2006 Science Fair Awards

Congratulations to all who participated in this years fair! This year’s event was the largest Salt Lake Valley Science and Engineering Fair ever, with 189 projects and 228 students participating. Students in grades five through 12 from Salt Lake, Granite, Murray and Tooele school districts competed.

Thank you to all the Students, Parents, Teachers, Mentors, Volunteers, and Judges who put so much time and effort into this year's event. And, thank you to our sponsors for helping to make the event possible.

Below is a list of all award winners for SLVSEF 2006:

 

Elementary Division Winners
Behavioral Science
Place	Student	School	Project Name
1st	Alexandra Wood	Eastwood Elementary	Don't talk and Drive!
2nd	Natalie Nelson	Indian Hills Elementary	Alphabet Soup
3rd	Maya Lacy	Morningside Elementary	Spending for Speed
Biochemistry
Place	Student	School	Project Name
1st	Erika Wilson	Whittier Elementary	The affects of hand soaps on bacteria
Botany
Place	Student	School	Project Name
1st	Alen Delic	North Star	Carbon Dioxide Friend or foe
Chemistry
Place	Student	School	Project Name
1st	Eliza Mcintosh	Bonneville Elementary	Slimed
2nd	Jordan Garahana	Hillside Elementary	Show Me the Vitamin C
3rd	Bronson Mabey	Liberty Elementary	hamburger
Earth Science
Place	Student	School	Project Name
1st	Sarah Hall & Kira Hall	Ensign Elementary	Crystal Growth Size and Shape
2nd	Anna Ferriera	Oakridge Elementary	Testing Darwin, Does Camouflage Work?
3rd	Peter Taillac & Phillip Vernon	Morningside	Hot Competition
Engineering
Place	Student	School	Project Name
1st	John Paul Thomas	Eastwood Elementary	Infinite Energy: Harnessing the Power of the Wind
2nd	Sean Ward	Oakridge Elementary	The Nutty Professor
3rd	Pedro Chipana	Cottonwood Elemtary	Can magnets help vacuum a house without problems from metal
Environmental Science
Place	Student	School	Project Name
1st	Tasha Heilweil	Oakridge Elementary	Sea Level Rising
2nd	Sidney Stewart	Indian hills	The Cost of waste
3rd	Kim Gordon	Morningside Elementary	Why Don't Birds Get Electrocuted On Power Wires?
Medicine and Health
Place	Student	School	Project Name
1st	Peter Searle	Cottonwood Elementary	Achoo! Do you cover your mouth when you sneaze?
2nd	Alyssa Corbett & Ali Clayton	Reid School	Sunscreen - Choose Your Cover
3rd	Jonathan Hummer	Liberty Elementary	What Soap Works Best?
Microbiology
Place	Student	School	Project Name
1st	Erica Li	Indian Hills Elementary	What's In Your Juice?
Physics
Place	Student	School	Project Name
1st	Jeffrey Souza	Morningside Elementary	Solar Cells
2nd	Stewart Foster	Escalante Elementary	Please Pass the Particles, Heat Conduction in Metal
3rd	Sarah Flynn	CottonwoodElementary	Moisture By The Minute
Space Science
Place	Student	School	Project Name
1st	Tania Chavarria	Meadowlark Elementary	Too Hot or Too Cold Crystals
Zoology
Place	Student	School	Project Name
1st	Shiona Smith	Indian Hills Elementary	What's in Your Aquarium Water?
2nd	Will Richards & Vincent Fu	Morningside Elementary	Oily Feathers
3rd	Anni Nelson & Justin Lucas	Highland Park Elementary	Be Amazed
Junior Division Winners
Behavioral Science
Place	Student	School	Project Name
1st	Philip Sossenheimer	Wasatch Junior High	Let's Talk-Are Cell Phones a Danger?
2nd	Molly Owens	Hillside Middle School	The Colors of Prejudice
3rd	Cassandra Stewart	Scott M. Matheson Jr.	Visual VS audio information on your memory
Botany
Place	Student	School	Project Name
1st	Matt Morrison	Hillside Middle School	Does Temperature Matter?
2nd	Hannah Moore	Bryant Intermediate	Plants and Household Cleaners
3rd	Harrison Ebert	Hillside Middle School	Bubble Bubble Toil and Trouble
Chemistry
Place	Student	School	Project Name
1st	Connie Zhong	Wasatch Junior High	How is Microwave Efficiency Affected by the Properties of the Liquid?
2nd	Karen Serrato & Carmen Zavalda	Bryant Middle School	Burning Candles
3rd	Preston Larson & Steven Jacobsen	Hillside Middle School	Flaming Fabrics
Computer Science
Place	Student	School	Project Name
1st	Kate Richards	Wasatch Junior High	Compression Impression
Earth Science
Place	Student	School	Project Name
1st	James 'Jake' Shultz	Kearn's St. Anns	When Levees Break
2nd	Paige Heyn	Wasatch Junior High	The Angle of Repose
3rd	Melyssa Perkes	Tooele Junior High School	Shale Shockers
Engineering
Place	Student	School	Project Name
1st	Thomas Barlow	Reid School	Boom Box Buster
2nd	Christopher Smith	Kearns St. Ann	Insulation of the Future
3rd	Stephen Mckean & Tobin Yehle	Hillside Middle School	Optimum Chute Shapes
Environmental Science
Place	Student	School	Project Name
1st	Melissa Gray	Wasatch Junior High	Acid Rain:Global or Local Issue
2nd	Lanae Davis, Courtney Lane & bErika Blatnik	Kearns Jr. High	Flammability of Fabrics
3rd	Laura Farr, Carly Mang & Chelsea Colby	Bryant Intermediate	Pollution: Its a Dirty Business
Medicine and Health
Place	Student	School	Project Name
1st	Luke Schunk	Wasatch Junior High	iPod: Their Affect on Sound Localization and Hearing an Approaching Car
2nd	Tori Taillac	Wasatch Junior High	Sun Sterilizer
3rd	Amy Rallison	Bryant Middle School	preserving bread with acid
Microbiology
Place	Student	School	Project Name
1st	Rachel Thackeray	Hillside Middle School	Bacterial Resistance
2nd	Chris Toth & Chas Foote	Hillside Middle School	How Clean Is Your Water
3rd	Max Myers & Tony Anderson	Hillside Middle School	5 Second Rule
Physics
Place	Student	School	Project Name
1st	Krista Maack & Sydney Fletcher	Hillside Middle School	fantastic forensics
2nd	Leah Calder & Michelle Weilenmann	Hillside Middle School	Motor Madness
3rd	Meghan Greene & Kelsey Strong	Hillside Middle School	A Question of Titanic Proportion
Space Science
Place	Student	School	Project Name
1st	Cameron Durst	J. E. Cosgriff	How Does Sound Move in a Vacuum?
2nd	Sarah Nicole Macomb	Scott M. Matheson Jr. High	Magical Crater Creator
Zoology
Place	Student	School	Project Name
1st	Dallin Smith	Glendale Middle	Who Moved My Cheese?
2nd	Hayley Waldbillig	Wasatch Jr.	Red, Green Or In Between
3rd	Dolan Lucero	Bryant intermediate	Squid Chromatophores
Senior Division Winners
Behavioral Science
Place	Student	School	Project Name
1st	Cortney Jeffers	AMES	Colorful Comprehension
2nd	Elizabeth McMullin	AMES	Total Recall: A fresh look at memory recall for witness identification.
3rd	Maia Bromley Dulfano	Wasatch Junior High	What Great Big Ears You Have
Biochemistry
Place	Student	School	Project Name
1st	Vishesh Agrawal	West High School	Study of the Physical Interaction between Replication Protein A and Pob3 in Saccharomyces Cerevisia
2nd	Mallory Colby	West High School	Hydronium on Tomatoes
3rd	Spencer Simister	West High School	Help! The Food is Oxidizing
Botany
Place	Student	School	Project Name
1st	Cynthia Pacheco	West Lake Jr. High	Raphanus Sativus
2nd	Sky Thai	West Lake Junior High	Expensive Hydration
Chemistry
Place	Student	School	Project Name
1st	Alexandra Yost	West High School	Burn Baby Burn!
Engineering
Place	Student	School	Project Name
1st	Matt Bishop	Reid School	Effect of Bridge Design on Structure Strength
2nd	Trevor Tanner	Olympus Jr. High	Flicker Fusion
3rd	Ahrash Poursaid	AMES	Generating Electricity from Magnetism
Environmental Science
Place	Student	School	Project Name
1st	Elizabeth Giles	City Academy	A Biodiesel Oil Spill?
2nd	Breanne Anderson	AMES	Is precipitation pickling the environment?
3rd	Amanda Shrum	West High School	Evaluation of Evaporation Rates
Medicine and Health
Place	Student	School	Project Name
1st	Charlotte Searle	Olympus Jr. High	Gesundheit! Do you cover your mouth when you sneaze?
Microbiology
Place	Student	School	Project Name
1st	Madison Hunt	West High School	Bacteria: Boys Vs. Girls
2nd	William Lin	West High School	Cloning and expressing two subunits of a topoisomerase gene from a large tranducing bacillus subtil
3rd	Brittney L. Harris	Wasatch Junior High	Does Lipstick Bite?
Physics
Place	Student	School	Project Name
1st	Candice Murray	AMES	Atomic Size and Rutherford Scattering
2nd	Rosie Staes	Churchill Jr High	UV Careful
3rd	Kiffer Creveling	Churchill Junior High	Parabolic Slingshot Launch
Zoology
Place	Student	School	Project Name
1st	Melanie Faustino	West High School	The Sense of Smell between Species of Dogs
2nd	Britni Lowe	West High School	The effect of protein and calcium on the production of chicken eggs and egg quality

Senior Team Division Winners
Place	Student	School	Category	Project Name
1st	Christian Mills & Kristina Grim	AMES	Medicine and Health	Buried Alive
2nd	Carson McNeil & Curtis Sudbury	West High School	Physics	Our Changing Magnetic Shield
3rd	Reese Quayle & Leena O'Shea	AMES	Medicine and Health	Organic Remedies for Acne
Discovery Channel Young Scientist Challenge Winners
Place	Student	School	Category	Project Name
	James 'Jake' Shultz	Kearn's St. Anns	Earth Science	When Levees Break
	Kate Richards	Wasatch Junior High	Computer Science	Compression Impression
	Connie Zhong	Wasatch Junior High	Chemistry	How is Microwave Efficiency Affected by the Properties of the Liquid?
	Tasha Heilweil	Oakridge Elementary	Environmental Science	Sea Level Rising
	Alexandra Wood	Eastwood Elementary	Behavioral Science	Don't talk and Drive!
	Tori Taillac	Wasatch Junior High	Medicine and Health	Sun Sterilizer
	Jeffrey Souza	Morningside Elementary	Physics	Solar Cells
	Luke Schunk	Wasatch Junior High	Medicine and Health	iPod: Their Affect on Sound Localization and Hearing an Approaching Car
	Rachel Thackeray	Hillside Middle School	Microbiology	Bacterial Resistance
	Natalie Nelson	Indian Hills Elementary	Behavioral Science	Alphabet Soup
	Sarah Hall & Kira Hall	Ensign Elementary	Earth Science	Crystal Growth Size and Shape
	Sean Ward	Oakridge Elementary	Engineering	The Nutty Professor
	Peter Searle	Cottonwood Elementary	Medicine and Health	Achoo! Do you cover your mouth when you sneaze?
	Philip Sossenheimer	Wasatch Junior High	Behavioral Science	Let's Talk-Are Cell Phones a Danger?
	Eliza Mcintosh	Bonneville Elementary	Chemistry	Slimed
	Erika Wilson	Whittier Elementary	Biochemistry	The affects of hand soaps on bacteria
Intel ISEF Grand Champion Winners
Place	Student	School	Category	Project Name
Team	Gleb Kuznetsov, Charles McGuire & Lai Xue	West High School	Engineering	Phototropic Nanotechnology via Magnetohydrodynamic Propulsion
Individual First	Candice Murray	AMES	Physics	Atomic Size and Rutherford Scattering
Individual Second	Madison Hunt	West High School	Microbiology	Bacteria: Boys Vs. Girls

 

Special Awards

American Institute of Aeronautics & Astronautics

1st- Gleb Kuznetsov, Charles McGuire & Lai Xue
2nd Stephen McKean and Tobin Yehle

American Meteorological Society

Tasha Heilwell
Brianne Anderson

American Psychological Association

Phillip Sossenheimer

ASM International Foundation

Jack Schunk

Association for Women Geoscientists

Elizabeth Giles

Herbert Hoover Presidential Library Association

John Paul Thomas

Institute of Transportation Engineers

1st-Luke Schunk
2nd- Elizabeth Giles

Intel Excellence in Computer Science

Trevor Tanner

International Society for Optical Engineering

Jeffrey Souze

MU Alpha Theta

Breanne Anderson

National Society of Professional Engineers

Jake Schultz

National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association

Elizabeth Giles

Ricoh

Tori Taillac

Thorpe, North & Western

Trevor Tanner
Amy Rallison

Utah Council of Teachers of Mathematics

Stephen McKean and Tobin Yehle

Utah Department of Natural Resources

Indira Gutierrez

Utah Science Center Authority

1st place- Elena Gardner
2nd place –Cameron Durst

U.S. Air Force

Anna Ferreira
Rosie Staes
Elizabeth Giles
Mason Brewer

U.S. Army

Engineering –Gleb Kooznakov, Charles McGuire, Lai Xue
Earth, Space and Environment – Breanna Anderson
Math and Computer Science – Jamal Abdinor
Behavior, Medicine, Micro, Biology- Christian Mills , Kristina Grim
Biochem, Chem, Physics- Candice Murray

U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

Luke Schunk

U.S. Metric Association

Hailey Parkin

U.S. Navy/Marine Corps

U.S. Stockholm Junior Water Environment Federation

Breanna Anderson

Yale Science and Engineering Association

Amanda Gowans

ASCE

Elementary Division
  1st- Elena Gardner
  Honorable Mention- Sidney Stewart
  Honorable Mention-Alexandra Wood
Junior Division
  1st-Blake Richardson
  Honorable Mention- Page Heyn
  Honorable Mention- Jake Shultz
Senior Division
  1st- Matt Bishop
  Honorable Mention- Indira Gutierrez
  Honorable Mention- Breanne Anderson