Alameda County Science and Engineering Fair
ACSEF 2025
SET-UP | Friday, March 14, 2025
Location: Chabot College, Hayward campus
Times: 3:00 - 8:00 PM
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JUDGING | Saturday, March 15, 2025
Location: Chabot College, Hayward campus
Times: 8:00 AM - 4:00 PM
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AWARDS | Sunday March 16, 2025
Location: Alameda County Fairgrounds, Building C
Times: 2:00 PM - 4:30 PM (Doors Open at 1:30 PM)
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ACSEF 2025 CSEF & ISEF Results
ISEF Results:
Joshua Wu, Dublin High School, 2nd Place Category Award $2,400 - Biomedical and Health Sciences
Project Title: Molecular Arsonists: Degrading Oncogenic Transcription Factors to Reverse Tumor Cell Immortality
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Saanvi Gudisay and Shivansh Bansal, Dublin High School, 2nd Place Category Award $2,400 - Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Project Title: Allosteric Regulation of Ectopically Expressed Olfactory Receptors in Tumor Cells: Ligand-Receptor Topology and Deep Learning-Assisted Drug Discovery
Ryka Chopra, Mission San Jose High School, 4th Place Category Award $600 – Earth and Environmental Sciences
Project Title: CryoStrat-RL: A Dynamic Graph-Game Framework for Arctic Conservation Using Reinforcement Learning
Aksh Parekh, Washington High School, and Neev Tamboli, American High School, 4th Place Category Award $600 – Environmental Engineering
Project Title: HydroROOT: Hydrogel-Mediated Nutrient Mobilization & Soil Hydration to Counter Desertification
CSEF Results:
​Iccha Agadi, Wells Middle School, 4th Place
Jeevpreet Ahluwalia, Dublin High School, 3rd Place
Bhadresh Kumar Arun Kumar, Wells Middle School, 4th Place
Ayana Baul, Stratford School Fremont Osgood, 5th Place
Yuhaendan Bhaskaran, American High School, 1st Place
Andrew Chyu, Dublin High School, 5th Place
Aadi Dahake, Amador Valley High School, 3rd Place
Shaunak Jog, American High School, 1st Place
Aarush Katakam, Dublin High School, 3rd Place
Yilin Liu, Amador Valley High School, 2nd Place
Cynthia Lu, Challenger School - Ardenwood, 1st Place
Niya Panchumarthi, John M. Horner Middle School, 2nd Place
Abhigya Pandey, BASIS Independent Fremont Upper, 1st Place
Yookta Pandit, Quarry Lane School, 2nd Place
Abhay Polavajram, American High School, 1st Place
Rushika Raval, Irvington High School, 5th Place
Sanjith Satish, Dublin High School, 3rd Place
Kethan Vegunta, Amador Valley High School, 3rd Place
Savannah Wu, Challenger School - Ardenwood, 2nd Place