Registration required: August 14, 2025 – 7:00pm – 9:00pm Pacific Time | 2 CPEs
Session One – And the Winners Are…
Students from Las Positas College, Amador Valley High School, and Dublin High School share their winning presentations and the inspiration behind their subjects and proposed products. Please note that this is one of two sessions dedicated to student winners and our second student driven presentation will be December 11, 2025. We congratulate all of the winners at all three schools and honor them with free membership and Volunteer passes to participate in our next two ISC2 East Bay Chapter Conferences.
Las Positas College teams:
- Sidhant (Sid) Parashar: Tackling Adaptive Fraud Detection in Community College Enrollment Systems – Honors Computer Science Student, VP of ML Society, teaching spam classification, Cybersecurity enthusiast with CompTIA ITF+ and Python training
- Anatoly Tsigelnik: Honors Data Science Student @ Las Positas College
- Hannah Roddy: Power Grids and Autonomous Agents, Hannah Roddy, Undergrad CS Junior, Cybersecurity Intern at LLNL Summer 2024 and 2025.
Amador Valley High School teams: The Politok Team:
Polititok is an app that makes it easy for people to see what their representatives are up to in Congress. Vardaan Singhania, Noah Small, Gabi Minto, and Aryan Das are incoming college freshmen who have completed two or more years of Computer Science classes at our high school, including the Advanced Computer Science for the Contemporary World, a project-based class. This app was our capstone project for that class, and over the summer we will be fleshing out to hopefully launch a full-fledged product available for public use.
Amador Valley High School teams: The College Assistant Bot, Counselor Pablo Team:
An Advanced Computer Science Capstone Project from Amador Valley High School, this presentation showcases Counselor Pablo, a personalized college counseling web application. Designed to assist students with academic planning, college selection, and essay preparation, the platform leverages user inputs and admissions data to deliver customized, real-time support. The project emphasizes accessibility, scalability, and the potential of student-developed tools to enhance the college application experience.
- Colin Lambert: a cybersecurity student, educator, and club leader with hands on experience in both academic and practical cybersecurity environments. He recently finished his term as the treasurer and lead instructor for his high school’s cybersecurity club, where he coaches students for competitions and leads lessons on topics including network security, cryptography, and ethical hacking. Outside of teaching, Colin has competed in multiple CTFs and other cybersecurity competitions over this past year, highlighting with a 1st place at Lockheed Martin’s Cyberquest, 28th place in picoCTF 2025, ~25th in the Spring 2025 USCC Cyber Quest, along with many others.
- Tvisha Choubey: a high school senior and aspiring computer scientist passionate about using technology for social good. With a strong interest in artificial intelligence and its applications in mental health, she has developed impactful projects such as Happy Hub, an AI-powered mental health tracker that won the Congressional App Challenge for California District 15 and achieved RISE Global Finalist. She also conducted research on using language patterns in social media posts to detect signs of depression, which she presented at the MIT Undergraduate Research Technology Conference. As a NCWIT National Honorable Mention awardee, Tvisha has been recognized nationally for her technical innovation and advocacy for women in STEM. She also interned at 101 GenAI, where she helped build AI tools for suicide risk detection and grant-writing automation in healthcare. Outside of her technical work, Tvisha is a passionate mentor, teaching young girls to code at The Coder School and through Girls Who Code. She hopes to pursue a degree in Computer Engineering, with long-term goals of building ethical AI systems that address critical challenges in healthcare and beyond.
- April Baxter: is a senior in high school with a strong interest in computer science. She is passionate about understanding how technology can be used to create secure, engaging, and meaningful experiences. April has demonstrated her dedication and teamwork through four years in the school’s marching band and two years in winter percussion, balancing rigorous commitments with academic excellence. She also contributed to her school community by designing and painting a teacher appreciation mural, a months-long project that now hangs in a faculty office. April is eager to continue building her technical skills and explore how cybersecurity can be used to protect information and inspire innovation.
Dublin High School teams: (Presenting on December 11th, 2025)– Winners of the DHS 2025 ISC2 East Bay Cybersecurity Award
- Shashank Shankar: StablePay: A Modern Stablecoin Wallet Link to Video Presentation StablePay is a modern stablecoin wallet that aims to solve the RTGS and ACH issues with transferring money by providing a platform for sending/receiving and topping up stablecoins. Moreover, StablePay also provides payment solutions (similar to Stripe, Ayden, and Square) for stablecoin applications.
- Nikhilesh Suravarjjala, Shikhar Jayswal, Advay Katkol, Tarun Rajesh: Ember Sentinels Link to Video Presentation Ember Sentinels is an affordable and scalable sticker that detects wildfires before they even start. Using reversible chemical reactions that respond to temperature, humidity, and stress signals from plants, these stickers provide a color-based detection system to help suppress and prevent wildfires before they become a major threat.
- Sayam Bhavan, Lucas Farmer, Daniel Merham, and Oliver Merham: Repair Link to Video Presentation REPAIR is an AI powered software that connects to bluetooth OBD-II scanners to translate complicated car error codes into simple explanations, and instructions for all car users to understand what’s wrong with their car, and what they can do to fix it.
- Adithya Gnanasundar, Andre Poghosyan, Cameron Tibunsay: Mindpath Link to Video Presentation
- Iji Heo, Sophia Lee, Ashwika Sangani: JACKPOM Link to Video Presentation Combining pomodoro style studying with the rush of winning a jackpot, JackPom! creates an incentive for even the least motivated students. The idea of reward uncertainty is used to add a gambling aspect to the amount of break time “won” or “lost” by users. We hope that by making our product fun and engaging, we can begin to limit the impacts of screen addiction.
- Amir Eftekhar, Jonathan Song, Arjun Chakraborty, Arpit Jena; SpectRaX Link to Video Presentation SpectRaX is the first wearable to monitor blood glucose, hemoglobin, oxygen, and cholesterol noninvasively using light. It eliminates the need for painful blood draws by continuously predicting biomarkers through your wrist.
Session Two – Business Continuity and Disaster Recovery (BCDR) meet Model Context Protocol (MCP)
In this session, we’ll discuss the five pillars of AI-empowered BCDR.
- AI Infrastructure Resilience: Safeguarding customers’ investments in their AI infrastructure, ensuring that their applications, data, vector databases, and even models are as secure and resilient as other business-critical data.
- Data Intelligence: Leveraging data protected by Veeam for AI applications, provided by Veeam, delivered through partners, and created by customers, creating significant additional value.
- Data Security: Using state-of-the-art AI and ML techniques in our market-leading malware, ransomware, and threat detection features to enhance security.
- Admin Assist: Empowering backup admins with AI-driven support, guidance, and recommendations of an AI-assistant.
- Data Resilience Operations: Intelligent backups, restores, policy creation, and sensitive data analysis based on risk indicators and desired outcomes.
After spending 14 years as a systems administrator as a Veeam customer, Brett Gavin joined Veeam in 2019 to continue sharing important knowledge about BCDR strategies using the best industry standard cyber resiliency tools available.
With Veeam’s data resilience, your company can secure and restore all of your data, whenever and wherever you need it, no matter what happens. Why? Because Veeam’s mission is to help every company in the world become radically resilient, able not just to bounce back after a data disruption, but to bounce forward.
