Senior Division Winners
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Behavioral & Social Sciences First Place: Meher Malik Godwin High School The Effect of Age, Gender, and Ethnicity on Emotional Intelligence Second Place: Michelle Foley Godwin High School The Correlation Between Eye Dominance and Which Hand a Basketball Player Shoots With Third Place: Ryan Abalos Godwin High School The Effect of Musical Taste on Preference of Dissonance Honorable Mention: Merideth Fayman Godwin High School The Effect of Time Limit on the Score Achieved on a Vocabulary Quiz |
Meher Malik at the Virginia State Science & Engineering Fair |
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Biochemistry First Place: Suraj Mishra Godwin High School Investigating the French Paradox: Resveratrol as a Potential Antioxidant in Mesenchymal Stem Cell Differentiation and Genomic Stability Second Place: Anthony Palesis Godwin High School Probing t-RNA m1G37 Methyltransferase (TrmD) with Bis-ANS Third Place: Grace Lee Math & Science High School at Clover Hill Developing a Method to Incorporate Phosphoserine into Peptide Libraries |
Suraj Mishra with MSiC Foundation President Tom McCormick |
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Botany First Place: James Fang Godwin High School The Effect of Meadowfoam and Blue Spruce Shoot Extract on Germination Inhibition of Bermudagrass (Cynodon dactylou) Second Place: Amanda Schanz Math & Science High School at Clover Hill The Effect of Estrogen Level in Water on the Average Root Length and Average Number of Roots of the Pothos Plant Third Place: Alex Kohlroser Godwin High School The Effect of Ultraviolet Radiation on the Growth of Brassica rapa
Honorable Mention: Christopher Barnett Godwin High School The Effect of Magnetism on Plant Growth |
James Fang with MSiC Foundation President Tom McCormick |
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Chemistry First Place: Vijay Govindarajan Godwin High School A Nanoparticle-based Solution to Mitigate Corrosion of an Alkaline Fuel Cell Bipolar Plate Second Place: Shanna Su Godwin High School The Effect of Sodium Cyanide on Oxygen Reduction Third Place: Emily Ko Maggie Walker Governor's School Fire Proofing: The Effect of Sodium Silicate, Boric Acid, and Sodium Bicarbonate on the Fire Resistance of Bass Wood Honorable Mention: Michael Viray Maggie Walker Governor's School The Effect of Different Gel Matrices on Their Performance in Gel Electrophoresis Testing |
Vijay Govindarajan with MSiC Foundation President Tom McCormick |
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Earth & Space Sciences First Place: Anthony Hennig Maggie Walker Governor's School The Effect of the Entry Angle of a Projectile on the Amount of Ejecta Expelled Second Place: Ashley Hedberg Godwin High School Carbon Dioxide Emissions versus Tropical Cyclones: A Correlative Study Third Place: Andrew Christovich Powhatan High School The Effect of the Type of Rock on its Ability to Slice Chicken Skin Honorable Mention: Russell Smith Deep Run High School The Effect of Hurricanes on Sea Surface Temperature |
Anthony Hennig with MSiC Executive Director Dr. Julia Cothron |
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Engineering First Place: Jonathan Guinther Godwin High School Using Fatty Acids for Biodiesel Fuel Applications Second Place: Mukarram Ahmad Math & Science High School at Clover Hill On the Importance of Planar Fiber Orientation in Predicting the Permeability of Fibrous Porous Media Third Place: Amit Shukla Math & Science High School at Clover Hill The Effect of Varying Pore Sizes on the Wavelength Emitted by Self-created Light Emitting Devices Honorable Mention: Margaret Benson Maggie Walker Governor's School The Effect of Salinity on the Compressive Strength of Ice Honorable Mention: David Newill-Smith Math & Science High School at Clover Hill The Effect of Splitting White Light into the Spectrum on the Power Output of a Solar Panel Circuit Placed so Each Panel will Receive Only Photons Equal to Its Band Gap Energy |
Jonathan Guinther with MSiC Foundation President Tom McCormick |
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Environmental Science First Place: Chris Castillo Godwin High School The Effect of Aquatic Plants on Lead Removal in Water Second Place: Natalie Hahn Godwin High School The Effect of Fertilizer State on the Amount of Chemical Runoff from Sod Third Place: Evan Wang Maggie Walker Governor's School The Effect of Different Grass Types on the Rate of Carbon Dioxide Absorption Honorable Mention: Stephanie McDonnell Godwin High School The Effect of Natural Filters on the pH and Turbidity of Suburban Runoff |
Chris Castillo at the Virginia State Science & Engineering Fair |
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Math & Computer Science First Place: Thomas Delgado Math & Science High School at Clover Hill Investigations into the Cellular Turing Machine: Exploring the Limits of Massive Parallelism Second Place: Matthew Boegner Godwin High School The Effect of Vehicle Model on Predicted Versus Actual Acceleration Third Place: Caroline Lacy Godwin High School The Effect of Gas Prices on Automobile Fatalities |
Thomas Delgado with MSiC Foundation President Tom McCormick |
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Medicine & Health First Place: Jessica Harrington Math & Science High School at Clover Hill Novel Inhibitors for IL-1 Induced Systolic Dysfunction and Post-infarction Cardiac Remodeling Second Place: Manavi Johri Godwin High School Determining Subcellular Localization of RAI1 Isoform C in COS-7 Cells Third Place: Ishani Premaratne Maggie Walker Governor's School The Detection of Endogenous Cannabinoid Receptors in Rat Parietal Cells Honorable Mention: Jessica Lau Godwin High School The Effect of Different Concentrations of Cigarette Smoke Extract (CSE) and Times of CSE Exposure on Cell Death of Calu-3 Human Bronchial Epithelial Cells as Measured by Trypan Blue and Lactate Dehydrogenase Assays |
Jessica Harrington with MSiC Foundation President Tom McCormick |
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Microbiology First Place: Margaret Chi Math & Science High School at Clover Hill Investigating the Effect of T-bet on the Proliferation of Parasite Specific CD8+ T Cells Second Place: Patraic Lichtman Godwin High School The Effect of Different Natural Antifungals on the Growth of Yeast Third Place: Leon Hu Maggie Walker Governor's School Solar and Conventional Irridation of Escherichia coli |
Margaret Chi with MSiC Executive Director Dr. Julia Cothron |
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Physics First Place: Michelle Kennedy Hanover High School A Model of the Effect of the Chiral Angle on the Young’s Modulus of Single Walled Carbon Nanotubes Second Place: Nayana Chiluvuri Godwin High School The Effect of the Frequency of an ISM Band Link on its Resistance to Interference from a Microwave Oven Third Place: Clayton Geipel Godwin High School The Effect of Magnet Size on Superconducting Levitation Height Honorable Mention: Eric Most Math & Science High School at Clover Hill Can Warm Water Freeze Faster than Cold Water? |
Michelle Kennedy with MSiC Executive Director Dr. Julia Cothron |
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Team Projects First Place: Collin Christovich, Andrew Harrison and John Seekins Powhatan High School The Effect of Different Oils on the Energy Output of Biodiesel Fuels Second Place: Christopher John, Christian Higuchi and Will Dingus Powhatan High School The Effect of Microwave Irradiation on Aspirin Synthesis Third Place: Daniel Kolmer and Scott Harrison Godwin High School The Effect of Braking Distance on Gas Mileage |
Collin Christovich, Andrew Harrison and John Seekins with MSiC Executive Director Dr. Julia Cothron |
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Zoology First Place: Andrew Shore Math & Science High School at Clover Hill Evaluating KLF2 and KLF4 Interaction Based on KLF2 and KLF4 Crossings Second Place: Joseph Matt Godwin High School The Effect of Culture Media on Embryonic Development of Mice Third Place: Katherine Chen Godwin High School The Effects of Various Natural and Synthetic Substances on the Repellency of Mosquitoes and Other Disease-bearing Insects |
Andrew Shore with MSiC Foundation President Tom McCormick |
