2012 Junior Fair Winners
Aug 15, 2012
Congratulations to our Junior Fair Winners!
Best in Show
Tanner Best - Cotton Yield Response to Varying Water Replacement Levels
Lubbock, TX
Physical Sciences
1st Grand
Janet Sonka - Forensic Fingerprinting using Household Powders
Spring, TX
2nd Grand
London Bolsius - Cube Solving Robot
Round Rock, TX
Life Sciences
1st Grand
Tanner Best - Cotton Yield Response to Varying Water Replacement Levels
Lubbock, TX
2nd Grand
Jerry Jones - Choose Organic To Avoid Panic!
Dallas, TX
| Animal Sciences | Name | Hometown | Title |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | |||
| Jacey Snapp | Lubbock, TX | Angle or Length A Jumper's Strength | |
| 2 | |||
| Paige Gentry | San Angelo, TX | Reducing Rabies Responsibly | |
| 3 | |||
| Henry Kettler | Washington, TX | The Feed to Suceed | |
| 4 | |||
| Yena Yu | El Paso, TX | Peanut Butter and Mice | |
| Sara Pourjavaheri | El Paso, TX | Peanut Butter and Mice | |
| 5 | |||
| Hugh Rojas | Mission, TX | Can You See it Now? | |
| Behavioral and Social Sciences | |||
| 1 | |||
| Dustin Sanford | Waco, TX | An Irrational Draw to Free Things: United States and India | |
| 2 | |||
| Raphael Lewis | San Antonio, TX | Age- Gender- & Inattentional Blindness | |
| 3 | |||
| Mary Farrell | Austin, TX | How does age affect a person's speed/accuracy on the Stroop Test? | |
| 4 | |||
| Ellie Pasquarette | Austin, TX | How does age affect short term memory? | |
| 5 | |||
| Luis Hunter Urrea | El Paso, TX | Stop! What color is that? | |
| Biochemistry | |||
| 1 | |||
| Grace Garcia-Ranft | Live Oak, TX | Going Green?? | |
| 2 | |||
| Sonya Xu | Plano, TX | Are You Ripe Enough For Me? The Changes of pH Levels in Fruits | |
| 3 | |||
| Sujana Nelakanti | Plano, TX | The Effects of Acid on Algae | |
| Sakina Plumber | Plano, TX | The Effects of Acid on Algae | |
| 4 | |||
| Ilsa Siddiqui | Austin, TX | The Effects of Enzyme Concentration and Temperature on Enzyme Catalyzed Reaction Rates | |
| 5 | |||
| Mia Spennato | Austin, TX | Got Lactase? | |
| Cellular and Molecular Biology | |||
| 1 | |||
| Alan Zhao | Plano, TX | The Effect of Oxygen on Growth of Breast Cancer Cells | |
| 2 | |||
| Shivan Chokshi | Plano, TX | Extreme Exposures | |
| Rohan Trivedi | Plano, TX | Extreme Exposures | |
| 3 | |||
| Zaina Thakur | Cedar Park, TX | DNA Extraction & Gel Electrophoresis | |
| 4 | |||
| Alejandro Garcia | El Paso, TX | The Last Standing Bun and Beef Patty | |
| 5 | |||
| Nickolas Rey | El Paso, TX | Healthy Colors | |
| Chemistry | |||
| 1 | |||
| Anshu Jain | Lewisville, TX | BURNING CALORIES: HOW MUCH ENERGY IS STORED IN DIFFERENT TYPES OF FOOD? | |
| 2 | |||
| Edward Kim | Waco, TX | The Study of Refraction on Sugar and Salt Solutions | |
| 3 | |||
| Alex Brackenbury | El Paso, TX | IT'S NOT OK TO DECAY | |
| 4 | |||
| Kathleen Ran | Helotes, TX | The Level of Unsaturated Fat on the Quality of Bio-fuel | |
| 5 | |||
| Hannah Weinstein | The Woodlands, TX | Effects of UVB Light on Wool | |
| Computer Science | |||
| 1 | |||
| Yijun Hu | Houston, TX | NANORGS | |
| Sachindra Sanamvenkata | Houston, TX | NANORGS | |
| 2 | |||
| Crystal Hsu | El Paso, TX | Sleuthing for Styles of Literature | |
| 3 | |||
| Sunitha Konatham | Round Rock, TX | Go Primitive To Improve Performance | |
| 4 | |||
| Sage Mcadams | Plano, TX | Is Your Password Safe? A Study of Times to Crack Different Hashing Algorithms | |
| 5 | |||
| Zahrah Agha | Sugar Land, TX | Word For Word | |
| Earth Science | |||
| 1 | |||
| Wenjia Dara Li | Plano, TX | Ocean dead zones- Does the amount of aluminum sulfate affect the density of phytoplankton | |
| 2 | |||
| Maya Patel | The Woodlands, TX | Gauging Inferno Sprawl | |
| 3 | |||
| Lauren Hall | Corpus Christi, TX | Revealing the Past Year 3 | |
| 4 | |||
| Alan Hurlbert | Seabrook, TX | Tornado Power | |
| 5 | |||
| Lailah Rodriguez-Fournier | El Paso, TX | Water With Feelings | |
| Energy and Transportation | |||
| 1 | |||
| Yaseem Rana | Fort Worth, TX | Sustainable Energy: The Effect of Faraday's Law of Induction on Harnessing Ocean Wave Energy | |
| 2 | |||
| Garima Singh | Round Rock, TX | Which Type Of Biodiesel Will Release The Most Energy? | |
| 3 | |||
| Priya Ramamoorthy | Austin, TX | It's Cooking with Gas | |
| Kavya Ramamoorthy | Austin, TX | It's Cooking with Gas | |
| 4 | |||
| Michael Bohnet | The Woodlands, TX | Fun in the Sun | |
| 5 | |||
| Kaley Vetter | League City, TX | Concentrating Solar Rays | |
| Engineering: Electrical/Mechanical | |||
| 1 | |||
| Brayden Dragoo | Flower Mound, TX | That was Slick | |
| 2 | |||
| Lea Gustafson | New Home, TX | Wave Power | |
| 3 | |||
| Logan Zartman | Fort Worth, TX | OptiFi | |
| 4 | |||
| Rucha Joshi | Austin, TX | Touchscreen Technology | |
| Krithika Shamanna | Austin, TX | Touchscreen Technology | |
| 5 | |||
| Tyler Raboin | League City, TX | Waves vs. Seawalls 3: Floating Disruptors | |
| Engineering: Materials/Bioengineering | |||
| 1 | |||
| Tiasha Joardar | Plano, TX | Comparison of Infrared and Visible Light Absorption Properties of Water and its Application in Filtering Heat Energy from Solar Radiation | |
| 2 | |||
| Bill Wehrfritz | The Woodlands, TX | The Plusses and Fusses of Trusses | |
| 3 | |||
| Blake Stoddard | Plano, TX | Insulation Inquiry | |
| 4 | |||
| Ayeesha Mohammed | Laredo, TX | Save Your Butt 2: Corrosion Inhibition of Concrete and Concrete Reinforcement in HCl | |
| 5 | |||
| Phillip Bishara | Lubbock, TX | Can You Hear Me Now? | |
| Environmental Management | |||
| 1 | |||
| Raisa Islam | Irving, TX | LIVING GREEN: How to Make A Solar Oven | |
| Qanitah Khalid | Irving, TX | LIVING GREEN: How to Make A Solar Oven | |
| 2 | |||
| Dmitri Garlic | Weslaco, TX | Dead Animals do Tell Tails | |
| 3 | |||
| Shreyoshi Das | Flower Mound, TX | Lightweight Composites From Waste Products | |
| 4 | |||
| Rupasri Shankar | Plano, TX | Using Fruit Peels as Bio-Sorbents to Remove Toxins from Wastewater | |
| 5 | |||
| Mubasshara Galib | Austin, TX | Biodegradable Oil Absorbents that Work | |
| Environmental Sciences/Analysis | |||
| 1 | |||
| Katelyn Bouthillette | The Woodlands, TX | Grey Water for Green Plants | |
| 2 | |||
| Gabriela Garza | San Antonio , TX | Water to Fuel to Water The Fuel Cycle of the Future | |
| 3 | |||
| Ethan Mccosky | Austin, TX | The Secret Life of Pond Scum | |
| 4 | |||
| Sebastian Ramirez | El Paso, TX | Refined Soil | |
| 5 | |||
| Kyrie Garlic | Weslaco, TX | How Different Levels of Carbon Dioxide Affect Crayfish Behavior | |
| Olivia Cellum | Weslaco, TX | How Different Levels of Carbon Dioxide Affect Crayfish Behavior | |
| Mathematical Sciences | |||
| 1 | |||
| Aditya Vaidya | Plano, TX | Accuracy of Primality Tests | |
| 2 | |||
| Bryson Hill | Austin, TX | Is it Random Enough? | |
| 3 | |||
| Jerry Chen | Round Rock, TX | Tic Tac Toe ...? | |
| 4 | |||
| Rishi Gonuguntla | Richardson, TX | Mathematical Mitosis | |
| 5 | |||
| Brianna Blattman | China Spring, TX | Happy Birthday to Two | |
| Medicine and Health Sciences | |||
| 1 | |||
| Nia Clements | San Antonio, TX | Lunchbox Bugs | |
| 2 | |||
| Vignesh Ravindranath | Plano, TX | Can I Squeeze Your Eye? | |
| Avi Minocha | Plano, TX | Can I Squeeze Your Eye? | |
| 3 | |||
| Sean Thomas Grieshop | El Paso, TX | To Breathe Or Not To Breathe | |
| 4 | |||
| Mohit Talwalker | The Woodlands, TX | Stretch Your Body - Stretch Your Life | |
| 5 | |||
| Amelia Brown | Plano, TX | Grow Your Own Antibiotics? | |
| Microbiology | |||
| 1 | |||
| Eman Alasadi | Arlington, TX | The Development of Biofilms with Streptococcus mutans | |
| 2 | |||
| Isuru Somawardana | San Antonio, TX | The Effect of Cell Phone Radiation on Saccharomyces cerevisiae | |
| 3 | |||
| Analaura Trevino | Weslaco, TX | White flies | |
| 4 | |||
| Amritaa Sreeram | Houston , TX | INHIBITION OF LEUKEMIA CELL PROLIFERATION BY INGREDIENTS FROM MOTHER NATURE | |
| 5 | |||
| Jack Galvin | The Woodlands, TX | Honey's Antibacterial Properties | |
| Physics and Astronomy | |||
| 1 | |||
| John Wilkins | San Antonio, TX | Effects of Changing the Moon's Eccentricity on High Tide Height (the maximum and minimum high tide in one year) in Boston- Massachusetts Coastal Area | |
| 2 | |||
| Nick Cheeseman | Corpus Christi, TX | Watt's Up | |
| 3 | |||
| Kaleigh Gallant | Frisco, TX | UV Rays: The Fate of Fabric | |
| Emily Lowry | Frisco, TX | UV Rays: The Fate of Fabric | |
| 4 | |||
| Sean Venglar | San Antonio, TX | What's Up With the Sun? | |
| 5 | |||
| Chase Hermes | China Spring, TX | Dropping By | |
| Plant Sciences | |||
| 1 | |||
| Zain Syed | Paris, TX | The Effect of Ibuprofen on the Growth of Grass | |
| 2 | |||
| Christopher Pitts | Fort Worth, TX | The Effect of Growth Hormone On Irradiated Phaseolus Lunatus | |
| 3 | |||
| Alanna Tran | Texarkana, TX | Radiation With Germination Year 2 | |
| 4 | |||
| Varun Patamalla | San Antonio, TX | Which Polymer will aid in germination of seeds in polluted soil? | |
| 5 | |||
| Sydney Stobart | The Woodlands, TX | Can We Fix It? |
