WSSF Preliminary Winners
2004 Wyoming State Science Fair
Junior Behavioral Sciences
1st - Chelsey Hanson - Pinedale Middle School - -I Want My Mummy
2nd - Kayla Foster - St. Mary-s School - -Let-s Make a Deal
3rd - Angela Hopkin - Greybull Middle School - -Under the Weather
4th - Jason Wolf - Cody Middle School - -Wanted -- Dead or Alive: Short Term Memory
4th - Virginia Schmidt - Cody Middle School - -You Snooze, You . . . Win
Junior Biochemistry
1st - Widya Adidharma - Thayer Elementary - -Spider Glue: Our Future Glue
2nd - Jeffrey Taylor - Holy Name - -Terminator 4: Rise of the pH
3rd - Kelsi Dean - Pinedale Middle School - -Vitamin Breakdown
4th - Alex Housel - Cody Middle School - -Not the Least is Yeast
4th - Bailey Terry - Newcastle Middle School - -Blood Stains be Gone
Junior Botany
1st - Juliann Terry - Newcastle Middle School - -Through Thick and Thin
2nd - Derek Campbell - Slade Elementary - -Magnets Help
3rd - Alli Balkenbush - Holy Name - -Rain of Death
4th - Luke Johnston - Pinedale Middle School - -Roots -n Shoots
4th - Taylor Irwin - Pinedale Middle School - -Faster Pasture
Junior Chemistry
1st - Colter Bostick - Cody Middle School - -Chemical Burn-
2nd - Cody Booth - Pinedale Middle School - -How Much Wood Could a Woodchuck Burn
3rd - Jake Dunn - Cody Middle School - -What Metal is Most Active
4th - Robert Sherard, Jr. - St. Mary-s School - -Is a Weapon of Mass Destruction in your Hands
4th - John Creel - St. Anthony-s - -Baghdad Battery
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Junior Computer Science
1st - Kyle Harthausen - Afflerbach Elementary - -To Font or Not to Font- That is the Question
2nd - Jennifer Rogers - Sheridan Junior High - -Zonk!
3rd - Caitlin Baxley - Pinedale Middle School - -Wireless Woes
4th - Daniel DeMillard - Rawlins Middle School - -The Virtual Mind
Junior Earth and Space Science
1st - Brian Reavis - Cody Middle School - -Our Sun Spinning
2nd - Laura Faulkner - McCormick Junior High - -Brake the Ice
3rd - Meredith Noble - Pinedale Middle School - -Don-t Bust the Crust
4th - Joseph Herold - Little Snake River Valley - -Soaking Sparkler
4th - Colten Allen - Greybull Middle School - -Streambed Erosion
Junior Engineering
1st - Lucas Carr - Tongue River Middle School - -Gone with the Wind
2nd - Garrett Bockman - Jackson Hole Middle School - -The Vibration of a Spring-Mass System
3rd - Devin Serlin - Cody Middle School - -Impact of the Shape of the Trailing Edge on Drag
3rd - Amy Puckett - Thayer Elementary - -Caulk Talk
4th - Ted Scott - Greybull Middle School - -Ballistic Fingerprinting
4th - Sara Haines - Poison Spider - -Does Collecting Passive Solar Energy Save You Money
Junior Environmental Science
1st - Michala Hardesty - Carey Junior High - -Cumulative Toxic Effects of Road Salt on Ceriodaphnia Dubia
1st - David Hohl - Pinedale Middle School - -Eutrophication Putrophication
3rd - Evan Panter - Thayer Elementary - -Entomology Mania
4th - Jeremy Jager - Central Middle School - -Coalbed Methane Water
4th - Douglas Schrepferman - Cody Middle School - -Outdoor Soil
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Junior Inventions
1st - Robert Lundy - Jackson Hole Middle School - -Building a Tri-Axle Lawn Tractor
2nd - Cody Blum - Jackson Hole Middle School - -Composition
3rd - Ivy Latham - Clearmont - -Will Wool Work
4th - Shawn Tarver - Tongue River Middle School - -Water Clocks
4th - Eric Brandt - Cody Middle School - -Fishfinder of Doom
Junior Mathematics
1st - Rebecca Rapf - Sheridan Junior High - -Go Hang a Salami; I-m a Lasagna Hog
2nd - Jayme Fraser - Cody Middle School - -Star Math
3rd - Chelsea Crooks - Cody Middle School - -Massing the Earth
4th - Sean Harrison - Cody Middle School - -Rich off the Ditch
4th - Camille Zent - Shoshoni Middle School - -How Secure is Your Password
Junior Medicine and Health Sciences
1st - Jessie Olson - Shoshoni Middle School - -Think Fast
2nd - Patrick LaBreck - Central Middle School - -Cloud Peak Altitude Adjustment
3rd - Ahna McKee - Pinedale Middle School - -Factors of Menarche
4th - David Pesek - St. Mary-s School - -Milk . . . It Does a Body Good
4th - LeeAnn Grapes - St. Anthony-s - -The Body-s Pump Goes Thu-dump
Junior Microbiology
1st - Christopher Hall - Greybull Middle School - -Shop Til You Drop . . . Dead!
2nd - Lyndsay Boulette - North Elementary - -Plant Power
3rd - Rachel Calar - Centennial
4th - Taylor Gardner - Holy Name - -Restroom -Infest-room
4th - Patrick Duncan - Central Middle School - -Bacterial Growth in your Food
4th - Megan MacNaughton - Lander Christian Academy - -Perennial Perservative
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Junior Physics
1st - Nathan Benzel - Tongue River Middle School - -The Lift of Wings
2nd - Russell Goff - Shoshoni Middle School - -Let the Flames Begin
3rd - Erica David - Pinedale Middle School - -As the Snow Goes! A multi-variable study on the factors that affect snow loss
4th - David Berry - Holy Name - -Can You Take the Pressure
4th - Cassie Gingrich - Poison Spider - -What Puts the Chill in Chillin
Junior Zoology
1st - Jessica Harrelson - Holy Name - -Breathe Easy
2nd - Amy David - Pinedale Middle School - -Squirm on Worms
2nd - Brandon Forister - Central Middle School - -Minnow Madness!
3rd - Conor Jones - Wheatland Middle School - -Goose Bumps
4th - Max Burns - Pinedale Middle School - -Butter-Light
Junior Teams
1st - May Rose Huntley, Valerie Stevens - Pinedale Middle School - -Foul Towel
2nd - Eva Harrower, Megan Baker - Pinedale Middle School - -It-s the Pits
3rd - Marina Podio, Paige Mitich - Newcastle Middle School - -To Worm or Not to Worm
4th - Steven Mondragon, Jose Vasquez - St. Mary-s School - -Skull Armor
4th - Cori Siekert, Bethany Malm - Albin Elementary - -Crystals: Growing and Comparing
Senior Behavioral Sciences
2nd - Allison Wagg - Laramie High School - -Can the Mind be Manipulated
4th - Megan Stocklin - Tensleep High School - -Do Elementary Aged Kids Do Better with Written, Typed or Oral Directions
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Senior Biochemistry
1st - Ana Cordova - Central High School - -Does this Smell Funny to You
2nd - Michael Coyne - Greybull High School - -A Second Year Analysis of Trout Hybridization: Electrophoretic Evaluation of Protein Variation
Senior Botany
1st - Scharen Collingwood - Greybull High School - -Analysis of Cash Crop Susceptibility to Potential Herbicial Action of Allelochemical
2nd - Ashley Bredin - Three Peaks Christian School - -Effects of Coalbed Methane Discharge Water on a A. desertorum Germination
3rd - Chris Kalan - Kemmerer High School - -Water Less, Save More
4th - Jesse Zhang - Laramie High School - -Effects of Lights on Plant Growth
4th - Jennifer Ramsey - Pinedale High School - -What are the Affects of Radiation on Plant Life
Senior Chemistry
1st - Jordan Hunter - Greybull High School - -Evaluating the Efficiency of Ion Exchange in the Filtration of Coalbed Methane Water
2nd - Scott Cheeney - Pinedale High School - -The Effect of Flame Exposure on Various Wood Treatment
Senior Computer Science
1st - Dietrich Wambach - Guernsey-Sunrise High School - -How Big is the Bang-
2nd - Mike Kamber - Laramie High School - --Shh, it-s Thinking- A Comparison of Artificial Intelligence Training Methods-
Senior Earth and Space Science
1st - Casey Lipp - Greybull High School - -Suggested Transport Mechanisms of Large Erratics of the Big Horn Mountains
2nd - Ryan Tucker - Sheridan High School - -Variation and Adaptations of Camarasaurus in Wyoming
3rd - Joel Stretesky - St. Anthony-s - -Shake, Rattle, and Roll
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Senior Engineering
1st - Dustin Wambach - Guernsey - Sunrise High School - -Need a Hand
2nd - Alex Jording - Newcastle High School - -The Strongest Glue for Balsawood
3rd - Brian Selmer - Laramie High School - -Practical Uses of Magnetorhelogical Fluids
4th - Myriah Sylvester - Greybull High School - -Construction and Evaluation of an In-Stream Coliform Reduction System
Senior Environmental Science
1st - Megan Kuper - Greybull High School - -Evaluation of Pesticide and Fertilizer Accumulation in Sediment in Big Horn
2nd - Rebecca Podio - Newcastle High School - -As Crude as it may Seam
3rd - Skye Joynes - Pinedale High School - -The Effects of Various Petroleum Products on Aquatic Vegetation
4th - Lacy Sewell - Newcastle High School - -Burning Down the Myth
4th - Jessica Garvin - Little Snake River Valley - -What-s in Your Water
Senior Mathematics
1st - Chris Harwood - Greybull High School - -An Alternative Knight-s Move Therom Projected in Three Dimensions
2nd - Matt Haigler - Laramie High School - -Explaining a Phenomenon: The Dynamics of Falling Rings
Senior Medicine and Health Sciences
1st - Paul Ziegenfelder - Pinedale High School - -A Comparative Study of Physical Dimensions of the Armand Throwing Distance Capacity
2nd - Ashley Sylvester - Greybull High School -A Chemical Analysis of Railroad Contaminant Potential
3rd - Sarah LaVoie - Pinedale High School - -A gender-based comparative of Facial Dimensions between Children and their Parents
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Senior Microbiology
1st - Leah Tenney - Sheridan Junior High - -E. Coli Contamination of Five Mile Creek as it runs through Ranchester, WY
2nd - Emily Johnson - Greybull High School - -Determining the Potential for Nicotine as Bacterial Disinfectant
3rd - Forrest Michnevich - Pinedale High School - -The Effect of Jerky Making Process: Type & Initiation Rate of Microbial Growth
Senior Physics
1st - Casey Dean - Pinedale High School - -The Effect of Material Type on the Drag Force in Various Swimsuit Materials
2nd - Daniel Buffer - St. Anthony-s - -Automobile Aerodynamics
3rd - Jarrod Fairbanks - Pinedale High School
4th - Ben Parkhust - Laramie High School - -The Real Ultimate Recording Studio
4th - Jack Robbins - Laramie High School - -Maximizing the Kinetic Energy of Arrows for a Certain Distance
Senior Zoology
1st - Afton Evans - Greybull High School - -The Effects of Pepper Extracts on Drosophilia melanogaster
2nd - Tyrell Perry - Arvada - Clearmont High School - -A Parallel Prediction
Senior Teams
1st - Cindy Chambers, Shalyn Smith - Greybull High School - -Evaluation of Antioxidant Reduction of Iron-Assoc. Alpha Synuclein Aggregation
2nd - Kristen Wille, Shyla Allen - Little Snake River Valley - -Controlling More than the Road
3rd - Ryan Abell, Ian Weaklim - Laramie High School - -Comparison of Cluster Platforms in a Real World Environment
4th - Shana Wolff, Stephanie Carter - McCormick Junior High - -An Excavation and Analysis of Fossils from the Miocene Epoch
4th - Nick Munzing, William Paul Harpole - Little Snake River Valley - -Oil Toil Part 2