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AWARDS
CATEGORY AWARDS A-Fair
Behavioral and Social Sciences (A-Fair)
Place First Last Grade Project Title School Name Adult Sponsor
1 Noel Langan 10 Testing Cognitive Ability to Learn ASL in Students Villa Joseph Marie High School
Ellen Leaper
2 Solomiya Syvyk 11 "Sleeping with your memory" Neshaminy High School
Gale Donohue
3 Hannah McCausland 10 Behavioral Arts Central Bucks High School- West
Mark Hayden
HM Morgan Gilmer 10 How Does Frustration Response Vary With Gender Council Rock High School- South
Arlene Spevak
Biochemistry (A-Fair)
Place First Last Grade Project Title School Name Adult Sponsor
1 Madelyn Czupich 11 Discovery of Novel Inhibitors of YES Kinase for Liver Cancer
New Hope Solebury High School
Kathleen Czupich
2 Michael Lu 10 Identifying Sensitive Biomarkers that can be used for Monitoring the Growth Rate of Tumor cells.
Council Rock High School- South
Arlene Spevak
3 Ryan Devlin 11 From fruit skins to skinless leather: Tannin-like polymers as biomaterials building blocks
Central Bucks High School- West
Mark Hayden
HM Zoe Bremier 11 Utilization of Porous Microspheres as Drug Delivery Agents Analyzed via Live-Cell Microscopy
Central Bucks High School- West
Mark Hayden
Botany (A-Fair)
Place First Last Grade Project Title School Name Adult Sponsor
1 Heidi Daraz 10 Microwave Energy and Seed Villa Joseph Marie High School
Jacquelyn Bellerby
2 Ella Mullikin 10 Protecting Grass From Urea With Calcium Carbonate
Central Bucks High School- West
Mark Hayden
3 Becky Peters 10 How Color of Light Affects Plant Growth Council Rock High School- South
Arlene Spevak
Chemistry (A-Fair)
Place First Last Grade Project Title School Name Adult Sponsor
1 Nathaniel Watkins 9 Hydrogen Detection via the Optical Properties of Gold and Palladium Nanoparticles
Central Bucks High School- West
Mark Hayden
2 Roger Yu 10 The Cobalt-Phosphate Catalyst and Its Effects on the Splitting of Water
Council Rock High School- North
Terese Grateful
3 Julia Fischer 10 What is the effect of a chemical leavening agent on an originally non-chemically leavened product?
Council Rock High School- North
Terese Grateful
HM Isabel Wingert 12 Electrical Properties of the Atomic Layerings of Fe and Ni Films
Central Bucks High School- West
Mark Hayden
Computer Science (A-Fair)
Place First Last Grade Project Title School Name Adult Sponsor
1 Somil Govani 10 Algorithmic Composition with PureData Central Bucks High School- West
Mark Hayden
2 Matt Bahner 11 Robocube Central Bucks High School- West
Mark Hayden
Earth and Space Science (A-Fair)
Place First Last Grade Project Title School Name Adult Sponsor
1 James Boulton 10 Asteroid Vaporizor Central Bucks High School- West
Mark Hayden
2 Dean Woodrow 12 The Survival of Cyanobacteria and their Production of Oxygen in a Simulated Martian Environment
Central Bucks High School- West
Mark Hayden
Engineering (A-Fair)
Place First Last Grade Project Title School Name Adult Sponsor
1 William Watkins 9 Hydrogen Sensing via the Resistance of Fractured Palladium
Central Bucks High School- West
Mark Hayden
2 Ashley Resuta 11 The Difference of Electrical Properties of Iron (Fe) Based on Thickness
Central Bucks High School- West
Mark Hayden
3 Jessica Oriente 12 Gravity, Oil, and Water, Oh My! - Year 2 Villa Joseph Marie High School
John Gentile
HM Hayden Hotham 10 A Solar Powered Quadcopter Central Bucks High School- West
Mark Hayden
Environmental Science (A-Fair)
Place First Last Grade Project Title School Name Adult Sponsor
1 Victoria Gillespie 9 The effect of Artificial Sweeteners on Painted Lady Caterpillars
Lenape Middle School Jennifer Thiel
2 Sanjana Jhaveri 11 Wind Energy Council Rock High School- North
Terese Grateful
3 May Wang 10 Removal of bisphenol A with repeated use of activated charcoal
Council Rock High School- South
Arlene Spevak
HM Danny Glickman 9 The effect of the concentration of biodiesel on the clouding point
Lenape Middle School Jennifer Thiel
Mathematics (A-Fair)
Place First Last Grade Project Title School Name Adult Sponsor
1 Sreeram Venkatarao 9 Solve It!: Using Group Theory Mathematics to Solve Permutation Puzzles
Lenape Middle School Jennifer Theil
2 Samuel Czupich 9 Unnecessary Roughness New Hope Solebury High School
Kathleen Czupich
Medicine and Health (A-Fair)
Place First Last Grade Project Title School Name Adult Sponsor
1 Mira Bhut 11 Injectable Hydrogels used for Delivery of Antibiotics to Site-Specific Regions.
Central Bucks High School- West
Mark Hayden
2 Amanda Craine 11 Identification of Cell Markers with FTIR Spectroscopy by Comparison to Histological Methods
Central Bucks High School- West
Mark Hayden
3 Ramya Pinninti 11 Surpassing the Hurdles of Bioengineering Vital Organs
Villa Joseph Marie High School
Ellen Leaper
HM Leah Balderson 9 Measurement of Electrolytes in Different Foods Holicong Middle School
Robert Meletti
Microbiology (A-Fair)
Place First Last Grade Project Title School Name Adult Sponsor
1 DhungJoo Kim 11 Crude Oil Digesting Pseudomonas Central Bucks High School- West
Mark Hayden
2 Tanya Kumar 11 Plastic-Poof! Council Rock High School- South
Arlene Spevak
3 Orli Glickman 11 Antimicrobial Activity of Essential Oils Central Bucks High School- West
Mark Hayden
HM Mitchell Fite 9 Chemotaxis and Chemical Cues in Physarum Polycephalum
Council Rock High School- South
Arlene Spevak
Physics (A-Fair)
Place First Last Grade Project Title School Name Adult Sponsor
1 Shane Hensel 11 Identifying the Magnetic Properties of Iron at Nanoscale
Central Bucks High School- West
Mark Hayden
2 Ruth Mandel 11 Resistance and Liquid Nitrogen Council Rock High School- South
Arlene Spevak
3 Isabella Olimpo 10 Clues that Matter...Revealed in the Spatter: Blood Spatter Analysis
Villa Joseph Marie High School
Ellen Leper
Team Projects (A-Fair)
Place First Last Grade Project Title School Name Adult Sponsor
1 Shelby
Sanjana
Henn
Shah
9 The Correlation Between Age and BMI in Determining Blood Pressure
Holicong Middle School
Robert Meletti
2
Rachel
Sydney
Talya
Eisenberg
Eisenberg
Held
9 The Effect of Caffeine on a Rat's Memory in a Maze Holicong Middle School
Robert Meletti
3 Christina
Mackenzie
Fridman
Perillo
9 The Effect of Decorated Bags Holicong Middle School
Carrie Bannon
HM Payal
Jaslin
Patel
Tharakan
9 Can I Focus? Neshaminy High School
Gale Donohue
Zoology (A-Fair)
Place First Last Grade Project Title School Name Adult Sponsor
1 Lucy Hritzo 12 Neurological Tick-Borne Lyme Disease: Investigating the Blood Brain Barrier Host Response to the Invasion of Borrelia burgdorferi
Villa Joseph Marie High School
Shelley Ann Baker
2 Grace Chu 10 Birdfeeder Preferences of Winter Birds Council Rock High School- South
Arlene Spevak
3 James Kelleher 11 Effects of Environmental Factors on Red Cherry Shrimp Coloration
Central Bucks High School- West
Mark Hayden
CATEGORY AWARDS B-Fair
Behavioral and Social Sciences (B-Fair)
Place First Last Grade Project Title School Name Adult Sponsor
1 Dario Cabal 8 How does Age affect Peripheral Vision Color Perception
Lenape Middle School Erica Dillman
2 Brendan Mindiak 8 The Effect of Sound on Human Sight Lenape Middle School Jennifer Thiel
3 Lauren Ballew 8 Music's Affects of the Brain Holicong Middle School
Robert Meletti
HM Rishi Mago 7 Can Learning Vocabulary Words Be Made More Efficient?
Newtown Middle School
Mary Joy Troxel
HM John Santoro 8 Does aging affect memory? Holicong Middle School
Robert Meletti
HM Thomas Walsh 8 Dominant Eye Shooting Lenape Middle School Jennifer Thiel
HM Syed Waseem 8 Walking Blindfolded In A Field! What? Holland Middle School Dave Curry
Botany (B-Fair)
Place First Last Grade Project Title School Name Adult Sponsor
1 Aalisha Jhaveri 7 Growing Green: can plants successfully grow in greywater?
Newtown Middle School
Mary Joy Troxel
2 Natalie Ratzke 8 What herbicide is more deadly a natural herbicide or a herbicide from the store?
St. Jude School Anita Marko
3 Lydia Hu 8 The Effect of an Aquaponic Environment on Plants' Growth
Lenape Middle School Jennifer Thiel
HM Raul Casas 8 Aquaponics vs. Traditional Growing Techniques Lenape Middle School Jennifer Thiel
HM Donovan Sak 8 The effect of hydrogen peroxide on seed germination and root cuttings.
Lenape Middle School Jennifer Thiel
Chemistry (B-Fair)
Place First Last Grade Project Title School Name Adult Sponsor
1 Emily Pettitt 8 Nanophotonic Desalination Method Holicong Middle School
Robert Meletti
2 Kiara Alvarez 7 Does temperature affect the amount of carbonation in soda?
Newtown Middle School
Troxel
3 Andrew Cox 8 Effect of Bread, MIlk, and Ice on the Burn of Spice Lenape Middle School Jennifer Thiel
HM Sarah Cooney 8 Glow in the Dark Lenape Middle School Jennifer Thiel
HM Sambhav Jain 8 How does different cooking alternatives effect Vitamin C?
Holicong Middle School
Robert Meletti
HM Shivanand Peri 7 How heat affects crystal growth. Newtown Middle School
Mary Joy Troxel
HM Alexandra Chiarappa 8 What item found in Third World Countries can be used to filter harmful impurities.
Holicong Middle School
Robert Meletti
Computer Science (B-Fair)
Place First Last Grade Project Title School Name Adult Sponsor
1 Ian Kuo 8 Effect of password parameters on prevention against force hacking
Lenape Middle School Jennifer Thiel
2 Brandon Korb 8 What is the fastest way to find prime numbers in java?
Holicong Middle School
Carrie Bannon
3 Anna Wengyn 8 How Much Compression is Too Much? St. Jude School Anita Marko
Consumer Science (B-Fair)
Place First Last Grade Project Title School Name Adult Sponsor
1 Lauren Kauffman 8 Childproof Containers: Do They Work? Lenape Middle School Jennifer Thiel
2 Sean Dixon 8 Fabric Types and Water Resistance St. Jude School Anita Marko
3 Olivia High 8 Which brand of paper towel is the most absorbent? St. Jude School Anita Marko
HM Matthew Tomlinson 6 Bubbles, Bubbles, Everywhere, but Not a Drop to Drink
Our Lady of Mount Carmel School
Sarah Crandall
HM Caleb Pfleiger 8 Which Sock Has The Most Durability? Quakertown Christian School
Debra Moody
Earth and Space Science (B-Fair)
Place First Last Grade Project Title School Name Adult Sponsor
1 Brian Schaub 8 Effects of Tsunami Barriers on Tsunami Destruction Lenape Middle School Jennifer Thiel
2 Anne Biedermann 8 The effects of Light on the brightness and variety of objects in the night sky.
Lenape Middle School Jennifer Thiel
3 Olga Zhugayevich 8 The Power of the Rainbow Holicong Middle School
Robert Meletti
Engineering (B-Fair)
Place First Last Grade Project Title School Name Adult Sponsor
1 Jacqueline Hritzo 7 Evaluating the Performance of Various Robots on Inclines
Seton School Diann Hritzo
2 Jacob Semrow 8 How to reduce heat loss in a residential home Holicong Middle School
Robert Meletti
3 James Crovo 7 Does Dia-Matter? Our Lady of Mount Carmel School
Sarah Crandall
HM Robert Morsa 8 Most efficent water wheel Lenape Middle School Jennifer Thiel
Environmental Science (B-Fair)
Place First Last Grade Project Title School Name Adult Sponsor
1 Tanvi Raman 8 Effective Solar Powered Water Desalination Devices
Lenape Middle School Jennifer Thiel
2 Mitchel Guarracino 8 How different variables affect the quality of soil produced by compost
Holicong Middle School
Robert Meletti
3 Vijay Balaji 8 A new bioplastic Lenape Middle School Jennifer Thiel
HM Stephanos Panas 8 How will gray water affect grass. Holicong Middle School
Robert Meletti
HM Davis Wojnovich 7 What is the best way to purify river water? Newtown Middle School
Mary Joy Troxel
Mathematics (B-Fair)
Place First Last Grade Project Title School Name Adult Sponsor
1 Paul Messina 7 Hockey Wrist Shot Accuracy Our Lady of Mount Carmel School
Sarah Crandall
2 Victoria Miller 8 Math in Music St. Jude School Anita Marko
Medicine and Health (B-Fair)
Place First Last Grade Project Title School Name Adult Sponsor
1 Lillian Weitz 8 Are Your Earbuds Hurting You? Holicong Middle School
Robert Meletti
2 Sean Kerrigan 8 Effect of Peppermint on Reaction Time Lenape Middle School Jennifer Thiel
3 Olivia Luff 8 How Caffeine Affects Sports Performance Holicong Middle School
Robert Meletti
HM Cole Wenner 8 The Effect of Sports Drinks and Water on Workout Performance
Lenape Middle School Jennifer Thiel
HM Kayla Maerz 8 Which Song is Most Relaxing? St. Jude School Anita Marko
Microbiology (B-Fair)
Place First Last Grade Project Title School Name Adult Sponsor
1 Taylor Schellhorn 8 Whey or Firm - Does Time Control Yogurt Consistency?
Holicong Middle School
Carrie Bannon
Physics (B-Fair)
Place First Last Grade Project Title School Name Adult Sponsor
1 Avery Twyman 8 Optimum Propulsion Setup for a Maglev Train System
Holicong Middle School
Robert Meletti
2 Josee Li 7 What is the Fastest Method to Cool a Soda? Newtown Middle School
Mary Joy Troxel
3 Nicole Schmauk 8 Orthotics Reduce Force on Joints Holicong Middle School
Robert Meletti
HM Shakti Ramnath 7 Factors Affecting Solar Panel Energy Outcome Newtown Middle School
Mary Joy Troxel
HM Julia Ferrara 8 Finding the Right Exposure Time for a Pinhole Camera
Lenape Middle School Jennifer Thiel
Team Projects (B-Fair)
Place First Last Grade Project Title School Name Adult Sponsor
1 Tony
Adam
Carbino
Lawall
7 Got Dirt? St. Andrew School Emily DeLaurentis
2 Matt
Daniel
Koonce
Martinez
7 Filling A Bat: Is it worth it? St. Jude School Anita Marko
3 Jennifer
Katelynn
Llewellyn
McKee
7 Building Beaches St. Jude School Anita Marko
HM Holly
Samantha
Grosse
Razzi
8 Do Colors Affect The Memory? St. Jude School Anita Marko
HM Matthew
Joseph
Earley
Fluehr
7 The Effect of the Elodea Plant on Different Types of Oil
St. Jude School Anita Marko
HM Zoe
John
Carbino
Gasiewski
7 Yeast Feast St. Andrew School Emily Delaurentis
Zoology (A-Fair)
Place First Last Grade Project Title School Name Adult Sponsor
1 Aurora Budson 8 Which color are birds most attracted to? Holicong Middle School
Robert Meletti
2 Emma Schwass 8 Scent and fear Lenape Middle School Jennifer Thiel
3 Louis Weimer 8 The Effect of Ant Repellents on the Ant Population Lenape Middle School Jennifer Thiel
HM Hanne Scheel 8 The Effects of Sports and Energy Drinks on Vertebrates and Invertebrates
Lenape Middle School Erica Sobotka
SPECIAL AWARDS
DOW Chemical Awards (A-Fair)
First Last Grade Project Title School Name Adult Sponsor
Zoe Bremier 11 Utilization of Porous Microspheres as Drug Delivery Agents Analyzed via Live-Cell Microscopy
Central Bucks High School- West
Mark Hayden
Samuel Czupich 9 Unnecessary Roughness New Hope Solebury High School
Kathleen Czupich
Lucy Hritzo 12 Neurological Tick-Borne Lyme Disease: Investigating the Blood Brain Barrier Host Response to the Invasion of Borrelia burgdorferi
Villa Joseph Marie High School
Shelley Ann Baker
DOW Chemical Awards (B-Fair)
Jacqueline Hritzo 7 Evaluating the Performance of Various Robots on Inclines
Seton School Diann Hritzo
Avery Twyman 8 Optimum Propulsion Setup for a Maglev Train System
Holicong Middle School
Robert Meletti
Delaware Valley College – Heritage Award
First Last Grade Project Title School Name Adult Sponsor
Jessica Oriente 12 Gravity, Oil, and Water, Oh My! - Year 2 Villa Joseph Marie
High School John Gentile
Isabel Wingert 12 Electrical Properties of the Atomic Layerings of Fe
and Ni Films Central Bucks High School- West
Mark Hayden
Lucy Hritzo 12 Neurological Tick-Borne Lyme Disease: Investigating the Blood Brain Barrier Host Response to the Invasion of Borrelia burgdorferi
Villa Joseph Marie High School
Shelley Ann Baker
Dean Woodrow 12 The Survival of Cyanobacteria and their Production
of Oxygen in a Simulated Martian Environment Central Bucks High School- West
Mark Hayden
The Precarious Alliance Award
First Last Grade Project Title School Name Adult Sponsor
Isabel Wingert 12 Electrical Properties of the Atomic Layerings of Fe
and Ni Films Central Bucks High School- West
Mark Hayden
Alexandra Stolz 11 Ocean Wave Power as a Source of Renewable Energy
Villa Joseph Marie High School
John Gentile
Sanjana Jhaveri 11 Wind Energy Council Rock High School- North
Terese Grateful
Hayden Hotham 10 A Solar Powered Quadcopter Central Bucks High School- West
Mark Hayden
Jacob Semrow 8 How to reduce heat loss in a residential home Holicong Middle School
Robert Meletti
Society of Women Engineers (SWE) (A-Fair)
Place First Last Grade Project Title School Name Adult Sponsor
1 Jessica Oriente 12 Gravity, Oil, and Water, Oh My! - Year 2 Villa Joseph Marie High School
John Gentile
2 May Wang 10 Removal of bisphenol A with repeated use of activated charcoal
Council Rock High School- South
Arlene Spevak
3 Alexandra Stolz 11 Ocean Wave Power as a Source of Renewable Energy
Villa Joseph Marie High School
John Gentile
HM Ashley Jia 10 Removal of anionic organic contaminants using anion exchange resins
Central Bucks High School- West
Mark Hayden
HM Mira Bhut 11 Injectable Hydrogels used for Delivery of Antibiotics to Site-Specific Regions.
Central Bucks High School- West
Mark Hayden
HM Kai
Melissa
McGinn
Wang 9 The Angle Lift of a Butterfly's Wing
Council Rock High School- South
Arlene Spevak
HM Isabel Wingert 12 Electrical Properties of the Atomic Layerings of Fe and Ni Films
Central Bucks High School- West
Mark Hayden
HM Ashley Resuta 11 The Difference of Electrical Properties of Iron (Fe) Based on Thickness
Central Bucks High School- West
Mark Hayden
Society of Women Engineers (SWE) (B-Fair)
Place First Last Grade Project Title School Name Adult Sponsor
1 Jacqueline Hritzo 7 Evaluating the Performance of Various Robots on Inclines
Seton School Diann Hritzo
2 Tanvi Raman 8 Effective Solar Powered Water Desalination Devices
Lenape Middle School Jennifer Thiel
3 Anna Wengyn 8 How Much Compression is Too Much? St. Jude School Anita Marko
HM Olivia
Rebecca
Tiley
Tiley 7
Watching Nuclear Particles: See Background Radiation Zoom Through A Cloud Chamber
St. Jude School Anita Marko
Special Engineering Awards
Tesco Corporation Engineering Prize
First Last Grade Project Title School Name Adult Sponsor
Jacqueline Hritzo 7 Evaluating the Performance of Various Robots on Inclines
Seton School Diann Hritzo
Applied Math in Engineering Prize
First Last Grade Project Title School Name Adult Sponsor
Robert Morsa 8 Most efficent water wheel Lenape Middle School Jennifer Thiel
Philadelphia Association for Critical Thinking (PhACT) Awards
First Last Grade Project Title School Name Adult Sponsor
Syed Waseem 8 Walking Blindfolded In A Field! What? Holland Middle School Dave Curry
Sophie Cleff 8 The Effects of Reading from a Screen or Book on
Recall and Comrehension Lenape Middle School Jennifer Thiel
Julia Gokalp 8 The effect of mass on the speed of a marble. Newtown Middle
School Mary Joy Troxel