All interviews are on March 14th
Interviews - Selected Projects and Times
Congratulations to all students who submitted projects to the 2026 STEM Fair! Your hard work and dedication are truly commendable, and you should be proud of your achievement.
The projects listed below have been selected by the judges to advance to the interview phase of the STEM Fair. As in previous years, the fair will be held virtually, with interviews lasting approximately 20 minutes.
Please review all categories within your grade level to find your name, as your project category may have been adjusted from your initial submission.
The STEM Fair coordinator will be reaching out via email soon with further instructions.
Once again, congratulations to everyone who participated! If your project was not selected for the interview phase, we encourage you to try again next year. For those moving forward—best of luck in your interviews!
Student Instructions for the interview phase
| Project | Student(s) | Interview Time | Zoom Link |
|---|---|---|---|
| 06-BEH-01 — Cramming or Paced Studying Time | Raeya Feroz | 9:00 | Join Zoom |
| 06-BEH-02 — How good is a cat's short term memory? | Michael Knowles | 9:30 | Join Zoom |
| 06-ENV-02 — How fast will mold grow on different sliced breads? | Lia Katz | 9:00 | Join Zoom |
| 06-ENV-03 — PotBot - Your Personalized Watering Assistant | Onnika Chakraborty | 9:30 | Join Zoom |
| 06-ENV-04 — Healing Waters | Leo Savini | 10:00 | Join Zoom |
| 06-LIFE-01 — 5-second rule | Isabelle Sedrak | 10:00 | Join Zoom |
| 06-LIFE-02 — Amazing Additives! | Karina Rivera | 11:00 | Join Zoom |
| 06-LIFE-04 — Transformative Enzymes | Mia Li, Daisy Leung | 11:30 | Join Zoom |
| 06-MAT/COM-01 — PitchIQ | Carsten Le-Vu | 9:00 | Join Zoom |
| 06-MAT/COM-02 — The Shelf Scanner | Bodie Jasen | 9:30 | Join Zoom |
| 06-PHY-00 — Melting Ice | Alma Henry | 9:00 | Join Zoom |
| 06-PHY-01 — Building(S) for Quakes! | Oliver Romero, Mateo Contreras | 9:30 | Join Zoom |
| 06-PHY-03 — Cooking Beans! | Amalia Satyal | 10:00 | Join Zoom |
| 06-PHY-04 — Determining Conductivity of Different Salts in Water | Miles Fenster, Paul Saraiya | 11:00 | Join Zoom |
| 06-PHY-05 — Drying Out Moisturizing Soap Experimental Project | Natalie Okamoto | 11:30 | Join Zoom |
| 06-PHY-06 — Popping Boba With Different PHs | Maddie DeMartini, Emma Harper | 12:00 | Join Zoom |
| 06-PHY-07 — Seeing the Invisible | Katharine Besedynskyy | 1:00 | Join Zoom |
| 06-PROD-01 — Cleat Lab- Fab or Flab | Amelia Chao | 11:00 | Join Zoom |
| 06-PROD-02 — Sound Blockers | Kiran Patel | 11:30 | Join Zoom |
| 06-PROD-03 — Stress? Not On My Watch! | Andrew Wei, Parker Young | 12:00 | Join Zoom |
| 07-BEH-01 — Construction Chaos | Josie Hengehold, Arielle Rosner-Elson | 9:00 | Join Zoom |
| 07-BEH-05 — Is it Context or Content? | Leena Multani | 9:30 | Join Zoom |
| 07-BEH-07 — Remember in color | Kiara Frediani | 10:00 | Join Zoom |
| 07-BEH-09 — The Magic of Memorization | Diego Jugo | 11:00 | Join Zoom |
| 07-BEH-10 — To Sleep or Not To Sleep? That is the Question... | Vivien Shih | 11:30 | Join Zoom |
| 07-BEH-11 — Where's Waldo? | Dillon Lai | 12:00 | Join Zoom |
| 07-ENV-01 — Aftershock Oracle | Bowen Wang | 9:00 | Join Zoom |
| 07-ENV-05 — Evaluating the Effectiveness of Household Filtration Materials in Removing Microplastic-Like Particles from Water | Elisabeth La Rock | 9:30 | Join Zoom |
| 07-ENV-06 — Evaluating the Effectiveness of Household Filtration Saving Every Drop: Which Mulch Grows Radishes Best While Conserving Water in Redwood City? | Andrew Ferrante | 10:00 | Join Zoom |
| 07-ENV-07 — From Parking Lots to the Bay: Evaluating Everyday Materials for Oil Spill Cleanup in Redwood City | Milo Douglas | 11:00 | Join Zoom |
| 07-ENV-09 — Plants vs. Microplastics | Bruno Riol | 11:30 | Join Zoom |
| 07-ENV-11 — The Solution to Your Sunscreen Pollution | Alaina Vrionis, Charlotte Craig | 12:00 | Join Zoom |
| 07-LIFE-01 — Best Breakfast | Seren Mehta | 9:00 | Join Zoom |
| 07-LIFE-03 — Can AI Agents Interact And Create An Automated Protein Analysis Pipeline With Minimal Human Intervention? | Marko Wiita | 9:30 | Join Zoom |
| 07-LIFE-04 — Feasting Flatworms: How do Environmental Factors Impact Planaria? | Kaiya Narula | 10:00 | Join Zoom |
| 07-LIFE-05 — For How Long Are Carnivorous Plant Seeds Viable? | Emmy Wang | 11:00 | Join Zoom |
| 07-LIFE-10 — Keeping Apples Honest: A School-Based Kitchen Science Experiment on Natural Anti-Browning Solutions | Penelope Ganner | 11:30 | Join Zoom |
| 07-LIFE-13 — Natural isn’t Always Better: Researching how Food Dyes Affect Paramecium | Imogen Simon | 12:00 | Join Zoom |
| 07-LIFE-17 — The Best Way to Make Steak Tender | Kyle Hathwaik | 1:00 | Join Zoom |
| 07-MAT/COM-01 — CarePoint - One Stop Healthcare For All | Dilshaan Singh | 10:00 | Join Zoom |
| 07-MAT/COM-02 — Market Trade Timer | Martin Breslin | 11:00 | Join Zoom |
| 07-MAT/COM-03 — Seeing Music & Hearing Art: A Validated, Closed-Loop Translator Between Music and Art | Uma Fox | 11:30 | Join Zoom |
| 07-MAT/COM-04 — Smart Pothole Finder: A System That Uses Accelerometers and AI to Detect Road Hazards | Jay Tseng | 12:00 | Join Zoom |
| 07-MAT/COM-05 — The Impact of the Billionaire Tax on California State Tax Revenue | Evia Kwan | 1:00 | Join Zoom |
| 07-MAT/COM-06 — The Smart Mirror: Using AI to Improve Your Movements | Reva Palrecha | 1:30 | Join Zoom |
| 07-PHY-07 — Magnetic Trains | Nathan Cheung | 9:00 | Join Zoom |
| 07-PHY-10 — Plane and Simple, or is it? How to optimize a model glider | Max Yung | 9:30 | Join Zoom |
| 07-PHY-12 — Simulating Igneous Rock Formation | Henry Larsen | 10:00 | Join Zoom |
| 07-PHY-13 — The Sunscreen Dilemma | Anda Chen | 11:00 | Join Zoom |
| 07-PHY-15 — Triangle Face-Off: Which Triangle Type Holds the Most Weight? | Ansel McAfee | 11:30 | Join Zoom |
| 07-PHY-16 — Water Filtration for a Fraction | Athiksh Nambiar, Timothy Choi, Nolan Wong | 12:00 | Join Zoom |
| 07-PHY-17 — What Light Is Right? | Ella Valle | 1:00 | Join Zoom |
| 07-PROD-03 — Chemistry and It’s Unlikely Effects on Hair | Anshi Agarwal | 9:00 | Join Zoom |
| 07-PROD-04 — Don't Crack Under Pressure | Adelia Mui, Sophie Chung | 9:30 | Join Zoom |
| 07-PROD-05 — Drink Contamination | Ayan Roychowdhury | 12:00 | Join Zoom |
| 07-PROD-06 — Making The Most Attractive Large Wide-Body Aircraft To Airlines and the People | Alexander Lin | 10:00 | Join Zoom |
| 07-PROD-07 — Project Picasso | Margot Wall | 11:00 | Join Zoom |
| 07-PROD-08 — The Best Oil Blotting Paper | Olivia Hom, Camille Marcal | 11:30 | Join Zoom |
| 08-BEH-01 — "Ping!" There Goes Your Focus | Thea Cooper | 9:00 | Join Zoom |
| 08-BEH-04 — Do humans have a shared sense of Disgust? | Jack Saffell | 9:30 | Join Zoom |
| 08-BEH-07 — Mission: Memory | Vir Rao, Sonia Stocky | 10:00 | Join Zoom |
| 08-BEH-08 — Paper, Pixels, and Performance | Ariana Kurich, William Selchau-Hansen | 11:00 | Join Zoom |
| 08-BEH-11 — Screen or Teacher? Middle School Math Learning Experiences | Raghav Kheterpal, Ishaan Sen | 11:30 | Join Zoom |
| 08-BEH-12 — The A-Maze_ing Race! | Dylan Geiser | 12:00 | Join Zoom |
| 08-BEH-13 — Velcro Words | Tabby Kaiman | 1:00 | Join Zoom |
| 08-ENV-01 — Autonomous drones for early water contamination detection through modified multispectral vision | Eshaan Roychowdhury | 9:00 | Join Zoom |
| 08-ENV-02 — BinBuddy: AI Trash-Sorting Robot For Kids | Lyra Bloom | 9:30 | Join Zoom |
| 08-ENV-03 — Color Into Energy | Alisa Vlasova | 10:00 | Join Zoom |
| 08-ENV-04 — ECO SORT - An AI Powered Waste Sorting App | Justin Tha | 11:00 | Join Zoom |
| 08-ENV-05 — Flowless | Annabelle Yu | 11:30 | Join Zoom |
| 08-ENV-10 — Type of filter effectiveness of removing microplastic | Elsa Forster | 12:00 | Join Zoom |
| 08-LIFE-01 — Ant Colony Simulation | Daniel Delima | 12:30 | Join Zoom |
| 08-LIFE-02 — Crazy for Caffeine | Lucy Stariha | 1:00 | Join Zoom |
| 08-LIFE-03 — Is Lactose Necessary for Milk Fermentation? (The Tale of Yogurt) | Erdem Cakmak | 1:30 | Join Zoom |
| 08-MAT/COM-01 — Can Public Market Sentiment Predict Stock Market Returns? | Christopher Lorilla | 9:00 | Join Zoom |
| 08-MAT/COM-02 — How Does Distance Affect Batting Averages? | Wyatt Gunning | 9:30 | Join Zoom |
| 08-MAT/COM-03 — Remote Barnacle: Designing and Engineering a Smart Remote Locator | Dallas Zhang | 10:00 | Join Zoom |
| 08-MAT/COM-04 — SMART-BLIND STICK: Enhancing Mobility and Safety for the Visually Impaired | Krishav Jain | 11:00 | Join Zoom |
| 08-MAT/COM-05 — Using Machine Learning to Minimize Sea Wall Induced Sand Regression | Brendan Pojunas | 11:30 | Join Zoom |
| 08-MAT/COM-06 — How much better is a trained AI verses an untrained AI in recognizing similar faces | Aviad Levi | 12:00 | Join Zoom |
| 08-PHY-01 — Affordable Rapid Prototyping | Louis Guo | 9:00 | Join Zoom |
| 08-PHY-02 — Blowin' in the Wind | Joseph Demerjian | 9:30 | Join Zoom |
| 08-PHY-03 — Catport Security | Shakti Vinay, Zoe Chan | 10:00 | Join Zoom |
| 08-PHY-06 — Fold Away Fear- Grip N Go: Improving the Shower Grab Bar with Folding Mechanics | Theo Karabelos | 11:00 | Join Zoom |
| 08-PHY-10 — Interactive 3D Sound Antenna for Real-Time Sound Localization and Visualization | Andrew Park | 11:30 | Join Zoom |
| 08-PHY-15 — No Cracks, No Stress: New and Improved Egg Carton Design | Sofia Morgan | 12:00 | Join Zoom |
| 08-PHY-16 — Slow and Steady Wins the Race: Best Parachute Shape | Lucas Jung | 1:00 | Join Zoom |
| 08-PHY-23 — Illuminating the Danger: Using Lasers for Better Detection of Forest Fires in Low Visibility | Ofri Grossinger | 1:30 | Join Zoom |
| 08-PROD-01 — Battle of the Bats | Lola Lovelace | 9:00 | Join Zoom |
| 08-PROD-02 — Beat the Heat | Julia Chiueh | 9:30 | Join Zoom |
| 08-PROD-03 — Dye-Namics: How Developer Percentages Transform the Hair | Jovie Furstoss | 10:00 | Join Zoom |
| 08-PROD-05 — Tearing Limits | Orlando Wood | 11:00 | Join Zoom |
| 08-PROD-06 — Using AI to help students study and prepare for exams | Everest Tschannen | 11:30 | Join Zoom |
| 08-PROD-07 — Which World Record Paper Airplane Design Works Best (consistently for beginners) | Nikhil Jha | 12:00 | Join Zoom |