BASIS Independent Silicon Valley School

Project Awards 2023

Synopsys Silicon Valley Science and Technology Championship

School	Teacher		Student		Award	Title	Gr
BASIS Independent Silicon Valley School	Karen	Allendoerfer	Saanchi	Kapoor	1st Place Award - $500 and Framed Certificate of Achievement, SVACS High School Award for Excellence in Chemistry	A novel aqueous approach for the synthesis of palladium nanoparticles (RRI Physical Science and Engineering)	11
					Most Promising Young Scientist , $250 and Certificate (High School GR 9-12), SPV Market Research "Most Promising Young Scientist"
					1st Award, RRI Physical Science and Engineering Category
					1st Place - $100, Certificate of Achievement, SAMPE - Society for the Advancement of Material and Process Engineering
	Swetha	Bhattacharya	Paras	Goel	2nd Award, RRI Biological Science and Engineering Category	The Effect of Stain Normalization and Data Augmentation on Metastatic Tissue Classification (RRI Biological Science and Engineering)	11
			Sanskriti	Singh	1st Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category	The Segmentation of Lung Anomalies on Chest Radiograph X-rays using Machine Learning (Biological Science and Engineering)	11
					$100 for Individual projects and a certificate, IBM Award
	Ross	Cunningham	Andrew Muze	Li	Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category	The Power of Voice: A Speech Analytics Application using Artificial Intelligence and Natural Language Processing (Physical Science and Engineering)	8
	Patrick	Huet	Nidhi Omeshwar	Lawange	2nd Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category	Novel Approach to Correct Ballet Dance Technique Using Machine Learning Model (Physical Science and Engineering)	11
	Ollie	Schindler	Krishna	Bhatt	$500 + certificate + a signed book + breakfast with Bob Zeidman, Zeidman Award	A Wearable Auto-balance Device to Prevent Falling for People with Balancing Issues (Physical Science and Engineering)	8
					2nd Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category
			Kashish	Kapoor	Nominated to compete envelope to apply for Thermo Fisher JIC, Thermo Fisher JIC - 8th Grade	Using Machine learning to better classify different stages of Alzheimer's Disease (Biological Science and Engineering)	8
					1st Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category
	Kirti	Tamhane	Charan	Sridhar	Honorable Mention, Biological Science and Engineering Category	Detection of Pulmonary Embolism using an Ensemble Model Based on Neural Networks of EHR Data and CT Scans (Biological Science and Engineering)	9