Colorado State Science Fair, Inc.
2001 Special Award Winners
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Organization
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Winner(s)
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Award(s)
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Jesse Sindler & Sarah Sindler Canon City, Colorado Walking on Water |
certificate, $50 savings bond |
| Weston Brownlee, Beau McBrien, & Michael Unruh Greeley, Colorado Search the Stars |
certificate, $50 savings bond | |
| Frank Bauer Hillrose, Colorado A Comparative Study of M. Cerebralis Infection in Three Different Species of Salmonid Fishes |
certificate, $50 savings bond | |
| Kayla Cochran Monte Vista, Colorado Hippo Therapy: HIdden Horsepower |
certificate, $50 savings bond | |
| Keri Propst Sterling, Colorad A Possible Cystice Fibrosis Treatment: The Production Of Glutathione By Inducing MRP Expression |
certificate, $50 savings bond | |
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Keri Propst Sterling, Colorad A Possible Cystice Fibrosis Treatment: The Production Of Glutathione By Inducing MRP Expression |
certificate, graphing calculator |
| Melissa Pinkerton Monte Vista, Colorado Cell Damage: The Effects of Cellular Phone Emissions on Escherichia coli and Drosophila melanogaster |
certificate, graphing calculator | |
| Christopher Anderson Merion, Colorado Direct Methanol Fuel Cells For Use In Impressed Current Systems |
certificate, graphing calculator | |
| Eric Doner Walsh, Colorado Boris of Course |
certificate, graphing calculator |
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Organization
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Winner(s)
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Award(s)
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Kristin Claunch Colorado Springs, Colorado Is Your Toothpaste "Egg"cellent? |
$100 |
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Kalen Meine Denver, Colorado Earth or Bust! Making Fuel To Return From Mars |
$50 |
| Michael Deen Littleton, Colorado Making An Oil Spill Containment Device Containing Polyabsorbant Crystals |
$100 | |
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Denver/Boulder Chapter |
Thatcher Heumann Boulder, Colorado The Heat Is On! |
certificate, $50 gift certificate to Barnes & Nobel |
| Molly McClurg Fort Collins, Colorado The Heat Is On! |
certificate, $50 gift certificate to Barnes & Nobel | |
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Rocky Mountain Chapter |
Kalen Meine Denver, Colorado Earth or Bust! Making Fuel To Return From Mars |
$50, $50 for winner's school |
| Kevin Weber Colorado Springs, Colorado Communicating At the Speed of Light: Free-Air Laser Communications |
$100, $100 for winner's school | |
| Kristen Rasmussen & Aaron Burgess Boulder, Colorado Microbarometric Turbulence: Measuring Invisible Atmospheric Waves With A Homemade Microbarograph |
$50, $50 for winner's school | |
| Jessica Caver Deer Trail, Colorado Influence of an Aqueous Environment on the Solidification Behavior of Underwater Wet Welds |
$100, $100 for winner's school | |
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Colorado Section |
Kalen Meine Denver, Colorado Earth or Bust! Making Fuel To Return From Mars |
$25, trophy |
| Jessica Caver Deer Trail, Colorado Influence of an Aqueous Environment on the Solidification Behavior of Underwater Wet Welds |
$25, trophy | |
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Bradley Klingenberg Greeley, Colorado Constrictor: The Development and Implementation of an Alternative Compression Algorithm |
certificate, $100 |
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Rocky Mountain Chapter |
Alyssa Hill Fort Morgan, Colorado Rusty Chevrolet: The Effects of Ice Melting Compounds on Car Parts |
$50 |
| Jessica Caver Deer Trail, Colorado Influence of an Aqueous Environment on the Solidification Behavior of Underwater Wet Welds |
$75 | |
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Denver Chapter |
Meredith MacGregor Boulder, Colorado Measuring The Sun's Rotation At Solar Maximum |
$50, rock sample, certificate |
| Christine Knoblauch Del Norte, Colorado Whose Fault Is It Anyway? The Alamosa River |
$50, rock sample, certificate | |
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Kevin Weber Colorado Springs, Colorado Communicating At the Speed of Light: Free-Air Laser Communications |
$50, certificate |
| Kelsea Ferrato & Erika Langhart Durango, Colorado The Big Burn - Immediate Post-Fire Effects of the Mesa Verde National Park Fires |
$50, certificate | |
| Jessica Sidman Colorado Springs, Colorado Magnetoplasmadynamics: The Future In Space Propulsion? |
$50, certificate | |
| Luke Klausner & Bryan Herrera Woodrow, Colorado Breaking the Constraints of the Gregorian Time System |
$50, certificate | |
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Kelsea Ferrato & Erika Langhart Durango, Colorado The Big Burn - Immediate Post-Fire Effects of the Mesa Verde National Park Fires |
$25, plaque |
| Michelle Itano Boulder, Colorado Locating Genes On A Drosophila Chromosome |
$25, plaque | |
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Drew Doner Walsh, Colorado How "Germie" Is Your Toothbrush? |
$25, plaque |
| Lauren Neher Brush, Colorado The Effectiveness of Oxacillin Versus Bacitracin on Streptococcal Bacteria |
$50, plaque | |
| Kristin Claunch Colorado Springs, Colorado Is Your Toothpaste "Egg"cellent? |
watch | |
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Irina Hardesty Conifer, Colorado Non-Native Noxious Nuisances: A Study Of Noxious Weed Frequency |
certificate, cash award |
| April Mertens Merino, Colorado An In-Vitro Approach To Study The Effects Of Genetic Engineering On Antibiotic Resistance |
certificate, cash award | |
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Thatcher Heumann Boulder, Colorado The Heat Is On! |
$75, plaque |
| Evan Burgess Boulder, Colorado Dating Paleo-Glaciers With A GIS-Based Analysis Of Moraine Erosion |
$75, plaque | |
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Bradley Proulx Littleton, Colorado Up In Smoke |
certificate, $100 savings bond |
| Keri Propst Sterling, Colorad A Possible Cystice Fibrosis Treatment: The Production Of Glutathione By Inducing MRP Expression |
certificate, $100 savings bond | |
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David Sumpter La Junta, Colorado A Study Of Earthquake Potential in Southern Colorado |
$25, 2 mineral specimens, certificate, book, CD |
| Sarah Broce Kim, Colorado Fascinating Footprint Facts |
$25, 2 mineal specimens, certificate, book | |
| Evan Burgess Boulder, Colorado Dating Paleo-Glaciers With A GIS-Based Analysis Of Moraine Erosion |
$25, 2 mineral specimens, certificate, book, CD | |
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Milena Pastore Monte Vista, Colorado They Came, They Saw, They Devoured |
$25, book on fungi, certificate |
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Tyler Keck Monte Vista, Colorado Runaway Water: Does Polacrylamide Help Reduce Soil Erosion? |
$50 |
| David Sumpter La Junta, Colorado A Study Of Earthquake Potential in Southern Colorado |
$75 | |
| Evan Burgess Boulder, Colorado Dating Paleo-Glaciers With A GIS-Based Analysis Of Moraine Erosion |
$75 | |
| Christine Knoblauch Del Norte, Colorado Whose Fault Is It Anyway? The Alamosa River |
$100 | |
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Alyssa Hill Fort Morgan, Colorado Rusty Chevrolet: The Effects of Ice Melting Compounds on Car Parts |
certificate, $100 |
| Dak Steiert Edwards, Colorado A Thesis on Liquid Bi-Propellant Rocket Propulsion |
certificate, $100 | |
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Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology |
Keri Propst Sterling, Colorad A Possible Cystice Fibrosis Treatment: The Production Of Glutathione By Inducing MRP Expression |
certificate, $100 |
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Department of Chemistry |
Lindsay Kallevik Colorado Springs, Colorado De-Ice My Sidewalk! |
certificate, $100 |
| Jessica Caver Deer Trail, Colorado Influence of an Aqueous Environment on the Solidification Behavior of Underwater Wet Welds |
certificate, $100 | |
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Department of Horticulture and Landscape Architecture |
John Wilkinson Colorado Springs, Colorado Full Spectrum Beans |
$100 |
| Nathan Davidson Monte Vista, Colorado Potential Inoculum Reservoir for PVY in the San Luis Valley, Colorado |
$100 | |
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Casey Steele Hayden, Colorado Slick Solutions |
$125, plaque, certificate, book on sustainability |
| Charlie Keenan Grand Junction, Colorado Save the Water |
$75, plaque, certificate, book on sustainability | |
| Craig Bryan Monte Vista, Colorado Vulcan Block - A Building System for the Future |
$75, plaque, certificate, book on sustainability | |
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Kori Tagtmeyer Seibert, Colorado Determining The Presence Of Clostridium perfringens In Rangeland Grasses |
certificate, gold medallion, $50 |
| Rachel Bradshaw Colorado Springs, Colorado BINGO: Pet-Facillitated Therapy and the Elderly |
certificate, gold medallion, $50 | |
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Tyler Benton Vona, Colorado The Ecological Study Of Microbial CO2 Respiration OF Grazed and Ungrazed Rangeland |
$50, plaque |
| Mary Grace Beard Walsh, Colorado Dust Suppression for Agricultural Application |
$50, plaque | |
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Corey Swanson Fort Lupton, Colorado The Effect of Radiation on Seed Germination, Plant Growth, and Their Chromosomes |
35mm camera |
| Lauren Neher Brush, Colorado The Effectiveness of Oxacillin Versus Bacitracin on Streptococcal Bacteria |
35mm camera | |
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Dak Steiert Edwards, Colorado A Thesis on Liquid Bi-Propellant Rocket Propulsion |
Titan IV B model |
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Thatcher Heumann Boulder, Colorado The Heat Is On! |
certificate, plaque, $100 savings bond |
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Robert Glissmann Boulder, Colorado To Track . . . Or . . . Not To Track - Examining The Benefits Of Solar Tracking |
$100 |
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Ryan Schnell Boulder, Colorado A Possible Control Of Pine Beetle Infestations By Overcoming Larval Supercooling |
$100 |
| Gregory Scott Evergreen, Colorado Changes In Plant Life Of Different Life Zones |
$100 | |
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Kalen Meine Denver, Colorado Earth or Bust! Making Fuel To Return From Mars |
$50 |
| Ryan Patterson Grand Junction, Colorado The Sign Translator |
$50 | |
| Keri Propst Sterling, Colorado A Possible Cystice Fibrosis Treatment: The Production Of Glutathione By Inducing MRP Expression |
$50 | |
| Megan Vogel Grand Junction, Colorado Slinky the Electric Toy |
$50 | |
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John Wilkinson Colorado Springs, Colorado Full Spectrum Beans |
subscription to Discover magazine |
| Meredith MacGregor Boulder, Colorado Measuring The Sun's Rotation At Solar Maximum |
subscription to Discover magazine, certificate, Optical Society Discovery Kit | |
| Kevin Weber Colorado Springs, Colorado Communicating At the Speed of Light: Free-Air Laser Communications |
certificate, Optical Society Discovery Kit | |
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Hayley Finley Colorado Springs, Colorado Simply Irresistible: Bacterial Immunities To Disinfectants |
plaque, $50 |
| Christine Knoblauch Del Norte, Colorado Whose Fault Is It Anyway? The Alamosa River |
plaque, $75 | |
| Anna Peterson Rifle, Colorado Killer Chemicals? |
plaque, $100 | |
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Katherine Hermann Boulder, Colorado The Water Quality Of Boulder Creek |
savings bond |
| Clark Patton Boulder, Colorado Feces Happens |
savings bond | |
| Christine Knoblauch Del Norte, Colorado Whose Fault Is It Anyway? The Alamosa River |
savings bond | |
| Valerie Brice, Java Tunso, & Anna Nussbaum Colorado Springs, Colorado The Biological, Chemical and Physical Interactions Within A Wetland's Ecosystem |
savings bond | |
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Rocky Mountain Section |
Megan Vogel Grand Junction, Colorado Slinky the Electric Toy |
certificate, $60 |
| Tiffani Burke Durango, Colorado EddieWeb.net - "Education on the Web" |
certificate, $40 | |
| Kinsie Waid Colorado Springs, Colorado The Inconceivable Power Source: Are Fuel Celss The Answer To Our Energy Needs? |
certificate, $40 | |
| Natalie Barnes Brush, Colorado Are You Done With The Paper yet, Dear? |
certificate, $60 | |
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Colorado Chapter |
Bear Shash Aguilar, Colorado What's Lurking In Your Water? |
$25, voucher from Hach Company, certificate, ribbon |
| Alicia McDaniel & Cassie Kembel Brush, Colorado Alkaloids in Morgan County, Colorado Plants |
$25, voucher from Hach Company, certificate, ribbon | |
| Tyler Benton Vona, Colorado The Ecological Study Of Microbial CO2 Respiration Of Grazed and Ungrazed Rangeland |
$50, voucher from Hach Company, certificate, ribbon | |
| Ann Tietmeyer Grover, Colorado The Effects of Polyacrylamide on Soil Erosion |
$50, voucher from Hach Company, certificate, ribbon | |
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Evan Burgess Boulder, Colorado Dating Paleo-Glaciers With A GIS-Based Analysis Of Moraine Erosion |
plaque |
| Melissa Pinkerton Monte Vista, Colorado Cell Damage: The Effects of Cellular Phone Emissions on Escherichia coli and Drosophila melanogaster |
plaque | |
| Ryan Schnell Boulder, Colorado A Possible Control Of Pine Beetle Infestations By Overcoming Larval Supercooling |
plaque | |
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Keri Propst Sterling, Colorad A Possible Cystice Fibrosis Treatment: The Production Of Glutathione By Inducing MRP Expression |
$100 |
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Bear Shash Aguilar, Colorado What's Lurking In Your Water? |
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| Brandon Gosch Colorado Springs, Colorado The Erosion Effect: Soil Movement In The Garden of the Gods |
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Meredith MacGregor Boulder, Colorado Measuring The Sun's Rotation At Solar Maximum |
$100 |
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Organization
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Winner(s)
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Award(s)
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Jessica Caver Deer Trail, Colorado Influence of an Aqueous Environment on the Solidification Behavior of Underwater Wet Welds |
medallion, certificate |
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Valerie Brice, Java Tunson, & Anna Nussbaum Colorado Springs, Colorado The Biological, Chemical, and Physical Interactions Within A Wetland's Ecosystem |
certificate, Biodiversity Hotspots map |
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Kylee Willard Fort Lupton, Colorado Nutrient Differences in Local Farm Soils |
certificate, t-shirt, DYSC nomination |
| Meredith MacGregor Boulder, Colorado Measuring The Sun's Rotation At Solar Maximum |
certificate, t-shirt, DYSC nomination | |
| Kalen Meine Denver, Colorado Earth Or Bust! Making Fuel To Return From Mars |
certificate, t-shirt, DYSC nomination | |
| Clark Patton Boulder, Colorado Feces Happens |
certificate, t-shirt, DYSC nomination | |
| Graham Anderson Colorado Springs, Colorado You're An All-Star! An Experiment About Athletes and Visual Reflexes |
certificate, t-shirt, DYSC nomination | |
| Matt Nobles Pagosa Springs, Colorado Knotty Math2 |
certificate, t-shirt, DYSC nomination | |
| Marika Meertens Boulder, Colorado Sticky Static |
certificate, t-shirt, DYSC nomination | |
| Scott Japhat Durango, Colorado Enlightened Merka: Response of Kokanee Salmon Fry to Light and Sound |
certificate, t-shirt, DYSC nomination | |
| Kelsea Ferrato & Erika Langhart Durango, Colorado The Big Burn - Immediate Post-Fire Effects of the Mesa Verde National Park Fires |
certificate, t-shirt, DYSC nomination | |
| Lauren Smith Colorado Springs, Colorado Transformation Efficiency of Eschricho coli, Using Aged Cultures |
certificate, t-shirt, DYSC nomination | |
| Thatcher Heumann Boulder, Colorado The Heat Is On! |
certificate, t-shirt, DYSC nomination | |
| Kevin Weber Colorado Springs, Colorado Communicating At the Speed of Light: Free-Air Laser Communications |
certificate, t-shirt, DYSC nomination | |
| Corey Swanson Fort Lupton, Colorado The Effect of Radiation on Seed Germination, Plant Growth, and Their Chromosomes |
certificate, t-shirt, DYSC nomination | |
| Alex West Conifer, Colorado Development Of A Manipulative Model For Instruction In DNA Sequencing For Use In Public Schools |
certificate, t-shirt, DYSC nomination | |
| Tyler Nicely Colorado Springs, Colorado The Effects of MP3 Compression on Music Quality |
certificate, t-shirt, DYSC nomination | |
| Meredith Myre Durango, Colorado The Effect of Heat and Humidity on Mebranophones |
certificate, t-shirt, DYSC nomination | |
| Stacey Bartlett Merino, Colorado Gene Prints - Do Genetics Influence Fingerprints? |
certificate, t-shirt, DYSC nomination | |
| Molly Krau & Hannah Kraus Pagosa Springs, Colorado Biosphere: Controlled Ecological Life Support System |
certificate, t-shirt, DYSC nomination | |
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Jacqueline Consaul Del Norte, Colorado The Effects of Blackleg (Erwinia carotovora) Innoculation on Three Sites on a Russet Norkotah 3 Potato Plant |
certificate, Kodak camera and film |
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Ryan Patterson Grand Junction, Colorado The Sign Translator |
medallion, certificate |
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Brian Camley Colorado Springs, Colorado The New Polynomial Diet (Lose pixels, look better) - A Legendre Polynomial Based Alternative to JPEG |
certificate, $200, Intel momento |
| Milena Pastore Monte Vista, Colorado They Came, They Saw, They Devoured |
certificate, $200, Intel momento | |
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Alyssa Hill Fort Morgan, Colorado Rusty Chevrolet: The Effects of Ice Melting Compounds on Car Parts |
certificate |
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Nathan Davison Monte Vista, Colorado Potential Inoculum Reservoir for PVY in the San Luis Valley, Colorado |
subscription to Scientific American |
| Evan Burgess Boulder, Colorado Dating Paleo-Glaciers With A GIS-Based Analysis Of Moraine Erosion |
subscription to Scientific American | |
| Ryan Patterson Grand Junction, Colorado The Sign Translator |
subscription to Scientific American | |
| Milena Pastore Monte Vista, Colorado They Came, They Saw, They Devoured |
subscription to Scientific American | |
| Keri Propst Sterling, Colorad A Possible Cystice Fibrosis Treatment: The Production Of Glutathione By Inducing MRP Expression |
subscription to Scientific American | |
| Brian Camley Colorado Springs, Colorado The New Polynomial Diet (Lose pixels, look better) - A Legendre Polynomial Based Alternative to JPEG |
subscription to Scientific American | |
| Jessica Caver Deer Trail, Colorado Influence of an Aqueous Environment on the Solidification Behavior of Underwater Wet Welds |
subscription to Scientific American | |
| Betsy Taylor Colorado Springs, Colorado A Study Of Environmental Hormones: Testing PVC Extract On Wild Fruit Flies |
subscription to Scientific American | |
| Curtis Larimer & Dave Wacker Colorado Springs, Colorado Mathematics Is Not Yet Ready For Such Problems |
subscription to Scientific American | |
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April Mertens Merino, Colorado An In-Vitro Approach To Study The Effects Of Genetic Engineering On Antibiotic Resistance |
certificate |
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Brandon Gosch Colorado Springs, Colorado The Erosion Effect: Soil Movement In The Garden of the Gods |
certificate |
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Bradley Proulx Littleton, Colorado Up In Smoke |
certificate |
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Christine Knoblauch Del Norte, Colorado Whose Fault Is It Anyway? The Alamosa River |
certificate |
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Ryan Patterson Grand Junction, Colorado The Sign Translator |
certificate, pewter medallion |
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Organization
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Winner(s)
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Award(s)
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| Adams State College | Scott Lancaster Walsh, Colorado Microbial Fuel Cells 2 |
one-year full resident tuition & fees scholarship |
| Brandon Gosch Colorado Springs, Colorado Soil Movement In The Garden of the Gods |
one-year full resident tuition & fees scholarship | |
| Christopher Anderson Merino, Colorado Direct Methanol Fuel Cells For Use In Impressed Current Systems |
one-year full resident tuition & fees scholarship | |
| Mary Grace Beard Walsh, Colorado Dust Suppression for Agricultural Application |
one-year full resident tuition & fees scholarship | |
| Amy Liu Aurora, Colorado Adverse Effects of Iron Plus Vitamin C On Human Cells |
one-year full resident tuition & fees scholarship | |
| Eric Doner Walsh, Colorado Boris of Course |
one-year full resident tuition & fees scholarship | |
| Pam Cantonwine Salida, Colorado How Temperature Affects the Growth of Crystals in the Compound Mannitol |
one-year full resident tuition & fees scholarship | |
| Holly McGuire Brush, Colorado Tracing the Evolution of the PV-92 Alu Element |
one-year full resident tuition & fees scholarship | |
| Colorado State University | Nathan Davidson Monte Vista, Colorado Potential Inoculum Reservoir for PVY in the San Luis Valley, Colorado |
one-year, renewable $1,000 scholarship |
| Evan Burgess Boulder, Colorado Dating Paleo-Glaciers With A GIS-Based Analysis Of Moraine Erosion |
one-year, renewable $1,000 scholarship | |
| Ryan Patterson Grand Junction, Colorado The Sign Translator |
one-year, renewable $2,500 scholarship | |
| Milena Pastore Monte Vista, Colorado They Came, They Saw, They Devoured |
one-year, renewable $2,500 scholarship | |
| Keri Propst Sterling, Colorado A Possible Cystice Fibrosis Treatment: The Production Of Glutathione By Inducing MRP Expression |
one-year, renewable $2,500 scholarship | |
| Brian Camley Colorado Springs, Colorado The New Polynomial Diet (Lose pixels, look better) - A Legendre Polynomial Based Alternative to JPEG |
one-year, renewable $1,000 scholarship | |
| Jessica Caver Deer Trail, Colorado Influence of an Aqueous Environment on the Solidification Behavior of Underwater Wet Welds |
one-year, renewable $1,000 scholarship | |
| Betsy Taylor Colorado Springs, Colorado A Study Of Environmental Hormones: Testing PVC Extract On Wild Fruit Flies |
one-year, renewable $1,000 scholarship | |
| Colorado School of Mines | Ryan Patterson Grand Junction, Colorado The Sign Translator |
four-year full tuition scholarship |
| Nathan Davidson Monte Vista, Colorado Potential Inoculum Reservoir for PVY in the San Luis Valley, Colorado |
four-year $2,000 scholarship | |
| Intel Corporation | Keri Propst Sterling, Colorado A Possible Cystice Fibrosis Treatment: The Production Of Glutathione By Inducing MRP Expression |
one-year $1,000 scholarship to school of choice |
| Nathan Davidson Monte Vista, Colorado Potential Inoculum Reservoir for PVY in the San Luis Valley, Colorado |
one-year $1,000 scholarship to school of choice |
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