Como fazer busca dentro de uma RecycleView?

Tenho uma RecycleView que recebe dados do Firebase, cada dado cria uma box no layout com as informações contidas dentro de cada key lá do Firebase.
Quero que busque um determinado box de dado nesta lista e me mostre na tela.
Por exemplo, em um layout com vários botões, ao ser clicado o 1º botão quero que abra a RecycleView e carregue para mim um determinado box de dado que está dentro desta lista. Preciso saber se é possível fazer isso com o RecycleView, caso negativo como poderia estar implementado esse modelo.

public class ShowImagesActivity extends AppCompatActivity {
    private RecyclerView recyclerView;

    private RecyclerView.Adapter adapter;

    private DatabaseReference mDatabase;

    private ProgressDialog progressDialog;

    private List<Upload> uploads;

    @Override
    protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
        setContentView(R.layout.activity_show_images);

        recyclerView = (RecyclerView) findViewById(R.id.recyclerView);
        recyclerView.setHasFixedSize(true);
        recyclerView.setLayoutManager(new LinearLayoutManager(this));

        progressDialog = new ProgressDialog(this);

        uploads = new ArrayList<>();

        progressDialog.setMessage("Aguardando...");
        progressDialog.show();
        mDatabase = FirebaseDatabase.getInstance().getReference(Constants.DATABASE_PATH_UPLOADS);

        mDatabase.addValueEventListener(new ValueEventListener() {
            @Override
            public void onDataChange(DataSnapshot snapshot) {

                progressDialog.dismiss();

                for (DataSnapshot postSnapshot : snapshot.getChildren()) {
                    Upload upload = postSnapshot.getValue(Upload.class);
                    uploads.add(upload);
                }

                adapter = new MyAdapter(getApplicationContext(), uploads);

                recyclerView.setAdapter(adapter);
            }

            @Override
            public void onCancelled(DatabaseError databaseError) {
                progressDialog.dismiss();
            }
        });

    }
}

classe Upload

public class Upload{

        public String name;
        public String descricao;
        public String local;
        public String url;

    public Upload() {
    }

    public Upload(String name, String descricao,String local,String url) {
        this.name = name;
        this.descricao = descricao;
        this.local = local;
        this.url= url;
    }

    public String getName() {
        return name;
    }
    public String getDescricao() {
        return descricao;
    }
    public String getLocal() {
        return local;
    }
    public String getUrl() {
        return url;
    }
}

classe ShowMap:

public class ShowMap extends FragmentActivity implements OnMapReadyCallback {

    private GoogleMap mMap;
    LocationManager locationManager;
    public RecyclerView recyclerView;
    public List<Upload> uploads;




    @Override
    protected void onCreate(Bundle savedInstanceState) {
        super.onCreate(savedInstanceState);
        setContentView(R.layout.map_activity);
        FirebaseApp.initializeApp(this);

        SupportMapFragment mapFragment = (SupportMapFragment) getSupportFragmentManager()
                .findFragmentById(R.id.map);
        mapFragment.getMapAsync(this);
        locationManager = (LocationManager) getSystemService(LOCATION_SERVICE);

    }
    public int findInUploadsArray(List<Upload> uploads, String name){
        for(int i = 0; i < uploads.size(); i++){
            // supondo que sua classe possui um atributo "nome" e você está procurando um nome específico
            if(uploads.get(i).getName().equals(name)) return i;
        }

        return -1;
    }



    @Override
    public void onMapReady(GoogleMap googleMap) {
        mMap = googleMap;
        uploads = new ArrayList<>();
        recyclerView = new RecyclerView(getApplicationContext());

        DatabaseReference ref = FirebaseDatabase.getInstance().getReference();



        ref.child("uploads").addValueEventListener(new ValueEventListener() {
            @Override
            public void onDataChange(DataSnapshot dataSnapshot) {

                Iterator<DataSnapshot> dataSnapshotsChat =  dataSnapshot.getChildren().iterator();

                while (dataSnapshotsChat.hasNext()) {
                    DataSnapshot dataSnapshotChild = dataSnapshotsChat.next();
                    String latitudeL = dataSnapshotChild.child("latitude").getValue().toString();
                    String longitudeL = dataSnapshotChild.child("longitude").getValue().toString();
                    double latitude1 = Double.parseDouble((latitudeL));
                    double longitude1 = Double.parseDouble(longitudeL);
                    LatLng local = new LatLng(latitude1, longitude1);
                    final String title = dataSnapshotChild.child("name").getValue().toString();


                    mMap.addMarker(new MarkerOptions().position(local).title(title));
                    mMap.moveCamera(CameraUpdateFactory.newLatLngZoom(local, 10));
                    Log.v("log",""+local);
                    Log.v("log",""+title);


                    mMap.setOnMarkerClickListener(new GoogleMap.OnMarkerClickListener() {
                        @Override
                        public boolean onMarkerClick(Marker marker) {

                            int position = findInUploadsArray(uploads,marker.getTitle());
                            Log.v("log",""+marker.getTitle());

                            recyclerView.scrollToPosition(position);
                            return true;
                        }
                    });
                }}

            @Override
            public void onCancelled(DatabaseError databaseError) {
                throw databaseError.toException();
            }
        });

    }

}