Colorado State Science Fair, Inc.
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Science Project Info & Classroom Teacher Resources
CSEF Teacher of the Year Award
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Place: 2nd
Place: 3rd
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Junior
Division All Fair |
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1st
Place: 2nd
Place: 3rd Place: Matt
Nobles |
| 1st
Place: Nathan Davidson Potential Inoculum Reservoir for PVY in the San Luis Valley, Colorado Monte Vista High School |
2nd
Place: Scott Lancaster Microbial Fuel Cells 2 Walsh Jr/Sr High School |
3rd
Place: Shannon George Inducing Changes in Osmotic Pressure to Clonally Cryopreserved Propagated Buffalo Grass Woodlin School |
| Honorable
Mention: Levi Klausner Organic Opposition Woodlin School |
Honorable
Mention: Nicolas Burrows Go South Young Radish Palmer High School |
Honorable
Mention: April Mertens An In-Vitro Approach to Study the Effects of Genetic Engineering on Antibiotic Resistance Merino Jr/Sr High School |
Junior Division Botany
| 1st
Place: Kylee Willard Nutrient Differences in Local Farm Soils Fort Lupton Middle School |
2nd
Place: Lauren Smith Transformation Efficiency of Eschricho coli, Using Aged Cultures Mountain Ridge Middle School |
3rd
Place: Chelsea Komlo Surviving with Salt West Middle School |
| Honorable
Mention: Ciara Hall Arsenic and Green Lace St. Mary's of Littelton |
Honorable
Mention: Brad Hertneky What Do Disposable Diapers and Farming Have in Common? Polymers! Burlington Middle School |
Honorable
Mention: Kathleen Majewski Glowing, Gowing, Grown St. Mary's of Littleton |
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Honorable
Mention: |
Honorable
Mention: Katelyn Starkebaum Sproutin' Up Haxtun Junior High School |
Honorable
Mention: John Wilkinson Full Spectrum Beans Mountain Ridge Middle School |
Senior Division Earth & Space Sciences
| 1st
Place: Evan Burgess Dating Paleo-Glaciers With a GIS-Based Analysis of Moraine Erosion Fairview High School |
2nd
Place: Adam Ginsburg Stability of a Small Planet's Orbit in the Habitable Zone of a Three Body System Cherry Creek High School |
3rd
Place: Brandon Gosch The Erosion Effect: Soil Movement in the Garden of the Gods Palmer High School |
Junior Division Earth & Space Sciences
| 1st
Place: Meredith MacGregor Measuring the Sun's Potation at Solar Maximum Burbank Middle School |
2nd
Place: Thatcher Heumann The Heat Is On! Summit Middle School |
3rd
Place: Lauren Hakes Sunspot Observation Miller Middle School |
| Honorable
Mention: Adam Blackford What Methods Control Erosion Best? Swink School |
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| 1st
Place: Ryan Patterson The Sign Translator Central High School |
2nd
Place: Dak Steiert A Thesis on Liquid Bi-Propellant Rocket Propulsion battle Mountain High School |
3rd
Place: Natalie Barnes Are You Done with the Paper Yet, Dear? Woodlin School |
| Honorable
Mention: Robert Ussery Remotely Piloted Crop Dusting Ussery Home School |
Honorable
Mention: Craig Wright Vulcan Block - A Building System for the Future Sargent High School |
Honorable
Mention: Michael Yurkoski Autonomous Robot Pet Broomfield High School |
Junior Division Engineering
| 1st
Place: Laen Meine Earth or Bust! Making Fuel to Return from Mars Mackintosh Academy |
2nd
Place: Kevin Weber Communicating at the Speed of Light: Free-Air Laser Communications Challenger Middle School |
3rd
Place: Robert Glissman To Track . . . Or . . . Not To Track: Examinging the Benefits of Solar Tracking Summit Middle School |
| Honorable
Mention: Mark Loiseau The Use of Simple Fuzzy Logic in Robotics Rick's Center |
Honorable
Mention: Megan Vogel Slinky the Electrical Toy Holy Family Catholic School |
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Senior Division Environmental Sciences
| 1st
Place: Milena Pastore They Came, They Saw, They Devoured Monte Vista High School |
2nd
Place: Lori Timm Alar Scare: Real or Hysteria? Monte Vista High School |
3rd
Place: Mary Grace Beard Dust Suppresion for Agricultural Application Walsh Jr/Sr High School |
| Honorable
Mention: Christine Knoblauch Whose Fault Is It Anyway? The Alamosa River Monte Vista High School |
Honorable
Mention: Ryan Schnell A Possible Control of Pine Beetle Infestations by Overcoming Larval Supercooling Fairview High School |
Honorable
Mention: Craig Wright Gone with the Wind: Predicting Wind Erosion Woodlin School |
Junior Division Environmental Sciences
| 1st
Place: Clark Patton Feces Happens Summit Middle School |
2nd
Place: Corey Swanson The Effect of Radiation on Seed Germination, Plant Growth, and Their Chromosomes Fort Lupton Middle School |
3rd
Place: Tyler Benton The Ecological Study of Microbial CO2 Respiration of Grazed and Ungrazed Rangeland Hi-Plains High School |
| Honorable
Mention: Katherine Hermann The Water Quality of Boulder Creek Southern Hills Middle School |
Honorable
Mention: Dusty Werner Airvill Population St. Anthony School |
Honorable
Mention: Chris Michel A River Runs Through It: A Study of the South Platte River Merino Jr/Sr High School |
Senior Division Health & Behavioral Sciences
| 1st
Place: Keri Propst A Possible Cystic Fibrosis Treatment: The Production Of Glutathione by Inducing MRP Expression Merino Jr/Sr High School |
2nd
Place: Sara McFarland Triclosan: Bacterial Resistance Ahead? Hoehne High School |
3rd
Place: Kelly Haller Nutritional Intervention as a Potential Treatment for Dogs with Degenerative Joint Disease Woodlin School |
| Honorable
Mention: Crystal Meyerett Can You Eliminate Scrapie Genetically? Kiowa High School |
Honorable
Mention: Amy Liu Adverse Effects of Iron Plues Vitamin C on Human Cells Cherry Creek High School |
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Junior Division Health & Behavioral Sciences
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Place: Graham Anderson You're an All-Star! An Experiment About Athletes and Visual Reflexes North Middle School |
2nd
Place: Alex West Development of a Manipulative Model for Instruction in DNA Sequencing for Use in Public Schools West Jefferson Middle School |
3rd
Place: Ava Hoffman My How Time Flies Sargent Junior High School |
| Honorable
Mention: Kori Tagtmeyer Determinging the Presence of Clostridium perfringens In Rangeland Hi-Plains High School |
Honorable
Mention: Nathan Spaulding Study of Various Bacteria's Resistance to Bacteriophage Virus Platt Middle School |
Honorable
Mention: Eris Moore The Hypocrisy of Anitbacterial Hand Gels Woodlin School |
| Honorable
Mention: Alexis Brettschneider Neon's Fluorescent Search Highland Middle School |
Honorable
Mention: Brian Walker Gross! Mung!? What is the Green Stuff on Nosepads? Fort Morgan Middle School |
Honorable
Mention: Darrick Ohr Get A Grip - Culturing Bacteria from Handles Woodlin School |
Senior Division Mathematics & Computer Sciences
| 1st
Place: Brian Camley The New Polynomial Diet (Lose pixels, look better) - A Legendre Polynomial Based Alternative to JPEG Palmer High School |
2nd
Place: Kevin Christopher Isomap and Neural Networks: A Comparison of Dimensionality Reduction Frameworks Cherry Creek High School |
3rd
Place: Eric Doner Boris of Course Walsh Jr/Sr High School |
| 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: Matt Nobles Knotty Math2 Pagosa Springs Junior High School |
2nd
Place: Tyler Nicely The Effects of MP3 Compression on Music Quality Nicely Home School |
3rd
Place: Adam Sidman Patterns in DNA: The Vocabulary of Life North Middle School |
| Honorable
Mention: Briennan Groves A Math Lesson in Democracy Wiggins Junior High School |
Honorable
Mention: Amanda Shea Parker The Relationship etween Trigonometric Ratios and Circular Motion Cherry Creek West Middle School |
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Senior Division Physical Sciences
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Place: Jessica Caver Influence of an Aqueous Environment on the Solidification Behavior of Underwater Wet Welds Woodlin School |
2nd
Place: Lucas Ingmire Newton's Law or Murphy's? The Physics of Falling Bread Brush High School |
3rd
Place: Jessica Sidman Magnetoplasmadynamics: The Future in Space Propulsion? Palmer High School |
| Honorable
Mention: Philip Charles Kirmuss Wireless Energy Bayfield High School |
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Junior Division Physical Sciences
| 1st
Place: Marika Meertens Sticky Static Centennial Middle School |
2nd
Place: Meredith Myre The Effect of Heat and Humidity on Membranophones Miller Middle School |
3rd
Place: Rolena Richardson What's Up With Fermentation? Cherry Creek Middle School |
| Honorable
Mention: Alyssa m. Hill Rusty Chevrolet: The Effects of Ice Melting Compounds on Car parts Fort Morgan Middle School |
Honorable
Mention: Catherine C. Gold Bric-A-Brac Rick's Center |
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| 1st
Place: Betsey Taylor A Study of Environmental Hormones: Testing PVC Extract on Wild Fruit Flies Plamer High School |
2nd
Place: Frank Bauer A Comparative Study of M. Cerebralis Infection in Three Different Species of Salmonid Fishes Brush High School |
3rd
Place: Melissa Pinkerton Cell Damage: The Effects of Cellular Phone Emissions on Escherichia coli and Drosophila melanogaster Monte Vista High School |
| Honorable
Mention: Amber Henry Forensic Entomolgy: A Simulation of Sarcophaga bullata Development in Varying Temperatures Hi-Plains High School |
Honorable
Mention: Michelle Itano Locating Genes on a Drosophilia Chromosome Fairview High school |
Honorable
Mention: Alexia Peake The Effects of Environmental Hazards on Over-Expressed dp53 Drosophila Merino Jr/Sr High School |
Junior Division Zoology
| 1st
Place: Scott Japhet Enlightened Nerka: Response of Kokanee Salmon Fry to Light and Sound Miller Middle School |
2nd
Place: Stacey Bartlett Gene Prints: Do Genetics Influence Fingerprints? Merino Jr/Sr High School |
3rd
Place: Nathan Schmidt Will Poisonous Plastics Take You to the Undertaker? M erino Jr/Sr High School |
| Honorable
Mention: Mark Baker Fishy Response Buchanan Middle School |
Honorable
Mention: Travis Campbell A Study of Long Term Memory in a Rat Miller Middle School |
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| 1st
Place: Curtis Larimer & Dave Wacker Mathematics Is Not Ready for Such a Problem Plamer High School |
2nd
Place: Kristen Rasmussen & Aaron Burgess Microbarometric Turbulence: Measuring Invisible Atmospgeric Waves with a Homemade Microbarograph Fairview High School |
3rd
Place: Jessica McAlister & Jayme Johnson Illuminating the Truth About Melatonin Palmer High School |
| Honorable
Mention: Kendal Wallis Bauman & Ashley Chapin The Effects of Polymer Crystals on Nitrates and Plant Growth Pawnee High School |
Honorable
Mention: Luke Klausner & Bryan Herrera Breaking the Constraints of the Gregorian Time System Woodlin School |
Honorable
Mention: Samuel Huang & Andy Lin Investigation of Antibacterial Detergent Cherry Creek High School |
| Honorable
Mention: Valerie Brice, Java Tunson, & Anna Nussbaum The Biological, Chemical and Physicial Interactions within a Wetland's Ecosystem Palmer High School |
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Junior Division Team Projects
| 1st
Place: Kelsea Ferrato & Erika Langhart The Big Burn - Immediate Post-Fire Effects of the Mesa Verde National Park Fires Miller Middle School |
2nd
Place: Molly Kraus & Hannah Kraus Biosphere: Controlled Ecological Life Support System Pagosa Springs Junior High School |
3rd
Place: John Young & Cody Iszler Pollution from Fireplace Fuels Ridgeway School |
| Honorable
Mention: Joel Martin & Douglas CodyJolly Water Holding Capacities of Lincoln County Soils Genoa-Hugo School |
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Junior
Division:
Adam Sidman
Patterns in DNA: The Vocabulary of Life
North Middle School
Senior
Division:
Evan Burgess
Dating Paleo- Glaciers with A GIS-Based Analysis Of Moraine Erosion
Fairview High School
Bennett
Merriman
Ionic Propulsion
Wasson High School
Ralph Desch Technical Writing Award
Betsey
Taylor
A Study of Environmental Hormones: Testing PVC Extract on Wild Fruit
Flies
Palmer High School
Poster Art was done by Molly Krause & Hannah Krause, Pagosa Springs Junior High School in Pagosa Springs, CO.