Blue Rosettes – Best Experimental Projects
High School – Kenneth Lin
“Aerogel: A Super Insulator?”
Middle School – Kate Selig
“A Duct-Tape and Bubble Gum Approach to a Possible Ebola Cure”
Community Awards
Bare Hill Pond Watershed Management Committee
- Melissa Mazzu, “Effect of pH on Solanum Lycopersicum (tomatoes)”
- KeeHwang Lee, Eric Xing, and William Xhao, “The Effect of Nitrogen Fertilizer vs. Inoculum on Legume Growth”
Conservation Commission
- Ziyad Ali and Olivier Bradley, “The Effects of Acid Rain on Plant Growth”
- Katherine Prouty and Claire Stoddard, “The Effectiveness of Different Types of Filters for Purifying Water”
- Meredith Greayer, “The Effects of Different Types of Ice Melt on Plant Health”
Harvard Conservation Trust
- Julia Hawes and Brooke Bourgeois, “Save the Trees”
- Tiffany Khu and Elizabeth Armstrong, “The Effects of Sunscreen on Plant Growth’”
Garden Club of Harvard
- Anya Buchovecky, “Do Plants Defy Gravity?”
- Kate Toll, “Pesticides Commonly Found on Produce”
Harvard Farmers’ Market
- Olivia Noyes and Anna Laursen, “Will It Grow?”
Harvard Lions Club
- Max Trabulsi, “Do Screen and Text Color Affect Retention?”
- Phoebe Clark, “Prosthetic Hand and Fingers”
- Caeden Bishop, “Building the Best Catapult”
- Olivia Stoffel, “Is Gluten-Free Better?”
- Helen Lunsmann and Eleanor vandeVaart, “Effectiveness of Potentiator and Corrector Compounds on Cystic Fibrosis”
- Aislyn Fair, “Peripheral Vision: Perception and Accuracy”
Harvard School Committee
- Lauren Walling-Sotolongo and Perla Walling-Sotolongo, “What Is the Best Wood?”
- Rainier Yano and Isaac Abouaf, “The Effects of Antifungal Medicines on Yeast Respiration”
Harvard PTO
- Ethan Taylor, “The Effect of Body Tube Length on the Altitude of a Model Rocket”
- Angela Xing, “Soap Chemistry”
- Kate Selig, “A Duct-Tape and Bubble Gum Approach to a Possible Ebola Cure”
- Safiya Ali, “Hover Crafts”
- Benjamin Buchovecky, “Which Calorimeter Is Better?”
- Carlo Vito Montesa, “Parachute Assembling”
- Henry Anderson and Will Thompson, “Effects of Tubercles on Wing Performance”
- Zach Sclar, “Just Plane Physics”
- Ivy Wang, “Sound Waves in Music”
- Will Day, “Are Fuel Additives Worth It?”
- Kenneth Lin, “Aerogel: A Super Insulator?”
- Emily Erdos, “Pykrete: The New Concrete”
- Sophia Collins and Madeline Beckman, “How Does Different Tubing Change Effectiveness of Stethoscopes?”
- Philip Kuong and Jarrod Revane, “The Testing of New Shuttle Design Concepts: It IS Rocket Science”
Harvard Public Library
- Arjun Khurana, “Author Gender and Book Preferences”
Harvard Schools Trust
- Lucy Richards and Kaitlyn Ostrowski, “A Comparison of Refrigeration Versus Preservatives in Preventing Bread Mold”
- Vivian Jamba, “Artificial Intelligence in Tic Tac Toe”
- Amy Hunter and Amanda Accorsi, “Reaction Rates of Corrosion”
- Allison Rizzo and Nicky Chapman, “Going Bananas: Creating an Alternative Plastic Out of Banana Peels”
Nashua River Watershed Association
- Ben Brown and Gavin Maddalone, “The Effects of pH Levels on Aquatic Plant Growth”
- Nick Steele, “Desalination of Water Using Solar Stills”
Faculty Awards
Grade 6
- Experimental Biology: 1–Nick Thornton; 2–Jordan Colon; 3–Olivia Kehoe and Gia McCabe
- Experimental Chemistry: 1–Anya Buchovecky; 2– Lucy Richards and Kaitlyn Ostowski; 3–Jack Yu and KeeSeok Lee
- Experimental Environmental: 1– Meredith Greayer; 2–Ziyad Ali and Olivier Bradley; 3–McKinlay Chipman and Emily Douglas
- Experimental Physics: 1–Ethan Taylor; 2–Nishkal Pisal and Matthew Atwell; 3–William Walling-Sotolongo
- Experimental Psychology/Biology: 1–Argun Khurana; 2–Timur Sahin and John Babcock; 3–Ariana Thornton
Grade 7
- Experimental Physiology/Neurology: 1–Christopher Pickreign and Pashini Sahin; 2–Rachel Shrives and Grace Acton; 3–Meili Stanten and Gwyneth Smedley
Grade 8
- Engineering: 1–Kate Selig; 2–Phoebe Clark; 3–Safiya Ali
- Experimental Biology/Environmental/Physics: 1–Hannah Taylor; 2–Melissa Mazzu; 3–Yohhan Kumarasinghe and Raymond Li
Grade 9
- Experimental Physics/Psychology: 1–Henry Anderson and Will Thompson; 2–Zach Sclar; 3–Kiley Russell
Grade 10
- Experimental Biology/Chemistry/Comp Science: 1–Rainier Yano and Isaac Abouaf; 2–KeeHwang Lee, Eric Xing, and William Zhao
Grade 11
- Experimental Chemistry: 1–Deirdre Kennedy and Grace Carlson; 2–Amy Hunter and Amanda Accorsi; 3–Kate Toll
Grades 11-12
- Experimental Chemisty/Physics: 1–Kenneth Lin; 2–Emily Erdos; 3–Allison Rizzo and Nicky Chapman
- Non-Experimental Biology/Chemistry: 1–Lily Moore-Eissenberg and Katie Erdos; 2–Olivia Stoffel; 3–Megan Anelons and Allie Wei
- Engineering/Chemistry/Environmental/Physics: 1–Philip Kuong and Jarrod Revane; 2–JJ Stadler and Mark Schwiegershausen; 3–Nick Steele
- Experimental Biology: 1–Helen Lunsmann and Eleanor vandeVaart; 2–Julia LeBlanc; 2–James O’Shea, Kadin deRuijter, and Teague Neschke
Grade 12
- Experimental Biology: 1–Emma Delaney; 2–Aislyn Fair; 3–Samantha Reid and Yonah Joffe
Source: Bromfield Science Department
