Palo Alto Unified School District
Project Awards 2021
Synopsys Silicon Valley Science and Technology Championship
| School | Teacher | Student | Award | Title | Gr | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Fletcher (Ellen) Middle School | Beth | Carlson | Aareev | Panda | Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair | Which aquatic plant is best for filtering nitrites from pond water, to keep the koi fish healthy? (Physical Science and Engineering) | 8 |
| 2nd Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Annie | Yount | Carina | Gross | $250 + certificate + a signed book + breakfast with Bob Zeidman, Zeidman Award | Perfect Form: Using Audio Feedback to Maximize Athletic Performance (Physical Science and Engineering) | 6 | |
| Nominated to compete envelope, Broadcom MASTERS - 6th Grade | |||||||
| Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair | |||||||
| 1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| IEEE Electro-Technology $50 gift card and a certificate, Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers | |||||||
| Greene (Frank S., Jr.) Middle School | Erica | Goldsworthy | Adrit | Rao | 2nd Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | Mobile app for classification of macular diseases through Optical Coherence Tomography via Convolutional Neural Networks (Biological Science and Engineering) | 8 |
| Gunn (Henry M.) High School | Michael | Bautista | Sharad | Parulekar | 1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Vision-based system for real-time and summarized feedback on student comprehension and engagement in online classrooms (Physical Science and Engineering) | 10 |
| Cathy | Cohn | Roy | Gross | Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair | Designing and Building a Custom Phased Array Network Using Software-Defined Radio (Physical Science and Engineering) | 10 | |
| 1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| $200 and Certificate of Achievement, Excellence in Computer Science Award: Sponsored by SCVSEFA | |||||||
| First place, $125 Wireless Communications Alliance Award, Wireless Communications Alliance | |||||||
| IEEE Electro-Technology $50 gift card and a certificate, Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers | |||||||
| Zaiyi | Liao (mentor) | Tse Kai | Chan | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | A Computational Platform to Optimize Irrigation for Maximum Farming Yield using Deep Learning and Dynamic Modeling (Physical Science and Engineering) | 11 | |
| Ann | Lorey | Juno | Kim | Honorable Mention, Biological Science and Engineering Category | The Optimization of Preprocessing Methods in the Diagnosis of Diabetic Retinopathy in Retinal Images through Convolution (Biological Science and Engineering) | 10 | |
| Heather | Mellows | Yu-Ting | Chang | Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair | Effects of Orbital Configurations on the Signal Characteristics of Binary Pulsars Simulated with Newtonian Mechanics (Physical Science and Engineering) | 10 | |
| 1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Josh | Paley | Julia | Kang | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Improving Timer Series Stock Price Forecast with LSTM and CNN Machine Learning Models (Physical Science and Engineering) | 9 | |
| Tarn | Wilson | Anshika | Agarwal | Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair | A Novel Real-Time Oceanographic Data Monitoring and Analytics Solution to Mitigate the Climate Crisis (Physical Science and Engineering) | 12 | |
| 1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| ASEI Silicon Valley Emerging Technology Membership to American Society of Engineers of Indian Origin, American Society of Engineers of Indian Origin Award | |||||||
| Alexander | Gu | Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair | Investigating Hydrogen as a Potential Alternative to Kerosene in Fueling Commercial Aircraft (Physical Science and Engineering) | 11 | |||
| 2nd Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Palo Alto High School | Cynthia | Chen | Franklin | Wang | 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 | New NEOs Discovered Using Deep Learning Are Fainter and Move Faster Than Those Previously Discovered (RRI Physical Science and Engineering) | 11 |
| Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair | |||||||
| 1st Award, RRI Physical Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Sefika Gul | Eris | Tara | Kapoor | 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 | 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 | |||||||
| 1st Award, RRI Physical Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Aditya | Oberai | 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 | Fighting Hunger: A Novel, Cheap & Effective Hydroponic Plant Growing Apparatus Using Less Energy, Time, Water, and Space (Biological Science and Engineering) | 10 | |||
| Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair | |||||||
| 1st Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| First Place, $125 Wireless Communications Alliance Award, Wireless Communications Alliance | |||||||
| High School $50 and letter of recognition, Northern California Institute of Food Technologists (NCIFT) | |||||||
| Jian | Ge (mentor) | Cindy Jingru | Wang | Qualified for California Science & Engineering Fair (CSEF), California Science & Engineering Fair | 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, RRI Physical Science and Engineering Category | |||||||
| Michael | Mishali | Wesley | Maa | 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 | Magnetohydrodynamic Propulsion Drive for Marine Transportation (Physical Science and Engineering) | 10 | |
| Vivian | Wu | 2nd Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Encapsulating thyme essential oil in chitosan to develop an effective fruit fly repelling method for household use (Physical Science and Engineering) | 10 | |||
| Aparna | Sankararaman | Annika | Viswesh | Honorable Mention, RRI Biological Science and Engineering Category | Investigating the Interaction between SARS-CoV2 NSP15 and Human E3 Ubiquitin Ligase using Molecular Docking Approach (RRI Biological Science and Engineering) | 11 | |
| $100 for Individual projects, IBM Award | |||||||
| Stanford (Jane Lathrop) Middle School | Kevin | Lynch | Rrishi | Anand | Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category | Simulating Self-Driving Cars' Effects on Traffic Congestion (Physical Science and Engineering) | 7 |