Palo Alto Unified School District

Project Awards 2022

Synopsys Silicon Valley Science and Technology Championship

School	Teacher		Student		Award	Title	Gr
Fletcher (Ellen) Middle School	Jim	Cox	Anika Sri	Datta	Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category	What is the effect of different materials to delay the melting of ice? (Physical Science and Engineering)	6
					Honorable Mention Award and Certificate of Achievement, ASM International, A Society for Materials, Santa Clara Valley Chapter
	Elisa	Peters	Carina	Gross	Nominated to compete envelope to apply for Broadcom MASTERS, Broadcom MASTERS - 7th Grade	Device to Translate Musical Notes Into Computer Commands (Physical Science and Engineering)	7
					Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair
					1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category
					IEEE Electro-Technology $50 Amazon gift card and a certificate, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
Gunn (Henry M.) High School	Daniel	Hahn	Agastya	Goel	Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair	Robinson-Schensted-Knuth Correspondence Shapes of Cyclic Permutations (RRI Physical Science and Engineering)	9
					1st Award, RRI Physical Science and Engineering Category
					Certificate of Achievement plus Letter, Mu Alpha Theta
	Jacintha	Kompella	Roy	Gross	Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category	VADAR: Vortex Array Detection And Ranging - Novel sensing and communications using Orbital Angular Momentum of EM waves (Physical Science and Engineering)	11
					GR 9-12: 1st Place, Certificate of Achievement, and virtual tour of NASA Ames Research Center, American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA) Intelligent Systems Award
					IEEE Electro-Technology $50 Amazon gift card and a certificate, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
	Joshua	Little	Stella	Su	Grand Prize Alternate - Physical Sciences - Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), Santa Clara Valley Science & Engineering Fair Assn - Board of Directors Awards - High School	Domain-agnostic Self-Supervised Contrastive Learning for Computational Histopathology (Physical Science and Engineering)	9
					Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair
					1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category
Palo Alto High School	Oliver	Aalami	Adrit	Rao	Grand Prize - Best of Championship - Biological Sciences - Qualified to be a Regeneron ISEF Finalist, Santa Clara Valley Science & Engineering Fair Assn - Board of Directors Awards - High School	Enabling Ankle-Brachial Index Prediction from Dopplers using Deep Learning for Peripheral Arterial Disease Diagnosis (RRI Biological Science and Engineering)	9
					Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair
					1st Award, RRI Biological Science and Engineering Category
					$100 for Individual projects and a certificate, IBM Award
	Ashwini	Avadahni	Ian	Aguilar-Hwang	2nd Place $100, Valley Water Awards HS	RoboTrash: Building a cleaner future with computer vision, machine learning, and robotics. (Physical Science and Engineering)	10
					Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair
					2nd Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category
					Certificate of Achievement and letter, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration NOAA
					Certificate of Achievement and letter, Ricoh USA, Inc
					HS student - Certificate of Achievement, Medallion and business card to complete award ($50 gift card) and letter of congratulations, Office of Naval Research -United States Navy/ US Marine Corps
	Michael	Mishali	Aleksey	Valouev	Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair	Using Machine Learning to Predict Wildfire Patterns (Physical Science and Engineering)	9
					1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category
					Certificate of Achievement, NASA Earth System Science Award
					Letter of Encouragement, Environment Protection Agency
	Aparna	Sankararaman	Vivian	Wu	Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair	Investigation of changes in foraging activity and learning behavior in honey bees following miticide treatment (Biological Science and Engineering)	11
					2nd Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category
Stanford (Jane Lathrop) Middle School	Tammy	Parke	Omar	Azab	Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category	How Winglets Effect Drag on Airplanes (Physical Science and Engineering)	7
			Siddharth	Gupta	Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category	How Winglets Effect Drag on Airplanes (Physical Science and Engineering)	7
			Pavlo	Tkach	Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category	How Winglets Effect Drag on Airplanes (Physical Science and Engineering)	7