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2005 Grand Award Winners

 

Senior Division Best Individual Projects

2005 Senior Division Best Individual Project Winners

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

2005 Senior Division Best Team Project Winners

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

2005 Junior Division Best Individual Project Winners

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

2005 Junior Division Best Team Project Winners
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

Senior Division Botany

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

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
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

Senior Division Chemistry

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

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
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

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

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

Senior Division Engineering

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

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
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

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

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

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

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

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

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 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

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
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

Junior Division Physics

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

Senior Division Zoology

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

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?
Hudson, CO

 

Pioneers of Science Awards

2005 Pioneers of Science

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

Student Choice Awards

2005 Student Choice Winners


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

2005 Ralph Desch Technical Writing Award Winner

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

2006 Poster Art

Teacher of the Year Award

2005 Teacher of the Year Award

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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