STEM FAIR WINNERS

Third grade

First place: Laura Yong’s “Are Dice Fair?”

Second place: Allie Titus’ “The Bacteria Experiment”

Third place: Liza Bruton Taylor’s “Vinegar Reaction”

Fourth grade

First place: Ellie Carril’s “Taklog Risks”

Second place: Emma Sandoval’s “Which Seeds to Birds Prefer?” Third place: Dylan Garcia’s “The Importance of Water in Plants”

Fifth grade

First place: William Romero’s “Keep it Fresh! Solutions for Fresh Roses”

Second place: Joel Hoffman’s “Insulation”

Third place: Navin Gnanakaran’s “Under Pressure”

Sixth grade

First place: Alisha Wald’s “Breaking the Surface”

Second place: Lidia Hernandez O’Kelly’s “SOYO Car Sightseeing Self-Tour App”

Third place: Gaia Carlson and Jaxon Joye’s “How Does Color Affect the Taste of Liquid?”

Seventh grade

First place: Adele Kaltenbach’s “How Does Organic Soil Quality Change Over Time After a Forest Fire?”

Second place: Joshua Yong’s “How Magnet Orientation Affects Electricity Generation in AC Generators”

Third place: Elsa Frey and Bella Lamprell Stuckey’s “Herd Mentality”

Eighth grade

First place: Amrita Khalsa’s “Effect of Yeast Type on Bread Quality” Second place: Ariella Cornett and Ava Graham Walther’s “The Frequency Response of a Paper Speaker”

Third place: Daniel Guerra Bencomo, Aily Herrera and Jocelynn Muñoz-Lozoya’s “How Safe Is Our Drinking Water?”

Ninth grade

First place: Katelyn Gurule’s “Kay Kay’s Magical Fairy Dust Dish Cleaner”

10th grade

First place: Gene Huntley’s “A Regression Approach for Wildfire Prediction”

Second place: Richard Babcock’s “Can WiFi Have Negative Effects?” Third place: Levi Kaufman and Nicolas Taccetti’s “Removing Dust from Solar Panels with Electromagnetic Induction”

11th grade

First place: Henry Tischler’s “Algorithms to Prevent Effects of Catastrophic Forgetting Utilizing the Learned Latent Structure from Dimension Reduction”