Senior Division Best Individual Projects

1st Place:
Jennifer McDonough
Cruciferous Playhelminthes
Colorado Springs, CO

2nd Place:
Lauren Smith
Xanthomonas campestris pv. Vesicatoria:
A Study of the Relationship Between Extra-Cellular Material & Heightened Host Response
Colorado Springs, CO

3rd Place:
Lisa Saccomano
Abnormal Otic Invagination With Possible Associations to OAV Spectrum
Englewood, CO

 

 

Senior Division Best Team Projects

1st Place:
Andrew Leifer, Raymund To, & David Pothier
Fractals, Power-Laws, and the Weibull Distribution:
Mathematically Modeling Crumpled Paper
Boulder & Louisville, CO

2nd Place:
Brad Engel & Brian Henning
Ramifications of Temperature Fluctuations and Thrombolytic Enzymes
Centennial & Englewood, CO

3rd Place:
Levi Klausner & Harold Klausner
Wheat Variety Response to Drought
Woodrow, CO

 

Junior Division Best Individual Projects

1st Place:
Meredith MacGregor
Dropping Into Chaos
Boulder, CO

2nd Place:
Timothy Schneider
Can You Hear Me?
Durango, CO

3rd Place:
Adreanne Brungardt
A Possible Mechanism for Explaining the Lake Nyos Tragedy
Brush, CO

 

 

Junior Division Best Team Projects

1st Place:
Andy Ralston & Josh King
Bouncing Light
Grand Junction, CO

2nd Place:
Brian Russell & Vincent Rouse
Bac in the Dish
Littleton & Highlands Ranch, CO

3rd Place:
Natalia Wilkins & Sarah Cornish
Gravity vs. Velocity
Denver, CO


(Also pictured are Kendall Murphy, Joaquin Milburn, Alex Zemach, Rebecca Siegal & Zoe Dostal for being nominated for the top team award.)

Senior Division Botany

1st Place: Lauren Smith Xanthomonas campestris PV Vesicatoria: A Study of the Relationship Between Extra-Cellular Material & Heightened Host Response Colorado Springs, CO	2nd Place: Tom Herter Hylemya sp.'s Effects on Fitness of Polemonium foliosissimum Meeker, CO	3rd Place: Heather Messick The Effects of Seed Treatments in Tuberization of Potatoes Monte Vista, CO
Team Nomination: Levi Klausner & Harold Klausner Wheat Variety Response to Drought Woodrow, CO	Honorable Mention: Linell Griffin Dead or Dormant? The Effects of Herbicides on Convolvulus arvensis Walsh, CO

Junior Division Botany

1st Place: Michaela Kaiser How Fast Is the Clock Ticking? Titer vs. Time Monte Vista, CO	2nd Place: Ashley Wilkinson Got Water? Colorado Springs, CO	3rd Place: Jason Pope Hydroponics vs. Soil Fort Lupton, CO
Honorable Mention: Amber Widgery To Grow or Not to Grow Haxtun, CO	Honorable Mention: Lydia Van Deraa Corn Emergence Yuma, CO	Honorable Mention: Stephen Ben Majed Survival of the Fittest Fort Lupton, CO

Senior Division Chemistry

1st Place: Tyler Keck The Super Absorber: Using Sodium Polyacrylate to Absorb Metals in Water Monte Vista, CO	2nd Place: Adam Brungardt Effect of Varying Electrical Potential on Liesegang Rings Growth Brush, CO	3rd Place: Autumn Petros-Good Colored Chemical Chaos: The Absorption of Light Wavelengths Colorado Springs, CO
Honorable Mention: Emily Gu The Effects Of Synthetic Surfactants On Surface Motility Of Bacillus subtilis Superior, CO

Junior Division Chemistry

1st Place: Justin Garoutte The Milky Way Antonito, CO	2nd Place: K. J. Ward Does Your Drink Have the Kick of Carbonation? Hugo, CO	3rd Place: Lauren Butero Up in Smoke - Flammability Testing Children's Sleepwear Bayfield, CO
Honorable Mention: Leah Flink What Color Was the Black Ink? Berthoud, CO

Senior Division Earth & Space Sciences

1st Place: Graham Anderson What a Scorching State! Is Urban Growth Worsening Drought in Colorado? Colorado Springs, CO	2nd Place: Tyler Benton Determining Ice Core Storage Efficacy Using Oxygen Isotope Comparisons Vona, CO	3rd Place: Danielle Nuding Lightning . . . Is It the Answer? Yuma, CO
Honorable Mention: Janel Brown Observing the Asteroid 808 Merxia Centennial, CO

Junior Division Earth & Space Sciences

1st Place: Adreanne Brungardt A Possible Mechanism for Explaining the Lake Nyos Tragedy Brush, CO	2nd Place: Jeffrey Hrncir Reconstructing the Paleoclimate of the Green River Formation Grand Junction, CO	3rd Place: Dailey Kluck Wind Blocks Boulder, CO
Honorable Mention: Carmen Winn The Orientation Of Spiral Galaxies Grand Junction, CO

Senior Division Engineering

1st Place: Robert Ussery Sailplane Winch Launch Telemetry and Data-Logging Fort Collins, CO	2nd Place: Craig Wright Designing an Innovative Micropump Akron, CO	3rd Place: Adam Sidman Spinning Wind Energy in a New Direction: The Darrieus Vertical Axis Wind Turbine Colorado Springs, CO
Honorable Mention: Jeff Marlow The Role of Oxygen in Cobalt Doped Titanium Oxide Thin Films Englewood, CO

Junior Division Engineering

1st Place: Timothy Schneider Can You Hear Me? Durango, CO	2nd Place: Zachary Zillmann Wireless Moisture Detector for G-Tube Feedings Parker, CO	3rd Place: Molly May Magnets and Maglev Durango, CO
Team Nomination: Andy Ralston & Josh King Bouncing Light Grand Junction, CO	Team Nomination: Kendall Murphy, Joaquin Milburn & Alex Zemach Helping the Hearing Impaired Durango, CO	Honorable Mention: Kevin Gao Ion Propulsion Engine: To Space and Beyond Boulder, CO
Honorable Mention: Aaron Sommer Lights, Projector, Action! Centennial, CO	Honorable Mention: Kristine Thompson A Water Powered Gameboy Littleton, CO

Senior Division Environmental Sciences

1st Place: Jessica Caver Designing and Testing Solids to Remove Arsenic Deer Trail, CO	2nd Place: Katherine Hermann The Development of an Analytical Method by Which to Measure 1, 3, 7 - Trimethyl-xanthine in Water Samples Louisville, CO	3rd Place: Laurie Cornell Pass the Salt: The Ecological Impacts of Magnesium Chloride De-Icer on Roadside Vegetable in the Nederland Region Nederland, CO
Honorable Mention: Kendra Kailey Watch the Burn: Promoting Fire Resistance in Grass Landscapes Merino, CO

Junior Division Environmental Sciences

1st Place: Cacia Steensen Forest Fire Fuels Pine, CO	2nd Place: Katie Luff The Rehabilitation of Burned Areas Colorado Springs, CO	3rd Place: John Heermann Oil Pollution Solution II Haxtun, CO
Honorable Mention: Cody Caver Lights Out: Exploring the Electrical Conductivity of MgCl2 Deer Trail, CO	Honorable Mention: Lauren Doty Cooking: A Matter of Life or Death Greenwood Village, CO

Senior Division Health & Behavioral Sciences

1st Place: Lisa Saccomano Abnormal Otic Invagination With Possible Associations to OAV Spectrum Englewood, CO	2nd Place: Kelly Cook Is What You See, What You Get? Brain Perception and the Physics of Light Fort Collins, CO	3rd Place: Diane Gumina A Possible Breast Cancer Treatment: Interferon Alpha Combined With Indole-3-Carbinol Sterling, CO
Team Nomination: Brad Engel & Brian Henning Ramifications of Temperature Fluctuations and Thrombolytic Enzymes Centennial & Englewood, CO	Honorable Mention: Andrea Buxton The Abrasive Question: Amalgam vs. Composites Lamar, CO	Honorable Mention: Amber Henry Biometric Identification: An Analysis of Lannarelli's System of Ear Identification Joes, CO

Junior Division Health & Behavioral Sciences

1st Place: Yael Munishor Got Milk? Denver, CO	2nd Place: Richelle Fritzler Got Milk? Got Hormones? A Study Done With Bovine Somatotropin and Grout Atwood, CO	3rd Place: Taylor Thompson The Effect of Ephedra on Hissing Cockroaches Merino, CO
Team Nomination: Rebecca Siegel & Zoe Dostal Memorize to the Beat Colorado Springs, CO	Honorable Mention: Shana Keilson Calcium - Do You Get Enough? Perception vs. Reality Boulder, CO	Honorable Mention: Julia Nell Driving Reaction Times Pagosa Springs, CO
Honorable Mention: Emily Rotbart It's All Chinese to Me! The Effect of Women's and Girl's Ages on Learning and Retention Denver, CO

Senior Division Mathematics & Computer Sciences

1st Place: Brian Camley The Telltale Heart of Darkness: Differentiating Between Authors - Beyond Naive Bayesian Classification Colorado Springs, CO	2nd Place: Brad Klingenberg Tinder Box: An Exploration in Geopolitical Modeling, Abstraction, and Statistical Inference Greeley, CO	3rd Place: Gabriel Recchia Creating Application-Independent Accessibility Software for the Mobility Impaired Berthoud, CO
Team Nomination: Andrew Leifer, Raymund To, & David Pothier Fractals, Power-Laws, and the Weibull Distribution: Mathematically Modeling Crumpled Paper Boulder & Louisville, CO	Honorable Mention: Nathan McNew An Analysis of Complexity Measures for Computer Generated Mazes Arvada, CO

Junior Division Mathematics & Computer Sciences

1st Place: Chelsea Oden Pursuing Patterns in Primes Monte Vista, CO	2nd Place: Matt Zubiel Visual Password System Monument, CO	3rd Place: Caitlin Pomeroy Diggin' Trig: Sun Light, Sun Bright, Can I Measure the Sun Before Night? Atwood, CO
Honorable Mention: Ian Springer Robotic Rescue - Designing and Building a Light Sensing Robot for Search and Rescue of Disaster Victims Lamar, CO

Senior Division Microbiology

1st Place: Kayla Zimmerman The Effect of Three Types of Mulches on Soil Dwelling Bacteria in a Peach Orchard in Western Colorado Hotchkiss, CO	2nd Place: Jessica Stroud Along Came a Spider Colorado Springs, CO	3rd Place: Heather McGuire Selenium Utilization as Protection From Oxidative Stress Induced by Ultraviolet Radiation Lindon, CO
Honorable Mention: Sasha Montgomery & Alicia Eggen Mold: Covert Killer Rifle, CO	Honorable Mention: Holly McGuire Phospholipid Uptake and Production in Toxoplasma Lindon, CO

Junior Division Microbiology

1st Place: Anita Lowe The Effects of Pulsed DC Electricity on Pond Water Bacteria Berthoud, CO	2nd Place: Mikaila Way An Apple a Day Keeps the Dentist Away? Evergreen, CO	3rd Place: Michael Dango Augmenting Bioremediation Colorado Springs, CO
Team Nomination: Brian Russell & Vincent Rouse Bac in the Dish Littleton & Highlands Ranch, CO	Honorable Mention: Alex Schnaderbeck Density of Bacteria on Public Surfaces II Monte Vista, CO	Honorable Mention: Martha Carol The Safe Kitchen: Sponge vs. Paper Towel Boulder, CO

Senior Division Physics

1st Place: Leota McDaniel An Investigation Into the Leidenfrost Phenomenon Brush, CO	2nd Place: William Eucker Field Emission Capability vs. Diameter of Vertically Aligned MWNT's Denver, CO	3rd Place: Colin Olivier Landslide Generated Mega-Tsunami Colorado Springs, CO
Honorable Mention: Scott Headrick Slow Down Black Hawk, CO

Junior Division Physics

1st Place: Meredith MacGregor Dropping Into Chaos Boulder, CO	2nd Place: Jake Harman Predicting Viscosity Using Rotational Velocity Boulder, CO	3rd Place: Dominic Fuller-Rowell Sound Is Supersonic Boulder, CO
Team Nomination: Natalia Wilkins & Sarah Cornish Gravity vs. Velocity Denver, CO	Honorable Mention: Lenny Benton Mousetrap Dragster Saguache, CO	Honorable Mention: Diana Qiu Lorentz Force Colorado Springs, CO

Senior Division Zoology

1st Place: Jennifer McDonough Cruciferous Playhelminthes Colorado Springs, CO	2nd Place: Courtney Eichengreen Bioenergetics and Echinacea Colorado Springs, CO	3rd Place: Mackenzie Peake Parkinson's Medication Dilemma: Folate Supplementation to Reduce L-dopa's Risk Merino, CO
Honorable Mention: Phillip Torres The Best Wing Angle for Absorbing Heat From Light in Nymphalis antiopa Englewood, CO

Junior Division Zoology

1st Place: Holli Linman Flying Jewels Crawford, CO	2nd Place: Clare O'Connor Seville Ips Beetles Dolores, CO	3rd Place: Lisa Han Comparison of Life Spans of the Free Living Nematode C. elegans From Three Geographical Areas Boulder, CO
Honorable Mention: Justin Boren Dead or Alive Durango, CO

Student Choice Awards

Junior Division:
Ian Springer
Robotic Rescue - Designing and Building a Light Sensing Robot for Search and Rescue of Disaster Victims
Lamar, CO

Senior Division:
Kelly Cook
Is What You See, What You Get? Brain Perception and the Physics of Light
Fort Collins, CO

 

 

 

 

 

Ralph Desch Technical Writing Award

The winner of the Ralph Desch Techinical Writing Award for 2003 was Jeff Marlow for his project
The Role of Oxygen in Cobalt Doped Titanium Oxide Thin Films. Jeff is from Englewood, CO.
Jeff was unable to attend the Awards Ceremony, so no photo is available.

Poster Art Contest

Teacher of the Year Award

The winner of the first Colorado Science and Engineering Fair Teacher of the Year Award was Gary Wilkinson of Monte Vista High School.