East Side Union High School District
Project Awards 2022
Synopsys Silicon Valley Science and Technology Championship
| School | Teacher | Student | Award | Title | Gr | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Andrew Hill High School | Patrick | Allamandola | Adrian | Bao | IEEE Electro-Technology $50 Amazon gift card and a certificate, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers | The Optimization of Inverting Amplifiers with Reinforcement Learning (RRI Physical Science and Engineering) | 11 |
| Evergreen Valley High School | Marx | Advincula | Alan Yu | Li | 2nd Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Determining Country Happiness from Social Media Data (Physical Science and Engineering) | 10 |
| Saurish | Srivastava | Honorable Mention, Biological Science and Engineering Category | Development of Novel Multi-modal CNN Strategy for Classification and Evaluation of REM Sleep Behavior Disorder (Biological Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| Sangeeta | Bhatnagar | Sudiksha | Das | 2nd Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | A Smart Solution to Identify an Efficient Delivery Route involving Several Destinations and Drivers (Physical Science and Engineering) | 10 | |
| Christos | Faloutsos (mentor) | Lalithsai | Posam | Grand Prize Alternate - Biological Sciences - Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), Santa Clara Valley Science & Engineering Fair Assn - Board of Directors Awards - High School | Time series simulation and analysis for seizure detection (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 | |||||||
| Honorable Mention, Certificate Only, American Society of Engineers of Indian Origin Award - ASEI | |||||||
| Victoria | Fox (mentor) | Ravi Uday | Prabhune | Honorable Mention, RRI Biological Science and Engineering Category | The Effects of DLK-1 on Induced Pluripotent Stem Cell Growth and Cell-Cell Interdependency (RRI Biological Science and Engineering) | 10 | |
| Scott | Lubbs | Srikar | Eranky | Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair | Forecasting Drought Severity and Duration using Machine Learning and Deep Learning Techniques (RRI Physical Science and Engineering) | 11 | |
| 1st Award, RRI Physical Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Apply to get $100 and a Certificate, National Geographic That's Geography-Cultivating Empathy for the Earth Award | |||||||
| Letter of Encouragement, Environment Protection Agency | |||||||
| Kshitij | Teotia | Honorable Mention, Biological Science and Engineering Category | ADEPT:Robotic mechanism to provide therapy for patients with restricted motion using feedback control and sensory inputs (Biological Science and Engineering) | 10 | |||
| Jeffrey | Solomon | Mahita | Arun | 2nd Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Using Neural Networks to Diagnose Cutaneous Melanoma (Physical Science and Engineering) | 9 | |
| Ge (mentor) | Wang | Emmy S. | Wei | Honorable Mention Student Award: $50 and Certificate of Achievement, Association for Computing Machinery, ACM-Upper Division | Aliasing-Free Convolutional Nonlinear Networks Using Implicitly Defined Functions (Physical Science and Engineering) | 11 | |
| 2nd Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| HS student - Certificate of Achievement, Medallion and business card to complete award ($50 gift card) and letter of congratulations, Office of Naval Research -United States Navy/ US Marine Corps | |||||||
| Independence High School | Joanna | Shea | Andy | Phung | Grand Prize - Best of Championship - Outreach Schools - Qualified to be a Regeneron ISEF Finalist, Santa Clara Valley Science & Engineering Fair Assn - Board of Directors Awards - High School | Simulated Neurogenesis: Rethinking Generalization and Adversarial Robustness from a Learning Capacity Perspective (Physical Science and Engineering) | 11 |
| Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair | |||||||
| 1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| James Lick High School | Gabriela | Huynh | Ruth Abigail | Rodriguez | Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair | Affordable Prosthetics of the Future (RRI Biological Science and Engineering) | 12 |
| Honorable Mention, RRI 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 - ASEI | |||||||
| Oak Grove High School | Jennifer | Claudio | Deedee Hai | Bui | GR 9-12: $40 andStudent Award in Geoscience Excellence from Association for Women Geoscientists Bay Area Chapter,, Association for Women Geoscientists, San Francisco Bay Area Chapter | Experimental Determination of Potential Facemask Litter Contamination on Soil Systems (Physical Science and Engineering) | 10 |
| Nhu Le Thuy | Nguyen | GR 9-12: $40 andStudent Award in Geoscience Excellence from Association for Women Geoscientists Bay Area Chapter,, Association for Women Geoscientists, San Francisco Bay Area Chapter | Experimental Determination of Potential Facemask Litter Contamination on Soil Systems (Physical Science and Engineering) | 10 | |||
| Piedmont Hills High School | Moni | Mau (PSP) | Sokunthea | Mau | Letter of Encouragement, Environment Protection Agency | Finding the Most Optimal Way of Producing Ecofriendly Cellophane with Biodegradable Materials (Physical Science and Engineering) | 10 |
| Suzette | Pangrle | Himani | Manjunath | Grand Prize Alternate - Outreach Schools - Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), Santa Clara Valley Science & Engineering Fair Assn - Board of Directors Awards - High School | Investigating the Effect of Adding Eggshell Bio-filler to Arrowroot Starch Bioplastics (Physical Science and Engineering) | 10 | |
| Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair | |||||||
| 1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Honorable Mention - Certificate of Achievement, SAMPE - Society for the Advancement of Material and Process Engineering | |||||||
| Letter of Encouragement, Environment Protection Agency | |||||||
| Santa Teresa High School | Debra | Dimas | Aditi | Bordia | 2nd Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | STEMaster (Physical Science and Engineering) | 11 |
| Aydin Maxwell | Cunningham | $100, Robby Beyers Innovative Solutions Awards | Lunar Paver - Sintering Lunar Dust using EM waves on a Robot (Physical Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| 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 | |||||||
| Certificate and ribbon, ASM Materials Educational Foundation (Regional) | |||||||
| Leland Soriano | Jacobson | $100, Robby Beyers Innovative Solutions Awards | Lunar Paver - Sintering Lunar Dust using EM waves on a Robot (Physical Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| 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 | |||||||
| Certificate and ribbon, ASM Materials Educational Foundation (Regional) | |||||||
| Zainab Kashif | Salim | 2nd Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | STEMaster (Physical Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| Suha | Zariya | Letter of Encouragement, Environment Protection Agency | Eco-Life: App Supporting Sustainable Lifestyles (Physical Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| Carole | Ng | Krish S | Kumar | Grand Prize Alternate - Outreach Schools - Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), Santa Clara Valley Science & Engineering Fair Assn - Board of Directors Awards - High School | What is the effect of rotational speed on wind patterns for toroidal planets? (Physical Science and Engineering) | 11 | |
| 1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Adithya | Pradeep | Grand Prize Alternate - Outreach Schools - Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), Santa Clara Valley Science & Engineering Fair Assn - Board of Directors Awards - High School | What is the effect of rotational speed on wind patterns for toroidal planets? (Physical Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| 1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Silver Creek High School | Michelle | Advincula | Aniket | Gupta | 2nd Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | DriveX: Using AI Sampling and Machine Learning to save lives from drowsy driving (Physical Science and Engineering) | 10 |
| Fnu | Yash | 2nd Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | DriveX: Using AI Sampling and Machine Learning to save lives from drowsy driving (Physical Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| Bich | Nguyen | Vedant V | Janapaty | Grand Prize - Best of Championship - Outreach Schools - Qualified to be a Regeneron ISEF Finalist, Santa Clara Valley Science & Engineering Fair Assn - Board of Directors Awards - High School | An Elkhorn Slough Case Study: A Novel, Predictive Approach To Monitor Wetland Health (Physical Science and Engineering) | 10 | |
| 1st Place $150, Valley Water Awards HS | |||||||
| Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair | |||||||
| 1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Certificate of Achievement, NASA Earth System Science Award | |||||||
| Letter of Encouragement, Environment Protection Agency | |||||||
| Jacob | Sandoval | Ankit | Mohan | $50 cash award and certificate, Bruce Kawanami Engineering Award | Using an more efficient cooling system to save energy (Physical Science and Engineering) | 9 | |
| James | Staten | Megana | Nimmagadda | $100 for Individual projects and a certificate, IBM Award | ImmiVision: Detecting incomplete immigration applications using AI (Physical Science and Engineering) | 10 | |