Homestead High School

Project Awards 2023

Synopsys Silicon Valley Science and Technology Championship

School	Teacher		Student		Award	Title	Gr
Homestead High School	Sam	Fung	Youngwoo	Tahk	$100 and Certificate of Achievement, Schonert Award	A New Environmentally Conscious Tennis Ball (Physical Science and Engineering)	11
	Daniel	Nunez	Diya	Bengani	Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category	Wearable Plantar Pressure Sensor for GPS-Based Alert System (Physical Science and Engineering)	11
					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
			Julian Cloud	Ng-Thow-Hing	Outstanding Project, Certificate (any field and all grades) $200, SPV Market Research "Most Promising Young Scientist"	A machine learning algorithm to predict muscle activations during motions performed in real time (Physical Science and Engineering)	11
			Roshni	Parulekar-Martins	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	RandomRibo: A Novel Tool for Transcript-Level Translation Elongation Velocity Determinant Identification at Single Codon (Biological Science and Engineering)	12
					1st Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category
	Kathleen	Shreve	Armaan Christopher	Gomes	1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category	Leveraging Genetic Algorithms and Mathematical Wildfire Propagation Models to Determine Optimal Firebreak Placement (Physical Science and Engineering)	10
					$100 for Individual projects and a certificate, IBM Award
			Samuel	Yuan	1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category	Leveraging Genetic Algorithms and Mathematical Wildfire Propagation Models to Determine Optimal Firebreak Placement (Physical Science and Engineering)	10
					$100 for Individual projects and a certificate, IBM Award