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Senior
Division Best Individual Projects |
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1st
Place:
Chelsea Oden
A Wrinkle in Prime: An Investigation of Prime Properties in a Four-dimensional
Sieve of Eratosthenes
Monte Vista, CO
2nd
Place:
Atticus Bergman
That Flocking Convection
Boulder, CO
3rd
Place:
Daniel Smith
Reading Fingers: A System for Automatic Guitar Composition
Centennial, CO
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Senior
Division Best Team Projects |
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1st
Place:
Bailey Leppek & Derek Kramer
Ethanol Synthesis from Different Biodegradable Household Waste
Products
Centennial, CO
2nd
Place:
Andrew Flynn & Wil Cocke
Determining the Point Of Entropy: Building a Lorenzian Waterwheel
Chipita Park & Colorado Springs, CO
3rd
Place:
Laramie Ulam & Brentley Bodycomb
Optimum Growth of Artemia salina
Canon City, CO
Honorable
Mention:
Rebecca Siegel & Zoe Dostal
Thinking without Thinking: A Study of Subconscious Biases Towards
the Middle East
Manitou Springs & Colorado Springs, CO |
Junior
Division Best Individual Projects |
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1st
Place:
Erik Schnaderbeck
What Water Characteristics Affect Aquatic Invertebrates at Tailwater
Fisheries
Monte Vista, CO
2nd
Place:
Ambrose Soehn
Natural vs. Synthetic: Polymers in Today's World
Boulder, CO
3rd
Place:
Alexandria Farnsworth
Stop! Type 2 Diabetes in Adolescents
Paonia, CO
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Junior
Division Best Team Projects |
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1st
Place:
Jonathan Bentley & Michelle Saipe
Cancer Myths: Are They True? (A Study of the Effects of Vitamins
& Chemicals on HeLa Cell Growth)
Denver, CO
2nd
Place:
Aiden Acquisto & Jaimie Smith
Reaction with Distraction
Denver, CO
3rd
Place:
Alex Kerr & Rex Berg
Look Me in the Eyes
Calhan, CO
Honorable
Mention:
Hanna Pelican & Forre Zook
Not So N'ice
Colorado Springs, CO
Honorable
Mention:
Ashlan Hren & Arianna Vierczhalek
What About the Brakes?!!
Leadville, CO |
Senior
Division Animal Sciences
1st
Place:
DJ Horton
Biological Control of a Common Corn Criminal: Phase 4
Crawford, CO |
2nd
Place:
Caleb Kruse
C the Difference: The Effect of Ascorbic Acid on Fragmented Coral
Colorado Springs, CO |
3rd
Place:
Katilin Hornig
The Equine Emotional and Physical Behavior Connection
Alamosa, CO |
Honorable
Mention:
Weston Charles
Fowl Company
Flagler, CO |
Team
Nomination:
Laramie Ulam & Brentley Bodycomb
Optimum Growth of Artemia salina
Canon City, CO |
Junior
Division Animal Sciences
1st
Place:
Erik Schnaderbeck
What Water Characteristics Affect Aquatic Invertebrates at Tailwater
Fisheries
Monte Vista, CO |
2nd
Place:
Nakayla Lestina
Biological Control of Canada Thistle - Analyzing Three Natural
Insect Enemies
Dove Creek, CO |
3rd
Place:
Callie Varra
What Grade Is Your Egg?
Fruita, CO |
Honorable
Mention:
Randi Timmons
Something's Fishy
Walsh, CO |
Honorable
Mention:
Joshua Woodring
The Mutant That Would Not Disappear
Colorado Springs, CO |
Senior
Division Behavioral & Social Sciences
1st
Place:
Rachel Wynn
Social Cognition and Working Memory
Colorado Springs, CO |
2nd
Place:
Kevin Howard
Chord Processing and the Critical Band
Boulder, CO |
3rd
Place:
Julia Leonard
From Plague to Bird Flu: The Media's Influence in Mass Hysteria
Colorado Springs, CO |
Honorable
Mention:
Dustin Brady
Beats of the Brain
Wray, CO |
Honorable
Mention:
Heather Anderson
Can Spider's Party?
Peyton, CO |
Team
Nomination:
Rebecca Siegel & Zoe Dostal
Thinking without Thinking: A Study of Subconscious Biases Towards
the Middle East
Manitou Springs & Colorado Springs, CO |
Junior
Division Behavioral & Social Sciences
1st
Place:
Diane Schulze
Human Embarrassment
Centennial, CO |
2nd
Place:
Reno Tsosie
Cultural Relevance in the Navajo Context
Cortez, CO |
3rd
Place:
Joshua Garcia
Brain Age: How Old Is Your Brain?
Monte Vista, CO |
Honorable
Mention:
Katie Savolt
Walking to a Beat
Yuma, CO |
Honorable
Mention:
Zoe Phillip
Did You See That
Limon, CO |
Honorable
Mention:
Jason Francis
Does the Type of Music Effect Your Heart Rate?
Lamar, CO |
Team
Nomination:
Alex Kerr & Rex Berg
Look Me in the Eyes
Calhan, CO |
Team
Nomination:
Aiden Acquisto & Jaimie Smith
Reaction with Distraction
Denver, CO |
Senior
Division Chemistry
1st
Place:
David Wu
Analyzing Hydrogen Storage in a Mg-Al-Zn Alloy
Aurora, CO |
2nd
Place:
Kyle Mordan
Safety of Mixing Chemical Wastes With Concrete as a Waste Disposal
Technique
Aurora, CO |
3rd
Place:
Sarah Cummings
Leaching of Metals from Cookware by Acidic Solutions
Brush, CO |
Honorable
Mention:
Tim Schneider
Photonics
Durango, CO |
Junior
Division Chemistry
1st
Place:
Ambrose Soehn
Natural vs. Synthetic: Polymers in Today's World
Boulder, CO |
2nd
Place:
Jordan Lestina
L-Ascorbic Acid Analyzing Foods by Titration Phase 2, Quantifying
the Effects of Heat & Cold on Vitamin C
Dove Creek, CO |
3rd
Place:
Travis Zuniga
How Bright Is Your Smile? (The Effects of Toothpaste on Stains)
Pueblo, CO |
Honorable
Mention:
Thayer Sauter
Rust
Wiggins, CO |
Honorable
Mention:
Tessa Kester
Why Did My Hair Turn Green?
Grand Junction, CO |
Honorable
Mention:
Anthony Azari
Go Bananas
Greeley, CO |
Honorable
Mention:
Austin Traphagan
Smile - It's About Time
Yuma, CO |
Senior
Division Earth & Space Sciences
1st
Place:
Gwenyth Glissmann
Mitigating Global Warming by Utilizing Adobe Geoengineering
Boulder, CO |
2nd
Place:
Stephen Wilfong
Return of the Deadly Snow: A Study of Avalanche Risk Based on Layers
and Types of Snow
Moffat, CO |
3rd
Place:
Darci Dobson
Looking for Patterns of Deuterium in the Local Galactic Disk
Monte Vista, CO |
Junior
Division Earth & Space Sciences
1st
Place:
Colin Mummery
Ascent from the Deep
Durango, CO |
2nd
Place:
Tawney Bleak
S.O.S. Save Our Soil
Otis, CO |
3rd
Place:
Alison Seedorf
Soybean Growth
Yuma, CO |
Honorable
Mention:
Lauren Adlhoch
Can I Measure the Height of the Moon's Mountains and the Depths
of Its Craters?
Loveland, CO |
Senior
Division Energy & Transportation
1st
Place:
Amanda Rock
Biofuels: Oily Alternatives?
Wray, CO |
2nd
Place:
Mandi Loucks
Should Hybrids Fly?
Grand Junction, CO |
3rd
Place:
Christy Farnsworth
Hydrogen: A New Twist
Paonia, CO |
Team
Nomination:
Bailey Leppek & Derek Kramer
Ethanol Synthesis From Different Biodegradable Household Waste
Products
Centennial, CO |
Junior
Division Energy & Transportation
1st
Place:
Alex Nickell
Can a Shroud Increase the Electrical Output of a Wind Turbine?
Loveland, CO |
2nd
Place:
Natashia Barker
Burn or Not to Burn: That Is the Question
Paoli, CO |
3rd
Place:
Brian Heckman
Solar Effects
Fort Collins, CO |
Honorable
Mention:
Marina Yamasaki
How Efficient Are Your Light Bulbs?
Boulder, CO |
Senior
Division Engineering
1st
Place:
Daniel Smith
Reading Fingers: A System for Automatic Guitar Composition
Centennial, CO |
2nd
Place:
Cameron Kruse
The Dirt on Baseball: Standardizing The Baseball Mudding Process
Colorado Springs, CO |
3rd
Place:
Ian Donaldson
Dynamic Axial Deformation Trends of High-Strength Metal Tube Core
Automotive Crush Zones
Broomfield, CO |
Honorable
Mention:
Daniel Armstrong
Designing a Digital Hearing Aid Program
Monte Vista, CO |
Honorable
Mention:
Maxwell Wheeler
A New Frequency for Help! Exploring Propagation Characteristics
of the 500 kHz Frequency
Nederland, CO |
Junior
Division Engineering
1st
Place:
Nathan Weeks
Sound Barrier Designs
Colorado Springs, CO |
2nd
Place:
Charles Bergren
AM Loop Antenna Design
Boulder, CO |
3rd
Place:
Morgan Wilson
Warming Formula with Formulas
Center, CO |
Honorable
Mention:
Graham Robinson
Keeping Planes from Crashing!
Mancos, CO |
Honorable
Mention:
Addison Kramer
Ecologically Friendly Roofing
Englewood, CO |
Senior
Division Environmental Sciences
1st
Place:
Eric Keeling
A Study on Rhizofiltration With Helianthus annuus and Its Effect
on Coal Bed Methane Produced Water
La Veta, CO |
2nd
Place:
Alex Schnaderbeck
Shape Up: The Relationship Between Trout Habitat and Differently
Shaped Rocks
Monte Vista, CO |
3rd
Place:
John Huffman
Response of Euglena gracilis to Magnesium Chloride
Gypsum, CO |
Honorable
Mention:
Evan Duggan
Removal of Targeted Organic Compounds from Municipal Waste Water
Englewood, CO |
Honorable
Mention:
Christopher Krause
Operation: Fig It!
Colorado Springs, CO |
Junior
Division Environmental Sciences
1st
Place:
Alexandra Proietti
Fuel of the Future, Toasty with Tamarisk
Grand Junction, CO |
2nd
Place:
Lorne Muir II
Hydrophobic Soil Rehabilitation
Colorado Springs, CO |
3rd
Place:
Corey Becker
Get'n Down 'n' Dirty
Monte Vista, CO |
Honorable
Mention:
Vincent Burkhardt
Do Car Associated Chemicals Affect Daphnia Mortality?
Denver, CO |
Honorable
Mention:
Hannah Carrese
Hg - The Lethal Element: Emissions From a Coal-Fired Power Plant
Colorado Springs, CO |
Honorable
Mention:
Brooke Grissom
Soil Erosion: A Growing Problem
Fowler, CO |
Honorable
Mention:
Rachel Beverlin
Geyser Spring: Characteristics of Colorado's Only Geyser
Dolores, CO |
Senior
Division Mathematics & Computer Sciences
1st
Place:
Chelsea Oden
A Wrinkle in Prime: An Investigation of Prime Properties in a Four
Dimensional Sieve of Eratosthenes
Monte Vista, CO |
2nd
Place:
Tommaso Buvoli
Machine Learning and Data Classification
Boulder, CO |
3rd
Place:
Ian Springer
Inside the Matrix: Solving Sudoku Puzzles Using Visual Basic
Lamar, CO |
Team
Nomination:
Andrew Flynn & Wil Cocke
Determining the Point of Entropy: Building a Lorenzian Waterwheel
Chipita Park & Colorado Springs, CO |
Junior
Division Mathematics & Computer Sciences
1st
Place:
Garrett Glissmann
Identifying Minutiae within a Fingerprint
Boulder, CO |
2nd
Place:
Rahul Shankar
A Software Tool to Calculate Alignment of Nucleotide Sequences
to Classify the Cryptoprocta ferox
Colorado Springs, CO |
3rd
Place:
Jack Donelson
Predicting Success in Basketball by Statistical Analysis
Littleton, CO |
Honorable
Mention:
Austin Cerny
Slow Computer Got You Down?
Eagle, CO |
Senior
Division Medicine & Health
1st
Place:
Ashley Pollock
Tissue Distribution and Mitochondrial Function of the Parkinson's
Disease Related Protein DJ-1
Wiggins, CO |
2nd
Place:
Nicholas Greos
Evaluation of Concussions in Teen Sports
Greenwood Village, CO |
3rd
Place:
Young Kim
Chlorophyll as a Sunscreening Agent
Aurora, CO |
Honorable
Mention:
Jenna Gerber
Diffusion and Osmosis
Walsh, CO |
Junior
Division Medicine & Health
1st
Place:
Alexandria Farnsworth
Stop! Type 2 Diabetes in Adolescents
Paonia, CO |
2nd
Place:
Russell Tappy
Performance Enhancers, Are They In You? The Effect of Performance
Enhancers on Gromphadorhina portentosa
Merino, CO |
3rd
Place:
Soren Frykholm
The Nose Knows: A Better Way to Breathe?
Boulder, CO |
Honorable
Mention:
Tanner Zimmerman
Mercy MRSA
New Castle, CO |
Honorable
Mention:
Zack Clemmons
24
Colorado Springs, CO |
Honorable
Mention:
John Gordon
Arches, Loops, and Whorls
Lone Tree, CO |
Honorable
Mention:
Holly Isbell
To Be Healthy or Not to Be, That Is the Question: The Effect of
Omega-3 and Omega-6 on Caenorhabditis elegans
Atwood, CO |
Honorable
Mention:
Susannah Rogers
It's All My Brother's Fault: The Effects of Chloroquine on Melanin
and Melanoma
Colorado Springs, CO |
Honorable
Mention:
Casey Campbell
Reaction Action
La Veta, CO |
Team
Nomination:
Jonathan Bentley & Michelle Saipe
Cancer Myths: Are They True? (A Study of the Effects of Vitamins
& Chemicals on HeLa Cell Growth)
Denver, CO |
Senior
Division Microbiology
1st
Place:
Daniel Joos
The Effects of Essential Oils on Microsporum canis Distrotum
Fleming, CO |
2nd
Place:
Lindsey Rugh
Fire on the Mountain Phase II
Paonia, CO |
3rd
Place:
Anika Petach
Tracking and Preventing the Ophiostoma Fungus of the Mountain Pine
Bark Beetle
Boulder, CO |
Honorable
Mention:
Leslie Hase
A Combat Against Cavity Causing Bacteria: Raisins as a Functional
Food for Oral Health
Sterling, CO |
Honorable
Mention:
Sarah Boyle
The Effects of L-glutathione and Ampicillin on the Gram-Negative
Bacteria: Escherichia coli
Hesperus, CO |
Junior
Division Microbiology
1st
Place:
Ashleigh West
The Use of UV Light to Sterilize Vegetables as a Means of Improving
Food Safety
Conifer, CO |
2nd
Place:
Sara Volz
What Common Substances Best Kill Bacteria on the Skin?
Colorado Springs, CO |
3rd
Place:
Tucker Carver
Bad to the Bowl! How Clean Is Your Drinking Water?
Merino, CO |
Honorable
Mention:
Stephen O'Connor-Seville
Ethanol from Dead Wood
Mancos, CO |
Team
Nomination:
Hanna Pelican & Forre Zook
Not So N'ice
Colorado Springs, CO |
Senior
Division Physics
1st
Place:
Atticus Bergman
That Flocking Convection
Boulder, CO |
2nd
Place:
Vicky Li
Grating-Stabilized Diode Lasers for Cooling Sr-87 Atoms
Superior, CO |
3rd
Place:
Matt Wenger
Brillouin Light Scattering
Colorado Springs, CO |
Honorable
Mention:
Julia Buzan
Quantifying the Quality of Violins
Englewood, CO |
Honorable
Mention:
Shelby Messer
High Voltage
Hugo, CO |
Junior
Division Physics
1st
Place:
Kerry Betz
Something's Decaying in My Basement
Boulder, CO |
2nd
Place:
Rachel Washam
Hardened without Heat
Loveland, CO |
3rd
Place:
Emily Sandner
Oil; Fact or Friction - Synthetic vs. Petroleum
Durango, CO |
Honorable
Mention:
Layne Barrett
Bounce Your Way Down the Fairway
Colorado Springs, CO |
Honorable
Mention:
Savannah Lyle
On a Roll
Colorado Springs, CO |
Team
Nomination:
Ashlan Hren & Arianna Vierczhalek
What About the Brakes?!!
Leadville, CO |
Senior
Division Plant Sciences
1st
Place:
Kaitlyn Lingus
One "Mite"y Mission: Biological Compensation Suppression
of Convolvulus arvensis Implementing Host-Specific Aceria malherbae,
Phase III
Trinchera, CO |
2nd
Place:
Michaela Kaiser
Peace of Mind Potential for Current Season Spread in Colorado's
Post Harvest Test
Monte Vista, CO |
3rd
Place:
Erin Neumann
Water On Demand: The Effects of Soil Additives on Plant Growth
and Germination
Wray, CO |
Honorable
Mention:
Gabriel Sachter-Smith
Hybridization of Edible Diploid Eumusa Varieties and Wild Rhodochlamys
Musa Species
Nederland, CO |
Junior
Division Plant Sciences
1st
Place:
Andrew Theobald
Windy Gardens
Colorado Springs, CO |
2nd
Place:
Justin Lewton
The Green Thumb Problem
Bennet, CO |
3rd
Place:
Amber Vesely
How Does Your Garden Grow?
Fort Collins, CO |
Honorable
Mention:
Billy Carruth
How Magnetism Effects Plant Growth
Walsenburg, CO |
Honorable
Mention:
Cade Daugherty
Biological Control of Locoweed
Branson, CO |
Honorable
Mention:
Hannah Ekblad
The Effect of Recycled Newspaper on Pea Germination in a Heavy
Clay Soil
Fort Collins, CO |
Honorable
Mention:
Danielle Rinaldo
Lotus Flower Has the Power! The Effect of Nelumbo nucifera on Fog
Formation
Sterling, CO |
Honorable
Mention:
Anna Rooney
How Sweet Is Your Potato?
Monte Vista, CO |
Honorable
Mention:
KC Zinn
Counting on Canela
Center, CO |
Pioneers
of Science Awards

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 Pioneers of Science Awards to encourage our youngest scientists
to endeavor to achieve greatness.
For
following in the footsteps of Georges LCF Cuvier in the study of Animal
Sciences- Avery DiUbaldo
For following in the footsteps of Abraham Maslow in the study of Behavioral
& Social Sciences - Majed Aldhamari
For following in the footsteps of Margaret Mead in the study of Behavioral
& Social Sciences - Cody Hervert
For following in the footsteps of Alfred Bernhard in the study of Chemistry
- Katie Romano
For following in the footsteps of Marie Curie in the study of Chemistry
- Jorge Arrendondo
For following in the footsteps of Alfred Lothar Wegner in the study of
Earth & Space Sciences - Dylan Cleveland
For following in the footsteps of James Prescott Joule in the study
of Energy & Transportation - Taylor Bond
For following in the footsteps of Sir William Grove in the study of
Energy & Transportation - Isaiah Branch-Boyle
For following in the footsteps of James Buchanan Eads in the study of
Engineering - Jana Elrick
For following in the footsteps of Nicola Tesla in the study of Engineering
- Noah Jordan
For following in the footsteps of Rachel Louise Carson in the study of
Environmental Sciences - Alyssa Loveland
For following in the footsteps of Charles Babbage in the study of Mathematics
& Computer Sciences - Joshua Shettler
For following in the footsteps of Albert Schweitzer in the study of
Medicine & Health - Laci Pennington
For following in the footsteps of Hippocrates in the study of Medicine
& Health - Kally Williams
For following in the footsteps of Jonas Edward Salk in the study of Microbiology
- Brenna Christensen
For following in the footsteps of Albert Einstein in the study of Physics
- Phillip Foy
For following in the footsteps of Sir Isaac Newton in the study of Physics
- Sami Hourieh
For following in the footsteps of Luthar Burbank in the study of Plant
Sciences- Alexa Major
Student
Choice Awards

Junior
Division:
Abbi Helfer
Pan-Demonium
Colorado Springs, CO
Senior
Division:
Leslie Hase
A Combat Against Cavity Causing Bacteria: Raisins as a Functional Food
for Oral Health
Merino, CO
Ralph
Desch Technical Writing Award

The
winner of the Ralph Desch Technical Writing Award for 2007 was John Huffman
for his project
Response of Euglenagracillis
to Magnesium Chloride Exposure. John is from Gypsum, CO.
Poster
Art Contest

Poster
Art was done by Marlee Canada, Home Schooled in Mosca, CO
Teacher
of the Year Award

The
winner of the Lockheed Martin Colorado Science and Engineering Fair Teacher
of the Year Award was Haydee Phelps of Summit Middle School in Boulder,
CO.
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