Student Awards

2023-SIMSEF

26 students from Redlands Unified School District represented RUSD at the  2023 San Bernardino, Inyo, and Mono Counties Science & Engineering Fair. Gold Medal winners in the Junior Division Division were Jayden Liu from Cope Middle school and Natalie Jones  from Moore Middle school. Gold medal winner in Senior Division were  Amanda Liu  from Redlands High school, Deacon Carreon  and Michael Dahlgren from Redlands East valley high school.


2023 NCWIT-Aspirations in Computing Award


Shriya Narayanan, Senior at Redlnds High school and Nikita Jos, a junior at Redlands High School, were honored for their demonstrated interest and achievements in computing, proven leadership ability, and academic performance. Additionally, Deepika Srivastava, STEAM & Innovation Coordinator received the Educator of the Year award.

2023 Rube Goldberg Competition

In February 2023, Orangewood High school won the second place in the senior division at the SanBernardino County Rube Goldberg Competition. They also won the Creative Spark Award. 

2023 Rube Goldberg Competition

In February 2023, Kingsbury Elementary school  won the 2nd place at the SanBernardino County Chain Reaction competition. Kingsbury also won the Sportsmanship Award. 

Mission 16 Student Spaceflight Experiment Program

Research project “The Effect of Microgravity on Weevils (Sitophilus oryzae) found in Rice” proposed by Cadet Major Krstenasky, Cadet Caption Nunez,  Cadet First lieutenant Daguerresar,  and Cadet Sergent Martinez under the guidance of Teacher Ionne Barnes-Joshua  and Mr.Paul DeVoe from Redlands High School has been selected for the Mission 16 to International Space Station that is scheduled for launch on November 18. 2022. 

http://ssep.ncesse.org/communities/experiments-selected-for-flight/selected-experiments-on-ssep-mission-16-to-iss/#redlands  

Mission 16 SSEP Patch Design Competition

Patches created by RUSD students Hailey Collinsworth,  and Mia Caliva, under the guidance of Teacher Advisor-Amanda Betts.  from Citrus Valley High School have been selected to fly to the International Space Station on November 18. 2022. 



2022 International Science & Engineering Fair

Varun Srivastava, a junior at Redlands High School, created a machine learning model to predict the onset of depressive disorder

2022 Skills USA Competition

12 engineering and computer science  students from Citrus Valley High School competed in the Ca State Skills USA competition. Ethan Tao won the first place in the carbon dioxide dragster Category, Blake Benfield won the Second Place in computer Programming competition and Nicholas Moreno won the Third Place in the carbon dioxide dragster Category.


2022-SIMSEF

16 students from Redlands Unified School District represented RUSD at the  2022 San Bernardino, Inyo, and Mono Counties Science & Engineering Fair. Gold Medal winners in the Elementary Division were Mathew Li, Jayden Liu and Amelia Rush from Bryn Mawr Elementary school.Gold Medal winners in the Junior Division Division were Benjamin Jordan and Michael flyn from Moore Middle school. Gold medal winner in Senior Division was Varun Srivastava from Redlands High school


2021 Congressional App Challenge

Varun Srivastava, Shriyaa Narayanan, Abhisri Narayanan, and Dexter Xu from Redlands High School created the WeConnect App, which allows high school students to engage with each other over specific school-related topics, addressing address students’ social and emotional needs, mental well being, all while mitigating learning loss.

2021 Broadcom Master

Leilla Roloff from Moore Middle school was selected as Broadcom Masters Nominee from San Bernardino County

2021 Broadcom Master

Aabir Khan from Cope Middle school was selected as Broadcom Masters Nominee from San Bernardino County.

2021 International Science & Engineering Fair

Varun Srivastava, a sophomore at Redlands High School, created a model based on COVID-19 and Census data that could predict Census tracts and counties that were of high risk for COVID-19.

2021 Department of Defense STEM Award


Varun Srivastava, a sophomore at Redlands High School, created a model based on COVID-19 and Census data that could predict Census tracts and counties that were of high risk for COVID-19.

2020 Worldwide Swift Developer Challenge

Varun Srivastava, a freshman at Redlands High School, created a simulation based on San Bernardino County's COVID-19 data that illustrated the impact of stay-at-home measures for preventing infections and deaths.

2020 Congressional App Challenge

William Porayouw, Richa Jos, Diya Theodore, and Sanjana Fernando from Redlands High School created the Eudemonia app, which makes mental health check-in’s accessible and personalized.

2020 Chain Reaction

In February 2020, Orangewood High school won the second place in the senior division at the SanBernardino County Chain Reaction Competition. They also won the USEL Innovation Award. 

2020 Chain Reaction

In February 2020, Smiley elementary School and Kingsbury Elementary school  took 1st & 2nd in place at the SanBernardino County Chain Reaction competition. Smiley also won the USEL Innovation Award  and Kingsbury won the Artistic Award. 

2020 NCWIT


Vidhi Srivastava, a junior at Redlands High School, was honored her for her demonstrated interest and achievements in computing, proven leadership ability, and academic performance.

2019 Rube Goldberg Award

Franklin Elementary School students won second place at the Inland Empire RUBE GOLDBERG competition organized by the San Bernardino County. The event allowed students to collaborate as a team to create a complex machine designed to achieve a simple task. This year's competition was called, "Put Money In A Pig." 

2019 Congressional App Challenge

Varun Srivastava, a freshman at Redlands High School, created the We Will app, which taught users about simple ways to reduce their carbon footprint and could calculate and track the user's carbon emissions based on entered data.

2019 ISEF


William Porayouw, a sophomore at Redlands High School, constructed novel core shell nanostructures that utilized titania and copper in order to optimize photocatalytic efficiency.

2017 Computer Science Champion Award


In December 2017, At the CS Ed Week Kickoff Event hosted by code.org, Vidhi Srivastava, a freshman at Redlands High School, received the Champion of Computer Science Award in the Student category 

Student Presentations

2023- CUE CONFERENCE

12 RUSD students from Smiley Elementary, BrynMawr Elementary,  Moore Middle, Citrus Valley, and Redlands High schools, showcased their STEAM projects at the CUE Conference at the Palm Springs Convention Center on March 18th. 

2022- CA STEAM SYMPOSIUM 

20 RUSD studnets from Smiley Elementary School, Beattie Middle School, Clement Middle School, Cope Middle School, Moore Middle School, eAcademy,  Citrus Valley High School, and  Redlands showcased at the 10th California STEAM Symposium in October 2022. Students shared their learning experiences RUSD-UCR Summer Engineering, Robotics Academy and CSTEM Program at RUSD.

2022- CA STEAM SYMPOSIUM 

7th grader Vanessa Martinez and teachers Michelle Center  from Beattie MS and 5th grader Emma Alset and Teacher Ruth Thompson from Smiley Elementary School, along with M presented at the 10th California STEAM Symposium in October 2022. Students shared their learning experiences in CSTEM Program at RUSD

2022- CA STEAM SYMPOSIUM 

Senior Shriya Narayanan and Varun Srivastava from Redlands High School led a session "Coding Across curriculum, Demystifying Computer Science"  at the 10th California STEAM Symposium in October 2022. 

ISTE 2022

RUSD students Sheersha Pattanaik and Abhisri Narayanan presented at ISTE 2022

ISTE 2022 

RUSD student Varun Srivastava presented a session on Artificial intelligence at ISTE 2022

2021- CA STEAM SYMPOSIUM 

Students from Beattie MS, Clement MS, Cope MS, and Redlands High School presented at the 9th California STEAM Symposium in October 2021. Students shared their learning experiences during the RUSD-UCR Summer Engineering, Robotics Academy and CSTEM Program at RUSD

2021-CA STEAM SYMPOSIUM 

Student from Redlands High School presented at the 9th California STEAM Symposium in October 2021 about integrating C-STEM across curriculum using coding & robotics

2021-AAUW STEM Conference

Student from Redlands High School presented at the 28th AAUW STEM conference virtually about fostering Computational thinking

2020- ISTE

Student from Redlands High School presented at the 2020 ISTE conference virtually about integrating Design Thinking

2020-AAUW STEM Conference

Student from Redlands High School presented at the 27th AAUW STEM conference at UOR  about fostering Computational mindset using Littlebits.

2019 CA STEAM Symposium

22 Redlands Unified Students presentaed at the 8th California STEAM Symposium and shared their learning in Coding, Robotics, GarnerHolt Anikker Space and Virtual Reality using Zspace.

EDUCATOR Awards

2022 C-STEM Educator Award

2021 CLHS Teacher of the Year Finalist

2021 Exemplary AI Project

2021 C-STEM Educator Award

2020 C-STEM Educator Award

2019 C-STEM Educator Award