Fremont Union High School District
Project Awards 2024
Synopsys Silicon Valley Science and Technology Championship
School | Teacher | Student | Award | Title | Gr | ||
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Cupertino High School | Stella | Demetriou | Ethan | Chu | 2nd Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Cost-Effective Compact Thermal Imaging Module for Drone-Based Hidden Mine Detection (Physical Science and Engineering) | 11 |
Winfred | Lin | 2nd Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Cost-Effective Compact Thermal Imaging Module for Drone-Based Hidden Mine Detection (Physical Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
Amy | Plat | Anika Indu | Mukherjee | 2nd Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | Applying Neural Networks for Classification & Diagnosis of Thoracic Conditions from Frontal & Lateral Chest Radiographs (Biological Science and Engineering) | 10 | |
Reva Mahee | Ukkadam | 2nd Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | Applying Neural Networks for Classification & Diagnosis of Thoracic Conditions from Frontal & Lateral Chest Radiographs (Biological Science and Engineering) | 10 | |||
Daniel | Stavis | Neha | Shaik | 1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Predicting Wildfire Spread with Machine Learning and A Socio-Ecological Approach to Identify Areas of High Vulnerability (Physical Science and Engineering) | 9 | |
Hugo | Steemers | Ragavan | Arivazhagan | Honorable Mention, Biological Science and Engineering Category | SolSafe: Low-cost Novel Predictions in Confidence and Severity of Heat Stroke using Deep Learning (Biological Science and Engineering) | 11 | |
Abhinab | Chatterjee | 1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Third Eye: Wearable ML Device using CNN and Advanced Distance Estimation for Enhanced Cyclist Road Safety (Physical Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
Dohyun | Yang | 1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Third Eye: Wearable ML Device using CNN and Advanced Distance Estimation for Enhanced Cyclist Road Safety (Physical Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
Fremont High School | Devyn | Snyder | Christopher | Kao | Upper Division :- Honorable Mention Student Award: $50 and Certificate of Achievement, Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) | Robot that Leverages Computer Vision and Passive Intake to Autonomously Identify and Pickup Trash from Parks (Physical Science and Engineering) | 10 |
Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
IEEE Electro-Technology $25 Amazon gift card and a certificate, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (Part 2) | |||||||
Akhil Raju | Pathapati | Upper Division :- Honorable Mention Student Award: $50 and Certificate of Achievement, Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) | Robot that Leverages Computer Vision and Passive Intake to Autonomously Identify and Pickup Trash from Parks (Physical Science and Engineering) | 10 | |||
Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
IEEE Electro-Technology $25 Amazon gift card and a certificate, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (Part 2) | |||||||
Homestead High School | Dara | Alleyne-Levy | Bhavya | Krishnan | 1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Autonomous Brain Inspired Mapping with 6DoF Navigation for Drone Swarms in GPS Denied and RF Jammed Hostile Environments (Physical Science and Engineering) | 11 |
$100 for Individual projects and a certificate, IBM Award | |||||||
GR 9-12: Honorable Mention, Certificate of Achievement, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) Intelligent Systems Award | |||||||
Sam | Fung | Vibha | Bengani | Honorable Mention - Certificate of Achievement, SAMPE - Society for the Advancement of Material and Process Engineering | Separation of Textile Fibers in Discarded Garments to Minimize Landfill Waste (Physical Science and Engineering) | 10 | |
Daniel | Nunez | Diya | Bengani | 1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | GUI for Real-Time Force and Kinematics Data Using Low-Cost Instrumented Sensors and a Nonlinear Data Model (Physical Science and Engineering) | 12 | |
Certificate + ASEI Silicon Valley Emerging Technology Membership + Optional MentorConnect matching for 1 year, American Society of Engineers of Indian Origin Award - ASEI | |||||||
IEEE Electro-Technology $25 Amazon gift card and a certificate, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (Part 2) | |||||||
Alexandru Thomas | Cismaru | 2nd Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | Using Transformer Machine Learning Models on EEG Data to Aid the Diagnosis of ADHD in Children (Biological Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
Dylan | Dale | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Applying Unsupervised Learning Techniques to Automated EEG Artifact Removal and Seizure Detection (Physical Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
Samuel | Yuan | 2nd place HS project - $50 and Certificate of Achievement, American Vacuum Society, Northern CA | SuperDiff: Diffusion Models for Conditional Generation of Hypothetical Superconductors (RRI Physical Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
Kathleen | Shreve | Armaan Christopher | Gomes | Grand Prize - Best of Championship - Physical Sciences - Qualified to be a Regeneron ISEF Finalist, Santa Clara Valley Science & Engineering Fair Assn - Board of Directors Awards - High School | Clear: Utilizing Glasses-Embedded Beamformers to Enhance Speech Clarity and Spatial Context for the Hearing Impaired (Biological Science and Engineering) | 11 | |
$500 Grand Prize, Robby Beyers Innovative Solutions Awards | |||||||
Andreasen Excellence in Engineering Science Award (all grades) $325, SPV Market Research | |||||||
1st Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
$100 for Individual projects and a certificate, IBM Award | |||||||
$50 and Certificate of Achievement, Kerry Veenstra Awards | |||||||
Lynbrook High School | Nicole | DellaSantina | Shreshta | Ramji | 2nd Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | Influence of Mycorrhizal Fungi on Nitrate & Phosphate Retention in Brassica oleracea Roots to prevent Aquatic Dead Zones (Biological Science and Engineering) | 9 |
Sathvika | Siva | 2nd Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | Influence of Mycorrhizal Fungi on Nitrate & Phosphate Retention in Brassica oleracea Roots to prevent Aquatic Dead Zones (Biological Science and Engineering) | 9 | |||
Bradley | Fulk | Calvin | Zhou | 2nd Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | A2D2: An AI-driven Autonomous Drone-based Detection Network for Wildfires in Large-Scale Areas (Physical Science and Engineering) | 11 | |
$100 and Certificate of Achievement, Schonert Award | |||||||
Kenneth | Iams | Vrishank | Chandrasekhar | Grand Prize - Best of Championship - Biological Sciences - Qualified to be a Regeneron ISEF Finalist, Santa Clara Valley Science & Engineering Fair Assn - Board of Directors Awards - High School | Early Prediction of Distant Recurrence for Gastrointestinal Cancer Patients via Biomarker Discovery in Digital Pathology (Biological Science and Engineering) | 11 | |
1st Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
Zachary Alexander | Pan | 2nd Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Badminton Swinging Form Correction Through Computer Analysis (Physical Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
Jason | Lee | Emma | Chang | Honorable Mention, Biological Science and Engineering Category | A Device to Collect Posture Data (Biological Science and Engineering) | 10 | |
Lester | Leung | Ryan | Bansal | 1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | The use of a traffic sign detection device to alert drivers and prevent car crashes (Physical Science and Engineering) | 9 | |
IEEE Electro-Technology $25 Amazon gift card and a certificate, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (Part 1) | |||||||
Dale | Liu | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Developing a machine learning equipped drone for early detection of wildfires in forests around the Bay Area (Physical Science and Engineering) | 9 | |||
Sohil | Rathi | 1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | The use of a traffic sign detection device to alert drivers and prevent car crashes (Physical Science and Engineering) | 10 | |||
IEEE Electro-Technology $25 Amazon gift card and a certificate, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (Part 1) | |||||||
Pranav | Saharan | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Developing a machine learning equipped drone for early detection of wildfires in forests around the Bay Area (Physical Science and Engineering) | 9 | |||
Lucas | Su | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Developing a machine learning equipped drone for early detection of wildfires in forests around the Bay Area (Physical Science and Engineering) | 9 | |||
Kathleen | Loia | Harold | Wang | 1st Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | The effect of degradation of chlorella vulgaris cell walls by cellulase on rapidity of auxin response (Biological Science and Engineering) | 11 | |
Thanh | Nguyen | Hao | Gu | Most Promising Young Scientist , $200 and Certificate (High School GR 9-12), SPV Market Research | MicroWorm: A Novel Millimeter-Scale Earthworm Robot for the Safe Navigation of Variable and Confined Environments (Physical Science and Engineering) | 11 | |
Certificate of Achievement; Individually Wrapped Award Package from U.S. Air Force, United States Air Force | |||||||
IEEE Electro-Technology $25 Amazon gift card and a certificate, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (Part 2) | |||||||
Isaac | Pallone | Haoyuan | Deng | 2nd Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | The design and construction of a wheel with adaptive contour for different terrains (Physical Science and Engineering) | 10 | |
High School Student - Certificate of Achievement, Letter of Congratulations from the Chief of Naval Research, Medallion and $50 gift card (redeemable online), Office of Naval Research -United States Navy/ US Marine Corps | |||||||
IEEE Electro-Technology $25 Amazon gift card and a certificate, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (Part 2) | |||||||
Amanda | Jin | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Using smart devices to detect early signs of water pollution based on machine learning object detection algorithms (Physical Science and Engineering) | 10 | |||
Certificate of Achievement and opportunity to advance to state, national and international competitions, U. S. Stockholm Junior Water Prize | |||||||
Shripriya | Kalbhavi | 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 | A Novel Method of Active Medication Delivery via Microneedle Arrays using a Belousov-Zhabotinsky Oscillating Hydrogel (RRI Biological Science and Engineering) | 9 | |||
1st Award, RRI Biological Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
Sohum | Uttamchandani | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | A System for Real-Time Location Tracking for Patient-Donor Matching and Supply-Demand Inventory Forecasting (Physical Science and Engineering) | 9 | |||
Hugo | Steemers | Anish Sriram | Bhethanabotla | Honorable Mention, Biological Science and Engineering Category | SolSafe: Low-cost Novel Predictions in Confidence and Severity of Heat Stroke using Deep Learning (Biological Science and Engineering) | 11 | |
David | Taylor | Ava | Chen | Most Promising Young Scientist , $200 and Certificate (High School GR 9-12), SPV Market Research | Using Different Current Profiles to Achieve High Efficiency Electromagnetic Propulsion for Public Mass Transportation (Physical Science and Engineering) | 10 | |
1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
1st place HS project - $150 and Certificate of Achievement, American Vacuum Society, Northern CA | |||||||
IEEE Electro-Technology $25 Amazon gift card and a certificate, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (Part 2) | |||||||
Sophia | Chen | Most Promising Young Scientist , $200 and Certificate (High School GR 9-12), SPV Market Research | Using Different Current Profiles to Achieve High Efficiency Electromagnetic Propulsion for Public Mass Transportation (Physical Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
1st place HS project - $150 and Certificate of Achievement, American Vacuum Society, Northern CA | |||||||
IEEE Electro-Technology $25 Amazon gift card and a certificate, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (Part 2) | |||||||
Annie | Peng | Most Promising Young Scientist , $200 and Certificate (High School GR 9-12), SPV Market Research | Using Different Current Profiles to Achieve High Efficiency Electromagnetic Propulsion for Public Mass Transportation (Physical Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
1st place HS project - $150 and Certificate of Achievement, American Vacuum Society, Northern CA | |||||||
IEEE Electro-Technology $25 Amazon gift card and a certificate, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (Part 2) | |||||||
Franklin | Yang | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Galactic Evolution of SMACS 0723 via Morphological Analysis of James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) Data (Physical Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
Julia | Wendel | Kangjia | Huang | Upper Division :- Honorable Mention Student Award: $50 and Certificate of Achievement, Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) | Aiding Femoral Osteonecrosis Treatment by Obtaining Quantitative Parameters through Image Analysis (Biological Science and Engineering) | 11 | |
Chaaruhaas | Kandregula | Upper Division :- Honorable Mention Student Award: $50 and Certificate of Achievement, Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) | Aiding Femoral Osteonecrosis Treatment by Obtaining Quantitative Parameters through Image Analysis (Biological Science and Engineering) | 10 | |||
Monta Vista High School | Julie | Choi | Suhani | Pahuja | 1st Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | Identification of shared genetic risk factors between juvenile diabetes and other autoimmune diseases using multi-omics (Biological Science and Engineering) | 10 |
Sunny Kuo | Yao | Honorable Mention, Biological Science and Engineering Category | Bioinformatics RNA-Sequence Data Analysis Revealed Pathogenic Genes in NASH (Biological Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
Katie | Collins | Aaryan | Doshi | 1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Discovery of Malignant Properties in Anthropogenic Aerosols for Targeted Climate Control via Variational Autoencoders (Physical Science and Engineering) | 11 | |
John | Conlin | Tyler Atwood | Rose | 1st Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | AffinityLM: Binding-Site Informed Language Model for High Accuracy Drug-Target Affinity Prediction (Biological Science and Engineering) | 11 | |
Scott | DeRuiter | Tanisha | Sood | 2nd Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | " Pediatric Seizure Detection System: A Data-Driven Approach with Predictive and Generative AI Integration" (Biological Science and Engineering) | 10 | |
Certificate + ASEI Silicon Valley Emerging Technology Membership + Optional MentorConnect matching for 1 year, American Society of Engineers of Indian Origin Award - ASEI | |||||||
David | Greenstein | Pranav | Gupta | 2nd Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | ImageInsight: Detection for AI-Generated Images Using a Machine Learning Technique Involving Frequency Domain Features (Physical Science and Engineering) | 10 | |
Hursh | Shah | 2nd Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | QVISTA: Quantum Vision Transformers for Enhanced Alzheimer's Detection through Advanced Imaging Techniques (Biological Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
Aryan | Singhal | 2nd Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | QVISTA: Quantum Vision Transformers for Enhanced Alzheimer's Detection through Advanced Imaging Techniques (Biological Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
Kyle | Jones | Shrehan | Chatterjee | Honorable Mention, Biological Science and Engineering Category | Effect of LCP enzyme on neoprene degradation (Biological Science and Engineering) | 9 | |
Shreyas | Chatterjee | Honorable Mention, Biological Science and Engineering Category | Effect of LCP enzyme on neoprene degradation (Biological Science and Engineering) | 9 | |||
Jihoo | Won | Honorable Mention, Biological Science and Engineering Category | Effect of LCP enzyme on neoprene degradation (Biological Science and Engineering) | 9 | |||
Joe | Kim | Trishia | Khandelwal | 2nd Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | Multi-Class Classification of Ocular Diseases Using Deep Learning (Biological Science and Engineering) | 11 | |
Lora | Lerner | Vignesh M | Rajagopalan | Honorable Mention, Biological Science and Engineering Category | Heritability of psychiatric disorders and their genetic correlation with cardiovascular disease risk factors (Biological Science and Engineering) | 10 | |
Kathleen | McCarty | Niranjana | Sankar | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | A Multimodal System to Determine Fatality Information and Infrastructure Damage from Disasters using Machine Learning (Physical Science and Engineering) | 11 | |