Harker School-Middle Campus
Project Awards 2022
Synopsys Silicon Valley Science and Technology Championship
| School | Teacher | Student | Award | Title | Gr | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Harker School-Middle Campus | Mohit | Daswani (PSP) | Siddhartha Patel | Daswani | Honorable Mention Student Award: $40 and Certificate of Achievement, Association for Computing Machinery, ACM- Lower Division | A novel deep learning approach for open area smoke detection (Physical Science and Engineering) | 7 |
| Nominated to compete envelope to apply for Broadcom MASTERS, Broadcom MASTERS - 7th Grade | |||||||
| Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair | |||||||
| 1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Tina | Kim | Hubert | Lau | Honorable Mention, Biological Science and Engineering Category | Comparison of Electricity Generation Using Rotting and Fresh Fruit (Biological Science and Engineering) | 8 | |
| Serena | Lau | Honorable Mention, Biological Science and Engineering Category | Comparison of Electricity Generation Using Rotting and Fresh Fruit (Biological Science and Engineering) | 8 | |||
| Sofia Chawla | Shah | Nominated to compete envelope to apply for Broadcom MASTERS, Broadcom MASTERS - 8th Grade | Change and Improvement of Antioxidant Levels in Different Fruits and Storage Environments (Biological Science and Engineering) | 8 | |||
| Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair | |||||||
| 1st Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Aditya | Shivakumar | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Developing a 3D-Printable Roof Shingle to Solve the Problem of Structural Damage Caused by Falling Trees (Physical Science and Engineering) | 8 | |||
| Rahul Sharma | Sundaresan | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Developing a 3D-Printable Roof Shingle to Solve the Problem of Structural Damage Caused by Falling Trees (Physical Science and Engineering) | 8 | |||
| Jonathan Alexander | Szeto | Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair | A Cost-Effective Method Using Ash to Improve the Efficacy of Oil Spill Bioremediation with Bacillus subtilis (Physical Science and Engineering) | 8 | |||
| 2nd Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Kallie | Wang | Nominated to compete envelope to apply for Broadcom MASTERS, Broadcom MASTERS - 8th Grade | Change and Improvement of Antioxidant Levels in Different Fruits and Storage Environments (Biological Science and Engineering) | 8 | |||
| Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair | |||||||
| 1st Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Benjamin | Morgensen | Rory Crystal | Hu | Nominated to compete envelope to apply for Broadcom MASTERS, Broadcom MASTERS - 6th Grade | The Effects of Pesticides, Caffeine & Tea Polyphenols on the Visual and Olfactory Learning and Memory of the Honey Bee (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 | Janam | Chahal | Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair | Antagonistic Neurochemicals and Their Effects on the Heart Rate of Daphnia magna (Biological Science and Engineering) | 8 | |
| 2nd Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Jaden rao | Fu | Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair | Real-Time Prediction of Crop Yields for California based on the Environmental Variables (Biological Science and Engineering) | 8 | |||
| 2nd Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Minal | Jalil | Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair | Antagonistic Neurochemicals and Their Effects on the Heart Rate of Daphnia magna (Biological Science and Engineering) | 8 | |||
| 2nd Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Ashley | Mo | Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair | The Effects of Different Nutrients Used in Ocean Fertilization on Growth of Algae (Biological Science and Engineering) | 8 | |||
| Honorable Mention, Biological Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Team Award: $250 and framed cert, SVACS Dave Parker Award for Excellence in Chemistry | |||||||
| Audrey | Yang | $50 Middle School Plant Science, California Botanical Society | A thermal imaging-based methodology to predict plant stress (Biological Science and Engineering) | 8 | |||
| Tiffany Zhu | Zhu | Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair | The Effects of Different Nutrients Used in Ocean Fertilization on Growth of Algae (Biological Science and Engineering) | 8 | |||
| Honorable Mention, Biological Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Team Award: $250 and framed cert, SVACS Dave Parker Award for Excellence in Chemistry | |||||||
| Kathy | Peng | Disha | Gupta | Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair | Improving Outcomes: Early Detection of Autism Using fMRI and Phenotypic Data with Convolutional Neural Networks (Biological Science and Engineering) | 8 | |
| 2nd Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Mikhil | Kiran | 2nd Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Ceye: The app to assist the visually impaired with currency differentiation (Physical Science and Engineering) | 8 | |||
| $50 gift check and certificate, Access Braille Awards | |||||||
| Krish | Nachnani | 2nd Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Ceye: The app to assist the visually impaired with currency differentiation (Physical Science and Engineering) | 8 | |||
| $50 gift check and certificate, Access Braille Awards | |||||||
| Tanvi | Sivakumar | Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair | Improving Outcomes: Early Detection of Autism Using fMRI and Phenotypic Data with Convolutional Neural Networks (Biological Science and Engineering) | 8 | |||
| 2nd Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Rajasree | Swaminathan | Abby | Wang | $100 Middle School Plant Science, California Botanical Society | Robee: Developing a Novel AI-based Plant Pollination System that Surpasses Natural Bees in Efficiency and Uniformity (Biological Science and Engineering) | 7 | |
| Exceptional Merit- Betterment of Humanity, $200 Certificate (all grades), SPV Market Research "Most Promising Young Scientist" | |||||||
| Shida | Tan (PSP) | Ava Tan | Bhowmik | Nominated to compete envelope to apply for Broadcom MASTERS, Broadcom MASTERS - 8th Grade | A Novel Low-Cost Portable Apparatus to Assess Face Mask and Instrument Cover Efficacy (Physical Science and Engineering) | 8 | |
| Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair | |||||||
| 1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Most Promising Young Scientist (Female), $225 and Certificate (GR 6-8), SPV Market Research "Most Promising Young Scientist" | |||||||
| Ying | Ye (PSP) | Jayden | Liu | Nominated to compete envelope to apply for Broadcom MASTERS, Broadcom MASTERS - 7th Grade | Studying the multiple variables and their effects on a home-built aquaponics system (Physical Science and Engineering) | 7 | |
| Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair | |||||||
| 1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| 1st Place $100 and Certificate, Valley Water Awards-MS | |||||||