2009 Louisville Regional Science Fairs

March 14, 2009

The 1st and 2nd place overall Senior Division winners in Life Sciences, Physical Sciences, and Team Projects will represent the Louisville region at these two events:

1. 2009 Kentucky Science and Engineering Fair (KY-SEF), April 3-4 at Eastern Kentucky University, Richmond, KY.

2. 2009 Intel International Science and Engineering Fair (IISEF), May 10-16 in Reno, NV.

If any of the 1st or 2nd place projects below also receives a 1st or 2nd place award in the KY-SEF, this will earn them the right to represent Kentucky in the IISEF. In that case, the appropriate 3rd place project below will represent the Louisville region at the IISEF.

For more information on this point, please contact LRSF Fair Director Joel Gittelson at 502-454-4457 or joelgittelson@bellsouth.net.

1st Place Senior Division Life Sciences

Christine Hoyle 10^th Grade Ballard High School

Screening For Novel Drugs to Prevent Lung Inflammation

2nd Place Senior Division Life Sciences

Amy Bischoff 10^th Grade Ballard High School

Effect of Sugar Compared to Artificial Sweetener on Bacterial Growth in Food

3rd Place Senior Division Life Sciences

Akash Gupta 12^th Grade St. Xavier High School

Can Video Games Improve Attention in Children with ADHD?

1st Place Senior Division Physical Sciences

John Bolander 12^th Grade St. Xavier High School

Applying Knife Edge Detection to Turbulence Detection

2nd Place Senior Division Physical Sciences

Christine Gilbert-Crawford 9^th Grade Ballard High School

Tennis Technology

3rd Place Senior Division Physical Sciences

Brittany Hill 9^th Grade Ballard High School

Does Weather Affect Tuning/Pitch on a Tenor Saxophone?

1st Place Senior Division Team Project

Allison Dixon 11^th Grade Ballard High School

Ashley Fields 11^th Grade Ballard High School

Better Than Expected: an environmental study of the Biology Pond

2nd Place Senior Division Team Project

Hannah Maddox 9^th Grade Ballard High School

Megan Seldon 9^th Grade Ballard High School

Red Eye: Exposed!

Overall Winners – Junior Division

The 1st and 2nd place overall Junior Division winners in Life Sciences, Physical Sciences, and Team Projects will represent the Louisville region at the 2009 Kentucky Science and Engineering Fair (KY-SEF), April 3-4 at Eastern Kentucky University, Richmond, KY.

1st Place Junior Division Life Sciences

Vivek Raj 8^th Grade Meyzeek Middle School

Sequence Alignment of SHOX gene using Java: How do humans correlate with other animals?

2nd Place Junior Division Life Sciences

Noah Hughes 6^th Grade Meyzeek Middle School

Do Distractions Affect Brain Proficiency?

3rd Place Junior Division Life Sciences

Sam Reisert 8^th Grade St. Francis of Assisi School

Camellia Sinensis

1st Place Junior Division Physical Sciences

Erik Rosenstrom 6^th Grade Barret Traditional Middle School

Blown Away By Wind Power

2nd Place Junior Division Physical Sciences

Teddy Kamer 6^th Grade St. Francis of Assisi School

Light Wavelengths' Influence on Performance of Photovoltaic Cells

3rd Place Junior Division Physical Sciences

Mahati Vavilala 6^th Grade Meyzeek Middle School

Galvanic Corrosion of Metals

1st Place Junior Division Team Project

Serena Lian 8^th Grade Meyzeek Middle School

Robin Zhao 8^th Grade Meyzeek Middle School

Measuring the Volume of Water-Soluble Substances

2nd Place Junior Division Team Project

Crystal Beard 6^th Grade Spencer County Middle School

Zoe Brooks-Jeffiers 6^th Grade Spencer County Middle School

Go Solar and Save

3rd Place Junior Division Team Project

Ana Cervera 8^th Grade Barret Traditional Middle School

Holly Gravenkemper 8^th Grade Barret Traditional Middle School

Anolly's Ovens: Efficiency of Solar Powered Ovens

2009 Category Winners – Senior Division

Life Sciences

Animal Sciences Senior 1^st

Rachel Cox 9^th Grade Ballard High School

Discovering Your Inner Cat

Animal Sciences Senior 2^nd

Maryam Munis 9^th Grade Ballard High School

The Effect of Caffeine on the Survival Rate of Daphnia

Behavioral & Social Sciences Senior 1^st

Akash Gupta 12^th Grade St. Xavier High School

Can Video Games Improve Attention in Children with ADHD?

Behavioral & Social Sciences Senior 2^nd

Jacquelyn C. Brown 9^th Grade Ballard High School

SYNESTHESIA

Behavioral & Social Sciences Senior 3^rd

Amanda Deatherage 9^th Grade Ballard High School

What Conflicting Mental Tasks Reveal About Thinking: The Stroop Effect

Biochemistry Senior 1^st

Christine Hoyle 10^th Grade Ballard High School

Screening For Novel Drugs to Prevent Lung Inflammation

Biochemistry Senior 2^nd

Uzma Pasha 12^th Grade Ballard High School

Quantification of Human Tear Lipid by Infrared Spectroscopy

Cellular & Molecular Biology Senior 1^st

Jon Hoying 10^th Grade Ballard High School

The Effect of pH Levels on Endothelial Cell Proliferation

Cellular & Molecular Biology Senior 2^nd

Kelly Del Grosso 10^th Grade Ballard High School

The effects of Phytoestrogen on the Rat Uterus

Cellular & Molecular Biology Senior 3^rd

Burhanuddin Johar 11^th Grade Ballard High School

Fluorescent Immunohistochemistry On Mice Lacking Neurotrophin 4/5

Environmental Management Senior 1^st

Judith Goodman 10^th Grade Ballard High School

Fertilizer: A Study of the Effects of Different Animals' Manure on Plants

Environmental Management Senior 2^nd

Gabriel Treves 9^th Grade Ballard High School

How Grass Affects Erosion

Environmental Management Senior 3^rd

MacKenzie Chancellor 10^th Grade Ballard High School

How 3 de-icers affect the growth of KY native plants

Environmental Sciences Senior 1^st

Phoenix Skye 10^th Grade Ballard High School

Plant pH to Groundwater: What is the Effect?

Environmental Sciences Senior 2^nd

Fuhua Song 9^th Grade Ballard High School

Effect of acid rain with plant different pH on green bean

Environmental Sciences Senior 3^rd

Jordon Underwood 9^th Grade Ballard High School

pH of Rain Water

Medicine & Health Sciences Senior 1^st

Alex Passamonte 9^th Grade Ballard High School

How Age Affects a Person's Hearing Ability

Medicine & Health Sciences Senior 2^nd

Sarah Haddy 10^th Grade Ballard High School

The Identification of Genes Over-Expressed in Numerous Cancer Tissues --- A Contribution to the Can

Medicine & Health Sciences Senior 3^rd

Cody Waltrip 9^th Grade Ballard High School

Exercise Effects On Carbon Dioxide Output

Microbiology Senior 1^st

Amy Bischoff 10^th Grade Ballard High School

Effect of Sugar Compared to Artificial Sweetener on Bacterial Growth in Food

Microbiology Senior 2^nd

Samantha Conder 9^th Grade Ballard High School

Check the shoes!!! Not all deadly infections come from dirty hands.

Microbiology Senior 3^rd

Samantha Kimura 10^th Grade Ballard High School

When Life Hands You Lemons

Plant Sciences Senior 1^st

Robert Gardner 10^th Grade Ballard High School

Hydroponics

Plant Sciences Senior 2^nd

Kevin Brand 9^th Grade Ballard High School

How Magnetism Affects Plant Growth

Plant Sciences Senior 3^rd

Jordan Lucas 11^th Grade Christian Academy of Louisville

The Effects of Magnetization on Plant Germination and Plant Growth

2009 Category Winners – Senior Division

Physical Sciences

Chemistry Senior 1^st

Mitchell Purvis 11^th Grade Christian Academy of Louisville

Do nanoparticles migrate through Skin

Chemistry Senior 2^nd

Dane Mendelsohn 9^th Grade Ballard High School

The Best Way to Reduce Tears When Cutting an Onion.

Chemistry Senior 3^rd

Alexis Asamoah 10^th Grade Ballard High School

The effectiveness of DEET in sunscreen

Computer Science Senior 1^st

Harry Ghooray 11^th Grade Ballard High School

Taking it to the edge

Computer Science Senior 2^nd

Aaron Benz 12^th Grade St. Xavier High School

Duplicated Movement of a Mouse Cursor on a Tablet PC by Wirelessly Transmitting JAVA Program

Earth & Planetary Science Senior 1^st

Sanjana Thota 10^th Grade Ballard High School

Coronal Mass Ejections

Engineering: Electrical & Mechanical Senior 1^st

Megan Mercer 10^th Grade Ballard High School

Photocurrent as a Function of Electrode Proximity for a Photoelectrochemical Cell

Engineering: Electrical & Mechanical Senior 2^nd

John Bolander 12^th Grade St. Xavier High School

Applying Knife Edge Detection to Turbulence Detection

Engineering: Materials & Bioengineering Senior 1^st

Christine Gilbert-Crawford 9^th Grade Ballard High School

Tennis Technology

Engineering: Materials & Bioengineering Senior 2^nd

Caroline Downer 10^th Grade Ballard High School

Plaque Attack

Engineering: Materials & Bioengineering Senior 3^rd

Brad Proffitt 9^th Grade Ballard High School

Does CO2 Remove Dents in Metal

Energy & Transportation Senior 1^st

Jacob Jury 9^th Grade Ballard High School

Battery Cost Effectiveness

Energy & Transportation Senior 2^nd

Junaid Akbar 9^th Grade Ballard High School

How can the power from fruits and vegetables be useful?

Energy & Transportation Senior 3^rd

Ellen Schneidau 9^th Grade Ballard High School

Driving Less Money Away

Mathematical Sciences Senior 1^st

Allison Hebert 11^th Grade Ballard High School

Is He or Isn't He?

Mathematical Sciences Senior 2^nd

Elizabeth Crush 10^th Grade Ballard High School

Gene Frequencies

Mathematical Sciences Senior 3^rd

Jackie Asbury 10^th Grade Ballard High School

Holiday Spirit And Narcotic Arrests

Physics & Astronomy Senior 1^st

Connor Murphy 9^th Grade Ballard High School

Kick It The Distance

Physics & Astronomy Senior 2^nd

Brittany Hill 9^th Grade Ballard High School

Does Weather Affect Tuning/Pitch on a Tenor Saxophone?

Physics & Astronomy Senior 3^rd

Samantha Jury 9^th Grade Ballard High School

Testing the Qualities in Lip Glosses

2009 Category Winners – Junior Division

Life Sciences

Animal Sciences Junior 1^st

Anna Lawson 8^th Grade St. Francis of Assisi School

Interplay Between Real World Environmental Conditions Affects Butterfly Development

Animal Sciences Junior 2^nd

Carly Lyle 6^th Grade Meyzeek Middle School

Does temperature affect the life cycle movement of a painted lady butterfly (Vanessa Cardui)?

Animal Sciences Junior 3^rd

Carter Risley 6^th Grade Meyzeek Middle School

Does Brain Lateralization Occur in Anolis Sagrei Ordinatus (Bahaman Anole)?

Behavioral & Social Sciences Junior 1^st

Noah Hughes 6^th Grade Meyzeek Middle School

Do Distractions Affect Brain Proficiency?

Behavioral & Social Sciences Junior 2^nd

Amanda Ricketts 8^th Grade St. Francis of Assisi School

The Effect of Age and Gender on Bias and Prejudice

Behavioral & Social Sciences Junior 3^rd

Meg Olash 8^th Grade St. Francis of Assisi School

A Nurturing Environment's Effect on the Behavioral Impact of Abuse

Biochemistry Junior 1^st

Vivek Raj 8^th Grade Meyzeek Middle School

Sequence Alignment of SHOX gene using Java: How do humans correlate with other

animals?

Biochemistry Junior 2^nd

Yuyao Ding 8^th Grade Noe Middle School

Mushroom's Effect on T-cell Response

Biochemistry Junior 3^rd

Tasneem Karim 7^th Grade Newburg Middle School

Effect of Salivary Amylase at Different Age, Temperature and pH

Cellular & Molecular Biology Junior 1^st

Sam Reisert 8^th Grade St. Francis of Assisi School

Camellia Sinensis

Cellular & Molecular Biology Junior 2^nd

Caleb Bridgwater 6^th Grade Meyzeek Middle School

Can Maclura Pomifera Effectively Kill or Inhibit the Growth of Breast Cancer?

Cellular & Molecular Biology Junior 3^rd

Elsa Clenny 7^th Grade St. Francis of Assisi School

The Effect of Air Fresheners on Lung Cancer Cells

Environmental Management Junior 1^st

Cooper Whaley 7^th Grade St. Francis of Assisi School

The Potential Effects of Algae on Water Quality

Environmental Management Junior 2^nd

Madison Martin 6^th Grade St. Francis of Assisi School

Vermicompost Supplementation

Environmental Management Junior 3^rd

Jingjing Xiao 7^th Grade Meyzeek Middle School

Money Flowing Down Your Drains

Environmental Sciences Junior 1^st

Aimee Turner 8^th Grade Meyzeek Middle School

Bioaccumulation of Explosives in Coral in Culebra, Puerto Rico

Environmental Sciences Junior 2^nd

Nathan Hedges 7^th Grade St. Francis of Assisi School

Fuel source and gravity affects combustion, particle density and distribution

Environmental Sciences Junior 3^rd

Tate McGarvey 6^th Grade St. Francis of Assisi School

Biosolids Affect Soil Erosion and Water Quality

Medicine & Health Sciences Junior 1^st

Catherine O'Connor 7^th Grade St. Francis of Assisi School

Investigating the Role of Al12 Cl12 OH24 and Metals in Cancer

Medicine & Health Sciences Junior 2^nd

Patrick Moore 7^th Grade St. Francis of Assisi School

Asthma Medications and Lung Cancer

Medicine & Health Sciences Junior 3^rd

Ronald McKinnley Jackson 6^th Grade Barret Traditional Middle School

Is Coca-Cola Harmful

Microbiology Junior 1^st

Kaitlin LaBarbera 8^th Grade St. Francis of Assisi School

Natural Anti-Microbials Essential Oils, Spices, Herbs

Microbiology Junior 2^nd

Samantha Grace-Mudd 7^th Grade St. Francis of Assisi School

Living in Plants Affects the Biology of E.coli

Microbiology Junior 3^rd

Shilpa Subramanian 7^th Grade Meyzeek Middle School

Is your toothbrush clean?

Plant Sciences Junior 1^st

Ben Logsdon 6^th Grade St. Francis of Assisi School

The Effect of Pyrethrin Based Pesticides on Growth and Health of Plants

Plant Sciences Junior 2^nd

Brandy Edwards 7^th Grade Newburg Middle School

Truth In Advertising

Plant Sciences Junior 3^rd

Kristopher Thieneman 8^th Grade St. Francis of Assisi School

Plant Allelopathic Effects for Weed Control

2009 Category Winners – Junior Division

Physical Sciences

Chemistry Junior 1^st

Joanna Tarullo 8^th Grade St. Francis of Assisi School

Does the Additive of Antioxidants Effect Biodiesel?

Chemistry Junior 2^nd

Michelina Grosso 8^th Grade St. Francis of Assisi School

Does pH Have an Affect on the Decomposition Rate of Ascorbic Acid?

Chemistry Junior 3^rd

Alice Liu 6^th Grade Meyzeek Middle School

Which Contains More Vitamin C, Freshly Squeezed or Store-Bought Orange Juice?

Computer Science Junior 1^st

Sammy Moorin 7^th Grade Meyzeek Middle School

Written Identity

Computer Science Junior 2^nd

Michael Dixon 8^th Grade Barret Traditional Middle School

Disk Rehabilitation

Computer Science Junior 3^rd

Mitali Chitre 8^th Grade Meyzeek Middle School

Keyboard Training for Visually Impaired

Earth & Planetary Science Junior 1^st

Phillip An 7^th Grade Meyzeek Middle School

Tracking Geomagnetic Storms

Earth & Planetary Science Junior 2^nd

Will Ostertag 7^th Grade St. Francis of Assisi School

Particulate Inclusions and CO2 Affect Glacial Melt Rates

Earth & Planetary Science Junior 3^rd

Caroline Krill 6^th Grade St. Francis of Assisi School

The Effect of Water on a Microclimates Temperature

Engineering: Electrical & Mechanical Junior 1^st

Erik Rosenstrom 6^th Grade Barret Traditional Middle School

Blown Away By Wind Power

Engineering: Electrical & Mechanical Junior 2^nd

Amy Teta 7^th Grade St. Patrick Catholic School

Smoke Detection Technology

Engineering: Electrical & Mechanical Junior 3^rd

Martin Smith 8^th Grade Holy Family School

Swinging Momentum

Engineering: Materials & Bioengineering Junior 1^st

Mahati Vavilala 6^th Grade Meyzeek Middle School

Galvanic Corrosion of Metals

Engineering: Materials & Bioengineering Junior 2^nd

Joshua Borden 8^th Grade St. Francis of Assisi School

Compaction Methods and Soil Composition Affect Pipe Creation in Levees

Engineering: Materials & Bioengineering Junior 3^rd

Sara Assef 8^th Grade Meyzeek Middle School

What brick laying pattern withstands the magnitudes of an earthquake the best?

Energy & Transportation Junior 1^st

Allison Artman 8^th Grade North Oldham Middle School

Hydrogen Generator

Energy & Transportation Junior 2^nd

Sarah Asseff 7^th Grade Newburg Middle School

The Effects of a Solar Water Heater in Cold Weather Conditions

Energy & Transportation Junior 3^rd

Neela Saha 6^th Grade Meyzeek Middle School

Speed Pattern Studies on a Newly Upgraded Road

Mathematical Sciences Junior 1^st

Breck Stodghill 7^th Grade Meyzeek Middle School

What Factors Affect A Players Batting Average?

Mathematical Sciences Junior 2^nd

George Anderson 6^th Grade Meyzeek Middle School

Rating Percentage Index (RPI) or Seeds

Mathematical Sciences Junior 3^rd

Cameron Reid 8^th Grade St. Francis of Assisi School

Are Sunspot Numbers Correlated to Ohio River Valley Rainfall?

Physics & Astronomy Junior 1^st

Teddy Kamer 6^th Grade St. Francis of Assisi School

Light Wavelengths' Influence on Performance of Photovoltaic Cells

Physics & Astronomy Junior 2^nd

Darin Ellis 7^th Grade Farnsley Middle School

Heat Block

Physics & Astronomy Junior 3^rd

Jackson Payton 6^th Grade Meyzeek Middle School

Which Bat Is The Best- - Wood, Aluminum or Composite

2009 School Winners

Senior Division

1st Place Ballard High School

2nd Place St. Xavier High School

3rd Place Christian Academy of Louisville

Junior Division

1st Place St. Francis of Assisi School

2nd Place Meyzeek Middle School

3rd Place Barret Traditional Middle School