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Senior
Division Best Individual Projects |
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1st
Place:
Nissa Schmidt
The Psychopharmacological Effects of Antidepressants on Procambarus
clarkii
Merino Jr/Sr High School
2nd
Place:
D J Horton
Biological Control of a Common Corn Criminal; Phase
Hotchkiss High School
3rd
Place:
Robert Glissmann
Utilizing Audio Profile matching technology for
Replicating Body Kinesis
Peak to Peak Charter School
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Senior
Division Best Team Projects |
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1st
Place:
Michael Polmear & Lalith Polepeddi
Proteomics Analysis of Osteosarcoma Cells
Cherry Creek High School
2nd
Place:
Corey Kembel & David Unger
A Study of Dispersion States in Driven Surface Waves
Brush High School
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Junior
Division Best Individual Projects |
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1st
Place:
J. Raleigh Burt
Dangerous Decision: The Consideration for Helmet Use at
Any Speed
Sargent Junior High School
2nd
Place:
Helen Killeen
Solar Flux: The Ultimate DJ
Summit Middle School
3rd
Place:
Alex Brown
Can Zea Mays Leaf Emergence Be Predicted by Direction
of the Seed Placement?
Yuma Middle School
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Junior
Division Best Team Projects |
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1st
Place:
Alexandra Dostal & Rebecca Siegal
Methane Metropolis
West Middle School
2nd
Place:
Dominic Fuller-Rowell & Tim Crowley
Alternative Transportation Through Magnetic Levitation
and Propulsion
Summit Middle School
3rd
Place:
Allie MArtin & Rebekkah McCaleb
Spuds Gone Bad
Woodlin School
(Also pictured are Kendall Murphy, Joaquin Milburn,
Alex Zemach, Rebecca Siegal & Zoe Dostal for being
nominated for the top team award.)
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Senior
Division Botany
1st
Place:
Balaji Sridhar
Oxidative DNA Damage During Symbiosis Between Sinorhizobium
meliloti and the Alfalfa Plant
Greenwood Village, CO |
2nd
Place:
Kirk Wilkinson
Want Vitamin C? Eat a Potato!
Monte Vista, CO |
3rd
Place:
Lisa Grossman
Plants Through Chromatography
Colorado Springs, CO |
Honorable
Mention:
Holli Linman
A Cornucopia of a Green Salad of Cover Crops: Solicam Phytoremediation
Hotchkiss, CO |
Honorable
Mention:
Ty Goodan
The Effect of Yucca on Native Rangleand in Union County,
New Mexico
Branson, CO |
Honorable
Mention:
Michaela Kaiser
Utilizing Greenhouse Techniques for Evaluation of Advanced
Potato Cultivars Infected with Spongospor
Monte Vista, CO |
Junior
Division Botany
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
Otis, CO |
3rd
Place:
Eliot Jackson
The Relationship Between the Type of H2O Salinities and the
Growth of Marine Plants
Denver, CO |
Honorable
Mention:
Jessica Spencer
Potatoes: From Tissue Culture To Tubers
Monte Vista, CO |
Honorable
Mention:
John William Sabin
Can You Dig It?
Denver, CO |
Honorable
Mention:
Emily Houlihan
Plants with a Tan
Boulder, CO |
Honorable
Mention:
Lyndee Charles
How Deep Is Too Deep?
Flager, CO |
Honorable
Mention:
Levi Zwirn
Green Thumb Economics
Yuma, CO |
Team
Nomination:
Allie Martin & Rebekkah McCaleb
Spuds Gone Bad
Woodrow, CO |
Senior
Division Chemistry
1st
Place:
Alex West
Development of a Rapid Cellar Detection Method for 4-Ethyl
Phenol in Red Wine Fermentations
Conifer, CO |
2nd
Place:
Daniel Cromer
Cyanide Detection Using a Myoglobin Biosensor
Greenwood Village, 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 |
Junior
Division Chemistry
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
Merino, CO |
Honorable
Mention:
Trevar Hobbs
Copper Flame Test
Ordway, CO |
Team
Nomination:
Juan Delgado & Vernon Wares
Chalk It Up to Chemical Weathering
Pueblo, CO |
Senior
Division Earth & Space Sciences
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1st
Place:
Kristyn Rodzinyak
Crater Characteristics: Water on Mars?
Colorado Springs, CO
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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
Stratton, CO |
Junior
Division Earth & Space Sciences
1st
Place:
Helen Killeen
Solar Flux: The Ultimate DJ
Boulder, CO |
2nd
Place:
Samantha Wadsworth
The Effects of Earthquakes on Different Shaped Buildings
Colorado Springs, CO |
3rd
Place:
Nicholas Skahill
Spacewalk: A Study in Space Insulation
Durango, CO |
Honorable
Mention:
Dakotah Andreatta
What Effects the Transition of a Static Spark?
Durango, CO |
Honorable
Mention:
Allyson Claybaugh
Basis of Weather: Air Pressure and Convection
Conifer, CO |
Senior
Division Engineering
1st
Place:
Robert Glissman
Utilizing Audio Profile Mathcing Technology for Replicating
Body Kinesis
Lafayatte, 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 |
Junior
Division Engineering
1st
Place:
Anand Natarajan
Nozzle Design for a High Altitude Sounding Rocket
Lafayette, CO |
2nd
Place:
Caitlin Mahanna
Engineering a Roller Coaster
Hayden, CO |
3rd
Place:
Alexia Russell
Heat Storage in Various Media
Clifton, CO |
Team
Nomination:
Dominic Fuller-Rowell & Tim Cowley
Alternative Transportation Through Magnetic Levitation and
Propulsion
Boulder, CO |
Honorable
Mention:
Kristine Thompson
DAGM (Diabetic Adavnced Glucose Monitor) Deuce, " A
Diabetic's Help Is on the Way!"
Conifer, CO |
Senior
Division Environmental Sciences
1st
Place:
Ananth Sridhar
A Novel Method to Assist Regulators Determine Site Specific
WQC for Copper Using BLM and Bioassays
Greenwood Village, CO |
2nd
Place:
Cody Caver
Simple Arsenic Filtration Devise " Nails" Worlds
Largest Mass Poisoning
Woodrow, CO |
3rd
Place:
Corey Swanson
The Toxicity and Movement of Pollutanats in Underground Water
Fort Lupton, CO |
Honorable
Mention:
Tessa Nelson
Salt, Sediment, and Storm Drains: Impacts to Urban Aquatic
Invertebrates
Denver, CO |
Honorable
Mention:
Eric Keeling
Freshwater, Road Salt, & Spineless Creatures
La Veta, CO |
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 |
Honorable
Mention:
Jacob Beu
Gassed Out, Does Corn Fed, Or Prairie Grass Fed Cow Manure
Produce the Most Methane?
Merino, CO |
Honorable
Mention:
Conor May
Clean Water for Developing Countries: Biosand Filtration
and UV Disinfection
Durango, CO |
Honorable
Mention:
Gwyneth Glissman
A 21st Century Problem: Carbon Dioxide
Lafayette, CO |
Team
Nomination:
Bryan Gillespie, Jason Wells, & Mason Miller
Naturally Insulated Houses
Beulah,CO |
Team
Nomination:
Alexandra Dostal & Rebecca Siegel
Methane Metropolis
Colorado Springs, CO |
Senior
Division Behavioral & Social Sciences
1st
Place:
Nissa Schmidt
The Psychopharmacological 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
Edwards, CO |
3rd
Place:
Taylor Symons
Do You Stop or Do You Roll?
Canon City |
Team
Nomination:
Kurt Oleson & Michael Sadwith
Will a Mouse Follow a Lighted Path?
Denver, CO |
Honorable
Mention:
Iftin Abshir
The Proof Is in the Print: An Analysis of Fingerprint Patterns
within Different Human Ethnicities
Littleton, CO |
Honorable
Mention:
Kelsey Burns
Less Stress - Read Best?
Flagler, CO |
Senior
Division Mathematics & Computer Sciences
1st
Place:
Sarah Moll
The Probability of God
La Veta, CO |
2nd
Place:
Megan Emmons
Analysis of Driver Strategy on Traffic Flow
Del Norte, 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?
Lafayette, CO |
Honorable
Mention:
Buddy Watson
Does the 1st Takedown Win the Match?
Fort Morgan, CO |
Honorable
Mention:
Brian Bales
Does the Distance From Affect the Speed of a Local Area Network?
Fort Collins, CO |
Senior
Division Medicine & Health
1st
Place:
Amanda Parker
Origin of HIV Wildtype Revertants Following 3TC
Greenwood Village, CO |
2nd
Place:
Brittelle Bowers
Expression of MrC-1 By Cultured Macrophages
Woodrow, 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, CO |
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 the Tooth
Merino, CO |
Senior
Division Microbiology
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 |
Junior
Division Microbiology
1st
Place:
Bryar DeSanti
Is the Hiss Worse Than Their Bite? The Risk of Septicemia
in a Model of a Komodo 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:
Elizabeth Thomas
Bacteria vs. Cleaning Methods
Durango, CO |
Honorable
Mention:
Todd Harper
Germ Genocide
Yuma, CO |
Senior
Division Physics
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
Greenwood Village, CO |
3rd
Place:
Diana Qiu
Giant Magnetoresistance
Colorado Springs, CO |
Honorable
Mention:
Linell Griffin
The Effects of a Magnetic Field on the Viscosity of Magnetorheological
Fluid
Walsh, CO |
Honorable
Mention:
Adreanne Brungardt
The Impinging Water Droplet
Brush, CO |
Honorable
Mention:
Parker King
Arrows Skyward
Colorado Springs, CO |
Team
Nomination:
Corey Kembel & David Unger
A Study of Dispersion States Iin Driven Surface Waves
Brush, CO |
Junior
Division Physics
1st
Place:
J. Raleigh Burt
Dangerous Decision: The Consideration for Helmet Use at Any
Speed
Monte Vista, 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 |
Honorable
Mention:
Jeffrey Carlson
Going For a Spin with Gravity
Canon City, CO |
Honorable
Mention:
Jackson Beall
The Effects of Electricity on Water
Durango, CO |
Honorable
Mention:
Anthony Meluso
What Goes Up, Must Come Down! Archery Physics
Colorado Springs, CO |
Team
Nomination:
Kaleen Masse & Elizabeth Ary
Bouncing Balls
Canon City, CO |
Team
Nomination:
Shelby Loflin & Paige Kelley
How Hot Is Hot
Walsh, CO |
Senior
Division Zoology
1st
Place:
D J Horton
Biological Control of a Common Corn Criminal; Phase II
Hotchkiss, 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 |
Junior
Division Zoology
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?
Keenesburg, CO
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Student
Choice Awards

Junior Division:
Gwyneth Glissman
A 21st Century problem: Carbon Dioxide Lafayette, CO
Senior
Division: Chris Messick
Point and Click Literally
Monte Vista, CO
Senior
Division: Tim Schneider
Robotonomous
Durango, 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.

Poster
Art Contest

Poster
Art was done by Allison McVey, Springfield Jr/Sr High School, Springfield,
CO.
Teacher
of the Year Award

The
winner of the first Colorado Science and Engineering Fair Teacher of the
Year Award was Penny Propst of Merino Jr/Sr High School.
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