Colorado State Science Fair, Inc.
2005 Grand Award Winners
Senior Division Best Individual Projects
1st Place:
Nissa Schmidt
The Psychopharmacological Effects Of Antidepressants On Procambarus clarkii
Merino, CO
2nd Place:
D J Horton
Biological Control Of A Common Corn Criminal: Phase Two
Crawford, CO
3rd Place:
Robert Glissmann
Utilizing Audio Profile Matching Technology For Replicating Body Kinesis
Boulder, CO
Senior Division Best Team Projects
1st Place:
Michael Polmear & Lalith Polepeddi
Proteomics Analysis Of Osteosarcoma Cells
Greenwood Village & Centennial, CO
2nd Place:
Corey Kembel & David Unger
A Study Of Dispersion States In Driven Surface Waves
Brush & Fort Morgan, CO
Junior Division Best Individual Projects
1st Place:
J. Raleigh Burt
Dangerous Decision: The Consideration For Helmet Use At Any Speed
Alamosa, CO
2nd Place:
Helen Killeen
Solar Flux: The Ultimate DJ
Boulder, CO
3rd Place:
Alex Brown
Can Zea Mays Leaf Emergence Be Predicted By Direction Of The Seed Placement?
Yuma, CO
Junior Division Best Team Projects
1st Place:
Alexandra Dostal & Rebecca Siegel
Methane Metropolis
Colorado Springs & Manitou Springs, CO
2nd Place:
Dominic Fuller-Rowell & Tim Cowley
Alternative Transportation Through Magnetic Levitation And Propulsion
Boulder, CO
3rd Place:
Allie Martin & Rebekkah McCaleb
Spuds Gone Bad
Woodrow & Anton, CO
(Also pictured are Juan Delgado & Vernon
Wares, Kaleen Masse & Elizabeth Ary, Kurt Oleson & Michael Sadwith,
Bryan Gillespie, Jason Wells, & Mason Miller, and Shelby Loflin & Paige
Kelley for being nominated for the top team award.)
Senior Division Behavioral & Social Sciences
| 1st Place: Nissa Schmidt The Psycholpharmacological Effects Of Antidepressants On Procambarus clarkii Merino, CO |
2nd Place: Samantha McDonnel Are Rules Generally Used In Processing And Producing Language? Broomfield, CO |
3rd Place: Erin McAuliffe The Effects Of Emotional Words: Supraliminal vs. Subliminal Monte Vista, CO |
Junior
Division Behavioral & Social Sciences
| 1st Place: Jaimie Jennings Head For The Hills Colorado Springs, CO |
2nd Place: Karina Schorr Road Narrows Avon, CO |
3rd Place: Taylor Symons Do You Stop Or Do You Roll? Canon City, CO |
| Team Nomination: Kurt Oleson & Michael Sadwith Will A Mouse Follow A Lighted Path? Denver, CO |
Honorable Mention: Kelsey Burns Less Stress - Read Best? Flagler, CO |
Honorable Mention: Iftin Abshir The Proof Is In The Print: An Analysis Of Fingerprint Patterns Within Different Human Ethnicities Littleton, CO |
| 1st Place: Balaji Sridhar Oxidative DNA Damage During Symbiosis Between Sinorhizobium meliloti And The Alfalfa Plant Denver, CO |
2nd Place: Kirk Wilkinson Want Vitamin C? Eat A Potato Monte Vista, CO |
3rd Place: Lisa Grossman Plants Through Chromatography Manitou Springs, CO |
| Honorable Mention: Michaela Kaiser Utilizing Greenhouse Techniques For Evaluation Of Advanced Potato Cultivars Infected With Spongospor Monte Vista, CO |
Honorable Mention: Holli Linman A Cornucopia Of A Green Salad Of Cover Crops: Solicam Phytoremediation Crawford, CO |
Honorable Mention: Ty Goodan The Effect Of Yucca On Native Rangeland In Union County, New Mexico DesMoines, NM |
| 1st Place: Alex Brown Can Zea Mays Leaf Emergence Be Predicted By Direction Of The Seed Placement? Yuma, CO |
2nd Place: Robert McCall The Effect Of Crop Residue On Millet Germination Yuma, CO |
3rd Place: Eliot Jackson The Relationship Between The Type Of H2O Salinities And The Growth Of Marine Plants Greenwood Village, CO |
| Team Nomination: Allie Martin & Rebekkah McCaleb Spuds Gone Bad Woodrow & Anton, CO |
Honorable Mention: Jessica Spencer Potatoes: From Tissue Culture To Tubers Monte Vista, CO |
Honorable Mention: Emily Houlihan Plants With A Tan Boulder, CO |
| Honorable Mention: Levi Zwim Green Thumb Economics Yuma, CO |
Honorable Mention: John William Sabin Can You Dig It? Littleton, CO |
Honorable Mention: Lyndee Charles How Deep Is Too Deep? Flagler, CO |
| 1st Place: Alex West Development Of A Rapid Cellar Detection Method For 4-Ethyl Phenol In Red Wine Fermentation Conifer, CO |
2nd Place: Daniel Cromer Cyanide Detection Using A Myoglobin Biosensor Englewood, CO |
3rd Place: Rosie Li Where's The Endpoint? Using Lasers To Help Detect The End Of Titration Colorado Springs, CO |
| Honorable Mention: Robin Blenden Selecting Oils To Make Better Biodiesel Monte Vista, CO |
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| 1st Place: Katelyn Yowell Candy Chromatography Hugo, CO |
2nd Place: Crystal Purcell Do You KNow Your H2O? Pagosa Springs, CO |
3rd Place: Kaleb Kurtzer The Heat Is On Floor Fires Sterling, CO |
| Team Nomination: Juan Delgado & Vernon Wares Chalk It Up To Chemical Weathering Pueblo, CO |
Honorable Mention: Trevar Hobbs Copper Flame Test Olney Springs, CO |
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Senior Division Earth & Space Sciences
| 1st Place: Kristyn Rodzinyak Crater Characteristics: Water On Mars? Colorado Springs, CO |
2nd Place: Farheen Rizvi Kinematics Of Highly Ionized High-Velocity Clouds Boulder, CO |
3rd Place: Jessie Chavez Sprouts vs. Nodes: Establishing A Correlation Between Burn Severity And Sprout Density In Populus t Blanca, CO |
| Honorable Mention: Tyler Benton Investigating Surface Geology Of The Anton Scarp Formation Vona, CO |
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Junior
Division Earth & Space Sciences
| 1st Place: Helen Killeen Solar Flux: The Ultimate DJ Boulder, CO |
2nd Place: Samantha Wadsworth The Effects Of Earthquake On Different Shaped Buildings Colorado Springs, CO |
3rd Place: Nicholas Skahill Spacewalk: A Study In Space Insulation Durango, CO |
| Honorable Mention: Allyson Claybaugh Basis Of Weather: Air Pressure And Convection Evergreen, CO |
Honorable Mention: Dakotah Andreatta What Effects The Transition Of A Static Spark? Durango, CO |
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| 1st Place: Robert Glissmann Utilizing Audio Profile Matching Technology For Replicating Body Kinesis Boulder, CO |
2nd Place: Adam Sidman Camera Stabilization: Take 2 Colorado Springs, CO |
3rd Place: Chris Messick Point And Click, Literally Monte Vista, CO |
| Honorable Mention: Nathan Thomsen Robotic Roving Robotic Navigation And Obstacle Avoidance Using Sensors Colorado Springs, CO |
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| 1st Place: Anand Natarajan Nozzle Design For A High Altitude Sounding Rocket Lafayette, CO |
2nd Place: Caitlin Mahanna Engineering A Roller Coaster Craig, CO |
3rd Place: Alexia Russell Heat Storage In Various Media Palisade, CO |
| Team Nomination: Dominic Fuller-Rowell & Tim Cowley Alternative Transportation Through Magnetic Levitation And Propulsion Boulder, CO |
Honorable Mention: Kristine Thompson DAGM (Diabetic Advanced Glucose Monitor) Duece, " Diabetic's Help Is On The Way!" Littleton, CO |
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Senior Division Environmental Sciences
| 1st Place: Ananth Sridhar A Novel Method To Assist Regulators Determine Site Specific WQC For Copper Using BLM And Bioassays Denver, CO |
2nd Place: Cody Caver Simple Arsenic Filtration Devise "Nails" Worlds Largest Mass Poisoning Deer Trail, CO |
3rd Place: Corey Swanson The Toxicity And Movement Of Pollutants In Underground Water Fort Lupton, CO |
| Honorable Mention: Eric Keeling Freshwater, Road Salt, & Spineless Creatures La Veta, CO |
Honorable Mention: Tessa Nelson Salt, Sediment, And Storm Drains: Impacts To Urban Aquatic Invertebrates Centennial, CO |
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Junior
Division Environmental Sciences
| 1st Place: Sam Rotbart Modeling A Bioterrorism Attack Factors Affecting The Distribution Of Airborne Bacteria Denver, CO |
2nd Place: Kelsey Martin Waste Watchers Woodrow, CO |
3rd Place: Nathan Smock Sea Salt, Salt From The Sea, Does It Kill The Algae? Merino, CO |
| Team Nomination: Bryan Gillespie, Jason Wells, & Mason Miller Naturally Insulated Houses Pueblo, CO & Beulah, CO |
Team Nomination: Alexandra Dostal & Rebecca Siegel Methane Metropolis Colorado Springs, CO & Manitou Springs, CO |
Honorable Mention: Conor May Clean Water For Developing Countries: Biosand Filtration And UV Disinfection Durango, CO |
| Honorable Mention: Gwyneth Glissmann A 21st Centruy Problem: Carbon Dioxide Boulder, CO |
Honorable Mention: Jacob Beu Gassed Out, Does Corn Fed Or Prairie Grass Fed Cow Manure Produce The Most Methane? Merino, CO |
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Senior Division Mathematics & Computer Sciences
| 1st Place: Sarah Moll The Probability Of God Walsenburg, CO |
2nd Place: Megan Emmons Analysis Of Driver Strategy On Traffic Flow Alamosa, CO |
3rd Place: Chris Mullins Using The Subset Sum To Develop Secure Encryption Algorithms Meeker, CO |
Junior
Division Mathematics & Computer Sciences
| 1st Place: Skylar Anderson Always B Sharp, Never B Flat, But Sometimes B Fractal: Composing With Fractals Colorado Springs, CO |
2nd Place: Mindy Perkins At What Speed Does An Animation Appear To Travel Backwards? Louiseville, CO |
Honorable Mention: Brian Bales Does The Distance From Affect The Speed Of A Local Area Network? Fort Collins, CO |
| Honorable Mention: Buddy Watson Does The 1st Takedown Win The Match? Fort Morgan, CO |
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Senior
Division Medicine & Health
| 1st Place: Amanda Parker Origin Of HIV Wildtype Revertants Following 3TC Withdrawal Centennial, CO |
2nd Place: Brittelle Bowers Expression Of MrC-1 By Cultured Macrophages Lindon, CO |
3rd Place: Patrick Herklotz Tracking Dyslexia With A DNA Probe Colorado Springs, CO |
| Team Nomination: Michael Polmear & Lalith Polepeddi Proteomics Analysis Of Osteosarcoma Cells Greenwood Village & Englewood, CO |
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Junior
Division Medicine & Health
| 1st Place: Matthew Eckstein Got Milk? The Efficacy Of Enteric Coatings Boulder, CO |
2nd Place: Sarah Oden How Loud Is Too Loud: Can Personal CD Players Hurt Your Hearing? Monte Vista, CO |
3rd Place: Aarthi Shankar How Does The Nutritional Content Of One's Diet Affect The Tensile Properties Of Human Hair? Colorado Springs, CO |
| Honorable Mention: Erika Baker The Tooth And Nothing But Tht Tooth Merino, CO |
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| 1st Place: Brian Roth Where Tubulin Goes, It Glows Louisville, CO |
2nd Place: Andrew Fritzler Antibiotic Resistance: A Study Of The Affect Of Genetic Markers Used In Bioengineered Foods Merino, CO |
3rd Place: Eris Moore Old Traditions: New Applications Characterization Of Plants As Protease Inhibitors Woodrow, CO |
| Honorable Mention: K J Ward What Lies Beneath: Bacteria In Bottled Water Hugo, CO |
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| 1st Place: Bryar DeSanti Is The Hiss Worse Than Their Bite? The Risk Of Septicemia In A Model Of A Momodo Dragon's Bite Merino, CO |
2nd Place: Madeline Camp-Drees Bacterial Study II Medicine Or Myth? La Veta, CO |
3rd Place: Martha Carol What Sponges Accumulate Salmonella, E. Coli, Coliform And Oh My! Boulder, CO |
| Honorable Mention: Todd Harper Germ Genocide Yuma, CO |
Honorable Mention: Elizabeth Thomas Bacteria vs. Cleaning Methods Bayfield, CO |
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| 1st Place: Meredith MacGregor Raising The Rayleigh Number Plumes And Circulation In Turbulent Thermal Convection Boulder, CO |
2nd Place: David Miller A Study Of The Changes In Resistance Of Super Elastic NiTi Englewood, CO |
3rd Place: Diana Qiu Giant Magnetoresistance Colorado Springs, CO |
| Team Nomination: Corey Kembel & David Unger A Study Of Dispersion States In Driven Surface Waves Brush, CO & Fort Morgan, CO |
Honorable Mention: Parker King Arrows Skyward Colorado Springs, CO |
Honorable Mention: Adreanne Brungardt The Impinging Water Droplet Brush, CO |
| Honorable Mention: Linell Griffin The Effects Of A Magnetic Field On The Viscosity Of Magnetorheological Fluid Walsh, CO |
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| 1st Place: J. Raleigh Burt Dangerous Decision: The Consideration For Helmet Use At Any Speed Alamosa, CO |
2nd Place: Matthew Piskorz Why Some Violins Are More Desirable Than Others Boulder, CO |
3rd Place: Zoe Wallace Brrr! It's Cold Out There! Fort Collins, CO |
| Team Nomination: Kaleen Masse & Elizabeth Ary Bouncing Balls Canon City, CO |
Team Nomination: Shelby Loflin & Paige Kelley How Hot It Hot Walsh, CO |
Honorable Mention: Jeffrey Carlson Going For A Spin With Gravity Canon City, CO |
| Honorable Mention: Jackson Beall The Effects Of Electricity On Water Bayfield, CO |
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| 1st Place: D J Horton Biological Control Of A Common Corn Criminal: Phase Two Crawford, CO |
2nd Place: Allison McVey Monarch Murderer Springfield, CO |
3rd Place: Trevor Doyle Genotype And Its Effects On The Phenotype Of Oreohelix Snails Boulder, CO |
| 1st Place: Weston Charles Birds Of A Feather, Must They Flock Together: The Effects Of Socialization On Animal Growth Flagler, CO |
2nd Place: McKenzie Binder Fight The Bite With The Larvacide That's Right Grand Junction, CO |
3rd Place: Abigail Funk Keep The Ants Out Of Your Pants: An Analysis Of Natural Substance's Ability To Repel Ants Littleton, CO |
| Honorable Mention: Erik Schnaderbeck Do Solar Lunar Periods Predict Fishing Success? Monte Vista, CO |
Honorable Mention: Ty Walter Are Parasites Bugging Your Cows? Hudson, CO |
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Knowing that science throughout history has progressed in a series of fits and starts, and knowing that the pioneers of science probably did not show genius if their first scientific endeavors, the Board of Directors of the Colorado Science and Engineering Fair has created this series of Pioneeers of Science Awards to encourage our youngest scientists to endeavor to achieve greatness.
For following in the footsteps of Abraham Maslow in the study
of Behavioral & Social Sciences - Bryant Elrick
For following in the footsteps of Luthar Burbank in the study of Botany - Madison
Cerny
For following in the footsteps of Marie Curie in the study of Chemistry - Noah
Fischer
For following in the footsteps of Alfred Lothar Wegner in the study of Earth
& Space Sciences - Tamara Jefferson, Tiffany Langevin & Amanda Archuleta
For following in the footsteps of James Buchannon Eads in the study of Engineering
- Rafe Paulson
For following in the footsteps of Rachel Louise Carson in the study of Environmental
Sciences - Connor Spaeth
For following in the footsteps of Charles Babbage in the study of Mathematics
& Computer Sciences - Danica Cox
For following in the footsteps of Hippocrates in the study of Medicine &
Health - Elizabeth Burger & Nicole Ortega
For following in the footsteps of Jonas Edward Salk in the study of Microbiology
- Katie Newton
For following in the footsteps of Albert Einstein in the study of Physics -
Bailey Younger
For following in the footsteps of Georges LCF Cuvier in the study of Zoology
- Brandy Haller
Junior Division:
Gwyneth Glissmann
A 21st Century Problem: Carbon Dioxide
Boulder, CO
Senior Division:
Timothy Schneider
Robotonomous
Durango, CO
Chris Messick
Point And Click, Literally
Monte Vista, CO
Ralph Desch Technical Writing Award
The winner of the Ralph Desch Techinical Writing Award for 2005
was Kristyn Rodzinyak for her project
Crater Characteristics: Water On
Mars?. Kristyn is from Colorado Springs, CO.
The winner of the Lockheed Martin Colorado Science and Engineering Fair Teacher of the Year Award was Penny Propst of Merino Jr/Sr High School in Merino, CO.
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