East Side Union High School District

Project Awards 2021

Synopsys Silicon Valley Science and Technology Championship

School	Teacher		Student		Award	Title	Gr
Evergreen Valley High School	Alice	Li	Saurish	Srivastava	Honorable Mention Student Award: $50 and Certificate of Achievement, Association for Computing Machinery, San Francisco Bay Area Professional Chapter	A Novel Unsupervised Approach Leveraging CNNs to Accurately Classify Brain Cancer Survival via Histopathological Images (Biological Science and Engineering)	10
	Brian	LoBue	Shreyaa	Karan	Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category	Cranial Hemorrhage - Sectionalization & Ascertaining the Non-Contrast CT Scans using Deep Learning (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
	Scott	Lubbs	Tejas Satyavrat	Prabhune	Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category	Dataset-Agnostic Vessel Segmentation of Retinal Fundus Images by a Vector Quantized Variational Autoencoder (Physical Science and Engineering)	11
	Rebecca	Taylor	Aditya	Shrinivasan	Honorable Mention, Biological Science and Engineering Category	In silico analysis using pyrimethamine as a therapy for mutated Hex-A gene in Tay Sachs Disease (Biological Science and Engineering)	10
Independence High School	Larry	Winterlin	Mihir	Baviskar	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	Towards Malware Classifiers Robust to Adversarial Malware (Physical Science and Engineering)	12
					Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair
					1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category
			Suryabhan	Mohapatra	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	Towards Malware Classifiers Robust to Adversarial Malware (Physical Science and Engineering)	11
					Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair
					1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category
			Andy	Phung	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	Towards Malware Classifiers Robust to Adversarial Malware (Physical Science and Engineering)	10
					Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair
					1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category
Oak Grove High School	Jennifer	Claudio	Thy	Pham	Honorable Mention - Certificate of Achievement, American Society of Civil Engineers- San Jose Branch	Factors in Traffic Safety in Suburban Roads (Physical Science and Engineering)	11
			Reese Edward	Wiitala	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	Using Memory Metals for Small Satellite Array Deployment (Physical Science and Engineering)	11
					Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair
					1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category
Piedmont Hills High School	Katherine	Thornberry	Himani	Manjunath	Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category	Using Plant Root Starch and Biopolymer Aqueous Solution to Reduce Soil Erosion (Physical Science and Engineering)	9
					2nd Place - $75, Certificate of Achievement, SAMPE - Society for the Advancement of Material and Process Engineering
					2nd Place Award - $75 and Certificate of Achievement, ASM International, A Society for Materials, Santa Clara Valley Chapter
Santa Teresa High School	Channy	Cornejo	Marek	Pinto	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	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
					1st Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category
Silver Creek High School	Bich	Nguyen	Vedant V	Janapaty	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	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
					1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category
Yerba Buena High School	Chung	Khong	Muhammed Majid	Shah	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	Airplane extravaganza (Physical Science and Engineering)	12
					Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair
					1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category