Project Awards 2020

Synopsys Silicon Valley Science and Technology Championship

Category Gr Award Student Teacher School Title
Biological Science and Engineering 6 Nominated to compete envelope, Broadcom MASTERS - 6th Grade  Aryan  Ganesh  Ganesh Vanamu (PSP) Privately Sponsored Project Combination of Moringa and Sesamin to prevent and restrict early stages of cancer cell growth using Drosophila model
Biological Science and Engineering 6 Nominated to compete envelope, Broadcom MASTERS - 6th Grade  Hubert  Lau  Preston Lau (PSP) Privately Sponsored Project Effect of Plants and Mud on Generating Electricity in a Microbial Fuel Cell System.
Biological Science and Engineering 6 Nominated to compete envelope, Broadcom MASTERS - 6th Grade  Serena  Lau  Preston Lau (PSP) Privately Sponsored Project Effect of Plants and Mud on Generating Electricity in a Microbial Fuel Cell System.
Biological Science and Engineering 6 Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair  Liam Donald Collon Ellerby  Shannon Deza Stratford Middle School - Sunnyvale Raynor Composting on Mars - Will It Work?
Biological Science and Engineering 6 Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair  Aryan  Ganesh  Ganesh Vanamu (PSP) Privately Sponsored Project Combination of Moringa and Sesamin to prevent and restrict early stages of cancer cell growth using Drosophila model
Biological Science and Engineering 6 Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair  Hubert  Lau  Preston Lau (PSP) Privately Sponsored Project Effect of Plants and Mud on Generating Electricity in a Microbial Fuel Cell System.
Biological Science and Engineering 6 Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair  Serena  Lau  Preston Lau (PSP) Privately Sponsored Project Effect of Plants and Mud on Generating Electricity in a Microbial Fuel Cell System.
Biological Science and Engineering 6 Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair  Ishana  Wokhlu  Swapna Mayya Challenger - Sunnyvale Snail Be Gone
Biological Science and Engineering 6 1st Award  Aryan  Ganesh  Ganesh Vanamu (PSP) Privately Sponsored Project Combination of Moringa and Sesamin to prevent and restrict early stages of cancer cell growth using Drosophila model
Biological Science and Engineering 6 1st Award  Hubert  Lau  Preston Lau (PSP) Privately Sponsored Project Effect of Plants and Mud on Generating Electricity in a Microbial Fuel Cell System.
Biological Science and Engineering 6 1st Award  Serena  Lau  Preston Lau (PSP) Privately Sponsored Project Effect of Plants and Mud on Generating Electricity in a Microbial Fuel Cell System.
Biological Science and Engineering 6 2nd Award  Liam Donald Collon Ellerby  Shannon Deza Stratford Middle School - Sunnyvale Raynor Composting on Mars - Will It Work?
Biological Science and Engineering 6 2nd Award  Ishana  Manikandan  Kameswari Rayaprolu Challenger - Strawberry Park - SJ Prevent Oxidative Stress, Keep Free Radicals Away: Determine the Antioxidant Levels of Produce Using Chemiluminescence
Biological Science and Engineering 6 Honorable Mention  Spencer Bo-Jun Chang  Juliana West Stratford Middle School - San Jose The effect of wind on different types of plants
Biological Science and Engineering 6 Honorable Mention  Meera  Kalluraya  Vidya Balasubramanian (PSP) Homeschool - Sunnyvale Compare behaviors among guinea pigs and humans
Biological Science and Engineering 6 Honorable Mention  Ishana  Wokhlu  Swapna Mayya Challenger - Sunnyvale Snail Be Gone
Biological Science and Engineering 7 Nominated to compete envelope, Broadcom MASTERS - 7th Grade  Samarjit  Deshmukh  Swapna Mayya Challenger - Sunnyvale You Are What You Eat: The Health Implications of Legumes on the Gut Microbiome
Biological Science and Engineering 7 Nominated to compete envelope, Broadcom MASTERS - 7th Grade  Brandon Richard Do  Shama Mohamed Merryhill Schools - Milpitas Microbial Fuel Cell
Biological Science and Engineering 7 Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair  Clarissa Milan Co  Sarah Rahman Cabrillo Middle School Creating a Closed Loop Artificial Pancreas to Treat Type 1 Diabetes
Biological Science and Engineering 7 Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair  Samarjit  Deshmukh  Swapna Mayya Challenger - Sunnyvale You Are What You Eat: The Health Implications of Legumes on the Gut Microbiome
Biological Science and Engineering 7 Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair  Brandon Richard Do  Shama Mohamed Merryhill Schools - Milpitas Microbial Fuel Cell
Biological Science and Engineering 7 Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair  Aryanna Maxine Morte  Sarah Rahman Cabrillo Middle School Creating a Closed Loop Artificial Pancreas to Treat Type 1 Diabetes
Biological Science and Engineering 7 Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair  Danna Sofia Rengifo  Sarah Rahman Cabrillo Middle School Creating a Closed Loop Artificial Pancreas to Treat Type 1 Diabetes
Biological Science and Engineering 7 Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair  Praneel Anil Shah  Hamby Aochi Kennedy(John F.) Middle School-Cupertino Investigating the Effect of Glucose Supplementation through Stem Injection on Sunflower Growth
Biological Science and Engineering 7 1st Award  Samarjit  Deshmukh  Swapna Mayya Challenger - Sunnyvale You Are What You Eat: The Health Implications of Legumes on the Gut Microbiome
Biological Science and Engineering 7 1st Award  Brandon Richard Do  Shama Mohamed Merryhill Schools - Milpitas Microbial Fuel Cell
Biological Science and Engineering 7 2nd Award  Praneel Anil Shah  Hamby Aochi Kennedy(John F.) Middle School-Cupertino Investigating the Effect of Glucose Supplementation through Stem Injection on Sunflower Growth
Biological Science and Engineering 7 2nd Award  Clarissa Milan Co  Sarah Rahman Cabrillo Middle School Creating a Closed Loop Artificial Pancreas to Treat Type 1 Diabetes
Biological Science and Engineering 7 2nd Award  Aryanna Maxine Morte  Sarah Rahman Cabrillo Middle School Creating a Closed Loop Artificial Pancreas to Treat Type 1 Diabetes
Biological Science and Engineering 7 2nd Award  Danna Sofia Rengifo  Sarah Rahman Cabrillo Middle School Creating a Closed Loop Artificial Pancreas to Treat Type 1 Diabetes
Biological Science and Engineering 7 Honorable Mention  Aarav  Garai  Art Wellersdick Challenger - Sunnyvale Agricultural Uses of Soap Nut
Biological Science and Engineering 7 Honorable Mention  Bella Lauren Teresi  Jeffrey Takemoto Stratford Middle School - San Jose Containing Invasive Species
Biological Science and Engineering 7 Honorable Mention  Maryam  Ismail  Sarah Rahman Cabrillo Middle School Developing a Low-Cost Voice-Controlled Prosthetic Hand to Aid Amputees
Biological Science and Engineering 7 Honorable Mention  Zaaina Sabeel Syeda  Sarah Rahman Cabrillo Middle School Developing a Low-Cost Voice-Controlled Prosthetic Hand to Aid Amputees
Biological Science and Engineering 7 Honorable Mention  Saamya  Yadav  Sarah Rahman Cabrillo Middle School Developing a Low-Cost Voice-Controlled Prosthetic Hand to Aid Amputees
Biological Science and Engineering 7 Middle School $50 and letter of recognition, Northern California Institute of Food Technologists (NCIFT)  Samarjit  Deshmukh  Swapna Mayya Challenger - Sunnyvale You Are What You Eat: The Health Implications of Legumes on the Gut Microbiome
Biological Science and Engineering 8 Honorable Mention Student Award: $40 and Certificate of Achievement, Association for Computing Machinery, San Francisco Bay Area Professional Chapter  Ravi  Prabhune  Youssef Ismail (mentor) Schmahl Science Workshop Nerve Growth Tracking with Non-Invasive Sensing
Biological Science and Engineering 8 Nominated to compete envelope, Broadcom MASTERS - 8th Grade  Diya  Kadadi  Krista Gaffney Cupertino Middle School Investigating an Aquatic Quandary: A Novel Solution to Microplastic Pollution in Oceans and Freshwater Bodies
Biological Science and Engineering 8 Nominated to compete envelope, Broadcom MASTERS - 8th Grade  Ella Selina Lan  Tina Kim Harker School-Middle Campus Developing a Method to Detect Circadian State From Gene Expression Through Machine Learning
Biological Science and Engineering 8 Nominated to compete envelope, Broadcom MASTERS - 8th Grade  Heidi Yundi Lu  Tina Kim Harker School-Middle Campus Developing a Method to Detect Circadian State From Gene Expression Through Machine Learning
Biological Science and Engineering 8 Nominated to compete envelope, Broadcom MASTERS - 8th Grade  Ananya  Sriram  Jason Graham (mentor) Schmahl Science Workshop The Correlation Between the Overpopulation of Algae and the Oceans Iron Depletion
Biological Science and Engineering 8 Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair  Sadik  Aref  Farhana Afroz Granada Islamic School Effect of nootropic supplements on the regeneration of planaria
Biological Science and Engineering 8 Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair  Rosie  Chen  Glenn Lillie Cabrillo Middle School Concussion Headbands: Measuring Different Concussion Headbands' Ability to Reduce Brain Movement
Biological Science and Engineering 8 Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair  Diya  Desai  Glenn Lillie Cabrillo Middle School Concussion Headbands: Measuring Different Concussion Headbands' Ability to Reduce Brain Movement
Biological Science and Engineering 8 Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair  Sarah Christine Honer  Glenn Lillie Cabrillo Middle School Concussion Headbands: Measuring Different Concussion Headbands' Ability to Reduce Brain Movement
Biological Science and Engineering 8 Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair  Diya  Kadadi  Krista Gaffney Cupertino Middle School Investigating an Aquatic Quandary: A Novel Solution to Microplastic Pollution in Oceans and Freshwater Bodies
Biological Science and Engineering 8 Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair  Ella Selina Lan  Tina Kim Harker School-Middle Campus Developing a Method to Detect Circadian State From Gene Expression Through Machine Learning
Biological Science and Engineering 8 Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair  Heidi Yundi Lu  Tina Kim Harker School-Middle Campus Developing a Method to Detect Circadian State From Gene Expression Through Machine Learning
Biological Science and Engineering 8 Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair  Ananya  Sriram  Jason Graham (mentor) Schmahl Science Workshop The Correlation Between the Overpopulation of Algae and the Oceans Iron Depletion
Biological Science and Engineering 8 Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair  Sasha Brooke Wang  Pronati Mondal Challenger - Almaden - SJ Can Pillbugs Learn?
Biological Science and Engineering 8 1st Award  Diya  Kadadi  Krista Gaffney Cupertino Middle School Investigating an Aquatic Quandary: A Novel Solution to Microplastic Pollution in Oceans and Freshwater Bodies
Biological Science and Engineering 8 1st Award  Ananya  Sriram  Jason Graham (mentor) Schmahl Science Workshop The Correlation Between the Overpopulation of Algae and the Oceans Iron Depletion
Biological Science and Engineering 8 1st Award  Ella Selina Lan  Tina Kim Harker School-Middle Campus Developing a Method to Detect Circadian State From Gene Expression Through Machine Learning
Biological Science and Engineering 8 1st Award  Heidi Yundi Lu  Tina Kim Harker School-Middle Campus Developing a Method to Detect Circadian State From Gene Expression Through Machine Learning
Biological Science and Engineering 8 2nd Award  Sadik  Aref  Farhana Afroz Granada Islamic School Effect of nootropic supplements on the regeneration of planaria
Biological Science and Engineering 8 2nd Award  Austin  Hu  Tim Ainoa Old Orchard School Does Sugar Affect Bacterial Growth in Your Mouth?
Biological Science and Engineering 8 2nd Award  Rosie  Chen  Glenn Lillie Cabrillo Middle School Concussion Headbands: Measuring Different Concussion Headbands' Ability to Reduce Brain Movement
Biological Science and Engineering 8 2nd Award  Diya  Desai  Glenn Lillie Cabrillo Middle School Concussion Headbands: Measuring Different Concussion Headbands' Ability to Reduce Brain Movement
Biological Science and Engineering 8 2nd Award  Sarah Christine Honer  Glenn Lillie Cabrillo Middle School Concussion Headbands: Measuring Different Concussion Headbands' Ability to Reduce Brain Movement
Biological Science and Engineering 8 Honorable Mention  Salma  Farahat  Farhana Afroz Granada Islamic School What Effect Does Ionizing Radiation Have on Plant Growth?
Biological Science and Engineering 8 Honorable Mention  Sudithi  Manthati  Shobi Murali Challenger - Sunnyvale The Effect of Different Solvent Extract of Turmeric on Their Antibacterial Properties
Biological Science and Engineering 8 Honorable Mention  Ravi  Prabhune  Youssef Ismail (mentor) Schmahl Science Workshop Nerve Growth Tracking with Non-Invasive Sensing
Biological Science and Engineering 8 Honorable Mention  Sasha Brooke Wang  Pronati Mondal Challenger - Almaden - SJ Can Pillbugs Learn?
Biological Science and Engineering 8 Honorable Mention  Aeliya Indra Grover  Kristen Morgensen Harker School-Middle Campus The Effect of Microplastics on the Growth of Bacteria Culture
Biological Science and Engineering 8 Honorable Mention  Medini  Halepete  Kristen Morgensen Harker School-Middle Campus The Effect of Microplastics on the Growth of Bacteria Culture
Biological Science and Engineering 8 Honorable Mention  Thomas  Liu  Tina Kim Harker School-Middle Campus A Novel, Least Invasive Way to Detect and Destroy Thrombosis
Biological Science and Engineering 8 Honorable Mention  Arnav  Swaroop  Tina Kim Harker School-Middle Campus A Novel, Least Invasive Way to Detect and Destroy Thrombosis
Biological Science and Engineering 8 $100 Middle School Plant Science (Amazon Gift Card), California Botanical Society  Benjamin Allen Cha  Kristen Morgensen Harker School-Middle Campus The Effects of Pondweed on Plant Growth
Biological Science and Engineering 8 $100 Middle School Plant Science (Amazon Gift Card), California Botanical Society  Brandon  Zau  Kristen Morgensen Harker School-Middle Campus The Effects of Pondweed on Plant Growth
Biological Science and Engineering 8 $50 Middle School Plant Science (Amazon Gift Card), California Botanical Society  Katherine Helena Fields  Tina Kim Harker School-Middle Campus Purified water vs filtered water vs natural water and its effect on plants
Biological Science and Engineering 8 $50 Middle School Plant Science (Amazon Gift Card), California Botanical Society  Maryam  Zehra  Tina Kim Harker School-Middle Campus Purified water vs filtered water vs natural water and its effect on plants
Biological Science and Engineering 9 Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair  Snikitha  Banda  Christine Koltermann Notre Dame High School Analyzing Online Patient-EKG Data Sets: A Novel Approach for the Detection of Early Heart Disease
Biological Science and Engineering 9 Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair  Sanjana  Manikandan  Tracy Hughes Presentation High School Fighting Ocean Acidification with Underwater Forests"A Study of the development of Sea Urchin Larvae in Seagrass forests
Biological Science and Engineering 9 Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair  Isabel  Vargas-Hurlston  Victoria Evashenk Notre Dame High School The Short-Term Effects of Carbon Dioxide on the Cellular Respiration of Ipomoea Batatas
Biological Science and Engineering 9 1st Award  Snikitha  Banda  Christine Koltermann Notre Dame High School Analyzing Online Patient-EKG Data Sets: A Novel Approach for the Detection of Early Heart Disease
Biological Science and Engineering 9 1st Award  Sanjana  Manikandan  Tracy Hughes Presentation High School Fighting Ocean Acidification with Underwater Forests"A Study of the development of Sea Urchin Larvae in Seagrass forests
Biological Science and Engineering 9 1st Award  Isabel  Vargas-Hurlston  Victoria Evashenk Notre Dame High School The Short-Term Effects of Carbon Dioxide on the Cellular Respiration of Ipomoea Batatas
Biological Science and Engineering 9 2nd Award  Avani  Kulshreshtha  Kyle Jones Monta Vista High School What is the effect of nutrient enhancement on biohydrogen gas production of the green algae Chlamydomonas reinhardtii?
Biological Science and Engineering 9 2nd Award  Anirudh  Venkatraman  Ed Taylor Homestead High School A Novel Device to Detect Infection of Wounds
Biological Science and Engineering 9 2nd Award  Christine  Xu  Pamela Chow Monta Vista High School How does isolation affect a Drosophila's ability to learn mazes
Biological Science and Engineering 9 2nd Award  Andrew  Yuan  Thanh Nguyen Lynbrook High School Early Diagnosis and Characterization of Sepsis Using Machine Learning
Biological Science and Engineering 9 Honorable Mention  Ashwika  Agrawal  Terri Hannigan Cupertino High School Automated Diagnosis of Infections in Piercings using Deep Learning and Convolutional Neural Networks
Biological Science and Engineering 9 Honorable Mention  Taara  Jayaraj  Christine Koltermann Notre Dame High School The Effect of Aloe Vera Gel on the Growth Rate of Mold on Strawberries
Biological Science and Engineering 9 Honorable Mention  Nikita  Senthil  Daniel Meyer Saint Francis High School The Effect of Nanosilver on Human Gastrointestinal Microbiota and Daphnia magna as a Bioassay for Freshwater Ecosystems
Biological Science and Engineering 9 Honorable Mention  Kelly Hui-Chin Tung  Renee Fallon Monta Vista High School Investigating the Functions of xpa-1 and him-1 Genes in UV Resistance of Caenorhabditis elegans by Combinatorial RNAi
Biological Science and Engineering 9 Honorable Mention  Callie Louise Johnson  Suzanne Miller-Moody Santa Clara High School Styrofoam- the New Meal for Mealworms
Biological Science and Engineering 9 Honorable Mention  Raina Joy Liem  Suzanne Miller-Moody Santa Clara High School Styrofoam- the New Meal for Mealworms
Biological Science and Engineering 9 Honorable Mention  Aditya  Rao  Amy Plat Cupertino High School The Effect Of Magnetism On The Growth of Pea Plants
Biological Science and Engineering 9 Honorable Mention  Arihan  Yadav  Amy Plat Cupertino High School The Effect Of Magnetism On The Growth of Pea Plants
Biological Science and Engineering 9 $100 for Individual projects. $50 for each student for Team Projects, IBM Award  Anirudh  Venkatraman  Ed Taylor Homestead High School A Novel Device to Detect Infection of Wounds
Biological Science and Engineering 9 Honorable Mention: Patch and Certificate, SETI Institute  Emma  Biswas  Mike Pistacchi Harker School-Upper Campus The Effect of the Temperature Increase Over 300 Years on the Growth of Staphylococcus aureus, Using Micrococcus luteus
Biological Science and Engineering 9 Honorable Mention: Patch and Certificate, SETI Institute  Arissa  Huda  Mike Pistacchi Harker School-Upper Campus The Effect of the Temperature Increase Over 300 Years on the Growth of Staphylococcus aureus, Using Micrococcus luteus
Biological Science and Engineering 10 Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair  Adarsh Sairam Ambati  Thuy-Anh Nguyen Archbishop Mitty High School Contactless, Vital Signs Monitor using PhotoPlethysmographic Imaging, Infrared Sensing Techniques, & Computer Vision
Biological Science and Engineering 10 Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair  Tim  Jing  Bradley Fulk Lynbrook High School Predicting Pandemics: Optimizing Prophylactic Models for MDR-TB, SARS, MERS, and other Potential Respiratory Pandemics
Biological Science and Engineering 10 Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair  Ryan  Mostafavi  Cathy Messenger Los Gatos High School The Use of Glandular Trichome Containing Plant Matter as Insecticides Against Ants
Biological Science and Engineering 10 Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair  Anika Kiran Nagavara  Kyle Jones Monta Vista High School The Effect of Different Amounts of Zinc on Asthma in Drosophila Melanogaster
Biological Science and Engineering 10 Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair  Dawson Jingshi Xuan  Cathy Messenger Los Gatos High School Using Drosophila melanogaster as a Model Organism for Artificial Social Hierarchy Creation
Biological Science and Engineering 10 1st Award  Adarsh Sairam Ambati  Thuy-Anh Nguyen Archbishop Mitty High School Contactless, Vital Signs Monitor using PhotoPlethysmographic Imaging, Infrared Sensing Techniques, & Computer Vision
Biological Science and Engineering 10 1st Award  Tim  Jing  Bradley Fulk Lynbrook High School Predicting Pandemics: Optimizing Prophylactic Models for MDR-TB, SARS, MERS, and other Potential Respiratory Pandemics
Biological Science and Engineering 10 1st Award  Ryan  Mostafavi  Cathy Messenger Los Gatos High School The Use of Glandular Trichome Containing Plant Matter as Insecticides Against Ants
Biological Science and Engineering 10 1st Award  Anika Kiran Nagavara  Kyle Jones Monta Vista High School The Effect of Different Amounts of Zinc on Asthma in Drosophila Melanogaster
Biological Science and Engineering 10 1st Award  Dawson Jingshi Xuan  Cathy Messenger Los Gatos High School Using Drosophila melanogaster as a Model Organism for Artificial Social Hierarchy Creation
Biological Science and Engineering 10 2nd Award  Myung Suh  Choi  Renee Fallon Monta Vista High School The capabilities of various phytochemicals to inhibit bacterial quorum sensing modeled by Serratia Marcescens
Biological Science and Engineering 10 2nd Award  Ahmad  Ismail  Mike Buncic Wilcox High School Using Machine Learning to Develop a Model for the Diagnosis of Heart Disease and Detection of Abnormalities
Biological Science and Engineering 10 2nd Award  Alisha  Kalley  Cathy Messenger Los Gatos High School Examination of Cow Ghee as a Neuroprotective Agent on C. elegans Exposed to Neurotoxin Bisphenol A
Biological Science and Engineering 10 2nd Award  Sophia W. Liu  Renee Fallon Monta Vista High School The effect of a metalloprotease inhibitor on the molting and mortality of C. elegans as an anti-aneurysmal growth model
Biological Science and Engineering 10 2nd Award  Shailesh  Senthil Kumar  Nicole DellaSantina Lynbrook High School The Identification of a Novel Causative Agent and its Biomarkers for Alzheimer's Disease
Biological Science and Engineering 10 Honorable Mention  Clara Maria Hansen  Cathy Messenger Los Gatos High School Examining the Effects of Water Temperature and Oxybenzone on the Bioluminescence and ROS of Marine Dinoflagellates
Biological Science and Engineering 10 Honorable Mention  Madeline  Ho  Cathy Messenger Los Gatos High School Testing the Effects of Broccoli and Broccoli-derived Glucoraphanin on Paralysis from B-Amyloid Aggregation in C. elegans
Biological Science and Engineering 10 Honorable Mention  Nithika  Karthikeyan  Christine Koltermann Notre Dame High School The Effect of Bacillus subtilis and Pseudomonas putida on the Biodegradation of Polyethylene Found in Microplastics
Biological Science and Engineering 10 Honorable Mention  Anoushka  Lakshmi  Renee Fallon Monta Vista High School The Effects of the Azadirachtin on the Reproductive Rates of Daphnia Pulex (water flea)
Biological Science and Engineering 10 Honorable Mention  Kavita S Murthy  Chris Spenner Harker School-Upper Campus The Efficiency of Permeability of Escherichia coli to Different Macromolecules Via Ultrasonic Waves
Biological Science and Engineering 10 Honorable Mention  Atmaja  Patil  Renee Fallon Monta Vista High School Effects of food waste addition to broth of Rhizobium Leguminosarum and its capacity to raise interest in biofertilizers
Biological Science and Engineering 10 Honorable Mention  Sasvath M Ramachandran  Thomas Artiss Harker School-Upper Campus Determining the UVA Intensity Threshold for Cryptobiosis in Hypsibius dujardini
Biological Science and Engineering 10 Honorable Mention  Sneha  Revanur  Arjun Ashokkumar Evergreen Valley High School A Novel Approach to Predicting and Optimizing Kidney Transplant Outcomes Using Deep Learning
Biological Science and Engineering 10 Honorable Mention  Isita Nandana Talukdar  Swetha Bhattacharya BASIS Independent Silicon Valley School Applications of Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning for Early Detection of Parkinson's Disease
Biological Science and Engineering 10 Honorable Mention  Jason Robert Co  Alan Tan Santa Clara High School Multipurpose Prosthetic: Utilizing 3D printing, Raspberry Pi, and CV to Engineer Task-Specific Attachments for Amputees
Biological Science and Engineering 10 Honorable Mention  Sheryl  Hsu  George Sousa Valley Christian High School Vaccinations for All: A Novel System that Improves the Safety, Efficiency, and Accessibility of Vaccinations
Biological Science and Engineering 10 Honorable Mention  Rhea  Jain  Alan Tan Santa Clara High School Multipurpose Prosthetic: Utilizing 3D printing, Raspberry Pi, and CV to Engineer Task-Specific Attachments for Amputees
Biological Science and Engineering 10 $100 High School Plant Science (Amazon Gift Card), California Botanical Society  Tavleen  Kaur  Jerry Knaack Wilcox High School Improving crop health and pollinator safety using eco-friendly fertilizers, pesticides, and fire-retardants.
Biological Science and Engineering 10 $100 for Individual projects. $50 for each student for Team Projects, IBM Award  Mahit Vishnusai Tanikella  Scott DeRuiter Monta Vista High School Automatic Quantification of Lymphocytes as Prognostic Marker in Cancer Tissue
Biological Science and Engineering 10 $50 High School Plant Science (Amazon Gift Card), California Botanical Society  Ananya  Aswani Kumar  Cathy Messenger Los Gatos High School The effects of biochar treated soil on the ability of Escherichia coli to infect plants
Biological Science and Engineering 10 ASEI Silicon Valley Emerging Technology Membership to American Society of Engineers of Indian Origin, American Society of Engineers of Indian Origin Award  Adarsh Sairam Ambati  Thuy-Anh Nguyen Archbishop Mitty High School Contactless, Vital Signs Monitor using PhotoPlethysmographic Imaging, Infrared Sensing Techniques, & Computer Vision
Biological Science and Engineering 10 Certificate of Achievement, System Safety Society  Tavleen  Kaur  Jerry Knaack Wilcox High School Improving crop health and pollinator safety using eco-friendly fertilizers, pesticides, and fire-retardants.
Biological Science and Engineering 10 Honorable Mention: Patch and Certificate, SETI Institute  Sasvath M Ramachandran  Thomas Artiss Harker School-Upper Campus Determining the UVA Intensity Threshold for Cryptobiosis in Hypsibius dujardini
Biological Science and Engineering 11 Grand Prize - Best of Championship - Biological Sciences - Qualified to be a Regeneron ISEF Finalist - $500 Cash, Santa Clara Valley Science & Engineering Fair Assn - Board of Directors Awards - High School  Sidra Yang Xu  Anita Chetty Harker School-Upper Campus Gene Embedding: A Novel Hybrid Approach to Somatic Mutation-Based Cancer Type Identification and Biomarker Discovery
Biological Science and Engineering 11 Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair  Dylan Rose Chin  Cathy Messenger Los Gatos High School Testing the Effect of Polyethylene Microplastics on Dinoflagellates
Biological Science and Engineering 11 Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair  Sachin Sundar Iyer  David Cobb Saint Francis High School Determining the Viability of Cell-Compatible Organic Stents Using Bio-Printing
Biological Science and Engineering 11 Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair  Dhruv Deepak Jatkar  David Cobb Saint Francis High School Determining the Viability of Cell-Compatible Organic Stents Using Bio-Printing
Biological Science and Engineering 11 Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair  Achintya  Sanjay  David Cobb Saint Francis High School Determining the Viability of Cell-Compatible Organic Stents Using Bio-Printing
Biological Science and Engineering 11 Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair  Sidra Yang Xu  Anita Chetty Harker School-Upper Campus Gene Embedding: A Novel Hybrid Approach to Somatic Mutation-Based Cancer Type Identification and Biomarker Discovery
Biological Science and Engineering 11 1st Award  Dylan Rose Chin  Cathy Messenger Los Gatos High School Testing the Effect of Polyethylene Microplastics on Dinoflagellates
Biological Science and Engineering 11 1st Award  Sidra Yang Xu  Anita Chetty Harker School-Upper Campus Gene Embedding: A Novel Hybrid Approach to Somatic Mutation-Based Cancer Type Identification and Biomarker Discovery
Biological Science and Engineering 11 1st Award  Sachin Sundar Iyer  David Cobb Saint Francis High School Determining the Viability of Cell-Compatible Organic Stents Using Bio-Printing
Biological Science and Engineering 11 1st Award  Dhruv Deepak Jatkar  David Cobb Saint Francis High School Determining the Viability of Cell-Compatible Organic Stents Using Bio-Printing
Biological Science and Engineering 11 1st Award  Achintya  Sanjay  David Cobb Saint Francis High School Determining the Viability of Cell-Compatible Organic Stents Using Bio-Printing
Biological Science and Engineering 11 2nd Award  Malavika  Eby  Renee Fallon Monta Vista High School Effect of Varying Levels of Apoptosis on the Efficacy of Phenytoin in Seizure-Susceptible Drosophila
Biological Science and Engineering 11 2nd Award  Samskruthi  Madireddy  Christine Koltermann Notre Dame High School Winning Combination Among Polyphenols, Probiotics, & Vitamins for Improved Memory and Cognitive Performance in Crickets
Biological Science and Engineering 11 2nd Award  Grace  Kuo  Thanh Nguyen Lynbrook High School Early Diagnosis and Characterization of Sepsis Using Machine Learning
Biological Science and Engineering 11 2nd Award  Michael  Zhao  Thanh Nguyen Lynbrook High School Early Diagnosis and Characterization of Sepsis Using Machine Learning
Biological Science and Engineering 11 Honorable Mention  Aditi  Bharti  Anita Chetty Harker School-Upper Campus Studying the Permanent Effects of Antibiotics on Fruit Flies to Emulate Its Effects on Human Neurological Disorders
Biological Science and Engineering 11 Honorable Mention  Annesh  Ghosh Dastidar  Matthew Harley Harker School-Upper Campus A Deep Learning Approach to Automated Lung Cancer Radiation Planning Using GTV with Organ-at-Risk Accommodation
Biological Science and Engineering 11 Honorable Mention  Sally  Ha  Jennifer Claudio Oak Grove High School The Effect of Simulated Microgravity on the Allelopathic Potential of Helianthus annuus
Biological Science and Engineering 11 Honorable Mention  Kate Elizabeth Jackson  Sean Wilmot Oakwood High School Finding Fibonacci: Does separating leaves by the Fibonacci Golden Angle optimize average sun exposure per leaf?
Biological Science and Engineering 11 Honorable Mention  Logan Walker Morley  Cathy Messenger Los Gatos High School The Effects of Chemical UV Filters on the Development of Drosophila melanogaster
Biological Science and Engineering 11 Honorable Mention  Safaa Aicha Mouline  David Greenstein Monta Vista High School A Customizable Voice that Improves Comprehension of Speech for Children with Language Impairments
Biological Science and Engineering 11 Honorable Mention  Anya  Raju  Anuradha Murthy BASIS Independent Silicon Valley School Using Genome-Wide Association Studies to Identify Common Genetic Loci Between Neurobiological Disorders
Biological Science and Engineering 11 Honorable Mention  Pauline Elizabeth Rogers  Scott VanderVeen Valley Christian High School Effects of Liposome delivered miRNA-142-3p in LN-18 cells on Temozolomide Treatment against Malignant Glioma
Biological Science and Engineering 11 Honorable Mention  Xingying  Zhu  Scott VanderVeen Valley Christian High School Effects of Liposome delivered miRNA-142-3p in LN-18 cells on Temozolomide Treatment against Malignant Glioma
Biological Science and Engineering 11 ASEI Silicon Valley Emerging Technology Membership to American Society of Engineers of Indian Origin, American Society of Engineers of Indian Origin Award  Sachin Sundar Iyer  David Cobb Saint Francis High School Determining the Viability of Cell-Compatible Organic Stents Using Bio-Printing
Biological Science and Engineering 11 ASEI Silicon Valley Emerging Technology Membership to American Society of Engineers of Indian Origin, American Society of Engineers of Indian Origin Award  Dhruv Deepak Jatkar  David Cobb Saint Francis High School Determining the Viability of Cell-Compatible Organic Stents Using Bio-Printing
Biological Science and Engineering 11 ASEI Silicon Valley Emerging Technology Membership to American Society of Engineers of Indian Origin, American Society of Engineers of Indian Origin Award  Achintya  Sanjay  David Cobb Saint Francis High School Determining the Viability of Cell-Compatible Organic Stents Using Bio-Printing
Biological Science and Engineering 11 High School $50 and letter of recognition, Northern California Institute of Food Technologists (NCIFT)  Nicole  Krockenberger  Cathy Messenger Los Gatos High School Using In Vitro Gut Simulation to Evaluate the Effects of Various Dietary Fats on Human Gut Microbiota
Biological Science and Engineering 11 High School $50 and letter of recognition, Northern California Institute of Food Technologists (NCIFT)  Samskruthi  Madireddy  Christine Koltermann Notre Dame High School Winning Combination Among Polyphenols, Probiotics, & Vitamins for Improved Memory and Cognitive Performance in Crickets
Biological Science and Engineering 11 Honorable Mention: Patch and Certificate, SETI Institute  Leo  Bailloeul  Ann Lorey Gunn (Henry M.) High School Effect of increased temperature on cyanobacteria growth and photosynthesis
Biological Science and Engineering 11 Honorable Mention: Patch and Certificate, SETI Institute  Rishee  Gupta  Ann Lorey Gunn (Henry M.) High School Effect of increased temperature on cyanobacteria growth and photosynthesis
Biological Science and Engineering 11 Honorable Mention: Patch and Certificate, SETI Institute  Kenneth  Meng  Ann Lorey Gunn (Henry M.) High School Effect of increased temperature on cyanobacteria growth and photosynthesis
Biological Science and Engineering 12 Grand Prize - Best of Championship - Outreach Schools - Qualified to be a Regeneron ISEF Finalist - $500 Cash, Santa Clara Valley Science & Engineering Fair Assn - Board of Directors Awards - High School  Uyen-Vy  Le  Jennifer Claudio Oak Grove High School No Ifs, Ands, or Butts: The Effect of Cigarette Butt Litter on Root Length of Germinating Centaurea cyanus
Biological Science and Engineering 12 Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair  Nikitha Venkatesh Kalahasti  Tracy Hughes Presentation High School Projections of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease Incidence Utilizing Air Quality Measures
Biological Science and Engineering 12 Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair  Uyen-Vy  Le  Jennifer Claudio Oak Grove High School No Ifs, Ands, or Butts: The Effect of Cigarette Butt Litter on Root Length of Germinating Centaurea cyanus
Biological Science and Engineering 12 Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair  Edward J Ross  James Ross (mentor) Homeschool - Ross Designing a Better Waterproof Bandage
Biological Science and Engineering 12 1st Award  Nikitha Venkatesh Kalahasti  Tracy Hughes Presentation High School Projections of Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease Incidence Utilizing Air Quality Measures
Biological Science and Engineering 12 1st Award  Uyen-Vy  Le  Jennifer Claudio Oak Grove High School No Ifs, Ands, or Butts: The Effect of Cigarette Butt Litter on Root Length of Germinating Centaurea cyanus
Biological Science and Engineering 12 1st Award  Edward J Ross  James Ross (mentor) Homeschool - Ross Designing a Better Waterproof Bandage
Biological Science and Engineering 12 2nd Award  Margaret  Radke  Cathy Messenger Los Gatos High School Evaluating if sanguinarine and berberine can inhibit the TGF-B signalling pathway using transgenic C. elegans
Biological Science and Engineering 12 Honorable Mention  Anoushka  Rao  Cathy Messenger Los Gatos High School Examining the Effect of a PP2A Enhancer on the Locomotive Velocity of C. elegans in a Model of Neurofibrillary Tauopathy
Biological Science and Engineering 12 Honorable Mention  Arthi  Vaidyanathan  Darren Dressen Los Altos High School The effect of fatty acids and albumin on type IV secretion systems to inhibit the spread of antibiotic resistance
Biological Science and Engineering 12 Honorable Mention  Allison  Lam  George Sousa Valley Christian High School Vaccinations for All: A Novel System that Improves the Safety, Efficiency, and Accessibility of Vaccinations
Biological Science and Engineering 12 Honorable Mention  Aaron  Stevens  Scott VanderVeen Valley Christian High School The effects of MG-132 combined with 9-cis, 13-cis, and all-trans retinoic acid on SH-SY5Y neuroblastoma cells
Biological Science and Engineering 12 Honorable Mention  Vivian  Zhu  Scott VanderVeen Valley Christian High School The effects of MG-132 combined with 9-cis, 13-cis, and all-trans retinoic acid on SH-SY5Y neuroblastoma cells
Biological Science and Engineering 12 2nd Place - $75, Certificate of Achievement, SAMPE - Society for the Advancement of Material and Process Engineering  Jiayan  Luo  Darren Dressen Los Altos High School Preparing Superhydrophobic surfaces via electroless galvanic deposition to inhibit S. epidermidis biofilm formation
Biological Science and Engineering 12 2nd Place - $75, Certificate of Achievement, SAMPE - Society for the Advancement of Material and Process Engineering  Franklin Ye Ruan  Darren Dressen Los Altos High School Preparing Superhydrophobic surfaces via electroless galvanic deposition to inhibit S. epidermidis biofilm formation
Physical Science and Engineering 6 $250 + certificate + a signed book + breakfast with Bob Zeidman, Zeidman Award  Yash  Sharma  Kameswari Rayaprolu Challenger - Strawberry Park - SJ Automatic Car Fuel Loader
Physical Science and Engineering 6 $500 + certificate + a signed book + breakfast with Bob Zeidman, Zeidman Award  Serena Saumil Gandhi  Rachel Hilario-Pigg Peterson Middle School The Polar Express: A Robot to Feed the Starving Polar Bears
Physical Science and Engineering 6 Grand Prize Student Award, Outstanding Young Woman in Computing: $320 and Certificate of Achievement, Association for Computing Machinery, San Francisco Bay Area Professional Chapter  Serena Saumil Gandhi  Rachel Hilario-Pigg Peterson Middle School The Polar Express: A Robot to Feed the Starving Polar Bears
Physical Science and Engineering 6 Honorable Mention Student Award: $40 and Certificate of Achievement, Association for Computing Machinery, San Francisco Bay Area Professional Chapter  Yash  Sharma  Kameswari Rayaprolu Challenger - Strawberry Park - SJ Automatic Car Fuel Loader
Physical Science and Engineering 6 Nominated to compete envelope, Broadcom MASTERS - 6th Grade  Aman Prashant Chandra  Bonny Basu Challenger - Shawnee - SJ Edible Explosives
Physical Science and Engineering 6 Nominated to compete envelope, Broadcom MASTERS - 6th Grade  Serena Saumil Gandhi  Rachel Hilario-Pigg Peterson Middle School The Polar Express: A Robot to Feed the Starving Polar Bears
Physical Science and Engineering 6 Nominated to compete envelope, Broadcom MASTERS - 6th Grade  Usman  Khan  Zeba Haq Granada Islamic School Harnessing the Energy of Water to Lift a Load
Physical Science and Engineering 6 Nominated to compete envelope, Broadcom MASTERS - 6th Grade  Zara  Mody  Jeffrey Takemoto Stratford Middle School - San Jose The effect of different solutions on removing graffiti.
Physical Science and Engineering 6 Nominated to compete envelope, Broadcom MASTERS - 6th Grade  Brenna  Ren  Shengnan Cong (PSP) Privately Sponsored Project Solar Powered Lanterns Based on Origami Techniques
Physical Science and Engineering 6 Nominated to compete envelope, Broadcom MASTERS - 6th Grade  Emily  Ren  Jeffrey Takemoto Stratford Middle School - San Jose The effect of temperature on viscosity of liquids
Physical Science and Engineering 6 Nominated to compete envelope, Broadcom MASTERS - 6th Grade  Kallie  Wang  Shengnan Cong (PSP) Privately Sponsored Project Solar Powered Lanterns Based on Origami Techniques
Physical Science and Engineering 6 Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair  Aman Prashant Chandra  Bonny Basu Challenger - Shawnee - SJ Edible Explosives
Physical Science and Engineering 6 Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair  Kyle Alexander Ciurczak  Kanchan Bhandare Merryhill Schools - Milpitas Angles in Soccer
Physical Science and Engineering 6 Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair  Serena Saumil Gandhi  Rachel Hilario-Pigg Peterson Middle School The Polar Express: A Robot to Feed the Starving Polar Bears
Physical Science and Engineering 6 Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair  Usman  Khan  Zeba Haq Granada Islamic School Harnessing the Energy of Water to Lift a Load
Physical Science and Engineering 6 Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair  Zara  Mody  Jeffrey Takemoto Stratford Middle School - San Jose The effect of different solutions on removing graffiti.
Physical Science and Engineering 6 Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair  Brenna  Ren  Shengnan Cong (PSP) Privately Sponsored Project Solar Powered Lanterns Based on Origami Techniques
Physical Science and Engineering 6 Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair  Emily  Ren  Jeffrey Takemoto Stratford Middle School - San Jose The effect of temperature on viscosity of liquids
Physical Science and Engineering 6 Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair  Arnav  Shailesh  Kanchan Bhandare Merryhill Schools - Milpitas Angles in Soccer
Physical Science and Engineering 6 Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair  Kallie  Wang  Shengnan Cong (PSP) Privately Sponsored Project Solar Powered Lanterns Based on Origami Techniques
Physical Science and Engineering 6 1st Award  Aman Prashant Chandra  Bonny Basu Challenger - Shawnee - SJ Edible Explosives
Physical Science and Engineering 6 1st Award  Serena Saumil Gandhi  Rachel Hilario-Pigg Peterson Middle School The Polar Express: A Robot to Feed the Starving Polar Bears
Physical Science and Engineering 6 1st Award  Usman  Khan  Zeba Haq Granada Islamic School Harnessing the Energy of Water to Lift a Load
Physical Science and Engineering 6 1st Award  Zara  Mody  Jeffrey Takemoto Stratford Middle School - San Jose The effect of different solutions on removing graffiti.
Physical Science and Engineering 6 1st Award  Emily  Ren  Jeffrey Takemoto Stratford Middle School - San Jose The effect of temperature on viscosity of liquids
Physical Science and Engineering 6 1st Award  Brenna  Ren  Shengnan Cong (PSP) Privately Sponsored Project Solar Powered Lanterns Based on Origami Techniques
Physical Science and Engineering 6 1st Award  Kallie  Wang  Shengnan Cong (PSP) Privately Sponsored Project Solar Powered Lanterns Based on Origami Techniques
Physical Science and Engineering 6 2nd Award  Vishnu S Duggirala  Sreevani Singaraju (PSP) Privately Sponsored Project A photoresistor to detect an edible fruit and vegetable(Farm'Ohm'bot!).
Physical Science and Engineering 6 2nd Award  Amishi  Gupta  Swapna Mayya Challenger - Sunnyvale Ferrofluids: Saving the Environment
Physical Science and Engineering 6 2nd Award  Rachael  Li  Sandip Panesar Challenger - Strawberry Park - SJ Turbine Generation
Physical Science and Engineering 6 2nd Award  Andrew  Su  Jaimee Burch Old Orchard School Earthquake Proof Building
Physical Science and Engineering 6 2nd Award  Albert  Yao  Art Wellersdick Challenger - Sunnyvale Surface Tension on Fire
Physical Science and Engineering 6 2nd Award  Arush  Pal  Kanchan Bhandare Merryhill Schools - Milpitas The Salinity Factor
Physical Science and Engineering 6 2nd Award  Arjun  Sathish  Kanchan Bhandare Merryhill Schools - Milpitas The Salinity Factor
Physical Science and Engineering 6 2nd Award  Vivek  Yella  Kanchan Bhandare Merryhill Schools - Milpitas The Salinity Factor
Physical Science and Engineering 6 Honorable Mention  Jaiveer Singh Gill  Bonny Basu Challenger - Shawnee - SJ A Sound Proof of Soundproofing: Using a Novel Resonance Tube Apparatus to Measure Sound Absorption of Various Materials
Physical Science and Engineering 6 Honorable Mention  Yash  Golwala  Heather Mackewicz Stratford Middle School - Sunnyvale Raynor What is the effect of the type of bioplastic on its thermal conductive capabilities?
Physical Science and Engineering 6 Honorable Mention  Roger  He  Ana Juliete Brito de Moraes Alsberg Stratford Middle School - San Jose Does the temperature of ocean water affect how much oil is extracted from water by using nanotechnology?
Physical Science and Engineering 6 Honorable Mention  Ian  Sim  Jiwon Kim Canyon Heights Academy Creating Cold Coolers!
Physical Science and Engineering 6 Honorable Mention  Nainika  Srinivasan  Brad Bowden Challenger - Shawnee - SJ Fluid Mechanics: The Effect of Temperature and Type of Fluid on its Viscosity
Physical Science and Engineering 6 Honorable Mention  Muhaab Ahmed Syed  Zeba Haq Granada Islamic School Effect Of Ceiling Height And Ventilation On Room Temperature
Physical Science and Engineering 6 Honorable Mention  Eliot  Bronstein  Danny Watson Gideon Hausner Jewish Day School The Flare: Putting out wildfires by release fire retardant
Physical Science and Engineering 6 Honorable Mention  Kyle Alexander Ciurczak  Kanchan Bhandare Merryhill Schools - Milpitas Angles in Soccer
Physical Science and Engineering 6 Honorable Mention  Nathan  Fichtenholz  Danny Watson Gideon Hausner Jewish Day School The Flare: Putting out wildfires by release fire retardant
Physical Science and Engineering 6 Honorable Mention  Ashrith Vardhan Gandluru  Kanchan Bhandare Merryhill Schools - Milpitas Houston, do you Copy - An Experiment of Radio Communication
Physical Science and Engineering 6 Honorable Mention  Milo  Levin  Danny Watson Gideon Hausner Jewish Day School The Flare: Putting out wildfires by release fire retardant
Physical Science and Engineering 6 Honorable Mention  Aaron Josh Peter  Kanchan Bhandare Merryhill Schools - Milpitas MagLoop: The Method to Better Transportation
Physical Science and Engineering 6 Honorable Mention  Rishi  Rakesh  Kanchan Bhandare Merryhill Schools - Milpitas Houston, do you Copy - An Experiment of Radio Communication
Physical Science and Engineering 6 Honorable Mention  Arnav  Shailesh  Kanchan Bhandare Merryhill Schools - Milpitas Angles in Soccer
Physical Science and Engineering 6 Honorable Mention  Om  Suthar  Kanchan Bhandare Merryhill Schools - Milpitas MagLoop: The Method to Better Transportation
Physical Science and Engineering 6 $50 to student, Certificate of Achievement, and Letter, Al Foster Award  Eliot  Bronstein  Danny Watson Gideon Hausner Jewish Day School The Flare: Putting out wildfires by release fire retardant
Physical Science and Engineering 6 $50 to student, Certificate of Achievement, and Letter, Al Foster Award  Nathan  Fichtenholz  Danny Watson Gideon Hausner Jewish Day School The Flare: Putting out wildfires by release fire retardant
Physical Science and Engineering 6 $50 to student, Certificate of Achievement, and Letter, Al Foster Award  Milo  Levin  Danny Watson Gideon Hausner Jewish Day School The Flare: Putting out wildfires by release fire retardant
Physical Science and Engineering 6 1st place - $150 and Certificate of Achievement, American Society of Civil Engineers- San Jose Branch  Andrew  Su  Jaimee Burch Old Orchard School Earthquake Proof Building
Physical Science and Engineering 6 2nd Place - $75, Certificate of Achievement, SAMPE - Society for the Advancement of Material and Process Engineering  Yash  Golwala  Heather Mackewicz Stratford Middle School - Sunnyvale Raynor What is the effect of the type of bioplastic on its thermal conductive capabilities?
Physical Science and Engineering 6 3rd Place - $50, Certificate of Achievement, SAMPE - Society for the Advancement of Material and Process Engineering  Maggie  Liu  Pronati Mondal Challenger - Almaden - SJ The Best Ink Sealant
Physical Science and Engineering 6 3rd Place Award - $50 and Certificate of Achievement, ASM International, A Society for Materials, Santa Clara Valley Chapter  Sofia-Lynn Mai Teresi  Jeffrey Takemoto Stratford Middle School - San Jose The effect of different insulators on a solar oven to determine which solar oven will reach the highest temperature.
Physical Science and Engineering 6 Honorable Mention - Certificate of Achievement, SAMPE - Society for the Advancement of Material and Process Engineering  Matthew Jonghyun Koo  Jiwon Kim Canyon Heights Academy The Best Material That Can Stand up to Chemicals
Physical Science and Engineering 7 2nd Place Student Award: $160 and Certificate of Achievement, Association for Computing Machinery, San Francisco Bay Area Professional Chapter  Nishant  Perla  Shannon Deza Stratford Middle School - Sunnyvale Raynor Yelp for Help!: A Disaster Relief App
Physical Science and Engineering 7 Honorable Mention Certificate + a signed book + breakfast with Bob Zeidman, Zeidman Award  Rishi Manit Prasad  Juliana West Stratford Middle School - San Jose Personal Medical Assistant
Physical Science and Engineering 7 Honorable Mention Student Award: $40 and Certificate of Achievement, Association for Computing Machinery, San Francisco Bay Area Professional Chapter  Daniel  Jeznach  Sarah Rahman Cabrillo Middle School Creating an AI Sight System to Aid the Visually Impaired
Physical Science and Engineering 7 Honorable Mention Student Award: $40 and Certificate of Achievement, Association for Computing Machinery, San Francisco Bay Area Professional Chapter  Rishi Manit Prasad  Juliana West Stratford Middle School - San Jose Personal Medical Assistant
Physical Science and Engineering 7 Honorable Mention Student Award: $40 and Certificate of Achievement, Association for Computing Machinery, San Francisco Bay Area Professional Chapter  Arham Ahmad Siddiqui  Sarah Rahman Cabrillo Middle School Creating an AI Sight System to Aid the Visually Impaired
Physical Science and Engineering 7 Honorable Mention Student Award: $40 and Certificate of Achievement, Association for Computing Machinery, San Francisco Bay Area Professional Chapter  Daniel Alex Ticau  Sarah Rahman Cabrillo Middle School Creating an AI Sight System to Aid the Visually Impaired
Physical Science and Engineering 7 Nominated to compete envelope, Broadcom MASTERS - 7th Grade  Anish Sriram Bhethanabotla  Saitanuja Madhavapeddi (PSP) Privately Sponsored Project AI Eye - Navigation Aid for the Visually Impaired
Physical Science and Engineering 7 Nominated to compete envelope, Broadcom MASTERS - 7th Grade  Iris  Cai  Shannon Deza Stratford Middle School - Sunnyvale Raynor ScratchCat Spanish: Connecting the World Through Language
Physical Science and Engineering 7 Nominated to compete envelope, Broadcom MASTERS - 7th Grade  Gabriel Gebremichael Futsum  Sarah Rahman Cabrillo Middle School Game -Changing shoe
Physical Science and Engineering 7 Nominated to compete envelope, Broadcom MASTERS - 7th Grade  Elisa  Grothe  Aida Rivera Homeschool - Explora Academy Eliminating Sargasso Seaweed from the Surface of the Ocean
Physical Science and Engineering 7 Nominated to compete envelope, Broadcom MASTERS - 7th Grade  Connor Philip Houle  Sarah Rahman Cabrillo Middle School Game -Changing shoe
Physical Science and Engineering 7 Nominated to compete envelope, Broadcom MASTERS - 7th Grade  Micah Fairfax Keegan  Sarah Rahman Cabrillo Middle School Game -Changing shoe
Physical Science and Engineering 7 Nominated to compete envelope, Broadcom MASTERS - 7th Grade  Soham Sudhir Kulkarni  Sarah Rahman Cabrillo Middle School The Crop Box
Physical Science and Engineering 7 Nominated to compete envelope, Broadcom MASTERS - 7th Grade  Gavin  Mace  Eileen Resnick Murphy (Martin) Middle School Testing 3D printed truss bridges
Physical Science and Engineering 7 Nominated to compete envelope, Broadcom MASTERS - 7th Grade  Dylan  Ng  Sarah Rahman Cabrillo Middle School The Crop Box
Physical Science and Engineering 7 Nominated to compete envelope, Broadcom MASTERS - 7th Grade  Aryan  Ponnuru  Sarah Rahman Cabrillo Middle School The Crop Box
Physical Science and Engineering 7 Nominated to compete envelope, Broadcom MASTERS - 7th Grade  Aashna  Prasad  Jeffrey Takemoto Stratford Middle School - San Jose Testing the efficacy of different types of control line strategies on wildfires.
Physical Science and Engineering 7 Nominated to compete envelope, Broadcom MASTERS - 7th Grade  James Constantine Tsaggaris  Juliana West Stratford Middle School - San Jose Designing A Page-Flipping Device
Physical Science and Engineering 7 Nominated to compete envelope, Broadcom MASTERS - 7th Grade  Rebeca  Urdaneta  Aida Rivera Homeschool - Explora Academy Eliminating Sargasso Seaweed from the Surface of the Ocean
Physical Science and Engineering 7 Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair  Anish Sriram Bhethanabotla  Saitanuja Madhavapeddi (PSP) Privately Sponsored Project AI Eye - Navigation Aid for the Visually Impaired
Physical Science and Engineering 7 Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair  Iris  Cai  Shannon Deza Stratford Middle School - Sunnyvale Raynor ScratchCat Spanish: Connecting the World Through Language
Physical Science and Engineering 7 Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair  Ryan Jacob Field  Dano Costello Yavneh Day School What food has the most electrical conductivity?
Physical Science and Engineering 7 Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair  Gabriel Gebremichael Futsum  Sarah Rahman Cabrillo Middle School Game -Changing shoe
Physical Science and Engineering 7 Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair  Elisa  Grothe  Aida Rivera Homeschool - Explora Academy Eliminating Sargasso Seaweed from the Surface of the Ocean
Physical Science and Engineering 7 Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair  Connor Philip Houle  Sarah Rahman Cabrillo Middle School Game -Changing shoe
Physical Science and Engineering 7 Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair  Micah Fairfax Keegan  Sarah Rahman Cabrillo Middle School Game -Changing shoe
Physical Science and Engineering 7 Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair  Soham Sudhir Kulkarni  Sarah Rahman Cabrillo Middle School The Crop Box
Physical Science and Engineering 7 Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair  Gavin  Mace  Eileen Resnick Murphy (Martin) Middle School Testing 3D printed truss bridges
Physical Science and Engineering 7 Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair  Dylan  Ng  Sarah Rahman Cabrillo Middle School The Crop Box
Physical Science and Engineering 7 Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair  Aryan  Ponnuru  Sarah Rahman Cabrillo Middle School The Crop Box
Physical Science and Engineering 7 Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair  Aashna  Prasad  Jeffrey Takemoto Stratford Middle School - San Jose Testing the efficacy of different types of control line strategies on wildfires.
Physical Science and Engineering 7 Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair  Gabe  Sachse  Dano Costello Yavneh Day School Which stat correlates best to run scoring in Major League Baseball?
Physical Science and Engineering 7 Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair  James Constantine Tsaggaris  Juliana West Stratford Middle School - San Jose Designing A Page-Flipping Device
Physical Science and Engineering 7 Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair  Rebeca  Urdaneta  Aida Rivera Homeschool - Explora Academy Eliminating Sargasso Seaweed from the Surface of the Ocean
Physical Science and Engineering 7 1st Award  Anish Sriram Bhethanabotla  Saitanuja Madhavapeddi (PSP) Privately Sponsored Project AI Eye - Navigation Aid for the Visually Impaired
Physical Science and Engineering 7 1st Award  Iris  Cai  Shannon Deza Stratford Middle School - Sunnyvale Raynor ScratchCat Spanish: Connecting the World Through Language
Physical Science and Engineering 7 1st Award  Gavin  Mace  Eileen Resnick Murphy (Martin) Middle School Testing 3D printed truss bridges
Physical Science and Engineering 7 1st Award  Aashna  Prasad  Jeffrey Takemoto Stratford Middle School - San Jose Testing the efficacy of different types of control line strategies on wildfires.
Physical Science and Engineering 7 1st Award  James Constantine Tsaggaris  Juliana West Stratford Middle School - San Jose Designing A Page-Flipping Device
Physical Science and Engineering 7 1st Award  Gabriel Gebremichael Futsum  Sarah Rahman Cabrillo Middle School Game -Changing shoe
Physical Science and Engineering 7 1st Award  Elisa  Grothe  Aida Rivera Homeschool - Explora Academy Eliminating Sargasso Seaweed from the Surface of the Ocean
Physical Science and Engineering 7 1st Award  Connor Philip Houle  Sarah Rahman Cabrillo Middle School Game -Changing shoe
Physical Science and Engineering 7 1st Award  Micah Fairfax Keegan  Sarah Rahman Cabrillo Middle School Game -Changing shoe
Physical Science and Engineering 7 1st Award  Soham Sudhir Kulkarni  Sarah Rahman Cabrillo Middle School The Crop Box
Physical Science and Engineering 7 1st Award  Dylan  Ng  Sarah Rahman Cabrillo Middle School The Crop Box
Physical Science and Engineering 7 1st Award  Aryan  Ponnuru  Sarah Rahman Cabrillo Middle School The Crop Box
Physical Science and Engineering 7 1st Award  Rebeca  Urdaneta  Aida Rivera Homeschool - Explora Academy Eliminating Sargasso Seaweed from the Surface of the Ocean
Physical Science and Engineering 7 2nd Award  Gabe  Sachse  Dano Costello Yavneh Day School Which stat correlates best to run scoring in Major League Baseball?
Physical Science and Engineering 7 2nd Award  Pranav  Sukesh  Juliana West Stratford Middle School - San Jose Energy Efficient Heating and Cooling Using an IR Thermal Sensor
Physical Science and Engineering 7 2nd Award  Albert  Yu  Juliana West Stratford Middle School - San Jose A Solar Powered Desalination Apparatus
Physical Science and Engineering 7 2nd Award  Elie Meir Bodner  Megan Babat Gideon Hausner Jewish Day School REP: A Solution to Electricity Caused Fires and Blackouts
Physical Science and Engineering 7 2nd Award  Samuel John Geevarghese  Sarah Rahman Cabrillo Middle School Smart Watering Device: Reduce water consumption in agriculture using technology
Physical Science and Engineering 7 2nd Award  Saarika  Gunapu  Sarah Rahman Cabrillo Middle School Smart Watering Device: Reduce water consumption in agriculture using technology
Physical Science and Engineering 7 2nd Award  Daniel  Jeznach  Sarah Rahman Cabrillo Middle School Creating an AI Sight System to Aid the Visually Impaired
Physical Science and Engineering 7 2nd Award  Arin  Kathapurkar  Shama Mohamed Merryhill Schools - Milpitas Sign Language Glove
Physical Science and Engineering 7 2nd Award  Om Sudhir Kulkarni  Sarah Rahman Cabrillo Middle School Building an Eco-Friendly and Cost Efficient Reverse Osmosis Filter to Supply Fresh Water to 3rd World Countries
Physical Science and Engineering 7 2nd Award  Harsha  Manamala  Shama Mohamed Merryhill Schools - Milpitas Sign Language Glove
Physical Science and Engineering 7 2nd Award  Aarnav  Nagabhirava  Sarah Rahman Cabrillo Middle School Building an Eco-Friendly and Cost Efficient Reverse Osmosis Filter to Supply Fresh Water to 3rd World Countries
Physical Science and Engineering 7 2nd Award  Sidak Singh Sandhu  Sarah Rahman Cabrillo Middle School Building an Eco-Friendly and Cost Efficient Reverse Osmosis Filter to Supply Fresh Water to 3rd World Countries
Physical Science and Engineering 7 2nd Award  Arham Ahmad Siddiqui  Sarah Rahman Cabrillo Middle School Creating an AI Sight System to Aid the Visually Impaired
Physical Science and Engineering 7 2nd Award  Daniel Alex Ticau  Sarah Rahman Cabrillo Middle School Creating an AI Sight System to Aid the Visually Impaired
Physical Science and Engineering 7 2nd Award  Aakash Sri Vetcha  Sarah Rahman Cabrillo Middle School Smart Watering Device: Reduce water consumption in agriculture using technology
Physical Science and Engineering 7 2nd Award  Zalman Wolf Zucker  Megan Babat Gideon Hausner Jewish Day School REP: A Solution to Electricity Caused Fires and Blackouts
Physical Science and Engineering 7 Honorable Mention  Hrishikesh  Ankireddi  Lekhana Revankar Stratford Middle School - Milpitas Need a Hand? - A Low Cost Approach to Modern Prosthetics with Custom-Designed Legos and Arduino
Physical Science and Engineering 7 Honorable Mention  Saarika  Apte  Sujatha Raghu Rolling Hills Middle School Oil Away!
Physical Science and Engineering 7 Honorable Mention  Arnav  Bhardwaj  Shannon Deza Stratford Middle School - Sunnyvale Raynor Water System that detects moisture content in soil to automatically water plants.
Physical Science and Engineering 7 Honorable Mention  Aaryan  Doshi  Heather Mackewicz Stratford Middle School - Sunnyvale Raynor SafetyBot: Sensor-based application to Detect Prolonged Stove Usage and Prevent Home Fires
Physical Science and Engineering 7 Honorable Mention  Ryan Jacob Field  Dano Costello Yavneh Day School What food has the most electrical conductivity?
Physical Science and Engineering 7 Honorable Mention  Ayush  Ghosh  Juliana West Stratford Middle School - San Jose Home Navigation Assistant for the Visually Impaired
Physical Science and Engineering 7 Honorable Mention  Samanya  Girish  Brad Bowden Challenger - Shawnee - SJ Exoplanet Discovery: Advancing the Study of Cosmology Using Photometry
Physical Science and Engineering 7 Honorable Mention  Victor  Gong  Ana Juliete Brito de Moraes Alsberg Stratford Middle School - San Jose Distracted Driving Detection: A real-time system to detect distracted driving
Physical Science and Engineering 7 Honorable Mention  Pakhi  Gupta  Shannon Deza Stratford Middle School - Sunnyvale Raynor Luggage on Invisible Leash
Physical Science and Engineering 7 Honorable Mention  Nicole Elizabeth Kheyfets  Kameswari Rayaprolu Challenger - Strawberry Park - SJ Tsunami Power
Physical Science and Engineering 7 Honorable Mention  Madison Elizabeth Lin  Sujatha Raghu Rolling Hills Middle School A New Storm Drain Filter: Aiding the Fight Against Pollution
Physical Science and Engineering 7 Honorable Mention  Krish  Maheshwari  Juliana West Stratford Middle School - San Jose A Chrome Extension to Reduce Distractions.
Physical Science and Engineering 7 Honorable Mention  Maahi  Vidyarthi  Bonny Basu Challenger - Shawnee - SJ S.O.S - Save Our Seas
Physical Science and Engineering 7 Honorable Mention  Aaina  Bhatia  Sarah Rahman Cabrillo Middle School A Cost Efficient and Portable Water Filter
Physical Science and Engineering 7 Honorable Mention  Ruby Elizabeth Goodwin  Sarah Rahman Cabrillo Middle School A Cost Efficient and Portable Water Filter
Physical Science and Engineering 7 Honorable Mention  Lucy Grace Johnson  Sarah Rahman Cabrillo Middle School Stand Up to Earthquakes
Physical Science and Engineering 7 Honorable Mention  Jesssica  Kendrick  Sarah Rahman Cabrillo Middle School A Cost Efficient and Portable Water Filter
Physical Science and Engineering 7 Honorable Mention  Martyna  Sobczyk  Sarah Rahman Cabrillo Middle School Building a Microbial Fuel Cell to Limit Fossil Fuel Waste and Pollution
Physical Science and Engineering 7 Honorable Mention  Mitee Lu Su  Sarah Rahman Cabrillo Middle School Stand Up to Earthquakes
Physical Science and Engineering 7 Honorable Mention  Ashika  Sugali  Sarah Rahman Cabrillo Middle School Building a Microbial Fuel Cell to Limit Fossil Fuel Waste and Pollution
Physical Science and Engineering 7 Honorable Mention  Agatha Thai Thao Vu  Sarah Rahman Cabrillo Middle School Stand Up to Earthquakes
Physical Science and Engineering 7 Honorable Mention  Reiko Malia Rosales Yoshimura  Sarah Rahman Cabrillo Middle School Building a Microbial Fuel Cell to Limit Fossil Fuel Waste and Pollution
Physical Science and Engineering 7 1st Place - $100, Certificate of Achievement, SAMPE - Society for the Advancement of Material and Process Engineering  Shawnuk  Ballal  Kristi Chung Stratford Middle School - San Jose Designing a hand warmer using oxidation of easily available materials
Physical Science and Engineering 7 1st Place Award - $100 and Certificate of Achievement from ASM Materials Education Foundation and Ribbon, ASM International, A Society for Materials, Santa Clara Valley Chapter  Reva Chidella Sharma  Shama Mohamed Merryhill Schools - Milpitas "Solid Air": World's Lightest Materials
Physical Science and Engineering 7 Exceptional Merit, Certificate, SPV Market Research "Most Promising Young Scientist"  Aaina  Bhatia  Sarah Rahman Cabrillo Middle School A Cost Efficient and Portable Water Filter
Physical Science and Engineering 7 Exceptional Merit, Certificate, SPV Market Research "Most Promising Young Scientist"  Ruby Elizabeth Goodwin  Sarah Rahman Cabrillo Middle School A Cost Efficient and Portable Water Filter
Physical Science and Engineering 7 Exceptional Merit, Certificate, SPV Market Research "Most Promising Young Scientist"  Jesssica  Kendrick  Sarah Rahman Cabrillo Middle School A Cost Efficient and Portable Water Filter
Physical Science and Engineering 7 Exceptional Merit, Certificate, SPV Market Research "Most Promising Young Scientist"  Om Sudhir Kulkarni  Sarah Rahman Cabrillo Middle School Building an Eco-Friendly and Cost Efficient Reverse Osmosis Filter to Supply Fresh Water to 3rd World Countries
Physical Science and Engineering 7 Exceptional Merit, Certificate, SPV Market Research "Most Promising Young Scientist"  Aarnav  Nagabhirava  Sarah Rahman Cabrillo Middle School Building an Eco-Friendly and Cost Efficient Reverse Osmosis Filter to Supply Fresh Water to 3rd World Countries
Physical Science and Engineering 7 Exceptional Merit, Certificate, SPV Market Research "Most Promising Young Scientist"  Rishab Reddy Perati  Leah Watts Kennedy(John F.) Middle School-Cupertino Evaluating The Ability and Mechanism of How Mealworms Break Down Plastic Waste from Different Sources
Physical Science and Engineering 7 Exceptional Merit, Certificate, SPV Market Research "Most Promising Young Scientist"  Sidak Singh Sandhu  Sarah Rahman Cabrillo Middle School Building an Eco-Friendly and Cost Efficient Reverse Osmosis Filter to Supply Fresh Water to 3rd World Countries
Physical Science and Engineering 7 GR 6-8: 1st Place, Certificate of Achievement, and tour of NASA Ames Research Center, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) Intelligent Systems Award  Rishi Manit Prasad  Juliana West Stratford Middle School - San Jose Personal Medical Assistant
Physical Science and Engineering 7 Honorable Mention - Certificate of Achievement, American Society of Civil Engineers- San Jose Branch  Madison Elizabeth Lin  Sujatha Raghu Rolling Hills Middle School A New Storm Drain Filter: Aiding the Fight Against Pollution
Physical Science and Engineering 8 $125 + certificate + a signed book + breakfast with Bob Zeidman, Zeidman Award  Ben  Freda-Eskenazi  Liat Baranoff Gideon Hausner Jewish Day School To Understand or Not to Understand.
Physical Science and Engineering 8 $125 + certificate + a signed book + breakfast with Bob Zeidman, Zeidman Award  Navon  Soussan  Liat Baranoff Gideon Hausner Jewish Day School To Understand or Not to Understand.
Physical Science and Engineering 8 Grand Prize Student Award: $320 and Certificate of Achievement, Association for Computing Machinery, San Francisco Bay Area Professional Chapter  Gautam  Bhooma  Tina Kim Harker School-Middle Campus ForesAIght: Machine Learning powered Assistant for the Visually Impaired
Physical Science and Engineering 8 Grand Prize Student Award: $320 and Certificate of Achievement, Association for Computing Machinery, San Francisco Bay Area Professional Chapter  Ramit Rajan Goyal  Tina Kim Harker School-Middle Campus ForesAIght: Machine Learning powered Assistant for the Visually Impaired
Physical Science and Engineering 8 Honorable Mention Certificate + a signed book + breakfast with Bob Zeidman, Zeidman Award  Karen Bella Glenn  Liat Baranoff Gideon Hausner Jewish Day School Helmet : On
Physical Science and Engineering 8 Honorable Mention Certificate + a signed book + breakfast with Bob Zeidman, Zeidman Award  Annabel  Honigstein  Liat Baranoff Gideon Hausner Jewish Day School Helmet : On
Physical Science and Engineering 8 Honorable Mention Student Award: $40 and Certificate of Achievement, Association for Computing Machinery, San Francisco Bay Area Professional Chapter  Sangyani  Sinha  Dave Delgado Cambrian International Academy - Middle School CytoCounter: Using Machine Learning to Count ELISpots
Physical Science and Engineering 8 Nominated to compete envelope, Broadcom MASTERS - 8th Grade  Gautam  Bhooma  Tina Kim Harker School-Middle Campus ForesAIght: Machine Learning powered Assistant for the Visually Impaired
Physical Science and Engineering 8 Nominated to compete envelope, Broadcom MASTERS - 8th Grade  Zachary Glantz-Nguyen Blue  Kristen Morgensen Harker School-Middle Campus Passively Rotating Wind Turbine
Physical Science and Engineering 8 Nominated to compete envelope, Broadcom MASTERS - 8th Grade  Sanjit Sandip Borle  Leah Watts Kennedy(John F.) Middle School-Cupertino Automated Sun-Visor with Photon Detection Part 2
Physical Science and Engineering 8 Nominated to compete envelope, Broadcom MASTERS - 8th Grade  Ramit Rajan Goyal  Tina Kim Harker School-Middle Campus ForesAIght: Machine Learning powered Assistant for the Visually Impaired
Physical Science and Engineering 8 Nominated to compete envelope, Broadcom MASTERS - 8th Grade  Alex Kaiwen Guo  Kathy Peng Harker School-Middle Campus Using AI to Distinguish Between Human Caused and Natural Fires
Physical Science and Engineering 8 Nominated to compete envelope, Broadcom MASTERS - 8th Grade  Alon  Knaan  Liat Baranoff Gideon Hausner Jewish Day School Milkweed SeedBall Launcher
Physical Science and Engineering 8 Nominated to compete envelope, Broadcom MASTERS - 8th Grade  Jordan Sun Labio  Kristen Morgensen Harker School-Middle Campus Passively Rotating Wind Turbine
Physical Science and Engineering 8 Nominated to compete envelope, Broadcom MASTERS - 8th Grade  Nathan Tsai Liu  Kathy Peng Harker School-Middle Campus Using AI to Distinguish Between Human Caused and Natural Fires
Physical Science and Engineering 8 Nominated to compete envelope, Broadcom MASTERS - 8th Grade  Himani  Manjunath  Eric Cho Milpitas Christian School (6-8) Bioplastic from Root Vegetables and Its Effect on Tensile Strength, Water Permeability, and Biodegradability
Physical Science and Engineering 8 Nominated to compete envelope, Broadcom MASTERS - 8th Grade  Aryah Gali Oztanir  Heather Mackewicz Stratford Middle School - Sunnyvale Raynor Designing a safer, more efficient, and inexpensive traffic light
Physical Science and Engineering 8 Nominated to compete envelope, Broadcom MASTERS - 8th Grade  Eshan  Rachapudi  Kameswari Rayaprolu Challenger - Strawberry Park - SJ Rainwater Harvesting on Hillsides
Physical Science and Engineering 8 Nominated to compete envelope, Broadcom MASTERS - 8th Grade  Noam  Radwin  Liat Baranoff Gideon Hausner Jewish Day School Milkweed SeedBall Launcher
Physical Science and Engineering 8 Nominated to compete envelope, Broadcom MASTERS - 8th Grade  Adhip  Raghunathan  Swapna Mayya Challenger - Sunnyvale Utilizing the Seebeck Effect to Harvest Thermal Energy from Solar Panel
Physical Science and Engineering 8 Nominated to compete envelope, Broadcom MASTERS - 8th Grade  Sonia  Swamy  Swapna Mayya Challenger - Sunnyvale BioBooster - Sustainable, cost-effective, non-disruptive biopolymers for improving soil stability and plant Growth.
Physical Science and Engineering 8 Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair  Gautam  Bhooma  Tina Kim Harker School-Middle Campus ForesAIght: Machine Learning powered Assistant for the Visually Impaired
Physical Science and Engineering 8 Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair  Zachary Glantz-Nguyen Blue  Kristen Morgensen Harker School-Middle Campus Passively Rotating Wind Turbine
Physical Science and Engineering 8 Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair  Sanjit Sandip Borle  Leah Watts Kennedy(John F.) Middle School-Cupertino Automated Sun-Visor with Photon Detection Part 2
Physical Science and Engineering 8 Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair  Ramit Rajan Goyal  Tina Kim Harker School-Middle Campus ForesAIght: Machine Learning powered Assistant for the Visually Impaired
Physical Science and Engineering 8 Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair  Alex Kaiwen Guo  Kathy Peng Harker School-Middle Campus Using AI to Distinguish Between Human Caused and Natural Fires
Physical Science and Engineering 8 Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair  Alon  Knaan  Liat Baranoff Gideon Hausner Jewish Day School Milkweed SeedBall Launcher
Physical Science and Engineering 8 Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair  Jordan Sun Labio  Kristen Morgensen Harker School-Middle Campus Passively Rotating Wind Turbine
Physical Science and Engineering 8 Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair  Nathan Tsai Liu  Kathy Peng Harker School-Middle Campus Using AI to Distinguish Between Human Caused and Natural Fires
Physical Science and Engineering 8 Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair  Himani  Manjunath  Eric Cho Milpitas Christian School (6-8) Bioplastic from Root Vegetables and Its Effect on Tensile Strength, Water Permeability, and Biodegradability
Physical Science and Engineering 8 Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair  Aziza A Mohammed  Farhana Afroz Granada Islamic School Non-Invasive detection of glucose in aqueous solutions and beyond
Physical Science and Engineering 8 Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair  Aryah Gali Oztanir  Heather Mackewicz Stratford Middle School - Sunnyvale Raynor Designing a safer, more efficient, and inexpensive traffic light
Physical Science and Engineering 8 Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair  Eshan  Rachapudi  Kameswari Rayaprolu Challenger - Strawberry Park - SJ Rainwater Harvesting on Hillsides
Physical Science and Engineering 8 Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair  Noam  Radwin  Liat Baranoff Gideon Hausner Jewish Day School Milkweed SeedBall Launcher
Physical Science and Engineering 8 Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair  Adhip  Raghunathan  Swapna Mayya Challenger - Sunnyvale Utilizing the Seebeck Effect to Harvest Thermal Energy from Solar Panel
Physical Science and Engineering 8 Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair  Sonia  Swamy  Swapna Mayya Challenger - Sunnyvale BioBooster - Sustainable, cost-effective, non-disruptive biopolymers for improving soil stability and plant Growth.
Physical Science and Engineering 8 1st Award  Sanjit Sandip Borle  Leah Watts Kennedy(John F.) Middle School-Cupertino Automated Sun-Visor with Photon Detection Part 2
Physical Science and Engineering 8 1st Award  Himani  Manjunath  Eric Cho Milpitas Christian School (6-8) Bioplastic from Root Vegetables and Its Effect on Tensile Strength, Water Permeability, and Biodegradability
Physical Science and Engineering 8 1st Award  Aryah Gali Oztanir  Heather Mackewicz Stratford Middle School - Sunnyvale Raynor Designing a safer, more efficient, and inexpensive traffic light
Physical Science and Engineering 8 1st Award  Eshan  Rachapudi  Kameswari Rayaprolu Challenger - Strawberry Park - SJ Rainwater Harvesting on Hillsides
Physical Science and Engineering 8 1st Award  Adhip  Raghunathan  Swapna Mayya Challenger - Sunnyvale Utilizing the Seebeck Effect to Harvest Thermal Energy from Solar Panel
Physical Science and Engineering 8 1st Award  Sonia  Swamy  Swapna Mayya Challenger - Sunnyvale BioBooster - Sustainable, cost-effective, non-disruptive biopolymers for improving soil stability and plant Growth.
Physical Science and Engineering 8 1st Award  Gautam  Bhooma  Tina Kim Harker School-Middle Campus ForesAIght: Machine Learning powered Assistant for the Visually Impaired
Physical Science and Engineering 8 1st Award  Zachary Glantz-Nguyen Blue  Kristen Morgensen Harker School-Middle Campus Passively Rotating Wind Turbine
Physical Science and Engineering 8 1st Award  Ramit Rajan Goyal  Tina Kim Harker School-Middle Campus ForesAIght: Machine Learning powered Assistant for the Visually Impaired
Physical Science and Engineering 8 1st Award  Alex Kaiwen Guo  Kathy Peng Harker School-Middle Campus Using AI to Distinguish Between Human Caused and Natural Fires
Physical Science and Engineering 8 1st Award  Alon  Knaan  Liat Baranoff Gideon Hausner Jewish Day School Milkweed SeedBall Launcher
Physical Science and Engineering 8 1st Award  Jordan Sun Labio  Kristen Morgensen Harker School-Middle Campus Passively Rotating Wind Turbine
Physical Science and Engineering 8 1st Award  Nathan Tsai Liu  Kathy Peng Harker School-Middle Campus Using AI to Distinguish Between Human Caused and Natural Fires
Physical Science and Engineering 8 1st Award  Noam  Radwin  Liat Baranoff Gideon Hausner Jewish Day School Milkweed SeedBall Launcher
Physical Science and Engineering 8 2nd Award  Jason Xuanyu Fischer  Kimberly Hunter Peterson Middle School Preventing Stall in Model Gliders
Physical Science and Engineering 8 2nd Award  Elaine  Lee  Diane Rusu Challenger-Middlefield-Palo Alto Effectiveness of Tea on Dispersing Oil
Physical Science and Engineering 8 2nd Award  Samantha Nicole Pelts  Eileen Resnick Murphy (Martin) Middle School Mom, I'm Home!
Physical Science and Engineering 8 2nd Award  Elisha  Rahardja  Pronati Mondal Challenger - Almaden - SJ Forest Fire Warning System
Physical Science and Engineering 8 2nd Award  Neel  Sudhakaran  Kristi Chung Stratford Middle School - San Jose Developing a Model to Determine Potential Potable Water Sources
Physical Science and Engineering 8 2nd Award  Henry  Yao  Helena Vervoort BASIS Independent Silicon Valley School Designing an Eco-Friendly and Cost Effective Way to Remove Chromium from Waste Water
Physical Science and Engineering 8 2nd Award  Ruhi  Batchu  Nelson Hori Cabrillo Middle School Designing an Efficient Mechanism to Avert Detrimental Falls from Balconies using an Automated Detection System
Physical Science and Engineering 8 2nd Award  Anika  Dontu  Nelson Hori Cabrillo Middle School Designing an Efficient Mechanism to Avert Detrimental Falls from Balconies using an Automated Detection System
Physical Science and Engineering 8 2nd Award  Terry  Hsu  Eric Cho Milpitas Christian School (6-8) Up, Up, and Away: A Quantitative Analysis On The Most Efficient Airfoil Type
Physical Science and Engineering 8 2nd Award  Udita  Mahajan  Nelson Hori Cabrillo Middle School Designing an Efficient Mechanism to Avert Detrimental Falls from Balconies using an Automated Detection System
Physical Science and Engineering 8 2nd Award  Anushka  Rala  Glenn Lillie Cabrillo Middle School Creating a Water Conservative Indoor System to Use While Gardening
Physical Science and Engineering 8 2nd Award  Pranathi Raji Ravipati  Glenn Lillie Cabrillo Middle School Creating a Water Conservative Indoor System to Use While Gardening
Physical Science and Engineering 8 2nd Award  William  Tang  Eric Cho Milpitas Christian School (6-8) Up, Up, and Away: A Quantitative Analysis On The Most Efficient Airfoil Type
Physical Science and Engineering 8 2nd Award  Michelle  Wei  Richard Williams (mentor) Schmahl Science Workshop Multi-planar Solar Panel Design for More Efficient and Accessible Green Energy
Physical Science and Engineering 8 2nd Award  Ella  Yee  Richard Williams (mentor) Schmahl Science Workshop Multi-planar Solar Panel Design for More Efficient and Accessible Green Energy
Physical Science and Engineering 8 2nd Award  Sanjana Siri Yeluri  Glenn Lillie Cabrillo Middle School Creating a Water Conservative Indoor System to Use While Gardening
Physical Science and Engineering 8 Honorable Mention  Grace Elizabeth Calfee  Glenn Lillie Cabrillo Middle School Wind on the Wing: Making a Wind Tunnel That Helps Students Easily Learn About Aeronautics and Airflow
Physical Science and Engineering 8 Honorable Mention  Aadit  Golwala  Heather Mackewicz Stratford Middle School - Sunnyvale Raynor What is the effect of the amount of plasticizer on the weight-bearing capacity of a bioplastic?
Physical Science and Engineering 8 Honorable Mention  Bhargava Nagesh Kanakapura  Heather Mackewicz Stratford Middle School - Sunnyvale Raynor A Prototype Device to Save Infants from Being Left in a Car Alone
Physical Science and Engineering 8 Honorable Mention  Justin  Kim  Kristi Chung Stratford Middle School - San Jose The effect of the shape of a space capsule on the lift produced.
Physical Science and Engineering 8 Honorable Mention  Aziza A Mohammed  Farhana Afroz Granada Islamic School Non-Invasive detection of glucose in aqueous solutions and beyond
Physical Science and Engineering 8 Honorable Mention  Nicolas Joaquin Quijano  Tim Ainoa Old Orchard School Self-Stabilizing Spoon for Hand Tremors
Physical Science and Engineering 8 Honorable Mention  Arnav  Saharan  Emily Adams Lawson Middle School Automatic Solar Bike Indicator
Physical Science and Engineering 8 Honorable Mention  Rishita  Shah  Swapna Mayya Challenger - Sunnyvale A Smart White Cane Utilized for Visually Impaired Individuals
Physical Science and Engineering 8 Honorable Mention  Dashmi  Singh  Bonny Basu Challenger - Shawnee - SJ Biodegradable Six-Pack Rings
Physical Science and Engineering 8 Honorable Mention  Hoshita Venkatasai Undella  Swapna Mayya Challenger - Sunnyvale What is the effect of different desalination methods on the salinity of water?
Physical Science and Engineering 8 Honorable Mention  Rohit  Vakkalagadda  Samantha Carlisle Challenger - Berryessa - SJ Using Natural Bio-waste Fibers to Strengthen Clay Bricks
Physical Science and Engineering 8 Honorable Mention  Paulina  Xu  Diane Rusu Challenger-Middlefield-Palo Alto Multimodal Transportation
Physical Science and Engineering 8 Honorable Mention  Javeria  Ahmed  Michelle Scilingo Cabrillo Middle School Partial Autonomous Temperature Combustion Hexagonal Extinguisher
Physical Science and Engineering 8 Honorable Mention  Romina  Blanco-Sarmiento  Michelle Scilingo Cabrillo Middle School Partial Autonomous Temperature Combustion Hexagonal Extinguisher
Physical Science and Engineering 8 Honorable Mention  Ynna Bondad Buriel  Michelle Scilingo Cabrillo Middle School Partial Autonomous Temperature Combustion Hexagonal Extinguisher
Physical Science and Engineering 8 Honorable Mention  Rithvik K. Chavali  Heather Mackewicz Stratford Middle School - Sunnyvale Raynor Powering the Future With Paper Origami
Physical Science and Engineering 8 Honorable Mention  Ben  Freda-Eskenazi  Liat Baranoff Gideon Hausner Jewish Day School To Understand or Not to Understand.
Physical Science and Engineering 8 Honorable Mention  Karen Bella Glenn  Liat Baranoff Gideon Hausner Jewish Day School Helmet : On
Physical Science and Engineering 8 Honorable Mention  Annabel  Honigstein  Liat Baranoff Gideon Hausner Jewish Day School Helmet : On
Physical Science and Engineering 8 Honorable Mention  Adrian Wen Liu  Kristen Morgensen Harker School-Middle Campus The Perfect Volleyball Serve
Physical Science and Engineering 8 Honorable Mention  Marisa Ai Malto  Glenn Lillie Cabrillo Middle School Improving Phycoremediation: Effect of Chlorella Vulgaris's Exposure to Different Calcium Compounds on its Copper Intake
Physical Science and Engineering 8 Honorable Mention  Vivek Sandeep Nayyar  Kristen Morgensen Harker School-Middle Campus The Perfect Volleyball Serve
Physical Science and Engineering 8 Honorable Mention  Caitlin Minh Thy Nguyen  Glenn Lillie Cabrillo Middle School Improving Phycoremediation: Effect of Chlorella Vulgaris's Exposure to Different Calcium Compounds on its Copper Intake
Physical Science and Engineering 8 Honorable Mention  Navon  Soussan  Liat Baranoff Gideon Hausner Jewish Day School To Understand or Not to Understand.
Physical Science and Engineering 8 Honorable Mention  Stephanie Thai Vu  Nelson Hori Cabrillo Middle School Petroleum Overflow Apparatus
Physical Science and Engineering 8 Honorable Mention  Taylor Kristyn Wong  Nelson Hori Cabrillo Middle School Petroleum Overflow Apparatus
Physical Science and Engineering 8 Honorable Mention  Jonathan  Yu  Heather Mackewicz Stratford Middle School - Sunnyvale Raynor Powering the Future With Paper Origami
Physical Science and Engineering 8 $100 and Certificate of Achievement, Trimble Award  Arnav  Saharan  Emily Adams Lawson Middle School Automatic Solar Bike Indicator
Physical Science and Engineering 8 2nd place - $100 and Certificate of Achievement, American Society of Civil Engineers- San Jose Branch  Himani  Manjunath  Eric Cho Milpitas Christian School (6-8) Bioplastic from Root Vegetables and Its Effect on Tensile Strength, Water Permeability, and Biodegradability
Physical Science and Engineering 8 2nd Place Award - $75 and Certificate of Achievement, ASM International, A Society for Materials, Santa Clara Valley Chapter  Himani  Manjunath  Eric Cho Milpitas Christian School (6-8) Bioplastic from Root Vegetables and Its Effect on Tensile Strength, Water Permeability, and Biodegradability
Physical Science and Engineering 8 3rd place - $50 and Certificate of Achievement, American Society of Civil Engineers- San Jose Branch  Rohit  Vakkalagadda  Samantha Carlisle Challenger - Berryessa - SJ Using Natural Bio-waste Fibers to Strengthen Clay Bricks
Physical Science and Engineering 8 Exceptional Merit, Certificate, SPV Market Research "Most Promising Young Scientist"  Sudeepthi  Ravipati  Kameswari Rayaprolu Challenger - Strawberry Park - SJ A Solar Microgrid
Physical Science and Engineering 8 GR 6-8: Student Award in Geoscience Excellence from Association for Women Geoscientists Bay Area Chapter, $40, Association for Women Geoscientists, San Francisco Bay Area Chapter  Emily Isabella Kwan  Tina Kim Harker School-Middle Campus The Effects of Enterobacter on Soil Pollution
Physical Science and Engineering 8 GR 6-8: Student Award in Geoscience Excellence from Association for Women Geoscientists Bay Area Chapter, $40, Association for Women Geoscientists, San Francisco Bay Area Chapter  Kaitlyn Cheyee Wang  Tina Kim Harker School-Middle Campus The Effects of Enterobacter on Soil Pollution
Physical Science and Engineering 8 Honorable Mention Award and Certificate of Achievement, ASM International, A Society for Materials, Santa Clara Valley Chapter  Rohit  Vakkalagadda  Samantha Carlisle Challenger - Berryessa - SJ Using Natural Bio-waste Fibers to Strengthen Clay Bricks
Physical Science and Engineering 8 IEEE Electro-Technology $50 gift card and a certificate, Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers  Miranda Rose Gutierrez  Glenn Lillie Cabrillo Middle School Optical Character Reader for Waste Distribution in Hospitals
Physical Science and Engineering 8 IEEE Electro-Technology $50 gift card and a certificate, Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers  Bhargava Nagesh Kanakapura  Heather Mackewicz Stratford Middle School - Sunnyvale Raynor A Prototype Device to Save Infants from Being Left in a Car Alone
Physical Science and Engineering 8 IEEE Electro-Technology $50 gift card and a certificate, Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers  Nadine Paula Tan Ngo  Glenn Lillie Cabrillo Middle School Optical Character Reader for Waste Distribution in Hospitals
Physical Science and Engineering 8 IEEE Electro-Technology $50 gift card and a certificate, Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers  Aryah Gali Oztanir  Heather Mackewicz Stratford Middle School - Sunnyvale Raynor Designing a safer, more efficient, and inexpensive traffic light
Physical Science and Engineering 8 IEEE Electro-Technology $50 gift card and a certificate, Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers  Elisha  Rahardja  Pronati Mondal Challenger - Almaden - SJ Forest Fire Warning System
Physical Science and Engineering 8 IEEE Electro-Technology $50 gift card and a certificate, Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers  Aasees Kaur Sandhu  Glenn Lillie Cabrillo Middle School Optical Character Reader for Waste Distribution in Hospitals
Physical Science and Engineering 8 IEEE Electro-Technology $50 gift card and a certificate, Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers  Rishita  Shah  Swapna Mayya Challenger - Sunnyvale A Smart White Cane Utilized for Visually Impaired Individuals
Physical Science and Engineering 8 Middle School $50 and letter of recognition, Northern California Institute of Food Technologists (NCIFT)  Himani  Manjunath  Eric Cho Milpitas Christian School (6-8) Bioplastic from Root Vegetables and Its Effect on Tensile Strength, Water Permeability, and Biodegradability
Physical Science and Engineering 8 Most Promising Young Scientist (Female), $200 and Certificate (GR 6-8), SPV Market Research "Most Promising Young Scientist"  Michelle  Wei  Richard Williams (mentor) Schmahl Science Workshop Multi-planar Solar Panel Design for More Efficient and Accessible Green Energy
Physical Science and Engineering 8 Most Promising Young Scientist (Female), $200 and Certificate (GR 6-8), SPV Market Research "Most Promising Young Scientist"  Ella  Yee  Richard Williams (mentor) Schmahl Science Workshop Multi-planar Solar Panel Design for More Efficient and Accessible Green Energy
Physical Science and Engineering 8 Most Promising Young Scientist (Male), $200 and Certificate (GR 6-8), SPV Market Research "Most Promising Young Scientist"  Keith  Maben  Gregory Namba Peterson Middle School Inexpensive Water Catchment/Purification and Electricity Generation Device
Physical Science and Engineering 8 Most Promising Young Scientist (Male), $200 and Certificate (GR 6-8), SPV Market Research "Most Promising Young Scientist"  Melvin Anthony Mathew  Gregory Namba Peterson Middle School Inexpensive Water Catchment/Purification and Electricity Generation Device
Physical Science and Engineering 9 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  Roy  Gross  Jessica Hexsel Gunn (Henry M.) High School Designing and Testing an Ad Hoc Phased Array Antenna Network for Search and Rescue
Physical Science and Engineering 9 Honorable Mention Student Award: $50 and Certificate of Achievement, Association for Computing Machinery, San Francisco Bay Area Professional Chapter  Alan  Lee  Joshua Little Gunn (Henry M.) High School A Novel Image-Based Stock-Trading AI Algorithm
Physical Science and Engineering 9 Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair  Jaythan Kim Dao  David Dutton Bellarmine College Preparatory Vacuum Suction Powered Lifting Assistance Device
Physical Science and Engineering 9 Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair  Jia Sidhu Gill  Tracy Hughes Presentation High School BamBOOM: Take the Plastic out of Takeout
Physical Science and Engineering 9 Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair  Roy  Gross  Jessica Hexsel Gunn (Henry M.) 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  Danica Leigh Kubota  Tracy Hughes Presentation High School BamBOOM: Take the Plastic out of Takeout
Physical Science and Engineering 9 Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair  Nidhi  Mathihalli  Jill McCrystal Saratoga High School An Application to help the Visually Impaired read Money using AI/Machine Learning
Physical Science and Engineering 9 Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair  Joseph Philip Thomas  Chris Cozort Bellarmine College Preparatory A Machine Learning Approach to Early Detection of Parkinson's Disease
Physical Science and Engineering 9 Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair  Joyce Boying Yang  Victoria Evashenk Notre Dame High School Tensile Strength and Hydrophobic Effect of Starch-Based Biodegradable Polymers
Physical Science and Engineering 9 1st Award  Jaythan Kim Dao  David Dutton Bellarmine College Preparatory Vacuum Suction Powered Lifting Assistance Device
Physical Science and Engineering 9 1st Award  Roy  Gross  Jessica Hexsel Gunn (Henry M.) High School Designing and Testing an Ad Hoc Phased Array Antenna Network for Search and Rescue
Physical Science and Engineering 9 1st Award  Nidhi  Mathihalli  Jill McCrystal Saratoga High School An Application to help the Visually Impaired read Money using AI/Machine Learning
Physical Science and Engineering 9 1st Award  Joseph Philip Thomas  Chris Cozort Bellarmine College Preparatory A Machine Learning Approach to Early Detection of Parkinson's Disease
Physical Science and Engineering 9 1st Award  Joyce Boying Yang  Victoria Evashenk Notre Dame High School Tensile Strength and Hydrophobic Effect of Starch-Based Biodegradable Polymers
Physical Science and Engineering 9 1st Award  Jia Sidhu Gill  Tracy Hughes Presentation High School BamBOOM: Take the Plastic out of Takeout
Physical Science and Engineering 9 1st Award  Danica Leigh Kubota  Tracy Hughes Presentation High School BamBOOM: Take the Plastic out of Takeout
Physical Science and Engineering 9 2nd Award  Swathi  Badrinarayanan  David Cobb Saint Francis High School Migraine Meter: A Novel Device to Predict Migraine Probability
Physical Science and Engineering 9 2nd Award  Amruta  Dharmapurikar  Mike Pistacchi Harker School-Upper Campus Machine Learning Aided Classification and Mechanical Sorting of Waste Material
Physical Science and Engineering 9 2nd Award  Minjeong  Kim  Scott DeRuiter Monta Vista High School Detecting Pain in Children with Autism using 68 Points on Facial Expressions
Physical Science and Engineering 9 2nd Award  Namrata  Nair  Christine Koltermann Notre Dame High School Designing a Visual Fire-Predicting Model for U.S. Counties Using Weather Datasets
Physical Science and Engineering 9 2nd Award  Sophia En Khubchandani  Kathleen Loia Lynbrook High School Creating a Novel, Non-toxic, and Efficient Ice Pack using INA Ice Nucleation Proteins from Pseudomonas Syringae
Physical Science and Engineering 9 2nd Award  Jason  Shan  Kathleen Loia Lynbrook High School Sunglasses with proximity sensors for people who are visually impaired
Physical Science and Engineering 9 2nd Award  Sean  Su  Kathleen Loia Lynbrook High School Sunglasses with proximity sensors for people who are visually impaired
Physical Science and Engineering 9 2nd Award  Catherine  Zhou  Kathleen Loia Lynbrook High School Creating a Novel, Non-toxic, and Efficient Ice Pack using INA Ice Nucleation Proteins from Pseudomonas Syringae
Physical Science and Engineering 9 Honorable Mention  Isha  Jagadish  Audrey Warmuth Saratoga High School Improving Awareness of the Visually Impaired with a Wearable Device Using Computer Vision, AI, and a Voice-Driven App
Physical Science and Engineering 9 Honorable Mention  Ishan  Kar  Jill McCrystal Saratoga High School A new method to compute Hadamard product of two rational functions
Physical Science and Engineering 9 Honorable Mention  Alan  Lee  Joshua Little Gunn (Henry M.) High School A Novel Image-Based Stock-Trading AI Algorithm
Physical Science and Engineering 9 Honorable Mention  Fazal Raghav Mittu  David Cobb Saint Francis High School Using Machine Learning for Classifying Hand Typing Gestures Demonstrated on a Flex Sensing Glove
Physical Science and Engineering 9 Honorable Mention  Sanjana  Ryali  George Sousa Valley Christian High School Direct Access: Creating an Image Processing based Software Toolkit to Build Inclusive Spaces
Physical Science and Engineering 9 Honorable Mention  Samhita  Srivatsan  Supriya Moore Monta Vista High School Developing Artificial Neural Network Models to Predict Eutrophication of United States Freshwater Bodies
Physical Science and Engineering 9 Honorable Mention  Divya  Venkataraman  John Conlin Monta Vista High School Picture Perfect Diet: An app to classify food products, with OCR, for recommending substitutes based on a chosen diet
Physical Science and Engineering 9 Honorable Mention  Sidharth Ganapathi Dharmasanam  Lydia Conoway Mountain View High School HealthEar
Physical Science and Engineering 9 Honorable Mention  Aminah Elizabeth Hedges  Suzanne Miller-Moody Santa Clara High School Using Native Flora to Fabricate Sustainable Erosion Control
Physical Science and Engineering 9 Honorable Mention  Kavya Manasa Pandrangi  Kathleen Loia Lynbrook High School Devising a filtration system for kitchen exhaust vents to reduce the effect of harmful pollutants outdoors
Physical Science and Engineering 9 Honorable Mention  Harita  Sunkara  Kathleen Loia Lynbrook High School An Innovative Method of Flood Detection at Homes
Physical Science and Engineering 9 Honorable Mention  Alexis Huiwen Tan  Suzanne Miller-Moody Santa Clara High School Using Native Flora to Fabricate Sustainable Erosion Control
Physical Science and Engineering 9 Honorable Mention  Akshara  Taraniganty  Kathleen Loia Lynbrook High School Devising a filtration system for kitchen exhaust vents to reduce the effect of harmful pollutants outdoors
Physical Science and Engineering 9 Honorable Mention  Xintong (Alice)  Ye  Kathleen Loia Lynbrook High School An Innovative Method of Flood Detection at Homes
Physical Science and Engineering 9 1st Place Award - $150 and Certificate of Achievement, American Society of Civil Engineers- San Jose Branch  Aminah Elizabeth Hedges  Suzanne Miller-Moody Santa Clara High School Using Native Flora to Fabricate Sustainable Erosion Control
Physical Science and Engineering 9 1st Place Award - $150 and Certificate of Achievement, American Society of Civil Engineers- San Jose Branch  Alexis Huiwen Tan  Suzanne Miller-Moody Santa Clara High School Using Native Flora to Fabricate Sustainable Erosion Control
Physical Science and Engineering 9 ASEI Silicon Valley Emerging Technology Membership to American Society of Engineers of Indian Origin, American Society of Engineers of Indian Origin Award  Isha  Jagadish  Audrey Warmuth Saratoga High School Improving Awareness of the Visually Impaired with a Wearable Device Using Computer Vision, AI, and a Voice-Driven App
Physical Science and Engineering 9 ASEI Silicon Valley Emerging Technology Membership to American Society of Engineers of Indian Origin, American Society of Engineers of Indian Origin Award  Nidhi  Mathihalli  Jill McCrystal Saratoga High School An Application to help the Visually Impaired read Money using AI/Machine Learning
Physical Science and Engineering 9 ASEI Silicon Valley Emerging Technology Membership to American Society of Engineers of Indian Origin, American Society of Engineers of Indian Origin Award  Divya  Venkataraman  John Conlin Monta Vista High School Picture Perfect Diet: An app to classify food products, with OCR, for recommending substitutes based on a chosen diet
Physical Science and Engineering 9 First place, $125 Wireless Communications Alliance Award, Wireless Communications Alliance  Roy  Gross  Jessica Hexsel Gunn (Henry M.) High School Designing and Testing an Ad Hoc Phased Array Antenna Network for Search and Rescue
Physical Science and Engineering 9 GR 9-12: Honorable Mention, Certificate of Achievement, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) Intelligent Systems Award  Stanley  Shen  Alex Shultz Los Gatos High School Development of a Novel Machine Learning Model to Automate the Creation of Interchangeable Wings for Multipurpose UAVs
Physical Science and Engineering 9 Honorable Mention - Certificate of Achievement, American Society of Civil Engineers- San Jose Branch  Andrew  Peng  Kathleen Loia Lynbrook High School Sustainable water filtration for rural communities
Physical Science and Engineering 9 Honorable Mention - Certificate of Achievement, American Society of Civil Engineers- San Jose Branch  Aaron  Yan  Kathleen Loia Lynbrook High School Sustainable water filtration for rural communities
Physical Science and Engineering 9 IEEE Electro-Technology $50 gift card and a certificate, Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers  Swathi  Badrinarayanan  David Cobb Saint Francis High School Migraine Meter: A Novel Device to Predict Migraine Probability
Physical Science and Engineering 9 IEEE Electro-Technology $50 gift card and a certificate, Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers  Jason  Shan  Kathleen Loia Lynbrook High School Sunglasses with proximity sensors for people who are visually impaired
Physical Science and Engineering 9 IEEE Electro-Technology $50 gift card and a certificate, Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers  Sean  Su  Kathleen Loia Lynbrook High School Sunglasses with proximity sensors for people who are visually impaired
Physical Science and Engineering 10 Grand Prize - Best of Championship - Physical Sciences - Qualified to be a Regeneron ISEF Finalist - $500 Cash, Santa Clara Valley Science & Engineering Fair Assn - Board of Directors Awards - High School  Harsh  Deep  Chris Spenner Harker School-Upper Campus Using Generative Adversarial Networks to Develop Novel Inhibitors of Carcinomas.
Physical Science and Engineering 10 Grand Prize Alternate - Outreach Schools - Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF) - $250 Cash, Santa Clara Valley Science & Engineering Fair Assn - Board of Directors Awards - High School  Ngoc Minh Nhat Nguyen  Narquiz Cervantes Silver Creek High School Earthquake Proof House Using Ferrofluid
Physical Science and Engineering 10 Grand Prize Alternate - Outreach Schools - Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF) - $250 Cash, Santa Clara Valley Science & Engineering Fair Assn - Board of Directors Awards - High School  Brendon Khoa Phuong  Narquiz Cervantes Silver Creek High School Earthquake Proof House Using Ferrofluid
Physical Science and Engineering 10 Grand Prize Alternate - Outreach Schools - Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF) - $250 Cash, Santa Clara Valley Science & Engineering Fair Assn - Board of Directors Awards - High School  Miguel  Santiago  Narquiz Cervantes Silver Creek High School Earthquake Proof House Using Ferrofluid
Physical Science and Engineering 10 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  Sanjana S Jilla  Kyle Jones Monta Vista High School Identifying Lead-free Perovskites Using Machine Learning for High Efficiency Solar Cells
Physical Science and Engineering 10 2nd Place Student Award: $320 and Certificate of Achievement, Association for Computing Machinery, San Francisco Bay Area Professional Chapter  Ishan  Goyal  Larry Laskowski Lynbrook High School Pin & Post: A solution to wildfires using a mobile application to profile hazardous vegetation growth near utility poles
Physical Science and Engineering 10 Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair  Vivek  Bharati  John Shelby Homestead High School Deep Learning System to Detect Sleeping Position Outside Stressors and Alert for Preventing Sudden Infant Death Syndrome
Physical Science and Engineering 10 Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair  Harsh  Deep  Chris Spenner Harker School-Upper Campus Using Generative Adversarial Networks to Develop Novel Inhibitors of Carcinomas.
Physical Science and Engineering 10 Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair  Saurav Saumil Gandhi  Alan Tan Santa Clara High School Jet-I-U: A Jetson Nano & IoT Edge Platform based AI Robotic Companion for the Visually Impaired and Elderly
Physical Science and Engineering 10 Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair  Ishan  Goyal  Larry Laskowski Lynbrook High School Pin & Post: A solution to wildfires using a mobile application to profile hazardous vegetation growth near utility poles
Physical Science and Engineering 10 Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair  William  Huang  Thanh Nguyen Lynbrook High School A Novel Method for the Detection of Black Holes Using the Signature Flare of a Tidal Disruption Event
Physical Science and Engineering 10 Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair  Aditya  Indla  Debjani Roy Bellarmine College Preparatory Custom Farm Survey Model Based on SSD with Inception v2 & AI-Driven Harvesting Robot for Efficient Strawberry Farming
Physical Science and Engineering 10 Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair  Sanjana S Jilla  Kyle Jones Monta Vista High School Identifying Lead-free Perovskites Using Machine Learning for High Efficiency Solar Cells
Physical Science and Engineering 10 Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair  Anav Huzefa Mehta  Ted McLeod Cupertino High School ARChessAnalyzer: Augmented Reality Chess Analyzer Using In-Device Deep Learning Inference Of Physical Chess Positions
Physical Science and Engineering 10 Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair  Ngoc Minh Nhat Nguyen  Narquiz Cervantes Silver Creek High School Earthquake Proof House Using Ferrofluid
Physical Science and Engineering 10 Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair  Brendon Khoa Phuong  Narquiz Cervantes Silver Creek High School Earthquake Proof House Using Ferrofluid
Physical Science and Engineering 10 Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair  Miguel  Santiago  Narquiz Cervantes Silver Creek High School Earthquake Proof House Using Ferrofluid
Physical Science and Engineering 10 Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair  Samika  Swamy  Kyle Jones Monta Vista High School Effect of environmental Aluminum on neurotoxicity and novel herb-based treatment to reduce inflammation-mediated neurona
Physical Science and Engineering 10 Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair  Thresiamma Jijen Vazhaeparambil  Chris Spenner Harker School-Upper Campus The Quantitative Measurement of Microplastics from Laundry Detergents and Fabric Samples using Fluorescence Spectroscopy
Physical Science and Engineering 10 Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair  Alexander  Zhang  Jeremy Dybdahl Lynbrook High School Design of an inflatable mesh of variable geometry for medical or architectural applications, using differential geometry
Physical Science and Engineering 10 1st Award  Aeshon  Balasubramanian  Thomas Wang Saratoga High School Invasive Species Detector : A Novel, Portable Approach with Deep Learning
Physical Science and Engineering 10 1st Award  Vivek  Bharati  John Shelby Homestead High School Deep Learning System to Detect Sleeping Position Outside Stressors and Alert for Preventing Sudden Infant Death Syndrome
Physical Science and Engineering 10 1st Award  Saurav Saumil Gandhi  Alan Tan Santa Clara High School Jet-I-U: A Jetson Nano & IoT Edge Platform based AI Robotic Companion for the Visually Impaired and Elderly
Physical Science and Engineering 10 1st Award  William  Huang  Thanh Nguyen Lynbrook High School A Novel Method for the Detection of Black Holes Using the Signature Flare of a Tidal Disruption Event
Physical Science and Engineering 10 1st Award  Aditya  Indla  Debjani Roy Bellarmine College Preparatory Custom Farm Survey Model Based on SSD with Inception v2 & AI-Driven Harvesting Robot for Efficient Strawberry Farming
Physical Science and Engineering 10 1st Award  Sanjana S Jilla  Kyle Jones Monta Vista High School Identifying Lead-free Perovskites Using Machine Learning for High Efficiency Solar Cells
Physical Science and Engineering 10 1st Award  Anav Huzefa Mehta  Ted McLeod Cupertino High School ARChessAnalyzer: Augmented Reality Chess Analyzer Using In-Device Deep Learning Inference Of Physical Chess Positions
Physical Science and Engineering 10 1st Award  Samika  Swamy  Kyle Jones Monta Vista High School Effect of environmental Aluminum on neurotoxicity and novel herb-based treatment to reduce inflammation-mediated neurona
Physical Science and Engineering 10 1st Award  Alexander  Zhang  Jeremy Dybdahl Lynbrook High School Design of an inflatable mesh of variable geometry for medical or architectural applications, using differential geometry
Physical Science and Engineering 10 1st Award  Harsh  Deep  Chris Spenner Harker School-Upper Campus Using Generative Adversarial Networks to Develop Novel Inhibitors of Carcinomas.
Physical Science and Engineering 10 1st Award  Ishan  Goyal  Larry Laskowski Lynbrook High School Pin & Post: A solution to wildfires using a mobile application to profile hazardous vegetation growth near utility poles
Physical Science and Engineering 10 1st Award  Ngoc Minh Nhat Nguyen  Narquiz Cervantes Silver Creek High School Earthquake Proof House Using Ferrofluid
Physical Science and Engineering 10 1st Award  Brendon Khoa Phuong  Narquiz Cervantes Silver Creek High School Earthquake Proof House Using Ferrofluid
Physical Science and Engineering 10 1st Award  Miguel  Santiago  Narquiz Cervantes Silver Creek High School Earthquake Proof House Using Ferrofluid
Physical Science and Engineering 10 2nd Award  Sia  Agarwal  George Sousa Valley Christian High School Decompress: A System that Predicts Onset of Stress and Provides Stress Management Exercises
Physical Science and Engineering 10 2nd Award  Veer Hemal Doshi  Thuy-Anh Nguyen Archbishop Mitty High School Enhancing Disaster Awareness by Incorporating Crowdsourcing and USGS Data in Machine Learning-driven Prediction Modeling
Physical Science and Engineering 10 2nd Award  Krithi  Koodli  Kalee Tock Stanford Online High School Predicting the Intractable Coefficients in the Equations of Orbits of Celestial Bodies using Learning Algorithms
Physical Science and Engineering 10 2nd Award  Kailash Mani Ranganathan  Anu Datar Harker School-Upper Campus Improved Word Embedding Algorithms for Machine Translation of Indo-European Languages using Clustering
Physical Science and Engineering 10 2nd Award  Vivek  Atmuri  Alan Tan Santa Clara High School Tilt-A-Type: Leveraging the Arduino UNO Microcontroller to assist individuals who lack dexterity in their hands.
Physical Science and Engineering 10 2nd Award  Hasitha  Dangeti  Alan Tan Santa Clara High School Tilt-A-Type: Leveraging the Arduino UNO Microcontroller to assist individuals who lack dexterity in their hands.
Physical Science and Engineering 10 2nd Award  James Trung Pham  Alan Tan Santa Clara High School Tilt-A-Type: Leveraging the Arduino UNO Microcontroller to assist individuals who lack dexterity in their hands.
Physical Science and Engineering 10 Honorable Mention  Dawson  Chen  Martin Baynes Harker School-Upper Campus An Autonomous Irrigation Robot for Urban Grass Ecosystems
Physical Science and Engineering 10 Honorable Mention  Impana R Chimmalagi  Jerry Knaack Wilcox High School Predicting and Preventing Drastic Actions by Processing Heart Rate and Behaviors and Utilizing Innovative AI Methods
Physical Science and Engineering 10 Honorable Mention  Ojas Mahavir Karnavat  Scott DeRuiter Monta Vista High School Designing a public alert system that provides available exit routes when fire is detected in an enterprise facility
Physical Science and Engineering 10 Honorable Mention  Kento  Nishi  Mark Kwong Lynbrook High School BlankSort - A Novel Unsupervised Approach to Keyword Extraction
Physical Science and Engineering 10 Honorable Mention  Diptanshu  Sikdar  Anastasia Batrachenko BASIS Independent Silicon Valley School Novel Hybrid Multi-source Energy Harvesting Solution for IoT Devices
Physical Science and Engineering 10 Honorable Mention  Ria  Sinha  Rene Flood BASIS Independent Silicon Valley School Machine Learning Based Digital Assistant for the Deaf
Physical Science and Engineering 10 Honorable Mention  Nethra  Srinivasan  Jeff Lutze Leland High School The Chemistry Behind Hair Care: The Effect of the Type of Hair Coloring and Blow-Drying on the Structure of Human Hair
Physical Science and Engineering 10 Honorable Mention  Thresiamma Jijen Vazhaeparambil  Chris Spenner Harker School-Upper Campus The Quantitative Measurement of Microplastics from Laundry Detergents and Fabric Samples using Fluorescence Spectroscopy
Physical Science and Engineering 10 Honorable Mention  Ethan  Zuo  Jill McCrystal Saratoga High School Two-Phase Jet Impingement Cooling for Data Center High Power-Density Processors
Physical Science and Engineering 10 Honorable Mention  Eric  Amith  Jennifer Claudio Oak Grove High School An Experimental Determination of the Optimal Forest Density to Reduce Fire Spread
Physical Science and Engineering 10 Honorable Mention  Maheswari  Bajji  Debra Dimas Santa Teresa High School PureAir
Physical Science and Engineering 10 Honorable Mention  Niharika  Bozza  Tracy Hughes Presentation High School Using Deep Learning and Image Recognition to Effectively Categorize and Dispose of Waste
Physical Science and Engineering 10 Honorable Mention  Nesyah Sarah Galatin  Lydia Conoway Mountain View High School HealthEar
Physical Science and Engineering 10 Honorable Mention  Jordan  Giang  Jennifer Claudio Oak Grove High School An Experimental Determination of the Optimal Forest Density to Reduce Fire Spread
Physical Science and Engineering 10 Honorable Mention  Riley  Kong  George Sousa Valley Christian High School Improving School Campus Traffic Flow Through Dynamic Simulation Modeling and Machine Learning
Physical Science and Engineering 10 Honorable Mention  Yash Shrikant Nasikkar  Lydia Conoway Mountain View High School HealthEar
Physical Science and Engineering 10 Honorable Mention  Teradyne  Nguyen  Jennifer Claudio Oak Grove High School An Experimental Determination of the Optimal Forest Density to Reduce Fire Spread
Physical Science and Engineering 10 Honorable Mention  Chaitra  Raghupathi  Scott DeRuiter Monta Vista High School What Properties of DNA Sequencing Reads Determine the Optimal K-mer Size for De Bruijn Graph Construction?
Physical Science and Engineering 10 Honorable Mention  Jennifer Yueyi Song  George Sousa Valley Christian High School Improving School Campus Traffic Flow Through Dynamic Simulation Modeling and Machine Learning
Physical Science and Engineering 10 Honorable Mention  Jenny  Wong  Debra Dimas Santa Teresa High School PureAir
Physical Science and Engineering 10 $100 and Certificate of Achievement, Trimble Award  Ishan  Goyal  Larry Laskowski Lynbrook High School Pin & Post: A solution to wildfires using a mobile application to profile hazardous vegetation growth near utility poles
Physical Science and Engineering 10 $100 and Certificate of Achievement, Trimble Award  Joseph  Seok  Joe Kim Monta Vista High School Infrastructure-less Vehicular Position Tracking based on RTT measurement of Wi-Fi signals
Physical Science and Engineering 10 2nd Place Award - $100 and Certificate of Achievement, American Society of Civil Engineers- San Jose Branch  Ngoc Minh Nhat Nguyen  Narquiz Cervantes Silver Creek High School Earthquake Proof House Using Ferrofluid
Physical Science and Engineering 10 2nd Place Award - $100 and Certificate of Achievement, American Society of Civil Engineers- San Jose Branch  Brendon Khoa Phuong  Narquiz Cervantes Silver Creek High School Earthquake Proof House Using Ferrofluid
Physical Science and Engineering 10 2nd Place Award - $100 and Certificate of Achievement, American Society of Civil Engineers- San Jose Branch  Miguel  Santiago  Narquiz Cervantes Silver Creek High School Earthquake Proof House Using Ferrofluid
Physical Science and Engineering 10 3rd Place Award - $50 and Certificate of Achievement, American Society of Civil Engineers- San Jose Branch  Sheila  Nguyen  Debra Dimas Santa Teresa High School Worth the Weight: The Affect of Arch Design on Weight Capacity
Physical Science and Engineering 10 3rd Place Award - $50 and Certificate of Achievement, American Society of Civil Engineers- San Jose Branch  Celine  Vu  Debra Dimas Santa Teresa High School Worth the Weight: The Affect of Arch Design on Weight Capacity
Physical Science and Engineering 10 ASEI Silicon Valley Emerging Technology Membership to American Society of Engineers of Indian Origin, American Society of Engineers of Indian Origin Award  Ojas Mahavir Karnavat  Scott DeRuiter Monta Vista High School Designing a public alert system that provides available exit routes when fire is detected in an enterprise facility
Physical Science and Engineering 10 ASEI Silicon Valley Emerging Technology Membership to American Society of Engineers of Indian Origin, American Society of Engineers of Indian Origin Award  Ria  Sinha  Rene Flood BASIS Independent Silicon Valley School Machine Learning Based Digital Assistant for the Deaf
Physical Science and Engineering 10 Certificate of Achievement, System Safety Society  Iris  Zhou  Kevin Tibbs Leland High School wSAS: Wildfire Safety Alarm System
Physical Science and Engineering 10 Exceptional Merit, Certificate, SPV Market Research "Most Promising Young Scientist"  Thresiamma Jijen Vazhaeparambil  Chris Spenner Harker School-Upper Campus The Quantitative Measurement of Microplastics from Laundry Detergents and Fabric Samples using Fluorescence Spectroscopy
Physical Science and Engineering 10 First Place, $125 Wireless Communications Alliance Award, Wireless Communications Alliance  Joseph  Seok  Joe Kim Monta Vista High School Infrastructure-less Vehicular Position Tracking based on RTT measurement of Wi-Fi signals
Physical Science and Engineering 10 GR 9-12: 1st Place, Certificate of Achievement, and tour of NASA Ames Research Center, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) Intelligent Systems Award  Dawson  Chen  Martin Baynes Harker School-Upper Campus An Autonomous Irrigation Robot for Urban Grass Ecosystems
Physical Science and Engineering 10 Honorable Mention: Patch and Certificate, SETI Institute  Rakesh Vinod Mehta  Christopher O'Connor Milpitas High School Are exoplanets habitable? Determining the habitability of exoplanets
Physical Science and Engineering 10 IEEE Electro-Technology $50 gift card and a certificate, Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers  Ishan  Goyal  Larry Laskowski Lynbrook High School Pin & Post: A solution to wildfires using a mobile application to profile hazardous vegetation growth near utility poles
Physical Science and Engineering 11 Grand Prize - Best of Championship - Outreach Schools - Qualified to be a Regeneron ISEF Finalist - $500 Cash, Santa Clara Valley Science & Engineering Fair Assn - Board of Directors Awards - High School  Jyoti  Rani  John Allen Oak Grove High School VBird: Centralized Computational Drone Swarm Implementing a Novel UWB Approach for Extreme Precision in Payload Delivery
Physical Science and Engineering 11 Grand Prize - Best of Championship - Physical Sciences - Qualified to be a Regeneron ISEF Finalist - $500 Cash, Santa Clara Valley Science & Engineering Fair Assn - Board of Directors Awards - High School  Fiona Lin Luo  Katie Collins Monta Vista High School Identification of Novel Antimicrobial Peptides with Designed Activity through a QSAR Based Machine Learning Model
Physical Science and Engineering 11 Grand Prize - Best of Championship - Physical Sciences - Qualified to be a Regeneron ISEF Finalist - $500 Cash, Santa Clara Valley Science & Engineering Fair Assn - Board of Directors Awards - High School  Krishay  Mukhija  Chris Spenner Harker School-Upper Campus Using Generative Adversarial Networks to Develop Novel Inhibitors of Carcinomas.
Physical Science and Engineering 11 Grand Prize - Best of Championship - Physical Sciences - Qualified to be a Regeneron ISEF Finalist - $500 Cash, Santa Clara Valley Science & Engineering Fair Assn - Board of Directors Awards - High School  Nicholas  Yi  Anu Datar Harker School-Upper Campus Logographic Language Detection and Recognition using a Deep Learning Approach
Physical Science and Engineering 11 Grand Prize Alternate - Outreach Schools - Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF) - $250 Cash, Santa Clara Valley Science & Engineering Fair Assn - Board of Directors Awards - High School  Andrew Duc Dang  Debra Dimas Santa Teresa High School Infill Pattern and Density Optimization for 3D Printing with Analytical Physics
Physical Science and Engineering 11 Grand Prize Alternate - Outreach Schools - Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF) - $250 Cash, Santa Clara Valley Science & Engineering Fair Assn - Board of Directors Awards - High School  Ganesh Mandar Pimpale  Debra Dimas Santa Teresa High School Infill Pattern and Density Optimization for 3D Printing with Analytical Physics
Physical Science and Engineering 11 Grand Prize Student Award: $640 and Certificate of Achievement, Association for Computing Machinery, San Francisco Bay Area Professional Chapter  Jadelynn Kim Dao  Tracy Hughes Presentation High School The Detection of Hand Gestures Using a Time of Flight Sensor for a Human Interface Device
Physical Science and Engineering 11 Grand Prize Student Award: $640 and Certificate of Achievement, Association for Computing Machinery, San Francisco Bay Area Professional Chapter  Advit  Deepak  Tracy Hughes Presentation High School The Detection of Hand Gestures Using a Time of Flight Sensor for a Human Interface Device
Physical Science and Engineering 11 Honorable Mention - Each receive a total of $100, American Chemical Society, Silicon Valley, SVACS  Madison Ngoc Doan  Narquiz Cervantes Silver Creek High School Using Insoluble Plant Fibers and Starch-Based Bioplastics to Design Biodegradable Microbeads
Physical Science and Engineering 11 Honorable Mention - Each receive a total of $100, American Chemical Society, Silicon Valley, SVACS  Ishita  Verma  Narquiz Cervantes Silver Creek High School Using Insoluble Plant Fibers and Starch-Based Bioplastics to Design Biodegradable Microbeads
Physical Science and Engineering 11 Honorable Mention Student Award: $50 and Certificate of Achievement, Association for Computing Machinery, San Francisco Bay Area Professional Chapter  Shray  Alag  Eric Nelson Harker School-Upper Campus Insights from ClinicalTrials.gov by mining mutations, mining RSids, and applying the Human Phenotype Ontology.
Physical Science and Engineering 11 Honorable Mention Student Award: $50 and Certificate of Achievement, Association for Computing Machinery, San Francisco Bay Area Professional Chapter  Anant  Bhatia  Bradley Fulk Lynbrook High School A novel intelligent drone navigation system for safe autonomous flight using a deep convolutional LSTM neural network
Physical Science and Engineering 11 Honorable Mention Student Award: $50 and Certificate of Achievement, Association for Computing Machinery, San Francisco Bay Area Professional Chapter  Vedikas  Sridharan  Joanna Vollucci Saint Francis High School Neural Networks for American Sign Language
Physical Science and Engineering 11 Honorable Mention Student Award: $50 and Certificate of Achievement, Association for Computing Machinery, San Francisco Bay Area Professional Chapter  Connie  Xu  Joanna Vollucci Saint Francis High School Neural Networks for American Sign Language
Physical Science and Engineering 11 Honorable Mention Student Award: $50 and Certificate of Achievement, Association for Computing Machinery, San Francisco Bay Area Professional Chapter  Allen Liu Ye  Bradley Fulk Lynbrook High School A novel intelligent drone navigation system for safe autonomous flight using a deep convolutional LSTM neural network
Physical Science and Engineering 11 Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair  Anshika  Agarwal  Jena Lee Gunn (Henry M.) High School A Novel Real-Time Data Acquisition Solution to Expedite Climate Research for the Global Oceanographic Community
Physical Science and Engineering 11 Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair  Anya  Chatterjee  Annie Reynolds Lynbrook High School The Effect of Microplastics on the Development of Freshwater and Land Plants
Physical Science and Engineering 11 Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair  Andrew Duc Dang  Debra Dimas Santa Teresa High School Infill Pattern and Density Optimization for 3D Printing with Analytical Physics
Physical Science and Engineering 11 Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair  Fiona Lin Luo  Katie Collins Monta Vista High School Identification of Novel Antimicrobial Peptides with Designed Activity through a QSAR Based Machine Learning Model
Physical Science and Engineering 11 Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair  Krishay  Mukhija  Chris Spenner Harker School-Upper Campus Using Generative Adversarial Networks to Develop Novel Inhibitors of Carcinomas.
Physical Science and Engineering 11 Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair  Ganesh Mandar Pimpale  Debra Dimas Santa Teresa High School Infill Pattern and Density Optimization for 3D Printing with Analytical Physics
Physical Science and Engineering 11 Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair  Shachi Shikha Prasad  Tracy Hughes Presentation High School The effect of different cathodes and biodegradable source in a microbial fuel cell on the amount of electricity produced
Physical Science and Engineering 11 Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair  Jyoti  Rani  John Allen Oak Grove High School VBird: Centralized Computational Drone Swarm Implementing a Novel UWB Approach for Extreme Precision in Payload Delivery
Physical Science and Engineering 11 Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair  Sohom Kumar Roy  Hugo Steemers Cupertino High School Drone, Mobile Robot, Tech-Augmented Cockroach, and Crowdsourced System to Find Survivors in Disaster Stricken Areas
Physical Science and Engineering 11 Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair  Siddharth  Sharma  Kevyn Adams BASIS Independent Silicon Valley School QEML (Quantum Enhanced Machine Learning): Using Quantum Computing to Enhance ML Classifiers and Feature Spaces
Physical Science and Engineering 11 Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair  Tobias William Worledge  Kevin Tibbs Leland High School Experimental Proof That Quantum Computing Violates the Bell Inequality
Physical Science and Engineering 11 Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair  Nicholas  Yi  Anu Datar Harker School-Upper Campus Logographic Language Detection and Recognition using a Deep Learning Approach
Physical Science and Engineering 11 Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair  Michael Lichao Yuan  Thanh Nguyen Lynbrook High School Smart Agricultural Ad Hoc Network System
Physical Science and Engineering 11 1st Award  Anshika  Agarwal  Jena Lee Gunn (Henry M.) High School A Novel Real-Time Data Acquisition Solution to Expedite Climate Research for the Global Oceanographic Community
Physical Science and Engineering 11 1st Award  Fiona Lin Luo  Katie Collins Monta Vista High School Identification of Novel Antimicrobial Peptides with Designed Activity through a QSAR Based Machine Learning Model
Physical Science and Engineering 11 1st Award  Shachi Shikha Prasad  Tracy Hughes Presentation High School The effect of different cathodes and biodegradable source in a microbial fuel cell on the amount of electricity produced
Physical Science and Engineering 11 1st Award  Sohom Kumar Roy  Hugo Steemers Cupertino High School Drone, Mobile Robot, Tech-Augmented Cockroach, and Crowdsourced System to Find Survivors in Disaster Stricken Areas
Physical Science and Engineering 11 1st Award  Siddharth  Sharma  Kevyn Adams BASIS Independent Silicon Valley School QEML (Quantum Enhanced Machine Learning): Using Quantum Computing to Enhance ML Classifiers and Feature Spaces
Physical Science and Engineering 11 1st Award  Tobias William Worledge  Kevin Tibbs Leland High School Experimental Proof That Quantum Computing Violates the Bell Inequality
Physical Science and Engineering 11 1st Award  Nicholas  Yi  Anu Datar Harker School-Upper Campus Logographic Language Detection and Recognition using a Deep Learning Approach
Physical Science and Engineering 11 1st Award  Michael Lichao Yuan  Thanh Nguyen Lynbrook High School Smart Agricultural Ad Hoc Network System
Physical Science and Engineering 11 1st Award  Andrew Duc Dang  Debra Dimas Santa Teresa High School Infill Pattern and Density Optimization for 3D Printing with Analytical Physics
Physical Science and Engineering 11 1st Award  Krishay  Mukhija  Chris Spenner Harker School-Upper Campus Using Generative Adversarial Networks to Develop Novel Inhibitors of Carcinomas.
Physical Science and Engineering 11 1st Award  Ganesh Mandar Pimpale  Debra Dimas Santa Teresa High School Infill Pattern and Density Optimization for 3D Printing with Analytical Physics
Physical Science and Engineering 11 1st Award  Jyoti  Rani  John Allen Oak Grove High School VBird: Centralized Computational Drone Swarm Implementing a Novel UWB Approach for Extreme Precision in Payload Delivery
Physical Science and Engineering 11 2nd Award  Janya  Budaraju  David Greenstein Monta Vista High School Using Natural Language Processing to More Effectively Conduct Qualitative Mental Health Research
Physical Science and Engineering 11 2nd Award  Nikhil  Chandra  Rob Wallace Leland High School A Glove and Software Application that Translate ASL to Text Utilizing Hand Positioning and Facial Expressions
Physical Science and Engineering 11 2nd Award  Sakshi  Kumar  Christopher Gallick Santa Clara High School An Alternative Approach to Detecting Microplastics in Water
Physical Science and Engineering 11 2nd Award  Atreyi Leela Mukherjee  Christine Koltermann Notre Dame High School A Novel Approach to Bicyclist Safety with an Applied Arduino Sensory Network
Physical Science and Engineering 11 2nd Award  Kaushik Sai Tota  Daniel Meyer Saint Francis High School Intelligent Waste Stream Classification to Optimize Waste Management Processes
Physical Science and Engineering 11 2nd Award  Shashank  Venkatramani  Ted McLeod Cupertino High School A novel mobile app to prevent proliferation of counterfeit medications and reduce DDIs, using SVM and Machine Learning.
Physical Science and Engineering 11 2nd Award  Anant  Bhatia  Bradley Fulk Lynbrook High School A novel intelligent drone navigation system for safe autonomous flight using a deep convolutional LSTM neural network
Physical Science and Engineering 11 2nd Award  Allen Liu Ye  Bradley Fulk Lynbrook High School A novel intelligent drone navigation system for safe autonomous flight using a deep convolutional LSTM neural network
Physical Science and Engineering 11 Honorable Mention  Vardhan Kishore Agrawal  Eric Ferrante Cupertino High School Automated Assessment of Spaceflight-Associated Neuro-Ocular Syndrome via Incidence of Papilledema and Cotton-Wool Spots
Physical Science and Engineering 11 Honorable Mention  Rishikesh  Anand  Bruce Cheung Cupertino High School An Autonomous Bioinspired Machine Designed to Clean Up Trash Using Synthetic Octopus Suction and Gecko-Based Adhesion
Physical Science and Engineering 11 Honorable Mention  Russel James Michael Arbore  Darren Dressen Los Altos High School Using GAN synthesized scans of brain tissue for improved training and performance of CNN brain tissue segmenters
Physical Science and Engineering 11 Honorable Mention  Niranjan  Bhatia  Scott DeRuiter Monta Vista High School Detection and classification of recyclable items to help recyclable facility robots identify and pick them up correctly
Physical Science and Engineering 11 Honorable Mention  Anya  Chatterjee  Annie Reynolds Lynbrook High School The Effect of Microplastics on the Development of Freshwater and Land Plants
Physical Science and Engineering 11 Honorable Mention  Olivia Anne Colace  Darren Dressen Los Altos High School Synthesizing derivatives of telomere resolvase inhibitors for the potential treatment of late stage Lyme disease.
Physical Science and Engineering 11 Honorable Mention  Samarth  Girish  Debjani Roy Bellarmine College Preparatory Chill Pill: An AI Based Mobile Application to Detect Counterfeit Medication
Physical Science and Engineering 11 Honorable Mention  Elizabeth  Szeto  Chris Spenner Harker School-Upper Campus Developing a Bioplastic Using Biopolymer Blending and Crosslinking Techniques to Replace LDPE Plastics for Packaging
Physical Science and Engineering 11 Honorable Mention  Aadit  Trivedi  Debjani Roy Bellarmine College Preparatory RoadAlert: A Smart Device to Detect Potholes on the Road Using Machine Learning
Physical Science and Engineering 11 Honorable Mention  Joseph  Zhang  David Taylor Lynbrook High School Secret Sharing for Attorney-Client Data in a Multi-Provider Cloud Architecture
Physical Science and Engineering 11 Honorable Mention  Jadelynn Kim Dao  Tracy Hughes Presentation High School The Detection of Hand Gestures Using a Time of Flight Sensor for a Human Interface Device
Physical Science and Engineering 11 Honorable Mention  Advit  Deepak  Tracy Hughes Presentation High School The Detection of Hand Gestures Using a Time of Flight Sensor for a Human Interface Device
Physical Science and Engineering 11 Honorable Mention  Gargi Harshwardhan Deshpande  Hugo Steemers Cupertino High School Detection of Seizure and Fainting Occurrences and Emergency Contact Through a Wearable Device
Physical Science and Engineering 11 Honorable Mention  Avani  Karvat  Hugo Steemers Cupertino High School Detection of Seizure and Fainting Occurrences and Emergency Contact Through a Wearable Device
Physical Science and Engineering 11 Honorable Mention  Harshini  Manian  Tracy Hughes Presentation High School Using Deep Learning and Image Recognition to Effectively Categorize and Dispose of Waste
Physical Science and Engineering 11 Honorable Mention  Kristine Soohyun McLaughlin  Hugo Steemers Cupertino High School Detection of Seizure and Fainting Occurrences and Emergency Contact Through a Wearable Device
Physical Science and Engineering 11 $100 for Individual projects. $50 for each student for Team Projects, IBM Award  Karen  Lei  Jill McCrystal Saratoga High School Characteristics and Identification of an Unknown 21 cm HI emission
Physical Science and Engineering 11 2nd Place Award - $75 and Certificate of Achievement, ASM International, A Society for Materials, Santa Clara Valley Chapter  Elizabeth  Szeto  Chris Spenner Harker School-Upper Campus Developing a Bioplastic Using Biopolymer Blending and Crosslinking Techniques to Replace LDPE Plastics for Packaging
Physical Science and Engineering 11 3rd Place - $50, Certificate of Achievement, SAMPE - Society for the Advancement of Material and Process Engineering  Maria  Korolik  Thuy-Anh Nguyen Archbishop Mitty High School Can we bend an iPhone? Highly transparent conductors based on silver nanowires
Physical Science and Engineering 11 3rd Place Award - $50 and Certificate of Achievement, ASM International, A Society for Materials, Santa Clara Valley Chapter  Vibha  Raju  Patrick Huet BASIS Independent Silicon Valley School Development of a low cost novel EMF RF radiation shield and comparison to existing materials
Physical Science and Engineering 11 ASEI Silicon Valley Emerging Technology Membership to American Society of Engineers of Indian Origin, American Society of Engineers of Indian Origin Award  Samarth  Girish  Debjani Roy Bellarmine College Preparatory Chill Pill: An AI Based Mobile Application to Detect Counterfeit Medication
Physical Science and Engineering 11 ASEI Silicon Valley Emerging Technology Membership to American Society of Engineers of Indian Origin, American Society of Engineers of Indian Origin Award  Dinesh Kumar Thirumavalavan  Sushma Bana Monta Vista High School Using a convolution LSTM-based deep neural network to accurately identify and classify hate speech on Twitter.
Physical Science and Engineering 11 Certificate of Achievement, System Safety Society  Atreyi Leela Mukherjee  Christine Koltermann Notre Dame High School A Novel Approach to Bicyclist Safety with an Applied Arduino Sensory Network
Physical Science and Engineering 11 First Place: Paperweight, Patch, Certificate and Office Tour, SETI Institute  Karen  Lei  Jill McCrystal Saratoga High School Characteristics and Identification of an Unknown 21 cm HI emission
Physical Science and Engineering 11 GR 9-12: Honorable Mention, Certificate of Achievement, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) Intelligent Systems Award  Benjamin M. Wu  Kent Paris Cupertino High School Ball on Plate Control - PID and Neural Self-Learning
Physical Science and Engineering 11 GR 9-12: Honorable Mention, Certificate of Achievement, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) Intelligent Systems Award  Michael Lichao Yuan  Thanh Nguyen Lynbrook High School Smart Agricultural Ad Hoc Network System
Physical Science and Engineering 11 Honorable Mention: Patch and Certificate, SETI Institute  Katherine Grace Mekechuk  Tracy Hughes Presentation High School Determining the Constraints of the Location of a Possible 9th Planet using Dynamic System Modeling
Physical Science and Engineering 11 Most Promising Young Scientist (Female), $150 and Certificate (GR 9-12), SPV Market Research "Most Promising Young Scientist"  Anya  Chatterjee  Annie Reynolds Lynbrook High School The Effect of Microplastics on the Development of Freshwater and Land Plants
Physical Science and Engineering 12 Grand Prize - Best of Championship - Outreach Schools - Qualified to be a Regeneron ISEF Finalist - $500 Cash, Santa Clara Valley Science & Engineering Fair Assn - Board of Directors Awards - High School  Joaquin  Ortiz  John Allen Oak Grove High School VBird: Centralized Computational Drone Swarm Implementing a Novel UWB Approach for Extreme Precision in Payload Delivery
Physical Science and Engineering 12 2nd Place Student Award: $320 and Certificate of Achievement, Association for Computing Machinery, San Francisco Bay Area Professional Chapter  Aditya  Sharma  Larry Laskowski Lynbrook High School Pin & Post: A solution to wildfires using a mobile application to profile hazardous vegetation growth near utility poles
Physical Science and Engineering 12 3rd Place Award - $150 and Framed Certificate of Achievement, American Chemical Society, Silicon Valley, SVACS  Tyler Christian Adams  Cathy Messenger Los Gatos High School Designing a Mesocellular Foam that Utilizes Functionalized-Amines to Capture Carbon Dioxide
Physical Science and Engineering 12 Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair  Brandon  Guo  Scott DeRuiter Monta Vista High School Hamiltonian Cycles Generating Eulerian Polytopes: A Computer-Inspired Analysis
Physical Science and Engineering 12 Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair  Liam Sebastian McHugh  Cathy Messenger Los Gatos High School Synthesis of Ultra Absorbent Microcrystalline Cellulose Aerogels for Efficient Oil Spill Cleanup
Physical Science and Engineering 12 Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair  Joaquin  Ortiz  John Allen Oak Grove High School VBird: Centralized Computational Drone Swarm Implementing a Novel UWB Approach for Extreme Precision in Payload Delivery
Physical Science and Engineering 12 Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair  Suhas  Prasad  Scott DeRuiter Monta Vista High School Hamiltonian Cycles Generating Eulerian Polytopes: A Computer-Inspired Analysis
Physical Science and Engineering 12 Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair  Sreoshi  Sarkar  Darren Dressen Los Altos High School Synthesizing derivatives of allosteric antagonist LUF771 to downregulate LHCG receptors and inhibit steroidogenesis
Physical Science and Engineering 12 Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair  Aditya  Sharma  Larry Laskowski Lynbrook High School Pin & Post: A solution to wildfires using a mobile application to profile hazardous vegetation growth near utility poles
Physical Science and Engineering 12 1st Award  Liam Sebastian McHugh  Cathy Messenger Los Gatos High School Synthesis of Ultra Absorbent Microcrystalline Cellulose Aerogels for Efficient Oil Spill Cleanup
Physical Science and Engineering 12 1st Award  Sreoshi  Sarkar  Darren Dressen Los Altos High School Synthesizing derivatives of allosteric antagonist LUF771 to downregulate LHCG receptors and inhibit steroidogenesis
Physical Science and Engineering 12 1st Award  Brandon  Guo  Scott DeRuiter Monta Vista High School Hamiltonian Cycles Generating Eulerian Polytopes: A Computer-Inspired Analysis
Physical Science and Engineering 12 1st Award  Joaquin  Ortiz  John Allen Oak Grove High School VBird: Centralized Computational Drone Swarm Implementing a Novel UWB Approach for Extreme Precision in Payload Delivery
Physical Science and Engineering 12 1st Award  Suhas  Prasad  Scott DeRuiter Monta Vista High School Hamiltonian Cycles Generating Eulerian Polytopes: A Computer-Inspired Analysis
Physical Science and Engineering 12 1st Award  Aditya  Sharma  Larry Laskowski Lynbrook High School Pin & Post: A solution to wildfires using a mobile application to profile hazardous vegetation growth near utility poles
Physical Science and Engineering 12 2nd Award  Eleni Christine Bauman  Cathy Messenger Los Gatos High School Designing a Submerged Bed Fungal Bioreactor to Degrade Polyethylene Microplastics for Water Treatment
Physical Science and Engineering 12 2nd Award  Audrey Yining Cui  Joe Kim Monta Vista High School From Pixels to Paragraph and Paragraph to Pixels: A Deep Neural Art Critic & Artist
Physical Science and Engineering 12 2nd Award  Aaron Yakov Feldman  Darren Dressen Los Altos High School Synthesis of 5-Hydroxy-4-Azaindoles and 4-Azatryptamines: Using TrkB Receptor Inhibition as a Novel Treatment for OCD
Physical Science and Engineering 12 Honorable Mention  Tyler Christian Adams  Cathy Messenger Los Gatos High School Designing a Mesocellular Foam that Utilizes Functionalized-Amines to Capture Carbon Dioxide
Physical Science and Engineering 12 Honorable Mention  Ashley  Dang  Cathy Messenger Los Gatos High School Biodegradable Bioplastics from Starch and Mealworm-Derived (Tenebrio molitor) Chitin and Chitosan
Physical Science and Engineering 12 Honorable Mention  Daniel  Ghasemfar  Darren Dressen Los Altos High School Optimizing rocket stability through a combination of thrust vector control and aerodynamic design
Physical Science and Engineering 12 Honorable Mention  Anusha  Ghosh  Tracy Hughes Presentation High School Translation of American Sign Language Through the Use of Computer Vision
Physical Science and Engineering 12 Honorable Mention  Royal June Huey III  Jennifer Claudio Oak Grove High School The effects of soil composition on the filtration of cyanotoxins and Cyanobacteria
Physical Science and Engineering 12 Honorable Mention  Neha  Mannem  Jessica Lu Lynbrook High School Employing Enzymatic Degradation within a Novel, Mobile Machine to Remove Microplastics from Aquatic Environments
Physical Science and Engineering 12 Honorable Mention  Gautham  Raghupathi  Scott DeRuiter Monta Vista High School What Properties of DNA Sequencing Reads Determine the Optimal K-mer Size for De Bruijn Graph Construction?
Physical Science and Engineering 12 Honorable Mention  Charu  Vijay  Jessica Lu Lynbrook High School Employing Enzymatic Degradation within a Novel, Mobile Machine to Remove Microplastics from Aquatic Environments
Physical Science and Engineering 12 $100 and Certificate of Achievement, Trimble Award  Aditya  Sharma  Larry Laskowski Lynbrook High School Pin & Post: A solution to wildfires using a mobile application to profile hazardous vegetation growth near utility poles
Physical Science and Engineering 12 $100 for Individual projects. $50 for each student for Team Projects, IBM Award  Anusha  Ghosh  Tracy Hughes Presentation High School Translation of American Sign Language Through the Use of Computer Vision
Physical 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  Aryia  Dattamajumdar  Virginia McCabe Fremont High School Fires from Space: A robust synthetic control method and robotic system for wildfire management
Physical 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  Anusha  Ghosh  Tracy Hughes Presentation High School Translation of American Sign Language Through the Use of Computer Vision
Physical 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  Pranav  Kakhandiki  Kenneth Iams Lynbrook High School Determining Organ Degeneration using Bio-Terminal Polarity
Physical Science and Engineering 12 Honorable Mention: Patch and Certificate, SETI Institute  Gurmehr Kaur Klair  Tracy Hughes Presentation High School Determining the Constraints of the Location of a Possible 9th Planet using Dynamic System Modeling
Physical Science and Engineering 12 IEEE Electro-Technology $50 gift card and a certificate, Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers  Aditya  Sharma  Larry Laskowski Lynbrook High School Pin & Post: A solution to wildfires using a mobile application to profile hazardous vegetation growth near utility poles
Physical Science and Engineering 12 Most Promising Young Scientist (Male), $150 and Certificate (GR 9-12), SPV Market Research "Most Promising Young Scientist"  Anderson Yuteng Wang  Darren Dressen Los Altos High School Engineering Solvent Free Flow Battery Electrolytes Through Eutectic Mixtures of 1,4 Benzoquinone Derivatives
RRI Biological Science and Engineering 9 Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair  Rohan  Tirumala  Amanda Slowikowski Cupertino High School The Effects of Curcumin, Nicotinamide and Tomatidine on the Charcot-Marie-Tooth 2A Disease
RRI Biological Science and Engineering 9 1st Award  Rohan  Tirumala  Amanda Slowikowski Cupertino High School The Effects of Curcumin, Nicotinamide and Tomatidine on the Charcot-Marie-Tooth 2A Disease
RRI Biological Science and Engineering 10 Grand Prize Alternate - Biological Sciences - Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF) - $250 Cash, Santa Clara Valley Science & Engineering Fair Assn - Board of Directors Awards - High School  Akhilesh  Chegu  Chris Spenner Harker School-Upper Campus Behavioral and Physiological Analysis of the Effect of Chronic Blue Light Exposure on Cognitive Motor Learning in Mice
RRI Biological Science and Engineering 10 Grand Prize Alternate - Biological Sciences - Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF) - $250 Cash, Santa Clara Valley Science & Engineering Fair Assn - Board of Directors Awards - High School  Deven C Shah  Chris Spenner Harker School-Upper Campus Behavioral and Physiological Analysis of the Effect of Chronic Blue Light Exposure on Cognitive Motor Learning in Mice
RRI Biological Science and Engineering 10 Honorable Mention Student Award: $50 and Certificate of Achievement, Association for Computing Machinery, San Francisco Bay Area Professional Chapter  Annika  Viswesh  Sam Howles-Banerji Palo Alto High School Identifying sequence elements in 5' UTR of mRNA that affect translation efficiency in the fungal pathogen H. capsulatum
RRI Biological Science and Engineering 10 Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair  Akhilesh  Chegu  Chris Spenner Harker School-Upper Campus Behavioral and Physiological Analysis of the Effect of Chronic Blue Light Exposure on Cognitive Motor Learning in Mice
RRI Biological Science and Engineering 10 Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair  Deven C Shah  Chris Spenner Harker School-Upper Campus Behavioral and Physiological Analysis of the Effect of Chronic Blue Light Exposure on Cognitive Motor Learning in Mice
RRI Biological Science and Engineering 10 1st Award  Akhilesh  Chegu  Chris Spenner Harker School-Upper Campus Behavioral and Physiological Analysis of the Effect of Chronic Blue Light Exposure on Cognitive Motor Learning in Mice
RRI Biological Science and Engineering 10 1st Award  Deven C Shah  Chris Spenner Harker School-Upper Campus Behavioral and Physiological Analysis of the Effect of Chronic Blue Light Exposure on Cognitive Motor Learning in Mice
RRI Biological Science and Engineering 10 2nd Award  Alice  Feng  Mark Brada Harker School-Upper Campus A Genetic Study of Non-Small-Cell Lung Cancer Cells with Gemcitabine Resistance and Benzo[a]pyrene Exposure
RRI Biological Science and Engineering 10 Honorable Mention  Jacob  Liao  Jason Graham (mentor) Schmahl Science Workshop Effects of Increased Heat Treatment on Camponotus fragilis and its Endosymbiont Blochmannia festinatus
RRI Biological Science and Engineering 10 Honorable Mention  Natasha  Matta  Jason Graham (mentor) Schmahl Science Workshop Effects of Organic Pesticides, Clove and Thyme, on Sericulture
RRI Biological Science and Engineering 10 Honorable Mention  Jonah  Tien  Renee Fallon Monta Vista High School Brainteract: An Integrated Improvement Aiding Brain-Computer-Interfaces and Disabilities Using Visual-Evoked Stimuli
RRI Biological Science and Engineering 11 Grand Prize - Best of Championship - Biological Sciences - Qualified to be a Regeneron ISEF Finalist - $500 Cash, Santa Clara Valley Science & Engineering Fair Assn - Board of Directors Awards - High School  Aalok Nital Patwa  Thuy-Anh Nguyen Archbishop Mitty High School Predicting Recurrence in Triple Negative Breast Cancer Patients through Analysis of Tumor-Immune Micro Environment
RRI Biological Science and Engineering 11 Grand Prize - Best of Championship - Biological Sciences - Qualified to be a Regeneron ISEF Finalist - $500 Cash, Santa Clara Valley Science & Engineering Fair Assn - Board of Directors Awards - High School  Anushka  Sanyal  Jessica Wakefield Homestead High School Intronic RNA as a Therapeutic Target in Neurodegeneration: A Multipronged Study of RNA Lariat Debranching Enzyme DBR1
RRI Biological Science and Engineering 11 Grand Prize - Best of Championship - Biological Sciences - Qualified to be a Regeneron ISEF Finalist - $500 Cash, Santa Clara Valley Science & Engineering Fair Assn - Board of Directors Awards - High School  Russell  Yang  Chris Spenner Harker School-Upper Campus Modeling Distant Metastasis-Free Survival: Applications to Hazard Prediction and Pairwise Gene Interaction Discovery
RRI Biological Science and Engineering 11 Grand Prize Alternate - Biological Sciences - Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF) - $250 Cash, Santa Clara Valley Science & Engineering Fair Assn - Board of Directors Awards - High School  Michael Chen Eng  Casey Brown Harker School-Upper Campus Role of Host Cell Receptors in the Uptake of the Fungus Candida albicans. Year 2
RRI Biological Science and Engineering 11 Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair  Michael Chen Eng  Casey Brown Harker School-Upper Campus Role of Host Cell Receptors in the Uptake of the Fungus Candida albicans. Year 2
RRI Biological Science and Engineering 11 Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair  Flora  Huang  Thanh Nguyen Lynbrook High School Effect of BMP-9 on BMPR2 and CES1 expression in relation to pulmonary arterial hypertension
RRI Biological Science and Engineering 11 Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair  Aalok Nital Patwa  Thuy-Anh Nguyen Archbishop Mitty High School Predicting Recurrence in Triple Negative Breast Cancer Patients through Analysis of Tumor-Immune Micro Environment
RRI Biological Science and Engineering 11 Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair  Anushka  Sanyal  Jessica Wakefield Homestead High School Intronic RNA as a Therapeutic Target in Neurodegeneration: A Multipronged Study of RNA Lariat Debranching Enzyme DBR1
RRI Biological Science and Engineering 11 Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair  Krithika  Venkatasubramanian  Terri Hannigan Cupertino High School The effect of Parkinson's Disease and the Addition of Cholesterol and Wax Esters on the Phase Transition of Human Tears
RRI Biological Science and Engineering 11 Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair  Russell  Yang  Chris Spenner Harker School-Upper Campus Modeling Distant Metastasis-Free Survival: Applications to Hazard Prediction and Pairwise Gene Interaction Discovery
RRI Biological Science and Engineering 11 1st Award  Michael Chen Eng  Casey Brown Harker School-Upper Campus Role of Host Cell Receptors in the Uptake of the Fungus Candida albicans. Year 2
RRI Biological Science and Engineering 11 1st Award  Flora  Huang  Thanh Nguyen Lynbrook High School Effect of BMP-9 on BMPR2 and CES1 expression in relation to pulmonary arterial hypertension
RRI Biological Science and Engineering 11 1st Award  Aalok Nital Patwa  Thuy-Anh Nguyen Archbishop Mitty High School Predicting Recurrence in Triple Negative Breast Cancer Patients through Analysis of Tumor-Immune Micro Environment
RRI Biological Science and Engineering 11 1st Award  Anushka  Sanyal  Jessica Wakefield Homestead High School Intronic RNA as a Therapeutic Target in Neurodegeneration: A Multipronged Study of RNA Lariat Debranching Enzyme DBR1
RRI Biological Science and Engineering 11 1st Award  Krithika  Venkatasubramanian  Terri Hannigan Cupertino High School The effect of Parkinson's Disease and the Addition of Cholesterol and Wax Esters on the Phase Transition of Human Tears
RRI Biological Science and Engineering 11 1st Award  Russell  Yang  Chris Spenner Harker School-Upper Campus Modeling Distant Metastasis-Free Survival: Applications to Hazard Prediction and Pairwise Gene Interaction Discovery
RRI Biological Science and Engineering 11 2nd Award  Arushi  Agastwar  Josh Kuo Monta Vista High School Biomimetic Tissue Regeneration: Activation of Wnt-3a Pathway in Presence of Bone Xenograft
RRI Biological Science and Engineering 11 2nd Award  Avishi  Agastwar  Josh Kuo Monta Vista High School Biomimetic Tissue Regeneration: Activation of Wnt-3a Pathway in Presence of Bone Xenograft
RRI Biological Science and Engineering 11 Honorable Mention  Julia  Biswas  Eric Nelson Harker School-Upper Campus Estimating Gut Microbiome Diversity in Mice from Microscopic Images Using a Deep Learning Approach
RRI Biological Science and Engineering 11 Honorable Mention  Audrey Xing-Yun Chang  Darren Dressen Los Altos High School Determining the role of RNA chaperones in buffering mutation cost in S. cerevisiae
RRI Biological Science and Engineering 11 Honorable Mention  Claire  Chen  Lester Leung Lynbrook High School Using Traction force microscopy to test Taxol's side effect on cellular force generation
RRI Biological Science and Engineering 11 Honorable Mention  Avantika  Gokulnatha  Isaac Pallone Lynbrook High School Exploring the Evolution and Function of NPG1 Gene through Tomato Domestication History
RRI Biological Science and Engineering 11 Honorable Mention  Aileen  Liao  Jill McCrystal Saratoga High School Microscopic orientation of early stage post-traumatic osteoarthritic articular cartilage.
RRI Biological Science and Engineering 11 Honorable Mention  Andrew  Lu  Chris Spenner Harker School-Upper Campus Fully Automated Prostate Cancer Classification to Address Extensive Underdiagnosis by Physicians
RRI Biological Science and Engineering 11 Honorable Mention  Khushi  Parikh  Thuy-Anh Nguyen Archbishop Mitty High School The Effect of Virtual Reality Technology on Acute Pain Analgesia
RRI Biological Science and Engineering 11 Honorable Mention  Manasa  Pooni  Barjinder Sabherwal Evergreen Valley High School Predicting MHC I peptide presentation using DNNs targeting vaccine/personalized cancer immunotherapy
RRI Biological Science and Engineering 12 Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF) as a finalist in the Regeneron Science Talent Search, California Science & Engineering Fair  Cynthia  Chen  Chris Spenner Harker School-Upper Campus Decoding Neural Networks: Generalizable Computational Framework to Discover Protein Sequence Motifs
RRI Biological Science and Engineering 12 Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair  Chinmay K Lalgudi  Lester Leung Lynbrook High School Designing a Novel Gene Entropy-Based Leukocyte Signature Matrix to Predict Tumor Composition
RRI Biological Science and Engineering 12 1st Award  Chinmay K Lalgudi  Lester Leung Lynbrook High School Designing a Novel Gene Entropy-Based Leukocyte Signature Matrix to Predict Tumor Composition
RRI Biological Science and Engineering 12 2nd Award  Michaela Ho-Young Yip  Darren Dressen Los Altos High School Developing a Metabolic Intervention Strategy to Overcome Retinoic Acid-Resistance in Neuroblastoma Cells
RRI Biological Science and Engineering 12 Honorable Mention  Cynthia  Chen  Chris Spenner Harker School-Upper Campus Decoding Neural Networks: Generalizable Computational Framework to Discover Protein Sequence Motifs
RRI Biological Science and Engineering 12 Honorable Mention  Jason Jin Chen  Thuy-Anh Nguyen Archbishop Mitty High School Aerosol Treatment of Inflammatory Symptoms in Asthma Airways with an Inhibitor of Soluble Epoxide Hydrolase
RRI Biological Science and Engineering 12 Honorable Mention  Tarun  Chiruvolu  Debjani Roy Bellarmine College Preparatory Interpretable Deep Learning Reveals Motif Syntax and Disease-Causing Mutations
RRI Biological Science and Engineering 12 Honorable Mention  Chaelee  Park  Thuy-Anh Nguyen Archbishop Mitty High School The effect of morphine on mitochondrial function and neural inflammation following ischemic stroke
RRI Physical Science and Engineering 9 2nd Award  Sally  Zhu  Eric Nelson Harker School-Upper Campus Supporting the Big Bang Theory by Measuring Cosmic Microwave Background Radiation in Distant Galaxies
RRI Physical Science and Engineering 10 Honorable Mention  Franklin  Wang  Radu Toma Palo Alto High School Detecting Near Earth Asteroids with Convolutional Neural Networks
RRI Physical Science and Engineering 10 Honorable Mention - Certificate of Achievement, SAMPE - Society for the Advancement of Material and Process Engineering  Tejas Satyavrat Prabhune  Gregory Murray Schmahl Science Workshop Creating Water Soluble Plastics from Renewable Resources
RRI Physical Science and Engineering 11 Grand Prize - Best of Championship - Physical Sciences - Qualified to be a Regeneron ISEF Finalist - $500 Cash, Santa Clara Valley Science & Engineering Fair Assn - Board of Directors Awards - High School  Josh  Sanyal  Sam Fung Homestead High School Weakly Supervised LSTM RNNs for Longitudinal Breast Cancer Recurrence Prediction via Unstructured Clinical Narratives
RRI Physical Science and Engineering 11 1st Place Award - $400 and Framed Certificate of Achievement, American Chemical Society, Silicon Valley, SVACS  Eshani  Jha  Isaac Pallone Lynbrook High School Thiol Functionalized and Manganese Dioxide Doped Biochar for Removal of Inorganic and Organic Contaminants from Water
RRI Physical Science and Engineering 11 Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair  Caitlin Maya Gorin  Tracy Hughes Presentation High School Developing a Test Procedure for Layer Adhesion Strength of FDM 3D Printed Plastics
RRI Physical Science and Engineering 11 Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair  Eshani  Jha  Isaac Pallone Lynbrook High School Thiol Functionalized and Manganese Dioxide Doped Biochar for Removal of Inorganic and Organic Contaminants from Water
RRI Physical Science and Engineering 11 Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair  Josh  Sanyal  Sam Fung Homestead High School Weakly Supervised LSTM RNNs for Longitudinal Breast Cancer Recurrence Prediction via Unstructured Clinical Narratives
RRI Physical Science and Engineering 11 Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair  Aditya  Tadimeti  Jeff Sutton Harker School-Upper Campus Machine Learning and Wildfire Burned Area: Examining the Influence of Weather, Topographic, and Socioeconomic Factors
RRI Physical Science and Engineering 11 1st Award  Caitlin Maya Gorin  Tracy Hughes Presentation High School Developing a Test Procedure for Layer Adhesion Strength of FDM 3D Printed Plastics
RRI Physical Science and Engineering 11 1st Award  Eshani  Jha  Isaac Pallone Lynbrook High School Thiol Functionalized and Manganese Dioxide Doped Biochar for Removal of Inorganic and Organic Contaminants from Water
RRI Physical Science and Engineering 11 1st Award  Josh  Sanyal  Sam Fung Homestead High School Weakly Supervised LSTM RNNs for Longitudinal Breast Cancer Recurrence Prediction via Unstructured Clinical Narratives
RRI Physical Science and Engineering 11 1st Award  Aditya  Tadimeti  Jeff Sutton Harker School-Upper Campus Machine Learning and Wildfire Burned Area: Examining the Influence of Weather, Topographic, and Socioeconomic Factors
RRI Physical Science and Engineering 11 2nd Award  David W Zhang  Stephen Widmark Mountain View High School Analysis of Atmospheric Interference to improve Spectral Measurement for Detecting Earth-like Planets
RRI Physical Science and Engineering 11 Honorable Mention  Akhilesh Varadan Balasingam  Matt De Palma Archbishop Mitty High School Fast and Accurate Inference on IoT Devices: Hardware-aware Mapping of ANNs to Brain-Inspired Low-Power Circuits.
RRI Physical Science and Engineering 11 Honorable Mention  Karanvir Singh Bhasin  Anu Datar Harker School-Upper Campus Human Decision-Making Models in Games with Time Pressure and Partial Information
RRI Physical Science and Engineering 11 Honorable Mention  Aditya Kumar Jaiswal  Thuy-Anh Nguyen Archbishop Mitty High School Engineering an energy efficient drone that uses flight aerodynamics to acquire and deliver payloads over long distances.
RRI Physical Science and Engineering 11 Honorable Mention  Betsy  Tian  Thomas Artiss Harker School-Upper Campus Exploring Extrasolar Planetary Systems with Ultraviolet Eyes
RRI Physical Science and Engineering 11 Honorable Mention  Sophie Meiyang Wang  Smriti Koodanjeri Harker School-Upper Campus A novel automated differentiation framework and its applications in accurate and fast reacting flow simulations
RRI Physical Science and Engineering 11 $100 for Individual projects. $50 for each student for Team Projects, IBM Award  Akhilesh Varadan Balasingam  Matt De Palma Archbishop Mitty High School Fast and Accurate Inference on IoT Devices: Hardware-aware Mapping of ANNs to Brain-Inspired Low-Power Circuits.
RRI Physical Science and Engineering 11 1st Place - $100, Certificate of Achievement, SAMPE - Society for the Advancement of Material and Process Engineering  Eileen  Ho  Kent Paris Cupertino High School 3D Printing of Carbon Aerogels for Supercapacitors
RRI Physical Science and Engineering 11 1st Place Award - $100 and Certificate of Achievement from ASM Materials Education Foundation and Ribbon, ASM International, A Society for Materials, Santa Clara Valley Chapter  Caitlin Maya Gorin  Tracy Hughes Presentation High School Developing a Test Procedure for Layer Adhesion Strength of FDM 3D Printed Plastics
RRI Physical Science and Engineering 11 IEEE Electro-Technology $50 gift card and a certificate, Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers  Eileen  Ho  Kent Paris Cupertino High School 3D Printing of Carbon Aerogels for Supercapacitors
RRI Physical Science and Engineering 12 2nd Place Award - $250 and Framed Certificate of Achievement, American Chemical Society, Silicon Valley, SVACS  Madison Baothi Huynh  Chris Spenner Harker School-Upper Campus Formation of Biologically Renewable Jet Fuel from 1-Hexene Cross-Metathesized Saltwater Plant Oils
RRI Physical Science and Engineering 12 Honorable Mention - Each receive a total of $100, American Chemical Society, Silicon Valley, SVACS  Alexander  Guh-Siesel  Darren Dressen Los Altos High School A Method for Treating Celiac Disease: Synthesis of Small Molecule Inhibitors of the HLA-DQ2 Heterodimer
RRI Physical Science and Engineering 12 2nd Award  Swati  Goel  Michael Bautista Gunn (Henry M.) High School Identifying Fake News Sources on Twitter Using Network Analysis and Machine Learning
RRI Physical Science and Engineering 12 2nd Award  Alexander  Guh-Siesel  Darren Dressen Los Altos High School A Method for Treating Celiac Disease: Synthesis of Small Molecule Inhibitors of the HLA-DQ2 Heterodimer
RRI Physical Science and Engineering 12 Honorable Mention  Shloka V. Janapaty  Tracy Hughes Presentation High School Optimization of Distillation Technology and Graphene Oxide Membranes for Efficient, Low-Cost Methanol-Water Separation
RRI Physical Science and Engineering 12 Honorable Mention  Bidipta  Sarkar  Eric Ferrante Cupertino High School Data Compression Through Empirical Approximations of Kolmogorov Complexity
RRI Physical Science and Engineering 12 1st Place - $100, Certificate of Achievement, SAMPE - Society for the Advancement of Material and Process Engineering  Meera  Suresh  Kent Paris Cupertino High School 3D Printing of Carbon Aerogels for Supercapacitors
RRI Physical Science and Engineering 12 Honorable Mention Award and Certificate of Achievement, ASM International, A Society for Materials, Santa Clara Valley Chapter  Luke Almazan Sage  Darren Dressen Los Altos High School Examining mechanical properties of 3D printed chainmail textile structures
RRI Physical Science and Engineering 12 IEEE Electro-Technology $50 gift card and a certificate, Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers  Meera  Suresh  Kent Paris Cupertino High School 3D Printing of Carbon Aerogels for Supercapacitors