Project Awards 2021

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  Atharva  Manjunath  Eric Cho Milpitas Christian School (6-8) Investigating the Inhibitory Effect of Trigonella foenum-graecum on Carbohydrate Digestive Enzymes
Biological Science and Engineering 6 Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair  Tarek  Aref  Zeba Haq Granada Islamic School Effect of Food Colors on Brine Shrimp Mortality
Biological Science and Engineering 6 Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair  Kiera Joelle Maben  Rachel Hilario-Pigg Peterson Middle School The Effect of Eco-friendly Detergents on Aquatic Organisms
Biological Science and Engineering 6 Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair  Atharva  Manjunath  Eric Cho Milpitas Christian School (6-8) Investigating the Inhibitory Effect of Trigonella foenum-graecum on Carbohydrate Digestive Enzymes
Biological Science and Engineering 6 Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair  Daniela  Urdaneta  Aida Rivera Homeschool - Explora Academy A Practical and Affordable Neonatal Incubator
Biological Science and Engineering 6 1st Award  Atharva  Manjunath  Eric Cho Milpitas Christian School (6-8) Investigating the Inhibitory Effect of Trigonella foenum-graecum on Carbohydrate Digestive Enzymes
Biological Science and Engineering 6 2nd Award  Tarek  Aref  Zeba Haq Granada Islamic School Effect of Food Colors on Brine Shrimp Mortality
Biological Science and Engineering 6 2nd Award  Daniela  Urdaneta  Aida Rivera Homeschool - Explora Academy A Practical and Affordable Neonatal Incubator
Biological Science and Engineering 6 Honorable Mention  Kiera Joelle Maben  Rachel Hilario-Pigg Peterson Middle School The Effect of Eco-friendly Detergents on Aquatic Organisms
Biological Science and Engineering 6 First place (tie)- $125 and framed cert, Dave Parker  Atharva  Manjunath  Eric Cho Milpitas Christian School (6-8) Investigating the Inhibitory Effect of Trigonella foenum-graecum on Carbohydrate Digestive Enzymes
Biological Science and Engineering 7 Honorable Mention Student Award: $40 and Certificate of Achievement, Association for Computing Machinery, San Francisco Bay Area Professional Chapter  Disha  Gupta  Tanu Garg (PSP) Privately Sponsored Project An Algorithm Designed to Determine Eligibility for Genetic Screening of Breast Cancer Leading to Early Identification
Biological Science and Engineering 7 Honorable Mention Student Award: $40 and Certificate of Achievement, Association for Computing Machinery, San Francisco Bay Area Professional Chapter  Tanvi  Sivakumar  Tanu Garg (PSP) Privately Sponsored Project An Algorithm Designed to Determine Eligibility for Genetic Screening of Breast Cancer Leading to Early Identification
Biological Science and Engineering 7 Nominated to compete envelope, Broadcom MASTERS - 7th Grade  Ava Tan Bhowmik  Shida Tan (PSP) Privately Sponsored Project Developing a Home-Built Metrology to Analyze Oral Fluid Droplets and Aerosol and Evaluate the Efficacy of Mask Materials
Biological Science and Engineering 7 Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair  Advaith  Anand  Leah Watts Kennedy(John F.) Middle School-Cupertino Comparing Milk Protein: A1 vs A2 milk using Drosophila Melanogaster
Biological Science and Engineering 7 Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair  Ava Tan Bhowmik  Shida Tan (PSP) Privately Sponsored Project Developing a Home-Built Metrology to Analyze Oral Fluid Droplets and Aerosol and Evaluate the Efficacy of Mask Materials
Biological Science and Engineering 7 Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair  Riya Mayank Chaudhary  Kelsie Davis Stratford Middle School-Palo Alto What is the effect of forced air on different masks?
Biological Science and Engineering 7 Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair  Grace  Ji  Aida Rivera Homeschool - Explora Academy A Practical and Affordable Neonatal Incubator
Biological Science and Engineering 7 Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair  Viraj  Pandey  Rachna Pandey (PSP) Privately Sponsored Project Investigating the Photoluminescence Signature of Graphene Quantum Dots in the Conservation of Endangered Species
Biological Science and Engineering 7 1st Award  Ava Tan Bhowmik  Shida Tan (PSP) Privately Sponsored Project Developing a Home-Built Metrology to Analyze Oral Fluid Droplets and Aerosol and Evaluate the Efficacy of Mask Materials
Biological Science and Engineering 7 2nd Award  Viraj  Pandey  Rachna Pandey (PSP) Privately Sponsored Project Investigating the Photoluminescence Signature of Graphene Quantum Dots in the Conservation of Endangered Species
Biological Science and Engineering 7 2nd Award  Grace  Ji  Aida Rivera Homeschool - Explora Academy A Practical and Affordable Neonatal Incubator
Biological Science and Engineering 7 Honorable Mention  Advaith  Anand  Leah Watts Kennedy(John F.) Middle School-Cupertino Comparing Milk Protein: A1 vs A2 milk using Drosophila Melanogaster
Biological Science and Engineering 7 Honorable Mention  Riya Mayank Chaudhary  Kelsie Davis Stratford Middle School-Palo Alto What is the effect of forced air on different masks?
Biological Science and Engineering 7 Honorable Mention  Azul Aceves Gonzalez  Wilson Tsang Cabrillo Middle School Prosthetic Arm
Biological Science and Engineering 7 Honorable Mention  Julia Debra Hulgan  Wilson Tsang Cabrillo Middle School Prosthetic Arm
Biological Science and Engineering 7 Honorable Mention  Sophia Mina Watkins  Wilson Tsang Cabrillo Middle School Prosthetic Arm
Biological Science and Engineering 7 $100 Middle School Plant Science (Amazon Gift Card), California Botanical Society  Swara Ruchirkumar Shah  Samantha Carlisle Challenger - Berryessa - SJ Wonderful Wood: What is the effect of sapwood on the purity of water?
Biological Science and Engineering 7 $50 to student, Certificate of Achievement, and Letter, Al Foster Award  Ava Tan Bhowmik  Shida Tan (PSP) Privately Sponsored Project Developing a Home-Built Metrology to Analyze Oral Fluid Droplets and Aerosol and Evaluate the Efficacy of Mask Materials
Biological Science and Engineering 7 3rd Place $75 and Certificate of Achievement, American Association for Laboratory Animal Science, Northern California Branch  Sofia  Shah  Hong Wei (PSP) Privately Sponsored Project Predicting and Modeling a Dog's Behavior Based on Data from the Perspective of the Dog
Biological Science and Engineering 7 3rd Place $75 and Certificate of Achievement, American Association for Laboratory Animal Science, Northern California Branch  Tiffany  Zhu  Hong Wei (PSP) Privately Sponsored Project Predicting and Modeling a Dog's Behavior Based on Data from the Perspective of the Dog
Biological Science and Engineering 7 Exceptional Merit, Certificate, SPV Market Research "Most Promising Young Scientist"  Disha  Gupta  Tanu Garg (PSP) Privately Sponsored Project An Algorithm Designed to Determine Eligibility for Genetic Screening of Breast Cancer Leading to Early Identification
Biological Science and Engineering 7 Exceptional Merit, Certificate, SPV Market Research "Most Promising Young Scientist"  Tanvi  Sivakumar  Tanu Garg (PSP) Privately Sponsored Project An Algorithm Designed to Determine Eligibility for Genetic Screening of Breast Cancer Leading to Early Identification
Biological Science and Engineering 7 First place (tie)- $125 and framed cert, Dave Parker  Viraj  Pandey  Rachna Pandey (PSP) Privately Sponsored Project Investigating the Photoluminescence Signature of Graphene Quantum Dots in the Conservation of Endangered Species
Biological Science and Engineering 7 Most Promising Young Scientist (Female), $250 and Certificate (GR 6-8), SPV Market Research "Most Promising Young Scientist"  Ava Tan Bhowmik  Shida Tan (PSP) Privately Sponsored Project Developing a Home-Built Metrology to Analyze Oral Fluid Droplets and Aerosol and Evaluate the Efficacy of Mask Materials
Biological Science and Engineering 8 Nominated to compete envelope, Broadcom MASTERS - 8th Grade  Anish Sriram Bhethanabotla  Saitanuja Madhavapeddi (PSP) Privately Sponsored Project Advent - A comprehensive low cost automatic ventilator and vital signs monitor
Biological Science and Engineering 8 Nominated to compete envelope, Broadcom MASTERS - 8th Grade  Ananth  Kini  Glenn Lillie Cabrillo Middle School Investigating the effects of hydroponics and aquaponics on plants
Biological Science and Engineering 8 Nominated to compete envelope, Broadcom MASTERS - 8th Grade  Praneel Anil Shah  Susan Hansen Kennedy(John F.) Middle School-Cupertino Utilizing A Bioelectrochemical System With Phototrophic Bacteria To Generate Clean Water and Electricity
Biological Science and Engineering 8 Nominated to compete envelope, Broadcom MASTERS - 8th Grade  Zaaina Sabeel Syeda  Glenn Lillie Cabrillo Middle School Investigating the effects of hydroponics and aquaponics on plants
Biological Science and Engineering 8 Nominated to compete envelope, Broadcom MASTERS - 8th Grade  Saamya  Yadav  Glenn Lillie Cabrillo Middle School Investigating the effects of hydroponics and aquaponics on plants
Biological Science and Engineering 8 Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair  Anish Sriram Bhethanabotla  Saitanuja Madhavapeddi (PSP) Privately Sponsored Project Advent - A comprehensive low cost automatic ventilator and vital signs monitor
Biological Science and Engineering 8 Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair  Audrey  Cheng  Kathy Peng Harker School-Middle Campus The Effects of Decellularization on Organ Longevity
Biological Science and Engineering 8 Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair  Maryam  Ismail  Michelle Scilingo Cabrillo Middle School Uh Oh! Seizure on the Loose!:Developing A Wearable Device to Assist Epileptic Patients And Prevent Cases of SUDEP
Biological Science and Engineering 8 Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair  Dahyun  Kim  Michelle Scilingo Cabrillo Middle School Uh Oh! Seizure on the Loose!:Developing A Wearable Device to Assist Epileptic Patients And Prevent Cases of SUDEP
Biological Science and Engineering 8 Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair  Ananth  Kini  Glenn Lillie Cabrillo Middle School Investigating the effects of hydroponics and aquaponics on plants
Biological Science and Engineering 8 Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair  Kashish  Priyam  Tina Kim Harker School-Middle Campus What is the effect of different blended fruits on Chrysanthemum Morifolium's conversion rate of CO2?
Biological Science and Engineering 8 Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair  Praneel Anil Shah  Susan Hansen Kennedy(John F.) Middle School-Cupertino Utilizing A Bioelectrochemical System With Phototrophic Bacteria To Generate Clean Water and Electricity
Biological Science and Engineering 8 Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair  Josephine  Smith  Michelle Scilingo Cabrillo Middle School Uh Oh! Seizure on the Loose!:Developing A Wearable Device to Assist Epileptic Patients And Prevent Cases of SUDEP
Biological Science and Engineering 8 Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair  Zaaina Sabeel Syeda  Glenn Lillie Cabrillo Middle School Investigating the effects of hydroponics and aquaponics on plants
Biological Science and Engineering 8 Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair  Hima  Thota  Kristen Morgensen Harker School-Middle Campus Detecting Nutrient Deficiencies and Optimizing Plant Health Using Machine Learning
Biological Science and Engineering 8 Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair  Lindsey  Tuckey  Kathy Peng Harker School-Middle Campus The Effects of Decellularization on Organ Longevity
Biological Science and Engineering 8 Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair  Saamya  Yadav  Glenn Lillie Cabrillo Middle School Investigating the effects of hydroponics and aquaponics on plants
Biological Science and Engineering 8 Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair  Sophia  Zhu  Tina Kim Harker School-Middle Campus What is the effect of different blended fruits on Chrysanthemum Morifolium's conversion rate of CO2?
Biological Science and Engineering 8 1st Award  Anish Sriram Bhethanabotla  Saitanuja Madhavapeddi (PSP) Privately Sponsored Project Advent - A comprehensive low cost automatic ventilator and vital signs monitor
Biological Science and Engineering 8 1st Award  Praneel Anil Shah  Susan Hansen Kennedy(John F.) Middle School-Cupertino Utilizing A Bioelectrochemical System With Phototrophic Bacteria To Generate Clean Water and Electricity
Biological Science and Engineering 8 1st Award  Ananth  Kini  Glenn Lillie Cabrillo Middle School Investigating the effects of hydroponics and aquaponics on plants
Biological Science and Engineering 8 1st Award  Zaaina Sabeel Syeda  Glenn Lillie Cabrillo Middle School Investigating the effects of hydroponics and aquaponics on plants
Biological Science and Engineering 8 1st Award  Saamya  Yadav  Glenn Lillie Cabrillo Middle School Investigating the effects of hydroponics and aquaponics on plants
Biological Science and Engineering 8 2nd Award  Adrit  Rao  Erica Goldsworthy Greene (Frank S., Jr.) Middle School Mobile app for classification of macular diseases through Optical Coherence Tomography via Convolutional Neural Networks
Biological Science and Engineering 8 2nd Award  Hima  Thota  Kristen Morgensen Harker School-Middle Campus Detecting Nutrient Deficiencies and Optimizing Plant Health Using Machine Learning
Biological Science and Engineering 8 2nd Award  Audrey  Cheng  Kathy Peng Harker School-Middle Campus The Effects of Decellularization on Organ Longevity
Biological Science and Engineering 8 2nd Award  Maryam  Ismail  Michelle Scilingo Cabrillo Middle School Uh Oh! Seizure on the Loose!:Developing A Wearable Device to Assist Epileptic Patients And Prevent Cases of SUDEP
Biological Science and Engineering 8 2nd Award  Dahyun  Kim  Michelle Scilingo Cabrillo Middle School Uh Oh! Seizure on the Loose!:Developing A Wearable Device to Assist Epileptic Patients And Prevent Cases of SUDEP
Biological Science and Engineering 8 2nd Award  Josephine  Smith  Michelle Scilingo Cabrillo Middle School Uh Oh! Seizure on the Loose!:Developing A Wearable Device to Assist Epileptic Patients And Prevent Cases of SUDEP
Biological Science and Engineering 8 2nd Award  Lindsey  Tuckey  Kathy Peng Harker School-Middle Campus The Effects of Decellularization on Organ Longevity
Biological Science and Engineering 8 Honorable Mention  Alison  Yang  Kristen Morgensen Harker School-Middle Campus The effects varying sources of acetic acid have on the rate of yeast fermentation
Biological Science and Engineering 8 Honorable Mention  Satvika Iyengar Gautham  Tina Kim Harker School-Middle Campus What is the Effect of Non-Toxic Dish Soaps on the Growth of Plants?
Biological Science and Engineering 8 Honorable Mention  Elisa  Grothe  Aida Rivera Homeschool - Explora Academy A Device to Eliminate Air Bubbles from IV Lines
Biological Science and Engineering 8 Honorable Mention  Kashish  Priyam  Tina Kim Harker School-Middle Campus What is the effect of different blended fruits on Chrysanthemum Morifolium's conversion rate of CO2?
Biological Science and Engineering 8 Honorable Mention  Sidak Kaur Sanghari  Tina Kim Harker School-Middle Campus What is the Effect of Non-Toxic Dish Soaps on the Growth of Plants?
Biological Science and Engineering 8 Honorable Mention  Rebeca  Urdaneta  Aida Rivera Homeschool - Explora Academy A Device to Eliminate Air Bubbles from IV Lines
Biological Science and Engineering 8 Honorable Mention  Sophia  Zhu  Tina Kim Harker School-Middle Campus What is the effect of different blended fruits on Chrysanthemum Morifolium's conversion rate of CO2?
Biological Science and Engineering 8 $50 Middle School Plant Science (Amazon Gift Card), California Botanical Society  Hima  Thota  Kristen Morgensen Harker School-Middle Campus Detecting Nutrient Deficiencies and Optimizing Plant Health Using Machine Learning
Biological Science and Engineering 8 Middle School $50 and letter of recognition, Northern California Institute of Food Technologists (NCIFT)  Nikhil  Chadha  Kathy Peng Harker School-Middle Campus The Impossible Peanut: A Hypo Allergenic Peanut Alternative
Biological Science and Engineering 8 Middle School $50 and letter of recognition, Northern California Institute of Food Technologists (NCIFT)  Sahil  Varma  Kathy Peng Harker School-Middle Campus The Impossible Peanut: A Hypo Allergenic Peanut Alternative
Biological Science and Engineering 9 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  Ella Lindsey Yee  Anu Datar Harker School-Upper Campus Novel Stage Optimized Image Processing to Improve Deep Learning Driven Diagnosis of Early Stage Diabetic Retinopathy
Biological Science and Engineering 9 Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair  Srushti  Batni  Renee Fallon Monta Vista High School The effect of decreased pH levels on Haliclona Caerulea as a model of Ocean Acidification on the Porifera species
Biological Science and Engineering 9 Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair  Reshma  Kosaraju  Hari Kosaraju (PSP) Privately Sponsored Project Determining Role of Ecotropic Viral Integration Site 1 in Anti-Leukemic Drug Resistance Using Gene Expression Analysis
Biological Science and Engineering 9 Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair  Ella Selina Lan  Eric Nelson Harker School-Upper Campus A Novel Deep ML Architecture by Integrating Visual SLAM into Mask R-CNN for Realtime Surgery Video Analysis Utilizing AR
Biological Science and Engineering 9 Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair  Ashika  Mittal  Renee Fallon Monta Vista High School The Effect of Fenugreek on the Size of Hyperglycemic Bombyx Mori Silkworms as a Model for Hyperglycemia
Biological Science and Engineering 9 Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair  Diya  Pendyala  Christine Koltermann Notre Dame High School The Effects of the Type of Flour (White, Whole-Wheat, and Gluten-free) on Saccharomyces Cerevisiae (Yeast) Respiration
Biological Science and Engineering 9 Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair  Ella Lindsey Yee  Anu Datar Harker School-Upper Campus Novel Stage Optimized Image Processing to Improve Deep Learning Driven Diagnosis of Early Stage Diabetic Retinopathy
Biological Science and Engineering 9 1st Award  Srushti  Batni  Renee Fallon Monta Vista High School The effect of decreased pH levels on Haliclona Caerulea as a model of Ocean Acidification on the Porifera species
Biological Science and Engineering 9 1st Award  Reshma  Kosaraju  Hari Kosaraju (PSP) Privately Sponsored Project Determining Role of Ecotropic Viral Integration Site 1 in Anti-Leukemic Drug Resistance Using Gene Expression Analysis
Biological Science and Engineering 9 1st Award  Ella Selina Lan  Eric Nelson Harker School-Upper Campus A Novel Deep ML Architecture by Integrating Visual SLAM into Mask R-CNN for Realtime Surgery Video Analysis Utilizing AR
Biological Science and Engineering 9 1st Award  Ella Lindsey Yee  Anu Datar Harker School-Upper Campus Novel Stage Optimized Image Processing to Improve Deep Learning Driven Diagnosis of Early Stage Diabetic Retinopathy
Biological Science and Engineering 9 2nd Award  Vijay  Krishnamoorthy  Kathleen Loia Lynbrook High School Predicting the Limits of Human Athletic Performance using Novel Mathematical Models
Biological Science and Engineering 9 2nd Award  Ashika  Mittal  Renee Fallon Monta Vista High School The Effect of Fenugreek on the Size of Hyperglycemic Bombyx Mori Silkworms as a Model for Hyperglycemia
Biological Science and Engineering 9 2nd Award  Diya  Pendyala  Christine Koltermann Notre Dame High School The Effects of the Type of Flour (White, Whole-Wheat, and Gluten-free) on Saccharomyces Cerevisiae (Yeast) Respiration
Biological Science and Engineering 9 2nd Award  Mridula  Srinivasan  Renee Fallon Monta Vista High School Investigating the Effects of Withania Somnifera on Charcot-Marie-Tooth Type 1
Biological Science and Engineering 9 2nd Award  Shridhula  Srinivasan  Renee Fallon Monta Vista High School Investigating the Effects of Withania Somnifera on Charcot-Marie-Tooth Type 1
Biological Science and Engineering 9 Honorable Mention  Evelyn Mae Hsu  Kathleen Loia Lynbrook High School Using bioinformatics to identify SCCmecA and SCCnonmec mutations in Staphylococcus aureus.
Biological Science and Engineering 9 Honorable Mention  Hoshita Venkatasai Undella  David Cobb Saint Francis High School What is the effect of different fruit peel paper towels on the removal of E. coli bacteria and the absorption of water?
Biological Science and Engineering 9 Honorable Mention  Sasha Brooke Wang  Tracy Hughes Presentation High School What is the Effect of Repeated Trials on the Ability of Prenolepis Imparis Ants to Optimize Food Gathering?
Biological Science and Engineering 9 Honorable Mention  Anne  Xu  Kathleen Loia Lynbrook High School Evaluation of the Effects of Neurological Conditions on Beta-Amyloid Plaque Accumulation in Alzheimers Disease
Biological Science and Engineering 9 Honorable Mention  Anchal  Bhardwaj  Chelsey Beck Notre Dame High School Comparing rates of antibiotic resistance in Escherichia coli with preliminary investigation into carbapenem resistance
Biological Science and Engineering 9 Honorable Mention  Tanvi  Chukka  Anshul Agarwal Lynbrook High School A novel watch to monitor and manage stress during shelter in place
Biological Science and Engineering 9 Honorable Mention  Bien Antonio Valencia Dela Cruz  Suzanne Miller-Moody Santa Clara High School How Would Altering the Soil's pH level Affect the Growth and Development of a Viola cornuta Plant?
Biological Science and Engineering 9 Honorable Mention  Aksithi  Eswaran  Chelsey Beck Notre Dame High School Comparing rates of antibiotic resistance in Escherichia coli with preliminary investigation into carbapenem resistance
Biological Science and Engineering 9 Honorable Mention  Jonathan Uziel Garnica Niz  Suzanne Miller-Moody Santa Clara High School How Would Altering the Soil's pH level Affect the Growth and Development of a Viola cornuta Plant?
Biological Science and Engineering 9 Honorable Mention  Priyanka  Supraja Balaji  Anshul Agarwal Lynbrook High School A novel watch to monitor and manage stress during shelter in place
Biological Science and Engineering 9 $100 for Individual projects, IBM Award  Ella Selina Lan  Eric Nelson Harker School-Upper Campus A Novel Deep ML Architecture by Integrating Visual SLAM into Mask R-CNN for Realtime Surgery Video Analysis Utilizing AR
Biological 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  Ella Selina Lan  Eric Nelson Harker School-Upper Campus A Novel Deep ML Architecture by Integrating Visual SLAM into Mask R-CNN for Realtime Surgery Video Analysis Utilizing AR
Biological Science and Engineering 9 Certificate and $100 check, and Compete for $1000 Outstanding Young Scientist Award, California Association of Professional Scientists (CAPS)  Ella Lindsey Yee  Anu Datar Harker School-Upper Campus Novel Stage Optimized Image Processing to Improve Deep Learning Driven Diagnosis of Early Stage Diabetic Retinopathy
Biological Science and Engineering 9 Honorable Mention: Patch and Certificate, SETI Institute  Akshar  Miriyala  Kathleen Loia Lynbrook High School Identifying possible long term medical ramifications of space travel due to the severe environment
Biological Science and Engineering 10 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  Ashwika  Agrawal  Stuart Hamilton Cupertino High School A Low-Cost Computer-Aided Lung Auscultation Apparatus and Automated Diagnosis of Respiratory Illnesses
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  Aditya  Oberai  Sefika Gul Eris Palo Alto High School Fighting Hunger: A Novel, Cheap & Effective Hydroponic Plant Growing Apparatus Using Less Energy, Time, Water, and Space
Biological Science and Engineering 10 Honorable Mention Student Award: $50 and Certificate of Achievement, Association for Computing Machinery, San Francisco Bay Area Professional Chapter  Krish  Maniar  Eric Nelson Harker School-Upper Campus MeniSight: A Machine Learning Progressive Web App for Individualized Prognosis and Early-Detection for Meningioma Tumors
Biological Science and Engineering 10 Honorable Mention Student Award: $50 and Certificate of Achievement, Association for Computing Machinery, San Francisco Bay Area Professional Chapter  Saurish  Srivastava  Alice Li Evergreen Valley High School A Novel Unsupervised Approach Leveraging CNNs to Accurately Classify Brain Cancer Survival via Histopathological Images
Biological Science and Engineering 10 Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair  Ashwika  Agrawal  Stuart Hamilton Cupertino High School A Low-Cost Computer-Aided Lung Auscultation Apparatus and Automated Diagnosis of Respiratory Illnesses
Biological Science and Engineering 10 Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair  Gordon  Chen  Andrew Irvine Harker School-Upper Campus Performing Directed Evolution in silico to Develop a Novel Inhibitor for SARS-CoV-2
Biological Science and Engineering 10 Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair  Karun  Kaushik  Susheel Kaushik (PSP) Homeschool - KHS (Cupertino) X-Check-MD: An AI-Based Covid-19 Diagnostics and Progression Monitoring Solution using Affordable Modalities like X-Rays
Biological Science and Engineering 10 Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair  Nathan Xuyan Ming  Lei Ming (PSP) Privately Sponsored Project Effect of Different Commercially Viable Sources of Sugar on the CO2 Production of Yeast Fermentation in the Production o
Biological Science and Engineering 10 Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair  Aditya  Oberai  Sefika Gul Eris Palo Alto High School Fighting Hunger: A Novel, Cheap & Effective Hydroponic Plant Growing Apparatus Using Less Energy, Time, Water, and Space
Biological Science and Engineering 10 1st Award  Ashwika  Agrawal  Stuart Hamilton Cupertino High School A Low-Cost Computer-Aided Lung Auscultation Apparatus and Automated Diagnosis of Respiratory Illnesses
Biological Science and Engineering 10 1st Award  Gordon  Chen  Andrew Irvine Harker School-Upper Campus Performing Directed Evolution in silico to Develop a Novel Inhibitor for SARS-CoV-2
Biological Science and Engineering 10 1st Award  Karun  Kaushik  Susheel Kaushik (PSP) Homeschool - KHS (Cupertino) X-Check-MD: An AI-Based Covid-19 Diagnostics and Progression Monitoring Solution using Affordable Modalities like X-Rays
Biological Science and Engineering 10 1st Award  Aditya  Oberai  Sefika Gul Eris Palo Alto High School Fighting Hunger: A Novel, Cheap & Effective Hydroponic Plant Growing Apparatus Using Less Energy, Time, Water, and Space
Biological Science and Engineering 10 2nd Award  Rishi  Gupta  Janny Cahatol Saratoga High School An application to help users identify IgE cross reactivity based on sequence identity
Biological Science and Engineering 10 2nd Award  Krish  Maniar  Eric Nelson Harker School-Upper Campus MeniSight: A Machine Learning Progressive Web App for Individualized Prognosis and Early-Detection for Meningioma Tumors
Biological Science and Engineering 10 2nd Award  Nathan Xuyan Ming  Lei Ming (PSP) Privately Sponsored Project Effect of Different Commercially Viable Sources of Sugar on the CO2 Production of Yeast Fermentation in the Production o
Biological Science and Engineering 10 2nd Award  Divya  Venkataraman  Renee Fallon Monta Vista High School Application of Light Therapy on Alzheimer's Disease by Measuring Locomotive Ability in a Drosophila Melanogaster Model
Biological Science and Engineering 10 Honorable Mention  Kamron Reza Emami  Cathy Messenger Los Gatos High School Creating a low cost model for home plastic degradation utilizing the readable available fungi
Biological Science and Engineering 10 Honorable Mention  Manasi  Gajjalapurna  Cathy Messenger Los Gatos High School The effects of beta-carotene and retinol palmitate on beta-amyloid toxicity in C. elegans to model Alzheimer's disease
Biological Science and Engineering 10 Honorable Mention  Juno  Kim  Ann Lorey Gunn (Henry M.) High School The Optimization of Preprocessing Methods in the Diagnosis of Diabetic Retinopathy in Retinal Images through Convolution
Biological Science and Engineering 10 Honorable Mention  Letizia  Pastore  Cathy Messenger Los Gatos High School Testing the effect of indole 3-carbinol on the aggregation of dhs-3 protein in C.elegans strain LIU1.
Biological Science and Engineering 10 Honorable Mention  Sanika  Patil  Kent Paris Cupertino High School Application of Stackelberg game theory to improve accuracy of outcome predictions for pediatric AML patients
Biological Science and Engineering 10 Honorable Mention  Aditya  Shrinivasan  Rebecca Taylor Evergreen Valley High School In silico analysis using pyrimethamine as a therapy for mutated Hex-A gene in Tay Sachs Disease
Biological Science and Engineering 10 Honorable Mention  Maria  Grothe  Thuy-Anh Nguyen Archbishop Mitty High School I Spy a Bionic Eye!: Engineering of a Bionic Eye Prototype That Uses Action Potentials to Convey Retinotopy on a Model of the Primary Visual Cortex
Biological Science and Engineering 10 Honorable Mention  Kavya Manasa Pandrangi  Lester Leung Lynbrook High School Zenchi: A virtual reality-based remote patient monitoring system for physicians
Biological Science and Engineering 10 Honorable Mention  Amrita  Pasupathy  Anu Datar Harker School-Upper Campus Analysis of miRNA in Ovarian Cancer to Identify Potential Biomarkers and Predict Platinum Resistance
Biological Science and Engineering 10 Honorable Mention  Angelina  Pham  Thuy-Anh Nguyen Archbishop Mitty High School I Spy a Bionic Eye!: Engineering of a Bionic Eye Prototype That Uses Action Potentials to Convey Retinotopy on a Model of the Primary Visual Cortex
Biological Science and Engineering 10 Honorable Mention  Ashley  Ruan  Anu Datar Harker School-Upper Campus Analysis of miRNA in Ovarian Cancer to Identify Potential Biomarkers and Predict Platinum Resistance
Biological Science and Engineering 10 $50 High School Plant Science (Amazon Gift Card), California Botanical Society  Alisa  Grebin  Chris Spenner Harker School-Upper Campus Can Mulch be Effective Against Stopping the Spread of Wildfires and Prevent the Growth of Additional Flammable Material?
Biological Science and Engineering 10 1st Place $125 and Certificate of Achievement, American Association for Laboratory Animal Science, Northern California Branch  Divya  Venkataraman  Renee Fallon Monta Vista High School Application of Light Therapy on Alzheimer's Disease by Measuring Locomotive Ability in a Drosophila Melanogaster Model
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  Hemal  Kurani  Sam Fung Homestead High School Noninvasive pathogen detection device to monitor the environment and test for pathogens including COVID-19 virus
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  Hetal  Kurani  Sam Fung Homestead High School Noninvasive pathogen detection device to monitor the environment and test for pathogens including COVID-19 virus
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  Krish  Maniar  Eric Nelson Harker School-Upper Campus MeniSight: A Machine Learning Progressive Web App for Individualized Prognosis and Early-Detection for Meningioma Tumors
Biological Science and Engineering 10 Exceptional Merit, Certificate, SPV Market Research "Most Promising Young Scientist"  Hemal  Kurani  Sam Fung Homestead High School Noninvasive pathogen detection device to monitor the environment and test for pathogens including COVID-19 virus
Biological Science and Engineering 10 Exceptional Merit, Certificate, SPV Market Research "Most Promising Young Scientist"  Hetal  Kurani  Sam Fung Homestead High School Noninvasive pathogen detection device to monitor the environment and test for pathogens including COVID-19 virus
Biological Science and Engineering 10 First Place, $125 Wireless Communications Alliance Award, Wireless Communications Alliance  Aditya  Oberai  Sefika Gul Eris Palo Alto High School Fighting Hunger: A Novel, Cheap & Effective Hydroponic Plant Growing Apparatus Using Less Energy, Time, Water, and Space
Biological Science and Engineering 10 High School $50 and letter of recognition, Northern California Institute of Food Technologists (NCIFT)  Aditya  Oberai  Sefika Gul Eris Palo Alto High School Fighting Hunger: A Novel, Cheap & Effective Hydroponic Plant Growing Apparatus Using Less Energy, Time, Water, and Space
Biological Science and Engineering 10 High School $50 and letter of recognition, Northern California Institute of Food Technologists (NCIFT)  Ojas Atul Sathaye  Renee Fallon Monta Vista High School Effects of caffeine consumption on food preference and intake in a Drosophila Melanogaster model
Biological Science and Engineering 10 Honorable Mention, Certificate Only, American Society of Engineers of Indian Origin Award  Arya Shriya Srivastava  Scott DeRuiter Monta Vista High School Using Machine Learning Technology to Predict the Growth of Glioblastomas
Biological Science and Engineering 10 Honorable Mention, Certificate Only, American Society of Engineers of Indian Origin Award  Sabrina  Zhu  Eric Nelson Harker School-Upper Campus Hybrid Model: A Highly Accurate Diagnosis of Parkinson's Disease Severity by Combining MRI Brain Scans and Assessment Scores
Biological Science and Engineering 10 HS student - Certificate of Achievement, Medallion and business card to complete award ($50 gift card) and letter of congratulations, United States Navy and Marine Corps  Karun  Kaushik  Susheel Kaushik (PSP) Homeschool - KHS (Cupertino) X-Check-MD: An AI-Based Covid-19 Diagnostics and Progression Monitoring Solution using Affordable Modalities like X-Rays
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  Tim  Jing  Bradley Fulk Lynbrook High School FastFold: Streamlining End-to-End de Novo Deep Learning Protein Domain Prediction on COVID-19 Mutations and other Universal Applications
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  Spencer  He  Scott VanderVeen Valley Christian High School Developing a New Autism Diagnosis Process Based on a Hybrid Deep Learning Architecture Through Analyzing Home Videos
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  Ryan  Liu  Scott VanderVeen Valley Christian High School Developing a New Autism Diagnosis Process Based on a Hybrid Deep Learning Architecture Through Analyzing Home Videos
Biological Science and Engineering 11 Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair  Sia  Agarwal  Scott VanderVeen Valley Christian High School The Effect of Metal Pollution on Zoospore Development of Giant Kelp Macrocystis Pyrifera
Biological Science and Engineering 11 Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair  Ananya  Aswanikumar  Cathy Messenger Los Gatos High School The Effects of Vitamin B2 on Dexamethasone Induced Depression in C. elegans of different age groups
Biological Science and Engineering 11 Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair  Gaia  Buller  Renee Fallon Monta Vista High School Effect of Octocrylene and Changes of Temperature on Zooxanthellae Cells to Model the Harm of Common Sunscreen Ingredient
Biological Science and Engineering 11 Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair  Tanush  Goel  Lester Leung Lynbrook High School The design and construction of an iterative process using ML models to generate the best inhibitors for a target protein
Biological Science and Engineering 11 Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair  Spencer  He  Scott VanderVeen Valley Christian High School Developing a New Autism Diagnosis Process Based on a Hybrid Deep Learning Architecture Through Analyzing Home Videos
Biological Science and Engineering 11 Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair  Tim  Jing  Bradley Fulk Lynbrook High School FastFold: Streamlining End-to-End de Novo Deep Learning Protein Domain Prediction on COVID-19 Mutations and other Universal Applications
Biological Science and Engineering 11 Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair  Ryan  Liu  Scott VanderVeen Valley Christian High School Developing a New Autism Diagnosis Process Based on a Hybrid Deep Learning Architecture Through Analyzing Home Videos
Biological Science and Engineering 11 Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair  Vienna  Parnell  Mike Pistacchi Harker School-Upper Campus Design and Implementation of Origami-Inspired Biomedical Microrobots Through Computer Visualization and 3D Modeling
Biological Science and Engineering 11 Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair  Jonah  Tien  Renee Fallon Monta Vista High School The Shark: An Ultra-Breathable Mask utilizing Airflow based on a Culmination of Structure-Function Biomimicry Design
Biological Science and Engineering 11 1st Award  Gaia  Buller  Renee Fallon Monta Vista High School Effect of Octocrylene and Changes of Temperature on Zooxanthellae Cells to Model the Harm of Common Sunscreen Ingredient
Biological Science and Engineering 11 1st Award  Tanush  Goel  Lester Leung Lynbrook High School The design and construction of an iterative process using ML models to generate the best inhibitors for a target protein
Biological Science and Engineering 11 1st Award  Tim  Jing  Bradley Fulk Lynbrook High School FastFold: Streamlining End-to-End de Novo Deep Learning Protein Domain Prediction on COVID-19 Mutations and other Universal Applications
Biological Science and Engineering 11 1st Award  Jonah  Tien  Renee Fallon Monta Vista High School The Shark: An Ultra-Breathable Mask utilizing Airflow based on a Culmination of Structure-Function Biomimicry Design
Biological Science and Engineering 11 1st Award  Spencer  He  Scott VanderVeen Valley Christian High School Developing a New Autism Diagnosis Process Based on a Hybrid Deep Learning Architecture Through Analyzing Home Videos
Biological Science and Engineering 11 1st Award  Ryan  Liu  Scott VanderVeen Valley Christian High School Developing a New Autism Diagnosis Process Based on a Hybrid Deep Learning Architecture Through Analyzing Home Videos
Biological Science and Engineering 11 2nd Award  Ananya  Aswanikumar  Cathy Messenger Los Gatos High School The Effects of Vitamin B2 on Dexamethasone Induced Depression in C. elegans of different age groups
Biological Science and Engineering 11 2nd Award  Serine Whasun Kugler  Cathy Messenger Los Gatos High School Testing Different Concentrations of (+) Catechin Hydrate on the Suppression of Parkinson's disease in a Drosophila Model
Biological Science and Engineering 11 2nd Award  Vienna  Parnell  Mike Pistacchi Harker School-Upper Campus Design and Implementation of Origami-Inspired Biomedical Microrobots Through Computer Visualization and 3D Modeling
Biological Science and Engineering 11 2nd Award  Priyanka  Patel  Anuradha Murthy BASIS Independent Silicon Valley School A Meta-Analysis on Intranasal Oxytocin Treatment to Improve Social Emotional Responsiveness in Autistic Individuals
Biological Science and Engineering 11 2nd Award  Surya Christopher Tallavarjula  Jeff Muralt Wilcox High School Detection of COVID-19 Using Deep Learning Classification and Optimization Studies Using Chest X-ray Images
Biological Science and Engineering 11 Honorable Mention  Sia  Agarwal  Scott VanderVeen Valley Christian High School The Effect of Metal Pollution on Zoospore Development of Giant Kelp Macrocystis Pyrifera
Biological Science and Engineering 11 Honorable Mention  Cameron Nicole Bosio-Kim  Cathy Messenger Los Gatos High School The effects of PM2.5 concentrations on Drosophila with and without a microbiota concerning glucose metabolism
Biological Science and Engineering 11 Honorable Mention  Myung Suh  Choi  Debbie Frazier Monta Vista High School Modeling ADHD in Drosophila: Investigating the effects of glucose on dopamine production demonstrated by locomotion
Biological Science and Engineering 11 Honorable Mention  Clara Maria Hansen  Cathy Messenger Los Gatos High School Examining the effects of curcumin and olive oil on Neurofibromatosis Type 1 (NF1) in Drosophila melanogaster
Biological Science and Engineering 11 Honorable Mention  Christopher  Lee  Renee Fallon Monta Vista High School Fibrillin-2 Attenuation During Tissue Regeneration
Biological Science and Engineering 11 Honorable Mention  Anika Kiran Nagavara  Kyle Jones Monta Vista High School The Effect of Different Amounts of Potassium Iodide on Asthma in Drosophila Melanogaster
Biological Science and Engineering 11 Honorable Mention  Tara S Pande  Darren Dressen Los Altos High School Engineering immunosilenced T-cell epitopes by a deep neural network to facilitate CRISPR-Cas9 in vivo gene therapy
Biological Science and Engineering 11 Honorable Mention  Ananya  Rupanagunta  Pamela Chow Monta Vista High School ALS patient risk stratification using Machine Learning
Biological Science and Engineering 11 Honorable Mention  Albert  Tam  Kenneth Iams Lynbrook High School A rapid base-calling tool in nanopore sequencing sensitive to homopolymer errors
Biological Science and Engineering 11 Honorable Mention  Krishna  Ajjarapu  Lester Leung Lynbrook High School Zenchi: A virtual reality-based remote patient monitoring system for physicians
Biological Science and Engineering 11 $100 High School Plant Science (Amazon Gift Card), California Botanical Society  Sia  Agarwal  Scott VanderVeen Valley Christian High School The Effect of Metal Pollution on Zoospore Development of Giant Kelp Macrocystis Pyrifera
Biological Science and Engineering 11 $100 for Individual projects, IBM Award  Tim  Jing  Bradley Fulk Lynbrook High School FastFold: Streamlining End-to-End de Novo Deep Learning Protein Domain Prediction on COVID-19 Mutations and other Universal Applications
Biological Science and Engineering 11 $200 and Certificate of Achievement, Excellence in Computer Science Award: Sponsored by SCVSEFA  Tim  Jing  Bradley Fulk Lynbrook High School FastFold: Streamlining End-to-End de Novo Deep Learning Protein Domain Prediction on COVID-19 Mutations and other Universal Applications
Biological Science and Engineering 11 $50 cash award and certificate, Bruce Kawanami Engineering Award  Ansh  Chaurasia  John Conlin Monta Vista High School Early Skin Cancer Diagnosis using Convolutional Neural Networks
Biological Science and Engineering 11 $500 and Certificate, Regeneron Biomedical Science Award  Spencer  He  Scott VanderVeen Valley Christian High School Developing a New Autism Diagnosis Process Based on a Hybrid Deep Learning Architecture Through Analyzing Home Videos
Biological Science and Engineering 11 $500 and Certificate, Regeneron Biomedical Science Award  Ryan  Liu  Scott VanderVeen Valley Christian High School Developing a New Autism Diagnosis Process Based on a Hybrid Deep Learning Architecture Through Analyzing Home Videos
Biological Science and Engineering 12 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  Chris Spenner Harker School-Upper Campus A Novel Transformation of Genetic Information into Images for Improved Primary Cancer Classification
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  Marek  Pinto  Channy Cornejo Santa Teresa High School Diagnosing and Classifying Aphasia: Employing Linguistic Deep Learning to Accelerate Recovery in Aphasic Stroke Victims
Biological Science and Engineering 12 Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair  Margaret W Capetz  Darren Dressen Los Altos High School Cutinase mutagenesis, hydrophobin, and electrostatic interplay to enhance polyethylene terephthalate biodegradation
Biological Science and Engineering 12 Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair  Marek  Pinto  Channy Cornejo Santa Teresa High School Diagnosing and Classifying Aphasia: Employing Linguistic Deep Learning to Accelerate Recovery in Aphasic Stroke Victims
Biological Science and Engineering 12 Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair  Sidra Yang Xu  Chris Spenner Harker School-Upper Campus A Novel Transformation of Genetic Information into Images for Improved Primary Cancer Classification
Biological Science and Engineering 12 1st Award  Marek  Pinto  Channy Cornejo Santa Teresa High School Diagnosing and Classifying Aphasia: Employing Linguistic Deep Learning to Accelerate Recovery in Aphasic Stroke Victims
Biological Science and Engineering 12 1st Award  Sidra Yang Xu  Chris Spenner Harker School-Upper Campus A Novel Transformation of Genetic Information into Images for Improved Primary Cancer Classification
Biological Science and Engineering 12 2nd Award  Margaret W Capetz  Darren Dressen Los Altos High School Cutinase mutagenesis, hydrophobin, and electrostatic interplay to enhance polyethylene terephthalate biodegradation
Biological Science and Engineering 12 2nd Award  Adrina  Tang  Cathy Messenger Los Gatos High School Examining the effect of Vitamin C and E on the motor function of SOD-1 mutant C. elegans modeling ALS
Biological Science and Engineering 12 Honorable Mention  Elizabeth Diane Barnett  Darren Dressen Los Altos High School Impact of Supplemental Amino Acids on the Growth and Lifespan of the Isocitrate Dehydrogenase 1 or 2 knockout C. Elegans
Biological Science and Engineering 12 Honorable Mention  Nicole  Krockenberger  Cathy Messenger Los Gatos High School The Effects of Particulate Matter Air Pollutants on Human Lung Microbiota as a Possible Cause for Asthma
Biological Science and Engineering 12 ASEI Silicon Valley Emerging Technology Membership to American Society of Engineers of Indian Origin, American Society of Engineers of Indian Origin Award  Khushi  Parikh  Thuy-Anh Nguyen Archbishop Mitty High School Determining the Cross-Reactivity of Allergenic Proteins using Biophysical Comparison Methods
Physical Science and Engineering 6 $250 + certificate + a signed book + breakfast with Bob Zeidman, Zeidman Award  Carina  Gross  Annie Yount Fletcher (Ellen) Middle School Perfect Form: Using Audio Feedback to Maximize Athletic Performance
Physical Science and Engineering 6 2nd Place Student Award: $160 and Certificate of Achievement, Association for Computing Machinery, San Francisco Bay Area Professional Chapter  Claire  Xu  Fang Fang (PSP) Privately Sponsored Project Emotion Detector During COVID-19 Pandemic
Physical Science and Engineering 6 Honorable Mention Student Award: $40 and Certificate of Achievement, Association for Computing Machinery, San Francisco Bay Area Professional Chapter  Aarav  Karasi  Padjama Khulbe (PSP) Privately Sponsored Project Odd Jobs: The design and construction of an app that allows you to find work and hire workers
Physical Science and Engineering 6 Honorable Mention Student Award: $40 and Certificate of Achievement, Association for Computing Machinery, San Francisco Bay Area Professional Chapter  Dhananjay  Khulbe  Padjama Khulbe (PSP) Privately Sponsored Project Odd Jobs: The design and construction of an app that allows you to find work and hire workers
Physical Science and Engineering 6 Nominated to compete envelope, Broadcom MASTERS - 6th Grade  Ryan  Bansal  Geetika Bansal Privately Sponsored Project The research and development of an AI solution to reduce crashes at stop-signs
Physical Science and Engineering 6 Nominated to compete envelope, Broadcom MASTERS - 6th Grade  Sudhanva Sathyabodha Belur  Kameswari Rayaprolu Challenger - Strawberry Park - SJ Application of Pectin in Homemade Organic Hydrogels using Bio-waste to help Drought Mitigation
Physical Science and Engineering 6 Nominated to compete envelope, Broadcom MASTERS - 6th Grade  Orchita  Chakraborty  Shannon Deza Stratford Middle School - Sunnyvale Raynor The design of an oil boom with magnets that will efficiently clean up ocean oil spills magnetized with nanoparticles.
Physical Science and Engineering 6 Nominated to compete envelope, Broadcom MASTERS - 6th Grade  Carina  Gross  Annie Yount Fletcher (Ellen) Middle School Perfect Form: Using Audio Feedback to Maximize Athletic Performance
Physical Science and Engineering 6 Nominated to compete envelope, Broadcom MASTERS - 6th Grade  Daniel Qi Sun  Geetika Bansal Privately Sponsored Project The research and development of an AI solution to reduce crashes at stop-signs
Physical Science and Engineering 6 Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair  Sneha  Arun  Bonny Basu Challenger - Shawnee - SJ Resounding Sound
Physical Science and Engineering 6 Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair  Ryan  Bansal  Geetika Bansal Privately Sponsored Project The research and development of an AI solution to reduce crashes at stop-signs
Physical Science and Engineering 6 Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair  Sudhanva Sathyabodha Belur  Kameswari Rayaprolu Challenger - Strawberry Park - SJ Application of Pectin in Homemade Organic Hydrogels using Bio-waste to help Drought Mitigation
Physical Science and Engineering 6 Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair  Orchita  Chakraborty  Shannon Deza Stratford Middle School - Sunnyvale Raynor The design of an oil boom with magnets that will efficiently clean up ocean oil spills magnetized with nanoparticles.
Physical Science and Engineering 6 Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair  Carina  Gross  Annie Yount Fletcher (Ellen) Middle School Perfect Form: Using Audio Feedback to Maximize Athletic Performance
Physical Science and Engineering 6 Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair  Maryam  Hashmi  Zeba Haq Granada Islamic School What is the effect of heat, ash, and smoke on the rate of photosynthesis of a Hornwort plant?
Physical Science and Engineering 6 Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair  Eli Paz Kozodoy  Liat Baranoff Gideon Hausner Jewish Day School Testing mask's effectiveness at home
Physical Science and Engineering 6 Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair  Dalia Miri Saal  Liat Baranoff Gideon Hausner Jewish Day School Reducing Food Waste - Can antioxidant coatings protect our produce?
Physical Science and Engineering 6 Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair  Daniel Qi Sun  Geetika Bansal Privately Sponsored Project The research and development of an AI solution to reduce crashes at stop-signs
Physical Science and Engineering 6 1st Award  Sudhanva Sathyabodha Belur  Kameswari Rayaprolu Challenger - Strawberry Park - SJ Application of Pectin in Homemade Organic Hydrogels using Bio-waste to help Drought Mitigation
Physical Science and Engineering 6 1st Award  Orchita  Chakraborty  Shannon Deza Stratford Middle School - Sunnyvale Raynor The design of an oil boom with magnets that will efficiently clean up ocean oil spills magnetized with nanoparticles.
Physical Science and Engineering 6 1st Award  Carina  Gross  Annie Yount Fletcher (Ellen) Middle School Perfect Form: Using Audio Feedback to Maximize Athletic Performance
Physical Science and Engineering 6 1st Award  Ryan  Bansal  Geetika Bansal Privately Sponsored Project The research and development of an AI solution to reduce crashes at stop-signs
Physical Science and Engineering 6 1st Award  Daniel Qi Sun  Geetika Bansal Privately Sponsored Project The research and development of an AI solution to reduce crashes at stop-signs
Physical Science and Engineering 6 2nd Award  Sneha  Arun  Bonny Basu Challenger - Shawnee - SJ Resounding Sound
Physical Science and Engineering 6 2nd Award  Maryam  Hashmi  Zeba Haq Granada Islamic School What is the effect of heat, ash, and smoke on the rate of photosynthesis of a Hornwort plant?
Physical Science and Engineering 6 2nd Award  Nikethana  Karthikeyan  Ana Juliete Brito de Moraes Alsberg Stratford Middle School - San Jose Pothole and Bump detector for Bicycles using Lidar
Physical Science and Engineering 6 2nd Award  Eli Paz Kozodoy  Liat Baranoff Gideon Hausner Jewish Day School Testing mask's effectiveness at home
Physical Science and Engineering 6 Honorable Mention  Clarina  Manuel  Lekhana Revankar Stratford Middle School - Milpitas Effect of temperature difference on the electromotive force produced due to Thermoelectric Effect
Physical Science and Engineering 6 Honorable Mention  Ananya  Mehta  Shannon Deza Stratford Middle School - Sunnyvale Raynor A more efficient disaster relief system
Physical Science and Engineering 6 Honorable Mention  Zaara Fathima Mohamed  Zeba Haq Granada Islamic School Save The Oceans! Can Nanotechnology and Magnetisim Help Clean Ocean Oil Spills
Physical Science and Engineering 6 Honorable Mention  Dalia Miri Saal  Liat Baranoff Gideon Hausner Jewish Day School Reducing Food Waste - Can antioxidant coatings protect our produce?
Physical Science and Engineering 6 Honorable Mention  Harmony  Tse  Heather Mackewicz Stratford Middle School - Sunnyvale Raynor Toy Picker Upper
Physical Science and Engineering 6 Honorable Mention  Akshay Ethan Mahajan  Varinder Kumar (PSP) Privately Sponsored Project FireBrigade
Physical Science and Engineering 6 2nd place - $100 and Certificate of Achievement, American Society of Civil Engineers- San Jose Branch  Mouaaz Mohamed Abdelmohsen Aly  Zeba Haq Granada Islamic School Storm Inlets: Do They Really Keep The Ocean Trash Free?
Physical Science and Engineering 6 3rd Place - $50, Certificate of Achievement, SAMPE - Society for the Advancement of Material and Process Engineering  Shreesh  Basu  Bonny Basu Challenger - Shawnee - SJ Effect of Dish Soap on the Strength of Kinetic Sand
Physical Science and Engineering 6 Exceptional Merit, Certificate, SPV Market Research "Most Promising Young Scientist"  Aanya V Gupta  Shannon Deza Stratford Middle School - Sunnyvale Raynor Save Halloween: A Contact Free Candy Dispenser
Physical Science and Engineering 6 Exceptional Merit, Certificate, SPV Market Research "Most Promising Young Scientist"  Clarina  Manuel  Lekhana Revankar Stratford Middle School - Milpitas Effect of temperature difference on the electromotive force produced due to Thermoelectric Effect
Physical Science and Engineering 6 Exceptional Merit, Certificate, SPV Market Research "Most Promising Young Scientist"  Zia Leif, Richard Svendsen  Shannon Deza Stratford Middle School - Sunnyvale Raynor Social Distancing Device (SDD)
Physical Science and Engineering 6 IEEE Electro-Technology $50 gift card and a certificate, Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers  Carina  Gross  Annie Yount Fletcher (Ellen) Middle School Perfect Form: Using Audio Feedback to Maximize Athletic Performance
Physical Science and Engineering 6 Middle School Student - Certificate of Achievement and Medallion and letter of congratulations, United States Navy and Marine Corps  Sudhanva Sathyabodha Belur  Kameswari Rayaprolu Challenger - Strawberry Park - SJ Application of Pectin in Homemade Organic Hydrogels using Bio-waste to help Drought Mitigation
Physical Science and Engineering 6 Middle School Student - Certificate of Achievement and Medallion and letter of congratulations, United States Navy and Marine Corps  Parinaz Behzad Dastur  Ana Juliete Brito de Moraes Alsberg Stratford Middle School - San Jose Communication Through Technology
Physical Science and Engineering 7 $125 + certificate + a signed book + breakfast with Bob Zeidman, Zeidman Award  Serena Saumil Gandhi  Sarah Rahman Cabrillo Middle School C.H.I.P (Covid Help Intelligent Patrol) - A robot to ensure health and safety of people in public places
Physical Science and Engineering 7 Honorable Mention Student Award: $40 and Certificate of Achievement, Association for Computing Machinery, San Francisco Bay Area Professional Chapter  Navya  Chawla  Kelsie Davis Stratford Middle School-Palo Alto Video Game for the Blind
Physical Science and Engineering 7 Honorable Mention Student Award: $40 and Certificate of Achievement, Association for Computing Machinery, San Francisco Bay Area Professional Chapter  Serena Saumil Gandhi  Sarah Rahman Cabrillo Middle School C.H.I.P (Covid Help Intelligent Patrol) - A robot to ensure health and safety of people in public places
Physical Science and Engineering 7 Nominated to compete envelope, Broadcom MASTERS - 7th Grade  Isabel  Antony  Sarah Rahman Cabrillo Middle School Forest Fire Alert System
Physical Science and Engineering 7 Nominated to compete envelope, Broadcom MASTERS - 7th Grade  Marcella Lynn Calfee  Sarah Rahman Cabrillo Middle School Forest Fire Alert System
Physical Science and Engineering 7 Nominated to compete envelope, Broadcom MASTERS - 7th Grade  Cody Shen Chen  Jeffrey Takemoto Stratford Middle School - San Jose Voice To ASL - an Easy Way to Communicate With the Deaf
Physical Science and Engineering 7 Nominated to compete envelope, Broadcom MASTERS - 7th Grade  Anushree  Gupta  Sarah Rahman Cabrillo Middle School Forest Fire Alert System
Physical Science and Engineering 7 Nominated to compete envelope, Broadcom MASTERS - 7th Grade  Paige Sierra Houle  Sarah Rahman Cabrillo Middle School SSWSWP ( Soil Sensor Watering System With Pizzazz)
Physical Science and Engineering 7 Nominated to compete envelope, Broadcom MASTERS - 7th Grade  Dinah Lynn Schofield  Sarah Rahman Cabrillo Middle School SSWSWP ( Soil Sensor Watering System With Pizzazz)
Physical Science and Engineering 7 Nominated to compete envelope, Broadcom MASTERS - 7th Grade  Sowmya  Sundar  Samantha Carlisle Challenger - Berryessa - SJ Reusing greywater - Using natural filter materials to remove contaminants in greywater
Physical Science and Engineering 7 Nominated to compete envelope, Broadcom MASTERS - 7th Grade  Aadrit Nandan Talukdar  Kevyn Adams BASIS Independent Silicon Valley School Smart and Reusable Packaging Solution for Online Order Shipments
Physical Science and Engineering 7 Nominated to compete envelope, Broadcom MASTERS - 7th Grade  Zoe H. Wong  Troy Hoffman Lawson Middle School Characterizing Integer Sequences Using Empirical Statistical Laws
Physical Science and Engineering 7 Nominated to compete envelope, Broadcom MASTERS - 7th Grade  Sara Jinhi Yoshida  Sarah Rahman Cabrillo Middle School SSWSWP ( Soil Sensor Watering System With Pizzazz)
Physical Science and Engineering 7 Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair  Isabel  Antony  Sarah Rahman Cabrillo Middle School Forest Fire Alert System
Physical Science and Engineering 7 Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair  Marcella Lynn Calfee  Sarah Rahman Cabrillo Middle School Forest Fire Alert System
Physical Science and Engineering 7 Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair  Cody Shen Chen  Jeffrey Takemoto Stratford Middle School - San Jose Voice To ASL - an Easy Way to Communicate With the Deaf
Physical Science and Engineering 7 Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair  Serena Saumil Gandhi  Sarah Rahman Cabrillo Middle School C.H.I.P (Covid Help Intelligent Patrol) - A robot to ensure health and safety of people in public places
Physical Science and Engineering 7 Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair  Jaiveer Singh Gill  Bonny Basu Challenger - Shawnee - SJ Improving the efficiency of Gratzel cells by using various naturally occuring anthocyanin dyes at differing pH levels
Physical Science and Engineering 7 Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair  Anushree  Gupta  Sarah Rahman Cabrillo Middle School Forest Fire Alert System
Physical Science and Engineering 7 Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair  Paige Sierra Houle  Sarah Rahman Cabrillo Middle School SSWSWP ( Soil Sensor Watering System With Pizzazz)
Physical Science and Engineering 7 Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair  Yuqin  Ma  Diane Rusu Challenger-Middlefield-Palo Alto The Finest Fluoride: The Effect of Different Fluoride Compounds on Reducing Acid Erosion on Calcium Carbonate
Physical Science and Engineering 7 Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair  Ishana  Manikandan  Kameswari Rayaprolu Challenger - Strawberry Park - SJ Determining the Efficiency of Ferrofluid in Removing Oil Spills from Still and Moving Water
Physical Science and Engineering 7 Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair  Emily  Ren  Alison Gee Stratford Middle School - San Jose The Effect of Volume and Frequency on Sound Absorption
Physical Science and Engineering 7 Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair  Dinah Lynn Schofield  Sarah Rahman Cabrillo Middle School SSWSWP ( Soil Sensor Watering System With Pizzazz)
Physical Science and Engineering 7 Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair  Ilesh Veliah Sundar  Samantha Carlisle Challenger - Berryessa - SJ Radiation Station:What is the Effect of Material Type on the Amount of Particulate and Electromagnetic Radiation Blocked
Physical Science and Engineering 7 Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair  Sowmya  Sundar  Samantha Carlisle Challenger - Berryessa - SJ Reusing greywater - Using natural filter materials to remove contaminants in greywater
Physical Science and Engineering 7 Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair  Aadrit Nandan Talukdar  Kevyn Adams BASIS Independent Silicon Valley School Smart and Reusable Packaging Solution for Online Order Shipments
Physical Science and Engineering 7 Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair  Zoe H. Wong  Troy Hoffman Lawson Middle School Characterizing Integer Sequences Using Empirical Statistical Laws
Physical Science and Engineering 7 Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair  Sara Jinhi Yoshida  Sarah Rahman Cabrillo Middle School SSWSWP ( Soil Sensor Watering System With Pizzazz)
Physical Science and Engineering 7 1st Award  Cody Shen Chen  Jeffrey Takemoto Stratford Middle School - San Jose Voice To ASL - an Easy Way to Communicate With the Deaf
Physical Science and Engineering 7 1st Award  Sowmya  Sundar  Samantha Carlisle Challenger - Berryessa - SJ Reusing greywater - Using natural filter materials to remove contaminants in greywater
Physical Science and Engineering 7 1st Award  Aadrit Nandan Talukdar  Kevyn Adams BASIS Independent Silicon Valley School Smart and Reusable Packaging Solution for Online Order Shipments
Physical Science and Engineering 7 1st Award  Zoe H. Wong  Troy Hoffman Lawson Middle School Characterizing Integer Sequences Using Empirical Statistical Laws
Physical Science and Engineering 7 1st Award  Isabel  Antony  Sarah Rahman Cabrillo Middle School Forest Fire Alert System
Physical Science and Engineering 7 1st Award  Marcella Lynn Calfee  Sarah Rahman Cabrillo Middle School Forest Fire Alert System
Physical Science and Engineering 7 1st Award  Anushree  Gupta  Sarah Rahman Cabrillo Middle School Forest Fire Alert System
Physical Science and Engineering 7 1st Award  Paige Sierra Houle  Sarah Rahman Cabrillo Middle School SSWSWP ( Soil Sensor Watering System With Pizzazz)
Physical Science and Engineering 7 1st Award  Dinah Lynn Schofield  Sarah Rahman Cabrillo Middle School SSWSWP ( Soil Sensor Watering System With Pizzazz)
Physical Science and Engineering 7 1st Award  Sara Jinhi Yoshida  Sarah Rahman Cabrillo Middle School SSWSWP ( Soil Sensor Watering System With Pizzazz)
Physical Science and Engineering 7 2nd Award  Anagha Seshasayee Ankireddi  Lekhana Revankar Stratford Middle School - Milpitas A Semi-Automated Pancake Machine
Physical Science and Engineering 7 2nd Award  Vivan H. Doshi  Bonny Basu Challenger - Shawnee - SJ Detect Distracted Driver Through Facial Recognition CNN Machine Learning and Override to AI AutoPilot Full Self Driving
Physical Science and Engineering 7 2nd Award  Serena Saumil Gandhi  Sarah Rahman Cabrillo Middle School C.H.I.P (Covid Help Intelligent Patrol) - A robot to ensure health and safety of people in public places
Physical Science and Engineering 7 2nd Award  Jaiveer Singh Gill  Bonny Basu Challenger - Shawnee - SJ Improving the efficiency of Gratzel cells by using various naturally occuring anthocyanin dyes at differing pH levels
Physical Science and Engineering 7 2nd Award  Yash  Sharma  Kameswari Rayaprolu Challenger - Strawberry Park - SJ Improving Wind Turbine Output
Physical Science and Engineering 7 2nd Award  Sahana  Anamika  Sarah Rahman Cabrillo Middle School Smart Drip Irrigation System
Physical Science and Engineering 7 2nd Award  Sahithi  Cherukuri  Sarah Rahman Cabrillo Middle School Smart Drip Irrigation System
Physical Science and Engineering 7 2nd Award  Nandana  Maheskumar  Sarah Rahman Cabrillo Middle School Smart Drip Irrigation System
Physical Science and Engineering 7 Honorable Mention  Rrishi  Anand  Kevin Lynch Stanford (Jane Lathrop) Middle School Simulating Self-Driving Cars' Effects on Traffic Congestion
Physical Science and Engineering 7 Honorable Mention  Navya  Chawla  Kelsie Davis Stratford Middle School-Palo Alto Video Game for the Blind
Physical Science and Engineering 7 Honorable Mention  Durva Vishal Dhok  Lekhana Revankar Stratford Middle School - Milpitas Hydraulic Arm
Physical Science and Engineering 7 Honorable Mention  Arunima  Garg  Jeffrey Takemoto Stratford Middle School - San Jose Oil Spill Cleanup!
Physical Science and Engineering 7 Honorable Mention  Shauryan Shobhit Kanaujia  Tim Ainoa Old Orchard School Testing the Effectiveness of Bio Coagulants on Water Purification
Physical Science and Engineering 7 Honorable Mention  Yuqin  Ma  Diane Rusu Challenger-Middlefield-Palo Alto The Finest Fluoride: The Effect of Different Fluoride Compounds on Reducing Acid Erosion on Calcium Carbonate
Physical Science and Engineering 7 Honorable Mention  Ishana  Manikandan  Kameswari Rayaprolu Challenger - Strawberry Park - SJ Determining the Efficiency of Ferrofluid in Removing Oil Spills from Still and Moving Water
Physical Science and Engineering 7 Honorable Mention  Zara  Mody  Alison Gee Stratford Middle School - San Jose What is the difference between my homemade compost and the manufacture's compost?
Physical Science and Engineering 7 Honorable Mention  Emily  Ren  Alison Gee Stratford Middle School - San Jose The Effect of Volume and Frequency on Sound Absorption
Physical Science and Engineering 7 Honorable Mention  Shaurya  Sharma  Wilson Tsang Cabrillo Middle School The SPAC Mask: Smart Protection Against Covid-19
Physical Science and Engineering 7 Honorable Mention  Ilesh Veliah Sundar  Samantha Carlisle Challenger - Berryessa - SJ Radiation Station:What is the Effect of Material Type on the Amount of Particulate and Electromagnetic Radiation Blocked
Physical Science and Engineering 7 Honorable Mention  Nolan Hyunjae Woo  Kameswari Rayaprolu Challenger - Strawberry Park - SJ What is the Effect of the Size of the Piezoelectric Generator and the Amount of Weight Dropped on the Voltage Produced?
Physical Science and Engineering 7 Honorable Mention  Pranav  Iyer  Sarah Rahman Cabrillo Middle School Reducing Heat in Constrained Layer Damping
Physical Science and Engineering 7 Honorable Mention  Ritvik  Patra  Sarah Rahman Cabrillo Middle School Reducing Heat in Constrained Layer Damping
Physical Science and Engineering 7 Honorable Mention  Brenna  Ren  Jinlin Wang (PSP) Privately Sponsored Project Identifying Different Types of Lesions in CT Scan Images Using Deep Learning
Physical Science and Engineering 7 Honorable Mention  Satvik  Vale  Sarah Rahman Cabrillo Middle School Reducing Heat in Constrained Layer Damping
Physical Science and Engineering 7 Honorable Mention  Kallie  Wang  Jinlin Wang (PSP) Privately Sponsored Project Identifying Different Types of Lesions in CT Scan Images Using Deep Learning
Physical Science and Engineering 7 1st Place - $100, Certificate of Achievement, SAMPE - Society for the Advancement of Material and Process Engineering  Sowmya  Sundar  Samantha Carlisle Challenger - Berryessa - SJ Reusing greywater - Using natural filter materials to remove contaminants in greywater
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  Ilesh Veliah Sundar  Samantha Carlisle Challenger - Berryessa - SJ Radiation Station:What is the Effect of Material Type on the Amount of Particulate and Electromagnetic Radiation Blocked
Physical Science and Engineering 7 2nd Place - $75, Certificate of Achievement, SAMPE - Society for the Advancement of Material and Process Engineering  Veronica Yin-Hei Wong  Jiwon Kim Canyon Heights Academy DIY Heat Packs
Physical Science and Engineering 7 2nd Place Award - $75 and Certificate of Achievement, ASM International, A Society for Materials, Santa Clara Valley Chapter  Emily  Ren  Alison Gee Stratford Middle School - San Jose The Effect of Volume and Frequency on Sound Absorption
Physical Science and Engineering 7 3rd place - $50 and Certificate of Achievement, American Society of Civil Engineers- San Jose Branch  Ethan Anthony Chacko  Jiwon Kim Canyon Heights Academy Hurricane Home Design
Physical Science and Engineering 7 3rd Place Award - $50 and Certificate of Achievement, ASM International, A Society for Materials, Santa Clara Valley Chapter  Victor Nolan Swinkels -Ryan  Jiwon Kim Canyon Heights Academy Wobbly Thickening
Physical Science and Engineering 7 Exceptional Merit, Certificate, SPV Market Research "Most Promising Young Scientist"  Usman  Khan  Hajira Abbasi Granada Islamic School Smart Environmental Monitoring: The invisible properties of what we inhale.
Physical Science and Engineering 7 Exceptional Merit, Certificate, SPV Market Research "Most Promising Young Scientist"  Shaurya  Sharma  Wilson Tsang Cabrillo Middle School The SPAC Mask: Smart Protection Against Covid-19
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  Vivan H. Doshi  Bonny Basu Challenger - Shawnee - SJ Detect Distracted Driver Through Facial Recognition CNN Machine Learning and Override to AI AutoPilot Full Self Driving
Physical Science and Engineering 7 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  Sowmya  Sundar  Samantha Carlisle Challenger - Berryessa - SJ Reusing greywater - Using natural filter materials to remove contaminants in greywater
Physical Science and Engineering 7 Honorable Mention - Certificate of Achievement, SAMPE - Society for the Advancement of Material and Process Engineering  Jaiveer Singh Gill  Bonny Basu Challenger - Shawnee - SJ Improving the efficiency of Gratzel cells by using various naturally occuring anthocyanin dyes at differing pH levels
Physical Science and Engineering 7 Honorable Mention - Certificate of Achievement, American Society of Civil Engineers- San Jose Branch  Andrew  Su  Jaimee Burch Old Orchard School What is the strongest type of bridge?
Physical Science and Engineering 7 IEEE Electro-Technology $50 gift card and a certificate, Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers  Serena Saumil Gandhi  Sarah Rahman Cabrillo Middle School C.H.I.P (Covid Help Intelligent Patrol) - A robot to ensure health and safety of people in public places
Physical Science and Engineering 7 Middle School Student - Certificate of Achievement and Medallion and letter of congratulations, United States Navy and Marine Corps  Serena Saumil Gandhi  Sarah Rahman Cabrillo Middle School C.H.I.P (Covid Help Intelligent Patrol) - A robot to ensure health and safety of people in public places
Physical Science and Engineering 7 Middle School Student - Certificate of Achievement and Medallion and letter of congratulations, United States Navy and Marine Corps  Danika Anne Gupta  Nisha Talagala (PSP) Privately Sponsored Project Early Detection of Alzheimers Via Machine Learning with Multi-Modal Data
Physical Science and Engineering 7 Most Promising Young Scientist (Male), $250 and Certificate (GR 6-8), SPV Market Research "Most Promising Young Scientist"  Ilesh Veliah Sundar  Samantha Carlisle Challenger - Berryessa - SJ Radiation Station:What is the Effect of Material Type on the Amount of Particulate and Electromagnetic Radiation Blocked
Physical Science and Engineering 8 $500 + certificate + a signed book + breakfast with Bob Zeidman, Zeidman Award  Anandita  Arun  Tina Kim Harker School-Middle Campus Fighting AI With AI: Identifying Key Features for Detecting Deepfakes
Physical Science and Engineering 8 $500 + certificate + a signed book + breakfast with Bob Zeidman, Zeidman Award  Saanvi  Bhargava  Tina Kim Harker School-Middle Campus Fighting AI With AI: Identifying Key Features for Detecting Deepfakes
Physical Science and Engineering 8 Grand Prize Student Award: $320 and Certificate of Achievement, Association for Computing Machinery, San Francisco Bay Area Professional Chapter  Melody  Yin  Kristen Morgensen Harker School-Middle Campus Developing a Novel Hybrid Method to Diagnose and Predict Sports Related Concussions (SRC) with Machine Learning
Physical Science and Engineering 8 Honorable Mention Certificate + a signed book + breakfast with Bob Zeidman, Zeidman Award  Jonathan  Thomas  Janet Wu Cabrillo Middle School Helio Tracker
Physical Science and Engineering 8 Honorable Mention Certificate + a signed book + breakfast with Bob Zeidman, Zeidman Award  Andrew \ Traffas  Janet Wu Cabrillo Middle School Helio Tracker
Physical Science and Engineering 8 Honorable Mention Student Award: $40 and Certificate of Achievement, Association for Computing Machinery, San Francisco Bay Area Professional Chapter  Melody  Yin  Kristen Morgensen Harker School-Middle Campus Developing a Novel Hybrid Method to Diagnose and Predict Sports Related Concussions (SRC) with Machine Learning
Physical Science and Engineering 8 Nominated to compete envelope, Broadcom MASTERS - 8th Grade  Aman Ihsan Bose  Farhana Afroz Granada Islamic School A Dynamic Braille Display
Physical Science and Engineering 8 Nominated to compete envelope, Broadcom MASTERS - 8th Grade  Daniel M. Chen  Kristen Morgensen Harker School-Middle Campus Blind Man's Best Friend
Physical Science and Engineering 8 Nominated to compete envelope, Broadcom MASTERS - 8th Grade  Felix  Chen  Kristen Morgensen Harker School-Middle Campus Automated Nutrient Dispersal for Hydroponic Farming
Physical Science and Engineering 8 Nominated to compete envelope, Broadcom MASTERS - 8th Grade  Andy  Chung  Kristen Morgensen Harker School-Middle Campus Automated Nutrient Dispersal for Hydroponic Farming
Physical Science and Engineering 8 Nominated to compete envelope, Broadcom MASTERS - 8th Grade  Connor Phillip Houle  Janet Wu Cabrillo Middle School Creating an AI facial mask detector with a people counting system for Covid-19
Physical Science and Engineering 8 Nominated to compete envelope, Broadcom MASTERS - 8th Grade  Daniel  Jeznach  Michelle Scilingo Cabrillo Middle School Designing a low Cost Flood Detection System for Third World Countries
Physical Science and Engineering 8 Nominated to compete envelope, Broadcom MASTERS - 8th Grade  Aadit  Kannan  Michelle Scilingo Cabrillo Middle School Designing a low Cost Flood Detection System for Third World Countries
Physical Science and Engineering 8 Nominated to compete envelope, Broadcom MASTERS - 8th Grade  Neil  Krishnan  Tina Kim Harker School-Middle Campus Activated Carbon Air Filter and AC
Physical Science and Engineering 8 Nominated to compete envelope, Broadcom MASTERS - 8th Grade  Rishab Reddy Perati  Susan Hansen Kennedy(John F.) Middle School-Cupertino Predicting the Epidemiology of the COVID-19 Pandemic Using an Autoregressive Integrated Moving Average (ARIMA) Model
Physical Science and Engineering 8 Nominated to compete envelope, Broadcom MASTERS - 8th Grade  Sidak  Sandhu  Michelle Scilingo Cabrillo Middle School Designing a low Cost Flood Detection System for Third World Countries
Physical Science and Engineering 8 Nominated to compete envelope, Broadcom MASTERS - 8th Grade  Arham Ahmad Siddiqui  Janet Wu Cabrillo Middle School Creating an AI facial mask detector with a people counting system for Covid-19
Physical Science and Engineering 8 Nominated to compete envelope, Broadcom MASTERS - 8th Grade  Dani Alex Ticau  Janet Wu Cabrillo Middle School Creating an AI facial mask detector with a people counting system for Covid-19
Physical Science and Engineering 8 Nominated to compete envelope, Broadcom MASTERS - 8th Grade  Aarush  Vailaya  Tina Kim Harker School-Middle Campus Activated Carbon Air Filter and AC
Physical Science and Engineering 8 Nominated to compete envelope, Broadcom MASTERS - 8th Grade  Jonathan  Wang  Kristen Morgensen Harker School-Middle Campus Blind Man's Best Friend
Physical Science and Engineering 8 Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair  Aman Ihsan Bose  Farhana Afroz Granada Islamic School A Dynamic Braille Display
Physical Science and Engineering 8 Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair  Daniel M. Chen  Kristen Morgensen Harker School-Middle Campus Blind Man's Best Friend
Physical Science and Engineering 8 Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair  Felix  Chen  Kristen Morgensen Harker School-Middle Campus Automated Nutrient Dispersal for Hydroponic Farming
Physical Science and Engineering 8 Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair  Andy  Chung  Kristen Morgensen Harker School-Middle Campus Automated Nutrient Dispersal for Hydroponic Farming
Physical Science and Engineering 8 Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair  Connor Phillip Houle  Janet Wu Cabrillo Middle School Creating an AI facial mask detector with a people counting system for Covid-19
Physical Science and Engineering 8 Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair  Daniel  Jeznach  Michelle Scilingo Cabrillo Middle School Designing a low Cost Flood Detection System for Third World Countries
Physical Science and Engineering 8 Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair  Aadit  Kannan  Michelle Scilingo Cabrillo Middle School Designing a low Cost Flood Detection System for Third World Countries
Physical Science and Engineering 8 Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair  Neil  Krishnan  Tina Kim Harker School-Middle Campus Activated Carbon Air Filter and AC
Physical Science and Engineering 8 Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair  Aareev  Panda  Beth Carlson Fletcher (Ellen) Middle School Which aquatic plant is best for filtering nitrites from pond water, to keep the koi fish healthy?
Physical Science and Engineering 8 Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair  Rishab Reddy Perati  Susan Hansen Kennedy(John F.) Middle School-Cupertino Predicting the Epidemiology of the COVID-19 Pandemic Using an Autoregressive Integrated Moving Average (ARIMA) Model
Physical Science and Engineering 8 Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair  Sidak  Sandhu  Michelle Scilingo Cabrillo Middle School Designing a low Cost Flood Detection System for Third World Countries
Physical Science and Engineering 8 Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair  Arham Ahmad Siddiqui  Janet Wu Cabrillo Middle School Creating an AI facial mask detector with a people counting system for Covid-19
Physical Science and Engineering 8 Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair  Dani Alex Ticau  Janet Wu Cabrillo Middle School Creating an AI facial mask detector with a people counting system for Covid-19
Physical Science and Engineering 8 Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair  Aarush  Vailaya  Tina Kim Harker School-Middle Campus Activated Carbon Air Filter and AC
Physical Science and Engineering 8 Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair  Jonathan  Wang  Kristen Morgensen Harker School-Middle Campus Blind Man's Best Friend
Physical Science and Engineering 8 1st Award  Aman Ihsan Bose  Farhana Afroz Granada Islamic School A Dynamic Braille Display
Physical Science and Engineering 8 1st Award  Rishab Reddy Perati  Susan Hansen Kennedy(John F.) Middle School-Cupertino Predicting the Epidemiology of the COVID-19 Pandemic Using an Autoregressive Integrated Moving Average (ARIMA) Model
Physical Science and Engineering 8 1st Award  Daniel M. Chen  Kristen Morgensen Harker School-Middle Campus Blind Man's Best Friend
Physical Science and Engineering 8 1st Award  Felix  Chen  Kristen Morgensen Harker School-Middle Campus Automated Nutrient Dispersal for Hydroponic Farming
Physical Science and Engineering 8 1st Award  Andy  Chung  Kristen Morgensen Harker School-Middle Campus Automated Nutrient Dispersal for Hydroponic Farming
Physical Science and Engineering 8 1st Award  Connor Phillip Houle  Janet Wu Cabrillo Middle School Creating an AI facial mask detector with a people counting system for Covid-19
Physical Science and Engineering 8 1st Award  Daniel  Jeznach  Michelle Scilingo Cabrillo Middle School Designing a low Cost Flood Detection System for Third World Countries
Physical Science and Engineering 8 1st Award  Aadit  Kannan  Michelle Scilingo Cabrillo Middle School Designing a low Cost Flood Detection System for Third World Countries
Physical Science and Engineering 8 1st Award  Neil  Krishnan  Tina Kim Harker School-Middle Campus Activated Carbon Air Filter and AC
Physical Science and Engineering 8 1st Award  Sidak  Sandhu  Michelle Scilingo Cabrillo Middle School Designing a low Cost Flood Detection System for Third World Countries
Physical Science and Engineering 8 1st Award  Arham Ahmad Siddiqui  Janet Wu Cabrillo Middle School Creating an AI facial mask detector with a people counting system for Covid-19
Physical Science and Engineering 8 1st Award  Dani Alex Ticau  Janet Wu Cabrillo Middle School Creating an AI facial mask detector with a people counting system for Covid-19
Physical Science and Engineering 8 1st Award  Aarush  Vailaya  Tina Kim Harker School-Middle Campus Activated Carbon Air Filter and AC
Physical Science and Engineering 8 1st Award  Jonathan  Wang  Kristen Morgensen Harker School-Middle Campus Blind Man's Best Friend
Physical Science and Engineering 8 2nd Award  Catherine Beatrix Dover  Tim Ainoa Old Orchard School How does ocean acidification affect the food chain?
Physical Science and Engineering 8 2nd Award  Aareev  Panda  Beth Carlson Fletcher (Ellen) Middle School Which aquatic plant is best for filtering nitrites from pond water, to keep the koi fish healthy?
Physical Science and Engineering 8 2nd Award  Vaibhav  Rau  Bonny Basu Challenger - Shawnee - SJ A User-Friendly Personal Carbon Footprint Tracker
Physical Science and Engineering 8 2nd Award  Eli  Sobel  Liat Baranoff Gideon Hausner Jewish Day School Get out and Vote!
Physical Science and Engineering 8 2nd Award  Samuel John Geevarghese  Janet Wu Cabrillo Middle School Anti-Acidifying the Ocean One : Reducing Hydrogen ions with Macrology
Physical Science and Engineering 8 2nd Award  Ori  Gillai  Laura Coughlin Gideon Hausner Jewish Day School Tent Based Smoke Protection for the Homeless
Physical Science and Engineering 8 2nd Award  Aryan  Ponnuru  Janet Wu Cabrillo Middle School Anti-Acidifying the Ocean One : Reducing Hydrogen ions with Macrology
Physical Science and Engineering 8 2nd Award  Jonathan  Thomas  Janet Wu Cabrillo Middle School Helio Tracker
Physical Science and Engineering 8 2nd Award  Andrew \ Traffas  Janet Wu Cabrillo Middle School Helio Tracker
Physical Science and Engineering 8 2nd Award  Aakash Sri Vetcha  Janet Wu Cabrillo Middle School Anti-Acidifying the Ocean One : Reducing Hydrogen ions with Macrology
Physical Science and Engineering 8 2nd Award  Isaac Reed Zucker  Laura Coughlin Gideon Hausner Jewish Day School Tent Based Smoke Protection for the Homeless
Physical Science and Engineering 8 Honorable Mention  Mahita Srinivasan Arun  Jonathan Lam Quimby Oak School Using Neural Networks to Identify Poisonous Plants
Physical Science and Engineering 8 Honorable Mention  Ayush  Ghosh  Jeffrey Takemoto Stratford Middle School - San Jose Fire Growth Predictor Using Machine Learning
Physical Science and Engineering 8 Honorable Mention  Rishi Manit Prasad  Jeffrey Takemoto Stratford Middle School - San Jose Personal COVID Medical Assistant
Physical Science and Engineering 8 Honorable Mention  Ayush Avinash Sodani  Jeffrey Takemoto Stratford Middle School - San Jose Recycling Home Water for Immediate Reuse
Physical Science and Engineering 8 Honorable Mention  Melody  Yin  Kristen Morgensen Harker School-Middle Campus Developing a Novel Hybrid Method to Diagnose and Predict Sports Related Concussions (SRC) with Machine Learning
Physical Science and Engineering 8 Honorable Mention  Zalman Wolf Zucker  Laura Coughlin Gideon Hausner Jewish Day School Distance Detecting Bike Safety Device
Physical Science and Engineering 8 Honorable Mention  Clarissa Milan Co  Glenn Lillie Cabrillo Middle School Reuse, Not Waste: Redirecting Greywater from the Shower over to the Toilet
Physical Science and Engineering 8 Honorable Mention  Ethan  Ha  Glenn Lillie Cabrillo Middle School Making Every Second Count: Algorithm That Approximates the Time You Have to Evacuate a Fire
Physical Science and Engineering 8 Honorable Mention  Jia Jia  Jiang  Kathy Peng Harker School-Middle Campus Novel Applications of Origami-Inspired Structures in Transformable Photonics Devices
Physical Science and Engineering 8 Honorable Mention  Soham Sudhir Kulkarni  Glenn Lillie Cabrillo Middle School Making Every Second Count: Algorithm That Approximates the Time You Have to Evacuate a Fire
Physical Science and Engineering 8 Honorable Mention  Aaditya Ryan Mahajan  Varinder Kumar (PSP) Privately Sponsored Project FireBrigade
Physical Science and Engineering 8 Honorable Mention  Grace  Muresan  Glenn Lillie Cabrillo Middle School Reuse, Not Waste: Redirecting Greywater from the Shower over to the Toilet
Physical Science and Engineering 8 Honorable Mention  Dylan  Ng  Glenn Lillie Cabrillo Middle School Making Every Second Count: Algorithm That Approximates the Time You Have to Evacuate a Fire
Physical Science and Engineering 8 Honorable Mention  Agatha Thai Vu  Glenn Lillie Cabrillo Middle School Reuse, Not Waste: Redirecting Greywater from the Shower over to the Toilet
Physical Science and Engineering 8 Honorable Mention  Sonia  Yu  Kathy Peng Harker School-Middle Campus Novel Applications of Origami-Inspired Structures in Transformable Photonics Devices
Physical Science and Engineering 8 $250 Dollar Gift Certificate, RaspberryPi Foundation Personal Computer Kit, Broadcom Coding with Commitment Award  Melody  Yin  Kristen Morgensen Harker School-Middle Campus Developing a Novel Hybrid Method to Diagnose and Predict Sports Related Concussions (SRC) with Machine Learning
Physical Science and Engineering 8 1st place - $150 and Certificate of Achievement, American Society of Civil Engineers- San Jose Branch  Daniel  Jeznach  Michelle Scilingo Cabrillo Middle School Designing a low Cost Flood Detection System for Third World Countries
Physical Science and Engineering 8 1st place - $150 and Certificate of Achievement, American Society of Civil Engineers- San Jose Branch  Aadit  Kannan  Michelle Scilingo Cabrillo Middle School Designing a low Cost Flood Detection System for Third World Countries
Physical Science and Engineering 8 1st place - $150 and Certificate of Achievement, American Society of Civil Engineers- San Jose Branch  Sidak  Sandhu  Michelle Scilingo Cabrillo Middle School Designing a low Cost Flood Detection System for Third World Countries
Physical Science and Engineering 8 Exceptional Merit, Certificate, SPV Market Research "Most Promising Young Scientist"  Ridhima  Gupta  Glenn Lillie Cabrillo Middle School Increasing Solar Mirror Efficiency
Physical Science and Engineering 8 Exceptional Merit, Certificate, SPV Market Research "Most Promising Young Scientist"  Jia Jia  Jiang  Kathy Peng Harker School-Middle Campus Novel Applications of Origami-Inspired Structures in Transformable Photonics Devices
Physical Science and Engineering 8 Exceptional Merit, Certificate, SPV Market Research "Most Promising Young Scientist"  Karan  Kolappa  Glenn Lillie Cabrillo Middle School Increasing Solar Mirror Efficiency
Physical Science and Engineering 8 Exceptional Merit, Certificate, SPV Market Research "Most Promising Young Scientist"  Anthony  Shen  Snehali Marimuthu Redwood Middle School Investigation into Solar Charging and Storage
Physical Science and Engineering 8 Exceptional Merit, Certificate, SPV Market Research "Most Promising Young Scientist"  Reiko Malia Rosales Yoshimura  Glenn Lillie Cabrillo Middle School Increasing Solar Mirror Efficiency
Physical Science and Engineering 8 Exceptional Merit, Certificate, SPV Market Research "Most Promising Young Scientist"  Sonia  Yu  Kathy Peng Harker School-Middle Campus Novel Applications of Origami-Inspired Structures in Transformable Photonics Devices
Physical Science and Engineering 8 Honorable Mention Award and Certificate of Achievement, ASM International, A Society for Materials, Santa Clara Valley Chapter  Arunabh Thakuria  Thakuria  Gloria Hsu Kennedy(John F.) Middle School-Cupertino Router vs. Walls
Physical Science and Engineering 8 IEEE Electro-Technology $50 gift card and a certificate, Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers  Jia Jia  Jiang  Kathy Peng Harker School-Middle Campus Novel Applications of Origami-Inspired Structures in Transformable Photonics Devices
Physical Science and Engineering 8 IEEE Electro-Technology $50 gift card and a certificate, Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers  Ishan  Juluri  Youssef Ismail (mentor) Schmahl Science Workshop Using Pathfinding Algorithms and Addressable LEDS to Evacuate a Burning Building.
Physical Science and Engineering 8 IEEE Electro-Technology $50 gift card and a certificate, Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers  Sonia  Yu  Kathy Peng Harker School-Middle Campus Novel Applications of Origami-Inspired Structures in Transformable Photonics Devices
Physical Science and Engineering 8 Middle School Student - Certificate of Achievement and Medallion and letter of congratulations, United States Navy and Marine Corps  Rishab Reddy Perati  Susan Hansen Kennedy(John F.) Middle School-Cupertino Predicting the Epidemiology of the COVID-19 Pandemic Using an Autoregressive Integrated Moving Average (ARIMA) Model
Physical Science and Engineering 9 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  Vedant V Janapaty  Bich Nguyen Silver Creek High School An accessible, low cost tool for citizen scientists: Using remote sensing techniques to predict fire damage propensity
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  Sriram Venugopal Bhimaraju  Kate Schafer Harker School-Upper Campus SAAGARA: A 2-pronged solution to protect coral reefs with a sunscreen analysis app & ocean-safe chemical-adsorbing beads
Physical Science and Engineering 9 Honorable Mention- $100 and Framed Certificate of Achievement, American Chemical Society, Silicon Valley, SVACS  Vaishnavi Sai Durga Kunapuli  Kathleen Loia Lynbrook High School Indoor Carbon Dioxide Pollution Reduction Through Organic and Economical Paint Using Mine Waste
Physical Science and Engineering 9 Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair  Anagha  Badriprasad  Precious Bagamaspad Cupertino High School GleasonNet: a Novel Explainable Histopathologic DNN for Prostate Cancer Stratification and Decision Support
Physical Science and Engineering 9 Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair  Sriram Venugopal Bhimaraju  Kate Schafer Harker School-Upper Campus SAAGARA: A 2-pronged solution to protect coral reefs with a sunscreen analysis app & ocean-safe chemical-adsorbing beads
Physical Science and Engineering 9 Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair  Vedant V Janapaty  Bich Nguyen Silver Creek High School An accessible, low cost tool for citizen scientists: Using remote sensing techniques to predict fire damage propensity
Physical Science and Engineering 9 Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair  Vivian  Ong  Pamela Chow Monta Vista High School Automated Plant Growth Chamber for Locations with Low Quantities of Water
Physical Science and Engineering 9 Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair  Sanskriti  Singh  Sunita Gehlot BASIS Independent Silicon Valley School A Novel Mask R-CNN Model to Segment Heterogeneous Brain Tumors through Image Subtraction
Physical Science and Engineering 9 Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair  Sonia  Swamy  Kyle Jones Monta Vista High School BioShield: Eco-friendly Super-Accumulator-Biopolymer based heavy metal filter as plant protector and growth stimulator
Physical Science and Engineering 9 1st Award  Anagha  Badriprasad  Precious Bagamaspad Cupertino High School GleasonNet: a Novel Explainable Histopathologic DNN for Prostate Cancer Stratification and Decision Support
Physical Science and Engineering 9 1st Award  Sriram Venugopal Bhimaraju  Kate Schafer Harker School-Upper Campus SAAGARA: A 2-pronged solution to protect coral reefs with a sunscreen analysis app & ocean-safe chemical-adsorbing beads
Physical Science and Engineering 9 1st Award  Vedant V Janapaty  Bich Nguyen Silver Creek High School An accessible, low cost tool for citizen scientists: Using remote sensing techniques to predict fire damage propensity
Physical Science and Engineering 9 1st Award  Vivian  Ong  Pamela Chow Monta Vista High School Automated Plant Growth Chamber for Locations with Low Quantities of Water
Physical Science and Engineering 9 1st Award  Sanskriti  Singh  Sunita Gehlot BASIS Independent Silicon Valley School A Novel Mask R-CNN Model to Segment Heterogeneous Brain Tumors through Image Subtraction
Physical Science and Engineering 9 1st Award  Sonia  Swamy  Kyle Jones Monta Vista High School BioShield: Eco-friendly Super-Accumulator-Biopolymer based heavy metal filter as plant protector and growth stimulator
Physical Science and Engineering 9 2nd Award  Sathvik  Chundru  Anu Datar Harker School-Upper Campus Signum: A real-time two-way communication application between sign language users and non-users using CNNs
Physical Science and Engineering 9 2nd Award  Aaditya  Pillai  James Terrell The King's Academy (TKA) Enhancing the bearing strength of soil by using cheaper and ecofriendly biopolymers
Physical Science and Engineering 9 2nd Award  Yashnil  Saha  Joe Kim Monta Vista High School Developing a Novel, Accurate Machine Learning based Autism Spectrum Disorder Classification Model for Toddlers
Physical Science and Engineering 9 2nd Award  Kavya  Ummethala  David Cobb Saint Francis High School Using Spectral Imaging and Machine learning for remote sensing
Physical Science and Engineering 9 Honorable Mention  Grace Elizabeth Calfee  Suzanne Miller-Moody Santa Clara High School Winging It:Using a homemade low speed wind tunnel to design and build the optimum RC plane wing for flight and education
Physical Science and Engineering 9 Honorable Mention  Jason Xuanyu Fischer  Brad Beadell Wilcox High School What are the effects of adding a blockchain-based exchange with consumer participation to California's Carbon Trade?
Physical Science and Engineering 9 Honorable Mention  Jeremy Zhou Flint  Marlene Spector Santa Clara High School Using Machine Learning and Systematic Data Collection to Identify Online Misinformation
Physical Science and Engineering 9 Honorable Mention  Julia  Kang  Josh Paley Gunn (Henry M.) High School Improving Timer Series Stock Price Forecast with LSTM and CNN Machine Learning Models
Physical Science and Engineering 9 Honorable Mention  Himani  Manjunath  Katherine Thornberry Piedmont Hills High School Using Plant Root Starch and Biopolymer Aqueous Solution to Reduce Soil Erosion
Physical Science and Engineering 9 Honorable Mention  Caitlin Minh Thy Nguyen  Suzanne Miller-Moody Santa Clara High School Harnessing Aqueous Ammonium Using Clinoptilolite Hydrogels to Use as a Potential Nitrogen Fertilizer
Physical Science and Engineering 9 Honorable Mention  Adhip  Raghunathan  Stuart Hamilton Cupertino High School Anonymously Determining Indoor Occupancy Through Human Respiration Byproducts
Physical Science and Engineering 9 Honorable Mention  Rishi  Sinha  Rene Flood BASIS Independent Silicon Valley School Detecting Emotion From Speech With Machine Learning
Physical Science and Engineering 9 Honorable Mention  Justin  Tseng  Kathleen Loia Lynbrook High School Fabric densities impact on absorbency a factor in droplet count, an indicator of airborne contamination for COVID-19
Physical Science and Engineering 9 Honorable Mention  Amy  Zheng  Sushma Bana Monta Vista High School Analyzing the effects of spatiotemporal variability of vegetation on the intensity of wildfires using satellite imagery
Physical Science and Engineering 9 $50 cash award and certificate, Bruce Kawanami Engineering Award  Ryan Pierce Co  Suzanne Miller-Moody Santa Clara High School Repurposing Wood Ash to Create an Emergency Fire Retardant that Protects Homes Against Wildfire Embers
Physical Science and Engineering 9 2nd Place - $75, Certificate of Achievement, SAMPE - Society for the Advancement of Material and Process Engineering  Himani  Manjunath  Katherine Thornberry Piedmont Hills High School Using Plant Root Starch and Biopolymer Aqueous Solution to Reduce Soil Erosion
Physical Science and Engineering 9 2nd Place Award - $75 and Certificate of Achievement, ASM International, A Society for Materials, Santa Clara Valley Chapter  Himani  Manjunath  Katherine Thornberry Piedmont Hills High School Using Plant Root Starch and Biopolymer Aqueous Solution to Reduce Soil Erosion
Physical Science and Engineering 9 3rd Place Award - $50 and Certificate of Achievement, American Society of Civil Engineers- San Jose Branch  Elaine  Lee  Kieu Pham Milpitas High School Impact of Traffic Reduction on Greenhouse Gases
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  Sathvik  Chundru  Anu Datar Harker School-Upper Campus Signum: A real-time two-way communication application between sign language users and non-users using CNNs
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  Arnav  Saharan  Anoop Singh (PSP) Privately Sponsored Project CVI Assist Technology: A device that aids the visually impaired social distance during COVID-19
Physical Science and Engineering 9 Exceptional Merit, Certificate, SPV Market Research "Most Promising Young Scientist"  Nathan Tsai Liu  Wayne Liu (PSP) Privately Sponsored Project A Scientific Method to Demystify the Lightning Caused 2020 August Complex Fire & EVT Theorem to Predict the Extreme Event
Physical Science and Engineering 9 Honorable Mention, Certificate Only, American Society of Engineers of Indian Origin Award  Heidi  Lu  Qing Lu (PSP) Privately Sponsored Project New Methodology To Accelerate Reinforcement Learning For Autonomous Driving Through Imitation Learning & Human Driving
Physical Science and Engineering 9 Honorable Mention, Certificate Only, American Society of Engineers of Indian Origin Award  Sanskriti  Singh  Sunita Gehlot BASIS Independent Silicon Valley School A Novel Mask R-CNN Model to Segment Heterogeneous Brain Tumors through Image Subtraction
Physical Science and Engineering 9 Honorable Mention, Certificate Only, American Society of Engineers of Indian Origin Award  Olivia  Xu  Qing Lu (PSP) Privately Sponsored Project New Methodology To Accelerate Reinforcement Learning For Autonomous Driving Through Imitation Learning & Human Driving
Physical Science and Engineering 9 Honorable Mention: Patch and Certificate, SETI Institute  Sumedh  Ranabhor  Kathleen Loia Lynbrook High School The Effects of Pulsars on Planet Formation
Physical Science and Engineering 9 IEEE Electro-Technology $50 gift card and a certificate, Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers  Anagha  Badriprasad  Precious Bagamaspad Cupertino High School GleasonNet: a Novel Explainable Histopathologic DNN for Prostate Cancer Stratification and Decision Support
Physical Science and Engineering 9 IEEE Electro-Technology $50 gift card and a certificate, Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers  Ishanvi Naina Kommula  Renee Fallon Monta Vista High School Mitigating ocean microplastics: Motorized device to extricate microfibers from laundry filters for safe disposal
Physical Science and Engineering 9 IEEE Electro-Technology $50 gift card and a certificate, Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers  Adhip  Raghunathan  Stuart Hamilton Cupertino High School Anonymously Determining Indoor Occupancy Through Human Respiration Byproducts
Physical Science and Engineering 10 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  Andy  Phung  Larry Winterlin Independence High School Towards Malware Classifiers Robust to Adversarial Malware
Physical Science and Engineering 10 2nd Place Student Award: $320 and Certificate of Achievement, Association for Computing Machinery, San Francisco Bay Area Professional Chapter  Milind  Maiti  Alan Wong Monta Vista High School Cardiovascular Disease Diagnosis using Deep Neural Networks
Physical Science and Engineering 10 2nd Place Student Award: $320 and Certificate of Achievement, Association for Computing Machinery, San Francisco Bay Area Professional Chapter  Jai  Sharma  Alan Wong Monta Vista High School Cardiovascular Disease Diagnosis using Deep Neural Networks
Physical Science and Engineering 10 2nd Place Student Award: $320 and Certificate of Achievement, Association for Computing Machinery, San Francisco Bay Area Professional Chapter  Christopher T Sun  Alan Wong Monta Vista High School Cardiovascular Disease Diagnosis using Deep Neural Networks
Physical Science and Engineering 10 Grand Prize Student Award: $640 and Certificate of Achievement, Association for Computing Machinery, San Francisco Bay Area Professional Chapter  Anirudh  Venkatraman  John Shelby Homestead High School Using Machine Learning to Optimize Drug Discovery and Development to Counter Viral Proteins
Physical Science and Engineering 10 Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair  Yu-Ting  Chang  Heather Mellows Gunn (Henry M.) High School Effects of Orbital Configurations on the Signal Characteristics of Binary Pulsars Simulated with Newtonian Mechanics
Physical Science and Engineering 10 Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair  Roy  Gross  Cathy Cohn Gunn (Henry M.) High School Designing and Building a Custom Phased Array Network Using Software-Defined Radio
Physical Science and Engineering 10 Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair  Ishan  Kar  Janny Cahatol Saratoga High School Novel Approach to Convolution in the Frequency Domain
Physical Science and Engineering 10 Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair  Arjun  Kashyap  David Greenstein Monta Vista High School Using Natural Language Processing and User Feedback to Make a Chatbot That Gives Accurate Answers to Queries
Physical Science and Engineering 10 Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair  Nidhi  Mathihalli  Thomas Wang Saratoga High School A Physical Device to Help the Visually Impaired Read Money Using AI/Machine Learning in Third World Countries
Physical Science and Engineering 10 Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair  Andy  Phung  Larry Winterlin Independence High School Towards Malware Classifiers Robust to Adversarial Malware
Physical Science and Engineering 10 Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair  Tanisha  Prasad  Tracy Hughes Presentation High School Reseal Your Peel: Creating Packaging Material Using Food Waste
Physical Science and Engineering 10 1st Award  Yu-Ting  Chang  Heather Mellows Gunn (Henry M.) High School Effects of Orbital Configurations on the Signal Characteristics of Binary Pulsars Simulated with Newtonian Mechanics
Physical Science and Engineering 10 1st Award  Roy  Gross  Cathy Cohn Gunn (Henry M.) High School Designing and Building a Custom Phased Array Network Using Software-Defined Radio
Physical Science and Engineering 10 1st Award  Arjun  Kashyap  David Greenstein Monta Vista High School Using Natural Language Processing and User Feedback to Make a Chatbot That Gives Accurate Answers to Queries
Physical Science and Engineering 10 1st Award  Nidhi  Mathihalli  Thomas Wang Saratoga High School A Physical Device to Help the Visually Impaired Read Money Using AI/Machine Learning in Third World Countries
Physical Science and Engineering 10 1st Award  Sharad  Parulekar  Michael Bautista Gunn (Henry M.) High School Vision-based system for real-time and summarized feedback on student comprehension and engagement in online classrooms
Physical Science and Engineering 10 1st Award  Tanisha  Prasad  Tracy Hughes Presentation High School Reseal Your Peel: Creating Packaging Material Using Food Waste
Physical Science and Engineering 10 1st Award  Stanley  Shen  Cathy Messenger Los Gatos High School Developing A Novel Two Stage Mapping Method for the Visually Impaired
Physical Science and Engineering 10 1st Award  Andy  Phung  Larry Winterlin Independence High School Towards Malware Classifiers Robust to Adversarial Malware
Physical Science and Engineering 10 2nd Award  Anusha  Chittari  Debbie Frazier Monta Vista High School Changing eating habits and mitigating climate change: a carbon footprint calculator and tracker for varying foods.
Physical Science and Engineering 10 2nd Award  Swara  Kadam  Hugo Steemers Cupertino High School Seismon - An interactive seismic detector to guide schoolchildren through earthquakes
Physical Science and Engineering 10 2nd Award  Anya  Rocque  Christine Koltermann Notre Dame High School Terrarium Models of the Effects of Wildfire Particulates on the Growth of Blue Elderberry (Sambucus nigra ssp. caerulea)
Physical Science and Engineering 10 2nd Award  Nathaniel Sarin Thomas  Andrea Westgate Homestead High School Using a Mask-Region-Based Convolutional Neural Network (RCNN) to detect and classify waste
Physical Science and Engineering 10 2nd Award  Vivian  Wu  Michael Mishali Palo Alto High School Encapsulating thyme essential oil in chitosan to develop an effective fruit fly repelling method for household use
Physical Science and Engineering 10 2nd Award  Johnathan Y Mo  Eric Nelson Harker School-Upper Campus A Machine Learning Approach to Diagnosing Skin Condition in Diverse Skin Types
Physical Science and Engineering 10 2nd Award  Vineeta  Muvvala  Lester Leung Lynbrook High School Using artificial intelligence and deep learning to identify covid-19, viral pneumonia, and healthy patients
Physical Science and Engineering 10 2nd Award  Mridula  Naikawadi  Lester Leung Lynbrook High School Using artificial intelligence and deep learning to identify covid-19, viral pneumonia, and healthy patients
Physical Science and Engineering 10 2nd Award  Grant Sheridan Sims  Eric Nelson Harker School-Upper Campus A Machine Learning Approach to Diagnosing Skin Condition in Diverse Skin Types
Physical Science and Engineering 10 2nd Award  Robert Yida Zhang  Eric Nelson Harker School-Upper Campus A Machine Learning Approach to Diagnosing Skin Condition in Diverse Skin Types
Physical Science and Engineering 10 Honorable Mention  Rohan Tan Bhowmik  Chris Spenner Harker School-Upper Campus A Novel Spatio-Temporal Artificial Intelligence Network for Respiratory Disease Exacerbation Prediction and Telelehealth
Physical Science and Engineering 10 Honorable Mention  Nirathi  Cherukuri  Alan Tan Santa Clara High School Intelligent Waste Management with the Application of Machine Learning
Physical Science and Engineering 10 Honorable Mention  Cindy  Chou  Kathleen Loia Lynbrook High School Using Machine Learning AI Classification Models to Predict the Diagnosis of Sleep Apnea
Physical Science and Engineering 10 Honorable Mention  Kinjal  Govil  Kathleen Shreve Homestead High School Evaluation of temporal subtraction techniques in image recognition machine learning models for wildfire detection
Physical Science and Engineering 10 Honorable Mention  Ishan  Kar  Janny Cahatol Saratoga High School Novel Approach to Convolution in the Frequency Domain
Physical Science and Engineering 10 Honorable Mention  Fazal  Mittu  Robert Lautenslager Saint Francis High School More Accurate Lawn Watering Using an Image Segmentation Model Paired with an Arduino Based Sprinkler System
Physical Science and Engineering 10 Honorable Mention  Abhiritika  Rala  Alan Tan Santa Clara High School Mental Check-In
Physical Science and Engineering 10 Honorable Mention  Sunjum Singh Sanghari  Chris Spenner Harker School-Upper Campus Which wavelength of light in a turbidimeter is the most effective at accurately determining the turbidity of a solution?
Physical Science and Engineering 10 Honorable Mention  Samhita  Srivatsan  John Conlin Monta Vista High School An Efficient Approach to Storage Using Machine Learning, Image Detection and Radio-Frequency Identification
Physical Science and Engineering 10 Honorable Mention  Serena  Yeh  Anna Beck BASIS Independent Silicon Valley School The Design and Modification of an Innovative Loofah Sponge Device for the Removal of Aquatic Microplastics
Physical Science and Engineering 10 Honorable Mention  Andrew  Yuan  Lester Leung Lynbrook High School Using Deep Learning for the Analysis and Prediction of Pneumonia from X-Ray Chest Scan Images
Physical Science and Engineering 10 Honorable Mention  Adreema Tasnova Ahsan  Alan Tan Santa Clara High School Stretch It Out-Designing a cost-effective,convenient glove to help patients regain mobility and avoid complete paralysis
Physical Science and Engineering 10 Honorable Mention  Arshiya Ishi Anand  Tracy Hughes Presentation High School Reduced Circuit Wiring for a Vehicle's 12 Volt System -- Specifically Lights and A.C. -- by Limiting Signal Wires
Physical Science and Engineering 10 Honorable Mention  Rida  Faraz  Alan Tan Santa Clara High School Netration - A net filtration system designed to improve the process of plastic and oil removal from our river systems
Physical Science and Engineering 10 Honorable Mention  Sahana  Moogi  Alan Tan Santa Clara High School Netration - A net filtration system designed to improve the process of plastic and oil removal from our river systems
Physical Science and Engineering 10 Honorable Mention  Alexandra Virginia Mull  Tracy Hughes Presentation High School Reduced Circuit Wiring for a Vehicle's 12 Volt System -- Specifically Lights and A.C. -- by Limiting Signal Wires
Physical Science and Engineering 10 Honorable Mention  Kaitlyn D Nguyen  Alan Tan Santa Clara High School Netration - A net filtration system designed to improve the process of plastic and oil removal from our river systems
Physical Science and Engineering 10 Honorable Mention  Saee Kunal Pole  Alan Tan Santa Clara High School Stretch It Out-Designing a cost-effective,convenient glove to help patients regain mobility and avoid complete paralysis
Physical Science and Engineering 10 $100 for Individual projects, IBM Award  Faris  Raza  Cathy Messenger Los Gatos High School Development of Motion-Tracking Gloves to Automate the Real-Time Translation of American Sign Language to Spoken English
Physical Science and Engineering 10 $200 and Certificate of Achievement, Excellence in Computer Science Award: Sponsored by SCVSEFA  Roy  Gross  Cathy Cohn Gunn (Henry M.) High School Designing and Building a Custom Phased Array Network Using Software-Defined Radio
Physical Science and Engineering 10 1st Place Award - $150 and Certificate of Achievement, American Society of Civil Engineers- San Jose Branch  Swara  Kadam  Hugo Steemers Cupertino High School Seismon - An interactive seismic detector to guide schoolchildren through earthquakes
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  Nidhi  Mathihalli  Thomas Wang Saratoga High School A Physical Device to Help the Visually Impaired Read Money Using AI/Machine Learning in Third World Countries
Physical Science and Engineering 10 Exceptional Merit, Certificate, SPV Market Research "Most Promising Young Scientist"  Rodrigo  Cantu Valadez  Cathy Messenger Los Gatos High School Using aerogel to increase efficiency and power output by lowering panel temperature in photovoltaic Gratzel cells
Physical Science and Engineering 10 First place, $125 Wireless Communications Alliance Award, Wireless Communications Alliance  Roy  Gross  Cathy Cohn Gunn (Henry M.) High School Designing and Building a Custom Phased Array Network Using Software-Defined Radio
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  Nirathi  Cherukuri  Alan Tan Santa Clara High School Intelligent Waste Management with the Application of Machine Learning
Physical Science and Engineering 10 Honorable Mention - Certificate of Achievement, SAMPE - Society for the Advancement of Material and Process Engineering  Sritej  Ponna  Thuy-Anh Nguyen Archbishop Mitty High School What is the Best Face Mask Material to Reduce Spread of Transmissible Diseases?
Physical Science and Engineering 10 Honorable Mention Award and Certificate of Achievement, ASM International, A Society for Materials, Santa Clara Valley Chapter  Tanisha  Prasad  Tracy Hughes Presentation High School Reseal Your Peel: Creating Packaging Material Using Food Waste
Physical Science and Engineering 10 Honorable Mention, Certificate Only, American Society of Engineers of Indian Origin Award  Aditya  Rao  Ted McLeod Cupertino High School A Deep Learning Approach to Detect and Classify Skin Cancers
Physical Science and Engineering 10 HS student - Certificate of Achievement, Medallion and business card to complete award ($50 gift card) and letter of congratulations, United States Navy and Marine Corps  Rohan Tan Bhowmik  Chris Spenner Harker School-Upper Campus A Novel Spatio-Temporal Artificial Intelligence Network for Respiratory Disease Exacerbation Prediction and Telelehealth
Physical Science and Engineering 10 HS student - Certificate of Achievement, Medallion and business card to complete award ($50 gift card) and letter of congratulations, United States Navy and Marine Corps  Wesley  Maa  Michael Mishali Palo Alto High School Magnetohydrodynamic Propulsion Drive for Marine Transportation
Physical Science and Engineering 10 HS student - Certificate of Achievement, Medallion and business card to complete award ($50 gift card) and letter of congratulations, United States Navy and Marine Corps  Faris  Raza  Cathy Messenger Los Gatos High School Development of Motion-Tracking Gloves to Automate the Real-Time Translation of American Sign Language to Spoken English
Physical Science and Engineering 10 IEEE Electro-Technology $50 gift card and a certificate, Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers  Boz  Azordegan  Alan Tan Santa Clara High School Using Sensors to Track and Predict Motion in Order to Improve Athletic Ability with Limited Space
Physical Science and Engineering 10 IEEE Electro-Technology $50 gift card and a certificate, Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers  Rodrigo  Cantu Valadez  Cathy Messenger Los Gatos High School Using aerogel to increase efficiency and power output by lowering panel temperature in photovoltaic Gratzel cells
Physical Science and Engineering 10 IEEE Electro-Technology $50 gift card and a certificate, Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers  Roy  Gross  Cathy Cohn Gunn (Henry M.) High School Designing and Building a Custom Phased Array Network Using Software-Defined Radio
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  Suryabhan  Mohapatra  Larry Winterlin Independence High School Towards Malware Classifiers Robust to Adversarial Malware
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  Shrinandan Krishna Narayanan  Hugo Steemers Cupertino High School vAssist: A Device for the Visually Impaired to Improve In-Store Shopping using Computer Vision and AI enabled Routing
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  Alexander  Zhang  Jeremy Dybdahl Lynbrook High School Using a novel and efficient method of persistent homology to correct topological errors due to noise in medical scan data
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  Reese Edward Wiitala  Jennifer Claudio Oak Grove High School Using Memory Metals for Small Satellite Array Deployment
Physical Science and Engineering 11 Honorable Mention Student Award: $50 and Certificate of Achievement, Association for Computing Machinery, San Francisco Bay Area Professional Chapter  Manasi  Ganti  Colin Anderson Monta Vista High School Using Machine Learning to Measure and Improve Engagement in Online Learning
Physical Science and Engineering 11 Honorable Mention Student Award: $50 and Certificate of Achievement, Association for Computing Machinery, San Francisco Bay Area Professional Chapter  Rahil  Kapadia  Thuy-Anh Nguyen Archbishop Mitty High School Detecting Distracted Students
Physical Science and Engineering 11 Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair  Dawson  Chen  Martin Baynes Harker School-Upper Campus The Intelligent Robotic Irrigation System -- I.R.I.S. -- for Urban Grass Environments
Physical Science and Engineering 11 Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair  Alexander  Gu  Tarn Wilson Gunn (Henry M.) High School Investigating Hydrogen as a Potential Alternative to Kerosene in Fueling Commercial Aircraft
Physical Science and Engineering 11 Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair  Riley  Kong  Thuy-Anh Nguyen Archbishop Mitty High School An AI-Based Global News Service using Cross-lingual Text Summarization and Translation
Physical Science and Engineering 11 Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair  Alexa  Lowe  Chris Spenner Harker School-Upper Campus An MFCC Spectrogram-based Convolutional Neural Network for Urban Environmental Sound Classification
Physical Science and Engineering 11 Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair  Suryabhan  Mohapatra  Larry Winterlin Independence High School Towards Malware Classifiers Robust to Adversarial Malware
Physical Science and Engineering 11 Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair  Shrinandan Krishna Narayanan  Hugo Steemers Cupertino High School vAssist: A Device for the Visually Impaired to Improve In-Store Shopping using Computer Vision and AI enabled Routing
Physical Science and Engineering 11 Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair  Isita Nandana Talukdar  Anna Beck BASIS Independent Silicon Valley School Predicting Global Food Shortages Based on Climate and Socioeconomic Factors Utilizing Machine Learning Models
Physical Science and Engineering 11 Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair  Reese Edward Wiitala  Jennifer Claudio Oak Grove High School Using Memory Metals for Small Satellite Array Deployment
Physical Science and Engineering 11 Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair  Alexander  Zhang  Jeremy Dybdahl Lynbrook High School Using a novel and efficient method of persistent homology to correct topological errors due to noise in medical scan data
Physical Science and Engineering 11 1st Award  Dawson  Chen  Martin Baynes Harker School-Upper Campus The Intelligent Robotic Irrigation System -- I.R.I.S. -- for Urban Grass Environments
Physical Science and Engineering 11 1st Award  Riley  Kong  Thuy-Anh Nguyen Archbishop Mitty High School An AI-Based Global News Service using Cross-lingual Text Summarization and Translation
Physical Science and Engineering 11 1st Award  Alexa  Lowe  Chris Spenner Harker School-Upper Campus An MFCC Spectrogram-based Convolutional Neural Network for Urban Environmental Sound Classification
Physical Science and Engineering 11 1st Award  Shrinandan Krishna Narayanan  Hugo Steemers Cupertino High School vAssist: A Device for the Visually Impaired to Improve In-Store Shopping using Computer Vision and AI enabled Routing
Physical Science and Engineering 11 1st Award  Srikar  Nimmagadda  Lester Leung Lynbrook High School The Design and Construction of an Automatic Polyphonic Music Transcriber
Physical Science and Engineering 11 1st Award  Isita Nandana Talukdar  Anna Beck BASIS Independent Silicon Valley School Predicting Global Food Shortages Based on Climate and Socioeconomic Factors Utilizing Machine Learning Models
Physical Science and Engineering 11 1st Award  Reese Edward Wiitala  Jennifer Claudio Oak Grove High School Using Memory Metals for Small Satellite Array Deployment
Physical Science and Engineering 11 1st Award  Alexander  Zhang  Jeremy Dybdahl Lynbrook High School Using a novel and efficient method of persistent homology to correct topological errors due to noise in medical scan data
Physical Science and Engineering 11 1st Award  Suryabhan  Mohapatra  Larry Winterlin Independence High School Towards Malware Classifiers Robust to Adversarial Malware
Physical Science and Engineering 11 2nd Award  Aeshon  Balasubramanian  Thomas Wang Saratoga High School Engineering an Affordable and Compact Social Distancing and Obstacle Avoidance Device for the Blind
Physical Science and Engineering 11 2nd Award  Anirudh  Bharadwaj  Thanh Nguyen Lynbrook High School A Novel Algorithm for Exoplanet Detection and Verification from Light Curve and Spectral Line Data
Physical Science and Engineering 11 2nd Award  Christina  Dorofeev  Cathy Messenger Los Gatos High School Machine learning model for reducing background noise in gravitational wave data from LIGO/Virgo interferometers
Physical Science and Engineering 11 2nd Award  Alexander  Gu  Tarn Wilson Gunn (Henry M.) High School Investigating Hydrogen as a Potential Alternative to Kerosene in Fueling Commercial Aircraft
Physical Science and Engineering 11 2nd Award  Prakrit  Jain  Chris Spenner Harker School-Upper Campus An Automated, Algorithmic Approach to Wildlife Range Mapping
Physical Science and Engineering 11 2nd Award  Rishab Xinrui Parthasarathy  Eric Nelson Harker School-Upper Campus Prediction of Oncogenic Mutation Progression for Targeted Therapy using a Novel Combination of RNNs and Pathway Analysis
Physical Science and Engineering 11 2nd Award  Albert  Chang  Kent Paris Cupertino High School COVID Cases On-Site Tracking Device
Physical Science and Engineering 11 2nd Award  Sonia  Chang  Kent Paris Cupertino High School COVID Cases On-Site Tracking Device
Physical Science and Engineering 11 2nd Award  Adalia  Lee  Kent Paris Cupertino High School COVID Cases On-Site Tracking Device
Physical Science and Engineering 11 Honorable Mention  Joy  Barsoum  Thuy-Anh Nguyen Archbishop Mitty High School Repurposing "Lay's-ee" wrappers: Using Non-Recyclable Food Packaging Material to Create High Quality Capacitive Styluses
Physical Science and Engineering 11 Honorable Mention  Rupali  Batta  Christine Koltermann Notre Dame High School A Low Cost Comprehensive Diagnostic Web Application for Parkinson's Disease Using Image and Voice Recognition
Physical Science and Engineering 11 Honorable Mention  Vivek  Bharati  Gary Auten Homestead High School A Mobile Phone-Based Indoor Situational Awareness and Walking Navigational Aid for the Visually Impaired
Physical Science and Engineering 11 Honorable Mention  Tse Kai  Chan  Zaiyi Liao (mentor) Privately Sponsored Project A Computational Platform to Optimize Irrigation for Maximum Farming Yield using Deep Learning and Dynamic Modeling
Physical Science and Engineering 11 Honorable Mention  Elliu  Huang  Lester Leung Lynbrook High School Hand Gesture-based Authentication for Smartphones using Machine Learning
Physical Science and Engineering 11 Honorable Mention  Shreya  Kakhandiki  Lester Leung Lynbrook High School Poacher Activity Detection Device for Wildlife Conservation
Physical Science and Engineering 11 Honorable Mention  Herin  Kang  Cathy Messenger Los Gatos High School Recycling energy in data centers with the application of Thermoelectric Generators (TEGs)
Physical Science and Engineering 11 Honorable Mention  Shreyaa  Karan  Brian LoBue Evergreen Valley High School Cranial Hemorrhage - Sectionalization & Ascertaining the Non-Contrast CT Scans using Deep Learning
Physical Science and Engineering 11 Honorable Mention  Krithi  Koodli  Kalee Tock Stanford Online High School Orbital Mechanics Design to Maximize Satellite Service Time for Earth-Based Regions of Interest
Physical Science and Engineering 11 Honorable Mention  Anav  Mehta  Ted McLeod Cupertino High School Inference of Physical Chess Positions through Board Segmentation and Piece Recognition using Convolution Neural Networks
Physical Science and Engineering 11 Honorable Mention  Tejas Satyavrat Prabhune  Scott Lubbs Evergreen Valley High School Dataset-Agnostic Vessel Segmentation of Retinal Fundus Images by a Vector Quantized Variational Autoencoder
Physical Science and Engineering 11 Honorable Mention  Chaitra  Raghupathi  Kyle Jones Monta Vista High School Designing a Hydraulic Turbine to Filter Micro Plastic Produced During PETase Degradation of Polyethylene Terephthalate
Physical Science and Engineering 11 Honorable Mention  Sasvath M. Ramachandran  Mark Brada Harker School-Upper Campus Spectral and Efficiency Analysis of Solar Cells through Polluted Air
Physical Science and Engineering 11 Honorable Mention  Shlok  Shah  Andrew Fischer Saint Francis High School Quantum Computing Based Light Transport Simulation
Physical Science and Engineering 11 Honorable Mention  Oliver  Wang  Jeff Lutze Leland High School Predicting Likelihood of Intense Wildfires Using Machine Learning and Satellite Imagery
Physical Science and Engineering 11 Honorable Mention  Ethan Sun Zuo  Janny Cahatol Saratoga High School Optimization Of Novel Two-phase Jet Impingement Cooling for Practical Datacenter Implementation with CFD and Experiments
Physical Science and Engineering 11 Honorable Mention  Gavin  Hung  Joe Kim Monta Vista High School Lightweight Rice plant disease management mobile application using CNN and leaf color based nitrogen detection
Physical Science and Engineering 11 Honorable Mention  Siddhartha  Mishra  Joe Kim Monta Vista High School Lightweight Rice plant disease management mobile application using CNN and leaf color based nitrogen detection
Physical Science and Engineering 11 Honorable Mention  Arnav  Reddy  Joe Kim Monta Vista High School Lightweight Rice plant disease management mobile application using CNN and leaf color based nitrogen detection
Physical Science and Engineering 11 $200 and Certificate of Achievement, Excellence in Computer Science Award: Sponsored by SCVSEFA  Shlok  Shah  Andrew Fischer Saint Francis High School Quantum Computing Based Light Transport Simulation
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  Arnav  Mishra  Thuy-Anh Nguyen Archbishop Mitty High School Meet Mom's Copilot: A security net, guiding parents to filter out age-inappropriate online content using ML, LSTM, & NLP
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  Shrinandan Krishna Narayanan  Hugo Steemers Cupertino High School vAssist: A Device for the Visually Impaired to Improve In-Store Shopping using Computer Vision and AI enabled Routing
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  Shlok  Shah  Andrew Fischer Saint Francis High School Quantum Computing Based Light Transport Simulation
Physical Science and Engineering 11 Certificate of Achievement and letter - medallion and cert will be received in mail after student fills out the online link, Yale Science and Engineering Association  Shreyaa  Karan  Brian LoBue Evergreen Valley High School Cranial Hemorrhage - Sectionalization & Ascertaining the Non-Contrast CT Scans using Deep Learning
Physical Science and Engineering 11 GR 9-12: Honorable Mention, Certificate of Achievement, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) Intelligent Systems Award  Rucha  Deo  Eric Ferrante Cupertino High School PhysioVR: Virtual Reality App with Guided Gyroscope for Physical Therapy
Physical Science and Engineering 11 GR 9-12: Honorable Mention, Certificate of Achievement, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) Intelligent Systems Award  Alexa  Lowe  Chris Spenner Harker School-Upper Campus An MFCC Spectrogram-based Convolutional Neural Network for Urban Environmental Sound Classification
Physical Science and Engineering 11 GR 9-12: Honorable Mention, Certificate of Achievement, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) Intelligent Systems Award  Ishaan  Mantripragada  Chris Spenner Harker School-Upper Campus Energy Efficient Robotic Motion Planning on Deep Learning Hardware
Physical Science and Engineering 11 Honorable Mention - Certificate of Achievement, American Society of Civil Engineers- San Jose Branch  Thy  Pham  Jennifer Claudio Oak Grove High School Factors in Traffic Safety in Suburban Roads
Physical Science and Engineering 11 Honorable Mention, Certificate Only, American Society of Engineers of Indian Origin Award  Niharika  Bozza  Tracy Hughes Presentation High School A Novel Approach Towards the Optimization of Microphone Signal Processing in Cochlear Implants
Physical Science and Engineering 11 Honorable Mention, Certificate Only, American Society of Engineers of Indian Origin Award  Tavleen  Kaur  David Iverson Wilcox High School Designing a cost-effective optical sensor to detect organic and synthetic water contaminants
Physical Science and Engineering 11 HS student - Certificate of Achievement, Medallion and business card to complete award ($50 gift card) and letter of congratulations, United States Navy and Marine Corps  Veda  Kamaraju  Anuradha Murthy BASIS Independent Silicon Valley School Healthcare Supply Chain Automation: an Integrated Deep Learning Platform to Optimize and Forecast Surgical Supply Demand
Physical Science and Engineering 11 IEEE Electro-Technology $50 gift card and a certificate, Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers  Herin  Kang  Cathy Messenger Los Gatos High School Recycling energy in data centers with the application of Thermoelectric Generators (TEGs)
Physical Science and Engineering 11 Most Promising Young Scientist (Male), $300 and Certificate (GR 9-12), SPV Market Research "Most Promising Young Scientist"  Sasvath M. Ramachandran  Mark Brada Harker School-Upper Campus Spectral and Efficiency Analysis of Solar Cells through Polluted Air
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  Mihir  Baviskar  Larry Winterlin Independence High School Towards Malware Classifiers Robust to Adversarial Malware
Physical Science and Engineering 12 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  Muhammed Majid Shah  Chung Khong Yerba Buena High School Airplane extravaganza
Physical Science and Engineering 12 1st Place Award - $350 and Framed Certificate of Achievement, American Chemical Society, Silicon Valley, SVACS  Olivia Anne Colace  Darren Dressen Los Altos High School Strategies for treating late stage Lyme disease: Synthesizing derivatives of telomere resolvase inhibitors
Physical Science and Engineering 12 1st Place Award - $350 and Framed Certificate of Achievement, American Chemical Society, Silicon Valley, SVACS  Thomas David Lilygren  Darren Dressen Los Altos High School Constructing a hafnium-based metal-organic framework to remove trivalent arsenic compounds from water.
Physical Science and Engineering 12 2nd Place Award - $200 and Framed Certificate of Achievement, American Chemical Society, Silicon Valley, SVACS  Keela Karishma Zambre  Darren Dressen Los Altos High School Synthesis of curcumin-polyethylene glycol-valine prodrug to improve bioavailability in Alzheimer's disease treatments
Physical Science and Engineering 12 Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair  Anshika  Agarwal  Tarn Wilson Gunn (Henry M.) High School A Novel Real-Time Oceanographic Data Monitoring and Analytics Solution to Mitigate the Climate Crisis
Physical Science and Engineering 12 Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair  Mihir  Baviskar  Larry Winterlin Independence High School Towards Malware Classifiers Robust to Adversarial Malware
Physical Science and Engineering 12 Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair  Artin  Lahni  Darren Dressen Los Altos High School Designing and synthesizing a small-molecule inhibitor to mitigate the effects of C. pneumoniae on beta-amyloid generation
Physical Science and Engineering 12 Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair  Thomas David Lilygren  Darren Dressen Los Altos High School Constructing a hafnium-based metal-organic framework to remove trivalent arsenic compounds from water.
Physical Science and Engineering 12 Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair  Angelina  Lue  Darren Dressen Los Altos High School Designing and synthesizing a small-molecule inhibitor to mitigate the effects of C. pneumoniae on beta-amyloid generation
Physical Science and Engineering 12 Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair  Muhammed Majid Shah  Chung Khong Yerba Buena High School Airplane extravaganza
Physical Science and Engineering 12 Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair  Michael Lichao Yuan  Lester Leung Lynbrook High School AR and VR Haptic Glove
Physical Science and Engineering 12 1st Award  Anshika  Agarwal  Tarn Wilson Gunn (Henry M.) High School A Novel Real-Time Oceanographic Data Monitoring and Analytics Solution to Mitigate the Climate Crisis
Physical Science and Engineering 12 1st Award  Thomas David Lilygren  Darren Dressen Los Altos High School Constructing a hafnium-based metal-organic framework to remove trivalent arsenic compounds from water.
Physical Science and Engineering 12 1st Award  Muhammed Majid Shah  Chung Khong Yerba Buena High School Airplane extravaganza
Physical Science and Engineering 12 1st Award  Michael Lichao Yuan  Lester Leung Lynbrook High School AR and VR Haptic Glove
Physical Science and Engineering 12 1st Award  Mihir  Baviskar  Larry Winterlin Independence High School Towards Malware Classifiers Robust to Adversarial Malware
Physical Science and Engineering 12 2nd Award  Richard Ruichi Cao  Mark Kwong Lynbrook High School A Visual Speech Recognition Algorithm Using An Automated Lip Reader
Physical Science and Engineering 12 2nd Award  Jadelynn Kim Dao  Tracy Hughes Presentation High School Time of Flight for Interfacing: Real Time, Gesture-Based, Human-Computer-Interaction Embedded Device
Physical Science and Engineering 12 2nd Award  Advit  Deepak  Tracy Hughes Presentation High School Time of Flight for Interfacing: Real Time, Gesture-Based, Human-Computer-Interaction Embedded Device
Physical Science and Engineering 12 2nd Award  Artin  Lahni  Darren Dressen Los Altos High School Designing and synthesizing a small-molecule inhibitor to mitigate the effects of C. pneumoniae on beta-amyloid generation
Physical Science and Engineering 12 2nd Award  Angelina  Lue  Darren Dressen Los Altos High School Designing and synthesizing a small-molecule inhibitor to mitigate the effects of C. pneumoniae on beta-amyloid generation
Physical Science and Engineering 12 2nd Award  Allen Liu Ye  Mark Kwong Lynbrook High School A Visual Speech Recognition Algorithm Using An Automated Lip Reader
Physical Science and Engineering 12 Honorable Mention  Laasya  Chukka  Bradley Fulk Lynbrook High School Development of Autonomous Robot that efficiently disinfects spaces using SLAM and 3D point clouds for mapping
Physical Science and Engineering 12 Honorable Mention  Kelly Sachi Ferguson  Cathy Messenger Los Gatos High School Creating a Bioleather out of Acetic Acid Bacteria and Osmophilic Yeast Species and Copernicia prunifera Wax
Physical Science and Engineering 12 Honorable Mention  Atreyi Leela Mukherjee  Christine Koltermann Notre Dame High School The Viability of Hydroponic Agriculture in Urban Environments Based on Water Quality
Physical Science and Engineering 12 Honorable Mention  Arushi  Patel  Eric Wozadlo Santa Clara High School Using an Image Recognition API and a Robotic Fish to Map Delta Smelt Substrates
Physical Science and Engineering 12 Honorable Mention  Sohom  Roy  Precious Bagamaspad Cupertino High School Design of a Compliant Wing Mechanism Optimized for Different Conditions with a Particle Swarm ML Optimization Algorithm
Physical Science and Engineering 12 3rd Place - $50, Certificate of Achievement, SAMPE - Society for the Advancement of Material and Process Engineering  Thomas David Lilygren  Darren Dressen Los Altos High School Constructing a hafnium-based metal-organic framework to remove trivalent arsenic compounds from water.
Physical Science and Engineering 12 3rd Place Award - $50 and Certificate of Achievement, ASM International, A Society for Materials, Santa Clara Valley Chapter  Thomas David Lilygren  Darren Dressen Los Altos High School Constructing a hafnium-based metal-organic framework to remove trivalent arsenic compounds from water.
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  Anshika  Agarwal  Tarn Wilson Gunn (Henry M.) High School A Novel Real-Time Oceanographic Data Monitoring and Analytics Solution to Mitigate the Climate Crisis
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  Laasya  Chukka  Bradley Fulk Lynbrook High School Development of Autonomous Robot that efficiently disinfects spaces using SLAM and 3D point clouds for mapping
Physical Science and Engineering 12 GR 9-12: Student Award in Geoscience Excellence from Association for Women Geoscientists Bay Area Chapter, $40, Association for Women Geoscientists, San Francisco Bay Area Chapter  Shachi Shikha Prasad  Tracy Hughes Presentation High School Low Cost Acid Neutralizing Filter for Acid Rain
Physical Science and Engineering 12 Honorable Mention, Certificate Only, American Society of Engineers of Indian Origin Award  Harshini  Manian  Tracy Hughes Presentation High School Using Deep Learning and Geospatial Data for Disaster Relief Management
Physical Science and Engineering 12 Honorable Mention, Certificate Only, American Society of Engineers of Indian Origin Award  Katherine Grace Mekechuk  Tracy Hughes Presentation High School Using Deep Learning and Geospatial Data for Disaster Relief Management
Physical Science and Engineering 12 Honorable Mention, Certificate Only, American Society of Engineers of Indian Origin Award  Aadit  Trivedi  Debjani Roy Bellarmine College Preparatory SignalNet: A Wireless Traffic Light-Centered Network for Autonomous Vehicles That Optimizes Traffic Flow
Physical Science and Engineering 12 IEEE Electro-Technology $50 gift card and a certificate, Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers  Aadit  Trivedi  Debjani Roy Bellarmine College Preparatory SignalNet: A Wireless Traffic Light-Centered Network for Autonomous Vehicles That Optimizes Traffic Flow
RRI Biological Science and Engineering 9 2nd Award  Sareena  Garg  Jeru Manuel (mentor) Privately Sponsored Project Role of hMLH1 gene in colorectal carcinoma (CRC).
RRI Biological Science and Engineering 10 Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair  Ishani  Das  Brandon Wilson (mentor) Privately Sponsored Project A Novel Examination of the Influence of Genes Linked to Comorbidities on the Development of Diabetic Retinopathy
RRI Biological Science and Engineering 10 1st Award  Ishani  Das  Brandon Wilson (mentor) Privately Sponsored Project A Novel Examination of the Influence of Genes Linked to Comorbidities on the Development of Diabetic Retinopathy
RRI Biological Science and Engineering 10 Honorable Mention  Nicholas  Wei  Chris Spenner Harker School-Upper Campus Uncovering the Black Box: Can Mouse Transcriptomic Data Predict Human Cardiomyocyte Types in hiPSC Differentiation?
RRI Biological Science and Engineering 10 Honorable Mention  Rajasi  Laddha  Hugo Steemers Cupertino High School The Effects of Iron and Vitamin C in Restless Leg Syndrome (RLS)
RRI Biological Science and Engineering 10 Honorable Mention  Rohan  Tirumala  Hugo Steemers Cupertino High School The Effects of Iron and Vitamin C in Restless Leg Syndrome (RLS)
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  Riya  Gupta  Janny Cahatol Saratoga High School Analyzing Gene Expression Data to Identify Biomarkers for Infectious and Autoimmune Diseases
RRI Biological Science and Engineering 11 Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair  Harsh  Deep  Eric Nelson Harker School-Upper Campus Deciphering Transcriptome-wide Off-targets from CRISPR-guided Base-editors Using Convolutional Neural Networks
RRI Biological Science and Engineering 11 Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair  Riya  Gupta  Janny Cahatol Saratoga High School Analyzing Gene Expression Data to Identify Biomarkers for Infectious and Autoimmune Diseases
RRI Biological Science and Engineering 11 1st Award  Harsh  Deep  Eric Nelson Harker School-Upper Campus Deciphering Transcriptome-wide Off-targets from CRISPR-guided Base-editors Using Convolutional Neural Networks
RRI Biological Science and Engineering 11 1st Award  Riya  Gupta  Janny Cahatol Saratoga High School Analyzing Gene Expression Data to Identify Biomarkers for Infectious and Autoimmune Diseases
RRI Biological Science and Engineering 11 2nd Award  Akshay  Attaluri  Stella Demetriou Cupertino High School Utilizing Machine Learning to Predict Postoperative Diabetes Insipidus in Patients Undergoing Transsphenoidal Surgery
RRI Biological Science and Engineering 11 2nd Award  Angela  Hu  Yu Liu (mentor) Privately Sponsored Project Using Machine Learning and Single Cell RNA-sequencing to Elucidate Genetic Determinants of Heart Failure
RRI Biological Science and Engineering 11 2nd Award  Shailesh  Senthil Kumar  Lester Leung Lynbrook High School Identifying Intratumoral Heterogeneity in a Microfluidic Tumor Model for Personalized Cancer Therapy
RRI Biological Science and Engineering 11 Honorable Mention  Shounak  Ghosh  Mike Pistacchi Harker School-Upper Campus Developing a Robust EKG Classifier Resistant to Adversarial Attacks
RRI Biological Science and Engineering 11 Honorable Mention  Vaibhav  Gurunathan  Anuradha Murthy BASIS Independent Silicon Valley School Developing computational models using amyloid-beta torsion angles to predict residues that cause Alzheimer's disease.
RRI Biological Science and Engineering 11 Honorable Mention  Yash  Tipirneni  Thuy-Anh Nguyen Archbishop Mitty High School Selectively Targeting Leukemia Cells via Ultrasonic Resonant Frequencies
RRI Biological Science and Engineering 11 Honorable Mention  Annika  Viswesh  Aparna Sankararaman Palo Alto High School Investigating the Interaction between SARS-CoV2 NSP15 and Human E3 Ubiquitin Ligase using Molecular Docking Approach
RRI Biological Science and Engineering 11 Honorable Mention  Kingshuk  Daschowdhury  Rik Derynck (mentor) Privately Sponsored Project Simulating the Effects of DNA Glycosylase Repair on Benzo[a]pyrene Induced TP53 Mutations Using a Computer-based Model
RRI Biological Science and Engineering 11 Honorable Mention  Tevin  Wang  Rik Derynck (mentor) Privately Sponsored Project Simulating the Effects of DNA Glycosylase Repair on Benzo[a]pyrene Induced TP53 Mutations Using a Computer-based Model
RRI Biological Science and Engineering 11 Honorable Mention  Raymond  Yap  Rik Derynck (mentor) Privately Sponsored Project Simulating the Effects of DNA Glycosylase Repair on Benzo[a]pyrene Induced TP53 Mutations Using a Computer-based Model
RRI Biological Science and Engineering 11 $100 for Individual projects, IBM Award  Annika  Viswesh  Aparna Sankararaman Palo Alto High School Investigating the Interaction between SARS-CoV2 NSP15 and Human E3 Ubiquitin Ligase using Molecular Docking Approach
RRI Biological Science and Engineering 11 2nd Place $100 and Certificate of Achievement, American Association for Laboratory Animal Science, Northern California Branch  Shailesh  Senthil Kumar  Lester Leung Lynbrook High School Identifying Intratumoral Heterogeneity in a Microfluidic Tumor Model for Personalized Cancer Therapy
RRI Biological Science and Engineering 12 Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair  Flora  Huang  Thanh Nguyen Lynbrook High School Loss of BMPR2-CES1 Signaling is Associated with Oxidative Stress in Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension
RRI Biological Science and Engineering 12 1st Award  Flora  Huang  Thanh Nguyen Lynbrook High School Loss of BMPR2-CES1 Signaling is Associated with Oxidative Stress in Pulmonary Arterial Hypertension
RRI Biological Science and Engineering 12 Honorable Mention  Saloni  Shah  Chris Spenner Harker School-Upper Campus Identifying Resilience Mutations in an Alzheimer's Disease Whole-Genome Sequencing Cohort
RRI Physical Science and Engineering 9 Exceptional Merit, Certificate, SPV Market Research "Most Promising Young Scientist"  Tevin  Ding  Lobna Albassam Summit Denali High School Durable silver IR reflector
RRI Physical Science and Engineering 9 Exceptional Merit, Certificate, SPV Market Research "Most Promising Young Scientist"  Nathan  Yao  Lobna Albassam Summit Denali High School Durable silver IR reflector
RRI 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  Snikitha  Banda  Christine Koltermann Notre Dame High School Style Transfer Augmentation: Cancer Subtype Classification using Genetic Status in Histopathology Images
RRI 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  Stephen  Xia  Anita Chetty Harker School-Upper Campus First-Principles Simulation of 2D Nanomaterial Boron Carbide as a Biosensor for COVID-19 Testing
RRI Physical Science and Engineering 10 Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair  Snikitha  Banda  Christine Koltermann Notre Dame High School Style Transfer Augmentation: Cancer Subtype Classification using Genetic Status in Histopathology Images
RRI Physical Science and Engineering 10 Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair  Cindy Jingru Wang  Jian Ge (mentor) Privately Sponsored Project Studying the fundamental stellar mass-radius relation in low mass binaries identified in Kepler-MARVELS survey data
RRI Physical Science and Engineering 10 Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair  Stephen  Xia  Anita Chetty Harker School-Upper Campus First-Principles Simulation of 2D Nanomaterial Boron Carbide as a Biosensor for COVID-19 Testing
RRI Physical Science and Engineering 10 1st Award  Snikitha  Banda  Christine Koltermann Notre Dame High School Style Transfer Augmentation: Cancer Subtype Classification using Genetic Status in Histopathology Images
RRI Physical Science and Engineering 10 1st Award  Cindy Jingru Wang  Jian Ge (mentor) Privately Sponsored Project Studying the fundamental stellar mass-radius relation in low mass binaries identified in Kepler-MARVELS survey data
RRI Physical Science and Engineering 10 1st Award  Stephen  Xia  Anita Chetty Harker School-Upper Campus First-Principles Simulation of 2D Nanomaterial Boron Carbide as a Biosensor for COVID-19 Testing
RRI Physical Science and Engineering 10 2nd Award  Dylan Chen Ong  Akira Hasegawa (PSP) Privately Sponsored Project Predicting Covid-19 From X-Rays With Machine Learning
RRI Physical Science and Engineering 10 Honorable Mention  Brian  Chen  Chris Spenner Harker School-Upper Campus Unearthing Deep Earthquakes: A Novel Visualization Method to Detect Mantle Earthquakes Using the Sn/Lg Theory
RRI Physical Science and Engineering 10 Honorable Mention  Joseph Philip Thomas  Chris Cozort Bellarmine College Preparatory A Machine Learning Algorithm for Lossy Compression of Time Series Data: A COVID-19 Case Study
RRI Physical Science and Engineering 10 1st Place - $100, Certificate of Achievement, SAMPE - Society for the Advancement of Material and Process Engineering  Stephen  Xia  Anita Chetty Harker School-Upper Campus First-Principles Simulation of 2D Nanomaterial Boron Carbide as a Biosensor for COVID-19 Testing
RRI Physical Science and Engineering 10 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  Stephen  Xia  Anita Chetty Harker School-Upper Campus First-Principles Simulation of 2D Nanomaterial Boron Carbide as a Biosensor for COVID-19 Testing
RRI Physical Science and Engineering 10 2nd Place Award - $100 and Certificate of Achievement, American Society of Civil Engineers- San Jose Branch  Brian  Chen  Chris Spenner Harker School-Upper Campus Unearthing Deep Earthquakes: A Novel Visualization Method to Detect Mantle Earthquakes Using the Sn/Lg Theory
RRI Physical Science and Engineering 10 Honorable Mention: Patch and Certificate, SETI Institute  Tiffany  Chang  Miriam Allersma Harker School-Upper Campus Optimizing the Detection of Signals From Very High Energy Gamma Ray Bursts
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  Franklin  Wang  Cynthia Chen Palo Alto High School New NEOs Discovered Using Deep Learning Are Fainter and Move Faster Than Those Previously Discovered
RRI Physical Science and Engineering 11 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  Tara  Kapoor  Sefika Gul Eris Palo Alto High School Concatenated CNN and Transformer-Encoder Neural Network to Diagnose Cancerous Thyroid Nodules in Ultrasound Cine Images
RRI Physical Science and Engineering 11 Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair  Tara  Kapoor  Sefika Gul Eris Palo Alto High School Concatenated CNN and Transformer-Encoder Neural Network to Diagnose Cancerous Thyroid Nodules in Ultrasound Cine Images
RRI Physical Science and Engineering 11 Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair  Franklin  Wang  Cynthia Chen Palo Alto High School New NEOs Discovered Using Deep Learning Are Fainter and Move Faster Than Those Previously Discovered
RRI Physical Science and Engineering 11 1st Award  Tara  Kapoor  Sefika Gul Eris Palo Alto High School Concatenated CNN and Transformer-Encoder Neural Network to Diagnose Cancerous Thyroid Nodules in Ultrasound Cine Images
RRI Physical Science and Engineering 11 1st Award  Franklin  Wang  Cynthia Chen Palo Alto High School New NEOs Discovered Using Deep Learning Are Fainter and Move Faster Than Those Previously Discovered
RRI Physical Science and Engineering 11 2nd Award  Kaushal  Amancherla  Atul Singh (PSP) Privately Sponsored Project Machine Learning Model To Detect Diabetic Retinopathy In Eye Images
RRI Physical Science and Engineering 11 Honorable Mention  Kento  Nishi  Mark Kwong Lynbrook High School Augmentation Strategies for Learning with Noisy Labels
RRI Physical Science and Engineering 11 Honorable Mention  Vishal  Shenoy  Stella Demetriou Cupertino High School Vascular1: Using Virtual Reality to Train Surgical Residents in Ultrasound Guided Vascular Access Procedures
RRI Physical Science and Engineering 11 Honorable Mention  Arnuv  Tandon  Ed Taylor Homestead High School Deep neural networks for recovering tear film thickness profiles from hyperspectral interferograms.
RRI Physical Science and Engineering 11 Honorable Mention  Pujita  Tangirala  Andrew Fischer Saint Francis High School Modeling Atmospheric Band Measurements to Enhance Precision of Stellar Line-of-Sight Velocities
RRI Physical Science and Engineering 11 Honorable Mention  Nicole  Tian  Mark Brada Harker School-Upper Campus The Globular Clusters of Virgo Cluster Dwarf Galaxies
RRI Physical Science and Engineering 11 Honorable Mention  Alex  Hu  Eric Nelson Harker School-Upper Campus Discovery of Earth Size Exoplanets in Kepler Data Using a Novel GPU Fast Folding Method and a Deep Learning Model
RRI Physical Science and Engineering 11 Honorable Mention  Kevin  Wang  Eric Nelson Harker School-Upper Campus Discovery of Earth Size Exoplanets in Kepler Data Using a Novel GPU Fast Folding Method and a Deep Learning Model
RRI Physical Science and Engineering 11 Honorable Mention  Alina  Yuan  Eric Nelson Harker School-Upper Campus Discovery of Earth Size Exoplanets in Kepler Data Using a Novel GPU Fast Folding Method and a Deep Learning Model
RRI Physical Science and Engineering 11 $100 for Individual projects, IBM Award  Ishan  Goyal  David Taylor Lynbrook High School App-based personalization of guided breathing patterns for affect regulation
RRI Physical Science and Engineering 11 $200 and Certificate of Achievement, Excellence in Computer Science Award: Sponsored by SCVSEFA  Kento  Nishi  Mark Kwong Lynbrook High School Augmentation Strategies for Learning with Noisy Labels
RRI Physical Science and Engineering 11 Honorable Mention: Patch and Certificate, SETI Institute  Alex  Hu  Eric Nelson Harker School-Upper Campus Discovery of Earth Size Exoplanets in Kepler Data Using a Novel GPU Fast Folding Method and a Deep Learning Model
RRI Physical Science and Engineering 11 Honorable Mention: Patch and Certificate, SETI Institute  Pujita  Tangirala  Andrew Fischer Saint Francis High School Modeling Atmospheric Band Measurements to Enhance Precision of Stellar Line-of-Sight Velocities
RRI Physical Science and Engineering 11 Honorable Mention: Patch and Certificate, SETI Institute  Kevin  Wang  Eric Nelson Harker School-Upper Campus Discovery of Earth Size Exoplanets in Kepler Data Using a Novel GPU Fast Folding Method and a Deep Learning Model
RRI Physical Science and Engineering 11 Honorable Mention: Patch and Certificate, SETI Institute  Hongbo  Wei  Kevin Tibbs Leland High School A Search For Planet Candidates in Kepler Data with Deep Neural Networks
RRI Physical Science and Engineering 11 Honorable Mention: Patch and Certificate, SETI Institute  Alina  Yuan  Eric Nelson Harker School-Upper Campus Discovery of Earth Size Exoplanets in Kepler Data Using a Novel GPU Fast Folding Method and a Deep Learning Model
RRI Physical Science and Engineering 12 Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair  Manasa Hari Bhimaraju  Mike Pistacchi Harker School-Upper Campus Atmosome: A Comprehensive Approach to Understanding the Personal Atmospheric Exposome
RRI Physical Science and Engineering 12 1st Award  Manasa Hari Bhimaraju  Mike Pistacchi Harker School-Upper Campus Atmosome: A Comprehensive Approach to Understanding the Personal Atmospheric Exposome
RRI Physical Science and Engineering 12 First Place: Paperweight, Patch, Certificate and Office Tour, SETI Institute  Betsy  Tian  Chris Spenner Harker School-Upper Campus The Total Energy and Evolution of Jupiter-like Planets
RRI Physical Science and Engineering 12 Honorable Mention: Patch and Certificate, SETI Institute  Claire Tianyi Chen  Kevin Tibbs Leland High School A Search For Planet Candidates in Kepler Data with Deep Neural Networks
RRI Physical Science and Engineering 12 Most Promising Young Scientist (Female), $300 and Certificate (GR 9-12), SPV Market Research "Most Promising Young Scientist"  Manasa Hari Bhimaraju  Mike Pistacchi Harker School-Upper Campus Atmosome: A Comprehensive Approach to Understanding the Personal Atmospheric Exposome