Los Gatos-Saratoga Union High School District
Project Awards 2022
Synopsys Silicon Valley Science and Technology Championship
| School | Teacher | Student | Award | Title | Gr | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Los Gatos High School | Jennifer | Lee | Ishir | Lakhani | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Using a Neural Network to Identify Respiratory Crackles in Wireless Stethoscope Data (Physical Science and Engineering) | 11 |
| Cathy | Messenger | Ananya | Aswani Kumar | Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair | The Effects of Procyanidin B2 on Epilepsy on Drosophila Melanogaster (Biological Science and Engineering) | 12 | |
| 2nd Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Sasha | Balasingam | Honorable Mention, Biological Science and Engineering Category | Testing if the Increase of Choline can Reduce Repetitive Behavior in a Potential Model for Autism in C. elegans. (Biological Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| Katarina | Bjegovic | 2nd Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | Using machine learning to analyze capsule endoscopy images in order to identify abnormalities in the small intestine (Biological Science and Engineering) | 12 | |||
| Rodrigo | Cantu Valadez | $100 for Individual projects and a certificate, IBM Award | Investigating the effects of carbon-based RF aerogels on DSSCs with the purpose of increasing cell efficiency (Physical Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| 2nd Place - $75, Certificate of Achievement, SAMPE - Society for the Advancement of Material and Process Engineering | |||||||
| Exceptional Merit, Certificate (all grades), SPV Market Research "Most Promising Young Scientist" | |||||||
| IEEE Electro-Technology $50 Amazon gift card and a certificate, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers | |||||||
| Taj | Chunawala | Letter of Encouragement, Environment Protection Agency | Testing the Effects of Ellagic Acid and Daidzein on Amyloid-Beta Toxicity in C. Elegan Model of Alzheimers (Biological Science and Engineering) | 10 | |||
| Kamron Reza | Emami | Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair | Examining the Protective Abilities of the Alkaloid Tryptanthrin against Amyloid-Beta Toxicity in Caenorhabditis elegans (Biological Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| 1st Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Helena Ruchuan | Feng | Honorable Mention, Biological Science and Engineering Category | Lichens in Medicine: The Effects of Vulpinic Acid on Oxidative Stress-Related Neurodegeneration in a C. Elegans Model (Biological Science and Engineering) | 12 | |||
| $100, Robby Beyers Innovative Solutions Awards | |||||||
| Clara Maria | Hansen | Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair | The Effects of Repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation on Parkinson's and Leigh Syndrome in Drosophila melanogaster (Biological Science and Engineering) | 12 | |||
| 1st Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Kate M | Herron | Letter of Encouragement, Environment Protection Agency | The Effects of the Sunscreen Additive Sulisobenzone on the growth, movement and ROS Production of Gymnodinium Sp. (Physical Science and Engineering) | 10 | |||
| Madeline | Ho | Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair | Testing the effects of nicotine and diacetyl on lung microbiome composition in respect to COVID-19 susceptibility (Biological Science and Engineering) | 12 | |||
| 1st Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Stanley | Shen | 2nd Place Student Award: $320 and Certificate of Achievement, Association for Computing Machinery, ACM-Upper Division | A Novel Three-Dimensional Navigation Method for the Visually Impaired (Physical Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| 2nd Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| $25 gift check and certificate, Access Braille Awards | |||||||
| Allison | Snyder | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Using Zeeman Splitting to measure the magnetic fields and stellar cycle of Alpha Centauri B (Physical Science and Engineering) | 12 | |||
| Elizabeth Margaret | Snyder | 2nd Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | Observing the Effect of PM 2.5 on Staurastrum sp. Phytoplankton ROS Production and Optical Density in Freshwater. (Biological Science and Engineering) | 10 | |||
| Sandeep | Patel (PSP) | Taren | Patel | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | American Sign Language Translator (Physical Science and Engineering) | 10 | |
| Chris | Spenner | Pranav | Tadepalli | Honorable Mention Student Award: $50 and Certificate of Achievement, Association for Computing Machinery, ACM-Upper Division | Using Difference Imaging to Study Photometrically Variable Stars in the Andromeda Galaxy (Physical Science and Engineering) | 12 | |
| 2nd Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Saratoga High School | Janny | Cahatol | Kyleen | Liao | Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair | Novel Fine-grained Air Quality Forecasting for Wildfire Season Using Graph Neural Nets (Physical Science and Engineering) | 10 |
| 1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Letter of Encouragement, Environment Protection Agency | |||||||
| Shreyas | Rana | Honorable Mention, Biological Science and Engineering Category | Using A Mobile Phone for At-home Monitoring of Progression of Parkinson's Disease (Biological Science and Engineering) | 12 | |||
| $100, Robby Beyers Innovative Solutions Awards | |||||||
| Rohan | Sangameswaran | Honorable Mention, Biological Science and Engineering Category | MAIScope - A low-cost portable microscope with built-in vision AI to automate Malaria diagnosis in developing countries (Biological 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 - ASEI | |||||||
| 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 | |||||||
| Jennifer | Lee | Arya | Ashok | Letter of Encouragement, Environment Protection Agency | Examining the Effect of Hemp plastics on Gymnodinium sp. Optical Density and ROS Output to Model Coral Bleaching. (Biological Science and Engineering) | 12 | |
| Thomas | Wang | Sannidhi | Boppana | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Noise Resilience of Reduced Precision Neural Networks (Physical Science and Engineering) | 10 | |