Palo Alto Unified School District

Project Awards 2023

Synopsys Silicon Valley Science and Technology Championship

School	Teacher		Student		Award	Title	Gr
Fletcher (Ellen) Middle School	Tamara	Wallace	Carina	Gross	Isabelle Stone Award for Best Biological Science Projects - Qualified for State Science Fair, Santa Clara Valley Science & Engineering Fair Assn - Board of Directors Awards - Middle School	AVIAN: Aerial Video Identification Automated Network-Novel Machine Learning to Monitor Bird Population by Flight Pattern (Biological Science and Engineering)	8
					1st Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category
Henry M. Gunn High School	David	Deggeller	Alan	Lee	Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category	Connectedness in Friends-and-Strangers Graphs of Spiders and Complements (Physical Science and Engineering)	12
			Stella	Su	2nd Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category	Cardiac Gene Regulatory Programs in Mammalian Embryonic Development and Disease Risk Association (Biological Science and Engineering)	10
	Daniel	Hahn	Agastya	Goel	Honorable Mention, RRI Physical Science and Engineering Category	RSK-completeness and Cycle Decompositions (RRI Physical Science and Engineering)	10
			Rohan	Gupta	Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category	Augmenting End-to-End Machine Learning Steering Angle Prediction with CAN bus data (Physical Science and Engineering)	11
	Jena	Lee	Rrishi	Anand	Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category	Unsupervised Detection of Abnormal Crop Changes From Aerial Images (Physical Science and Engineering)	9
			Jacob	Chiu	Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category	Water Boiling Device with Heat Exchanger-Based Preheating to Produce Potable Water with Increased Energy Efficiency (Physical Science and Engineering)	9
					$50 cash award and certificate, Bruce Kawanami Engineering Award
	James	Lincoln	Roy C	Gross	Grand Prize - Best of Championship - Physical Sciences - Qualified to be a Regeneron ISEF Finalist, Santa Clara Valley Science & Engineering Fair Assn - Board of Directors Awards - High School	Tactical Drone Detection and Tracking using Machine-Learned Radio Interferometry: Lessons from Ukraine (Physical Science and Engineering)	12
					First place, $250 Wireless Communications Alliance Award, Wireless Communications Alliance
					1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category
					Certificate of Achievement, United States Air Force
					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 $25 Amazon gift card and a certificate, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
			Amelia Marissa	Yu	Certificate of Achievement, United States Air Force	Developing and Using a Novel Convolutional Neural Network Program to Discover and Confirm Exoplanets (Physical Science and Engineering)	12
					IEEE Electro-Technology $25 Amazon gift card and a certificate, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
	Karen	Saxena	Lauren Jungmin	Lee	Honorable Mention, Biological Science and Engineering Category	Probiotics Protect Tomato Growth from Sodium Dodecyl Sulfate-Induced Stress (Biological Science and Engineering)	10
Palo Alto High School	Ashwini	Avadahni	Divij Vikram	Motwani	$100, Robby Beyers Innovative Solutions Awards	Ankh - Navigation and Obstacle Avoidance for the Visually Impaired. (Physical Science and Engineering)	10
					1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category
					First place- $50 gift check and certificate, Access Braille Awards
	Margaret	Deng	Adrit	Rao	1st Award, RRI Biological Science and Engineering Category	Automated Segmentation and Measurement of Aortic Aneurysms in Computed Tomography Angiography Using Deep Learning (RRI Biological Science and Engineering)	10
	Sefika Gul	Eris	Vince	Wu	Grand Prize Alternate - Biological Sciences - Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), Santa Clara Valley Science & Engineering Fair Assn - Board of Directors Awards - High School	Development of a Predictive Model of Honey Bee Foraging Activity Under Different Climate Conditions (Biological Science and Engineering)	10
					1st Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category
	Hilary	McDaniel	Oscar Y	Anderson	Exceptional Merit, Certificate (all Grades), SPV Market Research "Most Promising Young Scientist"	Impact of Mycorrhizae on Terrestrial Carbon Sinks Under Elevated CO2 Levels: How Fungi can Slow Climate Change (Physical Science and Engineering)	11
					Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category
					$50 High School Plant Science AND Certificate of Achievement, California Botanical Society
	Thomas	Peters	Aleksey	Valouev	First place, $250 Wireless Communications Alliance Award, Wireless Communications Alliance	An AI-Powered Network of Sensors with Wireless Data Transmission for Real-Time Wildfire Detection (Physical Science and Engineering)	10
					1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category
	Matthew	Rossillon	Daniel Edison	Siegel	Grand Prize - Best of Championship - Physical Sciences - Qualified to be a Regeneron ISEF Finalist, Santa Clara Valley Science & Engineering Fair Assn - Board of Directors Awards - High School	OctoGrasp: The Design and Construction of a Cephalopod-Inspired Prosthetic Arm (Physical Science and Engineering)	12
					1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category
					$100 for Individual projects and a certificate, IBM Award
					High School Student - Certificate of Achievement, Letter of Congratulations, Medallion and Award Verification Form (to be filled Online to claim $50 gift card), Office of Naval Research -United States Navy/ US Marine Corps
					IEEE Electro-Technology $25 Amazon gift card and a certificate, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
	Cecilia	Walsh	Ryan Seungyoon	Kim	1st Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category	BeeSafe: Detecting bee diseases with multi-scale object detection and Generative Adversarial Networks (GANs) (Biological Science and Engineering)	10