2011 Junior Fair Winners
Aug 15, 2011
Congratulations to all of our 2011 Junior Fair Winners!
Best in Show
Kaleigh Gallant & Emily Lowry - UV Rays: Stealing the Color
Frisco, TX
Physical Sciences
1st Grand
Kaleigh Gallant & Emily Lowry - UV Rays: Stealing the Color
Frisco, TX
2nd Grand
Jerrod Jaquess - Up In Flames!
Tahoka, TX
Life Sciences
1st Grand
Justin Du - Garlic Chives - Pest Repelling
Plano, TX
2nd Grand
Anthony Basile - Testing the Effectiveness of Natural Materials Used in BMP Erosion Control Socks to Control Storm Water Erosion
San Antonio, TX
| Animal Sciences | |||
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| Shirley Dixon | Kerrville, TX | Drosophila Evolution: Measuring Winged Versus Wingless Phenotypic Ratios Under Varying Selection Pressures | |
| 2 | |||
| Emma McCormick | Kerrville, TX | Benefits of Regeneration: Measuring Starfish Podia- Digestive Glands- and Reproductive Organs | |
| 3 | |||
| Wenjia Li | Plano, TX | Do Different Types of Water Pollution Affect the Survival Rate of Artemia salina? | |
| 4 | |||
| Kyle Ramsey | Navasota, TX | Cryoprotection Year 2 | |
| 5 | |||
| Julia Sircar | Coppell, TX | Bothersome Beetles! | |
| Behavioral and Social Sciences | |||
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| Ritt Givens | New Braunfels, TX | For Appearances Sake | |
| 2 | |||
| Yugena Gunawardena | San Antonio, TX | The Effects of Various Pretest Environments On the Human Mind | |
| Paul Lopez Perryman | San Antonio, TX | ||
| 3 | |||
| Jack Elliott | Austin, TX | How does personality affect handwriting? | |
| 4 | |||
| Dagoberto Garza | Weslaco, TX | Can Surveys Help Business Owners Target the Interests of People? | |
| 5 | |||
| Gillian Terrell | Whitehouse, TX | A Better Book? | |
| Biochemistry | |||
| 1 | |||
| Annabelle Lindner | San Antonio, TX | Is it in You or Not? | |
| 2 | |||
| Nipun Ramakrishnan | Allen, TX | Which Fruits and Vegetables are Best to Buy Organic? | |
| 3 | |||
| Caroline Parks | Texarkana, TX | The 411 on Hair | |
| 4 | |||
| Veronica Flores | Mission, TX | Bacterial Growth | |
| 5 | |||
| LINCOLN ABBOTT | FAIR OAKS RANCH, TX | Diminutive Dynamos: Electricity from Microbes | |
| Cellular and Molecular Biology | |||
| 1 | |||
| Saima Khan | Round Rock, TX | The chamber of truth- The gel electrophoresis chamber | |
| 2 | |||
| Darby Ballard | Del Rio, TX | Do Too Many Apples Really "Spoil the Barrel"? | |
| 3 | |||
| Nicholas Rey | El Paso, TX | Ju "C" Bell Peppers | |
| 4 | |||
| Bruce George | Del Rio, TX | Will The DNA Live ? | |
| 5 | |||
| William Chiang | Plano, TX | Human-Bacteria Chimera: Cross-Species Exchange of Genetic Material | |
| Chemistry | |||
| 1 | |||
| Serena Agrawal | San Antonio, TX | The Effectiveness of Zero Valent Iron Nanoparticles for Remediating Oil in Water | |
| Manu Bhanot | San Antonio, TX | ||
| 2 | |||
| Scott Spivey | El Paso, TX | Screen Your Sunscreen! | |
| 3 | |||
| Tiffany Aguilar | san antonio, TX | Everyday Drinks | |
| 4 | |||
| Nirali Thakor | Plano, TX | Conductance of Rehydration Fluids | |
| 5 | |||
| Madison Huntington | Jefferson , TX | Black Gold For Better Or Worse? | |
| Computer Science | |||
| 1 | |||
| Seena Ounsinegad | Austin, TX | By utilizing taxonomy- how is an organism classified based on selected characteristics? | |
| 2 | |||
| Brendan Kearney | Woodway, TX | Can Unguided Robots Find Bombs? | |
| 3 | |||
| Sunitha Konatham | Austin, TX | Green your PC: Help your computer save power | |
| 4 | |||
| JAY PUROHIT | PLANO, TX | POWER THE PERFORMANCE OF YOUR COMPUTER WITH RIGHT OPERATING SYSTEM | |
| 5 | |||
| Jazmin Campos | El Paso, TX | VC | |
| Earth Science | |||
| 1 | |||
| Kausthub Poondi | Plano, TX | Ultra Violent Radiation | |
| 2 | |||
| Lauren Hall | Corpus Christi, TX | Revealing the Past Year 2 | |
| 3 | |||
| Mychaella Bowen | Austin, TX | UV Lights - Crystals - Grow! | |
| 4 | |||
| Shawn Matthijetz | Lincoln, TX | Wind Turbines Converting A Model To The Real Thing | |
| 5 | |||
| Luke Hogg | San Angelo, TX | Which Way? | |
| Energy and Transportation | |||
| 1 | |||
| Junaid Kalair | Richardson, TX | Thermoelectric Generator. Using Fresnel Lens to enhance productivity of TEG | |
| 2 | |||
| IChun Lin | Plano, TX | A Study of Dye-Sensitized Solar Cell Efficiency and Lifespan | |
| 3 | |||
| Renita Alexander | Plano , TX | And then there were Waves | |
| 4 | |||
| Fernando Garcia | El Paso, TX | Don't Waste Waste! | |
| 5 | |||
| Jeff Auster | Austin, TX | Good Vibrations: Green Power from Aeroelastic Flutter | |
| Engineering: Electrical/Mechanical | |||
| 1 | |||
| Logan Zartman | Fort Worth, TX | Wireless Power | |
| 2 | |||
| Zachary Reid | Austin, TX | Step to Renewable Energy with Electromagnetism | |
| 3 | |||
| William Gorman | Woodway, TX | Cathodic Protection | |
| 4 | |||
| Allen Chen | Plano, TX | The Harvest of Sunlight | |
| 5 | |||
| Maximiliano Rodriguez | Weslaco , TX | Thermostat | |
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Engineering:Materials/ |
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| Ayeesha Mohammed | Laredo, TX | Save Your Butt: Corrosion Inhibition of Steel in HCl | |
| 2 | |||
| Joel Abraham | Austin, TX | Stent Geometry: How it Affects Performance and Reliability | |
| 3 | |||
| Emilie Wille | Parker, TX | Can You Hear Me Now? | |
| 4 | |||
| Meghan Rosprim | Bartonville, TX | Filtration Anticipation | |
| 5 | |||
| Jennifer Boldenow | Granbury, TX | What Truss Do You Trust? | |
| Environmental Management | |||
| 1 | |||
| Rohan Panaparambil | Coppell, TX | Bioplastic 2.0 | |
| 2 | |||
| Nada Aljamal | Austin, TX | Exploring Energy Sciences | |
| 3 | |||
| Dmitri Garlic | Weslaco, TX | Mosquito Madness | |
| 4 | |||
| Janet Diaz | Fort Worth, TX | The effects of motor oil on soil chemistry and percolation depth | |
| Kelly Jimenez | Fort Worth, TX | ||
| Environmental Sciences/Analysis | |||
| 1 | |||
| Sean Walter | New Braunfels, TX | Daphnia Immobilization reveals Threshold Toxicity from Combined Treatments with Ibuprofen and Detergent | |
| 2 | |||
| Trisha Mulamreddy | San Antonio, TX | Biodegradation of Ammonium Nitrate Using Chlorella pyrenoidosa and Chlamydomonas reinhardtii | |
| 3 | |||
| Rhea Kamat | San Antonio, TX | Soil Matters | |
| 4 | |||
| Cameron Brasher | Argyle, TX | Oil Drill! Oil Spill! What to Use to Clean Up this Ordeal? | |
| 5 | |||
| Dustin Brownlow | Floresville, TX | Determining the Rate of Crude Oil Bio-Degradation on the Gulf Beach | |
| Mathematical Sciences | |||
| 1 | |||
| Thomas Yu | Plano, TX | Where are we Safer? The Conditional Probability of Traffic Accidents | |
| 2 | |||
| Eisha Fremerman | Dallas, TX | A Walk to Remember: A Study of the Walking Patterns of Madagascar Hissing Cockroaches | |
| 3 | |||
| Kristen Bustillos | El Paso, TX | A Social Network | |
| 4 | |||
| Scarlet Oakley | Trophy Club, TX | Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer's Day? | |
| 5 | |||
| Marianna Duarte | El Paso, AL | The Golden Ratio- A Measure of Beauty | |
| Medicine and Health Sciences | |||
| 1 | |||
| Michelle Park | Plano, TX | Be Attractive: Using Magnetism with Nanoparticles | |
| 2 | |||
| Qianqian Yang | Plano, TX | The effect of an anti-CD40 antibody on human B cell growth | |
| 3 | |||
| Hunter Snowden | Lantana, TX | Video Game Player: Couch Potato or Athlete? | |
| 4 | |||
| Samuel Wing | Ralls, TX | Is It In You | |
| Autumn Mendez | Ralls, TX | Is It In You | |
| 5 | |||
| Sahira Kodra | Austin, TX | How does age affect visual reaction time? | |
| Microbiology | |||
| 1 | |||
| Noga Be'er | Austin, TX | Flagella vs. Biosurfactants | |
| 2 | |||
| Ria Chhabra | Plano, TX | Orgainc Food: Buy or Bypass | |
| 3 | |||
| Emran Shafaq | Fort Worth, TX | The Effect of Bottle Opacity on E. Coli Disinfection | |
| 4 | |||
| Tulasi Gopalan | El Paso, TX | Chile Pepper: A Food Preservative? | |
| 5 | |||
| Cody Larsen | San Angelo, TX | Health vs. Environment | |
| Physics and Astronomy | |||
| 1 | |||
| Samantha Harris | San Antonio, TX | Eating Air? | |
| 2 | |||
| Robin Pounders | Waco, TX | Translation by Levitation | |
| 3 | |||
| Alyssa Kara | San Antonio, TX | Can You Hear Me | |
| 4 | |||
| Belkis Karan | Bryan, TX | Colors & Light | |
| 5 | |||
| Paul Rutherford | Dallas, TX | Fill 'er Up- Examining the Consistency of Inexpensive Gas-Collecting Devices | |
| Plant Sciences | |||
| 1 | |||
| Joseph Yarian | San Angelo, TX | Growing Plants with LED Lights | |
| 2 | |||
| Yasmeen Tizani | Austin, TX | The Impact of Global Warming on Plant Growth | |
| 3 | |||
| Elliot Gorokhovsky | San Antonio, TX | The Effects of Electrical Stimulation on Brassica rapa L. | |
| 4 | |||
| Andrew Friedman | Plano, TX | Beyond and Back: Drip Irrigation Induces Drought Tolerance in Romaine Lettuc | |
| 5 | |||
| Alanna Tran | Texarkana, TX | Germination with Radiation | |






