Private
Project Awards 2020
Synopsys Silicon Valley Science and Technology Championship
| School | Teacher | Student | Award | Title | Gr | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Archbishop Mitty High School | Matt | De Palma | Akhilesh Varadan | Balasingam | Honorable Mention, RRI Physical Science and Engineering Category | Fast and Accurate Inference on IoT Devices: Hardware-aware Mapping of ANNs to Brain-Inspired Low-Power Circuits. (RRI Physical Science and Engineering) | 11 |
| $100 for Individual projects. $50 for each student for Team Projects, IBM Award | |||||||
| Thuy-Anh | Nguyen | Adarsh Sairam | Ambati | Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair | Contactless, Vital Signs Monitor using PhotoPlethysmographic Imaging, Infrared Sensing Techniques, & Computer Vision (Biological Science and Engineering) | 10 | |
| 1st Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| ASEI Silicon Valley Emerging Technology Membership to American Society of Engineers of Indian Origin, American Society of Engineers of Indian Origin Award | |||||||
| Jason Jin | Chen | Honorable Mention, RRI Biological Science and Engineering Category | Aerosol Treatment of Inflammatory Symptoms in Asthma Airways with an Inhibitor of Soluble Epoxide Hydrolase (RRI Biological Science and Engineering) | 12 | |||
| Veer Hemal | Doshi | 2nd Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Enhancing Disaster Awareness by Incorporating Crowdsourcing and USGS Data in Machine Learning-driven Prediction Modeling (Physical Science and Engineering) | 10 | |||
| Aditya Kumar | Jaiswal | Honorable Mention, RRI Physical Science and Engineering Category | Engineering an energy efficient drone that uses flight aerodynamics to acquire and deliver payloads over long distances. (RRI Physical Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| Maria | Korolik | 3rd Place - $50, Certificate of Achievement, SAMPE - Society for the Advancement of Material and Process Engineering | Can we bend an iPhone? Highly transparent conductors based on silver nanowires (Physical Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| Khushi | Parikh | Honorable Mention, RRI Biological Science and Engineering Category | The Effect of Virtual Reality Technology on Acute Pain Analgesia (RRI Biological Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| Chaelee | Park | Honorable Mention, RRI Biological Science and Engineering Category | The effect of morphine on mitochondrial function and neural inflammation following ischemic stroke (RRI Biological Science and Engineering) | 12 | |||
| Aalok Nital | Patwa | Grand Prize - Best of Championship - Biological Sciences - Qualified to be a Regeneron ISEF Finalist - $500 Cash, Santa Clara Valley Science & Engineering Fair Assn - Board of Directors Awards - High School | Predicting Recurrence in Triple Negative Breast Cancer Patients through Analysis of Tumor-Immune Micro Environment (RRI Biological Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair | |||||||
| 1st Award, RRI Biological Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| George | Sousa | Riley | Kong | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Improving School Campus Traffic Flow Through Dynamic Simulation Modeling and Machine Learning (Physical Science and Engineering) | 10 | |
| BASIS Independent Silicon Valley School | Kevyn | Adams | Siddharth | Sharma | Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair | QEML (Quantum Enhanced Machine Learning): Using Quantum Computing to Enhance ML Classifiers and Feature Spaces (Physical Science and Engineering) | 11 |
| 1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Anastasia | Batrachenko | Diptanshu | Sikdar | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Novel Hybrid Multi-source Energy Harvesting Solution for IoT Devices (Physical Science and Engineering) | 10 | |
| Swetha | Bhattacharya | Isita Nandana | Talukdar | Honorable Mention, Biological Science and Engineering Category | Applications of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning for Early Detection of Parkinson's Disease (Biological Science and Engineering) | 10 | |
| Rene | Flood | Ria | Sinha | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Machine Learning Based Digital Assistant for the Deaf (Physical Science and Engineering) | 10 | |
| ASEI Silicon Valley Emerging Technology Membership to American Society of Engineers of Indian Origin, American Society of Engineers of Indian Origin Award | |||||||
| Patrick | Huet | Vibha | Raju | 3rd Place Award - $50 and Certificate of Achievement, ASM International, A Society for Materials, Santa Clara Valley Chapter | Development of a low cost novel EMF RF radiation shield and comparison to existing materials (Physical Science and Engineering) | 11 | |
| Tracy | Hughes | Advit | Deepak | Grand Prize Student Award: $640 and Certificate of Achievement, Association for Computing Machinery, San Francisco Bay Area Professional Chapter | The Detection of Hand Gestures Using a Time of Flight Sensor for a Human Interface Device (Physical Science and Engineering) | 11 | |
| Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Anuradha | Murthy | Anya | Raju | Honorable Mention, Biological Science and Engineering Category | Using Genome-Wide Association Studies to Identify Common Genetic Loci Between Neurobiological Disorders (Biological Science and Engineering) | 11 | |
| Helena | Vervoort | Henry | Yao | 2nd Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Designing an Eco-Friendly and Cost Effective Way to Remove Chromium from Waste Water (Physical Science and Engineering) | 8 | |
| Bellarmine College Preparatory | Chris | Cozort | Joseph Philip | Thomas | Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair | A Machine Learning Approach to Early Detection of Parkinson's Disease (Physical Science and Engineering) | 9 |
| 1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| David | Dutton | Jaythan Kim | Dao | Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair | Vacuum Suction Powered Lifting Assistance Device (Physical Science and Engineering) | 9 | |
| 1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Debjani | Roy | Tarun | Chiruvolu | Honorable Mention, RRI Biological Science and Engineering Category | Interpretable Deep Learning Reveals Motif Syntax and Disease-Causing Mutations (RRI Biological Science and Engineering) | 12 | |
| Samarth | Girish | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Chill Pill: An AI Based Mobile Application to Detect Counterfeit Medication (Physical Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| ASEI Silicon Valley Emerging Technology Membership to American Society of Engineers of Indian Origin, American Society of Engineers of Indian Origin Award | |||||||
| Aditya | Indla | Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair | Custom Farm Survey Model Based on SSD with Inception v2 & AI-Driven Harvesting Robot for Efficient Strawberry Farming (Physical Science and Engineering) | 10 | |||
| 1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Aadit | Trivedi | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | RoadAlert: A Smart Device to Detect Potholes on the Road Using Machine Learning (Physical Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| Cambrian International Academy - Middle School | Dave | Delgado | Sangyani | Sinha | Honorable Mention Student Award: $40 and Certificate of Achievement, Association for Computing Machinery, San Francisco Bay Area Professional Chapter | CytoCounter: Using Machine Learning to Count ELISpots (Physical Science and Engineering) | 8 |
| Canyon Heights Academy | Jiwon | Kim | Matthew Jonghyun | Koo | Honorable Mention - Certificate of Achievement, SAMPE - Society for the Advancement of Material and Process Engineering | The Best Material That Can Stand up to Chemicals (Physical Science and Engineering) | 6 |
| Ian | Sim | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Creating Cold Coolers! (Physical Science and Engineering) | 6 | |||
| Challenger - Almaden - SJ | Pronati | Mondal | Maggie | Liu | 3rd Place - $50, Certificate of Achievement, SAMPE - Society for the Advancement of Material and Process Engineering | The Best Ink Sealant (Physical Science and Engineering) | 6 |
| Elisha | Rahardja | 2nd Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Forest Fire Warning System (Physical Science and Engineering) | 8 | |||
| IEEE Electro-Technology $50 gift card and a certificate, Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers | |||||||
| Sasha Brooke | Wang | Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair | Can Pillbugs Learn? (Biological Science and Engineering) | 8 | |||
| Honorable Mention, Biological Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Challenger - Berryessa - SJ | Samantha | Carlisle | Rohit | Vakkalagadda | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Using Natural Bio-waste Fibers to Strengthen Clay Bricks (Physical Science and Engineering) | 8 |
| 3rd place - $50 and Certificate of Achievement, American Society of Civil Engineers- San Jose Branch | |||||||
| Honorable Mention Award and Certificate of Achievement, ASM International, A Society for Materials, Santa Clara Valley Chapter | |||||||
| Challenger - Shawnee - SJ | Bonny | Basu | Aman Prashant | Chandra | Nominated to compete envelope, Broadcom MASTERS - 6th Grade | Edible Explosives (Physical Science and Engineering) | 6 |
| Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair | |||||||
| 1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Jaiveer Singh | Gill | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | A Sound Proof of Soundproofing: Using a Novel Resonance Tube Apparatus to Measure Sound Absorption of Various Materials (Physical Science and Engineering) | 6 | |||
| Dashmi | Singh | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Biodegradable Six-Pack Rings (Physical Science and Engineering) | 8 | |||
| Maahi | Vidyarthi | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | S.O.S - Save Our Seas (Physical Science and Engineering) | 7 | |||
| Brad | Bowden | Samanya | Girish | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Exoplanet Discovery: Advancing the Study of Cosmology Using Photometry (Physical Science and Engineering) | 7 | |
| Nainika | Srinivasan | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Fluid Mechanics: The Effect of Temperature and Type of Fluid on its Viscosity (Physical Science and Engineering) | 6 | |||
| Challenger - Strawberry Park - SJ | Sandip | Panesar | Rachael | Li | 2nd Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Turbine Generation (Physical Science and Engineering) | 6 |
| Kameswari | Rayaprolu | Nicole Elizabeth | Kheyfets | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Tsunami Power (Physical Science and Engineering) | 7 | |
| Ishana | Manikandan | 2nd Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | Prevent Oxidative Stress, Keep Free Radicals Away: Determine the Antioxidant Levels of Produce Using Chemiluminescence (Biological Science and Engineering) | 6 | |||
| Eshan | Rachapudi | Nominated to compete envelope, Broadcom MASTERS - 8th Grade | Rainwater Harvesting on Hillsides (Physical Science and Engineering) | 8 | |||
| Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair | |||||||
| 1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Sudeepthi | Ravipati | Exceptional Merit, Certificate, SPV Market Research "Most Promising Young Scientist" | A Solar Microgrid (Physical Science and Engineering) | 8 | |||
| Yash | Sharma | $250 + certificate + a signed book + breakfast with Bob Zeidman, Zeidman Award | Automatic Car Fuel Loader (Physical Science and Engineering) | 6 | |||
| Honorable Mention Student Award: $40 and Certificate of Achievement, Association for Computing Machinery, San Francisco Bay Area Professional Chapter | |||||||
| Challenger - Sunnyvale | Swapna | Mayya | Samarjit | Deshmukh | Nominated to compete envelope, Broadcom MASTERS - 7th Grade | You Are What You Eat: The Health Implications of Legumes on the Gut Microbiome (Biological Science and Engineering) | 7 |
| Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair | |||||||
| 1st Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Middle School $50 and letter of recognition, Northern California Institute of Food Technologists (NCIFT) | |||||||
| Amishi | Gupta | 2nd Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Ferrofluids: Saving the Environment (Physical Science and Engineering) | 6 | |||
| Adhip | Raghunathan | Nominated to compete envelope, Broadcom MASTERS - 8th Grade | Utilizing the Seebeck Effect to Harvest Thermal Energy from Solar Panel (Physical Science and Engineering) | 8 | |||
| Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair | |||||||
| 1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Rishita | Shah | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | A Smart White Cane Utilized for Visually Impaired Individuals (Physical Science and Engineering) | 8 | |||
| IEEE Electro-Technology $50 gift card and a certificate, Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers | |||||||
| Sonia | Swamy | Nominated to compete envelope, Broadcom MASTERS - 8th Grade | BioBooster - Sustainable, cost-effective, non-disruptive biopolymers for improving soil stability and plant Growth. (Physical Science and Engineering) | 8 | |||
| Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair | |||||||
| 1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Hoshita Venkatasai | Undella | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | What is the effect of different desalination methods on the salinity of water? (Physical Science and Engineering) | 8 | |||
| Ishana | Wokhlu | Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair | Snail Be Gone (Biological Science and Engineering) | 6 | |||
| Honorable Mention, Biological Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Shobi | Murali | Sudithi | Manthati | Honorable Mention, Biological Science and Engineering Category | The Effect of Different Solvent Extract of Turmeric on Their Antibacterial Properties (Biological Science and Engineering) | 8 | |
| Art | Wellersdick | Aarav | Garai | Honorable Mention, Biological Science and Engineering Category | Agricultural Uses of Soap Nut (Biological Science and Engineering) | 7 | |
| Albert | Yao | 2nd Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Surface Tension on Fire (Physical Science and Engineering) | 6 | |||
| Challenger-Middlefield-Palo Alto | Diane | Rusu | Elaine | Lee | 2nd Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Effectiveness of Tea on Dispersing Oil (Physical Science and Engineering) | 8 |
| Paulina | Xu | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Multimodal Transportation (Physical Science and Engineering) | 8 | |||
| Gideon Hausner Jewish Day School | Megan | Babat | Elie Meir | Bodner | 2nd Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | REP: A Solution to Electricity Caused Fires and Blackouts (Physical Science and Engineering) | 7 |
| Zalman Wolf | Zucker | 2nd Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | REP: A Solution to Electricity Caused Fires and Blackouts (Physical Science and Engineering) | 7 | |||
| Liat | Baranoff | Ben | Freda-Eskenazi | $125 + certificate + a signed book + breakfast with Bob Zeidman, Zeidman Award | To Understand or Not to Understand. (Physical Science and Engineering) | 8 | |
| Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Karen Bella | Glenn | Honorable Mention Certificate + a signed book + breakfast with Bob Zeidman, Zeidman Award | Helmet : On (Physical Science and Engineering) | 8 | |||
| Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Annabel | Honigstein | Honorable Mention Certificate + a signed book + breakfast with Bob Zeidman, Zeidman Award | Helmet : On (Physical Science and Engineering) | 8 | |||
| Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Alon | Knaan | Nominated to compete envelope, Broadcom MASTERS - 8th Grade | Milkweed SeedBall Launcher (Physical Science and Engineering) | 8 | |||
| Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair | |||||||
| 1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Noam | Radwin | Nominated to compete envelope, Broadcom MASTERS - 8th Grade | Milkweed SeedBall Launcher (Physical Science and Engineering) | 8 | |||
| Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair | |||||||
| 1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Navon | Soussan | $125 + certificate + a signed book + breakfast with Bob Zeidman, Zeidman Award | To Understand or Not to Understand. (Physical Science and Engineering) | 8 | |||
| Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Danny | Watson | Eliot | Bronstein | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | The Flare: Putting out wildfires by release fire retardant (Physical Science and Engineering) | 6 | |
| $50 to student, Certificate of Achievement, and Letter, Al Foster Award | |||||||
| Nathan | Fichtenholz | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | The Flare: Putting out wildfires by release fire retardant (Physical Science and Engineering) | 6 | |||
| $50 to student, Certificate of Achievement, and Letter, Al Foster Award | |||||||
| Milo | Levin | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | The Flare: Putting out wildfires by release fire retardant (Physical Science and Engineering) | 6 | |||
| $50 to student, Certificate of Achievement, and Letter, Al Foster Award | |||||||
| Granada Islamic School | Farhana | Afroz | Sadik | Aref | Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair | Effect of nootropic supplements on the regeneration of planaria (Biological Science and Engineering) | 8 |
| 2nd Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Salma | Farahat | Honorable Mention, Biological Science and Engineering Category | What Effect Does Ionizing Radiation Have on Plant Growth? (Biological Science and Engineering) | 8 | |||
| Aziza A | Mohammed | Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair | Non-Invasive detection of glucose in aqueous solutions and beyond (Physical Science and Engineering) | 8 | |||
| Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Zeba | Haq | Usman | Khan | Nominated to compete envelope, Broadcom MASTERS - 6th Grade | Harnessing the Energy of Water to Lift a Load (Physical Science and Engineering) | 6 | |
| Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair | |||||||
| 1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Muhaab Ahmed | Syed | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Effect Of Ceiling Height And Ventilation On Room Temperature (Physical Science and Engineering) | 6 | |||
| Harker School (SSW) | Jason | Graham (mentor) | Natasha | Matta | Honorable Mention, RRI Biological Science and Engineering Category | Effects of Organic Pesticides, Clove and Thyme, on Sericulture (RRI Biological Science and Engineering) | 10 |
| Ananya | Sriram | Nominated to compete envelope, Broadcom MASTERS - 8th Grade | The Correlation Between the Overpopulation of Algae and the Oceans Iron Depletion (Biological Science and Engineering) | 8 | |||
| Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair | |||||||
| 1st Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Richard | Williams (mentor) | Michelle | Wei | 2nd Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Multi-planar Solar Panel Design for More Efficient and Accessible Green Energy (Physical Science and Engineering) | 8 | |
| Most Promising Young Scientist (Female), $200 and Certificate (GR 6-8), SPV Market Research "Most Promising Young Scientist" | |||||||
| Ella | Yee | 2nd Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Multi-planar Solar Panel Design for More Efficient and Accessible Green Energy (Physical Science and Engineering) | 8 | |||
| Most Promising Young Scientist (Female), $200 and Certificate (GR 6-8), SPV Market Research "Most Promising Young Scientist" | |||||||
| Harker School-Middle Campus | Shengnan | Cong (PSP) | Brenna | Ren | Nominated to compete envelope, Broadcom MASTERS - 6th Grade | Solar Powered Lanterns Based on Origami Techniques (Physical Science and Engineering) | 6 |
| Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair | |||||||
| 1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Kallie | Wang | Nominated to compete envelope, Broadcom MASTERS - 6th Grade | Solar Powered Lanterns Based on Origami Techniques (Physical Science and Engineering) | 6 | |||
| Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair | |||||||
| 1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Tina | Kim | Gautam | Bhooma | Grand Prize Student Award: $320 and Certificate of Achievement, Association for Computing Machinery, San Francisco Bay Area Professional Chapter | ForesAIght: Machine Learning powered Assistant for the Visually Impaired (Physical Science and Engineering) | 8 | |
| Nominated to compete envelope, Broadcom MASTERS - 8th Grade | |||||||
| Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair | |||||||
| 1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Katherine Helena | Fields | $50 Middle School Plant Science (Amazon Gift Card), California Botanical Society | Purified water vs filtered water vs natural water and its effect on plants (Biological Science and Engineering) | 8 | |||
| Ramit Rajan | Goyal | Grand Prize Student Award: $320 and Certificate of Achievement, Association for Computing Machinery, San Francisco Bay Area Professional Chapter | ForesAIght: Machine Learning powered Assistant for the Visually Impaired (Physical Science and Engineering) | 8 | |||
| Nominated to compete envelope, Broadcom MASTERS - 8th Grade | |||||||
| Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair | |||||||
| 1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Emily Isabella | Kwan | GR 6-8: Student Award in Geoscience Excellence from Association for Women Geoscientists Bay Area Chapter, $40, Association for Women Geoscientists, San Francisco Bay Area Chapter | The Effects of Enterobacter on Soil Pollution (Physical Science and Engineering) | 8 | |||
| Ella Selina | Lan | Nominated to compete envelope, Broadcom MASTERS - 8th Grade | Developing a Method to Detect Circadian State From Gene Expression Through Machine Learning (Biological Science and Engineering) | 8 | |||
| Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair | |||||||
| 1st Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Thomas | Liu | Honorable Mention, Biological Science and Engineering Category | A Novel, Least Invasive Way to Detect and Destroy Thrombosis (Biological Science and Engineering) | 8 | |||
| Heidi Yundi | Lu | Nominated to compete envelope, Broadcom MASTERS - 8th Grade | Developing a Method to Detect Circadian State From Gene Expression Through Machine Learning (Biological Science and Engineering) | 8 | |||
| Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair | |||||||
| 1st Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Arnav | Swaroop | Honorable Mention, Biological Science and Engineering Category | A Novel, Least Invasive Way to Detect and Destroy Thrombosis (Biological Science and Engineering) | 8 | |||
| Kaitlyn Cheyee | Wang | GR 6-8: Student Award in Geoscience Excellence from Association for Women Geoscientists Bay Area Chapter, $40, Association for Women Geoscientists, San Francisco Bay Area Chapter | The Effects of Enterobacter on Soil Pollution (Physical Science and Engineering) | 8 | |||
| Maryam | Zehra | $50 Middle School Plant Science (Amazon Gift Card), California Botanical Society | Purified water vs filtered water vs natural water and its effect on plants (Biological Science and Engineering) | 8 | |||
| Preston | Lau (PSP) | Hubert | Lau | Nominated to compete envelope, Broadcom MASTERS - 6th Grade | Effect of Plants and Mud on Generating Electricity in a Microbial Fuel Cell System. (Biological Science and Engineering) | 6 | |
| Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair | |||||||
| 1st Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Serena | Lau | Nominated to compete envelope, Broadcom MASTERS - 6th Grade | Effect of Plants and Mud on Generating Electricity in a Microbial Fuel Cell System. (Biological Science and Engineering) | 6 | |||
| Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair | |||||||
| 1st Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Kristen | Morgensen | Zachary Glantz-Nguyen | Blue | Nominated to compete envelope, Broadcom MASTERS - 8th Grade | Passively Rotating Wind Turbine (Physical Science and Engineering) | 8 | |
| Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair | |||||||
| 1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Benjamin Allen | Cha | $100 Middle School Plant Science (Amazon Gift Card), California Botanical Society | The Effects of Pondweed on Plant Growth (Biological Science and Engineering) | 8 | |||
| Aeliya Indra | Grover | Honorable Mention, Biological Science and Engineering Category | The Effect of Microplastics on the Growth of Bacteria Culture (Biological Science and Engineering) | 8 | |||
| Medini | Halepete | Honorable Mention, Biological Science and Engineering Category | The Effect of Microplastics on the Growth of Bacteria Culture (Biological Science and Engineering) | 8 | |||
| Jordan Sun | Labio | Nominated to compete envelope, Broadcom MASTERS - 8th Grade | Passively Rotating Wind Turbine (Physical Science and Engineering) | 8 | |||
| Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair | |||||||
| 1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Adrian Wen | Liu | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | The Perfect Volleyball Serve (Physical Science and Engineering) | 8 | |||
| Vivek Sandeep | Nayyar | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | The Perfect Volleyball Serve (Physical Science and Engineering) | 8 | |||
| Brandon | Zau | $100 Middle School Plant Science (Amazon Gift Card), California Botanical Society | The Effects of Pondweed on Plant Growth (Biological Science and Engineering) | 8 | |||
| Kathy | Peng | Alex Kaiwen | Guo | Nominated to compete envelope, Broadcom MASTERS - 8th Grade | Using AI to Distinguish Between Human Caused and Natural Fires (Physical Science and Engineering) | 8 | |
| Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair | |||||||
| 1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Nathan Tsai | Liu | Nominated to compete envelope, Broadcom MASTERS - 8th Grade | Using AI to Distinguish Between Human Caused and Natural Fires (Physical Science and Engineering) | 8 | |||
| Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair | |||||||
| 1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Harker School-Upper Campus | Thomas | Artiss | Sasvath M | Ramachandran | Honorable Mention, Biological Science and Engineering Category | Determining the UVA Intensity Threshold for Cryptobiosis in Hypsibius dujardini (Biological Science and Engineering) | 10 |
| Honorable Mention: Patch and Certificate, SETI Institute | |||||||
| Betsy | Tian | Honorable Mention, RRI Physical Science and Engineering Category | Exploring Extrasolar Planetary Systems with Ultraviolet Eyes (RRI Physical Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| Martin | Baynes | Dawson | Chen | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | An Autonomous Irrigation Robot for Urban Grass Ecosystems (Physical Science and Engineering) | 10 | |
| GR 9-12: 1st Place, Certificate of Achievement, and tour of NASA Ames Research Center, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) Intelligent Systems Award | |||||||
| Mark | Brada | Alice | Feng | 2nd Award, RRI Biological Science and Engineering Category | A Genetic Study of Non-Small-Cell Lung Cancer Cells with Gemcitabine Resistance and Benzo[a]pyrene Exposure (RRI Biological Science and Engineering) | 10 | |
| Casey | Brown | Michael Chen | Eng | Grand Prize Alternate - Biological Sciences - Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF) - $250 Cash, Santa Clara Valley Science & Engineering Fair Assn - Board of Directors Awards - High School | Role of Host Cell Receptors in the Uptake of the Fungus Candida albicans. Year 2 (RRI Biological Science and Engineering) | 11 | |
| Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair | |||||||
| 1st Award, RRI Biological Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Anita | Chetty | Aditi | Bharti | Honorable Mention, Biological Science and Engineering Category | Studying the Permanent Effects of Antibiotics on Fruit Flies to Emulate Its Effects on Human Neurological Disorders (Biological Science and Engineering) | 11 | |
| Sidra Yang | Xu | Grand Prize - Best of Championship - Biological Sciences - Qualified to be a Regeneron ISEF Finalist - $500 Cash, Santa Clara Valley Science & Engineering Fair Assn - Board of Directors Awards - High School | Gene Embedding: A Novel Hybrid Approach to Somatic Mutation-Based Cancer Type Identification and Biomarker Discovery (Biological Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair | |||||||
| 1st Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Anu | Datar | Karanvir Singh | Bhasin | Honorable Mention, RRI Physical Science and Engineering Category | Human Decision-Making Models in Games with Time Pressure and Partial Information (RRI Physical Science and Engineering) | 11 | |
| Kailash Mani | Ranganathan | 2nd Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Improved Word Embedding Algorithms for Machine Translation of Indo-European Languages using Clustering (Physical Science and Engineering) | 10 | |||
| Nicholas | Yi | Grand Prize - Best of Championship - Physical Sciences - Qualified to be a Regeneron ISEF Finalist - $500 Cash, Santa Clara Valley Science & Engineering Fair Assn - Board of Directors Awards - High School | Logographic Language Detection and Recognition using a Deep Learning Approach (Physical Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair | |||||||
| 1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Matthew | Harley | Annesh | Ghosh Dastidar | Honorable Mention, Biological Science and Engineering Category | A Deep Learning Approach to Automated Lung Cancer Radiation Planning Using GTV with Organ-at-Risk Accommodation (Biological Science and Engineering) | 11 | |
| Smriti | Koodanjeri | Sophie Meiyang | Wang | Honorable Mention, RRI Physical Science and Engineering Category | A novel automated differentiation framework and its applications in accurate and fast reacting flow simulations (RRI Physical Science and Engineering) | 11 | |
| Eric | Nelson | Shray | Alag | Honorable Mention Student Award: $50 and Certificate of Achievement, Association for Computing Machinery, San Francisco Bay Area Professional Chapter | Insights from ClinicalTrials.gov by mining mutations, mining RSids, and applying the Human Phenotype Ontology. (Physical Science and Engineering) | 11 | |
| Julia | Biswas | Honorable Mention, RRI Biological Science and Engineering Category | Estimating Gut Microbiome Diversity in Mice from Microscopic Images Using a Deep Learning Approach (RRI Biological Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| Sally | Zhu | 2nd Award, RRI Physical Science and Engineering Category | Supporting the Big Bang Theory by Measuring Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation in Distant Galaxies (RRI Physical Science and Engineering) | 9 | |||
| Mike | Pistacchi | Emma | Biswas | Honorable Mention: Patch and Certificate, SETI Institute | The Effect of the Temperature Increase Over 300 Years on the Growth of Staphylococcus aureus, Using Micrococcus luteus (Biological Science and Engineering) | 9 | |
| Amruta | Dharmapurikar | 2nd Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Machine Learning Aided Classification and Mechanical Sorting of Waste Material (Physical Science and Engineering) | 9 | |||
| Arissa | Huda | Honorable Mention: Patch and Certificate, SETI Institute | The Effect of the Temperature Increase Over 300 Years on the Growth of Staphylococcus aureus, Using Micrococcus luteus (Biological Science and Engineering) | 9 | |||
| Chris | Spenner | Akhilesh | Chegu | Grand Prize Alternate - Biological Sciences - Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF) - $250 Cash, Santa Clara Valley Science & Engineering Fair Assn - Board of Directors Awards - High School | Behavioral and Physiological Analysis of the Effect of Chronic Blue Light Exposure on Cognitive Motor Learning in Mice (RRI Biological Science and Engineering) | 10 | |
| Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair | |||||||
| 1st Award, RRI Biological Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Cynthia | Chen | Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF) as a finalist in the Regeneron Science Talent Search, California Science & Engineering Fair | Decoding Neural Networks: Generalizable Computational Framework to Discover Protein Sequence Motifs (RRI Biological Science and Engineering) | 12 | |||
| Honorable Mention, RRI Biological Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Harsh | Deep | Grand Prize - Best of Championship - Physical Sciences - Qualified to be a Regeneron ISEF Finalist - $500 Cash, Santa Clara Valley Science & Engineering Fair Assn - Board of Directors Awards - High School | Using Generative Adversarial Networks to Develop Novel Inhibitors of Carcinomas. (Physical Science and Engineering) | 10 | |||
| Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair | |||||||
| 1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Madison Baothi | Huynh | 2nd Place Award - $250 and Framed Certificate of Achievement, American Chemical Society, Silicon Valley, SVACS | Formation of Biologically Renewable Jet Fuel from 1-Hexene Cross-Metathesized Saltwater Plant Oils (RRI Physical Science and Engineering) | 12 | |||
| Andrew | Lu | Honorable Mention, RRI Biological Science and Engineering Category | Fully Automated Prostate Cancer Classification to Address Extensive Underdiagnosis by Physicians (RRI Biological Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| Krishay | Mukhija | Grand Prize - Best of Championship - Physical Sciences - Qualified to be a Regeneron ISEF Finalist - $500 Cash, Santa Clara Valley Science & Engineering Fair Assn - Board of Directors Awards - High School | Using Generative Adversarial Networks to Develop Novel Inhibitors of Carcinomas. (Physical Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair | |||||||
| 1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Kavita S | Murthy | Honorable Mention, Biological Science and Engineering Category | The Efficiency of Permeability of Escherichia coli to Different Macromolecules Via Ultrasonic Waves (Biological Science and Engineering) | 10 | |||
| Deven C | Shah | Grand Prize Alternate - Biological Sciences - Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF) - $250 Cash, Santa Clara Valley Science & Engineering Fair Assn - Board of Directors Awards - High School | Behavioral and Physiological Analysis of the Effect of Chronic Blue Light Exposure on Cognitive Motor Learning in Mice (RRI Biological Science and Engineering) | 10 | |||
| Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair | |||||||
| 1st Award, RRI Biological Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Elizabeth | Szeto | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Developing a Bioplastic Using Biopolymer Blending and Crosslinking Techniques to Replace LDPE Plastics for Packaging (Physical Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| 2nd Place Award - $75 and Certificate of Achievement, ASM International, A Society for Materials, Santa Clara Valley Chapter | |||||||
| Thresiamma Jijen | Vazhaeparambil | Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair | The Quantitative Measurement of Microplastics from Laundry Detergents and Fabric Samples using Fluorescence Spectroscopy (Physical Science and Engineering) | 10 | |||
| Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Exceptional Merit, Certificate, SPV Market Research "Most Promising Young Scientist" | |||||||
| Russell | Yang | Grand Prize - Best of Championship - Biological Sciences - Qualified to be a Regeneron ISEF Finalist - $500 Cash, Santa Clara Valley Science & Engineering Fair Assn - Board of Directors Awards - High School | Modeling Distant Metastasis-Free Survival: Applications to Hazard Prediction and Pairwise Gene Interaction Discovery (RRI Biological Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair | |||||||
| 1st Award, RRI Biological Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Jeff | Sutton | Aditya | Tadimeti | Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair | Machine Learning and Wildfire Burned Area: Examining the Influence of Weather, Topographic, and Socioeconomic Factors (RRI Physical Science and Engineering) | 11 | |
| 1st Award, RRI Physical Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Homeschool - Campbell | Aida | Rivera | Elisa | Grothe | Nominated to compete envelope, Broadcom MASTERS - 7th Grade | Eliminating Sargasso Seaweed from the Surface of the Ocean (Physical Science and Engineering) | 7 |
| Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair | |||||||
| 1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Homeschool - Explora Academy | Rebeca | Urdaneta | Nominated to compete envelope, Broadcom MASTERS - 7th Grade | Eliminating Sargasso Seaweed from the Surface of the Ocean (Physical Science and Engineering) | 7 | ||
| Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair | |||||||
| 1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Homeschool - Ross | James | Ross (mentor) | Edward J | Ross | Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair | Designing a Better Waterproof Bandage (Biological Science and Engineering) | 12 |
| 1st Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Homeschool - Sunnyvale | Vidya | Balasubramanian (PSP) | Meera | Kalluraya | Honorable Mention, Biological Science and Engineering Category | Compare behaviors among guinea pigs and humans (Biological Science and Engineering) | 6 |
| Merryhill Schools - Milpitas | Kanchan | Bhandare | Kyle Alexander | Ciurczak | Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair | Angles in Soccer (Physical Science and Engineering) | 6 |
| Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Ashrith Vardhan | Gandluru | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Houston, do you Copy - An Experiment of Radio Communication (Physical Science and Engineering) | 6 | |||
| Arush | Pal | 2nd Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | The Salinity Factor (Physical Science and Engineering) | 6 | |||
| Aaron Josh | Peter | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | MagLoop: The Method to Better Transportation (Physical Science and Engineering) | 6 | |||
| Rishi | Rakesh | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Houston, do you Copy - An Experiment of Radio Communication (Physical Science and Engineering) | 6 | |||
| Arjun | Sathish | 2nd Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | The Salinity Factor (Physical Science and Engineering) | 6 | |||
| Arnav | Shailesh | Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair | Angles in Soccer (Physical Science and Engineering) | 6 | |||
| Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Om | Suthar | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | MagLoop: The Method to Better Transportation (Physical Science and Engineering) | 6 | |||
| Vivek | Yella | 2nd Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | The Salinity Factor (Physical Science and Engineering) | 6 | |||
| Shama | Mohamed | Brandon Richard | Do | Nominated to compete envelope, Broadcom MASTERS - 7th Grade | Microbial Fuel Cell (Biological Science and Engineering) | 7 | |
| Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair | |||||||
| 1st Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Arin | Kathapurkar | 2nd Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Sign Language Glove (Physical Science and Engineering) | 7 | |||
| Harsha | Manamala | 2nd Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Sign Language Glove (Physical Science and Engineering) | 7 | |||
| Reva Chidella | Sharma | 1st Place Award - $100 and Certificate of Achievement from ASM Materials Education Foundation and Ribbon, ASM International, A Society for Materials, Santa Clara Valley Chapter | "Solid Air": World's Lightest Materials (Physical Science and Engineering) | 7 | |||
| Milpitas Christian School (6-8) | Eric | Cho | Terry | Hsu | 2nd Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Up, Up, and Away: A Quantitative Analysis On The Most Efficient Airfoil Type (Physical Science and Engineering) | 8 |
| Himani | Manjunath | Nominated to compete envelope, Broadcom MASTERS - 8th Grade | Bioplastic from Root Vegetables and Its Effect on Tensile Strength, Water Permeability, and Biodegradability (Physical Science and Engineering) | 8 | |||
| Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair | |||||||
| 1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| 2nd place - $100 and Certificate of Achievement, American Society of Civil Engineers- San Jose Branch | |||||||
| 2nd Place Award - $75 and Certificate of Achievement, ASM International, A Society for Materials, Santa Clara Valley Chapter | |||||||
| Middle School $50 and letter of recognition, Northern California Institute of Food Technologists (NCIFT) | |||||||
| William | Tang | 2nd Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Up, Up, and Away: A Quantitative Analysis On The Most Efficient Airfoil Type (Physical Science and Engineering) | 8 | |||
| Notre Dame High School | Victoria | Evashenk | Isabel | Vargas-Hurlston | Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair | The Short-Term Effects of Carbon Dioxide on the Cellular Respiration of Ipomoea Batatas (Biological Science and Engineering) | 9 |
| 1st Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Joyce Boying | Yang | Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair | Tensile Strength and Hydrophobic Effect of Starch-Based Biodegradable Polymers (Physical Science and Engineering) | 9 | |||
| 1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Christine | Koltermann | Snikitha | Banda | Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair | Analyzing Online Patient-EKG Data Sets: A Novel Approach for the Detection of Early Heart Disease (Biological Science and Engineering) | 9 | |
| 1st Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Taara | Jayaraj | Honorable Mention, Biological Science and Engineering Category | The Effect of Aloe Vera Gel on the Growth Rate of Mold on Strawberries (Biological Science and Engineering) | 9 | |||
| Nithika | Karthikeyan | Honorable Mention, Biological Science and Engineering Category | The Effect of Bacillus subtilis and Pseudomonas putida on the Biodegradation of Polyethylene Found in Microplastics (Biological Science and Engineering) | 10 | |||
| Samskruthi | Madireddy | 2nd Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | Winning Combination Among Polyphenols, Probiotics, & Vitamins for Improved Memory and Cognitive Performance in Crickets (Biological Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| High School $50 and letter of recognition, Northern California Institute of Food Technologists (NCIFT) | |||||||
| Atreyi Leela | Mukherjee | 2nd Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | A Novel Approach to Bicyclist Safety with an Applied Arduino Sensory Network (Physical Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| Certificate of Achievement, System Safety Society | |||||||
| Namrata | Nair | 2nd Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Designing a Visual Fire-Predicting Model for U.S. Counties Using Weather Datasets (Physical Science and Engineering) | 9 | |||
| Oakwood High School | Sean | Wilmot | Kate Elizabeth | Jackson | Honorable Mention, Biological Science and Engineering Category | Finding Fibonacci: Does separating leaves by the Fibonacci Golden Angle optimize average sun exposure per leaf? (Biological Science and Engineering) | 11 |
| Old Orchard School | Tim | Ainoa | Austin | Hu | 2nd Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | Does Sugar Affect Bacterial Growth in Your Mouth? (Biological Science and Engineering) | 8 |
| Nicolas Joaquin | Quijano | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Self-Stabilizing Spoon for Hand Tremors (Physical Science and Engineering) | 8 | |||
| Jaimee | Burch | Andrew | Su | 2nd Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Earthquake Proof Building (Physical Science and Engineering) | 6 | |
| 1st place - $150 and Certificate of Achievement, American Society of Civil Engineers- San Jose Branch | |||||||
| Presentation High School | Tracy | Hughes | Niharika | Bozza | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Using Deep Learning and Image Recognition to Effectively Categorize and Dispose of Waste (Physical Science and Engineering) | 10 |
| Jadelynn Kim | Dao | Grand Prize Student Award: $640 and Certificate of Achievement, Association for Computing Machinery, San Francisco Bay Area Professional Chapter | The Detection of Hand Gestures Using a Time of Flight Sensor for a Human Interface Device (Physical Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Anusha | Ghosh | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Translation of American Sign Language Through the Use of Computer Vision (Physical Science and Engineering) | 12 | |||
| $100 for Individual projects. $50 for each student for Team Projects, IBM Award | |||||||
| ASEI Silicon Valley Emerging Technology Membership to American Society of Engineers of Indian Origin, American Society of Engineers of Indian Origin Award | |||||||
| Jia Sidhu | Gill | Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair | BamBOOM: Take the Plastic out of Takeout (Physical Science and Engineering) | 9 | |||
| 1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Caitlin Maya | Gorin | Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair | Developing a Test Procedure for Layer Adhesion Strength of FDM 3D Printed Plastics (RRI Physical Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| 1st Award, RRI Physical Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| 1st Place Award - $100 and Certificate of Achievement from ASM Materials Education Foundation and Ribbon, ASM International, A Society for Materials, Santa Clara Valley Chapter | |||||||
| Shloka V. | Janapaty | Honorable Mention, RRI Physical Science and Engineering Category | Optimization of Distillation Technology and Graphene Oxide Membranes for Efficient, Low-Cost Methanol-Water Separation (RRI Physical Science and Engineering) | 12 | |||
| Nikitha Venkatesh | Kalahasti | Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair | Projections of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease Incidence Utilizing Air Quality Measures (Biological Science and Engineering) | 12 | |||
| 1st Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Gurmehr Kaur | Klair | Honorable Mention: Patch and Certificate, SETI Institute | Determining the Constraints of the Location of a Possible 9th Planet using Dynamic System Modeling (Physical Science and Engineering) | 12 | |||
| Danica Leigh | Kubota | Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair | BamBOOM: Take the Plastic out of Takeout (Physical Science and Engineering) | 9 | |||
| 1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Harshini | Manian | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Using Deep Learning and Image Recognition to Effectively Categorize and Dispose of Waste (Physical Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| Sanjana | Manikandan | Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair | Fighting Ocean Acidification with Underwater Forests"A Study of the development of Sea Urchin Larvae in Seagrass forests (Biological Science and Engineering) | 9 | |||
| 1st Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Katherine Grace | Mekechuk | Honorable Mention: Patch and Certificate, SETI Institute | Determining the Constraints of the Location of a Possible 9th Planet using Dynamic System Modeling (Physical Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| Shachi Shikha | Prasad | Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair | The effect of different cathodes and biodegradable source in a microbial fuel cell on the amount of electricity produced (Physical Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| 1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Saint Francis High School | David | Cobb | Swathi | Badrinarayanan | 2nd Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Migraine Meter: A Novel Device to Predict Migraine Probability (Physical Science and Engineering) | 9 |
| IEEE Electro-Technology $50 gift card and a certificate, Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers | |||||||
| Dhruv Deepak | Jatkar | Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair | Determining the Viability of Cell-Compatible Organic Stents Using Bio-Printing (Biological Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| 1st Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| ASEI Silicon Valley Emerging Technology Membership to American Society of Engineers of Indian Origin, American Society of Engineers of Indian Origin Award | |||||||
| Fazal Raghav | Mittu | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Using Machine Learning for Classifying Hand Typing Gestures Demonstrated on a Flex Sensing Glove (Physical Science and Engineering) | 9 | |||
| Daniel | Meyer | Nikita | Senthil | Honorable Mention, Biological Science and Engineering Category | The Effect of Nanosilver on Human Gastrointestinal Microbiota and Daphnia magna as a Bioassay for Freshwater Ecosystems (Biological Science and Engineering) | 9 | |
| Kaushik Sai | Tota | 2nd Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Intelligent Waste Stream Classification to Optimize Waste Management Processes (Physical Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| Joanna | Vollucci | Vedikas | Sridharan | Honorable Mention Student Award: $50 and Certificate of Achievement, Association for Computing Machinery, San Francisco Bay Area Professional Chapter | Neural Networks for American Sign Language (Physical Science and Engineering) | 11 | |
| Connie | Xu | Honorable Mention Student Award: $50 and Certificate of Achievement, Association for Computing Machinery, San Francisco Bay Area Professional Chapter | Neural Networks for American Sign Language (Physical Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| Stanford Online High School | Kalee | Tock | Krithi | Koodli | 2nd Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Predicting the Intractable Coefficients in the Equations of Orbits of Celestial Bodies using Learning Algorithms (Physical Science and Engineering) | 10 |
| Stratford Middle School - Milpitas | Lekhana | Revankar | Hrishikesh | Ankireddi | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Need a Hand? - A Low Cost Approach to Modern Prosthetics with Custom-Designed Legos and Arduino (Physical Science and Engineering) | 7 |
| Stratford Middle School - San Jose | Ana Juliete Brito de Moraes | Alsberg | Victor | Gong | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Distracted Driving Detection: A real-time system to detect distracted driving (Physical Science and Engineering) | 7 |
| Roger | He | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Does the temperature of ocean water affect how much oil is extracted from water by using nanotechnology? (Physical Science and Engineering) | 6 | |||
| Kristi | Chung | Shawnuk | Ballal | 1st Place - $100, Certificate of Achievement, SAMPE - Society for the Advancement of Material and Process Engineering | Designing a hand warmer using oxidation of easily available materials (Physical Science and Engineering) | 7 | |
| Justin | Kim | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | The effect of the shape of a space capsule on the lift produced. (Physical Science and Engineering) | 8 | |||
| Neel | Sudhakaran | 2nd Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Developing a Model to Determine Potential Potable Water Sources (Physical Science and Engineering) | 8 | |||
| Jeffrey | Takemoto | Zara | Mody | Nominated to compete envelope, Broadcom MASTERS - 6th Grade | The effect of different solutions on removing graffiti. (Physical Science and Engineering) | 6 | |
| Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair | |||||||
| 1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Aashna | Prasad | Nominated to compete envelope, Broadcom MASTERS - 7th Grade | Testing the efficacy of different types of control line strategies on wildfires. (Physical Science and Engineering) | 7 | |||
| Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair | |||||||
| 1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Emily | Ren | Nominated to compete envelope, Broadcom MASTERS - 6th Grade | The effect of temperature on viscosity of liquids (Physical Science and Engineering) | 6 | |||
| Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair | |||||||
| 1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Bella Lauren | Teresi | Honorable Mention, Biological Science and Engineering Category | Containing Invasive Species (Biological Science and Engineering) | 7 | |||
| Sofia-Lynn Mai | Teresi | 3rd Place Award - $50 and Certificate of Achievement, ASM International, A Society for Materials, Santa Clara Valley Chapter | The effect of different insulators on a solar oven to determine which solar oven will reach the highest temperature. (Physical Science and Engineering) | 6 | |||
| Juliana | West | Spencer Bo-Jun | Chang | Honorable Mention, Biological Science and Engineering Category | The effect of wind on different types of plants (Biological Science and Engineering) | 6 | |
| Ayush | Ghosh | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Home Navigation Assistant for the Visually Impaired (Physical Science and Engineering) | 7 | |||
| Krish | Maheshwari | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | A Chrome Extension to Reduce Distractions. (Physical Science and Engineering) | 7 | |||
| Rishi Manit | Prasad | Honorable Mention Certificate + a signed book + breakfast with Bob Zeidman, Zeidman Award | Personal Medical Assistant (Physical Science and Engineering) | 7 | |||
| Honorable Mention Student Award: $40 and Certificate of Achievement, Association for Computing Machinery, San Francisco Bay Area Professional Chapter | |||||||
| 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 | |||||||
| Pranav | Sukesh | 2nd Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Energy Efficient Heating and Cooling Using an IR Thermal Sensor (Physical Science and Engineering) | 7 | |||
| James Constantine | Tsaggaris | Nominated to compete envelope, Broadcom MASTERS - 7th Grade | Designing A Page-Flipping Device (Physical Science and Engineering) | 7 | |||
| Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair | |||||||
| 1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Albert | Yu | 2nd Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | A Solar Powered Desalination Apparatus (Physical Science and Engineering) | 7 | |||
| Stratford Middle School - Sunnyvale Raynor | Shannon | Deza | Arnav | Bhardwaj | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Water System that detects moisture content in soil to automatically water plants. (Physical Science and Engineering) | 7 |
| Iris | Cai | Nominated to compete envelope, Broadcom MASTERS - 7th Grade | ScratchCat Spanish: Connecting the World Through Language (Physical Science and Engineering) | 7 | |||
| Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair | |||||||
| 1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Liam Donald Collon | Ellerby | Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair | Composting on Mars - Will It Work? (Biological Science and Engineering) | 6 | |||
| 2nd Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Pakhi | Gupta | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Luggage on Invisible Leash (Physical Science and Engineering) | 7 | |||
| Nishant | Perla | 2nd Place Student Award: $160 and Certificate of Achievement, Association for Computing Machinery, San Francisco Bay Area Professional Chapter | Yelp for Help!: A Disaster Relief App (Physical Science and Engineering) | 7 | |||
| Heather | Mackewicz | Rithvik K. | Chavali | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Powering the Future With Paper Origami (Physical Science and Engineering) | 8 | |
| Aaryan | Doshi | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | SafetyBot: Sensor-based application to Detect Prolonged Stove Usage and Prevent Home Fires (Physical Science and Engineering) | 7 | |||
| Aadit | Golwala | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | What is the effect of the amount of plasticizer on the weight-bearing capacity of a bioplastic? (Physical Science and Engineering) | 8 | |||
| Yash | Golwala | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | What is the effect of the type of bioplastic on its thermal conductive capabilities? (Physical Science and Engineering) | 6 | |||
| 2nd Place - $75, Certificate of Achievement, SAMPE - Society for the Advancement of Material and Process Engineering | |||||||
| Bhargava Nagesh | Kanakapura | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | A Prototype Device to Save Infants from Being Left in a Car Alone (Physical Science and Engineering) | 8 | |||
| IEEE Electro-Technology $50 gift card and a certificate, Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers | |||||||
| Aryah Gali | Oztanir | Nominated to compete envelope, Broadcom MASTERS - 8th Grade | Designing a safer, more efficient, and inexpensive traffic light (Physical Science and Engineering) | 8 | |||
| Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair | |||||||
| 1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| IEEE Electro-Technology $50 gift card and a certificate, Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers | |||||||
| Jonathan | Yu | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Powering the Future With Paper Origami (Physical Science and Engineering) | 8 | |||
| Valley Christian High School | George | Sousa | Sia | Agarwal | 2nd Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Decompress: A System that Predicts Onset of Stress and Provides Stress Management Exercises (Physical Science and Engineering) | 10 |
| Sheryl | Hsu | Honorable Mention, Biological Science and Engineering Category | Vaccinations for All: A Novel System that Improves the Safety, Efficiency, and Accessibility of Vaccinations (Biological Science and Engineering) | 10 | |||
| Allison | Lam | Honorable Mention, Biological Science and Engineering Category | Vaccinations for All: A Novel System that Improves the Safety, Efficiency, and Accessibility of Vaccinations (Biological Science and Engineering) | 12 | |||
| Sanjana | Ryali | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Direct Access: Creating an Image Processing based Software Toolkit to Build Inclusive Spaces (Physical Science and Engineering) | 9 | |||
| Jennifer Yueyi | Song | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Improving School Campus Traffic Flow Through Dynamic Simulation Modeling and Machine Learning (Physical Science and Engineering) | 10 | |||
| Scott | VanderVeen | Pauline Elizabeth | Rogers | Honorable Mention, Biological Science and Engineering Category | Effects of Liposome delivered miRNA-142-3p in LN-18 cells on Temozolomide Treatment against Malignant Glioma (Biological Science and Engineering) | 11 | |
| Aaron | Stevens | Honorable Mention, Biological Science and Engineering Category | The effects of MG-132 combined with 9-cis, 13-cis, and all-trans retinoic acid on SH-SY5Y neuroblastoma cells (Biological Science and Engineering) | 12 | |||
| Vivian | Zhu | Honorable Mention, Biological Science and Engineering Category | The effects of MG-132 combined with 9-cis, 13-cis, and all-trans retinoic acid on SH-SY5Y neuroblastoma cells (Biological Science and Engineering) | 12 | |||
| Xingying | Zhu | Honorable Mention, Biological Science and Engineering Category | Effects of Liposome delivered miRNA-142-3p in LN-18 cells on Temozolomide Treatment against Malignant Glioma (Biological Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| Yavneh Day School | Dano | Costello | Ryan Jacob | Field | Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair | What food has the most electrical conductivity? (Physical Science and Engineering) | 7 |
| Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Gabe | Sachse | Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair | Which stat correlates best to run scoring in Major League Baseball? (Physical Science and Engineering) | 7 | |||
| 2nd Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | |||||||