2020 Los Angeles County Science Fair Category Winners
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2020 Los Angeles County Science Fair Category Winners Page 1 ANIMAL BIOLOGY - JR J01 Lacey Thompson Archer School for Girls First Place Hypertrophic 232 Cardiomyopathy Passed Through Fruit Flies To Their Offspring Zyg Ramsay The Science Academy Second Place The Butterfly Effect: The Boheng Cao STEM Magnet 176 correlation between the population of the butterfly Danaus plexippus and California wildfires Serj Petrossian Gaspar de Portola Third Place Magnetic Healing? Charter AIAT 493 Abril Rivas South Gate Middle Honorable Mention Effect of Salinity Level on School 656 Isochrysis Galbana Population Growth Marissa Cerda South Gate Middle Recognition Warming Brine School 521 Alma Nanny South Gate Middle Recognition Sea Urchins Reproduction School 474 Rate in Different pH Nanar Shahinian Chamlian Armenian Recognition The Effect of Temperature School 391 on the Eating Habits of Drosophila Melanogaster 2020 Los Angeles County Science Fair Category Winners Page 2 ANIMAL BIOLOGY - SR S01 Gavin Peters Palos Verdes High First Place Improving Captive School 561 Management Strategies for Conservation of Dendrobates auratus Stanley Liu Arcadia High School Second Place A Fully Integrated 112 Microfluidic Device for Blood Plasma Separation and Biomarker Detection Julia Marquez Cabrillo Marine Third Place The Impact of Fertilizer on Aquarium 580 Sea Urchin Zygote Developemnt Cecilia Alves California School of the Honorable Mention The Effect of Different Arts - San Gabriel Valley 162 Types of Pesticides on the Death Rate of Bees Nareh Almassian Rose and Alex Pilibos Recognition The Effect of Fruit and Armenian School 190 Color Stimulants on the reaction of Drosophila melanogaster Jessica Bahny Palos Verdes High Recognition Reprogramming Thresher School 524 Shark (Alopias vulpinus) Cells into Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells Anne-Sophie Corry Palos Verdes High Recognition A Study of the Grey Fox School 452 and Red Fox Populations on the Palos Verdes Peninsula Rhanya Cruz PVNet Education & Recognition A preliminary study for Technology Center 536 bioprinting an octopus heart Sophia Huezo Cabrillo Marine Recognition The Impact of Varying pH Aquarium 581 Levels on Purple Sea Urchin Zygote Development Ryan Ngo Crescenta Valley High Recognition Physical Effects of School 214 Elevated Dissolved Oxygen Levels on Trout Tejas Shivkumar Brentwood High School Recognition Neural Control of Cardiac 53 Relaxation in Giraffes Camryn Whitmore Lawndale High School Recognition Hatching Brine Shrimp 668 eggs in Salt Water Malia Weiss Flintridge Preparatory Recognition Salty Shrimp: The Effect of Sasha Wintersteller School 269 Salinity on Brine Shrimp Isabelle Townley Hatch Rate 2020 Los Angeles County Science Fair Category Winners Page 3 ANIMAL PHYSIOLOGY - JR J02 Maddy Pieronek American Martyrs School First Place U'V Got Me Feeling Blue 380 Amaanah Ali Institute of Knowledge Second Place Winning Worms 632 Scott Smith St. Bede The Venerable Third Place The Effect of Exercise on Luke Metcalf School 679 the Sleep Patterns and Weight Loss of Mice Maayan Mazar Pressman Academy Honorable Mention Under Pressure ... I Can 60 Hardly See Shreya Bhargava Blair High School Recognition Are Fingerprint Patterns 408 Inherited? Elsy Galvez Hollenbeck Middle Recognition Can Children Under 18 School 418 Years Old Have Cancer? What Are The Most Common Types/Symptoms? Jessica Garth Saint John Fisher Recognition How does age and gender 307 affect taste? Sarah Hafez New Dimensions Recognition Keep it Down! The Effect of 201 Noise Pollution on Blood Pressure and Pulse Rate in Adults Caroline Kboudi Pressman Academy Recognition Newton's Fall 83 Marco Melika American Martyrs School Recognition Parkinson's Disease Christian Mueller 371 Treatments On Brown Planaria Michelle Rhee The Science Academy Recognition Knee Pain: The Study of STEM Magnet 184 the Angle that Puts the Most Amount of Strain on the Knee 2020 Los Angeles County Science Fair Category Winners Page 4 ANIMAL PHYSIOLOGY - SR S02 Mia Moran Garey High School First Place The synergistic activity of 333 Betalain and Trehalose on the reduction of Fat lipid deposits to induce a healthier life Junhee Lee California Academy of Second Place Effect of Water Soluble Mathematics and 396 Fractions of Diesel on Science Fertilization and Embryonic Development of Pacific Sand Dollars, Dendraster excentricus Janet Higareda Garey High School Third Place Jamaica (hibiscus flowers) Rosario Rangel 18 a popular drink among Annmarie Ponce Latinos an easy source of Betalain to extend the Lifespan of C.Elegans. Hilary Ly California School of the Honorable Mention Effect of Glucose in Arts - San Gabriel Valley 173 Vegetables on Blood Glucose Levels in Humans John Han Diamond Bar High Recognition Is the CCR5 Mutation that Darius Esfahani School 491 confers HIV resistance really Adaptive? Aidan Hyman The Buckley School Recognition An Optogenetic Study of Liza Tabachnik 9 Neural Response Enhancement Correction using Physarum Polycephalum 2020 Los Angeles County Science Fair Category Winners Page 5 BEHAVIORAL SCIENCE - NON-HUMAN - JR J03 Eden Golden-Krasner Weizmann Day School First Place Mirror Mirror on the Wall: 104 Do Spiders Have Self- Recognition? Dylan Kelley Saint John Fisher Second Place Which Treat Does My Dog 330 Like Best? Sienna Anderson Royal Oak Middle School Recognition Are Dogs Right or Left 241 Pawed? Andrea Arce South Gate Middle Recognition Coloring Algae School 480 Isabella Shpall St. Timothy School Recognition Light vs. Heat Miranda Diaz Fuchs 221 Taylor Viducic Rudecinda Sepulveda Recognition Which Treat is Best? Dodson Gifted/HA 411 Magnet MS 2020 Los Angeles County Science Fair Category Winners Page 6 BEHAVIORAL/SOCIAL SCIENCES - HUMAN - JR J04 Nadia Alamad Al-Huda Islamic School First Place Sound Sound Go Away! A Jasmine Hassan 96 Study on the Effect of Decreased Background Noise on the Reaction Time of Special Needs Children Suffering from Hyperacusis Katherine Humphrey Saint Martin of Tours Second Place Serif or Sans Serif? The School 197 Quest for Improved Reading Ayla Richland Pressman Academy Third Place Catchy Memory 59 Benjamin Elbaz Pressman Academy Honorable Mention Political Campaigns: Go 58 Negative? Michael Isayan Portola Highly Gifted Honorable Mention Homework: Does it Help or Magnet 115 Harm? Scar Lutz Arroyo Seco Museum Honorable Mention Chromebooks or Science Magnet 585 Sketchbooks? Comparing off-task behavior Emily Avila Lennox Middle School Recognition Music vs. Stress Evelyn Loza 729 Isabella Guglielmetti St. Timothy School Recognition First Impressions 239 Evelyn Mahoney Mt. Gleason Middle Recognition Subliminal Messages in Andrea Alfaro School 433 Running Kimberly Olmedo Suzuko Ohshima Walter Reed Middle Recognition Shootings, Hurricanes, School 154 Earthquakes, and your Social Status Ponciano Rubio Arroyo Seco Museum Recognition A Look at Generational Science Magnet 587 Logical Reasoning Nicole Timour Chamlian Armenian Recognition Is Your Mind Playing Tricks School 281 On You? Keren Tizabi Pressman Academy Recognition He or She? 88 2020 Los Angeles County Science Fair Category Winners Page 7 BEHAVIORAL/SOCIAL SCIENCES - SR S03 Diego Borgsdorf Granada Hills Charter First Place La Gente de MaÃz: A Story Sarah Shapiro High School 597 of (De)Colonization, Food, Sarah Tran and Transnationalism among Latinx Youth in Los Angeles Alec Guthrie Flintridge Preparatory Second Place Fairness and Altruism School 209 Among High School Students - A Global Study in Behavioral Economics Timmy Park La Canada High School Third Place Muscle Music Aditya Sehgal 600 Ellen Chen Bonita High School Honorable Mention A Meta-analysis of the 533 Causes of Autism Maeve Humphrey Palisades Charter High Recognition The Effect of Stress and School 1 Meditation on Blood Glucose in Students During Finals Week Sofia Mathews California School of the Recognition The possible correlation Arts - San Gabriel Valley 179 between reading time before sleep and P.S.Q.I score Angelica Agahsi Crescenta Valley High Recognition The Role of Football in Rana Mehai School 244 Increasing Concussion Lilian Tahmasian Risk Anika (Hyojin) Park California School of the Recognition The Reason Why Parents Arts - San Gabriel Valley 167 Don't Want Their Children to Pursue Art Careers Charlotte Tight Palos Verdes High Recognition The Effect of Family School 504 Groups on Non-Verbal Communication in Humans Ruby Wu Diamond Bar High Recognition What are the Major Causes Elise Kwon School 502 of Suicide in Children? Maya Wurtemberg California School of the Recognition The Correlation Between Julian Moser Arts - San Gabriel Valley 203 Horror-Related Adjectives in Stephen King's Novels and the Sales of His Novels Luke Zhou Diamond Bar High Recognition Climate Change in the School 14 Classroom 2020 Los Angeles County Science Fair Category Winners Page 8 BIOCHEMISTRY & MOLECULAR BIOLOGY - JR J05 Manav Desai Portola Highly Gifted First Place Effects Of Omega-3 Fatty Magnet 142 Acids On Neuronal Regeneration Alana Baumgartner Saint John Fisher Second Place Flour 101: How different 247 flours affect weight, density, and volume of muffins Brooklin Baylor Royal Oak Middle School Honorable Mention Soda, Energy,Juice. 404 Comparing Leftover Abundance of Sugar Jordan Fleischman Blair High School Honorable Mention Pretty Please with sugar 671 ON top, but how much is IN what we eat? How much "hidden sugars" are in our food? Jana Hafez New Dimensions Honorable Mention iron Rich foods 465 Zeena Hajhamid Institute of Knowledge Honorable Mention finding the C in oj 641 Anaiis Marcarian Saint Martin