An Overview of Science Night 2020
Taken from the Awards Powepoint Presentation
On Wednesday, February 12, ACP hosted its annual Science Fair in the school’s cafeteria and library. Students presented projects that they had prepared for over the past few months. The event started off with an Interactive STEM Showcase, where the participant’s Science Fair boards were placed orderly in the library, followed by an interactive demonstration located in the cafeteria. Students attained extra credit in their science class for attending the event. After the presentations concluded, everyone made their way to the cafeteria for awards.
All first and second place winners from the ceremony have the choice to represent ACP Erie at HISEF on February 19th-22nd. Only first place winners will get the chance to automatically go to AzSEF on March 26th-27th. With that, the MC presented all the awards, so let us see how each student performed:
Animal Sciences
1st Place: Kaitlyn Lai & Omina Nematova
The Effect of Social Isolation of Honey Bees on Caffeine Addiction
2nd Place Tie: Gabe Huffman
The Effect of Temperature on Porpoise Whale Presence
2nd Place Tie: Kate Leinenweber & Ethan Ngo
Blue Whale Phylogeny Based on Mitochondrial Protein Sequences
3rd Place: Maria Gonzalez Lopez
Migratory Bird Navigation: Gambel’s white-crowned sparrow
Behavioral Science and Social Sciences
1st Place: Frederick Changho & Arun Vijay
Shankar
The Effect of Reinforcement Type on Task Completion
2nd Place: Ivan-Alexander Kroumov
The Effect of Music on Reaction Time
3rd Place: Ella Yellig & Izaan DeBruyn
The Effect of Birth Order on Personality Type
Biochemistry
1st Place: Michelle Sheikh
Flavonoids and Wound Healing in Burn Victims
2nd Place: Page Riley
Fighting Ebola
Biomedical and Health Sciences
1st Place Tie: Sohani Sandhu
Secondary Metabolites and Bioplastics
1st Place Tie: Mihira Karnik
The Effect of the Internal Temperature of Vegetables on its
Cellulose Breakdown, Enzyme Activity and Vitamin C Content
2nd Place: Aurelia Marsh
The Effect of the Amount of Sugar Ingested and the Average
Barometric Pressure on the Pain Felt by Rheumatoid Arthritis
Patients
1st Place: Emily Schugardt, Ashleigh Griffin &
Ashley Brady
Constructing a Brucella Vaccine Designed to Ensure the Safety of
the Patient, Development of Adaptive Immunity, Minimization of
Residual Virulence, and Differentiability of Vaccinated from
Infected Patients
2nd Place: Chloe Scanlan
Direct Reprogramming to Create Heart Tissue
3rd Place: Brooke Staples
How Tamoxifen Affects Women Differently
Earth and Environmental Sciences
1st Place: Rish Nayak, Grayson Rogers & Griffin
Slivka
Is Fecal Processing a Viable Option for Obtaining Pure Drinking
Water?
2nd Place: Devon Baggot
What Are You Missing? A Study on Light Pollution
Embedded Systems
1st Place: David Demarco
Designing and Building a Four Bit Computer: The Effect of Clock
Speed on Computer Speed
Energy Sustainable Materials and Design
1st Place: Humza Choudhury
The Effect of the Type of Biomass Sample on the Amount of Glucose Produced
2nd Place: Xavier T Gacusan, Christopher Ferreira & Griffin Wirth
The Effect of Speed of Water on the Brightness of a Light Bulb
Engineering Mechanics
1st Place Tie: Sean Connolly
The Effect of Added Circuit Resistance on Heat Allowed to the Outlet Side in Non-Transfer Orientation
1st Place Tie: Jordan Hill
The Effect of Heat Sink Type on Cooling Efficiency
Environmental Engineering
1st Place: Nevan Hanford, Blake Enwiller & Aahana Dugar
The Degradation of Polystyrene (Styrofoam) By Tenebrio Beetles and Their Larvae
2nd Place: Sai Chintala & Arianne Law
The Effect of Different Types of Plastics on the Consumption of Plastic by Galleria mellonella
Materials Science
1st Place: Brandon Pham
Limiting the Abilities of Sound Movement
2nd Place: Raine Huang
Different Core Materials and Their Effect on Flux Density of Electromagnets
Mathematics
1st Place: Taman Truong & Deangelo Brasen
Diagonal Compression of Polygon
Microbiology
1st Place: Joseph Kim, Justin Lee & Raymond Tsai
The Effect of Nicotine in Candida Growth
2nd Place: Diya Nath
Microbiome and Our Gut
Physics and Astronomy
1st Place: Autumn Heath
Asteroid Data Analysis
2nd Place: Dylan Banhart
The Effect of Type of Arrowhead on Penetration Depth
Plant Sciences
1st Place: Nada M Osman
Potential Genes for Improving Cacao Crop Production
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
1st Place: Yaniv Briker
Gestype: A Novel Solution to Ergonomically Inefficient Keyboards using Real-Time Deep Learning Based Gesture Recognition
2nd Place Tie: Kerry Zhuo
Engineering a Lift
2nd Place Tie: Lucas Conklin, Joseph Fortunato & Ryan Harding
The Effect of Quantity of Training Data on the Accuracy of a Deep Learning Image Recognition Program’s Prediction
Systems Software
1st Place: Vahini Patel, Sanchi Patel & Grace Oh-Lee
Creating an Object Recognition App
Congratulations to all the victors; the long hours of work and stress will pay off soon. ACP wishes all first and second place winners a good luck for HISEF and AzSEF!
Upcoming dates to keep in mind for the 2020 Science Competition Season are:
HISEF Judging: Senior Division – Fri, February 21, 9:00am-
10:00am
HISEF/Chandler Innovation Fair – Saturday, February 22nd ,
10am-3pm
CIF Awards (HISEF) Ceremony – March 2nd at 6pm (Chandler Center for the Arts)
Junior Science & Humanities Symposium February 28-29
(Deadline for registration THIS Friday, February 14th)
AzSEF – March 26th and 27th
ISEF – May 10 -15th , Anaheim, CA (Senior Division Invitation only)
Remember to always strive for the impossible and be extraordinary!
