2018 Bromfield Science Fair Winners

March 8, 2018


Blue Rosettes – Best Projects

Middle School – Imogen Slavin, Claire Kelley
“Paint-On Circuits”

High School – Kyle Schoenberg
“Battery Optimization”


Community Awards

Bare Hill Pond Watershed Management Committee

  • Middle School:

    • Olivia Muller-Juez – Marine Oil Spills
  • High School:

    • Rory VanDorpe, Ben Elliott – Growing a Hydroponic Garden

Harvard Conservation Commission

  • High School:

    • Raymond Li, Ethan Shipman – Solving for Flood Damage
    • Ben Buchovecky, Nikhil Kommineni – Optimizing the Environment for Oil Consuming Microbes

Harvard Conservation Trust

  • Middle School:
    • Catherine Zhou – Temperature’s Effect on Solar Panel Efficiency
  • High School:
    • Liza Toll, Rachel Shrives – Bioremediation of an Oil Spill
    • Shreya Kumar, Raiya Suliman – Desalination of Water

Harvard Farmers Market

  • Middle School:
    • Chloe von Conta, Gretchen Day – Does Mint Cool Things Down?
  • High School:
    • Celeste Keep – Effects of Wifi Radiation on Plants
  • Overall:
    • Charlotte Foley, Meredith Greayer – Remediating Martian Soil In Order to Sustain Life (Part 2)

Garden Club of Harvard

  • Middle School:
    • Julia Kimball – Effects of Fertilizers on Plant Growth and the Environment
  • High School:

    • Caeden Bishop, Charles Bardenhueuer – Effects of Seed Priming Techniques on Germination of Major US Crops

Harvard Lions Club

  • Middle School:
    • Maddie Silk, Cate Foley – Perception Deception
    • Annelise Anderson – Helping the Visually Impaired Using Machine Learning
    • Felicia Jamba – The Causes and Effects of Scoliosis
  • High School:
    • Kate Selig – Danio Rerio as a Model for Seasonal Affective Disorder
    • Carolina Mello – Bacteria’s Biggest Foe: Viruses
    • Leila Grant – Connexin 26

Harvard PTO

  • Middle School:
    • Abigail Ames, Arpi Mirzabegian – Spotless Pennies
    • Christopher Demetros, Jack Stahl – Five Second Rule: Must of Bust
    • Matt Zobbi – Wacky Waving Inflatable Arm Flailing Tube Man: From Thermodynamics to Used Car Lots
    • Sara Selig – Bumblebee Circus (Can bumblebees be trained to accomplish new tasks?)
  • High School:
    • Ziyad Ali and Olivier Bradley – Shooting a Nerf Dart as Far as Possible
    • Ian Miller, Sasha Fraser – A New Planet to Plow: Could Mars be the One?
    • Yohhan Kumarasinghe, Andrew Hill – A New Frontier: Cryo-Electron Microscopy
    • Bridget Gibbons – Metallic Hydrogen: The Controversial Claim
    • Liam Makosky, Cameron Pappas – Chirality in Sugars
  • Marc Thompson Award:
    • Michelle Jiang – Can Artificial Intelligence Produce Music?

Harvard School Committee

  • Middle School:
    • David Wang, Theo Bradley – Time Flies When You’re Having Fun!
  • High School:
    • Hannah Taylor – Hydrogen Power: The Fuel of the Future

Harvard Schools Trust

  • Middle School:

    • Shaan Patel – How Does an Electromagnetic Pulse Impact Electronics?
    • Imogen Slavin, Claire Kelley – Paint-On Circuits
  • High School:

    • Brooke Caroom – The Undoing of Shoelaces: A Physics Point of View
    • Taylor Caroom – The Heat is On!
    • Lucy Bodtman – Pulse Width Modulation

Nashua River Watershed Association

  • Middle School:

    • Sophia Atwell, Sarah Burns – Best Water Filtering Method for People in Need of Clean Water
    • Marissa Flynn, Siena Ruark – How Clean is Your Water?
  • High School:

    • Emily Douglas – Turning Invasive Aquatic Plants into Effective Fertilizer

Faculty Awards

Grade 6 Experimental Physics

  • Trevor Mangus, Darren Quek – Magentic Repulsion
  • Allie Corrieri, Lauren Stoller – Car Mass: How Mass Affects Speed
  • Jack Thomas, Jackson Reed – Football vs. Rubgy

Grade 6 Experimental Biology

  • Maddie Silk, Cate Foley – Perception Deception
  • Demetrios Kekis – Effect of Various Mouthwashes on Bacterial Colonies in a Human Mouth

Grade 6 Experimental Biology/Chemistry

  • Abigail Ames, Arpi Mirzabegian – Spotless Pennies

Grade 7 Physics/Engineering

  • Imogen Slaven, Claire Kelley – Paint-On Circuits
  • Annelise Anderson – Helping the Visually Impaired Using Machine Learning

Grade 7 Physics/Chemistry

  • Sophia Atwell, Sarah Burns – Best Water Filtering Method for People in Need of Clean Water
  • Jack Babcock, Tucker Madison – What Are the Effects of Different Types of Laundry Detergent on Dirty Sportswear?

Grade 7 Experimental Biology/Behavioral

  • Sara Selig – Bumblebee Circus (Can bumblebees be trained to accomplish new tasks?)
  • Julia Kimball – Effects of Fertilizers on Plant Growth and the Environment

Grade 8 Experimental Biology/Chemistry

  • Neha Kommineni, Tiana Jiang – Essential Electrolytes
  • Jacob Pulido – Does Hanging Plants vs Potted Plants in Soil Have Different Growth Rates?

Grade 8 Biology/Environmental

  • Felicia Jamba – The Causes and Effects of Scoliosis
  • Jackie Walker – Could Slime Be the Solution to Global Warming?

Grade 8 Experimental Engineering/Physics

  • Robin Miller, Rebecca Miller – Pinwheel Power: How Windmill Blade Material Affects Amount of Energy Generated
  • Catherine Finnigan – Reinforced and Mechanically Stabilized Soil

Grade 9 Experimental Physics

  • Ziyad Ali and Olivier Bradley – Shooting a Nerf Dart as Far as Possible
  • Kaitlyn Ostrowski – What Is the Best Material for a Phone Case?
  • Timur Sahin – How Does a Parachute Work and How Does Its Shape Affect Its Velocity

Grade 9–11 Experimental Biology

  • Celeste Keep – Effects of Wifi Radiation on Plants
  • Emily Douglas – Turning Invasive Aquatic Plants into Effective Fertilizer

Grade 11–12 Experimental Biology

  • Caeden Bishop, Charles Bardenhueuer – The Effects of Seed Priming Techniques on the Germination of Major
    US Crops
  • Carolina Mello – Bacteria’s Biggest Foe: Viruses

Grade 10–11 Nonexperimental Biology

  • Angela Xing – Skin Grafts
  • Liza Toll and Rachel Shrives – Bioremediation of an Oil Spill

Grade 11–12 Nonexperimental Biology

  • Katherine Worden – Bactericidal Activity of Polyethylene Glycols Against Microorganisms
  • Sophie Beckman – SIDs

Grade 12 Nonexperimental Biology

  • Felicia Deng – Stem Cells in Regenerative Medicine
  • Julia Foley, Cam Hettich, Elizabeth Xiu – Cystic Fibrosis: Advancements Towards a Cure

Grade 10–12 Engineering

  • Hannah Taylor – Hydrogen Power: The Fuel of the Future
  • Lucy Bodtman – Pulse Width Modulation

Grade 11–12 Engineering

  • Vito Montesa, Kevin Yu – LightWeight
  • Spencer Tingle – The Effects of Engine Orientation on Output

Grade 11–12 Experimental Physical

  • Kyle Schoenberg – Battery Optimization
  • Vivien Jamba – Cryptography: Through the Hacker’s Eyes
  • Christopher Thornton – Effects of Magnetic Fields on Corrosion of Metal

Grade 11–12 Nonexperimental Biology/Chemistry

  • Yohhan Kumarasinghe, Andrew Hill – A New Frontier: Cryo-Electron Microscopy
  • Liam Makosky, Cameron Pappas – Chirality in Sugars
  • Bridget Gibbons – Metallic Hydrogen: The Controversial Claim

Grade 11–12 Nonexperimental Physics

  • Angela Hu and Ivy Wang – Understanding Data Communications
  • Mischa DeRuijter, Maddy Hill, Kiley Russell – Geophysics, the Physics of Natural Disasters
  • Steven Scarano, Will Hopper, Evan Bilafer – Car Crash Reconstruction Physics

 
Source: The Bromfield School

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