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Science Project Info & Classroom Teacher Resources
CSEF Teacher of the Year Award
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Junior
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Place: Bailey Palmer Gene Seeker Kremmling, CO |
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3rd
Place: Nathan Frantz A Study of Dietary Supplements and Actin and Myosin Production Fleming, CO |
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Mention: Nikki Schmidt The Effects of Lipid Production on Caenorhabditis elegans by the Inhibition of the Gene IKKE Merino, CO |
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Junior Division Animal Sciences
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Place: Charlee Jo Teague The Effect of Sow Disposition on Litter Size and Number Wiggins, CO |
2nd
Place: Ethan Coldren Can You Predict the Weather by Watching Birds? Fort Collins, CO |
3rd
Place: Kade Roelle Got Energy? Alertness and Activity in Madagascar Hissing Cockroaches Merino, CO |
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Senior Division Behavioral & Social Sciences
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Place: Ambrose Soehn Those Notes in Your Head: A Psychological Comparison Between Audible and Imagined Sound Boulder, CO |
2nd
Place: Kathryn McClain A Study of Audio Visual Coactivation in Noise Boulder, CO |
3rd
Place: Vikash Hypio Voting Systems: An Outcome Analysis Phase 3 Hotchkiss, CO |
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Mention: Marika Schubert Memory and Music Colorado Springs, CO |
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Junior Division Behavioral & Social Sciences
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Place: Caitlyn Lee Who Am I? The Effect of Age on the Relationship Between One's Self and Reflected Appraisals Boulder, CO |
2nd
Place: Lily Harris A Risky Experiment: Does Your Grandpa Know More Than You Do About Risk? Colorado Springs, CO |
3rd
Place: Chloe Weeks OMG: Texting While Driving: It's g2g Colorado Springs, CO |
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Mention: Kaily Adair For Every Action, What's Your Reaction? Fort Collins, CO |
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Mention: Kacey Godwin The Accent is the Key Denver, CO |
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Mention: Dylan Brown Learning Is Its Own Reward Colorado Springs, CO |
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Place: Kerry Betz Constructing a Novel Cage Molecule for Use in a Dye-Sensitized Solar Cell Boulder, CO |
2nd
Place: Gerri Roberts From Oil to Fuel Fort Collins, CO |
3rd
Place: John Cheslock Optimizing the Measurement Sensitivity of H2O2 with FDA Blue #1 for the Detection of New Generation Explosives Monte Vista, CO |
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Mention: Yang Liu Finding a Method for Selective Algae Flocculation Greenwood Village, CO |
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Mention: Jayce Tappy What If It Has All Been a Big "Fat" Lie? Merino, CO |
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| 1st
Place: Chaya Wurman Does Acidity Kill Your Glow? Boulder, CO |
2nd
Place: Leo Brasuel Microwaving: The Right Choice? Colorado Springs, CO |
3rd
Place: Reid Palser Growth Variability of Intussusceptive Membrane Assembly in the Calcium Phosphate Otis, CO |
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Mention: Abigail Bogdovitz The Ups and Downs of Baking: The Effect of Sugar on Leaveners Palmer Lake, CO |
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Category Team Award: Austin Dikeman & Claire McGettigan-Fries Fluorescent Reactions Under Ultraviolet Light in Dianthus caryophyllus and Apium graveolens Pueblo, CO |
Senior Division Earth & Space Sciences
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Place: Sophia Schneider Can Geosequestration and Geothermal Energy Work Together? Enhanced Geothermal Systems Using CO2 Colorado Springs, CO |
2nd
Place: Kendra Frieden Pivotal Decisions in Solar Energy Colorado Springs, CO |
Junior Division Earth & Space Sciences
| 1st
Place: Aleesa Muir Analyzing the Deteriorating Effects of Acid Precipitation on Natural Landscaping Colorado Springs, CO |
2nd
Place: Samantha Staynings Growth and Sound: Frequencies in Relation with Crystals Boulder, CO |
3rd
Place: Kelci VanTreese "Well" How Old Are You? Monte Vista, CO |
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Mention: Alexandra McKenna The Effects of Cooling Rice on Crystal Growth Aspen, CO |
Honorable
Mention: Aliza Saper Sop It Up: The Best Way to Clean Up Our Oil Spills Denver, CO |
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Senior Division Energy & Transportation
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Place: Sara Volz Enhancing Algae Biofuels Phase II: Stress Analysis of ACCase, an Enzymatic Factor of Lipid Production Colorado Springs, CO |
2nd
Place: Wylie Keller Mathematic Modeling of the Wake Effect Monte Vista, CO |
3rd
Place: Amy Lyne Efficient Solar-Powered Hydrogen Production Brush, CO |
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Mention: Chandler Ryd Speed or Pressure Colorado Springs, CO |
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Junior Division Energy & Transportation
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Place: Evan Savage Improving Train Aerodynamics Boulder, CO |
2nd
Place: Kendra Frieden Pivotal Decisions in Solar Energy Colorado Springs, CO |
3rd
Place: Noah Trujillo Smith Improving Maglev Safety Colorado Springs, CO |
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Mention: Alexander Crane Storing Energy in Rubber Bands Loveland, CO |
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| 1st
Place: Erik Travis Engineered Insulation Akron, CO |
2nd
Place: Ved Topkar Modeling and Measuring the Propagation of Waves Through Tissue Boulder, CO |
3rd
Place: Easton LaChappelle Fine Motor Skills Using Wireless Animatronics Mancos, CO |
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Mention: Joshua Phillips Cool Energy: Increasing Solar Array Efficiency Monte Vista, CO |
Honorable
Mention: Luis Cruz Electrooculography: A New Approach on a Human-Computer-Interface Colorado Springs, CO |
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| 1st
Place: Samir Berrada The Future of Sign Language Translation and Universal Digital Control Pleasant View, CO |
2nd
Place: Leighton Burt Regular vs. Goofy. Evaluating Footedness Monte Vista, CO |
3rd
Place: Robbie Crane H2Oil Colorado Springs, CO |
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Mention: Sydney Casebolt Egyptian Brick Breaker Lamar, CO |
Honorable
Mention: Johann Kailey-Steiner Rocket Design: How Changing Rocket Features Affects the Height of a Rocket's Flight? Denver, CO |
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Senior Division Environmental Sciences
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Place: Jeffrey Hibbert Agonistic and Cellular Analysis Otis, CO |
2nd
Place: Tayler Rocha The Effects of Wildfire on Stream Water Quality on Medano Creek Monte Vista, CO |
3rd
Place: Rebecca Roskowski Reclamation and Revegetation of Spent oil Shale Grand Junction, CO |
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Mention: Brisha Wakasugi Kerber Creek Restoration Using Phytoremediation II: Understanding the Link Between Macroinvertebrate and Water Quality Blanca, CO |
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Mention: Abrah Masterson Quality Runoff Kremmling, CO |
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Junior Division Environmental Sciences
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Place: Dominic Carrese Rock Mountain Pure? Fountain Creek's Journey Through the Pikes Peak Region Colorado Springs, CO |
2nd
Place: Teisha Coffield Persnickety Paramecium: Using P. caudatum as a Biosensor for Estrogen Otis, CO |
3rd
Place: Grant Yowell Go Green with BioPlastics Hugo, CO |
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Mention: Carmen Ruggles Is All This Pollution Really Worth It? Monte Vista, CO |
Honorable
Mention: David McHugh Color vs. Clear: The Battle for Clean Water Colorado Springs, CO |
Honorable
Mention: Isabella Schneider A Cleaner Water Supply? Removing Nitrates and Phosphates from Contaminated Water Colorado Springs, CO |
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Team Award: Tessa Peterson & Jessica Piper Splash! What's in the Water? Boulder, CO |
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Team Award: Anne Mummery & Elizabeth Gervais Spilled: A Study of Oil Spill Dispersants and Their Toxicity to Marine Life Durango, CO |
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Senior Division Mathematics & Computer Sciences
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Place: John Parish IV Closer to Where It Wasn't II: A Multi-Model Approach to Estimation and Tracking Using Extended Kalman Filtering and Intelligent Selection of Integrated Models Colorado Springs, CO |
2nd
Place: Cissy Chen Prime Numbers and the Cyclicity of Groups of Units Boulder, CO |
3rd
Place: Benjamin Ribovich Tangent and Secant Spaces Greenwood Village, CO |
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Mention: Myles Scolnick The Ordering of the Divisors of an Integer and Related Number Theoretical Functions Greenwood Village, CO |
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Junior Division Mathematics & Computer Sciences
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Place: Leslie Seitz Running Dry? The Sequel: Creating a Hydraulic Model User Interface Boulder, CO |
2nd
Place: Alby Musaelian Cipher: Useful Obfuscation and a Beginning Exploration of Cryptography Denver, CO |
3rd
Place: Elise Niedringhaus Can Calculators Calculate Correctly? Fort Collins, CO |
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Senior Division Medicine & Health
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Place: Alexis Shinn The Correlation Between Between the Menstrual Cycle and Female Anterior Cruciate Ligament Injuries Merino, CO |
2nd
Place: John Sherry Innate Human Reactions to Running Barefoot Boulder, CO |
3rd
Place: Harraz MohdReza Year Two: Immunocytochemical Characterization of Mouse Brain Explants in an In Vitro Model of Schizophrenia Greeley, CO |
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Mention: John Loflin Brand Name vs. Generic Pain Medication: Do You Get What You Pay For? Springfield, CO |
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Junior Division Medicine & Health
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Place: Kelcey Beckman Visual Abnormalities and the Comparison of Paper and Computer Based Testing Using Color Castle Rock, CO |
2nd
Place: Ellie Mackintosh Save Face Denver, CO |
3rd
Place: Rebecca Bloomfield Into the Wild: Water Purification Colorado Springs, CO |
| Honorable
Mention: Miah Pitcher Identification Investigation Pagosa Springs, CO |
Honorable
Mention: Kaitlyn Dumm Pasteurization Windsor, CO |
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| 1st
Place: Soyeun Yang Synthesis and Use of Gold Nanoparticle Therapeutics in Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria Boulder, CO |
2nd
Place: Clark Cranfill To Exist, It Must Resist Monte Vista, CO |
3rd
Place: Nadeen Ibrahim Irradiation: Using Reflectivity to Improve UV Weldon, CO |
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Mention: Amanda Patrick You Need to Pop a Pill!!! A Study of Saccharomyces cervasiae and Metformin Merino, CO |
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| 1st
Place: Alex Miller Beat the Bacteria Colorado Springs, CO |
2nd
Place: Kelsey Lindbloom Kitchen Wars Salida, CO |
3rd
Place: Maislinn Helfer Dirt Bag Colorado Springs, CO |
| Honorable
Mention: Lauren Dewey Are You Still Thirsty? Colorado Springs, CO |
Honorable
Mention: Jenna Hartley Emergence of Resistant Bacteria Colorado Springs, CO |
Honorable
Mention: Max Popkin Yuck, Bacteria on Dishes! Colorado Springs, CO |
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Place: Karun Kumar Rao The Organization and Stability of Bouncing Oil Droplets Boulder, CO |
2nd
Place: Phani Gaddipati Enhancing AlGaN Based Semiconductors with Dislocation Analysis and Thin Film Optimization Colorado Springs, CO |
3rd
Place: Caynen Hansen Freaky Flames Sheridan Lake, CO |
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Mention: Caleb Wright Hot or Cold? Wray, CO |
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Team Award: Tucker Leavitt & Samuel Kater The Effects of Ionization on Spark Energy Content II Durango, CO |
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Team Award: Dylon Merrell & Charley Adams Quantum Entanglement Meeker, CO |
| 1st
Place: Emma Frantz Does It Stick? Viscosity's Affect on Liquid Mediated Adhesion Colorado Springs, CO |
2nd
Place: Michael Arrasmith Up, Up, and Away Colorado Springs, CO |
3rd
Place: Joshua Willis Good Vibrations Colorado Springs, CO |
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Mention: Aaron Gossage The Dangers Under the Kitchen Sink Grand Junction, CO |
Honorable
Mention: Natalie Hunt A Study of Finger Temperatures and Fingerprint Quality Castle Rock, CO |
Honorable
Mention: Karin Smith Stealth Missiles??? Threat Eliminated! Colorado Springs, CO |
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Team Award: Stephen Haag & Chandler Smith Do Composite and Corked Bats Improve Play? Denver, CO |
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Senior Division Plant Sciences
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Place: Wyatt Palser Investigating E. coli colonization and Prevention on Leafy Produce Otis, CO |
2nd
Place: Jordan Lestina Biodiesel from Sunflowers-Phase IV: An Analysis of Seeding Rates, Planting Dates, Varieties, & Oil Dove Creek, CO |
3rd
Place: Nikki Buhrdorf Aspen in a State of SADness: A Statistical Analysis of the Decline of Populus tremuloides, Phase III Hotchkiss, CO |
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Mention: Liam Jasperse-Sjolander A Statistical Analysis of Allometric Size Distributions in Clonal and Non-Clonal Forests Colorado Springs, CO |
Honorable
Mention: Brittney McKibbon Cooking Influences Potato Flavor: Comparison of Volatile Compounds Center, CO |
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Junior Division Plant Sciences
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Place: Ian Wilkins Bio Char: Modern Day Terra Preta Boulder, CO |
2nd
Place: Alexandra Famiglietti Say "No" to Anemia: Enhancing Iron Content in Vegetables Denver, CO |
3rd
Place: Sarah Laden Cool Beans! Colorado Springs, CO |
| Honorable
Mention: Jayden Durbin & Kacee Christensen Effects of Animal Waste on Germination and Growth of Triticum aestivam Otis, CO |
Honorable
Mention: Samuel Allsup Compelling Compost Colorado Springs, 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 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 - Hannah Looman
For following in the footsteps of Margaret Mead in the study of Behavioral
& Social Sciences - Max Clark
For following in the footsteps of Sigmund Freud in the study of Behavioral
& Social Sciences - Helen Duran
For following in the footsteps of Marie Curie in the study of Chemistry
- Montana Cook
For following in the footsteps of Edwin Hubble in the study of Earth &
Space Sciences - Jessicah Wellman
For following in the footsteps of James Prescott Joule in the study
of Energy & Transportation - Alexander Crane
For following in the footsteps of Nicola Tesla in the study of Engineering
- Camron Ozanic
For following in the footsteps of Rosalie Edge in the study of Environmental
Sciences- Wyeth Rossi
For following in the footsteps of Rachel Louise Carson in the study of
Environmental Sciences - Mitchell Fosdick
For following in the footsteps of Grace Hopper in the study of Mathematics
& Computer Sciences - Breanna Tramp
For following in the footsteps of Greene Vardiman Black in the study of Medicine &
Health - Ellie Mackintosh
For following in the footsteps of Jonas Edward Salk in the study of Microbiology
- Reyna Ramirez & Kyra Vasquez
For following in the footsteps of Louis Pasteur in the study of Microbiology
- Katelynn Moore
For following in the footsteps of Max Planck in the study of Physics -
Sam Raphael
For following in the footsteps of Sir Isaac Newton in the study of Physics - Karsten Rygh
For following in the footsteps of Luthar Burbank in the study of Plant
Sciences - Samuel Allsup
Junior Division:
Johann Kailey-Steiner
Rocket Design: How Changing Rocket Features Affects the Height of a Rocket's Flight
Denver, CO
Senior
Division:
Andrew Bartolo
Variable Voltages: An Experiment on the Viability of Overclocking
Swink, CO
Ralph Desch Technical Writing Award
The
winner of the Ralph Desch Technical Writing Award for 2011 was Boyu Wang, Yichen Liu & Stephan Liu for their project
Self-Sustained Desalination in Combination with Wastewater Treatment. Boyu, Yichen and Stephan are from Lakewood, CO.
Poster
Art was done by Jidapa Chang-in, Fleming High School in Fleming, CO
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The
winners of the 2011 PACE Teacher Awards were
Elizabeth Drozda-Freeman, Summit Middle School in Boulder, CO
Heidi Berrada from Pleasant View, CO
Greg Busby, North Middle School in Colorado Springs, CO
Diana Wright, Miller Middle School in Durango, CO
Patty Voltz from Colorado Springs, CO
Maureen Parish from Colorado Springs, CO
Helen Petach, Fairview High School in Boulder, CO
Robert Dorsett, Meeker High School in Meeker, CO
Each teacher received a scholarship
to attend a Space Foundation professional development workshop of
choice during summer 2011.
The winner of the Lockheed Martin Colorado Science and Engineering Fair Teacher of the Year Award was Daniel Newmyer of Center High School in Center, CO.