Congratulations HISEF Winners
February 11, 2012

HONORABLE
MENTION

 5 th Grade 
th
 Navarrete
Elementary
 Nick Howell,
Dylan
Fernandez
 Vitamin C
Reality
 Arizona College
Prep
 Zoe Stanley,
Alegra Aguayo
 Intriguing
Insulation

EARTH & SPACE
7 th Grade
 Willis Junior
High
 Sam McClimon,
Ray O’Neal
 Craters of the
Moon
7 th Grade
 Bogle Junior
High
 Michelle
Howell
 Freeze Thaw
Rocks

PHYSICAL SCIENCE
8 th Grade
 Santan Junior High
 Hannah Stevenson,
Abigail Peters
 Glowing Success

ENGINEERING &
INVENTIONS
7 th Grade
 Arizona College
Prep
 Gaurav
Jategaonkar
 Effects of Thermal and Medium
Variations on
Magnetism
8 th Grade
 Payne Junior
High
 Colter
Hansen
 Sail Shape

ENVIRONMENTAL
SCIENCE
7 th Grade
 Andersen
Junior High
 Brenna Swaffar
 Methane at
Work
8 th Grade
 Hamilton Prep
 Conner
Freeland
 Fruit Batteries

MATH & COMPUTER
SCIENCE
8 th Grade
 Hamilton Prep
 Keaton Glover
 Semi Madness

MEDICINE & HEALTH
7 th Grade
 Bogle Junior
High School
 Dhruv
Madhav
 Gatorade v.
Powerade
8 th Grade
 Willis Junior
High


Danny
Richardson
The Effect of
Acidity on Teeth

LIFE SCIENCE
7 th Grade
 Payne Junior
High
 Amber Meador
 pHat Onions
8 th Grade
 Bogle Junior
High
 Lauren Honea
 To Bean or Not to bean

HONORABLE
MENTION

PLANT SCIENCES
 Breanna Murray
 (HHS/ Crane )
 Weed Killer Investigation

MEDICINE & HEALTH
 Genna Corman
 (HHS/Miner)
 How Do Different Levels of SPF Affect UV Rays

MICROBIOLOGY
 Chelsea Gipson
(HHS/ Mathis )
 What's Up With Agar

BEHAVIORAL &
SOCIAL SCIENCE
 Grace Arnpriester
(HHS/ Lasswell )
 The Relationship Between
Volleyball and Spatial Skills

ENVIRONMENTAL
SCIENCE
 Pooja Viswanath, Michelle
Anthony (CHS/ Lewis )
 The Effect of the Thickness of
Blocks of Ice on the Area That
Oil Spreads on the Surface of the Water

CHEMISTRY
 Celena Gammon, Kennedy
Kimball, Jessica Roden
(HHS/ Wicklow )
 Evaporating Glass

ENERGY AND
TRANSPORTATION
 Natzem Lima
(BHS/ Mckelvy )
 Algae: The Future for
Transportation

PHYSICS &
ASTRONOMY
 Austin Filiere
(HHS/ Weidenbach )
 The Distance a Baseball
Travels in Meters Based on the Type of Baseball Bat

ENGINEERING
 Amber Guo, Grace
Wang (HHS/Mathis)
 Number of Window
Panes vs Intensity of
Sound

3 rd PLACE
Elementary School
Entries

 5 th Grade  6 th Grade
 CTA
Independence
 Blaise Dalton,
Allie Nason,
Patrick Casola
 Fascinating
Friction
 Santan
Elementary
 Jacqueline
Dworaczy,
Ashley Jones
 Power to the
Circuits

3 rd PLACE
Jr. High Entries

EARTH & SPACE
7 th Grade
 Hamilton Prep
 Aryasp Nejat
 How Much O is in
H
2
O

PHYSICAL SCIENCE
8 th Grade
 Santan Junior High
 Madeline Hansen
 Deliciously
Dangerous Drinks

ENGINEERING &
INVENTIONS
7 th Grade
 Willis Junior
High
 Emily Branam
 Waving Sound
8 th Grade


Payne Junior
High
Dillon Maluski
 With Great
Power Comes
Great Efficiency

ENVIRONMENTAL
SCIENCE
7 th Grade
 Payne Junior
High


Madeline
McGarry
Arizona’s
Contrast in
Chlorine
8 th Grade
 Hamilton Prep
 Ethan Engel
 Gargantuan
Greens

MATH & COMPUTER
SCIENCE
8 th Grade
 Hamilton Prep
 Siddharth
D’Silva
 A Browser’s
Speed

MEDICINE & HEALTH
7 th Grade
 Hamilton Prep
 Tony Nehme
 The Effect of
Different Oils on the
Amount of Iodine it takes for the Mass of
Iodine to Sink
8 th Grade
 Bogle Junior
High
 Neil Popp
 Slip Slop
Slap

LIFE SCIENCE
7 th Grade


Bogle Junior
High
Justin Ostertag
 Water in
Oranges,
Lemons, and
Grapefruit
8 th Grade
 Willis Junior
High
 Hannah Lazenby
 The Correct Way
To Kill

3 rd PLACE
High School Entries

PLANT SCIENCES
 Brianna Mullavey
Gabriel Rodriguez
(HHS/ Welch )
 Two peas in a pod

MEDICINE & HEALTH
 Bethany Powell
(HHS/ Moran)
 H2O2 White

MICROBIOLOGY
 Gokul Ramadoss
(HHS/ Weidenbach )
 And Don't Forget the Soap

BEHAVIORAL &
SOCIAL SCIENCE
 Cassandra Karver,
Dayna Wasley
(HHS/ Mathis )
 Memorization
Techniques

ENVIRONMENTAL
SCIENCE
 Gurpaul Sidhu (CHS/Lewis )
 The Effect of Electrodialysis on the Removal of Salt From Water in Comparison to a Dual Tank
Reverse Osmosis Filtration
System

BIOCHEMISTRY
 Savannah Banyai ,Casey
Rowden, Michelle Nakamoto
(HHS/ Wicklow )
 Rotten Strawberries

CELLULAR & MOLECULAR
BIOLOGY
 Cindy Le, Emily Jing
(HHS/ Loutzenheiser)
 Extractable Strawberry DNA

CHEMISTRY
 Julie Tang, Frank Li
(HHS/ Wicklow )
 Factors that Affect the
Antioxidant Qualities of
Green Tea

ENERGY AND
TRANSPORTATION
 Bharath Tata (HHS/ B.
Clark )
 Mag Gen

PHYSICS &
ASTRONOMY
 Olivia Talarico (HHS/ B.
Clark)
 Can Sound Be Seen

ENGINEERING
 Madison Scavarda, Kaylee
Roberts, Laurie Lipscomb
(HHS/Weidenbach)
 The Effect of Different Stitch
Patterns on the Amount of
Force a Pointe Shoe Ribbon
Can Withstand

nd
Elementary School
Entries

 5 th Grade  6 th Grade
 Jacobson
Elementary
 Emma Pudoka,
Morgan
Swanson
 Buckle Up
 CTA
Independence
 Michael Leung,
Nick Nold, Cole
Steed
 Hydrogen
Generation

2 nd PLACE
Jr. High Entries

BEHAVIORAL & SOCIAL
SCIENCE
7 th Grade
 Arizona
College Prep
 Athan Ertl
 Practice
Makes Perfect
8 th Grade
 Santan Junior
High
 Jacob Crabtree,
Sritej Attaluri
 Passing With
Flying Colors

EARTH & SPACE
7 th Grade
 Bogle Junior High
 Cassandra Kuerner
 Around the World

PHYSICAL SCIENCE
8 th Grade
 Payne Junior High
 Aaron Graff
 Is It Getting Hot In
Here

ENGINEERING &
INVENTIONS
7 th Grade
 Hamilton Prep
 Thomas Duke
 Holey
Parachutes
8 th Grade
 Payne Junior
High
 London Stoes
 The Lifetime of a Battery

ENVIRONMENTAL
SCIENCE
7 th Grade
 Hamilton Prep
 Mckenna Loop
 The Effect of
Soil on pH
8 th Grade
 Willis Junior
High


Shelby Nelson,
Brenna
McManus
Bringing
Butterflies To
Life

MATH & COMPUTER
SCIENCE
7 th Grade
 Arizona College
Prep
 Jacob Gonsalves
 Worldwide Crisis
Due To Shortage of
Resources
8 th Grade
 Hamilton Prep
 Joseph Briones
 Need For
Speed

MEDICINE & HEALTH
7 th Grade
 Payne Junior
High
 Coleman
Roberts
 Emergency Air
Drop
8 th Grade
 Hamilton Prep
 Mehrdad
Dariush
 Gatorade v.
Powerade

LIFE SCIENCE
7 th Grade
 Payne Junior
High
 Tyara Roberts
 Water on
Sunflower
Growth
8 th Grade
 Andersen Junior
High
 Kristina Cana
 The Effect of
Electricity on
Plant Growth

2 nd PLACE
High School Entries

PLANT SCIENCES
 Kaitlyn Loop (HHS/ Mathis )
 Different Plants Different
Volts

MEDICINE & HEALTH
 Reagan Blackwell,
Grace While
(HHS/Weidenbach)
 Sun-thing to Think About

MICROBIOLOGY
 Dylan Thomas (HHS/ Mathis)
 To Reheat Or Not To Reheat
That Is The Question

ANIMAL SCIENCES
 Adam Gaetano
(HHS/ Weidenbach )
 The Effect of Temperature of
Habitat on the Speed of
Metamorphosis

BEHAVIORAL &
SOCIAL SCIENCE
 Nathan Kishiyama, Elizabeth
Niman (HHS / Weidenbach )
 The Effect of Emotions on
Micro Expressions

ENVIRONMENTAL
SCIENCE
 Jake Xu (HHS/Clark B.)
 It is Getting Hot in Here

BIOCHEMISTRY
 Amaris Tapia, Xury Deputy
(HHS/ Crane )
 Enzymatic Proteins in Bell
Peppers

CELLULAR & MOLECULAR
BIOLOGY
 Wilson Sullivan (HHS/ Amberg)
 Diffusion of Water into and out of an Egg

CHEMISTRY
 Cindy Tran, Kendra Wang
(CHS/Lewis)
 Behind the Scenes of Green
Tea: The Effect of the Brand of Green Tea on the Amount of Caffeine it Contains

ENERGY &
TRANPORTATION
 Devangi Shah (CHS/Lewis)
 The Effect of the Predetermined
Degree of Extrinsic Curvature and
Deviation of Runner Blades from the
Axis of Rotation on the Magnitude of the Driving Torque Generated by an
Impulse Water Turbine

PHYSICS &
ASTRONOMY
 Tejas Dharmaraj, Manav
Sevak (CHS/ Lewis)
 The Effect of Electroplating Different
Diamagnetic Metals with Varying
Magnetic Susceptibilities on the
Strength of the Magnetic Field
Produced by the Plated Ferromagnet

COMPUTER SCIENCE
 David Li (BHS/ Decaro)
 Evaluation of Optimizations for
Spectral Modeling Synthesis

ENGINEERING
 Ivy Chang (HHS/ Crane )
 Investigating Deposited
Metals on Pyrite for
Schottky Barriers in
Potential Development as
Solar Cells

1 st PLACE
Elementary School
Entries


th

th
 Navarrete
Elementary
 Casey Sullivan
 Hot Colors
 Navarrete
Elementary
 Jin Ni, Aryn
Moran
 Scrumptious
Sweet Potatoes

1 st PLACE
Jr. High Entries

BEHAVIORAL & SOCIAL
SCIENCE
7 th Grade
 Arizona College
Prep
 Alegra Hernandez,
Jessica Bauer
 Sports Wii
Improves
8 th Grade
 Willis Junior High
 Marlee Coolidge,
Sydney Hess
 Do I Catch Your
Eye

EARTH & SPACE
7 th Grade
 Willis Junior High
 Jacob Labenz
 Lean, Mean,
Greenhouse Machine

PHYSICAL SCIENCE
8 th Grade
 Hamilton Prep
 Audrey West
 Mother Nature = Pitch
Witch

ENGINEERING &
INVENTIONS
8 th Grade 7 th Grade
 Payne Junior
High
 Joshua Kazariah
 Electric Motors
 Hamilton Prep
 Delaney Hayes
 Liquid
Electricity

ENVIRONMENTAL
SCIENCE
7 th Grade
 Hamilton Prep
 Emma Robson
 The Effect of
Petroleum Jelly on Plant Growth
8 th Grade
 Bogle Junior
High
 Kiera Blawn
 The Salty
Truth!

MATH & COMPUTER
SCIENCE
7 th Grade
 Bogle Junior
High
 Zhengdong
Wang
 Computer
Upgrades
8 th Grade
 Hamilton Prep
 Joshua Broas
 Stacking the
Odds in Your
Favor

MEDICINE & HEALTH
7 th Grade


Hamilton Prep
Grayson Peters
 The Effect of the
Type of Fruit
Juice on the
Concentration of
Glucose
8 th Grade
 Hamilton
Prep
 Katherine
Barron
 Got Milk?

LIFE SCIENCE
7 th Grade
 Bogle Junior
High
 Connor Mingle
 Leaf Me Alone
8 th Grade
 Payne Junior
High
 Cece Chen
 Are Homing
Pigeons Smart

1 st PLACE
High School Entries

PLANT SCIENCES
 Kevin Chen, Andrea Lin,
Jerry Jiang (HHS/Prince)
 Soilsynthesis

MEDICINE & HEALTH
 Victoria Beecroft, Alisha
Joshi (HHS/ Moran )
 Are Branded Drugs
Really Worth Their High
Price Tag

MICROBIOLOGY
 Lindsey Chew, Michael Wu,
Jimmy Xu (HHS/ Weidenbach )
 Sanitization Maximization

ANIMAL SCIENCES
 Nitish Peela (HHS/ Nipar )
 Maximizing Efficiency of
Aminoglycoside Antibiotics used in Chickens

BEHAVIORAL &
SOCIAL SCIENCE
 Jennica Bark (HHS/Miner)
 The Sound of Popcorn

ENVIRONMENTAL
SCIENCE
 Christy Sennavongsa
(BHS/Mckelvy)
 Synthetic Fibers and the
World

BIOCHEMISTRY
 Lakshmee Malladi, Meera
Kapadia, Ashmita Sharma
(HHS/Wicklow )
 Going Bananas

CELLULAR & MOLECULAR
BIOLOGY
 Emma Totten
(HHS/ Weidenbach)
 Wet Wood

CHEMISTRY
 Victoria Ton, Andrew Ding
(HHS/Welch)
 Kimchi Chemistry

ENERGY &
TRANPORTATION

Joelle Cayer, Kelsey O‘Brien
(PHS/ Bell )
 Green Machine

PHYSICS &
ASTRONOMY
 Luis Suarez (BHS/Mckelvy)
 Reduce a Home's Energy Bill with Thermochromic Paint

COMPUTER SCIENCE
 Varun Ramesh (HHS/ Nipar )
 A Novel Algorithm for Real-
Time Terrain Rendering using
Geometry Clipmaps

ENGINEERING
 Drishti Sinha (HHS/ Crane )
 Fabrication of Micro-Fluidic
Devices and the Sensitivity of Tear Glucose Biosensors

MATHEMATICAL
SCIENCE
 Rajan Sheth, Alfred Xue
(HHS/ Nipar )
 The Dynamics of the
Proliferation of Ebola virus

 5 th Grade: CTA Independence
 Shelby Cohrs, Rachel Schermann
– Examination Of Evaporation
 6 th Grade: Haley Elementary
 Kaila Majoek, Natalie Gill
– Make It Pure

 7 th Grade: Payne Junior High
 Ashley Marino, Liam Thibeault
– Agricultural Aid

 Ahnaf Masroor (HHS/Roach)
 Potentially Conservative

 5 th Grade: Navarrete Elementary
 Maisy Racine, Hailey Camblin, Evelyn Paddock
– Innovative Insulators
 6 th Grade: Ryan Elementary
 Julia Despain, Madison Frederick
– Wheel of Water

 7 th Grade: Willis Junior High
 Jacob Labenz
– Lean, Mean, Greenhouse Machine
 8 th Grade: Hamilton Prep
 Audrey West
– Mother Nature = Pitch Witch


Joelle Cayer, Kelsey O‘Brien
(PHS/Bell)
 Green Machine

BEST OF FAIR
 BIOLOGICAL
 Christy Sennavongsa
(BHS/Mckelvy)
 PHYSICAL
 Drishti Sinha
(HHS/Crane)
 Synthetic Fibers and the
World
 Fabrication of Micro-
Fluidic Devices and the
Sensitivity of Tear
Glucose Biosensors