Alameda Science and Engineering Fair
 To learn more about the fair, visit www.acsef.org.

Stratford Fremont Middle School Award Winners:

• Middle School Science Grand Award:
  
  • Ayana Baul (8th) –Blue Horizons: Predicting and Preventing Algae Blooms
• 1st Place:
  • Ayana Baul (8th) –Blue Horizons: Predicting and Preventing Algae Blooms
• 1st Place:
  • Kunal Agrawal (7th) -Harness The Sun: Solar Trackers With a New Power Conservation System
• 1st Place:
  • Anisha Haldar & Arushi Telukuntla (7th) -Combating Wild Fires with Fire-Resistant Panels
• 1st Place:
  • Matteo Asuncion, Aarav Gajera (7th) –The Effect of Different Fuels on Heating

• 2nd Place:
  • Aarna Parikh (8th) -Smart Glasses for the Visually Impaired
• 2nd Place:
  • Akhil Kolluru (8th) -Testing the Effect of Mycorrhizal Fungi on the Growth and Drought Tolerance of Sorghum Bicolor in Droughts
• 2nd Place:
  • Navya Narendran (7th) –Quantifying Radiofrequency Radiation Emitted by Household Devices
• 2nd Place:
  • Hanaa Usmani fxx (6th) –Combatting Droughts with Oranges and Avocados
• 2nd Place:
  • Colin Huwe, Ching Mun Kok, Matthew Leung (6th) –Can Magnets Stop a Train?
• 2nd Place:
  • Elan Mahesh (7th) –Making A Machine that Detects Color
• 2nd Place:
  • Tannishq Kakar (6th) –Harnessing Ocean Currents To Save Coral Reefs Using Triboelectric Nanogenerators
• 2nd Place:
  • Saren Krishnapillai (6th) –Attention Monitoring Device
• 2nd Place:
  • Elaine He (7th) -Measuring Electrical Resistance of Sodium Chloride and Calcium Chloride Solutions
• 2nd Place:
  • Siddhansh Gautham (6th) –Electricity Produced in Salt Water and Metals
• 2nd Place:
  • Shiven Vepa (6th) – Allergen Exposure Due to Cross Contact on Continuously Operating Griddle
• 3rd Place:
  • Benjamin Khosravani, Kain Li (7th) -Testing Which Plant Based Milk Has the Most Protein
• 3rd Place:
  • Emily Lin (6th) -Buoyancy VS Boat Volume
• 4th Place:
  • Max Wang, Fangming Zhang (7th) – Testing the Effectiveness of Antimicrobials in Natural Substance
• 5th Place:
  • Tanmayee Movva (6th) – Preventing Soil Erosion
• Regional Sponsored Awards – U.S. Metric Association:
  • Anisha Haldar, Arushi Telukuntla (7th):Combating wildfires with fire-resistant panels
• Regional Sponsored Awards – Association for Women Geoscientists:
  • Anisha Haldar, Arushi Telukuntla (7th):Combating wildfires with fire-resistant panels
• ACSEF President’s Award & The Bill Frank Lifetime Achievement Award:
  • Ayana Baul (8th) -Blue Horizons: Predicting and Preventing Algae Blooms
    

Stratford Pleasanton Middle School Award Winners:

• 1st Place + Thermo Fisher Scientific Junior Innovators Challenge Nominees + ADVANCING EQUITY THROUGH INNOVATION AWARD:
  • Naman Sethi (7th) –Horticultural Hydrogels and Cultivating Compost
• 1st Place:
  • Aaron Frangos (6th) –Refreshable Braille Display
• 1st Place:
  • Mohana Shri Sendilraj (6th) –Walking Power
• 2nd Place:
  • Anvi Tandon (8th) – An Innovative device for emotion detection
• 2nd Place:
  • Shresta Hadimani (7th) –Upcycle Paper Products into Plantable Seed Paper
• 2nd Place:
  • Enya Yang (7th) –Basics of Photography
• 2nd Place:
  • Nicola Apte, Aarushi Viswanathan (7th) -Radiation Household Items Emit
• 2nd Place:
  • Rohan Kommana (6th) –Which Material Blocks Sound the Most Effectively?
• 2nd Place:
  • Myra Sharma (8th) –Exploring Tay-Sachs Disease and its’ Associated SNPs: an Insight through Bioinformatic Resource
• 2nd Place:
  • Rudra Garg, Siddarth Nanniyur (8th) -Protein-Ligand Binding Affinity Prediction using Transformer Models for Accelerated Drug Discovery.
• 2nd Place:
  • Sanika Kris (8th) –Skin cell Damage prediction using an AI model
• 3rd Place:
  • Sakshi Kulkarni, Aasmi Suryavanshi (8th) –Self-driving cars : Safe or not?
• 3rd Place:
  • Anya Lakhani, Samantha Pan, Shalvi Srivastava (6th) –Can We Design an Affordable Electric Cooler?
• 3rd Place:
  • Rudra Chaudhri (6th) –Robotic Arm
• 3rd Place
  • Isabella Myladumkunnel (6th) –Human Powered Energy
• 3rd Place:
  • Dwaipayan Pattanaik (8th) –Detecting Lung Cancer with 99% accuracy using a ML(machine learning) model
• 4th Place:
  • Ariv Ankola, Adwait Dash, Shiv Sharma (6th) –Clean-It, Trash Picking Robot
• 4th Place:
  • Rithvi Balajee (7th) –Designing Body Armor out of a Shear-Thickening Fluid
• Thermo Fisher Scientific Advancing Equity through Innovation Award:
  • Naman Sethi (7th) –Horticultural Hydrogels and Cultivating Compost

Orange County Science and Engineering Fair (OCSEF)
To learn more, visit https://ocsef.org. 

Stratford Mission Viejo Middle School Award Winners:

• 2nd Place in Physiology and Medical Biology Category:
  • Carter Unten (8th)
• 3rd Place in Physiology and Medical Biology Category:
  • Zoe Unten (6th)
• Honorable Mention in Fluids and Aerodynamics
  • Sava Krstic (7th)
• Orange County Sanitation District Environmental Stewardship Special Award
  • Arlinn Xhuli (7th)
• Honorable Mention in Chemistry
  • Rianna Makki, Sunny Deng, Nina Yu (6th)

Los Angeles County Science and Engineering Fair 
To learn more, visit https://www.lascifair.org.

Stratford Altadena Middle School Award Winners:

• 1st Place:
  • Liliana Ponnezhan (8th)
• Honorable Mention:
  • Lyla Davila(7th) –Recognizing Dogs and Human Emotions

Synopsys Science and Technology Championship
To learn more, visit https://science-fair.org/.

Stratford Palo Alto Middle School Award Winners:

• Lower Division: Honorable Mention Student Award: $65 and Certificate of Achievement, Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Honorable Mention, Physical Science and Engineering Category
  • Theo Bererton (6th)
• Honorable Mention – Certificate of Achievement, SAMPE – Society for the Advancement of Material and Process Engineering
  •  Nirav Iyer (7th)
• Exceptional Merit, Certificate (all Grades), SPV Market Research
  • Rhea Prakash (7th)
• 1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category IEEE Electro-Technology $25 Amazon gift card and a certificate, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
  • Diya Sawhney (7th)
• 1st Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category Most Promising Young Scientist, $150 and Certificate (Middle School GR 6-8), SPV Market Research
  • Alexis Sheng (6th)
• Honorable Mention – Certificate of Achievement, SAMPE – Society for the Advancement of Material and Process Engineering
  • Adhwaith Somavarapu (7th)
• 1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category IEEE Electro-Technology $25 Amazon gift card and a certificate, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
  • Shravan Vijay (7th)

Stratford San Jose Middle School Award Winners:

• 1st Place:
  • Krishna Virwani (6th)
• 1st Place:
  • Ryan Mneimneh (6th)
• Most Promising Young Scientist:
  • Anwita Appineni (7th)
• Merit Award (From Synopsys Championship and California Inventions Convention):
  • Shaurya Sharma (7th)

Stratford Preparatory Blackford Award Winners:

• First place in her category, an Honorable Mention from the Association for Computing Machinery, and the Isabelle Stone Award for Best Biological Science Project, which also qualified her for the CA Science and Engineering Fair (CSEF)
  • Saanjali Vinay (6th) –Sensor Smart Cane
• 2nd Place:
  • Kirk Kang (8th) –AcuScale: An Innovative Approach to a Healthy Diet
• Honorable Mention:
  • Nihar Bhatt (11th) –Drowsiness and Road Sign Detection System
• Honorable Mention in her category and first place and $1500 in the Junior Division for the Saber Family Foundation Scholar Prize:
  • Saanjali Vinay (6th)
• Honorable Mention:
  • Eva Patel (11th) –Analyzing Binding Affinities of Various Polyphenols to Abnormal Prion Protein As Treatment to Creutzfeldt-Jacob Disease

Stratford Milpitas Middle School Award Winners:

• 1st Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category, $250 + certificate + a signed book + brunch with Bob Zeidman, Zeidman Award, IEEE Electro-Technology $25 Amazon gift card and a certificate, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers :
  • Gaogao Lang (7th) –Smart Irrigate: Efficient Watering For Thriving Plants (Physical Science and Engineering)
• 2nd Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category & Exceptional Merit, Certificate (all Grades), SPV Market Research:
  • Aditi Bharadwaj (6th)  –Effect Of Temperature on Butterfly Development (Biological Science and Engineering)
• 2nd Award, Physical Science and Engineering Category:
  • Samarth Iyer (8th) –Bright Beginnings (Physical Science and Engineering)
• 2nd Award, Biological Science and Engineering Category & Lower Division : Grand Prize Student Award: $625 and Certificate of Achievement, Association for Computing Machinery (ACM):
  • Vivann Partani (7th) –Robotic Prosthetic Arm Prototype (Biological Science and Engineering)
• Honorable Mention, Biological Science and Engineering Category:
  • Aahana swapnil Mhatre (6th) -Measuring the Growth of Plants Using Different Amounts and Types of Hydrogels (Biological Science and Engineering)
• Middle School Student – Certificate of Achievement, Letter of Congratulations from the Chief of Naval Research, and Medallion, Office of Naval Research -United States Navy/ US Marine Corps
  • Saanvi Powar (6th) –Cleaning Up Oil Spills (Physical Science and Engineering)

• California Science and Technology Fair (CSEF) – Honorable mention for the atmospheric science air and water category (junior).
  • Aditi Bharadwaj (6th) -Effect Of Temperature on Butterfly Development (Biological Science and Engineering)
• California Science and Technology Fair (CSEF) – Horace Lucicich Award -Outstanding Teacher & ACM -Certificate Award:
  • Lekhana Revankar (Teacher)

San Francisco Middle School Science Fair (hosted by the Randall Museum) 
To learn more about the fair, visit https://randallmuseum.org/annual-middle-school-science-fair/www.acsef.org.

Stratford San Francisco Middle School Award Winners:

• 1st Place:
  • Victoria Filipov (7th) –Can Organic Hydrogels (varied mixtures of Agar, Hydroxyethyl Cellulose (HEC), and Agar-HEC mix hydrogel) Conserve Water in Farming?
• 1st Place:
  • Yoltzin Newman-Salazar (6th) –How Do Different Passive Cooling Designs Affect Indoor Temperatures?
• 2nd Place:
  • Adam Petronijevic (6th) –Effects of Water Pollution on Photosynthesis (Using Food Coloring To Represent Water Pollution)
• 2nd Place:
  • Christopher Lai (7th) –Which cooking method (baking, boiling, or sauteing) will result in the worst air quality (most pollutants in parts per million)?
• 2nd Place:
  • Claire Lin (7th) –How Will the Length of the Constructed Version of a “Leonardo da Vinci Bridge” Affect Its Ability to Hold Large Quantities of Mass?
• 2nd Place:
  • Karcher Brown (6th) –Are Plant-based Compostable Resealable Bags an Acceptable Substitute for Plastic Resealable Bags in Storing Food?
• 2nd Place:
  • Shriya Sudesh (7th) –Comparing Desalination Methods of Distilled Water Containing Sodium Chloride
• 3rd Place:
  • Adi Udaygiri (7th) –Which kind of bumper (aluminum, foam, or wood) would minimize impact acceleration the most when an RC car was test-crashed from 1.5 meters away?
• 3rd Place
  • Angelina Lam (6th) –Which Type of Rock: Granite, Marble, and Limestone, Can Last Best Under Acidic Conditions (erosion)?
• 3rd Place:
  • Celine Kha (7th) -Modeling the Effects of Acid Rain on Plant Growth
• 3rd Place:
  • Isabella Talavera (6th) –What is the Most Effective Way to Filter Seawater: a Water Filter, a Camping Water Filter or Coffee Filter?
• 3rd Place:
  • Jamie Miki (6th) –What wing shape rises the highest/fastest: oval, right triangle, diamond, semicircle, or a rhombus-shaped wing?
• 3rd Place:
  • Lily Phiasivongsa (6th) –Which Solar Cell Produces More Energy?
• 3rd Place:
  • Niklas Ibanez (7th) –Can Indoor Hydroponics be the Future of Farming and Food Production Worldwide Instead of the Traditional Soil Method?
• 3rd Place:
  • Renee Zhao (7th) –Comparing the Growth of Plants Watered Separately with Greywater (watere from sinks, bathtubs, and washing machines) and Freshwater
• Honorable Mention:
  • Abraham Boukai (6th) –Does the Height of a Rocket Depend on how much Fuel is in the Engine?
• Honorable Mention:
  • Elise Davenport (7th) –Which Seawall Material (Vinyl, Concrete, Wood) Allows the Least Amount of Water to Seep Through?
• Honorable Mention:
  • Greyson Lanzi (7th) –How Does Aluminum Foil Affect the Amount of Energy Used by a SousVide (Cooking Process)?
• Honorable Mention:
  • Ivy Du (7th) –What Kind of Wax (Paraffin, Beeswax, or Soywax) Makes Candles Burn the Longest?

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