Rishab Gargeya ’17 was awarded a $50,000 Davidson Fellows Scholarship for his research and development of a smartphone-based vision disease detector. The Mercury News published a nice article about it:  http://www.mercurynews.com/2017/08/31/saratoga-teen-wins-50000-for-creation-of-medical-app

Gargeya is one of only 20 students nationwide to recieve the award; he will use it toward his education at Stanford University. Gargeya earned several awards for the development while at Harker, including a first prize in the RRI physical science and engineering category at the 2016 Synopsys Championships. He was a semifinalist in the 2016 Siemens Competition and a regional finalist in the international Google Science Fair 2016. Here is an article about that accomplishment from the Merc: http://www.mercurynews.com/2016/08/10/saratoga-harker-senior-a-google-science-fair-finalist/)

In his official bio, Gargeya had some nice things to say about his time at Harker: 

“Rishab attributes his time at The Harker School for having given him an amazing opportunity to push himself in a highly academic environment. Rishab has been fortunate to have worked with many intellectually driven people throughout his high school career, including his science teacher Mr. Chris Spenner, who has been very influential in shaping his research.”

Read Gargeya’s full bio here: http://www.davidsongifted.org/Fellows-Scholarship/2017-Davidson-Fellows/Rishab-Gargeya

Huge congrats, Rishab!