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2011 Award Winners
Thank you to all the students who made this another great year for SLVSEF.
Elementary Division
Junior Division
Senior Division
Grand Awards
Intel ISEF Grand Champion Winners
Special Awards
Elementary Division | |||
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| Award | Name(s) | School | Title |
| Behavioral & Social Sciences - First | Nick Dal Canto | Oakridge Elementary | Cell Phones Will Drive You to Distraction |
| Behavioral & Social Sciences - Second | Sarah Christensen, Kanna Crosland & Varesh Gorabi | Salt Lake Center for Science Education | Pigeon Smarts |
| Behavioral & Social Sciences - Third | Allie Colemere | Lone Peak Elementary | Green Eggs and Ham |
| Behavioral & Social Sciences - Honorable Mention | Rylan Taylor | Excelsior Academy | Do distractions, like video games, affect a person's response time to pain? |
| Behavioral & Social Sciences - Honorable Mention | Helen Johnston | Trailside Elementary | Absorbency vs cost |
| Behavioral & Social Sciences - Honorable Mention | Hunter Santistevan | Ridgecrest Elementary | Are child resistant containers effective? |
| Behavioral & Social Sciences - Honorable Mention | Abigail Jacketta | Fox Hills Elementary | Patience: Does it pay to wait? |
| Behavioral & Social Sciences - Honorable Mention | Dylan Johnson | Lone Peak Elementary | Driving and Cell Phones |
| Behavioral & Social Sciences - Honorable Mention | Monique Masina | Monticello Academy | Get Focused on Perceptual Blindness |
| Behavioral & Social Sciences - Honorable Mention | Kara Andersen | Ecker Hill Middle School | Investigating Reading Comprehension |
| Biology & Biochemistry - First | Samuel Mason | Parley's Park Elementary | Effects of Radiation on Radish Seeds |
| Biology & Biochemistry - Second | Mitchell Simmons | Whittier Elementary (SLC) | Fresh or Frozen |
| Biology & Biochemistry - Third | Chantelle Vanegas, Kaitlyn Maestas & Guadalupe Cruz | Salt Lake Center for Science Education | Slime Mold Mania |
| Biology & Biochemistry - Honorable Mention | Brighid Billing | Parley's Park Elementary | Evert Fresh Bags, do they really work? |
| Biology & Biochemistry - Honorable Mention | Vismaya Kharkar | Challenger | When Life Gives You Sour Apples... |
| Biology & Biochemistry - Honorable Mention | Iain Anderson | Beacon Heights Elementary | Bait VS Flies VS Lures |
| Biology & Biochemistry - Honorable Mention | Moani Tuitupo, Kyle Kelly & Elliot Powell-Hamilton | Salt Lake Center for Science Education | Fancy vs. Feral in the battle of the Sound |
| Biology & Biochemistry - Honorable Mention | Nicole Kerr | East Midvale Elementary | Milk - Which milk curdles fastest |
| Biology & Biochemistry - Honorable Mention | Josh Clifton & Camden Woll | Ecker Hill Middle School | Electrolyte Challenge: Orange Juice vs Sports Drinks |
| Chemistry - First | Matthew Gustafson | Parley's Park Elementary | Tootie Fruity Batteries |
| Chemistry - Second | Margaret Wallace | Utah Virtual Academy | The Pretty Penny |
| Chemistry - Third | Jared Pettit & Boyd Ellsworth | Morningside Elementary | Window Washing Solutions |
| Chemistry - Honorable Mention | Daniel Rosenbloom | Jeremy Ranch Elementary | Going Bananas |
| Chemistry - Honorable Mention | Clayton Thueson | Oakdale Elementary | Let it Dissolve! |
| Chemistry - Honorable Mention | Riley Monsen | Monticello Academy | Rocket Science |
| Chemistry - Honorable Mention | Marijke Miller | Beacon Heights Elementary | Enamel Eaters- Do Drinks Affect Teeth? |
| Chemistry - Honorable Mention | Lindsay Kenner | Oakdale Elementary | Bleach, Bleach Does It Really Whiten? |
| Chemistry - Honorable Mention | Bethany Moos | Brookwood Elementary | Can fruit change the pH of stomach acid? |
| Chemistry - Honorable Mention | Zachery vonWeller | Overlake Elementary | What Happened to my Little Brother's Pajamas? |
| Engineering & Computer Science - First | Liam Connor | Hawthorne Elementary | Insulation |
| Engineering & Computer Science - Second | Timmanee Loveless | Carl Sandburg Elementary | Effect of UV Exposure on Strength of Materials |
| Engineering & Computer Science - Third | Cassandra Ivie | Entheos Expeditionary Learning | "Using my ""Bat Senses"": Measuring Distance with Sound" |
| Engineering & Computer Science - Honorable Mention | Kenzo Okazaki | Reid School | Magic or Magnets |
| Engineering & Computer Science - Honorable Mention | Bailey Griffith | Stansbury Park Elementary | Wing Shapes |
| Engineering & Computer Science - Honorable Mention | Michael Peterson | Jeremy Ranch Elementary | Flight 4 Science |
| Engineering & Computer Science - Honorable Mention | Marcus Corbett | Reid School | Are You on Solid Ground? |
| Engineering & Computer Science - Honorable Mention | Hunter Weight | Northlake Elementary | Crystal Radio |
| Engineering & Computer Science - Honorable Mention | Matt Hille | Ridgecrest Elementary | Shoe Traction on a Gym Floor |
| Engineering & Computer Science - Honorable Mention | Austin Sasser | Stansbury Park Elementary | You Light Up My Life |
| Energy & Transportation - First | Jaren Hudson | Harris Elementary | How Does Temperature Effect Solar Cells? |
| Energy & Transportation - Second | Casey Cooper | Harris Elementary | Which battery is the best? |
| Energy & Transportation - Third | Aija Moore | Fox Hills Elementary | Angling the Winds |
| Energy & Transportation - Honorable Mention | Marcus Capps | Indian Hills Elementary | The Power of the Sun |
| Energy & Transportation - Honorable Mention | Cameron Jeppson | Hawthorne Elementary | What shape of wing produces the most lift? |
| Energy & Transportation - Honorable Mention | Brittney Arndt | Ecker Hill Middle School | Off The Grid |
| Environmental Sciences - First | Gabe Smith | Eastwood Elementary | Amazing Radiation!: Nasty Particles You Can't See |
| Environmental Sciences - Second | Sebastian Santiago | East Midvale Elementary | Green or Traditional Detergent. Which is safer for the environment of a plant? |
| Environmental Sciences - Third | Anika Heilweil | Morningside Elementary | Can the Color of Pavement Reduce the Urban Heat Island Effect and Global Warming? |
| Environmental Sciences - Honorable Mention | Shalini Kasera | Morningside Elementary | Effectiveness of Renewable vs Non-renewable Energy Sources |
| Environmental Sciences - Honorable Mention | Jack Temme | Morningside Elementary | What Is The Most Efficient House Shape? |
| Environmental Sciences - Honorable Mention | Sara Harris & Olivia Anderson | Hawthorne Elementary | Desalinating Water |
| Environmental Sciences - Honorable Mention | Christina Sossenheimer | Reid School | Insulation: Fabric vs. Fabric |
| Environmental Sciences - Honorable Mention | Clara Pochynok | Ecker Hill Middle School | Tap vs Bottled |
| Environmental Sciences - Honorable Mention | Alyssa Fu | Ridgecrest Elementary | Oily Feathers |
| Environmental Sciences - Honorable Mention | Amber Campbell | Oakdale Elementary | Solar-Powered Water Desalination: Does it Work? |
| Medicine & Health Sciences - First | Elizabeth Pearson | Hawthorne Elementary | Bye Bye E.Coli? |
| Medicine & Health Sciences - Second | Marney O'Brien | Ensign Elementary | Microwaves on the Loose...A Radiation Hazard? |
| Medicine & Health Sciences - Third | Alli Eroh & Talia Kottler | Weilenmann School of Discovery | Searching for SILV1 Mutations |
| Medicine & Health Sciences - Honorable Mention | Braden Smith | Eastwood Elementary | What Do Color-Blind People See? |
| Medicine & Health Sciences - Honorable Mention | Megan Sansom | East Midvale Elementary | Does Gum Heat You Up of Cool You Down |
| Medicine & Health Sciences - Honorable Mention | Samantha Jackson | Excelsior Academy | Diaper Duty (Which Diaper Holds to Most Liquid) |
| Medicine & Health Sciences - Honorable Mention | Jessica Gubler & Taylor Berret | Excelsior Academy | Bionocular Vision and Depth Perception |
| Medicine & Health Sciences - Honorable Mention | Jana Elzaurdia & Elizabeth Reyes | Franklin Elementary | Does Caffeine Affect A Persons Blood Pressure? |
| Medicine & Health Sciences - Honorable Mention | Tanner Beck | Lone Peak Elementary | Can you tell the difference? |
| Medicine & Health Sciences - Honorable Mention | Kailee Russell | Excelsior Academy | How long does it take for pain medication to dissolve and enter the bloodstream? |
| Physics, Astronomy & Math - First | Connor Lewis | Hawthorne Elementary | Laser Leakage |
| Physics, Astronomy & Math - Second | Charlie Lambert | Jeremy Ranch Elementary | Testing the Force of a Magnetic Linear Accelerator |
| Physics, Astronomy & Math - Third | Lynden Otteson & Devin Wilkins | Liberty Elementary | Derby Dilemma |
| Physics, Astronomy & Math - Honorable Mention | Grace Ferguson | Uintah Elementary | The Pressure Is On! |
| Physics, Astronomy & Math - Honorable Mention | Kjerstin Roberts | Challenger | Sensational Swim Caps |
| Physics, Astronomy & Math - Honorable Mention | Zachary Memmott | Lone Peak Elementary | Can Hot Water Really Freeze Faster then Cold Water? |
| Physics, Astronomy & Math - Honorable Mention | Olivia Finlayson | Oakdale Elementary | Save The Sinking Egg! |
| Physics, Astronomy & Math - Honorable Mention | Fyodor Filippov | Open Classroom | Rolling Racers |
| Physics, Astronomy & Math - Honorable Mention | Hannah Curtis | Penn Elementary | Can You Catch A Falling Star? |
| Physics, Astronomy & Math - Honorable Mention | Taylor Kiser | Viewmont Elementary | Skydiving & Terminal Velocity |
| Plant & Earth Sciences - First | Madeline Martin | Ridgecrest Elementary | How do changes of Carbon Dioxide in the Atmosphere affect plants? |
| Plant & Earth Sciences - Second | Mikelle Rogers | Excelsior Academy | Liquefaction - The Phenomenon that Makes Soil Act Like Liquid |
| Plant & Earth Sciences - Third | Jonah Rosenberg | Morningside Elementary | When Put In A Burlap Bag, Which Material Is The Most Effective To Help With Flood Control: Sand, Soil, Or Gravel? |
| Plant & Earth Sciences - Honorable Mention | Ellie Dietz | Lone Peak Elementary | How to Store Un-Popped Popcorn |
| Plant & Earth Sciences - Honorable Mention | Megan Bigelow | Monticello Academy | Sprouting Sounds |
| Plant & Earth Sciences - Honorable Mention | Carter Parks | Excelsior Academy | Gas, Weed and Feed and Windshield Wiper Fluid: A Study of Different Water Pollutants |
| Plant & Earth Sciences - Honorable Mention | Seiji Nagasawa | Beacon Heights Elementary | Rock Erosion |
| Plant & Earth Sciences - Honorable Mention | Rebekah James & Lexi Glenn | Hawthorne Elementary | One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish |
| Plant & Earth Sciences - Honorable Mention | Siena Senn | Jeremy Ranch Elementary | Effect of Caffeine on Plant Growth |
| Plant & Earth Sciences - Honorable Mention | Taemour Djahanbani | Butler Elementary | To Pop or Not to Pop - That is the Question. |
Junior Division | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Award | Name(s) | School | Title |
| Animal Sciences - First | Michael Broughton | Salt Lake Center for Science Education | Does Niche Partitioning Occur in Wild Songbirds Within a Suburban Environment? |
| Animal Sciences - Second | Annie Downhour | Hillside Middle School | Measuring Planarian Regeneration Through a Colorimetric Feeding Assay |
| Animal Sciences - Third | Hanna Pollock, Alyssa Warr & Erika Lakin | Clarke N. Johnsen Jr. High | If you cut a worm will it live? |
| Behavioral & Social Sciences - First | Ryan Belton | Tooele Jr. High | Did You See That? |
| Behavioral & Social Sciences - Second | Nityam Rathi | Midvale Middle School | Can peppermint flavored altoids improve reaction time by freshening your brain? |
| Behavioral & Social Sciences - Third | Nina Filippova | West High | Reactions, Distractions! |
| Biochemistry - First | Karishma Shah | Challenger | Color Vision |
| Biochemistry - Second | Philip Redmond & Ian Johnson | Hillside Middle School | Battle of the Bags |
| Biochemistry - Third | Angelene Williams | Albion Middle School | Do you really want to drink that soda or juice? |
| Cellular & Molecular Biology - First | Guy Eroh | Weilenmann School of Discovery | The effects of suforaphane on DNA damage in zebrafish |
| Cellular & Molecular Biology - Second | Caroline Holyoak | J.E. Cosgriff Memorial | Morning Breath |
| Cellular & Molecular Biology - Third | Priya Swaminathan | Hillside Middle School | Correlations Between Eye Color and Fingerprint Type |
| Chemistry - First | Sara Shum | J.E. Cosgriff Memorial | Got Milk? |
| Chemistry - Second | Josh Butner | Clayton Middle School | Colloid Conductivity |
| Chemistry - Third | Benjamin Fankhauser | Churchill Jr. High | Fire Retardants |
| Computer Science - First | Melissa Ivie | Entheos Expeditionary Learning | Making the Connection: Designing an Ethernet Shield for Use with the Arduino |
| Computer Science - Second | Timur Tripp | Open Classroom | Find the Picture |
| Computer Science - Third | Andrew Silver & Sam Nelson | Hillside Middle School | BURN CD BURN |
| Earth & Planetary Science - First | Audrey Ahlers | Hillside Middle School | What's the Weather? |
| Engineering: Electrical & Mechanical - First | Nicholas Sontag | Churchill Jr. High | Zap - A Force Field |
| Engineering: Electrical & Mechanical - Second | Mikaela Schmiett | J.E. Cosgriff Memorial | GET THE Na OUT |
| Engineering: Electrical & Mechanical - Third | Charlie Martz | Weilenmann School of Discovery | Dual Roller Coasters Testing the Laws of Physics Conservation of Energy |
| Engineering: Materials & Bioengineering - First | Ian Gorrell-Brown | J.E. Cosgriff Memorial | Does Your Sunblock Really Block? |
| Engineering: Materials & Bioengineering - Second | Madison Guitard | Weilenmann School of Discovery | The Hydrodynamics of Drag |
| Engineering: Materials & Bioengineering - Third | Sarah Groebs & Isabella James | West High | Insulators |
| Energy & Transportation - First | Ian Miller | Salt Lake Center for Science Education | Dimples: They're Not Just for Golf Balls |
| Energy & Transportation - Second | Zerina Ocanovic | Salt Lake Center for Science Education | Microbial Fuel Cell |
| Energy & Transportation - Third | Mallory Merrill | Tooele Jr. High | Pushing The Speed Limit |
| Environmental Management - First | Ronak Intwala | Hillside Middle School | What's in Your Water |
| Environmental Management - Second | Abby Poffenberger | Tooele Jr. High | Which One Holds the Most |
| Environmental Sciences - First | Paul Oliver | J.E. Cosgriff Memorial | Plastics in the Microwave |
| Environmental Sciences - Second | Brandon Cui | Midvale Middle School | Toxicity of Nano-Sized TiO2 and ZnO on Daphnia Magna |
| Environmental Sciences - Third | Bovey Rao | Midvale Middle School | Where's the Oxygen? |
| Mathematical Sciences - First | Zachary Bastiani | Salt Lake Center for Science Education | Risky Risk |
| Mathematical Sciences - Second | Natalia Baykova | Hillside Middle School | Wordl's Smartest Snowflake |
| Mathematical Sciences - Third | Elisa Erekson | Tooele Jr. High | How Strong Do You Think a Single Thread is? |
| Medicine & Health Sciences - First | Lindsay Ryan | J.E. Cosgriff Memorial | Germ Warfare |
| Medicine & Health Sciences - Second | Connor Morgan | J.E. Cosgriff Memorial | You Rinsed Your Produce, But Is It Clean? |
| Medicine & Health Sciences - Third | Manny Condas | St. Francis Xavier | It's In The Blood |
| Microbiology - First | Gillian Young | J.E. Cosgriff Memorial | Bacteria on Blankets, Bed Sheets, and Bears - Now What? |
| Microbiology - Second | Dana Tran | Northwest Middle School | Fighting the Germs! |
| Microbiology - Third | Tyler Newberg | Entheos Expeditionary Learning | What in my school has the most germs? |
| Physics & Astronomy - First | Micaela Berglund & Elizabeth Prucka | Ecker Hill Middle School | Thermodynamics (A Hot Topic) |
| Physics & Astronomy - Second | Miranda Rougelot | J.E. Cosgriff Memorial | Does Proprioceptive Neuromuscular Facilitations (PNF) stretching affect your ability to punch/jump with power? |
| Physics & Astronomy - Third | Nicholas Allred | Kearns-St. Ann | Safe Landing |
| Plant Sciences - First | Isaac Montague | Tooele Jr. High | Floating Lemons and Sinking Limes |
| Plant Sciences - Second | Elizabeth Gooch | Hillside Middle School | Effects of Alcohol on Paper Whites |
| Plant Sciences - Third | David Quach, Jake Takenaka & Bryan Molina | Northwest Middle School | Radishes and Tomatoes in the terrible world |
Senior Division | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Award | Name(s) | School | Title |
| Animal Sciences - First | Nayeli Padilla | AMES High School | The Addictive Property of High Fructose Corn Syrup |
| Animal Sciences - Second | Shay Jonart | Monticello Academy | What is the Closest Living Relative of the Woolly Mammoth? |
| Animal Sciences - Third | Ana Martin & Elizabeth Gamarra | Salt Lake Center for Science Education | The hiddden truth about chickens |
| Behavioral & Social Sciences - First | Lori Kim | West High | Audio/visual HIV/AIDS education for Tanzanian Aldolescents : change in attitude towards HIV/AIDS testing |
| Behavioral & Social Sciences - Second | Lindy Clark | AMES High School | Implicit Stereotypes Associated with Skin Tone |
| Behavioral & Social Sciences - Third | Luke Ahlemann, Jasmina Horozovic & Jade Bonomo | Salt Lake Center for Science Education | The Doctor Is In |
| Biochemistry - First | Charles Blakemore | AMES High School | Detection and Analysis of Point Mutations of the Oxidative Variety in the K-ras Gene |
| Biochemistry - Second | Riley Warfield | Monticello Academy | Temperature and Catalase |
| Biochemistry - Third | Sierra Donnelly & Trieste Francis | Riverview Jr. High | CSI: Bleach |
| Cellular & Molecular Biology - First | Pooja Jairam | Skyline High | A Bioassay on the Optimal Concentration of siRNA for Telomerase Inhibition |
| Chemistry - First | Allison Schneggenburger | Butler Middle School | Sugar Electrolosis in water |
| Chemistry - Second | Catesby Carman | Butler Middle School | Catalysts and Yeast??? |
| Chemistry - Third | Jeff Douglas | Tooele High | Electrolosis in water |
| Computer Science - First | Matt Vitelli | AMES High School | Low-Cost, High-Quality 3D Scanning and Display of Human Faces |
| Computer Science - Second | Tobin Yehle | West High | Improving Genetic Algorithms |
| Computer Science - Third | Zachary Kieda | West High | Practical Chinese Character Recognition using Computational Algorithms |
| Engineering: Electrical & Mechanical - First | Erick Chen, Ryan Tani & Alissa Whiting | West High | UXO Grazer |
| Engineering: Electrical & Mechanical - Second | Brandon Reed | Murray High | Wireless electricity |
| Engineering: Electrical & Mechanical - Third | Gavin Yehle & Ben Grodner | West High | Solar Stirling Engine |
| Engineering: Materials & Bioengineering - First | Andrea Evans | Hillcrest High | A NOVEL SUSTAINED-RELEASE ANTIBIOTIC POLYMER FOR TREATMENT OF INFECTED OPEN WOUNDS |
| Engineering: Materials & Bioengineering - Second | Michaylo Chubak | AMES High School | A Bamboo Roller Coaster? |
| Engineering: Materials & Bioengineering - Third | Haley Anderson | Salt Lake Center for Science Education | Bridge Harmonics |
| Energy & Transportation - First | Andy Law & David Larkin | West High | Biodiesel Microfluidic Processor |
| Energy & Transportation - Second | Christian Robert | AMES High School | Energy Storage and Re-use through Mechanical Propulsion of Flywheel of Novel Design |
| Energy & Transportation - Third | Alec Nguyen, William Boston & Nico DiSera | Granite Technical Institute | Silo Placement and Wind Turbine Electricity Generation |
| Environmental Management - First | Nicholas Corpuz | AMES High School | Effect of Soil Particulate Size and Diversity on the Filtration of Environmental Contaminants |
| Environmental Management - Second | Tori Cody | City Academy | Trash or Treasure? |
| Environmental Sciences - First | Shwan Javdan | AMES High School | Oleophilic Investigation: Analysis of an Oil Spill's Impact on Microbial Abundance and Diversity |
| Environmental Sciences - Second | Jaerok Kim & Anson Li | West High | Increasing Light Efficiency |
| Environmental Sciences - Third | Nikolaos Liodakis | Hillcrest High | Novel Simulation of Enhanced Chemical Percipitation Treatment of Heavy Metals in Contaminated Wastewater |
| Mathematical Sciences - First | Ryan Baker | Hillcrest High | Modeling Wind Power Generation Using Polynomial Chaos Expansion |
| Mathematical Sciences - Second | Hannah Harper Hanson & Christian Seipp | Salt Lake Center for Science Education | Measuring Mastery |
| Mathematical Sciences - Third | Rebecca Nickerson | West High | Expected Value Theory: to infinity and beyond |
| Medicine & Health Sciences - First | Tia Thomas | AMES High School | The Effect of Sedentary Behavior on Body Mass Index |
| Medicine & Health Sciences - Second | Lyndie Mitchell | Albion Middle School | On Bended Knees |
| Medicine & Health Sciences - Third | Rosalie Triolo | Wasatch Jr. High | Evaluation of 4 teeth-whitening agents |
| Microbiology - First | Bohan Xing | West High | Insulin-like Growth Factor Variant (IGF-1B) Upregulation in Rat Pup Hippocampus after Trauma is Associated with Increased Exon 5 DNA Methylation |
| Microbiology - Second | Ronny Nguyen | Indian Hills Middle School | Inhibitory Effects of Spices on E. Coli |
| Microbiology - Third | Ashley Davis | AMES High School | Measuring Bacterial Transformation Efficiency as a Function of Plasmid DNA Concentration |
| Physics & Astronomy - First | Polly Creveling | Skyline High | Powerful Pulleys: A Simple Machine |
| Physics & Astronomy - Second | Evan Espinel | Churchill Jr. High | Getting Fingers from Complex Fluids |
| Physics & Astronomy - Third | Logan Thackeray | Dugway High | Water Viscosity |
| Plant Sciences - First | Bryson Ensign | East High | Effect of foliar fertilization on plant biomass |
| Plant Sciences - Second | Thomas Luo | West High | Variations of pH on the Absorption and Reflection Spectrum of Chlorophyll a, Chlorophyll b, Carotenoids, Other Pigments, and Overall Chlorophyll |
| Plant Sciences - Third | Angela Nickerson | Riverview Jr. High | Getting the Dirt on Vermicomposting |
Grand Awards | |||
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| Award | Name(s) | School | Title |
| Broadcom MASTERS | Michael Broughton | Salt Lake Center for Science Education | Does Niche Partitioning Occur in Wild Songbirds Within a Suburban Environment? |
| Broadcom MASTERS | Micaela Berglund & Elizabeth Prucka | Ecker Hill Middle School | Thermodynamics (A Hot Topic) |
| Broadcom MASTERS | Ian Miller | Salt Lake Center for Science Education | Dimples: They're Not Just for Golf Balls |
| Broadcom MASTERS | Miranda Rougelot | J.E. Cosgriff Memorial | Does Proprioceptive Neuromuscular Facilitations (PNF) stretching affect your ability to punch/jump with power? |
| Broadcom MASTERS | Guy Eroh | Weilenmann School of Discovery | The effects of suforaphane on DNA damage in zebrafish |
| Broadcom MASTERS | Sara Shum | J.E. Cosgriff Memorial | Got Milk? |
| Broadcom MASTERS | Gillian Young | J.E. Cosgriff Memorial | Bacteria on Blankets, Bed Sheets, and Bears - Now What? |
| Broadcom MASTERS | Lindsay Ryan | J.E. Cosgriff Memorial | Germ Warfare |
| Broadcom MASTERS | Paul Oliver | J.E. Cosgriff Memorial | Plastics in the Microwave |
| Broadcom MASTERS | Melissa Ivie | Entheos Expeditionary Learning | Making the Connection: Designing an Ethernet Shield for Use with the Arduino |
| Broadcom MASTERS | Nick Dal Canto | Oakridge Elementary | Cell Phones Will Drive You to Distraction |
| Broadcom MASTERS | Timmanee Loveless | Carl Sandburg Elementary | Effect of UV Exposure on Strength of Materials |
| Broadcom MASTERS | Sebastian Santiago | East Midvale Elementary | Green or Traditional Detergent. Which is safer for the environment of a plant? |
| Broadcom MASTERS | Elizabeth Pearson | Hawthorne Elementary | Bye Bye E.Coli? |
| Broadcom MASTERS | Anika Heilweil | Morningside Elementary | Can the Color of Pavement Reduce the Urban Heat Island Effect and Global Warming? |
| Broadcom MASTERS | Lynden Otteson & Devin Wilkins | Liberty Elementary | Derby Dilemma |
| Broadcom MASTERS | Kenzo Okazaki | Reid School | Magic or Magnets |
| Broadcom MASTERS | Mikelle Rogers | Excelsior Academy | Liquefaction - The Phenomenon that Makes Soil Act Like Liquid |
| Broadcom MASTERS | Margaret Wallace | Utah Virtual Academy | The Pretty Penny |
| Broadcom MASTERS | Sarah Christensen, Kanna Crosland & Varesh Gorabi | Salt Lake Center for Science Education | Pigeon Smarts |
Intel ISEF Grand Champion Winners |
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| Award | Name(s) | School | Title |
| Alternate | Lindy Clark | AMES High School | Implicit Stereotypes Associated with Skin Tone |
| Alternate | Andy Law & David Larkin | West High | Biodiesel Microfluidic Processor |
| Winner | Charles Blakemore | AMES High School | Detection and Analysis of Point Mutations of the Oxidative Variety in the K-ras Gene |
| Winner | Ryan Baker | Hillcrest High | Modeling Wind Power Generation Using Polynomial Chaos Expansion |
| Winner | Lori Kim | West High | Audio/visual HIV/AIDS education for Tanzanian Aldolescents : change in attitude towards HIV/AIDS testing |
Special Awards |
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| Award | Name(s) | School | Division | Category | Title |
| American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA), Utah Section - Elementary Division | Michael Peterson | Jeremy Ranch Elementary | Elementary | Engineering & Computer Science | Flight 4 Science |
| Bailey Griffith | Stansbury Park Elementary | Elementary | Engineering & Computer Science | Wing Shapes | |
| American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA), Utah Section - Secondary Division (7th-12th) | Andy Law & David Larkin | West High | Senior | Energy & Transportation | Biodiesel Microfluidic Processor |
| Andrew Smith | AMES High School | Senior | Engineering: Electrical & Mechanical | Red Rover, Red Rover: Improved Mars Rover Propulsion | |
| Trevor Johnson | Highland High | Senior | Engineering: Electrical & Mechanical | The Hover Scooter | |
| Zerina Ocanovic | Salt Lake Center for Science Education | Junior | Energy & Transportation | Microbial Fuel Cell | |
| American Meteorological Society | Nikolaos Liodakis | Hillcrest High | Senior | Environmental Sciences | Novel Simulation of Enhanced Chemical Percipitation Treatment of Heavy Metals in Contaminated Wastewater |
| Golden Grutter | Butler Middle School | Senior | Environmental Sciences | Sound vs. Glaciers | |
| American Psychological Association | Michelle Wei & Jeannette Jiang | West High | Senior | Behavioral & Social Sciences | Taste Differences in Genders |
| American Society of Civil Engineers - Elementary | Anika Heilweil | Morningside Elementary | Elementary | Environmental Sciences | Can the Color of Pavement Reduce the Urban Heat Island Effect and Global Warming? |
| Julian Pellmann | Quail Hollow Elementary | Elementary | Engineering & Computer Science | Building Bridges | |
| Mikelle Rogers | Excelsior Academy | Elementary | Plant & Earth Sciences | Liquefaction - The Phenomenon that Makes Soil Act Like Liquid | |
| American Society of Civil Engineers - Junior | Elisa Erekson | Tooele Jr. High | Junior | Mathematical Sciences | How Strong Do You Think a Single Thread is? |
| Zach Tucker, John Hunter & Mac Wilson | Hillside Middle School | Junior | Physics & Astronomy | Crack | |
| Emma Heyn | Wasatch Jr. High | Junior | Environmental Sciences | Soak up the Spill | |
| American Society of Civil Engineers - Senior | Jose Garcia | AMES High School | Senior | Environmental Sciences | Jordan River Water Quality Section 4 and Its Tributaries |
| Nikolaos Liodakis | Hillcrest High | Senior | Environmental Sciences | Novel Simulation of Enhanced Chemical Percipitation Treatment of Heavy Metals in Contaminated Wastewater | |
| Haley Anderson | Salt Lake Center for Science Education | Senior | Engineering: Materials & Bioengineering | Bridge Harmonics | |
| ASM Materials Education Foundation | Michaylo Chubak | AMES High School | Senior | Engineering: Materials & Bioengineering | A Bamboo Roller Coaster? |
| Association for Women Geoscientists, Salt Lake Chapter - Elementary Division | Mikelle Rogers | Excelsior Academy | Elementary | Plant & Earth Sciences | Liquefaction - The Phenomenon that Makes Soil Act Like Liquid |
| Sydney Hansen | Oakdale Elementary | Elementary | Environmental Sciences | Which rock will soak up the most oil Sandstone or Limestone? | |
| Clara Pochynok | Ecker Hill Middle School | Elementary | Environmental Sciences | Tap vs Bottled | |
| Sara Harris & Olivia Anderson | Hawthorne Elementary | Elementary | Environmental Sciences | Desalinating Water | |
| Association for Women Geoscientists, Salt Lake Chapter - Junior Division | Ema Parker | Tooele Jr. High | Junior | Environmental Sciences | How Salty is the Great Salt Lake? |
| Emma Heyn | Wasatch Jr. High | Junior | Environmental Sciences | Soak up the Spill | |
| Mikaela Schmiett | J.E. Cosgriff Memorial | Junior | Engineering: Electrical & Mechanical | GET THE Na OUT | |
| Victoria Brandt & Ericka Hughes | Excelsior Academy | Junior | Environmental Sciences | Slope Failure | |
| Association for Women Geoscientists, Salt Lake Chapter - Senior Division | Tori Cody | City Academy | Senior | Environmental Management | Trash or Treasure? |
| Department of Biology, University of Utah | Bryson Ensign | East High | Senior | Plant Sciences | Effect of foliar fertilization on plant biomass |
| Great Basin Chapter of Air and Waste Management Association | Gabe Smith | Eastwood Elementary | Elementary | Environmental Sciences | Amazing Radiation!: Nasty Particles You Can't See |
| Great Salt Lake Local Section of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers (AIChE) | Henry Johnson | Utah Virtual Academy | Elementary | Environmental Sciences | Acid Rain Effects in Utah |
| Megan Okumura & Kenzi Joko | Canyon View Elementary | Elementary | Environmental Sciences | How Much Lead Is in the School's Drinking Water? | |
| Daniel Rosenbloom | Jeremy Ranch Elementary | Elementary | Chemistry | Going Bananas | |
| Intel Excellence in Computer Science | Mirae Parker | Tooele High | Senior | Computer Science | Clueless |
| I-SWEEEP | Nicholas Corpuz | AMES High School | Senior | Environmental Management | Effect of Soil Particulate Size and Diversity on the Filtration of Environmental Contaminants |
| Shwan Javdan | AMES High School | Senior | Environmental Sciences | Oleophilic Investigation: Analysis of an Oil Spill's Impact on Microbial Abundance and Diversity | |
| The Leonardo | Matt Vitelli | AMES High School | Senior | Computer Science | Low-Cost, High-Quality 3D Scanning and Display of Human Faces |
| Mu Alpha Theta (Math Honor Society) | Clark Walthers | West High | Senior | Mathematical Sciences | A Dense Covering of the Unit Circle in Polar Coordinates |
| National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association | Shwan Javdan | AMES High School | Senior | Environmental Sciences | Oleophilic Investigation: Analysis of an Oil Spill's Impact on Microbial Abundance and Diversity |
| National Society of Professional Engineers | Christian Robert | AMES High School | Senior | Energy & Transportation | Energy Storage and Re-use through Mechanical Propulsion of Flywheel of Novel Design |
| Nature High Summer Camp | Adam Eliason | Union Middle School | Senior | Environmental Sciences | Water Water Everywhere, But Not A Drop To Drink! |
| Nissyen Lopez | City Academy | Senior | Environmental Sciences | Can Oyster Mushrooms be a Safer Alternative to Clean up Oil? | |
| Natalie Beck | Utah Virtual Academy | Senior | Environmental Sciences | Indoor Air Pollution Contributors | |
| Jose Garcia | AMES High School | Senior | Environmental Sciences | Jordan River Water Quality Section 4 and Its Tributaries | |
| Pretty Board Award | Allie Berg & Ali Palmer | Hillside Middle School | Junior | Plant Sciences | Orang'Ya Glad Our Flowers Turned Orange?! |
| Naveen Rathi | Midvale Middle School | Senior | Environmental Sciences | "Going Green as we Clean: Are ""Green"" Detergents Safer and More Eco-Friendly than Conventional Detergents?" | |
| Ricoh Sustainable Development | Cooper O'Brien | Salt Lake Center for Science Education | Junior | Environmental Sciences | Light It Up |
| Roots & Shoots - Elementary Division | Andrew Robinson | Ecker Hill Middle School | Elementary | Plant & Earth Sciences | Measuring Acute Toxicity of Common Household Products on the Freshwater Organism Daphnia magna |
| Roots & Shoots - Junior Division | Zerina Ocanovic | Salt Lake Center for Science Education | Junior | Energy & Transportation | Microbial Fuel Cell |
| Roots & Shoots - Senior Division | Nissyen Lopez | City Academy | Senior | Environmental Sciences | Can Oyster Mushrooms be a Safer Alternative to Clean up Oil? |
| Society for In Vitro Biology - 11th Grade | Medine Ayhan & Azka Hasna | Beehive Academy | Senior | Medicine & Health Sciences | Cytochalasin on Endothelial Cells |
| Stockholm Junior Water Prize | Shwan Javdan | AMES High School | Senior | Environmental Sciences | Oleophilic Investigation: Analysis of an Oil Spill's Impact on Microbial Abundance and Diversity |
| Nikolaos Liodakis | Hillcrest High | Senior | Environmental Sciences | Novel Simulation of Enhanced Chemical Percipitation Treatment of Heavy Metals in Contaminated Wastewater | |
| Tori Cody | City Academy | Senior | Environmental Management | Trash or Treasure? | |
| Symantec | Zachary Kieda | West High | Senior | Computer Science | Practical Chinese Character Recognition using Computational Algorithms |
| Tobin Yehle | West High | Senior | Computer Science | Improving Genetic Algorithms | |
| Erick Chen, Ryan Tani & Alissa Whiting | West High | Senior | Engineering: Electrical & Mechanical | UXO Grazer | |
| United States Air Force | Morgan Lami, Katia Kelty & Maren Morgan | Albion Middle School | Senior | Environmental Sciences | Skyglow |
| Nicholas Sontag | Churchill Jr. High | Junior | Engineering: Electrical & Mechanical | Zap - A Force Field | |
| Nicholas Allred | Kearns-St. Ann | Junior | Physics & Astronomy | Safe Landing | |
| United States Army | Landon Gifford & Whitney Larsen | Matheson Jr. High | Senior | Physics & Astronomy | Which bullet? |
| Nayeli Padilla | AMES High School | Senior | Animal Sciences | The Addictive Property of High Fructose Corn Syrup | |
| U.S. Metric Association | Pooja Jairam | Skyline High | Senior | Cellular & Molecular Biology | A Bioassay on the Optimal Concentration of siRNA for Telomerase Inhibition |
| U.S. Navy/ Office of Naval Research - Junior | Madison Guitard | Weilenmann School of Discovery | Junior | Engineering: Materials & Bioengineering | The Hydrodynamics of Drag |
| Emma Heyn | Wasatch Jr. High | Junior | Environmental Sciences | Soak up the Spill | |
| Christian Christesen & Jace Wilko | Butler Middle School | Junior | Physics & Astronomy | What Shapes Travel Fastest through Water | |
| Patrick Nielsen | Eisenhower Jr. High | Junior | Behavioral & Social Sciences | Driving and Distractions | |
| U.S. Navy/ Office of Naval Research - Senior | Abigail Bennett | East High | Senior | Environmental Sciences | Water Absorption in Native and Invasive Grasses |
| Jeff Douglas | Tooele High | Senior | Chemistry | Electrolosis in water | |
| David Mirabile | Beehive Academy | Senior | Engineering: Electrical & Mechanical | Magnetic Braking | |
| Utah Department of Transportation - Elementary Division | Nick Dal Canto | Oakridge Elementary | Elementary | Behavioral & Social Sciences | Cell Phones Will Drive You to Distraction |
| Utah Department of Transportation - Junior Division | Mallory Merrill | Tooele Jr. High | Junior | Energy & Transportation | Pushing The Speed Limit |
| Utah Department of Transportation - Senior Division | Andy Law & David Larkin | West High | Senior | Energy & Transportation | Biodiesel Microfluidic Processor |
| XMission | Luke Ahlemann, Jasmina Horozovic & Jade Bonomo | Salt Lake Center for Science Education | Senior | Behavioral & Social Sciences | The Doctor Is In |
| Yale Science and Engineering Association | Brandon Reed | Murray High | Senior | Engineering: Electrical & Mechanical | Wireless electricity |
| Westminster Scholarchip - $1,000 | Nayeli Padilla | AMES High School | Senior | Animal Sciences | The Addictive Property of High Fructose Corn Syrup |
| Patrick McAtee | Tooele High | Senior | Animal Sciences | Hummingbird Color Preference | |
| Caressa Pratt | AMES High School | Senior | Behavioral & Social Sciences | Computers and Test Scores: A Correlation Study | |
| Lindy Clark | AMES High School | Senior | Behavioral & Social Sciences | Implicit Stereotypes Associated with Skin Tone | |
| Lori Kim | West High | Senior | Behavioral & Social Sciences | Audio/visual HIV/AIDS education for Tanzanian Adolescents : change in attitude towards HIV/AIDS testing | |
| Emily Skelton | Tooele High | Senior | Behavioral & Social Sciences | "The Brains Behind ""Where's Waldo?"" | |
| Corrie Record & Victoria Cheney | AMES High School | Senior | Behavioral & Social Sciences | Learning Within the Dominant Hemisphere | |
| George Ross & Ellena Thomas | Tooele High | Senior | Behavioral & Social Sciences | Tune It Up | |
| Charles Blakemore | AMES High School | Senior | Biochemistry | Detection and Analysis of Point Mutations of the Oxidative Variety in the K-ras Gene | |
| Jeff Douglas | Tooele High | Senior | Chemistry | Electrolosis in water | |
| Zachary Kieda | West High | Senior | Computer Science | Practical Chinese Character Recognition using Computational Algorithms | |
| Tobin Yehle | West High | Senior | Computer Science | Improving Genetic Algorithms | |
| Matt Vitelli | AMES High School | Senior | Computer Science | Low-Cost, High-Quality 3D Scanning and Display of Human Faces | |
| Brandon Reed | Murray High | Senior | Engineering: Electrical & Mechanical | Wireless electricity | |
| Dayan Sauerbronn & Julianna Cottam | City Academy | Senior | Engineering: Electrical & Mechanical | Electromagnetic Propulsion Roller Coaster | |
| Erick Chen, Ryan Tani & Alissa Whiting | West High | Senior | Engineering: Electrical & Mechanical | UXO Grazer | |
| Michaylo Chubak | AMES High School | Senior | Engineering: Materials & Bioengineering | A Bamboo Roller Coaster? | |
| Christian Robert | AMES High School | Senior | Energy & Transportation | Energy Storage and Re-use through Mechanical Propulsion of Flywheel of Novel Design | |
| Jose Garcia | AMES High School | Senior | Environmental Sciences | Jordan River Water Quality Section 4 and Its Tributaries | |
| Shwan Javdan | AMES High School | Senior | Environmental Sciences | Oleophilic Investigation: Analysis of an Oil Spill's Impact on Microbial Abundance and Diversity | |
| Nissyen Lopez | City Academy | Senior | Environmental Sciences | Can Oyster Mushrooms be a Safer Alternative to Clean up Oil? | |
| Nikolaos Liodakis | Hillcrest High | Senior | Environmental Sciences | Novel Simulation of Enhanced Chemical Precipitation Treatment of Heavy Metals in Contaminated Wastewater | |
| Arjun Dulal | East High | Senior | Environmental Sciences | The Effects of Sodium on Ants living in various geographical regions. | |
| Megan Dolle & Jessie Lam | Hillcrest High | Senior | Environmental Sciences | Tree Huggers Unite! | |
| Jaerok Kim & Anson Li | West High | Senior | Environmental Sciences | Increasing Light Efficiency | |
| Louis Le Bohec | City Academy | Senior | Mathematical Sciences | When In Search Of Chaos.... | |
| Ryan Baker | Hillcrest High | Senior | Mathematical Sciences | Modeling Wind Power Generation Using Polynomial Chaos Expansion | |
| Tia Thomas | AMES High School | Senior | Medicine & Health Sciences | The Effect of Sedentary Behavior on Body Mass Index | |
| Amanda Howa | Stansbury High | Senior | Medicine & Health Sciences | How does sound affect heart rate and blood pressure? | |
| Arminda King | City Academy | Senior | Medicine & Health Sciences | The magic of plants | |
| Medine Ayhan & Azka Hasna | Beehive Academy | Senior | Medicine & Health Sciences | Cytochalasin on Endothelial Cells | |
| Cody Hansen | Tooele High | Senior | Physics & Astronomy | Inducing an Electric Current with a Rotating Magnet | |
| Jason Murray | AMES High School | Senior | Physics & Astronomy | Bass Rock | |
| Logan Thackeray | Dugway High | Senior | Physics & Astronomy | Water Viscosity | |
| Summer Bloyer | Dugway High | Senior | Physics & Astronomy | Exploring Laser Diffraction | |
| Christopher Kimler | Dugway High | Senior | Physics & Astronomy | This is How I Roll | |
| Thomas Luo | West High | Senior | Plant Sciences | Variations of pH on the Absorption and Reflection Spectrum of Chlorophyll a, Chlorophyll b, Carotenoids, Other Pigments, and Overall Chlorophyll | |
| Bryson Ensign | East High | Senior | Plant Sciences | Effect of foliar fertilization on plant biomass | |
| Westminster Scholarchip - $80,000 | Bohan Xing | West High | Senior | Microbiology | Insulin-like Growth Factor Variant (IGF-1B) Upregulation in Rat Pup Hippocampus after Trauma is Associated with Increased Exon 5 DNA Methylation |
| Andy Law & David Larkin | West High | Senior | Energy & Transportation | Biodiesel Microfluidic Processor | |
| Nicholas Corpuz | AMES High School | Senior | Environmental Management | Effect of Soil Particulate Size and Diversity on the Filtration of Environmental Contaminants | |
SLVSEF is presented by The Center for Science and Mathematics Education located at the University of Utah in Salt Lake City, Utah.
