2006 Wyoming State Science Fair Awards
March 5 - 7, 2006
Laramie, Wyoming
WSSF Preliminary Winners
2006 Wyoming State Science Fair
Junior Behavioral Sciences
1st -- Lizzy Cooney-- Pinedale Middle School -- Year Two: A Moment in Memory
2nd -- Kristin Corwin -- Pinedale Middle School -- Makin' a List, 'Memberin' it Twice
3rd -- Birney Brayton -- Sheridan Jr. High School -- You Can't Teach an Old Dog New Tricks
4th -- Kaili Whiteaker -- Noah Webster -- How Memory Develops
4th -- Daniel Barnes -- Lander Christian Academy -- Inattention Blindness
Junior Biochemistry
1st -- Cody Gardipy -- Pinedale Middle School -- How Sweet It Is
2nd -- Mindy Romey -- Slade Elementary -- Sweet Tooth
3rd -- Ethan Wolaver -- Pinedale Middle School -- Berry Good
4th -- Nick Groshart -- Holy Name -- Let's See those Pearly Whites
4th -- Annie Smidt -- Sheridan Jr. High School -- Got Gas?
Junior Botany
1st -- Emily Johnston -- Pinedale Middle School -- May the Force be With You
2nd -- Laney Johnston -- Pinedale Middle School -- May I Take Your Order: Produced or Regular?
3rd -- Daniel Wille -- Little Snake River Valley -- Is Animal Waste the Best Fertilizer?
4th -- Aspen Rawlings -- Tongue River Middle School -- Which Way to the Light?
4th -- Ty Nieters -- Cody Middle School -- Fooling Pheromone: No Room at the Inn
4th -- Megan Gregorsok -- Noah Webster -- Light and Photosynthesis
4th-- Ryan Jones -- Newcastle Middle School -- Mary, Mary Quite Contrary, How Does Your Garden Grow?
Junior Chemistry
1st -- Kassey Braun -- Pinedale Middle School -- Veggie Van
2nd -- Hannah Rigdon -- St. Mary's -- Battle of the Liquids
3rd -- Jessica Pingetzer -- Shoshoni Middle School -- Which Cleaner Repels Dust Best on Windows?
4th -- Quinn Rivera -- Cody Middle School -- Now That's Quality H20
4th -- Sara Oleson -- Wind River Middle School -- Saponification?
Junior Computer Science
1st -- Danny Menig -- Cody Middle School -- How to Extend a Wireless Network
2nd -- Pedro Rampolla -- St. Mary's -- If it's Faster, Is it Better?
3rd -- Victor Ingram -- Cody Middle School -- Randomize Your Computer
3rd -- Cora Heaps -- Sheridan Jr. High School -- The Search for Truth
4th -- Alex Brown -- Sheridan Jr. High School -- Randomly Generating Star Systems
4th -- Tony DeMillard -- Rawlins Middle School -- Super Speed
Junior Earth and Space Science
1st -- Kathleen Oolman -- Spring Creek Elementary -- Champagne Powder or Gatorade Slush
2nd -- Paden Fairbanks -- Pinedale Middle School -- Rock On
3rd -- Austin Vye -- St. Mary's -- Rockets Gone Stable
4th -- Elizabeth Pieper -- St. Anthony TriParish -- Evaporation and Sedimentation
4th -- David McCarty -- Pinedale Middle School -- Getting Dirty
Junior Engineering
1st -- Joshua Morgan -- Spring Creek Elementary -- Drifting Along
1st -- Maggie Hudlow -- Pinedale Middle School -- Oh Say Can You See
2nd -- Robert Sherard -- St. Mary's -- Freedom Fuel
3rd -- Gus Holz -- Pinedale Middle School -- Floors on Fire
4th -- Travis Scharosch -- Poison Spider -- Pinecar Paradox
4th -- Justin Strong -- Poison Spider -- The Mechanical Advantage of Pulleys
Junior Enviornmental Science
1st -- Tracey McCarty -- Pinedale Middle School -- Ground Ozone
2nd -- Torrin Daniels – Recluse -- Hay-nous Discovery 2: The Last Straw
3rd -- Sean Sylvester -- Greybull Middle School -- Biodiesel: Fuel of the Future
4th -- Taylor Hubbell -- Cody Middle School -- Discharge Water -- Friend or Foe?
4th -- Loren Palmer -- North Elementary -- Lead in Lander Soil
Junior Inventions
1st -- Clint Sutherland -- Noah Webster -- Hovercrafts and How They Fly
2nd -- Morgan Lunsford -- Jackson Hole Middle School -- Ergonomically Designed Cello Chair
3rd -- Taylor Kerns -- Tongue River Middle School -- Find Music in the Dark
4th -- Liz Shaffer -- Pinedale Middle School -- Hiker's Helper
4th -- Claire Bates -- Jackson Hole Middle School -- The Hard-Swim
4th -- Kolter Blakeman -- Sheridan Jr. High School -- Hydraulics with Water and Syringes
Junior Mathematics
1st -- Russell Goff -- Shoshoni Middle School -- Pick a Volume
2nd -- Jordanne Steege -- Pinedale Middle School -- Where in the World?
3rd -- Allie Arbaney -- Wheatland Middle School -- Statistics
4th -- Christa Munari -- Cody Middle School -- The Far Side of the Moon
4th -- Jordan Grove -- Pinedale Middle School -- High Speed
Junior Medicine and Health
1st -- Anna Harrower -- Pinedale Middle School -- Why You Doin' that Snuff?
2nd -- Emy Farrow-German -- Jackson Hole Middle School -- DNA Mutation as Evidenced by Antibiotic Resistance
3rd -- Katie Rockvam -- Cody Middle School -- Plop, Plop, Fizz, Fizz
4th -- Ali Ragan -- South Elementary -- Caffeinated Kids
4th -- David Finch -- Centennial Jr. High -- Are You Hot?
4th -- Emily Berry -- Holy Name -- Bond, Temp Bond - License to Seal
Junior Microbiology
1st -- Ashley Sour -- Pinedale Middle School -- Strippin' that Strep
2nd -- Jake Brunette -- Pinedale Middle School -- Kahuna Coconut: Year Two
3rd -- Wynton Grant -- Holy Name -- Money, Not Funny
4th -- Paolo Alberghetti -- Holy Name -- Foreign Exchange in School
4th -- Annalise Manley -- Jackson Hole Middle School -- What's on Your Skin After You Swim?
Junior Physics
1st -- Aidan McDonald -- Spring Creek Elementary -- The Winds that Change
2nd -- Marie Schow -- Cody Middle School -- Ski Wax and Friction
3rd -- Monica Bockman -- Jackson Hole Middle School -- Can a Soprano Break a Wineglass?
3rd -- Haley McKee -- St. Mary's -- Natural or Man-Made: What Make the Best Insulator
4th -- Bernadette Nelson -- Pinedale Middle School -- Boom Chica Boom
4th -- Ethan Faurot -- Tongue River Middle School -- More Bang for Your Bucks
4th -- Garrett Anderson -- Greybull Middle School -- Bounce vs. Distance
Junior Zoology
1st -- Ethan Proud -- Pinedale Middle School -- How Low Can You Go?
2nd -- Haley Farrand -- Pinedale Middle School -- The Way of the Spike
3rd -- Michelle Brown -- Sheridan Jr. High School -- "Map" It Out
3rd -- Alyssa Sheats -- Noah Webster -- Cricket Territorial Behavior
4th -- Chelse Felts -- Cody Middle School -- Hot to Trot
4th -- Palak Patel -- Newcastle Middle School -- Average Pulse of a Worm
Junior Teams
1st – Jayne Thompson and Amy David – Pinedale Middle School – When the Dust Settles: Year 2
1st – Josh Graham and Tyler Graham – Riverton Middle School – Laundering Dirty Money
3rd – Ryan Darnell, Aubrie Waldo, Matt Richards – Carey Jr. High – Does Your Broca Have a Profile?
4th – McKenzie Hellbaum and Jamie Williams – Wheatland Middle School – Boiling Point
4th – Reese Irwin and Kerreck Stinson – Cody Middle School – Ding Dong the Werewolves are Dead
4th – Katelin Malm and Bailey Ward – Albin Elementary – Mathematical Music
Senior Behavioral Science
1st -- Terry Rolfe -- Newcastle High School -- The Effects of Reading to Children on Reading Levels
2nd -- Chloe Cundall -- Greybull High School -- Childhood Creativity and Its Potential Restriction from Media Violence
3rd -- Cassandra Garcia -- Newcastle High School -- Which One Is Your Horoscope?
4th -- Alexandra Kolher -- Newcastle High School -- See no Evil, See no Evil: The Effect of Double Blind Test on Surveys
4th -- Rob Kulze -- Ten Sleep High School -- Color My World Green
Senior Biochemistry
1st -- Cindy Chambers -- Greybull High School -- An Evaluation of PI3K and SH2 Expression
2nd -- Jake Thaler -- Newcastle High School -- The Effect of Marinades' pH Level on the Tenderness of Steaks
3rd -- Elise Geier -- Newcastle High School -- Digesting Denim
Senior Botany
1st -- Juliann Terry -- Newcastle High School -- The Effects of Lantherone/Ipsdienol Pheromone Traps on the Pinus ponderosa
2nd -- Jeremiah Huber -- Greybull High School -- Plant Growth Improvements Through Ultrasonic Applications
3rd -- Lincoln Proud -- Pinedale High School --- The effect of different pH levels on neoregelias
4th -- Kylee Sewell -- Newcastle High School -- What wood, you choose.
Senior Chemistry
1st -- Jake Gerstner -- Ten Sleep High School -- How Hot Is the Wood?
2nd -- Hans Hunt -- Newcastle High School -- The Effect Variation of Temperature on the Efficiency of Alcohol Distillation
4th -- Stephanie Pape -- Pinedale High School -- An Analysis of the Heat Retention Capacity of Common Clothing Materials
Senior Computer Science
1st -- Brian Reavis – Cody High School -- Recursive Geospatial Erosion Modeling
Senior Earth and Space Science
1st -- Alex Kuhn -- Greybull High School -- Population Variations in Soil Invertebrates Induced by Coal Bed Mining Effluents
2nd -- Cody Groenewold -- Newcastle High School -- Impacts Effect on Ground Tremors
Senior Engineering
1st -- Brandon Reavis -- Cody High School -- 3D Silhouette Laser Scanning: The Digital Reconstruction of Real-World Objects
2nd -- Myriah Sylvester -- Greybull High School -- Potential of Bentonite-Based Geopolymer Composites in Engineering Appl.
3rd -- Logan Maclean -- Pinedale High School -- Diffusion of Tsunami: Wave Energy
Senior Environmental
1st -- Ashley Sylvester -- Greybull High School -- A Chemical Reduction of Automotive Carbon Dioxide Emissions
2nd -- Tyler Straley -- Pinedale High School -- Vegetable Oil vs. Diesel
3rd -- Samantha Quenzer -- Little Snake River Valley -- Bringing the Green House Effect Down to Earth
4th -- Brant Lyman -- Ten Sleep High School -- Tracking Warm Air Gyres
Senior Mathematics
1st -- Rebecca Rapf -- Sheridan High School -- Better than a Secret Decoder Ring: Digital Roots and their Applications
2nd -- Rebecca De Ho -- Greybull High School -- An Analysis of Consecutive Sum Relationships Generated by Interger Sum
Senior Medicine and Health
1st -- Shelley Gerstner -- Ten Sleep High School -- Keeping the Body in Rhythm
2nd -- Amy Feller -- Greybull High School -- Quercetin and Iron as Potential Enhancements for GDNF Production
3rd -- Kristen Wille -- Little Snake River Valley -- Right Solution to Eradicate Bacteria
4th -- Natasha QuickBear -- Newcastle High School -- The Effect of sugar in Mt. Dew on Heartrate
4th -- Kerry Carr -- St. Anthony TriParish -- The Healthy Diet for a Healthy Person
4th -- Amy Foster -- Little Snake River Valley -- Cancer Cluster Found on Family Ranch?
Senior Microbiology
1st -- Denice Aponte -- Newcastle High School -- Sugar Beats!!!
2nd -- Elizabeth Cleverdon -- Newcastle High School -- The Effect of Different Kinds of Spray-On Deoderant on Bacteria in Underarms
3rd -- Alaina Mikesell -- Little Snake River Valley -- Battle of the Bacteria
Senior Physics
1st -- Erica David -- Pinedale High School -- Boards & Branches -- Year 5: A Continued Study
2nd -- Jaymie Sheehan -- Little Snake River Valley -- A Tailgate Party
3rd -- Clay Stocklin -- Ten Sleep High School -- Much Ado about Archery
4th -- Laurel Prusak -- Arvada/Clearmont -- Speed of Sound
4th -- Zach Herold -- Little Snake River Valley -- Which Vanes?
Senior Zoology
1st -- Keegan Latta -- Pinedale High School -- Regenerative Capabilities of Stimulants
2nd -- Margaret Stubbs -- Newcastle High School -- The Effect of Different Colored Eating Bowl on How Much a Dog Eats
3rd -- Stephanie Francis -- Newcastle High School -- The Effect of the Environment on Green Tree Frogs
Senior Teams
1st – Kevin Cheatham and Andy Magstadt – Greybull High School – The Conversion of Solar Energy Utilizing Phase-Changing Materials
2nd – Kevin Williams and Chaunce Criswell – Little Snake River Valley – Biodiesel: Feasible for Cold Weather
3rd – Joseph Herold and Dennis Fulton – Little Snake River Valley – Clean Swipe
4th – Dallie VAllier and Kristy Bowers – Rock River School – Is there Iron in Your Cereal?
4th – Ryan Mikesell and Nick Munzing – Little Snake River Valley – Miracle Melter