Students shine at Synopsys

Local competitors do well at tech competition

Wow there’s so many people here!”

As students step into the large their science projects fill the room.

Each project is an amalgamation of the hun dreds of hours of work that every student spends on their topics, with countless judges roaming every aisle, looking for anything that catches their keen eye.

The Synopsys Science and Technology Championship, presented by the San ta Clara Valley Science & Engineering Fair Association, is an annual science fair competition for students in Santa Clara County.

Taking place every March in San Jose, Synopsys is the first step for stu dents in Silicon Valley to qualify for the state, national and international level for science fairs.

This year, a total of seven stu dents participated in the competition through Palo Alto High School.

Grand Prize Alternate Vince Wu, who is a sophomore at Paly explained the experiences he gained participating in the competition, as well as the long winded process to imagine and implement an idea.

“It was almost a year really from start ing the genesis of it and data collection, to really finishing it and presenting it,” Wu said.

The Synopsys Champion ship has a total of 14 fields of study that students can choose for their project, including An imal Sciences, Computational Biology, Mathematics, Mechanical Engineering, and more.

In Wu’s case, he used machine learning to predict the activities of honeybees based on weather

As for the judging process itself, students have a set of criteria they must follow. These ect itself(if applicable), and a project tion was conducted, along with its safety to make sure that the student scientist follows correct scientific son fair. So you get there, you set up your poster board and the ever time they want, and they give you a very quick interview with questions about your project, where they try to, I guess discern the

Synopsys offers over $60,000 in cific awards for Grand Prize, Grand Prize Alternate, 1st, 2nd, and 3rd Place for each

Additionally, the top 12 projects from the competition qualifying directly to the International Science and Engineering Fair,

“Yes Yes, I will definitely participate in