1. Congratulations HISEF Winners February 11, 2012

2. HONORABLE MENTION Elementary School Entries

3. 5 th Grade Navarrete Elementary Nick Howell, Dylan Fernandez Vitamin C Reality 6 th Grade Arizona College Prep Zoe Stanley, Alegra Aguayo Intriguing Insulation

4. HONORABLE MENTION Jr. High Entries

5. 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

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

7. 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

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

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

10. 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

11. 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

12. HONORABLE MENTION High School Entries

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

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

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

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

17. 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

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

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

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

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

22. 3 rd PLACE Elementary School Entries

23. 5 th Grade CTA Independence Blaise Dalton, Allie Nason, Patrick Casola Fascinating Friction 6 th Grade Santan Elementary Jacqueline Dworaczy, Ashley Jones Power to the Circuits

24. 3 rd PLACE Jr. High Entries

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

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

27. 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

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

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

30. MEDICINE & HEALTH 8 th Grade Bogle Junior High Neil Popp Slip Slop Slap 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

31. 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

32. 3 rd PLACE High School Entries

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

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

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

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

37. 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

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

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

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

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

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

43. 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

44. 2 nd PLACE Elementary School Entries

45. 5 th Grade Jacobson Elementary Emma Pudoka, Morgan Swanson Buckle Up 6 th Grade CTA Independence Michael Leung, Nick Nold, Cole Steed Hydrogen Generation

46. 2 nd PLACE Jr. High Entries

47. 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

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

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

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

51. 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

52. 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

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

54. 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

55. 2 nd PLACE High School Entries

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

64. 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

65. 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

66. 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

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

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

69. 1 st PLACE Elementary School Entries

70. 5 th Grade Navarrete Elementary Casey Sullivan Hot Colors 6 th Grade Navarrete Elementary Jin Ni, Aryn Moran Scrumptious Sweet Potatoes

71. 1 st PLACE Jr. High Entries

72. 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

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

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

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

76. 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!

77. 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

78. 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?

79. 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

80. 1 st PLACE High School Entries

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

95. WATER WISE ELEMENTARY AWARDS 5 th Grade: CTA Independence Shelby Cohrs, Rachel Schermann – Examination Of Evaporation 6 th Grade: Haley Elementary Kaila Majoek, Natalie Gill – Make It Pure

96. WATER WISE JUNIOR HIGH AWARDS 7 th Grade: Payne Junior High Ashley Marino, Liam Thibeault – Agricultural Aid

97. WATER WISE HIGH SCHOOL AWARD Ahnaf Masroor (HHS/Roach) Potentially Conservative

98. INTEL INNOVATOR ELEMENTARY AWARDS 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

99. INTEL INNOVATOR JUNIOR HIGH AWARDS 7 th Grade: Willis Junior High Jacob Labenz – Lean, Mean, Greenhouse Machine 8 th Grade: Hamilton Prep Audrey West – Mother Nature = Pitch Witch

100. INTEL INNOVATOR HIGH SCHOOL AWARD Joelle Cayer, Kelsey O‘Brien (PHS/Bell) Green Machine

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