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Senior
Division All Fair

1st Place:
Ryan Patterson
Sleuthbot: A Robotic Search Tool
Grand Junction, CO
2nd
Place:
Milena Pastore
Welcome to the Colembola Cafe
Monte Vista, CO
3rd
Place
Thomas Liu (not pictured)
Mathematical Modeling of Fringe Patterns From Double Stars
Aurora, CO
Junior
Division All Fair

1st Place:
Hildur Boylston
Beetle Juice
Boulder, CO
2nd
Place:
Kira Newman
The Effect of Cadmium on Macrophages
Denver, CO
3rd
Place
Kalen Meine
Talkin' Trash: From Garbage to Gas
Denver, CO
1st
Place:
Pavan Sekhar
Phytoextraction and Rhizofiltration of Toxic Metals
Englewood, CO |
2nd
Place:
Nathan Davidson
Potato Virus Y Spread in Potatoes
Monte Vista, CO |
3rd
Place:
Lucas Ingmire
Can Monocots and Dicots Be Determined Through Chromatography?
Brush, CO |
Honorable
Mention:
Scott Lancaster
Microbial Fuel Cells
Walsh, CO |
Honorable
Mention:
Holly McGuire
A Comparative Assay of the Effects of Lead Dioxide on E. coli
Lindon, CO |
Honorable
Mention:
Danielle Diers
How Water Pollution Effects the Life of a Plant
Colorado Springs, CO |
Junior
Division Botany
1st
Place:
Lauren Smith
Fun With Fungi: The Effects of pH on Yeast Growth
Colorado Springs, CO |
2nd
Place:
Collin Weber
How Low Can You Go? A Possible Treatment for Corn and Freezing
Temperatures
Atwood, CO |
3rd
Place:
David Bonomo
Which Way Is Up?
Loveland, CO |
Honorable
Mention:
Jessica Harms
Why Does Grass Grow So Sparsely in Pine Forests?
Pagosa Springs, CO |
Honorable
Mention:
Alexandra Sneed
What in Mountain Dew Makes Plants Grow Better? Do the Dew?
Fort Morgan, CO |
Honorable
Mention:
Corey Swanson
From Household Chemicals to Injection Wells: Are We Ruining Weld
County's Water?
Fort Lupton, CO |
Senior
Division Earth & Space Sciences
1st
Place:
Thomas Liu
Mathematical Modeling of Fringe Patterns From Double Stars
Aurora, CO |
2nd
Place:
Evan Burgess
Predicting Avalanche Risk
Boulder, CO |
3rd
Place:
Paul Valdez
Sands of Time
Walsenberg, CO |
Honorable
Mention:
Crystal Hart
An Open or Shut Case
Boulder, CO |
Honorable
Mention:
Aaron Burgess
Using GPS to Quantify the Relative Lightning Risk of Ridges and
Mesas
Boulder, CO |
Junior
Division Earth & Space Sciences
1st
Place:
Emily Rosa
Geodesy - Measuring the Earth With Original Instruments
Loveland, CO |
2nd
Place:
Karla Harris
Edible Rocks: The Collection and Classification of Micro-Meteorites
Wiggins, CO |
3rd
Place:
Talia Rubin
Is Your Mood Affected by the Weather?
Denver, CO |
Honorable
Mention:
Corinne D'Ippolito
The Modern Day Milky Way: What Can We Find Out About It?
Boulder, CO |
Senior
Division Engineering
1st
Place:
Ryan Patterson
Sleuthbot: A Robotic Search Tool
Grand Junction, CO |
2nd
Place:
Leota McDaniel
Designing a MAV
Brush, CO |
3rd
Place:
Justin Migacz
Thermal Degradation of H. T. S. Films
Englewood, CO |
Honorable
Mention:
Natalie Barnes
Oscar the Grouch's Fine Wine: The Conversion of Biomass to an Energy
Intensive Fuel Source
Brush, CO |
Junior
Division Engineering
1st
Place:
Kevin Weber
To Fly or Not to Fly? Exploring Airfoils and Lift
Colorado Springs, CO |
2nd
Place:
Jon Lafferty
It's All Riding on a Magnetic Field
Grand Junction, CO |
3rd
Place:
Adam Sidman
Flywheels: A New Spin on Energy Storage
Colorado Springs, CO |
Honorable
Mention:
Jamie Karp
Fabulous Frequencies: Harmonics of a Single and Double Open-Ended
Pipe
Grand Junction, CO |
Honorable
Mention:
Craig Wright
The Firefly Effect
Grand Junction, CO |
Senior
Division Environmental Sciences
1st
Place:
Milena Pastore
Welcome to the Colembola Cafe
Monte Vista, CO |
2nd
Place:
Michelle Lyons
Single Celled Spelunkers . . . The Microbes of Glenwood Caverns
Rifle, CO |
3rd
Place:
Ryan Schnell
Aerosol Black Carbon As A Possible Air Pollution Measurement
Boulder, CO |
Honorable
Mention:
Shannon George
Desert Remediation: Selecting for Salt Tolerant Native Grasses
Brush, CO |
Honorable
Mention:
Mary Grace Beard
Microbial Decontamination of Soil
Walsh, CO |
Honorable
Mention:
Josh Dember
Water Quality
Denver, CO |
Junior
Division Environmental Sciences
1st
Place:
Kalen Meine
Talkin' Trash: From Garbage to Gas
Denver, CO |
2nd
Place:
Katherine Hermann
The Chemicals and Plant Life in Boulder Creek
Louisville, CO |
3rd
Place:
Doug Krause
What Are the Effects of Acid Rain on the Cell Structure of Spirogyra?
Denver, CO |
Honorable
Mention:
Andrew Fritzler
Manure Marvels? The Role of Lemna minor and Hoya carnosa in Phytoremediation
Merino, CO |
Honorable
Mention:
Charlie Keenan
The Water's Always Cleaner on the Other Side of the Lake
Grand Junction, CO |
Senior
Division Health & Behavioral Sciences
1st
Place:
Benjamin Staub
Combating Resistance to Penicillin in Staphylococcus epidermis
Greeley, CO |
2nd
Place:
Jennifer Green
Bouncing: A Sensory Integration Technique for Children With Autism
Sterling, CO |
3rd
Place:
Brian Camley
Of Mice and Men: Amazing Tales
Colorado Springs, CO |
Honorable
Mention:
Keri Propst
Stopping Stroke Damage: A Quantitative Approach to Reduce Malondialdehyde
With Ascorbic Acid
Sterling, CO |
Honorable
Mention:
Kristin Hoff
Effects of Vitamin E on the Infection of E. coli by Bacteriophage
T4
Greeley, CO |
Honorable
Mention:
Dusty Behrens
Arthritic Articular Joints - Is the Glucosamine/Chondroitin Sulfate
Combo for You? Phase II
Merino, CO |
Junior
Division Health & Behavioral Sciences
1st
Place:
Kira Newman
The Effect of Cadmium on Macrophages
Denver, CO |
2nd
Place:
Meghann Myers
The Shop Talk Silencer
Monte Vista, CO |
3rd
Place:
Lauren Neher
Antiseptics: Their Purpose and Function
Brush, CO |
Honorable
Mention:
Andrea Buxton
Enamel: Here Today Gone Tomorrow
Lamar, CO |
Honorable
Mention:
Megan Vogel
Oh, What Nerve!
Grand Junction, CO |
Honorable
Mention:
Walker Williams
Cellular Phones at the Cellular Level
Denver, CO |
Honorable
Mention:
Ariana Kiken
Eeeew . . . You Mean I'm Putting That on My Face?
Denver, CO |
Honorable
Mention:
Allison Qubain
Verbose Lads and Lassies
Gardner, CO |
Senior
Division Mathematics & Computer Sciences
1st
Place:
Kevin Christopher
Neural Networks for Constellation Identification
Englewood, CO |
2nd
Place:
Pascal Getreuer
Artificial Intelligence
Colorado Springs, CO |
3rd
Place:
Nicholas Hall
The Higher Dimensions of Spheres
Englewood, CO |
Honorable
Mention:
Isabelle Zaugg
Can Losing Strategies Win? Parrondo's Paradox
La Jara, CO |
Junior
Division Mathematics & Computer Sciences
1st
Place:
Nyssa Walker
Playing by the Numbers
Thornton, CO |
2nd
Place:
Matt Nobles
Knotty Math: How Can Knots Be Used As Mathematical Models?
Pagosa Springs, CO |
3rd
Place:
Brad Klingenberg
Can Binary Replacement Create Superior Compression Ratios?
Greeley, CO |
Honorable
Mention:
Andrea Nickel
Computer Fundamentals and Software Algorithm Efficiency
Windsor, CO |
Honorable
Mention:
Ryan Whitnah
Out of Order: A Comparison of Computer Sorting Algorithms
Englewood, CO |
Senior
Division Physical Sciences
1st
Place:
Jessica Caver
Determining the Effects of Annealing on a Metallurgical Explosive
Bond
Deer Trail, CO |
2nd
Place:
Krista Davies
The Effects of Varying Wavelengths on Liesegang Rings
Brush, CO |
3rd
Place:
Brian Cleary
Gravity's Magnetic Personality: A Study of the Effects of Magnetism
on Free Falling Objects
Grand Junction, CO |
Honorable
Mention:
Joslyn Trujillo
Preventing Enzymatic Browning on Apples
Monte Vista, CO |
Honorable
Mention:
Ben Grass
A Comparative Study of the Aerodynamic Efficiency of Newer and
Older Body Styles of Pickup Trucks
Englewood, CO |
Junior
Division Physical Sciences
1st
Place:
Robin Blenden
Inductrack Maglev: Phase I
Monte Vista, CO |
2nd
Place:
Keith Dean
Stabilized Levitation Assisted By Diamagnetic Repulsion
Grand Junction, CO |
3rd
Place:
James Norton
Brewster's Angle: Reflection, Refraction, And Polarization
Boulder, CO |
Honorable
Mention:
Alana Riksheim
Can You Stop Chilly Windchill?
Boulder, CO |
Honorable
Mention:
Rachael Cannon
Which Fabric is the Most Wind Resistant?
Monte Vista, CO |
Honorable
Mention:
Alyssa Hill
That's the Way the Ball Bounces: Does Height Determine Distance?
Fort Morgan, CO |
Senior
Division Zoology
1st
Place:
Renae Sessions
Do Hemolymph and Cell Suspension Decrease Paralysis in Manduca
sexta?
Merino, CO |
2nd
Place:
Amanda Baker
Cancer Eye: Probing the Squamous Cell Carcinoma/Matrix Metalloproteinase
Connection
Woodrow, CO |
3rd
Place:
Tejaswini More
Functional Analysis of Z-ALK-8, a Novel Type I TGF-B Receptor,
in Zebrafish
Denver, CO |
Honorable
Mention:
Lauren Iske
Oral Glutamine Supplementation on Plasma Glutamine and Tissue PGE2
Levels in Dogs
Vona, CO |
Honorable
Mention:
Emily Hyatt
The Assessment of Different Mechanisms of Gene Transfer
Denver, CO |
Honorable
Mention:
Erin Shelton
"Got Milk"
Roggen, CO |
Junior
Division Zoology
1st
Place:
Hildur Boylston
Beetle Juice
Boulder, CO |
2nd
Place:
Trevor Filter
Protozoa and Pollution: A Good Mix? I Think Not . . .
Littleton, CO |
3rd
Place:
Wyatt Duea
Behavior of Fancy Guppies
Boulder, CO |
Honorable
Mention:
Trae Miller
Laying a Little or a Lot - Should Laying Crumbs Be Bought?
Atwood, CO |
Honorable
Mention:
Morissa Katz
Food and Exercise: Does Exercising Decrease Food Intake?
Englewood, CO |
Senior
Division Team Projects
1st
Place:
Eric Doner & Ely Walker
Pollution in Groundwater Study II
Walsh, CO |
2nd
Place:
Jamie Johnson & Jessica McAlister
The Colored Light at the End of the Tunnel
Colorado Springs, CO |
3rd
Place:
Jason Smith, Leo Gracik & B J Knuppel
Blown Away: The Effects of Farming Techniques on Wind Erosion
Grover, CO |
Honorable
Mention:
Lindsay Henjum & Michelle Seffrood
E. coli on the Move
Colorado Springs, CO |
Honorable
Mention:
Erin Divins & Markelle Gray
The Effects of Marine Pollution on Polysiphonia
Greeley, CO |
Junior
Division Team Projects
1st
Place:
Kelsea Ferrato & Erika Langhart
Florida River Water Health Analysis
Durango, CO |
2nd
Place:
Sarah Blei & Peggy Tautz
Which Type of Bridge Holds the Most Weight?
Littleton, CO |
3rd
Place:
Brian Austin & Alex Terrien
Which Procedure Is the Best Way to Germinate Lupine Seeds?
Clifton, CO |
Honorable
Mention:
Melissa Mills & Lupe Salazar
Waste Not, Chill Not
Walsh, CO |
Honorable
Mention:
Charley Frazee & Sarah Alley
Heat It Up
Campo, CO |
Student
Choice Awards
Junior
Division:
Rebecca Whitlock
Is It Worth It?
Howard, CO
Senior
Division:
Ryan Patterson
Sleuthbot: A Robotic Search Tool
Grand Junction, CO
Ralph
Desch Technical Writing Award
Pavan
Sekhar
Phytoextraction and Rhizofiltration of Toxic Metals
Englewood, CO
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