Diocesan Science Fair 2013 Overall school winners 1st place 2nd place 3rd place Holy Spirit School St. Leo the Great School St. Bernadette School Behavioral & Social Sciences 1st 2nd 3rd HM HM HM HM HM HM Cheyenne Grace Kiersten Jinlee Roan Samantha Catherine Sarah Hayley McGuin Lloyd Cimino Colucci McLean Carley Eppard Bresnahan Barnes St. Bernadette St. Veronica Nativity St. James St. Francis Aquinas Sacred Heart St. Timothy St. Andrew the Apostle The Comparison of Fingerprint Patterns Driving Distractions Spot the Fake Smile Color My World Good Things Come in Pretty Packages Individual vs. Small Group Performance Crossed Up Minty Memory The Effect of Color on Memory Grace Rebecca Isabella McCaffery Glick Gordon Blessed Sacrament Holy Spirit St. Leo the Great Flour Power Can't Spell Health without "Tea" Which location of the banana will affect its sugar concentration Biochemistry 1st 2nd 3rd HM HM HM HM Delaney Katerina Kevin Claire Sutherland Conway Coutry Garster St. Patrick Blessed Sacrament St. Timothy St. Bernadette So You Think You Know Your Coffee A Million Germs on a Toothbrush I'm Flexy and I Know It The Effect of Sugar Type on the Growth of Rock Candy Eggstraordinary Strength HM Melanie Peredo Corpus Christi 1st 2nd 3rd Ian Haley Kate Schurr Bachinsky Eisert St. Louis Holy Spirit St. Leo the Great HM HM HM HM Kelsey Nick Kelsey Krysti Herrity Mattei Colletti Muccia Nativity Our Lady of Hope St. Francis Holy Cross Academy HM Michael Golinowski St. Bernadette Geotropism vs Phototropism, Which will win? What Grows Up, Grows Down Flower Power: Does Radiation Affect the Growth of Marigold Seeds Radiation Radishes Let It Snow Hydroponics vs. Soil How much oxygen does an Aquatic Plant release in photosynthesis Marigold Madness 1st 1st 2nd 2nd 3rd HM HM Chris Lisa Gabby Grace Kiley Peter Sarah Susco Carome Baniqued Smith VanDoorn Montwill Chopko St. Timothy St. Ambrose St. Mary St. Joseph St. Theresa St. Timothy Blessed Sacrament The Proof is in the Prints How Low Can It Go? Yes, We Have No Bananas Liar Liar Pants on Fire Hot or Cold The Rust Effect Bright and Shiny: Cleaning Copper Pennies HM Holden Snyder Our Lady of Good Which Coolant Keeps Things Coldest for the Botany Chemistry Longest? Pill Be Gone! Effect of Different Types of Flour on the Density of Cupcake Burn, Baby, Burn Catchem with Cocoa HM HM Malia Cecilia Stephens Smith Blessed Sacrament St. Veronica HM HM Isabella Erin Ruggio Dooley St. Leo the Great Sacred Heart 1st 2nd 3rd Yoseif Seon Michael Berhe Choi Bambha St Thomas More St. Michael St. Mary Wireless Booster (Parabolic Reflector) How to Protect from Computer Virus Effect of ratio of reference to object beam on the brightness 1st 2nd Peter Melanie Braun Gregory Corpus Christi St. Veronica Liquid Earth Bye Bye Coral! 3rd Lily Harks St. Leo the Great HM Cyrus Banta St. Veronica What is the lightest sandbag that a homemade seismograph can Thermal Insulation Properties of Common Computer Science Earth & Space Science Fabrics Engineering 1st 2nd 3rd HM Christine Huynh St. Theresa Mark Ellie Sean Gonzales Renzette Rondeau Holy Family St. Theresa Holy Spirit Comparing Geometric Designs for the construction of Pasta to Here Come the Volts Tumbling Towers Hanging Around HM HM HM HM Charlie Claude Izze Patrick McGarry Karaki Stadulis Toulme Our Lady of Good St. Luke St. Patrick St. Agnes Give Yourself a Hand Which 3D shape is the stealthiest? Need for Speed The Effect of Colored Glass Filters on Colored Laser Light 1st 2nd 3rd Grace Catherine Mary Leckey Latessa Sullivan St. Charles Our Lady of Good Our Lady of Hope HM HM Aaron Annika Aranza Schmidt St. Mary St. Mark Water Purification Homemade Miracle Grow The Effects of Fertilizer on River Water & Aquatic Plants Under the Weathering Which oil is most efficient? 1st 2nd Emily Robert Fentress Masi Holy Spirit St. Leo the Great 3rd Glen Lash Queen of Apostles Environmental Sciences Mathematics Not So Random Are wildlife strike prevention methods resulting in decrease When Does Age Affect Performance on the HM Spencer Retcher St. Louis Court? Can You Measure Tall Objects Using a Mathmatical Equation? 1st 2nd 2nd 3rd HM Kyle Luke Sean Helen Timothy Butler Brennan Howard Carroll Fleury St. Ann Holy Spirit Holy Cross Academy St. Agnes St. Ann Antacids at Work Is Seeing Really Believing? Eye Color, Friend or Foe? Which Beverage Stains Teeth the Most Finding the Muscle in Flour Medicine & Health HM HM Matthew Ava Vinci Coffin St. James St. Michael Human Reaction Time Convergence Insufficiency 1st 2nd 3rd Ashley Joseph John Forster Wenger Jaicks St. Timothy St. Michael St. Mary Double Dip? Double Trouble? Should you Refill your Plastic Water Bottle? Garlic: It's Not Just For Vampire Protection Anymore How Clean is Your Green? It's A Bug's Life Bacteria vs. Cloves Essential Oils vs. Prescription Drugs Bacteria in Cosmetics Microbiology 3rd HM HM HM HM Katie Christina Cary Cynthia Brooke Grandinetti Mastracchio Beam Gomez-Quintero Davis St. Timothy St. Veronica Holy Spirit St. Joseph St. Veronica 1st 2nd 3rd Braden Kelly Patrick Hoagland Loman McHale Holy Spirit Holy Spirit St. Veronica Gone With The Wind Lift Me Up Melting Ice: Which Beverage Melts Ice the Fastest? HM HM HM HM Jack Emily John Ally Guarino Shin Svoboda Rozzi St. Joseph St. Bernadette St. Ann St Thomas More HM Joshua Blamer Our Lady of Hope HM HM Joseph Emma Molnar Stohlman St. Ambrose St. Francis Blades of Power The Effect of Temperature on Magnets The Mpemba Effect Does Temperature Affect the Speed of Sound? How does the shape of an object affect its terminal velocity Compass Corruption How do you like your copper? Physics HM John Carluccio St. Bernadette The Effect of Color of Light on a Universal Reflector 1st Christina Sabat St. Leo the Great 2nd Adrianna DeLorenzo St. Louis Can the frequency of cricket chirps be used to predict the temperature? Make It or Break It 2nd 3rd HM Frances Lizzie Grace Somerville Mueller Chang St. Charles St. Patrick Corpus Christi Fishy! Breathe In, Breathe Out To Groom or Not to Groom Come Into the Light Zoology