Colorado State Science Fair, Inc.
2006 Grand Award Winners
Senior Division Best Individual Projects
1st Place:
Chris Messick
Point And Click, Literally: Phase II
Monte Vista, CO
2nd Place:
Malcolm Young
Coral Bleaching Adaptation
Lafayette, CO
3rd Place:
Lindsey Rugh
Fire On The Mountain
Paonia, CO
Senior Division Best Team Projects
1st Place:
Max Krakauer & Alex Ruch
Lighting A Fire: A Study Of The Fuels Involved In The Hayman Fire
Colorado Springs, CO
2nd Place:
Robert Glissmann & Gwenyth Glissmann
Using Eulerian Models To Determine Initial Conditions Of Severe Weather
Boulder, CO
3rd Place:
Michael Pomear & Lalith Polepeddi
Dystrophic Skeletal Muscle Cell Membrane Patched By Poloxamer 407
Greenwood Village, CO
(Also pictured are Bailey Jones & Patrick Martin for receiving a nomination for the team awards.)
Junior Division Best Individual Projects
1st Place:
Alan Seltzer
A Dose Of Detergent And Duckweed
Boulder, CO
2nd Place:
Robin Betz
Evolving Solutions
Boulder, CO
3rd Place:
Emily Schnoor
De"gas"enator
Monte Vista, CO
Junior Division Best Team Projects
1st Place:
Brandy Haller & Kelsey Martin
You Can Crawl, But You Can't Hide: Characterization Of Satellite DNA In The
Family Tenebrionidea
Woodrow, CO
2nd Place:
Amanda Summers & Trent Thelen
Hurrican Busters
Colorado Springs, CO
3rd Place:
Kurt Oleson & Michael Sadwith
Lunch Is A Terrible Thing To Waste!
Denver, CO
(Also pictured are Milan Patel & Chris Delgado
and Jace Khosla & Jerica Khosla for receiving a nomination for the team
awards.)
(Not pictured are Matthew Brown & Chris Bennett and Zoe Phillip & Ashton
Taylor).)
Senior Division Behavioral & Social Sciences
| 1st Place: Rachel Wynn Does Music + Math = More Success? Colorado Springs, CO |
2nd Place: Melanie Twiss Later-WHO-WHAT-HOW MANY-ality Canon City, CO |
3rd Place: Amber Harlan Are The Guilty Innocent? Monte Vista, CO |
| Honorable Mention: Rachel Strauch Sense Of Scents Flagler, CO |
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Junior Division Behavioral & Social Sciences
| 1st Place: Katy Schneider The Mind's Eye Durango, CO |
2nd Place: Caitlin Reeves Contagious Laughing Cortez, CO |
3rd Place: Christina Wilkinson Rock'n Rats! Colorado Springs, CO |
| Honorable
Mention: Megan Morgenthaler Is There A Correlation Between Personality And Instrument Selection Conifer, CO |
Honorable
Mention: Erin Burke Lexicon Science Durango, CO |
Team Nomination: Kurt Oleson & Michael Sadwith A Lunch Is A Terrible Thing To Waste! Denver, CO |
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Nomination: Jace Khosla & Jerica Khosla Caffeine's Effect On An Adult Pueblo, CO |
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| 1st Place: Kaitlyn Lingus One "Mite"y Mission: Biological Compensation Suppression Of Convolvulus arvensis Implementing Host-Specific Aceria malherbae Phase II Trinchera, CO |
2nd Place: Michaela Kaiser Verifying Greenhouse Techniques Used To Test Potatoes For Susceptibility To Powdery Scab Monte Vista, CO |
3rd Place: Kayla Thoma Polyethylene Glycol Affects: Acclimation, Cultured Russet Potato Exposed To Pseudomonas fluorescens Woodrow, CO |
| Honorable Mention: Ilan Kaye The Relative Effects Of Smoke On The Germination Of Noxious Weed And Native Colorado Plant Species Denver, CO |
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Junior Division Botany
| 1st Place: Alan Seltzer A Dose Of Detergent And Duckweed Boulder, CO |
2nd Place: KC Zinn Erwinia On The Eye Monte Vista, CO |
3rd Place: Doyle Vulcani When Plants Attack Lakewood, CO |
| Honorable Mention: Michael McKenna How Does The Rate Of Transpiration Affect Movement Of Water Through Xylem Tubes Of Vascular Plants? Loveland, CO |
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| 1st Place: Lisa Grossman UV Aware: The Effectiveness Of Sunscreens In Blocking UVA Light Colorado Springs, CO |
2nd Place: Robin Blenden The Effects Of Anti-Gel Additives On Biodiesel And Petroleum Diesel Blends Monte Vista, CO |
3rd Place: Daniel Cromer Applications Of A Myoglobin Biosensor Optimized For Cyanide Detection Greenwood Village, CO |
| Honorable Mention: Alex West Validation Of A Rapid Cellar Detection Method For 4-ethyl phenol Produced In Red Wine Fermentations Conifer, CO |
Honorable Mention: Michael Lenker Gas In Motion Colorado Springs, CO |
Team Nomination: Max Krakauer & Alex Ruch Lighting A Fire: A Study Of The Fuels Involved In The Hayman Fire Colorado Springs, CO |
Junior Division Chemistry
| 1st Place: Jordan Lestina L-Ascorbic Acid - Analyzing Food By Titration Dove Creek, CO |
2nd Place: Emmie Mediate Color And Chlorine Colorado Springs, CO |
3rd Place: Katelyn Yowell Column Chromatography Hugo, CO |
| Honorable Mention: Travis Zuniga Egg Eaters Pueblo, CO |
Honorable Mention: Joel Lowinger Gas? What's The Alternative? Grand Junction, CO |
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Senior Division Earth & Space Sciences
| 1st Place: Chris Twombly The Mystery Of The Teepee Buttes Conifer, CO |
2nd Place: Stephen Wilfong Deadly Snow Moffat, CO |
3rd Place: Charisma Rascon Cosmic Potholes Blanca, CO |
| Team Nomination: Bailey Jones & Patrick Martin What Is The Radiation Like In Canon City? Canon City, CO |
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Junior Division Earth & Space Sciences
| 1st Place: Hannah Piekenbrock Erosion In The Denver Metro Area Conifer, CO |
2nd Place: Jonathan Witte Impact To Sudden Death Littleton, CO |
3rd Place: Thomas Roland The Effects Of Particle Size On Settling Rate Fort Collins, CO |
| Honorable Mention: Shelby Campbell Is It All Global Warming Or Do Heat Islands Exist? Paonia, CO |
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| 1st Place: Chris Messick Point And Click, Literally, Phase II Monte Vista, CO |
2nd Place: Forrest Friesen Design And Construction Of A Dynamic Artificial Neural Network Colorado Springs, CO |
3rd Place: Tim Schneider Running Monoped Robots Durango, CO |
| Honorable Mention: Matthew Zubiel Indoor Firefighter Location Monument, CO |
Honorable Mention: Andrew West The Production Of Diesel Fuel From Food Grade Vegetable Oil By A Method Of Catalytic Hydrocracking Conifer, CO |
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Junior Division Engineering
| 1st Place: J. Raleigh Burt Deflation Evaluation: Investigating Passive Air Loss From Butyl Bicycle Tubes Monte Vista, CO |
2nd Place: Christopher Krause Caution: Leaky Levees! Colorado Springs, CO |
3rd Place: Madeline Camp-Drees Snap On Safety Neck Protection La Veta, CO |
| Honorable Mention: Kendall Wilkins It's Getting Hot In Here Yuma, CO |
Honorable Mention: Scott Uhlrich Blowin' In The Wind Fort Collins, CO |
Honorable Mention: Daniel Haarburger Resource Face-Off: Hydrogen vs. Solar Boulder, CO |
| Team Nomination: Amanda Summers & Trent Thelen Hurricane Busters Colorado Springs, CO |
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Senior Division Environmental Sciences
| 1st Place: Tyler Keck Can Super Absorbant Polymers Lower The Concentration Of Metals In Real Water Environments? Monte Vista, CO |
2nd Place: DJ Horton Biological Control Of A Common Corn Criminal, Phase III Hotchkiss, CO |
3rd Place: Cody Caver Hidden Contamination: An Investigation Of Elevated Sulfate Levels Woodrow, CO |
| Honorable Mention: Lesley Petrie A Socioclimatological Analysis Of The Repercussions Of Hurricane Katrina Nederland, CO |
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Junior Division Environmental Sciences
| 1st Place: Emily Schnoor De"gas"enator Monte Vista, CO |
2nd Place: Isaiah Branch-Boyle Solar Integration - The Key To Passive Solar Efficiency Durango, CO |
3rd Place: Jacob Kanack Innovative And Insulated Loveland, CO |
| Honorable Mention: Amanda Wilcox Cactus Goo To The Rescue! Does Mucilage Clean Contaminated Water? Merino, CO |
Honorable Mention: Danielle Burke Up, Up, And Away Windsor, CO |
Honorable Mention: Taylor Graham Train Smoke In Durango: An Epidemiological Study Durango, CO |
| Team Nomination: Matthew Brown & Chris Bennett Quality H2O Limon, CO |
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Senior Division Mathematics & Computer Sciences
| 1st Place: Chelsea Oden Pursuing Patterns In Primes, Face III: An Investigation Of Prime Properties In A Three-Dimensional Sieve Of Crotosthenes Monte Vista, CO |
2nd Place: Andrew Milian Computer Chord Recognition Greenwood Village, CO |
3rd Place: John Meluso The Demise Of The File System Colorado Springs, CO |
| Honorable Mention: Adam Goss Measuring The Fractal Dimension Of A Cauliflower Brush, CO |
Honorable Mention: Gregory Carlson Talent Versus Population Canon City, CO |
Team Nomination: Robert Glissmann & Gwyneth Glissmann Using Eulerian Models To Determine Initial Conditions Of Severe Weather Lafayette, CO |
Junior Division Mathematics & Computer
Sciences
| 1st Place: Robin Betz Evolving Solutions Boulder, CO |
2nd Place: Rahul Shankar To Switch Or Not To Switch Colorado Springs, CO |
3rd Place: Shayne Taylor The Birthday Paradox Canon City, CO |
| Honorable Mention: Candace White Scienceopoly Fort Collins, CO |
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Senior Division Medicine
& Health
| 1st Place: Miri Kornfeld ROS Mediated Activation Of Human Endothelial Cells In Response To HIV-1 Tat Protein Denver, CO |
2nd Place: Ananth Sridhar Screening For Immune Deficiencies In Newborns Using Microfluidics Greenwood Village, CO |
3rd Place: Stephanie Sandhu Effect Of Myostatin Blockade And Hindlimb Suspension On Leg Muscle Protein Composition Boulder, CO |
| Honorable Mention: Kelsey Day Bodybuilding Blackworms: The Effects Of Creatine Supplement On Lumbriculus Variegatus Otis, CO |
Honorable Mention: Elizabeth O'Donnell Anisomycin Influence On Cell Death In Hippocampus Louisville, CO |
Team Nomination: Michael Polmear & Lalith Polepeddi Dystrophic Skeletal Muscle Cell Membranes Patched By Poloxamer 407 Greenwood Village, CO |
Junior Division Medicine & Health
| 1st Place: Jennifer Manfredo A Dazzling Time With Visual Acuity Canon City, CO |
2nd Place: Hannah Price Stuck On You Monte Vista, CO |
3rd Place: Kristen Burns Is Cholesterol Level Affected By Different Diets? Conifer, CO |
| Honorable Mention: Joel Jakel Which Type Of Tablet Dissolves The Fastest? Keenesburg, CO |
Honorable Mention: Kami Keeling How Theobroma Cacao Affects Blood Pressure Part II Ordway, CO |
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| 1st Place: Lindsey Rugh Fire On The Mountain Paonia, CO |
2nd Place: Rachel Kelley Bacteriophages As Antibiotics Greenwood Village, CO |
3rd Place: Joey Baum Examining LMP-1 Effects On Tyk2 Phosphorylation In IL-12 Boulder, CO |
| Honorable Mention: Cory Brownell The Effects Of Fungicides On Early Blight Spores Fleming, CO |
Honorable Mention: Leslie Hase An Unlikely Weapon Against Bacteria: Bacteriophage Therapy As An Alternative To Traditional Treatment Merino, CO |
Team Nomination: Paul Macias & Alexis Hepworth Bacteria In Public Restrooms: Harmless Germs Or Health Hazard Pueblo, CO |
Junior Division Microbiology
| 1st Place: Marlena Widman Grapes In Your Gas Tank Colorado Springs, CO |
2nd Place: Zane Sternberg Does Phellinus Rimosus Contain Antibacterial Agents? La Veta, CO |
3rd Place: Alek Blubaum The Germinator: Death Of Escherichia coli Littleton, CO |
| Honorable Mention: Aarthi Shankar Dirty Laundry Secrets Colorado Springs, CO |
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| 1st Place: Diana Qiu Liquid Crystals Colorado Springs, CO |
2nd Place: Meredith MacGregor Cracking The Brazil Nut Effect Boulder, CO |
3rd Place: David Miller Characterization Of NiTi Nanoparticles Englewood, CO |
| Honorable Mention: Cesar Garcia Insulation: Do You Dress Right? Walsh, CO |
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Junior Division Physics
| 1st Place: Ethan Hahn Ion Lifter Thrust Colorado Springs, CO |
2nd Place: Allison Bernett Discovering How To Determine The Height From Which A Ball Was Dropped Lafayette, CO |
3rd Place: Conor May Taking The Blow - A Study Of Shock Absorptiop Durango, CO |
| Honorable Mention: Hannah Carrese What's Hot; What's Not: Reflections On Three Solar Thermal Principles Colorado Springs, CO |
Honorable Mention: Krista Kinkel What's That Burning? Flagler, CO |
Honorable Mention: Abbi Helfer Altitude Adjusted Colorado Springs, CO |
| Honorable Mention: Matthew Avischious Winning At The Free Throw Line Colorado Springs, CO |
Honorable Mention: Dane Whicker The Effect Of Household Materials On WiFi Signal Strength Fort Collins, CO |
Honorable Mention: Kate Cedars Burn It Down Denver, CO |
| Team Nomination: Zoe Phillip & Ashton Taylor Guns Galore Limon, CO |
Team Nomination: Milan Patel & Chris Delgado Kelvin Thunderstorm Canon City, CO |
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| 1st Place: Malcolm Young Coral Bleaching Adaptation Lafayette, CO |
2nd Place: Taylor Thompson The Effects Of Ethanol Wet Distrillers Grain In Beef Finishing Diets Merino, CO |
3rd Place: Evan Duggan New Diagnostics For The Twelve World Families Of Solifugidae Greenwood Village, CO |
| Honorable Mention: Ashley Pollock Evaluation Of Primary And Secondary Cells For In Vitro Assessment Of The Foreign Body Response Wiggins, CO |
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Junior Division Zoology
| 1st Place: Alex Hetrick This Little Piggy . . . Didn't Quite Make It! Walsh, CO |
2nd Place: Trevar Hobbs The tel1 Mutation And Its Effects On The Drosphila Melanogaster Ordway, CO |
3rd Place: James Mauch Moose On The Mesa Grand Junction, CO |
| Honorable Mention: Chase Martin Humans Like It . . . Ants Don't Grand Junction, CO |
Team Nomination: Brandy Haller & Kelsey Martin You Can Crawl, But You Can''t Hide: Characterization Of Satellite DNA In The Family Tenebrionidea Woodrow, 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 - Reno Tsosie
For following in the footsteps of Luthar Burbank in the study of Botany - Lilith
Jacobs
For following in the footsteps of Marie Curie in the study of Chemistry - Antonia
Lira
For following in the footsteps of Alfred Lothar Wegner in the study of Earth
& Space Sciences - Kevin Harris
For following in the footsteps of James Buchanan Eads in the study of Engineering
- Kaitlin Hanenburg
For following in the footsteps of Rachel Louise Carson in the study of Environmental
Sciences - Noah Fischer
For following in the footsteps of Charles Babbage in the study of Mathematics
& Computer Sciences - Buddy Watson
For following in the footsteps of Hippocrates in the study of Medicine &
Health - Bess Boucher
For following in the footsteps of Jonas Edward Salk in the study of Microbiology
- Monica Brandhube
For following in the footsteps of Albert Einstein in the study of Physics -
Shawn Guice
For following in the footsteps of Georges LCF Cuvier in the study of Zoology
- Bethany Maxwell
Junior Division:
Caitlin Reeves
Contagious Laughing
Cortez, CO
Senior Division:
Robert Glissmann & Gwenyth Glissmann
Using Eulerian Models To Determine Initial Conditions Of Severe Weather
Boulder, CO
Ralph Desch Technical Writing Award
The winner of the Ralph Desch Techinical Writing Award for 2006
was Meredith MacGregor for her project
Cracking the Brazil Nut Effect.
Meredith is from Boulder, CO.
Poster Art was done by Boya Liu from Fairview High School in
Boulder, CO.
The winner of the Lockheed Martin Colorado Science and Engineering Fair Teacher of the Year Award was TJ Donahue from Cherry Creek High School in Greenwood Village, CO.
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