Milpitas Unified School District
Project Awards 2026
Synopsys Silicon Valley Science and Technology Championship
| School | Teacher | Student | Award | Title | Gr | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Curtner Elementary School | Elise | Stewart | Aayush | Ambre | $100 per student, Bessie Stough Awards | How water, saltwater, and vinegar affect power in a gel battery inspired by electric eels. (Physical Science and Engineering) | 6 |
| Misha | Rathissh | $100 per student, Bessie Stough Awards | How water, saltwater, and vinegar affect power in a gel battery inspired by electric eels. (Physical Science and Engineering) | 6 | |||
| Isaac | Tan | $100 per student, Bessie Stough Awards | How water, saltwater, and vinegar affect power in a gel battery inspired by electric eels. (Physical Science and Engineering) | 6 | |||
| Milpitas High School | Huy | Pham | Savir | Dillikar | 2nd Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Polaris: A Multimodal Autonomous Navigation & Haptic Feedback System for the Blind (Physical Science and Engineering) | 10 |
| First place- $100 Check shared with team member(s) and Certificate, Access Braille Award | |||||||
| Spencer | Liu | 2nd Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Polaris: A Multimodal Autonomous Navigation & Haptic Feedback System for the Blind (Physical Science and Engineering) | 10 | |||
| First place- $100 Check shared with team member(s) and Certificate, Access Braille Award | |||||||
| Darren | Phan | Honorable Mention, Biological Science and Engineering Category | Comparative Evaluation of Tabular Transformer and Ensemble Models for QSAR-Based pIC50 Prediction (Biological Science and Engineering) | 10 | |||