Palo Alto Unified School District

Project Awards 2019

Synopsys Silicon Valley Science and Technology Championship

School	Teacher		Student		Award	Title	Gr
Fletcher (Ellen) Middle School	Kevin	Thompson	Justin Graham	Hou	Honorable Mention Student Award: $40 and Certificate of Achievement, Association for Computing Machinery, San Francisco Bay Area Professional Chapter	Analyzing Images and Text Found Online with AI in Order to Determine if a Website is Educational (Physical Science and Engineering)	8
			Juno	Kim	Honorable Mention Student Award: $40 and Certificate of Achievement, Association for Computing Machinery, San Francisco Bay Area Professional Chapter	Analyzing Images and Text Found Online with AI in Order to Determine if a Website is Educational (Physical Science and Engineering)	8
			Alan Dongjin	Lee	Honorable Mention Certificate + a signed book + breakfast with Bob Zeidman, Zeidman Award	Machine Learning for Distinguishing Benign from Malignant Liver Tumors (Physical Science and Engineering)	8
					2nd Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category
			Tasha	Lera	Third Place $50 and Certificate of Recognition, Middle Grades STEM Award	Using Data Analysis to Build a Personalized Search Engine (Physical Science and Engineering)	8
Greene (Frank S., Jr.) Middle School	Shelly	Bethke	Daniel	Siegel	Castro Family Award for Best Physical Science Projects - Trip to State Science Fair and Certificate, Santa Clara Valley Science & Engineering Fair Assn - Board of Directors Awards - Middle School	Surround3: The Design and Construction of a Sensor-Enhanced Probing Cane to Help the Visually Impaired (Physical Science and Engineering)	8
					$250 to the winning student or team in middle school Physical Science, Synopsys Outreach Foundation n+1 Prize
					Middle School Finalist Certificate & $25 barnesandnoble.com gift certificate, Synopsys Outreach Foundation n+1 Prize
					Nominated to compete envelope, Broadcom MASTERS - 8th Grade
					1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category
	Erland	Patterson	Beckett Gasich	Lyons	Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category	The Aerodynamic Of Truck Platooning (Physical Science and Engineering)	7
					2nd place MS student - $50 and Certificate of Achievement, American Vacuum Society, Northern CA
					IEEE Electro-Technology $50 gift card and a certificate, Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers
Gunn (Henry M.) High School	Bill	Dunbar	Sandhini	Agarwal	1st Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category	Tracking Parkinsonian Tremors: A Wearable Device Application Utilizing Smart Sensing for Real-Time Monitoring & Analysis (Biological Science and Engineering)	12
					ASEI Silicon Valley Emerging Technology Membership to American Society of Engineers of Indian Origin, American Society of Engineers of Indian Origin Award
					First Place: $100, Certificate of Achievement, and Goody Bag, Santa Clara County Biotech Education Partnership (SCCBEP)
	Jena	Lee	William Chung K	Chung	1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category	Manipulating concentrations of plant-based starches to optimize durability for use in biodegradable plastics (Physical Science and Engineering)	11
			Mallika Kumud	Parulekar	2nd Award, RRI Biological Science and Engineering Category	A Fast, Unsupervised Learning Method to Identify Novel and Diverse Signals in High-Throughput Genetic Data (RRI Biological Science and Engineering)	11
	Tarn	Wilson	Anshika	Agarwal	2nd Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category	In Their Shoes: Using Virtual Reality to Foster Empathy (Biological Science and Engineering)	10
					Certificate of Achievement, American Psychological Association
			Isabel W	Sperandio	1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category	Harnessing the Power of the Ocean: Designing an Efficient and Portable Wave Energy Converter Prototype (Physical Science and Engineering)	11
					Certificate of Achievement and letter - medallion and cert will be received in mail after student fills out the online link., Yale Science and Engineering Association
					Certificate of Achievement, American Meteorological Society
					First Place, $150 Wireless Communications Alliance Award, Wireless Communications Alliance
					Most Promising Young Scientist (Female), $100 and Framed Certificate (GR 9-12), SPV Market Research "Most Promising Young Scientist"
Palo Alto High School	Ashwini	Avadahni	Anuva	Banwasi	Honorable Mention, RRI Biological Science and Engineering Category	Biomarker identification in the adipogenic pathway of tumor cells - a metabolomics approach (RRI Biological Science and Engineering)	11
			Jonathan Ko	Park	Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category	Choose the Correct Products! Smart Speaking Glasses App to Find Food and Drug Allergens for Seniors (Physical Science and Engineering)	11
					High School $50 and letter of recognition, Northern California Institute of Food Technologists (NCIFT)
	Sefika Gul	Eris	Cindy Jingru	Wang	$100, Morgan Lewis	Smart Irrigation Systems (Physical Science and Engineering)	8
					Certificate of Achievement, United States Metric Association
			Eddie Jinghua	Wang	$100, Morgan Lewis	Smart Irrigation Systems (Physical Science and Engineering)	11
					Certificate of Achievement, United States Metric Association
	Randy	Scilingo	Annika	Viswesh	Honorable Mention Student Award: $50 and Certificate of Achievement, Association for Computing Machinery, San Francisco Bay Area Professional Chapter	Classifying different types of cancer by applying machine learning techniques on epigenetic information (Biological Science and Engineering)	9
Stanford (Jane Lathrop) Middle School	Qin (Linda)	Luo	Yu-Ting	Chang	$500 + certificate + a signed book + breakfast with Bob Zeidman, Zeidman Award	Greedy, Yet Intelligent, Algorithms for the Game 2048 Using Python (Physical Science and Engineering)	8
					Nominated to compete envelope, Broadcom MASTERS - 8th Grade
					1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category
			Sharad	Parulekar	2nd Place Student Award: $160 and Certificate of Achievement, Association for Computing Machinery, San Francisco Bay Area Professional Chapter	Dr.One: A Flying Angel to Keep an Eye on Seniors (Physical Science and Engineering)	8
	Tammy	Parke	Julian I.	Schultz	Nominated to compete envelope, Broadcom MASTERS - 7th Grade	Can Your Sweatshirt Save You? How effective are fabrics at lowering the particulate concentration of polluted air? (Physical Science and Engineering)	7
					1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category