Mountain View-Los Altos Union High School District
Project Awards 2024
Synopsys Silicon Valley Science and Technology Championship
| School | Teacher | Student | Award | Title | Gr | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Los Altos High School | Darren | Dressen | Serina | Cao | Grand Prize Alternate - Physical Sciences - Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), Santa Clara Valley Science & Engineering Fair Assn - Board of Directors Awards - High School | Synthesis of Small Molecule Triazine Derivatives as Potential PD-1/PD-L1 Binding Inhibitors as Antiproliferative Agents (Physical Science and Engineering) | 12 |
| 1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Carter | Capetz | 1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Tensorized Physics-Informed Neural Network for Solving Nonlinear PDEs (Physical Science and Engineering) | 12 | |||
| Adit | Chintamaneni | Honorable Mention, Biological Science and Engineering Category | A Deep Learning Model for Predicticting Adverse Events (AEs) from Drug-Drug Interactions Between Cardiac Medications (Biological Science and Engineering) | 12 | |||
| Woong | Choi | Honorable Mention, Biological Science and Engineering Category | A Deep Learning Model for Predicticting Adverse Events (AEs) from Drug-Drug Interactions Between Cardiac Medications (Biological Science and Engineering) | 12 | |||
| Aviv | Kanarik | Exceptional Merit, Certificate (all Grades), SPV Market Research | Forecasting Solar F10.7 Index with Machine Learning to Mitigate Solar Flare Damage (Physical Science and Engineering) | 12 | |||
| Matthew | Kim | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Detecting the prevalence of microaggression generations in natural language generation (NLG) models (Physical Science and Engineering) | 12 | |||
| Ashley | Lim | 2nd Place - $75, Certificate of Achievement, SAMPE - Society for the Advancement of Material and Process Engineering | Synthesizing guanidine derivatives to optimize polyethylene terephthalate depolymerization. (Physical Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| Indira | Mariya | Exceptional Merit, Certificate (all Grades), SPV Market Research | Forecasting Solar F10.7 Index with Machine Learning to Mitigate Solar Flare Damage (Physical Science and Engineering) | 12 | |||
| Tohar | Markovich | 2nd Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Applications of topological quantum computing to improving novel cryptographic algorithms and protocols (Physical Science and Engineering) | 12 | |||
| Riya | Mehrotra | Exceptional Merit, Certificate (all Grades), SPV Market Research | How Square is a Square? (Physical Science and Engineering) | 9 | |||
| 2nd Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| IEEE Electro-Technology $25 Amazon gift card and a certificate, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (Part 1) | |||||||
| Gabor | Szita | Upper Division :- Honorable Mention Student Award: $50 and Certificate of Achievement, Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) | Developing a robot that autonomously collects LIDAR data and improving loop closure detection in SLAM (Physical Science and Engineering) | 12 | |||
| GR 9-12: 1st Place, Certificate of Achievement, and virtual tour of NASA Ames Research Center, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) Intelligent Systems Award | |||||||
| Angely | Vargas | $500 and Framed Certificate of Achievement, SVACS High School Award for Excellence in Chemistry | Synthesis of 5-HT2A serotonin agonists to target Body Dysmorphic Disorder (BDD) (Physical Science and Engineering) | 12 | |||
| Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Victoria | Johnson | Polina | Bortok | Honorable Mention, Biological Science and Engineering Category | Synthesis and evaluation of a sulfonamide-based DNMT3B inhibitor to promote re-expression of tumor suppressor genes (Biological Science and Engineering) | 12 | |
| Takumi Joe | Britt | 1st Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | Polytherapy of Urolithin A and Caloric Deficit repairs neuronal function in C. elegans with neurodegeneration. (Biological Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| Grace | Chang | 2nd Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | Determining the underlying mechanisms of strictosamide in managing the apoptotic marker, Bcl-2 in acute lung injury. (Biological Science and Engineering) | 12 | |||
| Shreya Rajesh | Goyalpatel | Honorable Mention, Biological Science and Engineering Category | Regulating TERT Promoter Methylation with CRISPR TET1CD-dCas9 to Prevent Cell Immortalization (Biological Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| Abhinav Sriram | Kasturi | 1st Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | Polytherapy of Urolithin A and Caloric Deficit repairs neuronal function in C. elegans with neurodegeneration. (Biological Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| Madison | Lee | 2nd Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | Using Non-Steroidal Anti-Inflammatory Drugs (NSAIDs) as a possible treatment for neuroinflammatory diseases (Biological Science and Engineering) | 12 | |||
| Bridget Gwyneth | Liu | 1st Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | Investigating novel SCD1 inhibitor structures as a Parkinson's treatment (Biological Science and Engineering) | 12 | |||
| Caroline | Martin | Honorable Mention, Biological Science and Engineering Category | Using the Compound 2-n-hexyl LKE-P to Induce Autophagy in Drosophila as a Potential Treatment for Parkinson's (Biological Science and Engineering) | 12 | |||
| Ariana | Motaghiannezam | 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 | Multi-omic profiling IDs p63 as a novel genetic determinant driving lung fibrosis and cancer, targetable for treatment (RRI Biological Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| 1st Award, RRI Biological Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Ethan Younghoon | Park | Honorable Mention, Biological Science and Engineering Category | Latent Space inducing Convolutional Neural Network classifier for Schizophrenia using multi-modality neuroimaging data (Biological Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| Emma | Rensin | Honorable Mention, Biological Science and Engineering Category | Using the Compound 2-n-hexyl LKE-P to Induce Autophagy in Drosophila as a Potential Treatment for Parkinson's (Biological Science and Engineering) | 12 | |||
| Nicole | Stavrakos | Honorable Mention, Biological Science and Engineering Category | Synthesis and evaluation of a sulfonamide-based DNMT3B inhibitor to promote re-expression of tumor suppressor genes (Biological Science and Engineering) | 12 | |||
| Audrey Rachel | Tsai | 1st Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | Investigating novel SCD1 inhibitor structures as a Parkinson's treatment (Biological Science and Engineering) | 12 | |||
| Aarthi | Venkatraman | Honorable Mention, RRI Biological Science and Engineering Category | Functional characterization of aberrant splicing using paired a DNA-RNA approach (RRI Biological Science and Engineering) | 12 | |||
| Liv | Weiner | Honorable Mention, Biological Science and Engineering Category | Regulating TERT Promoter Methylation with CRISPR TET1CD-dCas9 to Prevent Cell Immortalization (Biological Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| Josephine Shing Oi | Wong | 2nd Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | Determining the underlying mechanisms of strictosamide in managing the apoptotic marker, Bcl-2 in acute lung injury. (Biological Science and Engineering) | 12 | |||