Santa Clara Unified School District
Project Awards 2026
Synopsys Silicon Valley Science and Technology Championship
| School | Teacher | Student | Award | Title | Gr | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cabrillo Middle School | Teddy | Li | Anvi | Gupta | 2nd Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Smart Cabinet: Supporting People with Memory Issues (Physical Science and Engineering) | 7 |
| Mithali | Kulkarni | 2nd Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Smart Cabinet: Supporting People with Memory Issues (Physical Science and Engineering) | 7 | |||
| Srishti | Kulkarni | 2nd Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Smart Cabinet: Supporting People with Memory Issues (Physical Science and Engineering) | 7 | |||
| Glenn | Lillie | Lucas Romano | Co | 2nd Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Testing Compostability of "Compostable" Clothing (Physical Science and Engineering) | 8 | |
| Jordan | Norris | 2nd Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Testing Compostability of "Compostable" Clothing (Physical Science and Engineering) | 8 | |||
| Levi | Rosenfeld | 2nd Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Testing Compostability of "Compostable" Clothing (Physical Science and Engineering) | 8 | |||
| Sarah | Rahman | Cooper Edward | Bosso | First Place Award: $300 shared with team member(s) and framed certificate, SVACS Dave Parker Award for Excellence in Chemistry | Sticky Solutions: Finding the Best Way to Remove Gum (Physical Science and Engineering) | 7 | |
| Allen | Luo | First Place Award: $300 shared with team member(s) and framed certificate, SVACS Dave Parker Award for Excellence in Chemistry | Sticky Solutions: Finding the Best Way to Remove Gum (Physical Science and Engineering) | 7 | |||
| Skyler Akira | Young | First Place Award: $300 shared with team member(s) and framed certificate, SVACS Dave Parker Award for Excellence in Chemistry | Sticky Solutions: Finding the Best Way to Remove Gum (Physical Science and Engineering) | 7 | |||
| Jessica | Schroeder | Rayna | Hong | Honorable Mention, Biological Science and Engineering Category | Taste Altering Spoon (Biological Science and Engineering) | 7 | |
| Sabrina Guerra | Maldonado | Honorable Mention, Biological Science and Engineering Category | Taste Altering Spoon (Biological Science and Engineering) | 7 | |||
| Michelle | Scilingo | Aarna | Agrawal | 2nd Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | PiezoPath: A Smart Energy-Harvesting LED System for Safer Night Cycling (Physical Science and Engineering) | 8 | |
| Myra | Bisnik | 2nd Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Building a Biomass Driven Hydrogel Device for Atmospheric Water Harvesting as an Alternative to Parasite Infested Water (Physical Science and Engineering) | 8 | |||
| Anika | Chandak | Honorable Mention, Biological Science and Engineering Category | Self Stabilizing Utensil to Help with Hand Tremors (Biological Science and Engineering) | 8 | |||
| Harini | Dinesh | Honorable Mention, Biological Science and Engineering Category | Self Stabilizing Utensil to Help with Hand Tremors (Biological Science and Engineering) | 8 | |||
| Rami Ghazali | Elamin | Exceptional Merit, Certificate (all Grades), SPV Market Research | " AI Recognition to Clean Solar Panels Efficiently Using a Windshield Wiper System " (Physical Science and Engineering) | 8 | |||
| Lower Division :- Honorable Mention Student Award: $50 and Certificate of Achievement, Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) | |||||||
| Lavisha | Kejriwal | 2nd Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | PiezoPath: A Smart Energy-Harvesting LED System for Safer Night Cycling (Physical Science and Engineering) | 8 | |||
| Reyna Kautul | Mehta | Honorable Mention, Biological Science and Engineering Category | Self Stabilizing Utensil to Help with Hand Tremors (Biological Science and Engineering) | 8 | |||
| Ronin Kautul | Mehta | Exceptional Merit, Certificate (all Grades), SPV Market Research | " AI Recognition to Clean Solar Panels Efficiently Using a Windshield Wiper System " (Physical Science and Engineering) | 8 | |||
| Lower Division :- Honorable Mention Student Award: $50 and Certificate of Achievement, Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) | |||||||
| Aanya | Mittal | Nominated to compete envelope to apply for Thermo Fisher JIC, Thermo Fisher JIC - 8th Grade | Which Natural Fertilizer Promotes Healthier Plant Growth: Spirulina or Mycelium? (Biological Science and Engineering) | 8 | |||
| 1st Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Noor Kaur | Narang | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Developing a Filter That Uses a Fruit Peel Fiber Compound Inspired by Modern Filters to Remove Toxic Solutes From Water (Physical Science and Engineering) | 8 | |||
| Ada Camille | Ngai | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Spinning Organic Fibers Into a Yarn to Make a Piece of Fabric (Physical Science and Engineering) | 8 | |||
| Aadya | Pal | 2nd Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Building a Biomass Driven Hydrogel Device for Atmospheric Water Harvesting as an Alternative to Parasite Infested Water (Physical Science and Engineering) | 8 | |||
| Anusha | Qamra | 2nd Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | PiezoPath: A Smart Energy-Harvesting LED System for Safer Night Cycling (Physical Science and Engineering) | 8 | |||
| Laya Aditi | Rajesh | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Developing a Filter That Uses a Fruit Peel Fiber Compound Inspired by Modern Filters to Remove Toxic Solutes From Water (Physical Science and Engineering) | 8 | |||
| Alexa Valeria | Sanchez | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Spinning Organic Fibers Into a Yarn to Make a Piece of Fabric (Physical Science and Engineering) | 8 | |||
| Karina Kaila | Schwartz | Nominated to compete envelope to apply for Thermo Fisher JIC, Thermo Fisher JIC - 8th Grade | Which Natural Fertilizer Promotes Healthier Plant Growth: Spirulina or Mycelium? (Biological Science and Engineering) | 8 | |||
| 1st Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Mehaavi | Shah | 2nd Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Building a Biomass Driven Hydrogel Device for Atmospheric Water Harvesting as an Alternative to Parasite Infested Water (Physical Science and Engineering) | 8 | |||
| Ella Rose | Sheets | Nominated to compete envelope to apply for Thermo Fisher JIC, Thermo Fisher JIC - 8th Grade | Which Natural Fertilizer Promotes Healthier Plant Growth: Spirulina or Mycelium? (Biological Science and Engineering) | 8 | |||
| 1st Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Rujuta Siddharth | Tambe | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Developing a Filter That Uses a Fruit Peel Fiber Compound Inspired by Modern Filters to Remove Toxic Solutes From Water (Physical Science and Engineering) | 8 | |||
| Ridhima | Vutukuru | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Spinning Organic Fibers Into a Yarn to Make a Piece of Fabric (Physical Science and Engineering) | 8 | |||
| Duoyan | Yu | Exceptional Merit, Certificate (all Grades), SPV Market Research | " AI Recognition to Clean Solar Panels Efficiently Using a Windshield Wiper System " (Physical Science and Engineering) | 8 | |||
| Lower Division :- Honorable Mention Student Award: $50 and Certificate of Achievement, Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) | |||||||
| Santa Clara High School | Christopher | Gallick | Vikram | Atmuri | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | A Convex Directional Spline Approach with Huber-Regularized Loss for Stable Deep Optimization (Physical Science and Engineering) | 11 |
| Amey | Garg | Certificate of Achievement + Letter from Sponsor (regarding $25 gift card redeemable online + internship opportunity with ASEI Industry Partner + free 1 year membership to ASEI), ASEI Award | A Multi-Omic Computational Framework for Modeling the Gut-Tumor Microbiome Axis to Predict Cancer Therapy Response (Biological Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| Eshaan | Sharma | 2nd Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | A Mixed-Fluid Physics and Adaptive Grid Based Method for Training ML-Models to Predict Flash Floods and Mudslides (Physical Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| Elizabeth | Ho | Vani Gayatri | Nair | 2nd Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | Eliminating Harmful Biofilm from Prosthetics Using Photodynamic Therapy (Biological Science and Engineering) | 11 | |
| Michelle | Kennison | Idan | Kestenbom | Honorable Mention, Biological Science and Engineering Category | VASARA: Autonomous Vascular Anastomosis Utilizing a Reinforcement Learning Robotic Suturing Apparatus (Biological Science and Engineering) | 10 | |
| $200 to Student, Dr. Michael V. McCusker Award | |||||||
| Akhil | Nagori | Honorable Mention, Biological Science and Engineering Category | VASARA: Autonomous Vascular Anastomosis Utilizing a Reinforcement Learning Robotic Suturing Apparatus (Biological Science and Engineering) | 9 | |||
| $200 to Student, Dr. Michael V. McCusker Award | |||||||
| Francine | Kong | Nicholas Nam | Nguyen | 1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Developing Accessible Benchtop NMR Spectrometer with Advanced Pulse Sequence Capabilities (Physical Science and Engineering) | 11 | |
| Arielle | Martinka | Taha | Nawaz | 1st Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | Surrogate-Guided Multi-Objective Design of Nanoparticles for Enhanced Drug Delivery Performance in Neurological Contexts (Biological Science and Engineering) | 11 | |
| Rig | Saini | 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 | ATLAS: A Multi-Axis Ankle-Foot Prosthetic With Adaptive Tendon Stiffness For Locomotor Assistance and Stability (Physical Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| $100, Robby Beyers Innovative Solutions Awards | |||||||
| 1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Suzanne | Miller-Moody | Vansh | Bahety | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Origami-Inspired Adaptive Heavy-Lifting Transport Robot to Assist Warehouse Workers in Organization Tasks (Physical Science and Engineering) | 10 | |
| Anirudh | Chukka | 2nd Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | AI Drone-Powered System for Wildfire Detection and Prevention (Physical Science and Engineering) | 9 | |||
| Samantha Moya | Cruz | Honorable Mention, Biological Science and Engineering Category | Machine Learning-Based Approach for Skin Cancer Detection App (Biological Science and Engineering) | 9 | |||
| Alexander Nicholas | Garcia | Honorable Mention, Biological Science and Engineering Category | Machine Learning-Based Approach for Skin Cancer Detection App (Biological Science and Engineering) | 9 | |||
| Kevin | Mathew | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Origami-Inspired Adaptive Heavy-Lifting Transport Robot to Assist Warehouse Workers in Organization Tasks (Physical Science and Engineering) | 10 | |||
| Saharsh | Myneni | Exceptional Merit, Certificate (all Grades), SPV Market Research | Optimizing Liquid-Gas Phase Change Material Soft Actuator via Lower Transition Point and Higher Conductivity (Physical Science and Engineering) | 10 | |||
| Nikhil | Nagori | 2nd Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | AI Drone-Powered System for Wildfire Detection and Prevention (Physical Science and Engineering) | 9 | |||
| Rohit | Pandravada | Exceptional Merit, Certificate (all Grades), SPV Market Research | Optimizing Liquid-Gas Phase Change Material Soft Actuator via Lower Transition Point and Higher Conductivity (Physical Science and Engineering) | 10 | |||
| Vihaan | Punjabi | 2nd Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | AI Drone-Powered System for Wildfire Detection and Prevention (Physical Science and Engineering) | 9 | |||
| Noah | Song | 2nd Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | CNN-Based Digital Stethoscope Device Using Spectrogram Analysis for Lung Sound Classification and Abnormality Detection (Biological Science and Engineering) | 10 | |||
| IEEE Electro-Technology $25 Amazon gift card and a certificate, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (Part 2) | |||||||
| Aadit | Sood | Exceptional Merit, Certificate (all Grades), SPV Market Research | Optimizing Liquid-Gas Phase Change Material Soft Actuator via Lower Transition Point and Higher Conductivity (Physical Science and Engineering) | 10 | |||
| Aaron | Sun | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Origami-Inspired Adaptive Heavy-Lifting Transport Robot to Assist Warehouse Workers in Organization Tasks (Physical Science and Engineering) | 10 | |||
| Evann | Sun | 2nd Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | CNN-Based Digital Stethoscope Device Using Spectrogram Analysis for Lung Sound Classification and Abnormality Detection (Biological Science and Engineering) | 9 | |||
| IEEE Electro-Technology $25 Amazon gift card and a certificate, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (Part 2) | |||||||
| Charlotte Katherine | Yang | 2nd Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | CNN-Based Digital Stethoscope Device Using Spectrogram Analysis for Lung Sound Classification and Abnormality Detection (Biological Science and Engineering) | 10 | |||
| IEEE Electro-Technology $25 Amazon gift card and a certificate, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (Part 2) | |||||||
| Lucas Shengwen | Yen | Honorable Mention, Biological Science and Engineering Category | Machine Learning-Based Approach for Skin Cancer Detection App (Biological Science and Engineering) | 9 | |||
| Jyothi | Sunkara | Vihaan Chirag | Parikh | Upper Division : Grand Prize Student Award: $1200 and Certificate of Achievement, Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) | ROCA: A Dynamic Metaheuristic Framework for Route Optimization Using Context-Aware Simulation of Ant Colony Systems (Physical Science and Engineering) | 11 | |
| 2nd Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Alan | Tan | Ricky Rex | Alexias | 2nd Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | ElectroClimb: An Electroadhesion-Based Climbing Robot for Vertical Inspection in Hazardous Environments (Physical Science and Engineering) | 10 | |
| Pranay Dhiraj | Bokde | 1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Rapidly Configurable Hexagonal Modular Robots with High Power Density Motor-Driven Fluidic Actuators for Resource-Constrained Settings (Physical Science and Engineering) | 10 | |||
| Neel Hemanth | Gowda | 1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Rapidly Configurable Hexagonal Modular Robots with High Power Density Motor-Driven Fluidic Actuators for Resource-Constrained Settings (Physical Science and Engineering) | 10 | |||
| Harshika Naga | Manapragada | 1st Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | Smart Surgical Scan: A Device for Detecting Retained Foreign Objects in Operative Fields (Biological Science and Engineering) | 10 | |||
| Akhil | Munipalle | 1st Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | Smart Surgical Scan: A Device for Detecting Retained Foreign Objects in Operative Fields (Biological Science and Engineering) | 10 | |||
| Rhia | Swaminath | 1st Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | Smart Surgical Scan: A Device for Detecting Retained Foreign Objects in Operative Fields (Biological Science and Engineering) | 10 | |||
| Saarang | Venkatesh | 2nd Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | ElectroClimb: An Electroadhesion-Based Climbing Robot for Vertical Inspection in Hazardous Environments (Physical Science and Engineering) | 10 | |||