Colorado State Science Fair, Inc.
2002 Grand Award Winners
1st Place:
Craig Wright
Designing A Linear Peristaltic Pump Using Ferrofluids
Akron, CO
2nd Place:
Josh Haimes
WGA Amplification And Thin Film Detection Of Methicillin Resistant/Sensitive
Staphylococcus aureus
Boulder, CO
3rd Place:
Aaron Burgess & Kristen Rasmussen
Aircraft Icing: Why Does It Happen?
Boulder, CO
Junior Division All Fair
1st Place:
Meredith MacGregor
Avalanche! A Search For Self-Organized Criticality
Boulder, CO
2nd Place:
Adam Sidman
Wind Turbine Design
Colorado Springs, CO
3rd Place:
Nathan McNew
Investigation Of Prime Numbers
Arvada, CO
| 1st Place: Nicole Thomas WNC 230-14RU Resistant Or Immune To Potato Leaf Roll Virus Blanca, CO |
2nd Place: Jacqueline Consaul A Study On The Interaction Between Blackleg And PVY On Potatoes Center, CO |
3rd Place: Wumesh Khatri Glycolysis In Isoprene-Emitting Chloroplasts Boulder, CO |
| Honorable Mention: Levi Klausner Selecting For Salt Tolerance In 5 Varieties Of Wheat Woodrow, Colorado |
Honorable Mention: Tyler Benton An Ecological Study Of The Efficacy Of The Conservation Reserve Program Vona, CO |
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Junior Division Botany
| 1st Place: Harold Klausner Available Nitrogen vs. Legume Nodulation Woodrow, CO |
2nd Place: Mallory White The Effects Of Agrobacterium tumefaciens On The Growth Of Crown Galls On Different Dicotyledonous Plants Colorado Springs, CO |
3rd Place: Ashley Button Don't Invade My Space Fort Lupton, CO |
| Honorable Mention: Chris Messick The Role Of Preservatives In The Delay Of Senescence Of Cut Flowers Monte Vista, CO |
Honorable Mention: Emily Woods Secret Weapons: Allelochemicals In Plants Boulder, CO |
Honorable Mention: Mathew Brennan This Is My Space - The Impact Of Allelopathy Durango, CO |
| Honorable Mention: Kevin Hurd Jack, Check Your Soil's pH Before You Plant Your Beans! Grand Junction, CO |
Honorable Mention: Jed Michal Depth vs. Development Flagler, CO |
Honorable Mention: Bradley Hertneky The Role Of Polymers In Crop Drought Tolerance Burlington, CO |
Senior Division Earth & Space Sciences
| 1st Place: Brandon Rosgen River Banks - Nature's Erodible Boundaries Pagosa Springs, CO |
2nd Place: Adam Curry The Cosmic Early Warning Palisade, CO |
3rd Place: Renee Musgrave Rainbow Lightning? Yuma, CO |
Junior Division Earth & Space Sciences
| 1st Place: Annie Sandner Aerodynamics Of Modern Rocketry Durango, CO |
2nd Place: Jeffrey Hrncir Dinosaur Tacks Grand Junction, CO |
3rd Place: Lena Martin Time: Sun vs. Clock Genoa, CO |
| Honorable Mention: Will Scripps Which Helicopter Floats Slowest? Evergreen, CO |
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| 1st Place: Craig Wright Designing A Linear Peristaltic Pump Using Ferrofluids Akron, CO |
2nd Place: Robert Ussery Autonomous UAV Design Fort Collins, CO |
3rd Place: Justin Migacz Thermal Degradation Of Josephon Junctions Englewood, CO |
| Honorable Mention: Michael Yurkoski Rarr - An Alternative To Human Reconnaissance Broomfield, CO |
Honorable Mention: Craig Bryan Vulcan Block II Monte Vista, Colorado |
Honorable Mention: Emma McArdle Is Your Roof Snow Proof? Monte Vista, CO |
| Honorable Mention: Dak Steiert Ramjet Propulsion For High Altitude Launch And Research Edwards, CO |
Honorable Mention: Leyton Laybourn The Best Superinsulator Cope, CO |
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Junior Division Engineering
| 1st Place: Adam Sidman Wind Turbine Design Colorado Springs, CO |
2nd Place: Matthew Rotbart Modeling The Collapse Of The World Trade Center: The Effect Of Heat On The Tensile Strength Of Steel Denver, CO |
3rd Place: Joseph Kelly How Well Does A Directional Antenna Concentrate Radio Energy? Loveland, CO |
| Honorable Mention: Devin Adam A Hot Idea For A Cool Computer Crawford, CO |
Honorable Mention: Molly May A Comparison Of Tensile Strength Of Various Materials Durango, CO |
Honorable Mention: Daniel Weidlein Into The Wind: Wind Power Cars Boulder, CO |
| Honorable Mention: Steven Mitton Holy Hovercraft Macos, CO |
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Senior Division Environmental Sciences
| 1st Place: Jessica Caver Evaluating Designer Solids For Remediation Of Heavy Elements In Aqueous Waste Streams Deer Trail, CO |
2nd Place: Benjamin Howard An Evaluation Of The Effectiveness Of Reformulated Gasoline In Reducing Urban Concentrations Boulder, CO |
3rd Place: Katherine Hermann Predicting Water Quality With Landscape Metrics Louisville, CO |
| Honorable Mention: Christine Knoblauch Where's It Coming From? Del Norte, Colorado |
Honorable Mention: Stephen Canham Prevention Of Soil Salinization From A Rising Water Table Greenwood Village, CO |
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Junior Division Environmental Sciences
| 1st Place: Meaghan Kormondy Paper Or Plastic? Highlands Ranch, CO |
2nd Place: Maggie Reinsvold The Effect OF Magnesium Chloride On Decomposition Greeley, CO |
3rd Place: Jacquie Beckvermit Do You Drink Undrinkable Water? Berthoud, CO |
| Honorable Mention: Laura Biggins The Effect Of Wood Extracts On The Germination Of Seeds LaPorte, CO |
Honorable Mention: Anna Hermann Under The Stream: Using Aquatic Insects To Determine Water Quality Louisville, CO |
Honorable Mention: Lyle Hoffschneider "Black Gold" Particles: Comparing Particles Of Fuel Sources Pagosa Springs, CO |
| Honorable Mention: Melissa Kanack Snow 'n' Ice 'n' Everything Not So Nice Loveland, CO |
Honorable Mention: Cacia Steenson Does Pollution Affect Oxygen Production In Aquatic Plants? Pine, CO |
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Senior Division Health & Behavioral Sciences
| 1st Place: April Mertens A Promising Cancer Treatment: Tumor Suppression Using The Synergism Of NSAID And Aloe Merino, CO |
2nd Place: Jaymee Jungie Manipulation Of The Kreb's Cycle Englewood, CO |
3rd Place: Brian Camley Every Breath You Take: The Effects Of Radon On Biological Tissue-Damage And Immune Response Colorado Springs, CO |
| Honorable Mention: Michelle Keck Remembered And Forgotten: An Examination Of Autobiographical Memory, Reminiscence, And Cultural Influences On Memory Monte Vista, CO |
Honorable Mention: Jeff Marlow Hydroxl Radical Neutralization By Non-Steroidal Anti-Inflammatory Drugs Related To Alzheimer's Prevention Englewood, CO |
Honorable Mention: Krista Schroeder Feeling Smart Colorado Springs, CO |
Junior Division Health & Behavioral Sciences
| 1st Place: Jeff Loewe Pick Up The Beat Colorado Springs, CO |
2nd Place: Kelly Cook Is What You See What You Get? Fort Collins, CO |
3rd Place: Allison Qubain Into Thin Air Gardner, CO |
| Honorable Mention: Andrea Buxton Fluoride: When Is Enough Lamar, CO |
Honorable Mention: Hannah Lowinger Type A & GPA - Are They Synonymous? Englewood, CO |
Honorable Mention: Ian Springer Lunar Changes And Their Effect On Human Behavior Lamar, CO |
| Honorable Mention: T. J. Van Bibber You Are What You Eat Monte Vista, CO |
Honorable Mention: Kelly Dimmen Stop In The Name Of The Law Colorado Springs, CO |
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Senior Division Mathematics & Computer Sciences
| 1st Place: Colin Oldberg Light-Operated Logic Colorado Springs, CO |
2nd Place: Amanda Parker Not So Perfect Sine Waves: A Fourier Analysis Of An Audio Oscillator Centennial, CO |
3rd Place: Eric Solanyk The Strategy To Monopoly: A Computer Simulation Of The Probabilities Of Movement And The Economics Loveland, CO |
| Honorable Mention: Lila Hickey Ups & Downs: Simulated Elevator Control Hillrose, CO |
Honorable Mention: Paul Scott Knotty Knumbers: Calculating Alexander's Polynomial Akron, CO |
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Junior Division Mathematics & Computer Sciences
| 1st Place: Nathan McNew Investigation Of Prime Numbers Arvada, CO |
2nd Place: Robert Glissmann Never Blinking, Never Sleeping: Image Preparation Improves Machine Vision Boulder, CO |
3rd Place: Timothy Schneider Programmable Vacuum Cleaner Durango, CO |
| Honorable Mention: Max Krakauer Good To The Last Drop: The World Oil Shortage Simulator Colorado Springs, CO |
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| 1st Place: Josh Haimes WGA Amplification And Thin Film Detection Of Methicillin Resistant/Sensitive Staphylococcus aurus Boulder, CO |
2nd Place: Sara McFarland The Effect Of Triclosan On Antibiotic Resistance Trinidad, CO |
3rd Place: Lauren Goulding Chemical Memory: Can Physarum Polycephalum Reproduce A Pattern? Colorado Springs, CO |
| Honorable Mention: Lauren Etl Antioxidants: Youth At Your Fingertips Fleming, CO |
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Junior Division Microbiology
| 1st Place: Kelly Valdes Thieves Steal Bacteria Littleton, CO |
2nd Place: Michael Dango The Effect Of Salinity On The Effectiveness Of Bioremediation Of Oil Spills Utilizing Pseudomonas And Penicillin Colorado Springs, CO |
3rd Place: Jesse Sindler Somewhere Over The Rainbow, Fungi Fly Canon City, CO |
| Honorable Mention: Ashley Maddux Glow In The Dark - Will Bacteria Accept A Gene From A Jellyfish? Pagosa Springs, CO |
Honorable Mention: Alex Schanderbeck Density Of Bacteria On Public Surfaces Monte Vista, CO |
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Senior Division Physical Sciences
| 1st Place: Amber Henry An Algorithm Demonstrating Impact Splatter Pattern Due To Angle Of Incidence Using A Dichotomous Key Joes, CO |
2nd Place: Adam Brungardt Spinning Samaras: A Study Into Seed Distribution Brush, CO |
3rd Place: Leota McDaniel An Investigation Into The Weissenberg Phenomenon Brush, CO |
| Honorable Mention: Kyle Atwater Trebuchet Ballistics Genoa, CO |
Honorable Mention: William Eucker Metallurgical Characteristics Of The Sacagawea Dollar Denver, CO |
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Junior Division Physical Sciences
| 1st Place: Meredith MacGregor Avalanche! A Search For Self-Organized Criticality Boulder, CO |
2nd Place: Megan Emmons Friction Over Tribology Alamosa, CO |
3rd Place: John Wilkinson, Jr. Sailing With Wind Power! Colorado Springs, CO |
| Honorable Mention: Adreanne Brungardt Shake It Up: A Study On Size Separation Brush, CO |
Honorable Mention: Tyler Hutchinson Catalysts, The Chemical Matchmakers Grand Junction, CO |
Honorable Mention: Matt Zubiel Predicting UHF Radio Range From Antenna Height Monument, CO |
| Honorable Mention: Rebecca Richardson Sodium Bicarbonate And pH: What Can It Lead To? Avon, CO |
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| 1st Place: Holly McGuire Comparing Extracted And Amplified Mitochondrial DNA Lindon, CO |
2nd Place: Robert Bernton In Vivo PLA2 Inhibition Littleton, CO |
3rd Place: Kori Tagtmeyer Determining Failure Of Passive Transfer In Neonatal Bovine Based On Immunoglobulin G Levels Seibert, CO |
| Honorable Mention: Trixie Lee The Squeeze Is On: Overcoming Overpopulation Crook, CO |
Honorable Mention: Matthew Simes Relative Abundance Of Ponderosa Pine Bird Species Along An Elevational Gradient Lafayette, CO |
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Junior Division Zoology
| 1st Place: Marty Sandberg Rat Race Littleton, CO |
2nd Place: Lisa Harms Got Silk? Haxtun, CO |
3rd Place: Timothy Sauer Oh, Rats! Littleton, CO |
| Honorable Mention: Travis Garoutte Pupation Creation Antonito, CO |
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| 1st Place: Aaron Burgess & Kristen Rasmussen Aircraft Icing: Why Does It Happen? Boulder, CO |
2nd Place: Eric King & David Van Wagener Significant Factors That Affect Perception Of Location Englewood, CO |
3rd Place: David Sanford & Adam Ginsburg Computer Simulation Of Stability Of The Orbits In A Multi-Planet System Englewood, CO |
| Honorable Mention: Brittani Cliff & Breanna Anderson Stress And Immunity: Qualification Of Immunoglobulin G And Leucocytes Akron, CO |
Honorable Mention: David Whacker & Curtis Larimer The Collatz Code Colorado Springs, CO |
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Junior Division Team Projects
| 1st Place: Alex West & Andrew West I'm Exhausted Conifer, CO |
2nd Place: Jessica Nygren & Caresse Wagner Spaced Out Littleton, CO |
3rd Place: Danika Friedley & Whitney Howard Erosion And The Formation Of Alluvial Fans Bayfield, CO |
| Honorable Mention: Noah Husek & Jonathan Wolfe Kids Don't Bounce Boulder, CO |
Honorable Mention: Hannah Schumacher & Erin Luck Burning Up Boulder, CO |
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Junior Division: Meredith MacGregor
Avalanche! A Search For Self-Organized Criticality
Boulder, CO
Senior Division:
Brandon Rosgen
River Banks - Nature's Erodible Boundaries
Pagosa Springs, CO
Ralph Desch Technical Writing Award
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