Palo Alto High School

Project Awards 2021

Synopsys Silicon Valley Science and Technology Championship

School	Teacher		Student		Award	Title	Gr
Palo Alto High School	Cynthia	Chen	Franklin	Wang	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	New NEOs Discovered Using Deep Learning Are Fainter and Move Faster Than Those Previously Discovered (RRI Physical Science and Engineering)	11
					Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair
					1st Award, RRI Physical Science and Engineering Category
	Sefika Gul	Eris	Tara	Kapoor	Grand Prize Alternate - Physical Sciences - Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF) - $250 Cash, Santa Clara Valley Science & Engineering Fair Assn - Board of Directors Awards - High School	Concatenated CNN and Transformer-Encoder Neural Network to Diagnose Cancerous Thyroid Nodules in Ultrasound Cine Images (RRI Physical Science and Engineering)	11
					Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair
					1st Award, RRI Physical Science and Engineering Category
			Aditya	Oberai	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	Fighting Hunger: A Novel, Cheap & Effective Hydroponic Plant Growing Apparatus Using Less Energy, Time, Water, and Space (Biological Science and Engineering)	10
					Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair
					1st Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category
					First Place, $125 Wireless Communications Alliance Award, Wireless Communications Alliance
					High School $50 and letter of recognition, Northern California Institute of Food Technologists (NCIFT)
	Jian	Ge (mentor)	Cindy Jingru	Wang	Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair	Studying the fundamental stellar mass-radius relation in low mass binaries identified in Kepler-MARVELS survey data (RRI Physical Science and Engineering)	10
					1st Award, RRI Physical Science and Engineering Category
	Michael	Mishali	Wesley	Maa	HS student - Certificate of Achievement, Medallion and business card to complete award ($50 gift card) and letter of congratulations, United States Navy and Marine Corps	Magnetohydrodynamic Propulsion Drive for Marine Transportation (Physical Science and Engineering)	10
			Vivian	Wu	2nd Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category	Encapsulating thyme essential oil in chitosan to develop an effective fruit fly repelling method for household use (Physical Science and Engineering)	10
	Aparna	Sankararaman	Annika	Viswesh	Honorable Mention, RRI Biological Science and Engineering Category	Investigating the Interaction between SARS-CoV2 NSP15 and Human E3 Ubiquitin Ligase using Molecular Docking Approach (RRI Biological Science and Engineering)	11
					$100 for Individual projects, IBM Award