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2012 Santa Cruz County Science Fair Winners
March 10, 2012
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Behavioral Social Science
Primary K-3
1 st Place Valerie Moles Twin Lakes Christian The Weight Loss Challenge
2 nd Place Claire Bourdow De Laveaga ES Symmetrical Faces
& Xitlali Zuniga-Gross
3 rd Place Anika Mistry Brook Knoll ES What I Taste With My Eyes!
4 th Place Nicole Amadia Vine Hill ES Basketball Manic
Elementary 4-5
1 st Place Hirut Townsend Westlake ES Gender Assumptions About the Badger
2 nd Place Lauren Ellis Westlake ES Turn it Up! Does Music Help You
& Maggie Malloy
Study
3 rd Place William Patterson Valencia ES The Next Big Thing: Understanding
How Popular Internet Content Becomes
So Popular
Junior 6-8
1 st Place Tristan Barca-Hall Scotts Valley MS Touchè or Not Touchè
2 nd Place Nickolas Abbott Spring Hill Advanced How Power Is Suggestion
3 rd Place Jonathon Grager-Jones Scotts Valley MS Video Games: Does Playing on the
Xbox Affect Concentration
4 th Place Chloe Tschirky Good Shepherd The Placebo Effect
Biochemistry
Primary K-3
1 st Place Naomi Licht Vine Hill ES Pineapple Upside Down Sweetness
2 nd Place Hope Hutton-Rudd Bay View ES Super C
Elementary 4-5
1 st Place Daphne Tuncer Gault ES Yeast Temperature
Junior 6-8
1 st Place Max Freedman Homeschool Beans, Beans, The Magical Fruit
2 nd Place Talia Bernstein Gateway School Sugar Anyone A Comparison of
Different Sweeteners on Blood Glucose
3 rd Place Annie Everett Gateway School Its like Comparing Apples & Oranges
4 th Place Alexandra Szabo Ocean Grove Don’t Call Me Sweetie!

Botany
Primary K-3
1 st Place Jasmine Gates Bay View ES Flower Power: Can We Help Our Fresh
& Frances Radovan
Cut Flowers Last Longer
2 nd Place Linnea Jackson Brook Knoll Es How Different Types of Soil Affect
Seed Germination and Plant Growth
3 rd Place Sara Bautista Mt. Madonna School What’s the Best Way to Keep Cut
Flowers Fresh the Longest
Elementary 4-5
1 st Place Tessa Marks Mar Vista ES The Salt of the Grass
2 nd Place Elias Gilbert Westlake ES What Characteristics on Leaves do Bugs
look for when Finding a Tasty Dinner
3 rd Place Solange Charlet Vine Hill ES Raisin Making
& Hannah Shaffer
4 th Place Sean Dashiell Boulder Creek ES Bedtime Stories for Plants
Project of Merit Gabe Discipulo Bay View ES Plants in Dune Sand vs. Potting Soil
Project of Merit Skye Hathaway Ocean Alt. Ed. Plant Growth
Junior 6-8
1 st Place Jason Zheng Pacific Collegiate Hydro-Lettuce: The Growth
Efficiency of Hydroponics
2 nd Place Emma Williams Holy Cross How Will Vinegar Damage Vinca major
In a Wild environment
3 rd Place Nicolas Schroeder Holy Cross How Will Inconsistent Gravity Affect
Bean Plant Growth
4 th Place Brennan Parking Pacific Collegiate Twisted Soil
Senior 9-12
1 st Place Anna Maxwell San Lorenzo Valley HS Sudden Oak Death: Is it Progressing
& Adela Weigel
Chemistry
Primary K-3
1 st Place Michelle Nazareth Brook Knoll ES Dye Detective! How Colors React in a
Gel Electrophoresis Chamber
2 nd Place Amory Gaylord San Lorenzo ES Corroding Coins
3 rd Place Yaviana Prado Alianza Charter The Egg that Bounce

Elementary 4-5
1 st Place Sigrid Allen Bay View ES San Lorenzo River Pollution
& Sophia Wynn
2 nd Place Samuel Kawatsure Westlake ES What Ingredient in a Mentos makes
Diet Coke Explode
3 rd Place Lincoln Cooley Green Acres ES Ideal Gas Law
4 th Place Kia Shoemaker Valencia ES Chillin’ Out
Junior 6-8
1 st Place Marshall Carter Mission Hill MS The Alka-Seltzer Experiment
2 nd Place David Siemsen Baymonte Christian School Temperature and Light Sticks: A
Chemiluminescent Reaction
3 rd Place William Glommen Happy Valley ES Electroplating
4 th Place Sara Patz Good Shepherd Luminescence: The Effect of Heat
On Luminescence objects.
Cognitive Science
Primary K-3
Project of Ryley Gauthier Vine Hill Es Mushy Brain Madness
Merit
Elementary 4-5
1 st Place Rishi Chandiramani Brook Knoll ES The Effects of Texting on Concentration
2 nd Place Addison Dove Bradley ES No Eyes, No Tongue, No Flavor
& Calum Tinker
3 rd Place Sofia Spadafora Santa Cruz Gardens ES Sense of Feel
4 th Place Bailey Lemmon Twin Lakes Christian A Vision of Color
Junior 6-8
1 st Place Lucy Zicarelli Gateway ES I Thought I Knew That!
2 nd Place Kate Cellucci Scotts Valley MS Shaping Your Thoughts: The Stroop
Effect
3 rd Place Versai Knight Pacific Collegiate A Study of Mental Visualization and
Ideomotor Response
4 th Place Jessica Lopez Green Valley Christian Is Red More Eye Catching than
Other Colors

Earth Science
Primary K-3
Project of Hunter Kelly Holy Cross Catholic Outer Space in My Yard
Merit
Elementary 4-5
1 st Place Ryan Smith Westlake ES Evaporation
2 nd Place Christopher Betz Spring Hill Advanced Deep, Shallow, Fast, Slow –Velocity in
a River
3 rd Place Josh Halper Boulder Creek ES Stopping Erosion
& Jadon Franco
Junior 6-8
1 st Place Matthew Quinn Rio Del Mar ES Chosen for Erosion
2 nd Place Wyatt Alvis Gateway ES Tidal Flucuations: The Effects of Tides
on the Salinity of Elkhorn Slough
Senior 9-12
1 st Place Rose Leopold Pacific Collegiate Morphological Disparity
2 nd Place Loren Edwards San Lorenzo Valley HS Fall Creek: Stream Restoration or
& Daniel Genis
Stream Corruption
& Johann Prambs
Electronics & Electromagnetics
Primary K-3
1 st Place Paulo Sexton-Gabrielson Alianza Charter Capacitors
Elementary 4-5
1 st Place Andrew Nazareth Brook Knoll ES Radiation Blues: Which is Safer – Your
Cell Phone or your Blue Tooth
Junior 6-8
1 st Place Paulina Shearer Good Shepherd Catholic Visualizing Magnetic Interactions
2 nd Place Alex Radovan Spring Hill Advanced Can You Hear Me Now
3 rd Place Josh Brooks Mar Vista ES When Trains Fly!
& Noah Smith

Energy & Power
Elementary 4-5
1 st Place Shane Baxter Twin Lake Christian Burning It Up!
2 nd Place Anika McPherson Mar Vista ES Aqua-Volt
Junior 6-8
1 st Place Emily Manabe Aptos JH The Hotter the Higher
2 nd Place Jackson Cheleden Pacific Collegiate Twisting in the Wind
& Spencer Cheleden
3 rd Place Ava Joyet Mission Hill MS Wanna Save Energy Air Dry
& Sabrina Miller
4 th Place Lucca DeBiaso New Brighton MS Cooking with Solar Power
Environmental Engineering
Primary K-3
Project of Kiernan Gill Vine Hill ES Is Our Water Safe To Drink
Merit
Elementary 4-5
1 st Place Phoenix Rumbaugh Orchard School Drinking the Ocean
2 nd Place Dean Hervey Bradley ES Keeping It Hot
3 rd Place Leslie Castorena Radcliff ES Sound in the Sound Box
& Yvette Zamora
Junior 6-8
1 st Place Tovah Popilsky Salesian JH What’s Hot & What’s Not
2 nd Place Pablo Martinez Green Valley Christian Is Tap Water Better Than
Gray Water
3 rd Place Bryce Gauthier New Brighton MS The Wonder Barrel
4 th Place Zoe Failie Mission MS Project Runoff

Environmental Science
Elementary 4-5
1 st Place Vivan Feldheim Westlake ES Do Plants Reduce CO2
2 nd Place Tara Tempesta Spring Hill Advanced Otter Nursery at Moss Landing
It’s all About the Surface!
3 rd Place Mirsa Freed Westlake ES Cleaning Birds in Oil Spills
4 th Place Halle Katz & Mountain School Up the Creek
& Gabriel Rivas
Junior 6-8
1 st Place Anastasia Leopold Pacific Collegiate Plastic Lint: A Study of Microscopic
Marine Debris
2 nd Place Emma Freedman Homeschool Rolling on the River – Testing the
Effects of Deforestation on the Water
Quality of the Kinabatangan River
3 rd Place Emily Randall Spring Hill Advanced Does Carbon Dioxide Gas Block
Infrared Light
4 th Place Oscar Kohut Georgiana Bruce Kirby Creek Water Pollution by Population
Density
Mathematics
Elementary 4-5
1 st Place Theodin Feldman Linscott Charter Dice & Dice
Junior 6-8
1 st Place Abe Jellinek Ocean Alt Ed. The Three Little Pigs and the Big
Bad Navigation Device
2 nd Place Ian Gallagher Scotts Valley MS Scouting vs. Sabermetrics
3 rd Place Drew Keeft Salesian JH Guess High Guess Low Will
Counting Cards Help You Know
Seniors 9-12
1 st Place Abraham Karplus Homeschool Machine Learning Algorithms for
Cancer Diagnosis

Medicine & Health
Primary K-3
1 st Place Rosa Baltazar-Matias Ohlone ES Saltando para Sumar
& Gael Garcia-Flores
2 nd Place Noah True Boulder Creek ES The Eye
Elementary 4-5
1 st Place Colby Gonzalez Bradley ES Does Viewing Television Affect
Heart Rates
2 nd Place Shane Blanco Santa Cruz Gardens ES The Gaming Master
& Parker Trebbien
Junior 6-8
1 st Place Lekha Duvvoori Mount Madonna I See What Eye See: Low Light
Color Vision
2 nd Place Oli Holt Holy Cross Skin Sensitivity
3 rd Place John Sosa-Guaita Baymonte Christian School Video Games as Exercise
4 th Place Rhiannon Mulligan Pacific Collegiate Does Bug Spray + Sunscreen=
Sunburn
Microbiology
Primary K-3
1 st Place Vince Golder Bay View ES Aquatic Life
2 nd Place Addison Catterall-Pendleton Mount Madonna Microbiology of Second Grade
Elementary 4-5
1 st Place Breanna Harn Twin Lake Christian Dirty Money
2 nd Place Elleda Spitzer Vine Hill ES Gum vs. Bacteria
3 rd Place Nava Sadeghi Spring Hill Advanced Bacteria Growing on a
Birthday Cake
4 th Place Marina Sturm Twin Lake Christian What Mop Without Chemicals
Cleans Your Floor the Best
Junior 6-8
1 st Place Eve Jones Valencia ES “Handy” Solutions
& Calissa Kloepfer
2 nd Place Jacob Bright Twin Lake Christrian Does Your Dish Soap Kill
& Brian Hanover
Bacteria
3 rd Place Mari Friedman Mission Hill MS Safer Eggs Factory Farmed vs.
& Juliette Gallagher
Backyard Chicken Eggs
4 th Place Clara Chilton Georgiana Bruce Kirby Don’t Drink from my Water Bottle!
Seniors 9-12
1 st Place Russell Hofvendahl San Lorenzo Valley HS Something in the Water
2 nd Place Adrian Miller San Lorenzo Valley HS Fecal Coliform: A Study of Water
& Michaela Sanchez
Contamination in the San Lorenzo
Valley

Physics & Astronomy
Primary K-3
1 st Place Gabe Spitzer Vine Hill Es What is the Fastest Way to Run
to First Base
2 nd Place Erik Lauta Twin Lakes Christian That’s the Way the Ball Bounces
3 rd Place Caroline Rolander San Lorenzo ES How Does a Magnifying Glass
Burn a Leaf
4 th Place Cade Martin-Hansen San Lorenzo Valley ES CO2 Cork Shooter
Project of Isabel Lobato-Vicencio Alianza Charter Educational Bridge
Merit & Mariana Lobato- Vicencio
Elementary 4-5
1 st Place Anika Hayes Bonny Doon ES Balloons in Action
2 nd Place Jayce Wilson Santa Cruz Gardens ES Blast Off!
3 rd Place AJ Azevedo Bradley ES Catapult Chaos
& Devin Stires
4 th Place Josh Barry Valencia ES Choose the Right Bat Be A
& Al Taylor
Better Hitter
Junior 6-8
1 st Place Chester Charlton Spring Hill Advanced Magnetic Force Dissipation Through
Iron Rods
2 nd Place Xavier Prochaska Pacific Collegiate Air Resistance: What a Drag!
3 rd Place Kathryn Smith Pacific Collegiate Mythbusters: Myth of the Juiced
Baseball
4 th Place Luke Colosi Salesian JH Diffraction in Action
& Paul Colosi
Senior 9-12
1 st Place Jeremy Rudd Aptos HS Laser Induced Fluorescence

Product Science
Primary K-3
1 st Place Carlos Garcia Alianza Charter The Egg Slide
2 nd Place Andras Szabo Ocean Grove Can You Test the Bunny
3 rd Place Melissa Alvarez-Vargas Ohlone ES Helmet Safety
& Michelle Alvarez-Vargas
4 th Place
Elementary 4-5
1 st Place Bradley Vu Brook Knoll ES What Sugar Combined with Yeast
Makes Cough Rise Most
2 nd Place Hannah Grishaw-Jones Westlake ES Ice Cream Dean
3 rd Place Avi Weinstein Brook Knoll ES Which Battery Lasts the Longest
4 th Place Jack Hanlock Westlake ES Popcorn Pop-ability
Project of Emily Macias H.A. HydeES What Lasts the Longest
Merit
Junior 6-8
1 st Place Riley Harn Twin Lakes Christian Master of your Weed
2 nd Place Josef von Haunalter Baymonte Christian One Bad Apple Spoils the
Whole Bunch
Zoology
Primary K-3
1 st Place Elias Morrell De Laveaga ES Ocean Animal Insulation in
& Javier Zuniga-Gross
the Monterey Bay
2 nd Place Ayla Blackwolf Boulder Creek ES Chicken Genetics
3 rd Place Rachel Davies San Lorenzo Es Dolphin Echolocation
& Tarynn Gibbs
4 th Place Brenden Mulhall Homeschool How Quickly do Rats Learn
Elementary 4-5
1 st Place Emma Schaefer-Whittall Brook Knoll ES Hummingbird Preference: Color
Or Taste
2 nd Place Anabel Willy Bradley ES The Cricket Diner: What’s for Dinner
3 rd Place Juliana Garcia Boulder Creek ES Beta Environment
& Maddy Solve
4 th Place Marina Corcoran Gault ES Small Rodent Giant Steph
Junior 6-8
1 st Place Kirbie Daily Salesian JH Can Chickens See Color
2 nd Place Sara Pedro Rio Del Mar ES Bird’s Cafe
3 rd Place Luke Grenier Holy Cross Is Your Dog a Spy
4 th Place Sean Bruce Happy Valley ES Chicken Growth

Senior 9-12
1 st Place Saige Manier Harbor HS Jumping Galls: A Novel Mechanism for
Motility
2 nd Place Lauren Smith San Lorenzo Valley HS Bird Diodiversity in Henry Cowell
& Mikayla Peterson
Redwoods State Park
3 rd Place Robert Adams San Lorenzo Valley HS Men with a lot of Mussells: Part 2:
& James Spriggs & Zackary Wambaugh
Revenge of the Turban Snails
4 th Place Kiana Dao San Lorenzo Valley HS Amphibian Advertures
& Danielle Eames