Colorado State Science Fair, Inc.
2008 Grand Award Winners
Senior Division Best Individual Projects
1st Place:
Gwyneth Glissmann
Analyzing Arctic Solar Flux And Ice Extent Loss Projections
Boulder, CO
2nd Place:
Sarah Guthrie
The Mechanisms And Actions Of Parthenolide On Platelet 5-HT Secretion In Vitro
Boulder, CO
3rd Place:
Ben Armstrong
Enemies Of The Environment: Estrogen Mimics
Center, CO
Senior Division Best Team Projects
1st
Place:
Danielle Pite, Kelly Lane & Anna Hermann
Didymosphenia geminata: The Core Question
Boulder, CO
2nd Place:
Anika Petach & Tanya Petach
Pine Beetle Outbreaks: Spatial Analysis And Pheremone Population Control
Boulder, CO
3rd Place:
Julia Buzan & Joseph Smith
Determining A Non-Contact Method For Testing Skin Elasticity And Density
Englewood & Greenwood Village, CO
Honorable Mention:
Tonya Pavlekno & Laura Gudvangen
The Superbug: How It Spreads
Colorado Springs, CO
Junior Division Best Individual Projects
1st Place:
Molly Graber
The Effects Of Bovine Colostrum On Breast Cancer
Colorado Springs, CO
2nd Place:
Zane Willburn
Water Purification Off The Grid
Mancos, CO
3rd Place:
Garret Cerny
Is It Easier To Always Be Right?
Eagle, CO
Junior Division Best Team Projects
1st Place:
Loren Kosowski & Anna Mellman
Who Would You Rather Kiss?
Denver, CO
2nd Place:
Claire Derr & Allison Gudvangen
Fill Up Not Freeze Up
Colorado Springs, CO
3rd Place:
Matthew Mandelski & Zofie Mandelski
The Healthiest Spirogyra
Durango, CO
Honorable Mention:
Kendra Gomez & Alixx Vigil
Cash, Credit, Coins
Pueblo, CO
Senior Division Animal Sciences
| 1st Place: Lindsey Denison The Onion Thrip Trick Paonia, CO |
2nd Place: Connie Liu Classification And Evolutionary Biology Of Solifugids By Rostrum Aurora, CO |
3rd Place: Brandy Haller Comparison Of Mountain Pine Beetle In Colorado And Surrounding States Woodrow, CO |
Junior Division Animal Sciences
| 1st Place: Nakayla Lestina Biological Control Of Canada Thistle Phase 2: Analyzing The Spread Of Three Natural Insect Enemies Dove Creek, CO |
2nd Place: Wyatt Palser Attack Of The Killer Worms!!! Otis, CO |
3rd Place: Sarah Reed Supersize Me! The Effect Of Junk Food On Mice Boulder, CO |
| Honorable Mention: Rebecca Roskowski Are Crawfish That Fish Eat Contributing To High Mercury Levels In Large Fish In The Colorado River Basin? Grand Junction, CO |
Honorable Mention: Rennie Winkelman What Size Of Sand Does The Aquatic Worm T. tubifex Prefer? Fort Collins, CO |
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Senior Division Behavioral & Social Sciences
| 1st Place: Sarah Oden Insight In Sight, This Art Is All Right Monte Vista, CO |
2nd Place: Leela Khanna Brainwave Coherence: Developing The Full Potential Of The Brain Colorado Springs, CO |
3rd Place: Allie Martin The Task At Hand: Is Multitasking Affecting Our Health And Productivity? Woodrow, CO |
| Honorable
Mention: Amelia Eads Is It Safe To Dish And Drive? The Effect Of Cell Phone Usage On Reaction Time Fort Collins, CO |
Honorable
Mention: Samuel Galler Hemispheric Lateralization In Auditory Cortex For Words Versus Partial Speech Sounds Boulder, CO |
Honorable
Mention: Rachel Kelley Characteristics Common To Homeless Youth Pursuing The GED Certification Englewood, CO |
| Team
Nomination: Kelsey Burns & Rachel Strauch Brainwashed Flagler, CO |
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Junior Division Behavioral & Social Sciences
| 1st Place: Garret Cerny Is It Easier To Always Be Right? Eagle, CO |
2nd Place: Zachary Tanner Rock, Paper, Scissors: A Game Of Chance? Boulder, CO |
3rd Place: Diane Schulze Monkey See, Monkey Do: Literary Imagery And The Mirror Neuron System Centennial, CO |
| Honorable Mention: Dirk Marshall The Eyes Have It: Do Your Eyes Show Your Personality? Aurora, CO |
Honorable Mention: Dante Carter Does Music Affect Test Scores? Colorado Springs, CO |
Honorable Mention: Codi Inloes-Williams Making Cents Of H2O Palmer Lake, CO |
| Honorable Mention: Alexandra Kirschbaum Wake Up! A Comparative Study Between Sleep And Mood Merino, CO |
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| 1st Place: Sarah Guthrie The Mechanisms And Actions Of Parthenolide On Platelet 5-HT Secretion In Vitro Boulder, CO |
2nd Place: Bradley Falk Chemical Comparison Of The Relative Efficiency Of The 2-Hydroxymethylphenol Synthesis Of Aspirin Centennial, CO |
3rd Place: Travis Zuniga The Wonder Drug: A Chemical Analysis Of Analgesics To Detect Aspirin Pueblo, CO |
| Honorable Mention: Lisa Grossman Synthetic vs Natural Vitamin E: Optical Isomerism, Synergy And Antioxidant Testing Problems Manitou Springs, CO |
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Junior Division Chemistry
| 1st Place: Kelsey Piper Going Bananas: Does The Vitamin C Concentration Of A Banana Vary With Ripeness? Louisville, CO |
2nd Place: Kassidy Knutson Effects Of Acid Rain On Structural Materials Orchard, CO |
3rd Place: Kole Van Treese Difference In Diesel Monte Vista, CO |
| Honorable Mention: Tess Ringlein Pucker Up To Poison Yuma, CO |
Honorable Mention: Justin Lewton Homegrown Biodiesel The Way To Go? Keenesburg, CO |
Honorable Mention: Iris Belensky New And More Energy Efficient Ways To Cure Polymer Clay Bennett, CO |
| Team Nomination: Claire Derr & Allison Gudvangen Fill Up Not Freeze Up Colorado Springs, CO |
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Senior Division Earth & Space Sciences
| 1st Place: Gwenyth Glissmann Analyzing Arctic Solar Flux And Ice Extent Loss Projections Boulder, CO |
2nd Place: Tawney Bleak S.O.S. 2 - Save Our Soil, Phase Two Otis, CO |
3rd Place: Christopher Krause Caution: Urbanization May Be Hot! Colorado Springs, CO |
| Honorable Mention: Bryant Elrick Just Passing Through Flagler, CO |
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Junior Division Earth & Space Sciences
| 1st Place: Sara Cunningham Crystals Wheat Ridge, CO |
2nd Place: Carl Scheevel Effectiveness Of Various Ground Covers On Soil Erosion On A 32.5% Grade Grand Junction, CO |
3rd Place: Brisha Wakasugi Potato Pedology: A Soil Study Of Two Different San Luis Valley Growing Horizons Blanca, CO |
| Honorable Mention: Isaac Beverlin Arches: Solid Rock To Windows In Time Dolores, CO |
Team Nomination: Jennifer Bushnell & Kelsey Rohfling Do Your Rocks Need Sunscreen? Colorado Springs, CO |
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Senior Division Energy & Transportation
| 1st Place: Andrew West Regenerative Diesel Fuel Production Utilizing Vegetable Oil And Catalytic Hydrocracking Conifer, CO |
2nd Place: Max Krakauer Testing The Effects Of Gasoline, E-85 Gasoline Mix, And 2.5-Dimethylfuran On Saccharomyces cerevisia Colorado Springs, CO |
3rd Place: Joline Lobato Solar Powered Sand Beds And Other Heat Transfer Sources Romero, CO |
| Honorable Mention: Christy Farnsworth Hydrogen: It's All Down Hill Paonia, CO |
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Junior Division Energy & Transportation
| 1st Place: Sara Volz Are Biodiesel Emissions Safer Than Commercial Diesel Emmisions? Colorado Springs, CO |
2nd Place: Katie Weiss The Effect Of Fermentation On Fruit Morrison, CO |
3rd Place: Kyle Harlow It's All How You Spin It: Wind Generator Effciency Based On Propeller Size And Shape Canon City, CO |
| Honorable Mention: Kayla Boren Burn It Up - Measuring Fuel Efficiency In Manure Durango, CO |
Honorable Mention: Laura Mummery Blowin' In The Wind Durango, CO |
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| 1st Place: Karthik Kumar-Rao Creating A Quantum Optical Source Using Laser Pointers And Parametric Down Conversion Louisville, CO |
2nd Place: Cameron Kruse The Dirt On Baseball: Engineering A Path Toward Standardizing The Baseball Mudding Process Colorado Springs, CO |
3rd Place: Jesse Ellison Plasma Propulsion Bayfield, CO |
| Honorable Mention: J. Raleigh Burt Weather Or Knot: The Effects Of Environment And Exposure On High Strength Safety Textile, Phase 2 Alamosa, CO |
Honorable Mention: Shannon Tsai Constructing A Nanowire: Metallization Of Silver Onto DNA Thorton, CO |
Honorable Mention: Nina Popovic-Basta Wireless Powercord Boulder, CO |
Junior Division Engineering
| 1st Place: Zane Willburn Water Purification Off The Grid Mancos, CO |
2nd Place: Garrett Glissmann Determining Position By Interfacing A GPS To The Web Boulder, CO |
3rd Place: Jeffery King Wing Designs: Who's At The Top? Colorado Springs, CO |
Senior Division Environmental Sciences
| 1st Place: Ben Armstrong Enemies Of The Environment: Estrogen Mimics Center, CO |
2nd Place: Caleb Kruse C The Difference II: The Effect Of Ascorbic Acid On Zooxanthellal Density During Coral Bleaching Colorado Springs, CO |
3rd Place: Alex Schnaderbeck The Effects Of Limestone On The Productivity Of Aquatic Invertebrates Monte Vista, CO |
| Honorable Mention: Grant Slinger Effects Of Soil Type On Groundwater Contamination, Phase II Stratton, CO |
Team Nomination: Danielle Pite, Kelly Lane, & Anna Hermann Didymosphenia geminata: The Core Question Boulder, CO |
Team Nomination: Molly Nelson & Jason Carwin The Effects Of Elevated CO2 Levels On Plants In Different Environments Fleming, CO |
Junior Division Environmental Sciences
| 1st Place: Casey Campbell The Effects Of Coal Bed Methane Produced Water La Veta, CO |
2nd Place: Rachel Beverlin Geyser Spring: A Further Characterization Of Colorado's Only Geyser Moncos, CO |
3rd Place: Heather Hilson A Century In The Life Of Trees Boulder, CO |
| Honorable Mention: Emily Walck Washing Water To Ta'nagiz Cortez, CO |
Honorable Mention: Alexa Major Is Agriblend The Answer? Fowler, CO |
Team Nomination: Matthew Mandelski & Zofie Mandelski The Healthiest Spirogyra Durango, CO |
Senior Division Mathematics & Computer Sciences
| 1st
Place: Chelsea Oden The Probability Of Me Monte Vista, CO |
2nd
Place: Michael Crane A Disease Model Of XDR-TB Centennial, CO |
3rd
Place: Tim Schneider Will Your Vote Count? Durango, CO |
| Honorable Mention: Alex Przedpelski Predicting Rockies Home Attendance Louisville, CO |
Honorable
Mention: Rhiannon Campbell Where'd That Fake Blood Come From? Holly, CO |
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Junior Division Mathematics & Computer
Sciences
| 1st Place: Matthew Persons Tic Tac Text Fort Collins, CO |
2nd Place: Tucker Leavitt Golden Music: Phi And The Musical Arts Durango, CO |
3rd Place: Rahul Shankar Co-operating Robots: Behavior-Based Robots Using Subsumption Architecture Colorado Springs, CO |
Senior Division Medicine
& Health
| 1st Place: Rishi Rawat Differential Expression Of BCL-2 Proteins In U2OS: A Look At What Really Kills Cancer Boulder, CO |
2nd Place: Kelsey Martin Bone Back: Statins Inhibit Osteosarcoma Cells' Growth And Metastasis Woodrow, CO |
3rd Place: Katelyn Yowell The Effects Of Anthocyanins On Planaria Regeneration Hugo, CO |
| Honorable Mention: Chace Carver The Effects Of Bisphenol A From Polycarbonate Plastics On Lumbriculus variegatus Merino, CO |
Team Nomination: Julia Buzan & Joseph Smith Determining A Non-Contact Method For Testing Skin Elasticity And Density Englewood & Greenwood Village, CO |
Team Nomination: Tonya Pavlekno & Laura Gudvangen The Superbug: How It Spreads Colorado Springs, CO |
Junior Division Medicine & Health
| 1st Place: Molly Graber The Effects Of Bovine Colostrum On Breast Cancer Colorado Springs, CO |
2nd Place: Bruno Mediate Chewing Gum For Brain Activity Colorado Springs, CO |
3rd Place: Amanda Coopersmith The Effects Of Over The Counter Medication On Fruit Flies Greenwood Village, CO |
| Honorable Mention: Tanner Elliott Got Germs? Cortez, CO |
Honorable Mention: Sydney Hooton A Wormy Situation: The Effect Of Diet Pills On Caenorhabditis elegans Sterling, CO |
Honorable Mention: Katie Braun Can You Hear Me Now? Fort Collins, CO |
| Honorable Mention: Adam Warren Music To Your Ears: A Study Of Headphone Types, dB Levels, And The Risk Of Potential Hearing Loss Colorad Springs, CO |
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| 1st Place: Kelsey Moore HIV-1 And Endothelial Progenitor Cell Dysfunction Louisville, CO |
2nd Place: Adwai Eswaran Elimination Of E. coli Bacteria From The Standard Cotton Dishrag By Exposure To Microwaves Englewood, CO |
3rd Place: Krista Kinkel Ring, Ring, Bacteria Calling! How Much Bacteria Do You Think Is On Your Phone? Do You Dare Find Out? Flagler, CO |
| Honorable Mention: Erika Baker Eye Can't See Clearly Now! A Comparison Study Of Contact Types With E. coli And S. epidemidis Merino, CO |
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Junior Division Microbiology
| 1st Place: Ellery Goeltzenleuchter Caution: Spice At Work Fort Collins, CO |
2nd Place: Stephen O'Connor-Seville Microbes Make Electricity Dolores, CO |
3rd Place: Alexis Shinn Bacteria: Is It What's For Dinner? Bacterial Growth On Grocery Store Produce Sterling, CO |
| Honorable Mention: Dakota Jackson The Effect Of Temperature On Bacteria Growth Colorado Springs, CO |
Honorable Mention: Kelli Lynch What's In Your Wallet? Fort Collins, CO |
Honorable Mention: Trent Capraro Does Temperature Effect The Growth Of Mold On Bread? Hugo, CO |
| Team Nomination: Loren Koszowski & Anna Mellman Who Would You Rather Kiss? Denver, CO |
Team Nomination: Kendra Gomez & Alixx Vigil Cash, Creidt, Coins Pueblo, CO |
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| 1st Place: Marlena Widman Junkyard Multispectral Imaging Colorado Springs, CO |
2nd Place: Antonia Lira Pig-In-A-Blanket Lamar, CO |
3rd Place: Collin Dutro Do You See What I Hear? Karval, CO |
| Team Nomination: Sarah Rumbley & Devyn Shafer Polarimetry With Laser-Illuminated Digital Holography Lafayette, CO |
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Junior Division Physics
| 1st Place: Lorne Muir II Hail! No! Colorado Springs, CO |
2nd Place: Layne Barrett Twist But Don't Shout Colorado Springs, CO |
3rd Place: Aidan Mike Electro-Flow Colorado Springs, CO |
| Honorable Mention: Ellie Gossage Can You Hear Me Now? The Effect Of Perimeter Boards On Sound Volume Grand Junction, CO |
Honorable Mention: Emily Sandner Wingin' It Density Altitude's Effect On Lift Durango, CO |
Honorable Mention: Erin Biringen The Perfect Turn Boulder, CO |
| Honorable Mention: Clay Mullins Get The Point? Alamosa, CO |
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Senior Division Plant Sciences
| 1st Place: Kirk Wilkinson Finding A Biomarker Of Physiological Aging In Potato Seed Tubers Monte Vista, CO |
2nd Place: Kaitlyn Lingus Poer Of A Biological Control Agent: Compensation Suppression Of Convolvulus arvensis Implementing Host-Specific Aceria malherbae - Phase IV Trinchera, CO |
3rd Place: Jordan Lestina Biodiesel From Sunflower Oil - An Analysis Of Soil Fertility And Sunflower Oil Content Dove Creek, CO |
| Honorable Mention: Delani Miller Monarch Mitigation: What Soil Does Milkweed Germinate In The Best? Fort Collins, CO |
Team Nomination: Anika Petach & Tanya Petach Pine Beetle Outbreaks: Spatial Analysis And Pheremone Population Control Boulder, CO |
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Junior Division Plant Sciences
| 1st Place: Haley Matteson Too Hot Or Not - The Effects Of Global Warming On Germination & Growth Of Flower, Vegetable & Weed Seeds Colorado Springs, CO |
2nd Place: K C Zinn To Rot Or Not: Potato Susceptibility To Pink Rot, Phytophthora erythroseptica Center, CO |
3rd Place: Kent Schaller Got Minerals? Colorado Springs, CO |
| Honorable Mention: Ryan Ernst Possible Harms Of pH Wiggins, CO |
Honorable Mention: Joel Knepper A Plant's Favorite Color Eaton, CO |
Honorable Mention: Haley Hervert A Cup Of Tea Please: Brewing The Perfect Tea For Your Plant Edwards, 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- Brianna
Honebein
For following in the footsteps of Margaret Mead in the study of Behavioral &
Social Sciences - Dirk Marshall
For following in the footsteps of Sigmund Freud in the study of Behavioral &
Social Sciences - Lizette van
Zyl
For following in the footsteps of Alfred Bernhard in the study of Chemistry
- Melissa Poet
For following in the footsteps of Marie Curie in the study of Chemistry - Tanner
Dunivan
For following in the footsteps of Edwin Hubble in the study of Earth & Space
Sciences - Isaac Beverlin
For following in the footsteps of Alfred Lothar Wegner in the study of Earth
& Space Sciences - Antonio
Huizar
For following in the footsteps of James Prescott Joule in the study of Energy
& Transportation - Jessika
Gill
For following in the footsteps of Sir William Grove in the study of Energy
& Transportation - Kayla Boren
For following in the footsteps of Nicola Tesla in the study of Engineering -
Ken Garcia
For following in the footsteps of James Buchanan Eads in the study of Engineering
- Joshua Steklac
For following in the footsteps of Rachel Louise Carson in the study of Environmental
Sciences - Chayenne Jackson
For following in the footsteps of Charles Babbage in the study of Mathematics
& Computer Sciences - Carlos
Nunez
For following in the footsteps of GV Black in the study of Medicine &
Health - Devon Montague
For following in the footsteps of Albert Schweitzer in the study of Medicine
& Health - Kaley Kukus
For following in the footsteps of Jonas Edward Salk in the study of Microbiology
- Layne McCaleb
For following in the footsteps of Albert Einstein in the study of Physics -
Dayton Fisher
For following in the footsteps of Sir Isaac Newton in the study of Physics -
Rachel Gessert
For following in the footsteps of Max Planck in the study of Physics - Andrew
Haines
For following in the footsteps of Luthar Burbank in the study of Plant Sciences-
Madison Dewey
Junior Division:
Heather Hilson
A Century In The Life Of Trees
Boulder, CO
Senior Division:
Chace Carver
The Effects of Bisphenol A From
Polycarbonate Plastics On Lumbriculus variegatus
Merino, CO
Ralph Desch Technical Writing Award
The winner of the Ralph Desch Techinical Writing Award for 2008
was Sarah Guthrie for her project
The Mechanisms And Actions Of Parthenolide
On Platelet 5-HT Secretion In Vitro. Sarah is from Boulder, CO.
Poster Art was done by Boya Liu, Fairview High School in Boulder,
CO
The winner of the Lockheed Martin Colorado Science and Engineering Fair Teacher of the Year Award was Doug Steward of Monte Vista High School in Monte Vista, CO.
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