2015 Santa Cruz County Science & Engineering Fair Award Winners Awards Ceremony – Santa Cruz Civic Auditorium March 16, 2015 from 7pm -‐ 9pm The names of the students who will be receiving an award are listed below. The specific awards, prizes, and honors for each project will be announced at the Awards Ceremony. First Name Cassandra Last Name Ackemann School Project Title San Lorenzo Valley HS 9-‐12 What's the Stink in Shingle Mill Creek? Sae Ackerstein Bay View ES K-‐6 Jimmy Cracked Corn the Birds Don't Care For: Bird Food Preferences Jordan Amadia Vine Hill ES K-‐5 How Much Power? Nicole Amadia Vine Hill ES K-‐5 Egg Doesn't Matter Arias-‐Ixta Watsonville HS 9-‐12 What influences people's water conservation efforts in Watsonville, California? Kaleb Arroyo Watsonville Charter/Arts K-‐8 Save the Salmon Emily Auten Mission Hill MS 6-‐8 Mammals Under The Moon Badger San Lorenzo Valley HS 9-‐12 What's the Stink in Shingle Mill Creek? Anamaria Ava Congratulations to all of our participants and award winners! 2015 Santa Cruz County Science & Engineering Fair Award Winners Jacky Annika Alexandra Ryan Barrientos De Laveaga ES K-‐5 Bauerle San Lorenzo Valley HS 9-‐12 What's the Stink in Shingle Mill Creek? Baum Beam Wait, Which Person Did I See? Vine Hill ES K-‐5 Save Your Energy... It's a Food Fight! Does a Fruit or Vegetable Make a Better Battery? Scotts Valley MS 6-‐8 Rubik's Revenge-‐-‐ The Cube is Back, and Harder Than Ever Elijah Bellue Valencia ES K-‐6 Tsunami Barriers: Mangrove Tree Barrier vs Manmade Barrier Carmen Beltramo De Laveaga ES K-‐5 Scaredy Cat or Scaredy Dog Alessio Bernardi Pacific Collegiate Charter 7-‐12 Homing behavior in Monkeyface Prickleback Elizabeth Brennan Brook Knoll ES K-‐5 Grass Growing Race Cambra Good Shepherd Catholic Taking Hands Chaffin Georgiana Bruce Kirby What's In Your Water? -‐ How Urbanization Prep. Impacts Water Quality Dillon Emily Alan Chen Mission Hill MS 6-‐8 Will ice cubes melt faster in fresh water or salt water? Congratulations to all of our participants and award winners! 2015 Santa Cruz County Science & Engineering Fair Award Winners Malena Clark Taliana Claussen-‐Sadeh De Laveaga ES K-‐5 Fizzy Fruit Fun Bennett Cocherell Soquel ES K-‐5 Operation Ocean Floor Emma Compton Pacific Collegiate Charter 7-‐12 Sea Stars: On the Rise? Leila Dagan Boulder Creek ES K-‐6 Seashells and Ocean Acidification Danielle Delgadillo How does 1%, 2%, fat free, and whole milk Green Valley Christian affect the rise of Biscuits Dev Dhruv Scotts Valley MS 6-‐8 Joseph Diaz How does decreasing the amount of water given to each variety of grass affect the Green Valley Christian growth? Eva Diop Westlake ES K-‐5 Getting a Gorgeous Glow Holy Cross A Cheaters Curve: The Science Behind the Spitball Bay View ES K-‐6 When in Drought, Find a New Way to Sprout Jack Kyle Donohoe Dyer Gateway ES The Effects of Salinity and Age on the Rate of Carbon Sequestration in Wetlands Microbial Fuel Cells: generating energy from Organic Matter Congratulations to all of our participants and award winners! 2015 Santa Cruz County Science & Engineering Fair Award Winners Eva Dykaar Pacific Collegiate Charter 7-‐12 Monica Escobar De Laveaga ES K-‐5 Melting Ice with Sand, Sugar and Salt A New Angle in Roof Design Marco Evans Bonny Doon ES K-‐6 Making Bronze at Home and the Properties of Bronze Simone Evenson Westlake ES K-‐5 Getting a Gorgeous Glow Mission Hill MS 6-‐8 Jobs & Gender: Implicit Assumptions About Women in the Workplace Jessica Fairlie Zoe Fairlie Santa Cruz HS 9-‐12 Mountain Lions and Pumas and Cougars, Oh My: Are they really as dangerous as you think? Greta Feague Spring Hill Advanced ES Nature's Light Bulb (An Optical Analysis) Derek Fester Bonny Doon ES K-‐6 The Engineering of a Homemade Hovercraft Alexandra Fischer Pacific Collegiate Charter 7-‐12 The Wormhole Model of the Internet Zoe Foster Soquel ES K-‐5 Solar Water Pasteurizer Giovann Fournier New Brighton MS 6-‐8 Cleaning Water Congratulations to all of our participants and award winners! 2015 Santa Cruz County Science & Engineering Fair Award Winners Max Freedman homeschool KAPOWER Ball-‐Generating Power From a Soccer Ball Adam Friedman Rio Del Mar ES K-‐6 Hearing changes with age Joy Furman Ocean Grove How to Identify Minerals and How to Classify Rocks Alisha Furtado Radcliff ES K-‐5 Blood Pressure in Watsonville Gallagher San Lorenzo Valley HS Phytoplankton in the Monterey Bay: 9-‐12 Harmful or Helpful? Gallagher Secrets of San Lorenzo Valley's Atmosphere Part 3: A Dual-‐Study of San Lorenzo Valley HS Atmospheric Pressure Systems and the 9-‐12 Dangers of Particulate Matter 2.5 Ian Natalie Jasmine Gates Mission Hill MS 6-‐8 Improving Memory Lane: Can we increase middle school students' ability to remember information using mnemonic devices? Alyssa Gehlmann Holy Cross DNA Separation Process Julia Georgi Brook Knoll ES K-‐5 What Kinds of Plankton Live Near Santa Cruz? Elias Gilbert Mission Hill MS 6-‐8 Watch the curve: Using statistical modeling to predict the next baseball pitch Nika Gladkov Scotts Valley MS 6-‐8 The Viking Sunstone Congratulations to all of our participants and award winners! 2015 Santa Cruz County Science & Engineering Fair Award Winners Jacob Goodman Valencia ES K-‐6 Clean or Contaminated Jonah Goodman Westlake ES K-‐5 Yeast or Pepper: Friend or Foe Hannah Grishaw-‐Jones Mission Hill MS 6-‐8 Microwaves Vs. Gas Stoves Gross San Lorenzo Valley ES K-‐6 Water Velocity and Alluvial Fans / Deltas Rebecca Guerrero Cieba College Preparatory Academy 6-‐8 Air Slicer Ruby Hammer Boulder Creek ES K-‐6 How's the Water? Alexandria Hanzlik Does 100% Wool, Rayon, or Polyester Green Valley Christian shrink more than 100% Cotton? Remy Harp Mar Vista ES K-‐6 Shocking Plants !? Tyler Hawes Scotts Valley MS 6-‐8 Twinkie Resist Hayes Pacific Collegiate Charter 7-‐12 Building A 3D Printing Pen Henderson Good Shepherd Catholic Electric Cars Maxwell Anika John Paul Congratulations to all of our participants and award winners! 2015 Santa Cruz County Science & Engineering Fair Award Winners Lily Carly Allison Hernandez Mount Madonna Hill San Lorenzo Valley HS 9-‐12 Sand Crab Ecology at Seabright Beach Imthurn Le Chicks 2 Bay View ES K-‐6 Jimmy Cracked Corn the Birds Don't Care For: Bird Food Preferences Adrian Jacobs Bonny Doon ES K-‐6 Determining Which Rocket-‐Candy Propellant Preparation Method Results in the Greatest Thrust Miles Jacobsen Westlake ES K-‐5 Yeast Vs. Peppers: Friend or Foe Abe Jellinek Alternative Family Education Lingua: Programming for the Uninitiated Luke Jensen Gateway School Right Back At Ya Sofia Jimenez De Laveaga ES K-‐5 Scaredy Cat or Scaredy Dog Cameron Jones Soquel ES K-‐5 Operation Bat Hit Klotz Pacific Coast Charter K-‐12 Coral Reefs In Decline: A Mathematical Look into the Future Knapp Good Shepherd Catholic Can You See Me NOW? Abigail Katie Congratulations to all of our participants and award winners! 2015 Santa Cruz County Science & Engineering Fair Award Winners Benjamin Christopher Kolland Laurits AFE Homeschool Separation Anxiety: A Plan for Safer Model Rocket Deployment Gateway ES Comparing the Amount of Bacteria in Raw and Pasteurized Milk Nico Lehner Valencia ES K-‐6 How Sugar Water Affects honeycomb Production Eli Lev De Laveaga ES K-‐5 Wi-‐Fi and What Blocks It Naomy Licht Vine Hill ES K-‐5 Save Your Energy... It's a Food Fight! (Do Fruits Or Vegetables Make Better Batteries) Blythe Liljenstolpe Good Shepherd Catholic Does Time Fly Nathan Lin De Laveaga ES K-‐5 Steam Powered Generator Kyley Linn Holy Cross Stovetop Maddnes Mira Lion San Lorenzo Valley HS 9-‐12 Sand Crab Ecology at Seabright Beach Kianna Lomeli Radcliff ES K-‐5 Blood Pressure in Watsonville Lopez Watsonville Charter/Arts K-‐8 Engineering Sound Miguel Congratulations to all of our participants and award winners! 2015 Santa Cruz County Science & Engineering Fair Award Winners Neva Lunine De Laveaga ES K-‐5 Connor Lydon Secrets of San Lorenzo Valley's Atmosphere Part 3: A Dual-‐Study of San Lorenzo Valley HS Atmospheric Pressure Systems and the 9-‐12 Dangers of Particulate Matter 2.5 Quinn Lydon San Lorenzo Valley HS Phytoplankton in the Monterey Bay: 9-‐12 Harmful or Helpful? Manuel Madrigal Alianza Charter K-‐5 Solar Hotdog Cooker Henry Madsen Pacific Collegiate Charter 7-‐12 Ocean Energy Alex Magdaleno-‐
Fernandez Watsonville Charter/Arts K-‐8 Engineering Sound Magliato San Lorenzo Valley HS Sea Star Wasting Syndrome: Impacts on 9-‐12 the Intertidal Zone Maldonado Good Shepherd Catholic Electric Cars Alicia Enzo Melting Ice with Sand, Sugar and Salt Tyler Marini Westlake ES K-‐5 Potty Talk in the Bacteria World Boy vs. Girl Ashley Mason Boulder Creek ES K-‐6 Liquid Rocket Propulsion Gateway ES Building a Microbial Fuel Cell in an Attempt to Find More Renewable Energy Sources Gunner McCormick Congratulations to all of our participants and award winners! 2015 Santa Cruz County Science & Engineering Fair Award Winners Hailey McKinney Boulder Creek ES K-‐6 How's The Water Faith Mealing Baymonte Christian The Effect of BPS on neurological development C. elegans Ksenia Medvedeva Mount Madonna Le Chicks 2 Morgyn Michelson De Laveaga ES K-‐5 Tooth Trouble Danielle Mondragon Radcliff ES K-‐5 Blood Pressure in Watsonville Ethan Muzzio Good Shepherd Catholic Testing Aerodynamics in a Wind Tunnel Andrew O'Rourke Holy Cross ADHD versus Non-‐ADHD Reaction Times Maggie O'Rourke Holy Cross The Mystery of Moisturizer Morgan Ohana Gateway ES The Effects of a Jetty on the Location of Sand Crabs Nol Ortiz Mar Vista ES K-‐6 Fighting Diabetes with Nopal Cactus Jaden Ow Westlake ES K-‐5 What Hand Cleanser Kills the Most Germs? Congratulations to all of our participants and award winners! 2015 Santa Cruz County Science & Engineering Fair Award Winners Weston Ow Westlake ES K-‐5 What Hand Cleanser Kills the Most Germs? Sophie Parsa Santa Cruz HS 9-‐12 From Many to One-‐ the Fight for Survival Sahil Patel Gateway ES Solar Panel Efficiency Peyton Pettyjohn Vine Hill ES K-‐5 On Your Mark... Get Set... Go! Oscillators or Momentum indicators with multiple time frames Will Pramanik Mount Madonna Jurgen Prambs San Lorenzo Valley HS Terrestrial Salamanders of the San Lorenzo 9-‐12 Valley Bella Primavera Twin Lake Christian Who Killed Staphylococcus? Zakary Prochaska Westlake ES K-‐5 Biased or Not: Do You Know What You Thought? Diana Quintero Ann Soldo ES K-‐5 What will clean oil spills better? David Rabago Watsonville Charter/Arts K-‐8 Save the Salmon Otto Redlien Westlake ES K-‐5 Magnetic Movement Congratulations to all of our participants and award winners! 2015 Santa Cruz County Science & Engineering Fair Award Winners Reyna Riegos Pajaro MS 6-‐8 Pollution Ian Robb Bay View ES K-‐6 How Football Causes Brain Injury Emily Rodriguez New Brighton MS 6-‐8 Cleaning Water Santa Cruz HS 9-‐12 Risky Business: Modeling Risk-‐Taking Behavior Using P. polycephalum Ruby Rorty Alina Rubin Gateway ES Protection: The effect common household materials have on blocking microwave radiation Jaden Ruff San Lorenzo Valley ES K-‐6 Pain Management Jessica Ruiz Alianza Charter K-‐5 The Human Hand Phoenix Rumbaugh Ocean Alt Ed K-‐8 Warming up to Electricity, Another look at ThermoElectricity Caeden Ryan Soquel ES K-‐5 Operation Bat Hit Tia Salika Pacific Collegiate Charter 7-‐12 The Affects of Salt Intrusion on Plant Growth Emma Schaefer-‐
Whittall Scotts Valley MS 6-‐8 Is the Science Fair...Fair? Congratulations to all of our participants and award winners! 2015 Santa Cruz County Science & Engineering Fair Award Winners Pacific Collegiate Charter 7-‐12 Automatic Solar Powered Dog Food Dispenser Siemsen Baymonte Christian The Effect of BPS on neurological development C. elegans Mikaela Slade San Lorenzo Valley HS Terrestrial Salamanders of the San Lorenzo 9-‐12 Valley Liam Smith Holy Cross Crazy Composting Bella Stevens De Laveaga ES K-‐5 Wait, Which Person Did I See? Sophia Stone Westlake ES K-‐5 Are Bugs Attracted To A Specific Color Of Light? Julia Stuart Mission Hill MS 6-‐8 Time Perception: One Minute Please... Owen Stuart Mission Hill MS 6-‐8 Time Perception: One Minute Please... Cesar Suarez Does using more, less or the recommended amount of laundry detergent affect the brightness of Green Valley Christian washcloths? Claire Swidan Westlake ES K-‐5 Potty Talk in the Bacteria World Boy vs. Girl Leon Tanguay Westlake ES K-‐5 Biased or Not: Do You Know What You Thought? Katie Jonathan Shevlin Congratulations to all of our participants and award winners! 2015 Santa Cruz County Science & Engineering Fair Award Winners Benjamin Tarr Gateway ES The Development of an Advanced Computer File Compressor Fabiola Torres Ann Soldo ES K-‐5 What will clean up oil spills better? Coral Tripp Boulder Creek ES K-‐6 Seashells and Ocean Acidification Iris Trujillo De Laveaga ES K-‐5 Melting Ice with Sand, Sugar and Salt Daphne Tuncer Branciforte MS 6-‐8 #perfectlighting leo tuncer Gault ES K-‐5 Prime Numbers Destin Vasqez Watsonville Charter/Arts K-‐8 Engineering Sound Alfredo Vazquez Alianza Charter K-‐5 Solar Hotdog Cooker Monica Velasquez Pajaro MS 6-‐8 Pollution Jonah Verinsky Brook Knoll ES K-‐5 Let's Clean up Oil! Vickers San Lorenzo Valley HS Sea Star Wasting Syndrome: Impacts on 9-‐12 the Intertidal Zone Veronica Congratulations to all of our participants and award winners! 2015 Santa Cruz County Science & Engineering Fair Award Winners Shai Voskoboynik Valencia ES K-‐6 The Meltdown Elle Walters Vine Hill ES K-‐5 Keeping Kool, Green Roofs Do the Job Watson Brook Knoll ES K-‐5 What Works Better When Preserving Cut Carnations -‐ Flower Food, Sugar, Citric Acid of Fresh Water? Wayne Spring Hill Advanced ES Yeast Gas Production and Sugar Substitutes Webb Pacific Collegiate Charter 7-‐12 Thermal Microcosm Gateway ES Write it Right; The affect of different methods of recording information on the way children and adults memorize letter combinations Vine Hill ES K-‐5 Save Your Energy...It's a Food Fight! Does a Fruit or Vegetable Make a Better Battery? Improving Memory Lane: Can we increase middle school students' ability to remember information using mnemonic devices? Audrey Jacob Audrey Jaiden Wolfman Siena Wong Audrey Wynn Mission Hill MS 6-‐8 Madelyn Young Bay View ES K-‐6 Jimmy Cracked Corn the Birds Don't Care: Bird Food Preferences Congratulations to all of our participants and award winners!