jose Microclimate (RRI Physical Science and Engineering) | 10 |
| Presentation High School | Tracy | Hughes | Caitlin Maya | Gorin | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | A Testing Device to Determine Which Type of 3D Printed Plastic is the Strongest in Terms of Compression and Flexure (Physical Science and Engineering) | 9 |
| 2nd Place - $75, Framed Certificate of Achievement, and Popular Science Magazine Subscription, SAMPE - Society for the Advancement of Material and Process Engineering | |||||||
| Shloka | Janapaty | 1st Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | Addressing the Plastic Binge: A Study of Low-Density Polyethylene Degradation using Mycoremediation of Landfill Leachate (Biological Science and Engineering) | 10 | |||
| Nikitha Venkatesh | Kalahasti | Certificate of Achievement, NOAA Medallion, and letter, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration | The Comparative Effects of Nitrogen Fixing Cyanobacterium on Nutrient Levels in the Presence of Agricultural Runoff (Physical Science and Engineering) | 10 | |||
| Shannon B | Miranda | Certificate of Achievement and letter, Ricoh Corporation | An Environmentally Friendly Method to Permanently Sequester Carbon Dioxide (Physical Science and Engineering) | 10 | |||
| Certificate of Achievement and opportunity to advance to national and international competitions, Stockholm Junior Water Prize | |||||||
| Certificate of Achievement, NASA Earth System Science Award | |||||||
| Anjali | Sinha | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Think Beach: Integrating Robotics and Deep Learning for Coastal Cleanup (Physical Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| Alyssa | Ungerer | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Think Beach: Integrating Robotics and Deep Learning for Coastal Cleanup (Physical Science and Engineering) | 12 | |||
| Sacred Heart Middle School | Susan | Greathouse | David Wynne | Kipp | 3rd place MS student - $25 and Certificate of Achievement, American Vacuum Society, Northern CA | The Frisbees fly (Physical Science and Engineering) | 7 |
| Saint Christopher School | Joey | Colucci | Joseph Philip | Thomas | Castro Family Award for Best Physical Science Projects - Trip to State Science Fair and Certificate, Santa Clara Valley Science & Engineering Fair Assn - Board of Directors Awards - Middle School | A Decision Tree Based Approach to Determining NBA Rookie Potential (Physical Science and Engineering) | 7 |
| 3rd Place Student Award: $100 and Certificate of Achievement, Association for Computing Machinery, San Francisco Bay Area Professional Chapter | |||||||
| Nominated to compete envelope, Broadcom MASTERS - 7th Grade | |||||||
| 1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Saint Francis High School | Chihiro | Ikezi | Ananya | Karthik | Grand Prize Alternate - Physical Sciences - Trip to State Science Fair and Certificate, Santa Clara Valley Science & Engineering Fair Assn - Board of Directors Awards - High School | Developing Phase-change Nanoparticles for Focused Ultrasound Induced Targeted Neuromodulatory Drug Release (RRI Physical Science and Engineering) | 11 |
| $100 First Prize, Morgan Lewis | |||||||
| 1st Award, RRI Physical Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Robert | Lautenslager | Adishree | Ghatare | $50 and Certificate of Achievement, Kerry Veenstra Awards | Detection of Fake News Using Machine Learning Algorithms (Physical Science and Engineering) | 10 | |
| ASEI Silicon Valley Emerging Technology Certificate of Achievement Award and Membership to American Society of Engineers of Indian Origin, American Society of Engineers of Indian Origin Award | |||||||
| IEEE Electro-Technology $50 gift card and a certificate, Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers | |||||||
| Intel ECS Certificate of Achievement and Forms to Submit for $200, Intel Excellence in Computer Science Award | |||||||
| Daniel | Meyer | Kaushik Sai | Tota | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Effect of Anode Metal Type on Voltage and Current in a Portable Metal Air Fuel Cell (Physical Science and Engineering) | 9 | |
| Certificate of Achievement and letter, Ricoh Corporation | |||||||
| Chris | Spenner | Tarun | Amarnath | ASEI Silicon Valley Emerging Technology Certificate of Achievement Award and Membership to American Society of Engineers of Indian Origin, American Society of Engineers of Indian Origin Award | Aiding the Aid: Early Clinical Diagnosis of Electronic Health Records Through Text Classification (RRI Biological Science and Engineering) | 11 | |
| Larry | Steinke | Shivam | Singhal | Grand Prize Alternate - Biological Sciences - Trip to State Science Fair and Certificate, Santa Clara Valley Science & Engineering Fair Assn - Board of Directors Awards - High School | iDetect: A Machine Learning Algorithm for Non-Invasive Cancer Diagnosis through Epigenetic Biomarker Identification (Biological Science and Engineering) | 11 | |
| $100 First Prize, Morgan Lewis | |||||||
| 1st Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Saint Joseph of Cupertino School | Lisa | Wicht | Joy | Barsoum | 2nd Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Portable and Light Origami Booster for People Requiring Adjustments in Seating (Physical Science and Engineering) | 8 |
| Colin | Pereira | 3rd place - $50 and Certificate of Achievement, American Society of Civil Engineers- San Jose Branch | Suspension Bridges in Earthquakes (Physical Science and Engineering) | 8 | |||
| Stanford Online High School | Kim | Failor | Gaeun | Kim | 1st Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | Prediction of Chemotherapeutic Drug Efficacy Based on Hallmark Evolution Patterns of Cancer Cell Genomes (Biological Science and Engineering) | 12 |
| Alex | McKale | Andrew C. | Chiang | Honorable Mention Student Award: $50 and Certificate of Achievement, Association for Computing Machinery, San Francisco Bay Area Professional Chapter | Automatic Basketball Shooting Trajectory Analysis (Physical Science and Engineering) | 9 | |
| 1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| $50 cash award and certificate, Bruce Kawanami Engineering Award | |||||||
| Stratford Middle School - Milpitas | Tatiana | Braun | Kunal | Jain | Honorable Mention Student Award: $40 and Certificate of Achievement, Association for Computing Machinery, San Francisco Bay Area Professional Chapter | Earthquake Detection System (Physical Science and Engineering) | 7 |
| 2nd Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Meghaa | Ravichandran | Honorable Mention, Biological Science and Engineering Category | What is the effect of the Mass of Oil spill on oxygen production of Anacharis? (Biological Science and Engineering) | 7 | |||
| Stratford Middle School - San Jose | Bradley | Behrens | Allison | Bang | 1st Place Award - $100, Popular Science Magazine Subscription, Framed Certificate of Achievement, ASM International, A Society for Materials, Santa Clara Valley Chapter | Polymer Structure and Susceptibility to UV Degradation (Physical Science and Engineering) | 7 |
| Aarush | Krishnan | 2nd Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Factors that Affect the Current Produced by Wind Turbines (Physical Science and Engineering) | 7 | |||
| Kavya Manasa | Pandrangi | Nominated to compete envelope, Broadcom MASTERS - 7th Grade | Artificial Pancreas System with Feedback Mechanism for Diabetics (Biological Science and Engineering) | 7 | |||
| 1st Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Middle School Student - Certificate of Achievement and Medallion, United States Navy and Marine Corps | |||||||
| Kristi | Chung | Anousha Anand | Athreya | Honorable Mention: Certificate of Achievement, Society of Vacuum Coaters (SVC) | The Effect of Sunlight and Rain on Low-Cost Graphene Solar Cell Efficiency (Physical Science and Engineering) | 8 | |
| Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Nilansh Dey | Ghosh | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Developing an efficient and portable water still for emergency situations or remote communities (Physical Science and Engineering) | 6 | |||
| Camilla Jasmine | Lindh | 2nd Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Cost Effective Solar Multi-Purpose Water Filter (Physical Science and Engineering) | 8 | |||
| Neel | Sudhakaran | 2nd Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | What is the Effect of Oregano Oil on Bacteria (Biological Science and Engineering) | 6 | |||
| Alice | Tsioutsioulikli | 2nd Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Clean Up Oil Spills with Ferrofluid (Physical Science and Engineering) | 7 | |||
| Jeffrey | Takemoto | Ishaan | Agrawal | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Convenient 2-Factor Authentication for Smartphones (Physical Science and Engineering) | 7 | |
| Adarsh Sairam | Ambati | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Artificial Intelligence (AI) based network security virtual appliance for residential usage. (Physical Science and Engineering) | 8 | |||
| Jennifer Ann | Dick-Peddie | Nominated to compete envelope, Broadcom MASTERS - 6th Grade | The Effect of an Object's Velocity, Size, and Mass on the Diameter and Depth Of Its Impact Crater (Physical Science and Engineering) | 6 | |||
| 1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Vedant V. | Janapaty | Nominated to compete envelope, Broadcom MASTERS - 6th Grade | Redirecting Water to the Roots: An Effective Way to Increase Water Absorbency (Biological Science and Engineering) | 6 | |||
| 1st Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Justin | Kim | Honorable Mention: Certificate of Achievement, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) Intelligent Systems Award | The effect of the raked wingtip on flight distance (Physical Science and Engineering) | 6 | |||
| Stanley | Shen | 2nd Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | More Efficient Hearing Protection (Physical Science and Engineering) | 7 | |||
| Stratford Middle School - Sunnyvale | Paul | Casareno | Sanika | Iyer | 3rd Place - $50, Framed Certificate of Achievement, and Popular Science Magazine, SAMPE - Society for the Advancement of Material and Process Engineering | The Shear Strength of Velcro (Physical Science and Engineering) | 6 |
| Natraj | Narayanswami | Mahit Vishnusai | Tanikella | Nominated to compete envelope, Broadcom MASTERS - 8th Grade | Autism Spectrum Disorder Screening Using Machine Learning (Physical Science and Engineering) | 8 | |
| 1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Kevin | Seago | Rohan | Chopra | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Hydropower! How Water Height Affects Electricity Production (Physical Science and Engineering) | 6 | |
| Aadit Gautam | Golwala | 2nd Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Bioplastics: which one is the strongest? (Physical Science and Engineering) | 6 | |||
| 1st Place - $100, Framed Certificate of Achievement, and Popular Science Magazine Subscription, SAMPE - Society for the Advancement of Material and Process Engineering | |||||||
| Sritej | Ponna | Middle School Finalist Certificate & Amazon.com gift certificate, Synopsys Outreach Foundation n+1 Prize | Soil Desalination (Physical Science and Engineering) | 7 | |||
| Nidhi | Prakash | Honorable Mention - Certificate of Achievement, American Society of Civil Engineers- San Jose Branch | Preventing Earthquake Damage, Testing Building Braces (Physical Science and Engineering) | 6 | |||
| Preethi | Sundaresakumar | Rohan | Bansal | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | The Effect of a Windmill's Blade Design on Rotations per Minute (Physical Science and Engineering) | 7 | |
| Adarsh | Gupta | Certificate of Achievement, NOAA Medallion, and letter, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration | Investigating the Cellular Mechanisms (deformities and sterility) of Alzheimer's Desease using C. elegans (Biological Science and Engineering) | 7 | |||
| Dhwani | Kharidia | 2nd Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Best Shock Absorbing Shoe Sole Material (Physical Science and Engineering) | 7 | |||
| Leyla Mathilde | Murgia | GR 6-8, 1st Place: $200 and Framed Certificate of Achievement, Society of Vacuum Coaters (SVC) | Solar Panel Tree: effect of the shape of solar panels on the efficiency of collecting energy (Physical Science and Engineering) | 7 | |||
| Arhan Rashmi | Rout | Nominated to compete envelope, Broadcom MASTERS - 8th Grade | Using Adjuvants to Amplify the Effect of Organic Herbicides to Kill Undesired Plants (Biological Science and Engineering) | 8 | |||
| 1st Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Aylin Gela | Salahifar | Nominated to compete envelope, Broadcom MASTERS - 8th Grade | Using Adjuvants to Amplify the Effect of Organic Herbicides to Kill Undesired Plants (Biological Science and Engineering) | 8 | |||
| 1st Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Rohan | Sinha | 2nd Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | Glaucoma Eye Drop Medication Monitoring Device (Biological Science and Engineering) | 7 | |||
| Aanya | Virmani | $500 - best grade 6-8 entry for either Electrical Engineering or Software Engineering amongst girls, Synopsys - Society of Women Engineers | Pet Food Dispensers! (Physical Science and Engineering) | 7 | |||
| Bryan | Tran | Jonathan | Yu | 2nd Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Testing the Widths of Parabolic Reflectors with Light Signals from an LED (Physical Science and Engineering) | 6 | |
| Valley Christian High School | George | Sousa | Ansel Robert | Austin | 2nd Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | The Boxfish Advantage: a Novel Biomimetic AUV Design for Studying Coral Habitats (Physical Science and Engineering) | 10 |
| HS student - Certificate of Achievement, Medallion and $50 gift card, United States Navy and Marine Corps | |||||||
| Scott | VanderVeen | Angela Gigi | Tsang | $100 First Place, Certificate of Achievement, and Letter, Inez M. Lechner Award | What is the effect of using natural and synthetic antibiotics on bacterial cultures? (Biological Science and Engineering) | 9 | |
| Alexander Bao | Vu | High School Finalist Certficate & Amazon.com gift certficate, Synopsys Outreach Foundation n+1 Prize | Cholesterol Control: The Effect of Bisphosphonates on Cellular LDL Uptake (Biological Science and Engineering) | 12 | |||
| 1st Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Honorable Mention Certificate, Santa Clara County Biotech Education Partnership (SCCBEP) | |||||||
| Yavneh Day School | Maria | Cammisa | Joshua | Lang | 2nd Place Award - $75, Popular Science Magazine Subscription and Framed Certificate of Achievement, ASM International, A Society for Materials, Santa Clara Valley Chapter | How well do different materials block RFID signals? (Physical Science and Engineering) | 6 |