Blue Rosettes – Best Experimental Projects
Middle School – Arielle Sclar
“Can Homemade Sunscreen Be As Effective As Commercial Products?”
High School – Kate Toll
“Persistent Pesticides: Is Washing Fruit Worth It?”
Community Awards
Bare Hill Pond Watershed Management Committee
- Shreya Kumar and Tessa McClain, “The Effects of pH Levels on Plant Growth”
- Nick Norcross and Nick Robinson, “Eurasian Milfoil in Bare Hill Pond’”
Conservation Commission
- Jack Quinn and Sammy Swindells, “The Eutrophication of Pond Water”
Harvard Conservation Trust
- Angela Hu and Michelle Jiang, “What Type of Wind Turbine Is Most Efficient?”
- Kathryn Hodskins and Allison Rizzo, “How Green is ‘Going Green?’”
Garden Club of Harvard
- Melissa Mazzu, “The Effect of Different Combinations of Soils on Both Germination and Plant Growth”
- Jack Donaldson, “The Effect of Different Soil Types and Conditions on the Strength of Ground-mount Solar Foundations”
- Arielle Sclar, “Can Homemade Sunscreen Be as Effective as Commercial Products?”
- Lily Moore-Eisenberg, “Human Impact on Biological Decomposition in Soil”
- Kate Toll, “Persistent Pesticides: Is Washing Fruit Worth It?”
- Brianna Harte and Lara Schmoyer, “Iron Nutrition in Plants: The Effect of Various Levels of Iron on Plant Life Sustainability”
Harvard Lions Club
- Kaia Bishop, “The Genetics of Breast Cancer”
- Kate Selig, “Yogurt as an Antidote to Childhood Obesity: What Do the Mice Say?”
- Deirdre Kennedy, “Measuring the Great Divide: Mitosis Rates in Different Onions”
- Hannah Kline, “Senses and Brain Function of Harvester Ants”
- Emma Kenny-Pessia, “Transdermal Silk Microneedle Vaccines”
Harvard PTO
- Brooke Bourgeois, “How Color Affects Choice”
- Tommy Wacek, “The Effects of Carbonated Water versus Distilled Water on Teeth”
- Hannah Taylor, “The Impact of Water Temperature on Tornado Size”
- Benjamin Buchovecky, “Which Wood Should You Burn? Measuring Heat Content of Different Wood Species”
- Kamryn and Cole Stecyk, “ Model Rocket Flight Prediction Using Newton’s Laws of Physics”
- Ranier Yano, “How to Make an Efficient Homemade Battery”
- Mathew Chacko and Kee Hwang Lee, “Science of Hula Hoops: Size versus Mass”
- Gabrielle Doben and Alexandra Dutkewych, “The Current of Life”
- Emily Mitchell and Leah Rosenfield, “The Ugly Side of Beauty”
- Amu Hu and Ki Jung Lee, “Variations of SODIS”
- Jonathan and Martina Stadler, “The Tesla Coil”
- Emily and Katie Erdos, “Carbon Dioxide Refrigerator”
Harvard School Committee
- Mitchell Farley, “What are the Germs?”
- Will Day, “A Muffler’s Effect on Engine Power”
Harvard Schools Trust
- Chris Pickreign and Sahin Pasha, “The Effect of Eating Breakfast on Student Attention in Class”
- Jake Catalina, “Does Soda Affect Learning?”
- Sofia Catalina and Aliza Maki, “Crime Scene Chemistry”
- Julia Stoddard and Hannah Wharton, “Variables Affecting Activated Carbon Filtration”
League of Women Voters of Harvard
- Jose Hundley and Yohhan Kumarasinghe, “What Material Causes Ice to Melt the Fastest?”
- Kirsten Sundeen and Elly vandeVaart, “Farming for Nutrient Density”
- Madeline Beckman and Sophia Collins, “The Effects of Multitasking on Productivity”
Nashua River Watershed Association
- Zach Sclar, “The Construction and Testing of Plastic Filter Prototypes in the Removal of Phosphorus from Contaminated Water”
- John Seymour, “The Effect of De-Icing Salts on Bare Hill Pond”
Faculty Awards
Grade 6
- Experimental Mixed: Tessa McClain, Shreya Kumar, Fiona Nash, Colleen Makosky
- Experimental Biology: Jacob Elliot, Brooke Bourgeois
- Physics: Gwyneth Smedley, Riley Neville
Grade 7
- Mixed Biology: Kate Selig, Kaia Bishop, Hannah Taylor, Ben Buchovecky
Grade 8
- Engineering: Will Thompson, Henry Anderson, Michelle Jiang
- Experimental/Educational Display-Biology/Chemistry: Arielle Sclar, Zach Sclar
Grade 9
- Experimental Physics: Will Day, Ranier Yano
Grades 10, 11, and 12
- Experimental Chemistry: Kate Toll, Sofia Catalina, Aliza Maki
- Experimental Biology: Hannah Kline, Kirsten Sundeen, Elly vandeVaart, Dierdre Kennedy, Brianna Harte, Lara Schmoyer, Emma Kenny-Pessia
- Physics and Engineering: Philip Kuong, Peter Donaldson, Emily Erdos, Katie Erdos
- Non-Experimental Environmental: Allison Rizzo, Kathryn Hodskins, Heather Grant, Jillian Nelson
- Experimental Psychology: Grace Carlson, Madeline Beckman, Sophia Collins
- Non-Experimental Chemistry: Heather Flokos, Colleen O’Shea
- Non-Experimental Biology: Alison Hanlon
