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2017 Bromfield Science Fair Winners

March 9, 2017


Blue Rosettes – Best Projects

Middle School – Felicia Jamba
“Vitamin C Determination by Redox Titration”

High School – Kate Selig
“Mitragyna speciosa, an Opioid Agonist,
Is Addictive in Drosophila Melanogaster”

Community Awards

Bare Hill Pond Watershed Management Committee

  • Middle School:

    • Lana Ostaszewski, Carrissima Heinis – The Effects of Different Types of Liquids on Plant Growth
  • High School:

    • Rory VanDorpe, Ben Elliott – The Effect of Varying Amounts of Water in an Ecosystem on Phosphate Content

Harvard Conservation Trust

  • Middle School:

    • Charlotte Foley, Emily Douglas – Purifying Polluted Water to Make It Safe to Drink
  • High School:

    • Angela Xing – Solar Energy
    • Nikhil Kommineni, Kevin Yu – The Efficiency of Carbon Trapping

Garden Club of Harvard

  • Middle School:

    • Matt Zobbi – What Wood Additives Affect Combustibility
    • Michelle Mazzu – Effects of Filtering and UV Sterilization on Groundwater Microorganisms

Harvard Schools Trust

  • Middle School:

    • Sara Selig – The Effectiveness of Different Insect Repellents on Drosophilia
    • Nylah Trabulsi – What Conflicting Mental Tasks Reveal About Thinking
  • High School:

    • Fiona Nash – Using Fruit as a Wet Cell to Create Electricity
    • Kate Selig – Mitragyna speciosa, an Opioid Agonist, Is Addictive in Drosophila Melanogaster

Harvard Lions Club

  • Middle School:

    • Julia Kimball – The Effects of Different Types of Soaps on Bacterial Growth
    • Amita Khurana – Gender Stereotyping and Color Preference
    • Catherine Zhou – Using Polarizing Filters in Car Headlights
  • High School:

    • Caroline Noyes – Tuberculosis at the Forefront
    • Joey Calabresi, Alex Lee – Drowsy Driving vs. Drunk Driving
    • Emma Stoffel – Irritable Bowel Syndrome – Something You Feel All the Time But Never Knew About

Nashua River Watershed Association

  • Middle School:

    • Ethan Taylor – The Effects of Phosphorus Levels on Aquatic Plant Growth
    • Alex Myles, Gavin Holt – The Effect of Heat on the Growth of Duckweed

Harvard PTO

  • Middle School:

    • David Wang, Samuel Secor – The Effects of PSI on a Soccer Ball on Distance Kicked
    • Ella Richards, Sophia Atwell – Wind Turbines, Worth It?
    • Christian Lancellotti – Speed of Waves Versus Depth of Water
    • Sophia Zhou – Skiing and Friction
    • Matthew Atwell – Relationship Between the Height of Dropping a Ball and How High It Rebounces
    • Jordan Colon – Angle and Number of Blades in a Wind Turbine vs. Voltage Output/Electric Output
  • High School:

    • Ivy Wang and Angela Hu – From Heat to Electricity
    • Pierce Smedley – Spooky Science at a Distance
    • Will Day, Jon Gall – Recoil vs. Muzzle Energy
    • Sierra Gomez – A “Hole” Lot about Black Holes

Harvard School Committee

  • Middle School:

    • Timur Sahin, John Babcock – How Much Sugar Do Different Beverages Have, and How Does It Affect You?
  • High School:

    • Carolina Mello – The Power of Silver Nanoparticles

Harvard Cable Committee

  • Middle School:

    • Josie Silk, Vera Zaslavskiy – What Is The Best Way To Sneeze?
    • Matthew Atwell – Relationship Between the Height of Dropping a Ball and How High It Rebounces
  • High School:

    • Chris Pickreign, Pasha Sahin – Forces Involved in Heading a Soccer Ball

Faculty Awards

Grade 6 Experimental Biology

  1.   Sarah Burns, Imogen Slavin – The Effects of Different Soaps on Bacterial Growth
  2.   Julia Kimball – The Effects of Different Types of Soaps on Bacterial Growth

Grade 6 Experimental Chemistry

  1.    Matt Zobbi – What Wood Additives Affect Combustibility?
  2.   Alex Myles, Gavin Holt – The Effect of Heat on the Growth of Duckweed

Grade 6 Experimental Physics

  1.   Ella Richards, Sophia Atwell – Wind Turbines, Worth It?
  2.   David Wang, Samuel Secor – The Effects of PSI on a Soccer Ball on Distance Kicked

Grade 6 Experimental Behavioral

  1.   Tucker Madison, Jack Babcock – The Effects of Different Music on Concentration
  2.   Amita Khurana – Gender Stereotyping and Color Preference
  3.   Holly Fisher, Annelise Anderson – The Effect of a Positive Classroom Atmosphere on Test Averages

Grade 7 Experimental Biology

  1.   Zachary Becker – Does What Time You Water Plants Affect Their Growth and Development?
  2.   Josie Silk, Vera Zaslavskiy – What Is the Best Way To Sneeze?
  3.   Melanie Bodtman, Julianna Franklin – Is Toilet Water Cleaner Than Water Fountain Water?

Grade 7 Experimental Chemistry

  1.   Felicia Jamba – Vitamin C Determination by Redox Titration
  2.   Sophia Boucher, Regan Donahoe – Color Draining Candies
  3.   Courtney Clark – How Does Baking Soda Affect Your Cookies?

Grade 7 Experimental Physics

  1.   Catherine Zhou – Using Polarizing Filters in Car Headlights
  2.   Danielle Lawton – What Is the Best Material to Insulate a Winter Coat?

Grade 7 Experimental Environmental

  1.   Bella Muñoz – Different Methods of Filtering Runoff Water
  2.   Michael Bretz – How Will Climate Change Affect the Food Chain?

Grade 7 Experimental Psychology

  1.   Tiana Jiang, Neha Kommineni – The Effects of Color on Memorization

Grade 8 Experimental Chemistry/Physics

  1.   Jordan Colon – Angle and Number of Blades in a Wind Turbine vs. Voltage Output/Electric Output
  2.   Ben Brown, Erik Dahlstrom – The Effects of Bow Shape on a Model Boat
  3.   Matthew Atwell – Relationship Between the Height of Dropping a Ball and How High It Rebounces

Grade 8 Experimental Biology

  1.   Olivia Lindo, Tara Modica – How Can Bacteria Growth in a Water Bottle Put to Lips Once Be Minimized Over Time?
  2.   Ziyad Ali, KeeSeok Lee – The Effect of Frozen Green Bean Seeds on Germination

Grade 8 Experimental Environmental

  1.   Michelle Mazzu – Effects of Filtering and UV Sterilization On Groundwater Microorganism CFU Counts
  2.   Jackson Sennott – The Effect of Caffeine on the Germination of Mung Beans

Grade 9 Experimental

  1.   Olivia Gomez, Vivien Jamba – Building a Bridge to Knowledge<
  2.   Lucy Bodtman – Physics of a Pendulum

Grade 10 Experimental Biology/Chemistry

  1.   Kate Selig – Mitragyna Speciosa, an Opioid Agonist, Is Addictive in Drosophila Melanogaster
  2.   Nikhil Kommineni, Kevin Yu – The Efficiency of Carbon Trapping

Grade 11 Engineering/Chemistry/Physics

  1.   Jenny Andrews, Jessy Andrews – Glove-Controlled Robotic Hand
  2.   Michelle Jiang, Rebecca Li – A New Spin on the Theremin: An Inquiry of the Mechanisms Behind the Phemomenon of the Optical Theremin’s Oddities

Grade 11/12 Experimental Biology/Chemistry

  1.   Carolina Mello – The Power of Silver Nanoparticles
  2.   Kiley Russell, Kate Connors – Environmental Disaster: Microbeads

Grade 10/11 Nonexperimental Biology/Environmental

  1.   Benjamin Rotker – CRISPR-Cas9: Genome Editing Technology
  2.   Sierra Gomez – A “Hole” Lot About Black Holes

Grade 12 Experimental Biology/Bioengineering

  1.   Liz Polimou, Meaghan Parlee – Potential Keystone Species in Harvard, Massachusetts
  2.   Sarah Doben, Maeve French – The Effects of Microwaves on Radish Seed Germination

Grade 11/12 Experimental Physics/Computer Science

  1.   Will Day, Jon Gall – Recoil vs Muzzle Energy
  2.   Pierce Smedley – Spooky Science at a Distance

Grade 12 Nonexperimental Biology

  1.   Caroline Noyes – Tuberculosis at the Forefront
  2.   Maggie Gill – SONAR and Echolocation
  3.   Joey Calabresi and Alex Lee – Drowsy Driving vs. Drunk Driving

 
Source: Bromfield Science Department

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