Palo Alto Unified School District
Project Awards 2019
Synopsys Silicon Valley Science and Technology Championship
School | Teacher | Student | Award | Title | Gr | ||
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Fletcher (Ellen) Middle School | Kevin | Thompson | Justin Graham | Hou | Honorable Mention Student Award: $40 and Certificate of Achievement, Association for Computing Machinery, San Francisco Bay Area Professional Chapter | Analyzing Images and Text Found Online with AI in Order to Determine if a Website is Educational (Physical Science and Engineering) | 8 |
Juno | Kim | Honorable Mention Student Award: $40 and Certificate of Achievement, Association for Computing Machinery, San Francisco Bay Area Professional Chapter | Analyzing Images and Text Found Online with AI in Order to Determine if a Website is Educational (Physical Science and Engineering) | 8 | |||
Alan Dongjin | Lee | Honorable Mention Certificate + a signed book + breakfast with Bob Zeidman, Zeidman Award | Machine Learning for Distinguishing Benign from Malignant Liver Tumors (Physical Science and Engineering) | 8 | |||
2nd Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
Tasha | Lera | Third Place $50 and Certificate of Recognition, Middle Grades STEM Award | Using Data Analysis to Build a Personalized Search Engine (Physical Science and Engineering) | 8 | |||
Greene (Frank S., Jr.) Middle School | Shelly | Bethke | Daniel | Siegel | 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 | Surround3: The Design and Construction of a Sensor-Enhanced Probing Cane to Help the Visually Impaired (Physical Science and Engineering) | 8 |
$250 to the winning student or team in middle school Physical Science, Synopsys Outreach Foundation n+1 Prize | |||||||
Middle School Finalist Certificate & $25 barnesandnoble.com gift certificate, Synopsys Outreach Foundation n+1 Prize | |||||||
Nominated to compete envelope, Broadcom MASTERS - 8th Grade | |||||||
1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
Erland | Patterson | Beckett Gasich | Lyons | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | The Aerodynamic Of Truck Platooning (Physical Science and Engineering) | 7 | |
2nd place MS student - $50 and Certificate of Achievement, American Vacuum Society, Northern CA | |||||||
IEEE Electro-Technology $50 gift card and a certificate, Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers | |||||||
Gunn (Henry M.) High School | Bill | Dunbar | Sandhini | Agarwal | 1st Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | Tracking Parkinsonian Tremors: A Wearable Device Application Utilizing Smart Sensing for Real-Time Monitoring & Analysis (Biological Science and Engineering) | 12 |
ASEI Silicon Valley Emerging Technology Membership to American Society of Engineers of Indian Origin, American Society of Engineers of Indian Origin Award | |||||||
First Place: $100, Certificate of Achievement, and Goody Bag, Santa Clara County Biotech Education Partnership (SCCBEP) | |||||||
Jena | Lee | William Chung K | Chung | 1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Manipulating concentrations of plant-based starches to optimize durability for use in biodegradable plastics (Physical Science and Engineering) | 11 | |
Mallika Kumud | Parulekar | 2nd Award, RRI Biological Science and Engineering Category | A Fast, Unsupervised Learning Method to Identify Novel and Diverse Signals in High-Throughput Genetic Data (RRI Biological Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
Tarn | Wilson | Anshika | Agarwal | 2nd Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | In Their Shoes: Using Virtual Reality to Foster Empathy (Biological Science and Engineering) | 10 | |
Certificate of Achievement, American Psychological Association | |||||||
Isabel W | Sperandio | 1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Harnessing the Power of the Ocean: Designing an Efficient and Portable Wave Energy Converter Prototype (Physical Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
Certificate of Achievement and letter - medallion and cert will be received in mail after student fills out the online link., Yale Science and Engineering Association | |||||||
Certificate of Achievement, American Meteorological Society | |||||||
First Place, $150 Wireless Communications Alliance Award, Wireless Communications Alliance | |||||||
Most Promising Young Scientist (Female), $100 and Framed Certificate (GR 9-12), SPV Market Research "Most Promising Young Scientist" | |||||||
Palo Alto High School | Ashwini | Avadahni | Anuva | Banwasi | Honorable Mention, RRI Biological Science and Engineering Category | Biomarker identification in the adipogenic pathway of tumor cells - a metabolomics approach (RRI Biological Science and Engineering) | 11 |
Jonathan Ko | Park | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Choose the Correct Products! Smart Speaking Glasses App to Find Food and Drug Allergens for Seniors (Physical Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
High School $50 and letter of recognition, Northern California Institute of Food Technologists (NCIFT) | |||||||
Sefika Gul | Eris | Eddie Jinghua | Wang | $100, Morgan Lewis | Smart Irrigation Systems (Physical Science and Engineering) | 11 | |
Certificate of Achievement, United States Metric Association | |||||||
Randy | Scilingo | Annika | Viswesh | Honorable Mention Student Award: $50 and Certificate of Achievement, Association for Computing Machinery, San Francisco Bay Area Professional Chapter | Classifying different types of cancer by applying machine learning techniques on epigenetic information (Biological Science and Engineering) | 9 | |
Stanford (Jane Lathrop) Middle School | Sefika Gul | Eris | Cindy Jingru | Wang | $100, Morgan Lewis | Smart Irrigation Systems (Physical Science and Engineering) | 8 |
Certificate of Achievement, United States Metric Association | |||||||
Qin (Linda) | Luo | Yu-Ting | Chang | $500 + certificate + a signed book + breakfast with Bob Zeidman, Zeidman Award | Greedy, Yet Intelligent, Algorithms for the Game 2048 Using Python (Physical Science and Engineering) | 8 | |
Nominated to compete envelope, Broadcom MASTERS - 8th Grade | |||||||
1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
Sharad | Parulekar | 2nd Place Student Award: $160 and Certificate of Achievement, Association for Computing Machinery, San Francisco Bay Area Professional Chapter | Dr.One: A Flying Angel to Keep an Eye on Seniors (Physical Science and Engineering) | 8 | |||
Tammy | Parke | Julian I. | Schultz | Nominated to compete envelope, Broadcom MASTERS - 7th Grade | Can Your Sweatshirt Save You? How effective are fabrics at lowering the particulate concentration of polluted air? (Physical Science and Engineering) | 7 | |
1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | |||||||