2008 Wyoming State Science Fair Awards
March 9 - 11, 2008
Laramie, Wyoming
WSSF Preliminary Winners
2008 Wyoming State Science Fair
Behavioral and Social Sciences Junior Division
1st - Hannah Garcia, Sheridan Junior High School - Use It or Lose It
2nd - Montana Sannes, South Elementary - The Scoop on Stroop
3rd - Randie Jaquez, Pinedale Middle School - Hear No Evil
4th - Rachel Walton, Cody Middle School - Memories In Tune
4th - Antoinette Cudney, Holy Name School - Can You Remember Me Now?
4th - Ian Nelson, Jackson Hole Middle School - Slash and Burn
Behavioral and Social Sciences Senior Division
1st - Jace Munzing, Little Snake River Valley School - Perception or Deception of Camouflage
2nd - Doug Jordan, Wind River High School - Who Remembers this?
3rd - Brianna Laird, Greybull High School - The Potential for Improved Cognitive Recall Through the Use of Tactile Manipulat
Biochemistry – Junior Division
1st - Travis Sylvester, Greybull Middle School -Algae health in fertilizers and sewage
2nd - Jared Frank, Afflerbach Elementary -You are what you eat!!
3rd - Erin Egle, Pinedale Middle School - Glucose Bomb Set or Spike
4th - Nicholas Gill, Sheridan Junior High School - Sweet tart
4th -Judd Kirsch, Afflerbach Elementary - You're full of air…still
Biochemistry - Senior Division
1st - Harraz Mohdreza, Laramie Junior High School - Evaluate the Effect of Momordica charantia uice on Insulin Signaling in Culture
2nd - Marina Podio, Newcastle High School - The Effect of Orange Juice Brand on the
Amount of Vitamin C
Botany – Junior Division
1st - Caitlin Brown, Starrett Junior High School - Road SaH: Good Deicer, Bad Fertilizer2nd - Tate Chamberlain, Poison Spider School, It's a dirty job
3rd - Kailey Richner, Poison Spider School - Leaf me alone
4th - Sarah Mockensturm, Holy Name School - Digging Deep
4th - Colby Voxland, North Elementary - A Garden of Rainbow Radishes
Botany – Senior Division
1st - Juliann Terry, Newcastle High School -The Effects of Thinning Pinus ponderosa
1st - Kendra Williams, Pinedale High School - Sprouts of Sage
2nd - Asa Hutchinson, Newcastle High School - The Effect of lettuce type on Time for leaf disk to float
Chemistry – Junior Division
1st - Nicole Wadsworth, Pinedale Middle School - Hay is for Horses
2nd - Brent Bihr, Centennial Junior High School -Immersion Plating
3rd - Daniel Slipp, Holy Name School - Get the Lead Out!
4th - Daniel Huxtable, Shoshoni Junior High School - Ice Ice baby
4th - Fritz Ogden, Slade Elementary - Corroding Copper
Chemistry – Senior Division
1st - Ahna McKee, Pinedale High School - Effects of Fire on Soil Chemistry over Time
1st - Sean Sylvester, Greybull High School - Metallic Adsorption by Zeolites
Computers – Junior Division
1st - Shane Adams, Pinedale Middle School - The Less of Wireless Year 2
2nd - Maurice Shih, Spring Creek Elementary - Is the Rsa Sipher Asymmetrical?
3rd - Aaron Campbell, Sheridan Junior High School - How Fast is Your Computer?
Computers – Senior Division
1st - Ryan Jones, Newcastle High School - The Effect of Environmental Conditions on
Robotic Computer Programming
2nd - Rebecca DeHo, Greybull High School - Insertion of Text into Graphic Images through Pixel Code Variation
Earth and Space Sciences – Junior Division
1st - Tessa McCardell, Poison Spider School - Rock and Roll
2nd - Corwin Meinecke, Cody Middle School - The "DIRT" on Fossils
3rd - Tyler Hitshew, North Elementary - Erosion! Control?
4th - Shane Morson, St Mary's School -Can You Resist?
4th - Karmyn Davis, Little Snake River Valley School -Drying Up!
Earth and Space Sciences – Senior Division
1st - Curtis Johnson, Greybull High School -North American Plate Migration Analysis
2nd - Rygel Russell, Little Snake River Valley School - Percolation Rates of Oil and Water
Engineering – Junior Division
1st - Rachel Graham, Riverton Middle School - Athletic Field Lighting System
2nd - Stephen Belden, Paradise Valley Christian - Were the Wrights right?
3rd - Hattie McKay, Pinedale Middle School - Insulation, Naturally: A Continuation
4th - Bailey Lozier, Pinedale Middle School - The Longest Tard
4th - Courtney Stratton, Poison Spider School - More Energy with Wind
Engineering – Senior Division
1st - Troy Hieb, Newcastle High School - The effect of grain direction on how much mass
a boomilever will hold
2nd - Chas Ogden, Laramie High School - The Effects of Environmental Exposure on
Carbon Fiber Rods
3rd - Ryan Mikesell, Little Snake River Valley School - Structural Intergrity of Metals
4th - James Womack, Newcastle High School - The effect of wireless power on light bulbs
4th - Jordan Jolley, Greybull High School - Move It
Environmental Science – Junior Division
1st - Joslyn Thompson, Pinedale Middle School - Down Stream and Dirty
2nd - Maia Sequeira, Afflerbach Elementary - Foam Faux Pas
3rd - Megan Grassell, Pinedale Middle School - Pit-iful Air
4th - Nathan Pieper, St. Anthony's - How Clean is Wyoming Coal?
4th - Grace Henderson, Sheridan Junior High School - Popcorn Packaging
Environmental Science – Senior Division
1st - Erica David, Pinedale High School - "The Hollow Frame Snow Fence"
2nd - Cassandra Garcia, Newcastle High School - The effect of the location around the refinery on the oxygen content of the air
3rd - Brock Rose, Newcastle High School - Effect of Methane & CarBon Dioxide on the
Atmosphere
4th - Jennifer Bayne, Newcastle High School - The effect of daylight savings time on energy cost
4th - Miranda Archibald, Greybull High School - Combustion-Based Production of Potential Aeroallergens in Aromatic Candles
Inventions - Junior Division
1st - Gabe Whisonant, Cody Middle School - Static Detector
2nd - Donovon Powers, Tongue River Middle School - The Burning Brick Bracket
3rd - Sarah Maze, Tongue River Middle School - The "Hand"y Reader's Blanket
4th - Austin Peery, Tongue River Middle School - 3 on 3 BB War
4th - Jordan Sutherland, Little Snake River Valley School - Light it up
4th - Jerrica Peterson, Slade Elementary - Merry Go Round Electricity
Mathematics – Junior Division
1st - Tayln Costello, Pinedale Middle School - Buy or Rent…Show Me The Money
2nd - Sarah Shader, Spring Creek Elementary - D.O. Decrease
3rd - Dylan Bainer, Spring Creek Elementary - "Consumer Reports"
4th - Kelli Terrell, Pinedale Middle School - CO2, The Big Q
4th - Brigit Kelly, Poison Spider School - It's OK to copy
Mathematics – Senior Division
1st - Rebecca Rapf, Sheridan High School - A Rational Expression of Irrationality
2nd - Garrett Long, Greybull High School - Analysis of Third and Fourth Order Tesseracts
and the Probability of Mathematica
3rd - Bailey Terry, Newcastle High School - Triangles of Terror
4th - Cora Foster, Little Snake River Valley School - Why Does Pulmonary Arteriol Pressures Change
Medicine and Health – Junior Division
1st - Chase Walton, Cody Middle School - Destroying Your Enamal?
2nd - Cal Botten, Holy Name School - Glycemic IndexP: High and Low
3rd - Sydney Anderson Centennial Junior High School Bacteria Busters
4th - Dan Sanford, Jackson Hole Middle School - Caffeine and performance: will caffeine4th - Emily Breeden, St Mary's School - "What cleaner Do You Use"
Medicine and Health – Junior Division
1st - Katie James, Newcastle High School - The effect of Activity on the Lung Capacity of
Adolesecents
2nd - Han Li, Laramie High School - Prenatal and Postnatal Salt Use and Their Effects on the Second Generation
3rd - Elizabeth Cleverdon, Newcastle High School - The effect of Mental Stimulation on ECG
Microbiology – Junior Division
1st - Mia Grigsby, Afflerbach Elementary - Bacteria is Calling…You gonna answer?
2nd - Ryan Cook, Afflerbach Elementary - What's in your Wallet
3rd - Jenna Parduba, Cody Middle School - Free Bacteria with Every Purchase!
4th - Tori Wallace, Pinedale Middle School - Purification Celebration
4th - Sophia Warner, Cody Middle School - Got Bacteria?
Microbiology – Senior Division
1st - Chloe Cundall, Greybull High School - Bioremediation of Arsenic Contaminated Water
2nd - Nikki Highfill, Newcastle High School - The effect of ultraviolet rays on yeast cells
Physics – Junior Division
1st - Haley McKee, St Mary's School - To Plunge or Not To Plunge?
2nd - Sam Sanders, Sheridan Junior High School - Repulsive Magnets
3rd - Paige Jordan, Shoshoni Junior High School - Cheating in Baseball
4th - Ethan Smith, Cody Middle School - Stopping That Bullet
4th - Daniel Wille, Little Snake River Valley School - Ballistic Analysis of Penetration
Physics – Junior Division
1st - Skye Weaver, Newcastle High School - Deer in the Headlights
2nd - Devin Dickey, Newcastle High School - The effect of the Type of Light Bulb on How
Much Heat They Produce
3rd - Kaylla Russell, Newcastle High School - The effect of various shake forces of different sixed bells on the frequency of
Zoology – Junior Division
1st - Nate Kane, Holy Name School - Cows Under Pressure
2nd - Owen Bensel, Tongue River Middle School - The Tiny Survivor
3rd - Jessica Pingetzer, Shoshoni Junior High School - Cattle Temperaments
4th - Lindsay Rockram, Cody Middle School - 100 Paws
4th - Chase Anderson, Pinedale Middle School - Determination Incubation
Zoology – Senior Division
1st - Arian Howe, Greybull High School - An Assessment of beetle behavior in response to extracts from Artemisia tridenta
1st - Lex Leonhardt, Wind River High School - Does Age Affect Taste?
Teams Junior Division
1st - Noel Schatz & Kayla Starr, Afflerbach Elementary - The Golden Face
2nd - Erin Trotta & Christina Silvey, Pinedale Middle School - Tree Terrorizers
3rd - Haley Crawford & Allison Hinze, Cody Middle School - All Shook Up
3rd - Kayla Grove & Brooke Hocker, Pinedale Middle School - Daphnia In Control
4th - Aunders Hallsten & John Cooney, Pinedale Middle School - Who Let the Gas Out! Year Two
Teams – Senior Division
1st - Brandon Reavis & Brian Reavis, Cody High School - INWO: Evolutionary Hierarchical Textual Information Mapping
2nd - Leah Hoblit & Talysa Stockert, Greybull High School - Reduction of Radiation Exposure
3rd - Christopher Hall & Christopher Hederman, Greybull High School - An Assessment of Monochloramine and Chlorine Exposure
4th - Orin Hutchinson & Terry Rolfe, Newcastle High School - The Effect of Ripeness on the Sonic Properties of Fruit
4th - Zach Herold & Kal Ready, Little Snake River Valley School - Sharper than scalpels Tougher than Bone