Palo Alto Unified School District
Project Awards 2020
Synopsys Silicon Valley Science and Technology Championship
| School | Teacher | Student | Award | Title | Gr | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Gunn (Henry M.) High School | Michael | Bautista | Swati | Goel | 2nd Award, RRI Physical Science and Engineering Category | Identifying Fake News Sources on Twitter Using Network Analysis and Machine Learning (RRI Physical Science and Engineering) | 12 |
| Jessica | Hexsel | Roy | Gross | Grand Prize Alternate - Physical Sciences - Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF) - $250 Cash, Santa Clara Valley Science & Engineering Fair Assn - Board of Directors Awards - High School | Designing and Testing an Ad Hoc Phased Array Antenna Network for Search and Rescue (Physical Science and Engineering) | 9 | |
| Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair | |||||||
| 1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| First place, $125 Wireless Communications Alliance Award, Wireless Communications Alliance | |||||||
| Jena | Lee | Anshika | Agarwal | Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair | A Novel Real-Time Data Acquisition Solution to Expedite Climate Research for the Global Oceanographic Community (Physical Science and Engineering) | 11 | |
| 1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Joshua | Little | Alan | Lee | Honorable Mention Student Award: $50 and Certificate of Achievement, Association for Computing Machinery, San Francisco Bay Area Professional Chapter | A Novel Image-Based Stock-Trading AI Algorithm (Physical Science and Engineering) | 9 | |
| Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Ann | Lorey | Leo | Bailloeul | Honorable Mention: Patch and Certificate, SETI Institute | Effect of increased temperature on cyanobacteria growth and photosynthesis (Biological Science and Engineering) | 11 | |
| Rishee | Gupta | Honorable Mention: Patch and Certificate, SETI Institute | Effect of increased temperature on cyanobacteria growth and photosynthesis (Biological Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| Kenneth | Meng | Honorable Mention: Patch and Certificate, SETI Institute | Effect of increased temperature on cyanobacteria growth and photosynthesis (Biological Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| Gunn High School (SSW) | Jason | Graham (mentor) | Jacob | Liao | Honorable Mention, RRI Biological Science and Engineering Category | Effects of Increased Heat Treatment on Camponotus fragilis and its Endosymbiont Blochmannia festinatus (RRI Biological Science and Engineering) | 10 |
| Palo Alto High School | Sam | Howles-Banerji | Annika | Viswesh | Honorable Mention Student Award: $50 and Certificate of Achievement, Association for Computing Machinery, San Francisco Bay Area Professional Chapter | Identifying sequence elements in 5' UTR of mRNA that affect translation efficiency in the fungal pathogen H. capsulatum (RRI Biological Science and Engineering) | 10 |
| Radu | Toma | Franklin | Wang | Honorable Mention, RRI Physical Science and Engineering Category | Detecting Near Earth Asteroids with Convolutional Neural Networks (RRI Physical Science and Engineering) | 10 | |