Colorado State Science Fair, Inc.
2007 Grand Award Winners
Senior Division Best Individual Projects
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
Senior Division Best Team Projects
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
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
Junior Division Best Team Projects
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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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| 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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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| 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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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| 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 |
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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 |
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| 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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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 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
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 Techinical Writing Award for 2007
was John Huffman for his project
Response Of Euglenagracillis To
Magnesium Chloride Exposure. John is from Gypsum, CO.
Poster Art was done by Marlee Canada, Home Schooled in Mosca,
CO
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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