Colorado State Science Fair, Inc.
2001 Grand Award Winners
1st Place:
Ryan Patterson
The Sign Translator
Grand Junction, CO2nd Place:
Keri Propst
A Possible Cystic Fibrosis Treatment: The Production Of Glutathione By Inducing MRP Expression
Sterling, CO3rd Place:
Milena Pastore
They Came, They Saw, They Devoured
Monte Vista, CO
Junior Division All Fair
1st Place:
Kalen Meine
Earth Or Bust! Making Fuel To Return From Mars
Denver, CO2nd Place:
Kelsea Ferrato & Erika Langhart
The Big Burn - Immediate Post-Fire Effects Of The Mesa Verde National Park Fires
Durango, CO3rd Place
Matt Nobles
Knotty Math2
Pagosa Springs, CO
| 1st Place: Nathan Davidson Potential Inoculum Reservoir For PVY In The San Luis Valley, Colorado Monte Vista, CO |
2nd Place: Scott Lancaster Inducing Changes In Osmotic Pressure To Clonally Cryopreserved Propagated Buffalo Grass Walsh, CO |
3rd Place: Levi Klausner Organic Opposition Woodrow, CO |
| Honorable Mention: Nicolas Burrows Go South Young Radish Colorado Springs, CO |
Honorable Mention: April Mertens An In-Vitro Approach To Study The Effects Of Genetic Engineering Of Antibiotic Resistance Merino, CO |
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Junior Division Botany
| 1st Place: Kylee Willard Nutrient Differences In Local Farm Soils Fort Lupton, CO |
2nd Place: Lauren Smith Transformation Efficiency Of E. coli, Using Aged Cultures Colorado Springs, CO |
3rd Place: Chelsea Komlo Surviving With Salt Grand Junction, CO |
| Honorable Mention: Ciara Hall Arsenic And Green Lace Highlands Ranch, CO |
Honorable Mention: Brad Hertneky What Do Disposable Diapers And Farming Have In Common? Polymers! Burlington, CO |
Honorable Mention: Kathleen Majewski Glowing, Growing, Grown Littleton, CO |
| Honorable Mention: Reid Mattive There's A Fungus Among Us Monte Vista, CO |
Honorable Mention: Katelyn Starkebaum Sproutin' Up Haxtun, CO |
Honorable Mention: John Wilkinson Full Spectrum Beans Colorado Springs, CO |
Senior Division Earth & Space Sciences
| 1st Place: Evan Burgess Dating Paleo-Glaciers With A GIS-Based Analysis Of Moraine Erosion Boulder, CO |
2nd Place: Adam Ginsburg Stability Of A Small Planet's Orbit In The Habitable Zone Of A Three Body System Littleton, CO |
3rd Place: Brandon Gosch The Erosion Effect: Soil Movement In The Garden Of The Gods Colorado Springs, CO |
Junior Division Earth & Space Sciences
| 1st Place: Meredith MacGregor Measuring The Sun's Rotation At Solar Maximum Boulder, CO |
2nd Place: Thatcher Heumann The Heat Is On Boulder, CO |
3rd Place: Lauren Hakes Sunspot Observation Durango, CO |
| Honorable Mention: Adam Blackford What Methods Control Erosion Best? La Junta, CO |
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| 1st Place: Ryan Patterson The Sign Translator Grand Junction, CO |
2nd Place: Dak Steiert A Thesis On Liquid Bi-Propellant Rocket Propulsion Edwards, CO |
3rd Place: Natalie Barnes Are You Done With The Paper yet, Dear? Brush, CO |
| Honorable Mention: Robert Ussery Remotely Piloted Crop Dusting Fort Collins, CO |
Honorable Mention: Craig Bryan Vulcan Block - A Building System For The Future Monte Vista, CO |
Honorable Mention: Michael Yurkoski Autonomous Robot Pet Broomfield, CO |
Junior Division Engineering
| 1st Place: Kalen Meine Earth Or Bust! Making Fuel To Return From Mars Denver, CO |
2nd Place: Kevin Weber Communicating At The Speed Of Light: Free-Air Laser Communications Colorado Springs, CO |
3rd Place: Robert Glissmann To Track . . . Or . . . Not To Track - Examining The Benefits Of Solar Tracking Boulder, CO |
| Honorable Mention: Mark Loiseau The Use Of Simple Fuzzy Logic In Robotics Denver, CO |
Honorable Mention: Megan Vogel Slinky The Electric Toy Grand Junction, CO |
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Senior Division Environmental Sciences
| 1st Place: Milena Pastore They Came, They Sawy, They Devoured Monte Vista, CO |
2nd Place: Lori Timm Alar Scare: Real Or Hystaria? Monte Vista, CO |
3rd Place: Mary Grace Beard Dust Suppression For Agriculture Application Walsh, CO |
| Honorable Mention: Christine Knoblauch Whose Fault Is It Anyway? The Alamosa River Del Norte, Colorado |
Honorable Mention: Ryan Schnell A Possible Control Of Pine Beetle Infestations By Overcoming Larval Supercooling Boulder, CO |
Honorable Mention: Craig Wright Gone With The Wind: Predicting Wind Erosion Akron, CO |
Junior Division Environmental Sciences
| 1st Place: Clark Patton Feces Happens Boulder, CO |
2nd Place: Corey Swanson The Effect Of Rediation On Seed Germination, Plant Growth, And Their Chromosomes Fort Lupton, CO |
3rd Place: Tyler Benton The Ecological Study Of Microbial CO2 Respiration Of Grazed And Ungrazed Rangeland Vona, CO |
| Honorable Mention: Katherine Hermann The Water Quality Of Boulder Creek Boulder, CO |
Honorable Mention: Dusty Werner Airvill Population Sterling, CO |
Honorable Mention: Chris Michel A River Runs Through It: A Study Of The South Platte River Atwood, CO |
Senior Division Health & Behavioral Sciences
| 1st Place: Keri Propst A Possible Cystic Fibrosis Treatment: The Production Of Glutathione By Inducing MRP Expression Sterling, CO |
2nd Place: Sara McFarland Triclosan: Bacterial Resistance Ahead? Trinidad, CO |
3rd Place: Kelly Haller Nutritional Intervention As A Potential Treatment For Dogs With Degenerative Joint Disease Woodrow, CO |
| Honorable Mention: Crystal Meyerett Can You Eliminate Scrapie Genetically? Kiowa, CO |
Honorable Mention: Amy Liu Adverse Effects Of Iron Plus Vitamin C On Human Cells Aurora, CO |
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Junior Division Health & Behavioral Sciences
| 1st Place: Graham Anderson You're An All-Star! An Experiment About Athletes And Visual Reflexes Colorado Springs, CO |
2nd Place: Alex West Development Of A Manipulative Model For Instruction In DNA Sequencing For Use In Public Schools Conifer, CO |
3rd Place: Ava Hoffman My How Time Flies Monte Vista, CO |
| Honorable Mention: Kori Tagtmeyer Determining The Presence Of Clostridium perfringens In Rangeland Seibert, CO |
Honorable Mention: Nathan Spaulding Study Of Various Bacteria's Resistance To Bacteriophage Virus Louisville, CO |
Honorable Mention: Eris Moore The Hypocrisy Of Antibacterial Hand Gels Woodrow, CO |
| Honorable Mention: Alexis Brettscneider Neon's Fluorescent Search Carr, CO |
Honorable Mention: Brian Walker Gross! Mung!? What Is The Green Stuff On Nosepads? Fort Morgan, CO |
Honorable Mention: Darrick Ohr Get A Grip - Culturing Bacteria From Handles Lindon, CO |
Senior Division Mathematics & Computer Sciences
| 1st Place: Brian Camley The New Polynomial Diet (Lose Pixels, Look Better) - A Legendre Polynomial Based Alternative To JPEG Colorado Springs, CO |
2nd Place: Kevin Christopher Isomap And Neural Networks: A Comparison Of Dimenstionality reduction Frameworks Englewood, CO |
3rd Place: Eric Doner Boris Of Course Walsh, CO |
Junior Division Mathematics & Computer Sciences
| 1st Place: Matt Nobles Knotty Math2 Pagosa Springs, CO |
2nd Place: Tyler Nicely The Effects Of MP3 Compression On Music Quality Colorado Springs, CO |
3rd Place: Adam Sidman Patterns In DNA: The Vocabulary Of Life Colorado Springs, CO |
| Honorable Mention: Briennan Groves A Math Lesson In Democracy Wiggins, CO |
Honorable Mention: Amanda Parker The Relationship Between Trigonometric Ratios And Circular Motion Englewood, CO |
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Senior Division Physical Sciences
| 1st Place: Jessica Caver Influence Of An Aqueous Environment On The Solidification Behavior Of Underwater Wet Welds Deer Trail, Colorado |
2nd Place: Lucas Ingmire Newton's Law Or Murphy's? The Physics Of Falling Bread Brush, Colorado |
3rd Place: Jessica Sidman Magnetoplasmadynamics: The Future In Space Propulsion? Colorado Springs, Colorado |
| Honorable Mention: Philip Kirmuss Wireless Energy Bayfield, Colorado |
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Junior Division Physical Sciences
| 1st Place: Marika Meertens Sticky Static Boulder, Colorado |
2nd Place: Meredith Myre The Effect Of Heat And Humidity On Membranophones Durango, Colorado |
3rd Place: Rolena Richardson What's Up With Fermentation? Avon, Colorado |
| Honorable Mention: Alyssa Hill Rusty Chevrolet: The Effects Of Ice Melting Compounds On Car Parts Fort Morgan, Colorado |
Honorable Mention: Catherine Gold Brick-A-Brac Littleton, Colorado |
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| 1st Place: Betsy Taylor A Study Of Environmental Hormones: Testing PVC Extract On Wild Fruit Flies Colorado Springs, Colorado |
2nd Place: Frank Bauer A Comparative Study Of M. Cerebralis Infection In Three Different Species Of Salmonid Fishes Brush, Colorado |
3rd Place: Melissa Pinkerton Cell Damage: The Effects Of Cellular Phone Emissions On Escherichia coli And Drosophila melanogaster Monte Vista, Colorado |
| Honorable Mention: Amber Henry Forensic Entomology: A Simulation Of Sarcophage bullata Development In Varying Temperatures Joes, Colorado |
Honorable Mention: Michelle Itano Locating Genes On A Drosophila Chromosome Boulder, Colorado |
Honorable Mention: Alexia Peake The Effects Of Environmental Hazards On Over-Expressed dp53 Drosophila Merino, Colorado |
Junior Division Zoology
| 1st Place: Scott Japhet Enlightened Nerka: Response of Kokanee Salmon Fry To Light and Sound Durango, Colorado |
2nd Place: Stacey Bartlett Gene Prints-Do Genetics Influence Fingerprints? Merino, Colorado |
3rd Place: Nathan Schmidt Will Poisonous Plastics Take You To The Undertaker? Merino, Colorado |
| Honorable Mention: Mark Baker Fishy Response Wray, Colorado |
Honorable Mention: Travis Campbell A Study Of Long Term Memory In A Rat Durango, Colorado |
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| 1st Place: Curtis Larimer & Dave Wacker Mathematics Is Not Yet Ready For Such Problems Colorado Springs, Colorado |
2nd Place: Kristen Rasmussen & Aaron Burgess Microbarometric Turbulence: Measuring Invisible Atmospheric Waves With A Homemade Microbarograph Boulder, Colorado |
3rd Place: Jessica McAlister & Jayme Johnson Illuminating The Truth About Melatonin Colorado Springs, Colorado |
| Honorable Mention: Kendal Bauman & Ashley Chapin The Effects Of Plymer Crystals On Nitrates And Plant Growth Grover, Colorado |
Honorable Mention: Luke Klausner & Bryan Herrera Breaking The Constraints Of The Gregorian Time System Woodrow, Colorado |
Honorable Mention: Valerie Brice, Java Tunson, & Anna Nussbaum The Biological, Chemical And Physical Interactions Within A Wetland's Ecosystem Colorado Springs, Colorado |
Junior Division Team Projects
| 1st Place: Kelsea Ferrato & Erika Langhart The Big Burn - Immediate Post-Fire Effects Of The Mesa Verde National Park Fires Durango, Colorado |
2nd Place: Molly Kraus & Hannah Kraus Biosphere: Controlled Ecological Life Support System Pagosa Springs, Colorado |
3rd Place: John Young & Cody Iszler Pollution From Fireplace Fuels Ridgeway, Colorado |
| Honorable Mention: Joel Martin & Douglas Jolly Water Holding Capacities Of Lincoln County Soils Hugo, Colorado |
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Junior Division:
Adam Sidman
Patterns in DNA: The Vocabulary of Life
Colorado Springs, Colorado
Senior Divison:
Evan Burgess
Dating Paleo-Glaciers With A GIS-Based Analysis Of Moraine Erosion
Boulder, Colorado
Bennett Merriman
Ionic Propulsion
Colorado Springs, Colorado
Ralph Desch Technical Writing Award
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