Colorado State Science Fair, Inc.
2000 Grand Award Winners
1st Place:
Ryan Patterson
Sleuthbot: A Robotic Search Tool
Grand Junction, CO2nd Place:
Milena Pastore
Welcome to the Colembola Cafe
Monte Vista, CO3rd 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, CO2nd Place:
Kira Newman
The Effect Of Cadmium On Macrophages
Denver, CO3rd 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 |
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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 |
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| 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 |
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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: Using Chemiluminescence To Design A Viable Process For Marking Previously Grand Junction, CO |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 & Older Body Styles Of Pickup Trucks Englewood, CO |
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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 |
| 1st Place: Renae Sessions Do Hemolymph And Cell Suspension Decrease Paralysis In Munduca sexta? Merino, CO |
2nd Place: Amanda Baker Cancer Eye: Probing The Squamous Cell Carcinoma/Matrix Metalloproeinase 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 Experiencing 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 |
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| 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 |
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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 |
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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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