Monta Vista High School
Project Awards 2021
Synopsys Silicon Valley Science and Technology Championship
| School | Teacher | Student | Award | Title | Gr | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Monta Vista High School | Colin | Anderson | Manasi | Ganti | Honorable Mention Student Award: $50 and Certificate of Achievement, Association for Computing Machinery, San Francisco Bay Area Professional Chapter | Using Machine Learning to Measure and Improve Engagement in Online Learning (Physical Science and Engineering) | 11 |
| Sushma | Bana | Amy | Zheng | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Analyzing the effects of spatiotemporal variability of vegetation on the intensity of wildfires using satellite imagery (Physical Science and Engineering) | 9 | |
| Pamela | Chow | Vivian | Ong | Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair | Automated Plant Growth Chamber for Locations with Low Quantities of Water (Physical Science and Engineering) | 9 | |
| 1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Ananya | Rupanagunta | Honorable Mention, Biological Science and Engineering Category | ALS patient risk stratification using Machine Learning (Biological Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| John | Conlin | Ansh | Chaurasia | $50 cash award and certificate, Bruce Kawanami Engineering Award | Early Skin Cancer Diagnosis using Convolutional Neural Networks (Biological Science and Engineering) | 11 | |
| Samhita | Srivatsan | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | An Efficient Approach to Storage Using Machine Learning, Image Detection and Radio-Frequency Identification (Physical Science and Engineering) | 10 | |||
| Scott | DeRuiter | Arya Shriya | Srivastava | Honorable Mention, Certificate Only, American Society of Engineers of Indian Origin Award | Using Machine Learning Technology to Predict the Growth of Glioblastomas (Biological Science and Engineering) | 10 | |
| Renee | Fallon | Srushti | Batni | Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair | The effect of decreased pH levels on Haliclona Caerulea as a model of Ocean Acidification on the Porifera species (Biological Science and Engineering) | 9 | |
| 1st Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Gaia | Buller | Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair | Effect of Octocrylene and Changes of Temperature on Zooxanthellae Cells to Model the Harm of Common Sunscreen Ingredient (Biological Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| 1st Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Ishanvi Naina | Kommula | IEEE Electro-Technology $50 gift card and a certificate, Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers | Mitigating ocean microplastics: Motorized device to extricate microfibers from laundry filters for safe disposal (Physical Science and Engineering) | 9 | |||
| Christopher | Lee | Honorable Mention, Biological Science and Engineering Category | Fibrillin-2 Attenuation During Tissue Regeneration (Biological Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| Ashika | Mittal | Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair | The Effect of Fenugreek on the Size of Hyperglycemic Bombyx Mori Silkworms as a Model for Hyperglycemia (Biological Science and Engineering) | 9 | |||
| 2nd Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Ojas Atul | Sathaye | High School $50 and letter of recognition, Northern California Institute of Food Technologists (NCIFT) | Effects of caffeine consumption on food preference and intake in a Drosophila Melanogaster model (Biological Science and Engineering) | 10 | |||
| Mridula | Srinivasan | 2nd Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | Investigating the Effects of Withania Somnifera on Charcot-Marie-Tooth Type 1 (Biological Science and Engineering) | 9 | |||
| Shridhula | Srinivasan | 2nd Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | Investigating the Effects of Withania Somnifera on Charcot-Marie-Tooth Type 1 (Biological Science and Engineering) | 9 | |||
| Jonah | Tien | Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair | The Shark: An Ultra-Breathable Mask utilizing Airflow based on a Culmination of Structure-Function Biomimicry Design (Biological Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| 1st Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Divya | Venkataraman | 2nd Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | Application of Light Therapy on Alzheimer's Disease by Measuring Locomotive Ability in a Drosophila Melanogaster Model (Biological Science and Engineering) | 10 | |||
| 1st Place $125 and Certificate of Achievement, American Association for Laboratory Animal Science, Northern California Branch | |||||||
| Debbie | Frazier | Anusha | Chittari | 2nd Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Changing eating habits and mitigating climate change: a carbon footprint calculator and tracker for varying foods. (Physical Science and Engineering) | 10 | |
| Myung Suh | Choi | Honorable Mention, Biological Science and Engineering Category | Modeling ADHD in Drosophila: Investigating the effects of glucose on dopamine production demonstrated by locomotion (Biological Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| David | Greenstein | Arjun | Kashyap | Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair | Using Natural Language Processing and User Feedback to Make a Chatbot That Gives Accurate Answers to Queries (Physical Science and Engineering) | 10 | |
| 1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Akira | Hasegawa (PSP) | Dylan Chen | Ong | 2nd Award, RRI Physical Science and Engineering Category | Predicting Covid-19 From X-Rays With Machine Learning (RRI Physical Science and Engineering) | 10 | |
| Kyle | Jones | Anika Kiran | Nagavara | Honorable Mention, Biological Science and Engineering Category | The Effect of Different Amounts of Potassium Iodide on Asthma in Drosophila Melanogaster (Biological Science and Engineering) | 11 | |
| Chaitra | Raghupathi | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Designing a Hydraulic Turbine to Filter Micro Plastic Produced During PETase Degradation of Polyethylene Terephthalate (Physical Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| Sonia | Swamy | Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair | BioShield: Eco-friendly Super-Accumulator-Biopolymer based heavy metal filter as plant protector and growth stimulator (Physical Science and Engineering) | 9 | |||
| 1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Joe | Kim | Gavin | Hung | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Lightweight Rice plant disease management mobile application using CNN and leaf color based nitrogen detection (Physical Science and Engineering) | 11 | |
| Siddhartha | Mishra | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Lightweight Rice plant disease management mobile application using CNN and leaf color based nitrogen detection (Physical Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| Arnav | Reddy | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Lightweight Rice plant disease management mobile application using CNN and leaf color based nitrogen detection (Physical Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| Yashnil | Saha | 2nd Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Developing a Novel, Accurate Machine Learning based Autism Spectrum Disorder Classification Model for Toddlers (Physical Science and Engineering) | 9 | |||
| Atul | Singh (PSP) | Kaushal | Amancherla | 2nd Award, RRI Physical Science and Engineering Category | Machine Learning Model To Detect Diabetic Retinopathy In Eye Images (RRI Physical Science and Engineering) | 11 | |
| Alan | Wong | Milind | Maiti | 2nd Place Student Award: $320 and Certificate of Achievement, Association for Computing Machinery, San Francisco Bay Area Professional Chapter | Cardiovascular Disease Diagnosis using Deep Neural Networks (Physical Science and Engineering) | 10 | |
| Jai | Sharma | 2nd Place Student Award: $320 and Certificate of Achievement, Association for Computing Machinery, San Francisco Bay Area Professional Chapter | Cardiovascular Disease Diagnosis using Deep Neural Networks (Physical Science and Engineering) | 10 | |||
| Christopher T | Sun | 2nd Place Student Award: $320 and Certificate of Achievement, Association for Computing Machinery, San Francisco Bay Area Professional Chapter | Cardiovascular Disease Diagnosis using Deep Neural Networks (Physical Science and Engineering) | 10 | |||