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 of Tours Honorable Mention Regular chips V.S. Baked School 138 chips
Monica Steinbeck American Martyrs School Honorable Mention Infusing Plants With 441 Vitamin C
Mark Wood American Martyrs School Honorable Mention Iron: How to Get the Most 369
Stephanie Harrison Archer School for Girls Recognition Testing Heat v. Electricity 448 on the Coagulation of Blood
Tess Hubbard Archer School for Girls Recognition Testing for GMO 437
Skye Inal New Horizon School Recognition Comparing the Amount of 309 Vitamin C in Home-grown Oranges and Store-bought Oranges
Ambrose Luo La Canada Preparatory Recognition Stopping Cancer from Zhou Long Private School 346 Spreading, with Information from Genes 2020 Los Angeles County Science Fair Category Winners Page 9 Layan Mustafa Institute of Knowledge Recognition Insulin Enduring Enzymes 626
Alina Naranjo Sarah Ross Science Fair Recognition The Brownie Experiment Isabella Milliken Junior Division 49
Reef Santos Saint John Fisher Recognition The Edible Bubble: How 390 Spherification Is Achieved with Various Liquids 2020 Los Angeles County Science Fair Category Winners Page 10 BIOCHEMISTRY & MOLECULAR BIOLOGY - SR S04 Jaya Hamkins Crescenta Valley High First Place Investigation of Adhesion School 301 Peptide Interactions with Hydroxyapatite Through Computational Molecular Dynamics
Sudi Feng La Canada High School Second Place Tau Phosphorylation by 602 HSV Protein US3 in Alzheimer's Disease
Katherine Wedekind Palos Verdes Peninsula Third Place Correction of MPS IIIA High School 348 Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells Using CRISPR-Cas9
Abigail Maemoto Palos Verdes High Honorable Mention Effect of TKS4 Inhibition on School 335 Invadopodia Growth and Activity Rate of Head and Neck Carcinomas
Jiyoun Roh Crescenta Valley High Honorable Mention Quinacrine Induces School 131 Lysosomal Membrane Permeabilization (LMP) and Enhances Sensitivity for TRAIL, an Anti-Tumor Agent
Ana Gonzalez The Buckley School Recognition Stop Stressing Out! A 6 study of the Epigenetic Aspect on Vertebrates and Invertebrates
Jackson Karlitz Palos Verdes High Recognition A Novel In Vitro School 658 Comparative Study on the Effects of TNF-a Inhibitors on HLA-B27 Cells
Keghon Kasparian Rose and Alex Pilibos Recognition Is Your Favorite Food Armenian School 464 Genetically Modified?
Jordan Lay La Canada High School Recognition Studying the Mechanisms Artis Phillips 583 of a Chaperone Protein
Paris Pappas Crespi Carmelite High Recognition Organic vs Inorganic:The School 150 Effect of Various Catalases on the Decomposition of the Toxin Hydrogen Peroxide
Jingyu Yan La Canada High School Recognition 3D Structural Investigation 265 of an Anti-viral Antibody
Stella Zilberberg The Buckley School Recognition Protecting The Skin From 3 Within 2020 Los Angeles County Science Fair Category Winners Page 11 CHEMISTRY - APPLIED - JR J06 Aleen Kojikian St Gregory A. & M. First Place Toxic Metals in Baby Food Hovsepian School 324
Molly Gelino Royal Oak Middle School Second Place Which method of 484 desalination and dirt extraction from an impurity filled water source works the best?
Zalea Nunes Sierra Madre Middle Third Place How do the expiration School 689 dates of hyaluronic acid gel fillers affect the fillers in terms of sterility, and response to hyaluronidase?
Rafael Enfiadjian Chamlian Armenian Honorable Mention Lungs vs. Aerosols School 378
Nicole Hacopians Chamlian Armenian Honorable Mention Fire Resistant House School 245
Grace Petoyan St Gregory A. & M. Honorable Mention Cold Pack Chemistry: Hovsepian School 290 Where Does the Heat Go?
Ava Almand St. Cyril of Jeruselem Recognition Fueling the Future with School 651 Fuel Cells
Brooke Chopiuk Saint Martin of Tours Recognition Which Brand of Water School 145 Bottle Will Keep Your Drinks Cold for the Longest Amount of Time?
Max Coleman Saint Martin of Tours Recognition Does A Carbon Water School 246 Filter Really Work?
Beatrix Khachaturian Sierra Madre Middle Recognition what is the most effective School 688 amount of acid to remove gelatin out of hair
William Zheng Portola Highly Gifted Recognition How does the voltage of Magnet 146 the electrical power (battery) affect how much hydrogen is produced? 2020 Los Angeles County Science Fair Category Winners Page 12 CHEMISTRY - GENERAL - JR J07 Christian Ramirez Royal Oak Middle School First Place The Science of Baking: Do 496 Different Ingredients Impact the Size & Texture of Chocolate Chip Cookies?
Michael Shamoyan Rose and Alex Pilibos Second Place Analysis of Alum Vincent Hovsepian Armenian Middle School 426
Daniela Gutierrez Hale Charter Academy Third Place How do different amounts STEAM Magnet 294 of exercise affect blood sugar levels
Leah Bacigalupi Blair High School Honorable Mention Water Filtration: Which 537 filter works best for clean drinking water, Natural or Synthetic?
Ella Lesnever Blair High School Honorable Mention How do different liquids Corinne Moreno 362 affect the health of teeth?
Cecilia Alfaro Lennox Middle School Recognition Vitamin C Joselyn Soto 466
Nicole Gorbacheva Beverly Vista Middle Recognition What happens when you School 618 mix and acid and a base?
Charlotte Hargrove Saint John Fisher Recognition Water evaporation 568
Hera Hovsepian St Gregory A. & M. Recognition Electrolytes For The Win Hovsepian School 295
Mallory Louie Sarah Ross Science Fair Recognition Sweet as Sugar Junior Division 680
Adara Martin-Mur Blair High School Recognition Does Xanthan Gum 337 Contribute to Flammability in Food?
Jeremy Sanchez Hollenbeck Middle Recognition Using Known Substances School 526 From A Light Spectrum To Identify Unknown Substances
Zayd Syed New Horizon School Recognition Producing Energy from 302 Hydrogen Fuel Cell 2020 Los Angeles County Science Fair Category Winners Page 13 Chloe Vuong Sierra Madre Middle Recognition How does the environment School 673 affect the pigment in a plant? 2020 Los Angeles County Science Fair Category Winners Page 14 CHEMISTRY - SR S05 Aaron Zhao Harvard-Westlake First Place Pancreatic Cancer Therapy School 151 (PCT) using MOF
Lydia Neguse California Academy of Second Place Characterization of Lattice Mathematics and 399 Distortion in SrTiO3 Grown Science on LSAT Substrate through Quantitative STEM Analysis
Jonathan Brahim Crespi Carmelite High Third Place Investigation of Solid State Vishal Ravi School 462 Electrolytes for Lithium Ion Batteries
Jacob Hageman Palos Verdes High Recognition The Effects of Energy Carter Harrigian School 389 Drinks on Lumbriculus variegatus
Martin Leung Temple City High School Recognition Filtration of Ammonia using 65 Oxidation Techniques
Miriam Meraz Compton Unified School Recognition Plop Plop, Fizz Fizz District 709 2020 Los Angeles County Science Fair Category Winners Page 15 EARTH / SPACE SCIENCES - JR J08 Emily Hattenbach St. Timothy School First Place Sunscreen: The Secret Gianna Nixon 224 Killer
Alex Muradian St Gregory A. & M. Second Place Martian Mission Hovsepian School 388
Julia Huffstutter Saint John Fisher Third Place Which Surface Materials 296 Can Reduce the Greenhouse Effect?
Emily Johnson Blair High School Honorable Mention How do you capture the 347 power of heat?
Jake Mu Royal Oak Middle School Honorable Mention Discovering Sodium 249 Chloride Levels of Southern California Beaches Through the Process of Desalination
Deepika Sharma Hale Charter Academy Honorable Mention How do different STEAM Magnet 278 groundwater levels impact building shaking during earthquakes?
Luca Gaglio Incarnation Parish Recognition The Dangers of UV Light: Edin Kapetanovic School 325 Are You Protected?
Eshal Saif Institute of Knowledge Recognition Erosion in Motion 629
Binyam Sisay Saint Joseph Long Recognition Understanding Landslides Beach 98
Mark Wang Sarah Ross Science Fair Recognition How Do I Measure The Junior Division 37 Size of the Earth
Logan Weinstein Hale Charter Academy Recognition Is the Intensity of STEAM Magnet 102 Tornadoes Dependent on Climate Change? 2020 Los Angeles County Science Fair Category Winners Page 16 EARTH / SPACE SCIENCES - SR S06 Jason Wang Walnut High School First Place Climate Change and 258 "Stuck" Weather Patterns: Longer Rainstorms, Drought, Heat Waves, and Extreme Cold
Amyrah Doty Palos Verdes High Second Place Classifying Geomagnetic School 564 Storms through Total Electron Content Modeling
Hillary Giang Lawndale High School Third Place Amount of Salt at Different 661 Beaches
Adhila Akbar Arcadia High School Recognition Correlation of Coronal Manasvi Chandra 608 Mass Ejections with the Solar Sunspot Cycle 2020 Los Angeles County Science Fair Category Winners Page 17 ECOLOGY - JR J09 Una Mclain Portola Highly Gifted First Place Public Drinking Water: Magnet 317 Comparing Lead Exposure
Annika Anderson St. Timothy School Second Place Plants Vs. Polymers June Zamora 220
Noah Kupferwasser Pressman Academy Third Place The Impact of 93 Temperature, Extreme Weather and Milkweed on the Development of the Monarch Butterfly
Rachel Chung Archer School for Girls Honorable Mention Does Climate Change Addie Myers 228 Make Marigold Growth Gigi Appelbaum-Schwartz Strange?
Ludovico Cordara La Canada Preparatory Honorable Mention Nanosilver: A Gigantic Private School 420 Problem?
Morgan Gaskell Sierra Madre Middle Honorable Mention How Can Aquatic School 141 Macroinvertebrates be Used to Help Determine Water Quality?
Maya Itani New Horizon School Honorable Mention The Effects of Different 313 Amounts of Phosphate on Elodea dense and Melanoides tuberculata
Kyra Nakamura Hale Charter Academy Honorable Mention Should Aquaponics be the STEAM Magnet 291 Future for Agriculture?
Claire Wang Archer School for Girls Honorable Mention Effects of Olivine on 230 Growth of Glass Anemone (aiptasia) and pH
Chiara Ayuste St. Timothy School Recognition A Temperature's Effect On 222 Trash
Gilbert Banuelos Hollenbeck Middle Recognition A Comparison Of CO2 School 416 From An Intact Plant And When Burned
Adeeb Dawabi New Dimensions Recognition Purifying Water With 455 Activated Charcoal Powder
Jolie Diep All Souls World Recognition Project Misty Language Catholic 667 School 2020 Los Angeles County Science Fair Category Winners Page 18 Michael Espinoza Royal Oak Middle School Recognition Which Soils Can Absorb 376 And Preserve Water in Different Conditions?
Sophia Gallivan Saint Martin of Tours Recognition Plants Vs. Plastic School 100
David Khachatourian Chamlian Armenian Recognition Up in the Air: Measuring Daren Stepanians School 375 Pollution in a Weather Balloon
Karina Kruger Beverly Vista Middle Recognition Will the Dead Sea die? Chloe Nejad School 617 How rising salinity may save the Dead Sea
Aarush Pillai Oak Hills Elementary Recognition Particulate Matter School 298
Summer Quistgaard Walter Reed Middle Recognition From Bad To Worse School 177
Edwin Romero Royal Oak Middle School Recognition Water Sample Testing: Ten 734 Different Cities in the San Gabriel Valley vs. City Water Quality Reports
Alishba Salman Institute of Knowledge Recognition Eat Lead and Your Dead 627
Aakash Senthilnathan Hale Charter Academy Recognition How Does a Wildfire Affect STEAM Magnet 277 Future Plant Growth? 2020 Los Angeles County Science Fair Category Winners Page 19 ECOLOGY - SR S07 Ashwin Sivakumar Flintridge Preparatory First Place Fossil-Augmented Species School 95 Distribution Models Reveal the Shifted Baselines of California Avifauna under Climate Change
David Kwon Palos Verdes Peninsula Second Place Modeling and statistical High School 320 analysis of the habitat distribution of Macrocystis pyrifera and Sargassum horneri off the Palos Verdes Peninsula coastline
Sabrina Li Walnut High School Third Place Effects of Baycrete Texture 213 and Tidal Elevation on Recruitment of Ostrea Lurida and Amphibalanus Amphitrite in San Diego Bay, CA
Patrick Kim North Hollywood High Honorable Mention Comparing Protected School 621 Habitat of Threatened Species in High Carbon Stock Concessions and Protected Areas in Indonesia
Sofia Gutierrez California School of the Recognition The Effect of Pollution on Arts - San Gabriel Valley 168 every Species of Turtles in Florida
Elyse Hwang La Canada High School Recognition Air Quality Monitor Hailey Chee 11
Aman Kumar Don Bosco Technical Recognition Silver the Killer: The Green Institute 401 Synthesis and Characterization of Silver Nanoparticles
Camilla Martinez North Hollywood High Recognition Genetic Factors in the School 16 Evolution of Ostracod Mating Displays
Crystal Yang Cabrillo Marine Recognition Which Carbon Sink Reigns Aquarium 622 Supreme: Microalgae, Macroalgae, or Limestone? 2020 Los Angeles County Science Fair Category Winners Page 20 ENGINEERING APPLICATIONS - JR J10 Julian Olschwang Pressman Academy First Place Talk To The Hand 61
Quinn Donoghue Saint Joseph Long Second Place Echo Assist Travel Buddy Beach 57
Shai Lang The Science Academy Third Place Designing An Ultrasonic Van Brunelle STEM Magnet 186 Glove For Visually Impaired People
Lauren Weldon Saint Joseph Long Third Place Robotic Glove Beach 56
Rosabelle Dunlap Mark Twain Middle Honorable Mention Did You Stop? School 515
Malik Husaini New Horizon School Honorable Mention Building a Handheld 218 Vacuum Cleaner Using a Plastic Bottle
Jasper Mejia The Science Academy Honorable Mention Solar Mini Fridge STEM Magnet 200
Jacie Salonga Rudecinda Sepulveda Honorable Mention Creating a robot that can Dodson MS 86 follow through a maze.
Gavin Sarmiento Rudecinda Sepulveda Honorable Mention R.C. Tennis Ball Collector Dodson MS 237
Sasha Kutner Pressman Academy Honorable Mention Engineering Building Lila Shimansky 152 Structures to Adapt to Eli Stoff Rising Sea Levels
Thom Slijper Portola Highly Gifted Honorable Mention Creating a Homemade Ion Luke Muir Magnet 552 Engine
Isabella Alcala Saint Joseph Long Recognition Skate-N-Stop Beach 94
Kaiden Chin Rudecinda Sepulveda Recognition Automatic Cutting Board Dodson MS 80
Dean Cornett Saint Joseph Long Recognition 4 in 1 Plant Sitter Beach 99 2020 Los Angeles County Science Fair Category Winners Page 21 Lilly Dembo Archer School for Girls Recognition Oil Spill Solutions 610
Jonathan Diaz James A. Foshay Recognition Solar Energy Oven Saul Perez Learning Center 445 Emanuel Garcia
Hengrui Hu Chandler School Recognition A microscope that will 208 change the world.
Erik Johnson Blair High School Recognition Heat Powered Desalination 287
Rabeeah Khan Al-Huda Islamic School Recognition Increasing Wi-Fi Signal 332 Strength and Speed with Homemade Boosters
Gion Mandia Rudecinda Sepulveda Recognition Ping pong ball shooter Dodson MS 697
Peter Monev Hale Charter Academy Recognition Are Hydraulically Amplified STEAM Magnet 319 Electrostatic Actuators Better Than Electromagnetic Actuators?
Diego Pa All Souls World Recognition Which Weight is Wright? Language Catholic 648 School
Erinne Park Rudecinda Sepulveda Recognition Solar Powered Wireless Dodson Gifted/HA 718 Charger Magnet MS
Richard Renteria Lennox Middle School Recognition The Paper Airplane 451 Launcher
Jeffrey Smithwick Sierra Madre Middle Recognition How does Tire Pressure School 431 affect Rolling Resistance?
Ian Turalva Rudecinda Sepulveda Recognition I Will Create A Hovercraft Dodson MS 699 That I Will Be Able To Maneuver
Heather Yang Walter Reed Middle Recognition Charge it Up School 155 2020 Los Angeles County Science Fair Category Winners Page 22 ENGINEERING APPLICATIONS - SR S08 Jennifer Lew Palos Verdes Peninsula First Place SafeBuild: A Structural High School 256 Engineering Program for Designing Safer Utility Poles
Katie Champion Vistamar School Second Place Semi-autonomous Collision 657 Avoidance System for Electric Wheelchairs
Aaron Lee Flintridge Preparatory Third Place Novel Mobile-Device School 216 Application for Early Stroke Detection Using Machine Learning
Rachel Bai The Webb Schools in Honorable Mention Low Cost Sleep Tracking Claremont CA 605 using Arduino
Victor Acuna Marco Antonio Firebaugh Recognition S.H.I.N.E. 2.0 High School 297
Jonah Greenbaum California School of the Recognition Can drones be used for Arts - San Gabriel Valley 439 call slip delivery at the CSArts-SGV Campus?
Megha Jain Granada Hills Charter Recognition Baby SOS: A Raspberry Pi High School 613 and Arduino Alarm Sytem to Prevent Infant Abandonment and Heatstroke in Vehicles
Taylor Kubisen California School of the Recognition Benefit of Aircraft Landing Arts - San Gabriel Valley 170 Wheels That Spin at Ground Speed at Touchdown on Tire Longevity
Kaddie Le Lawndale High School Recognition Sturdiest Bridges 669
Hovhannes Nercessian Rose and Alex Pilibos Recognition FWEC (Floating Water Hambik Madanyan Armenian School 117 Energy Converter) Christopher Ghazarian
Carlo Miranda Lawndale High School Recognition Fan Blade Differences 672
Phuong Nguyen Lawndale High School Recognition Catapult Volleyball 663
Alex Nikolian Armenian General Recognition Makon: oceanographic Benevolent Union- 702 research device Vatche & Tamar Manoukian 2020 Los Angeles County Science Fair Category Winners Page 23 Amber Orellana Bell Gardens High Recognition Vertical Gardens Save Melany Ramirez School 160 Space and Time Nayeli Rincon
Clarice Pranyoto Flintridge Preparatory Recognition BinBot: Increasing School 212 Environmental Awareness Through a Closed Automated Disposal System
Ariana Sandoval Lawndale High School Recognition Efficient Rain Shelters 693
Katherine Tan Temple City High School Recognition Quadrupedal Locomotion: 405 Which Leg Configuration Maximizes Efficiency? 2020 Los Angeles County Science Fair Category Winners Page 24 ENGINEERING RESEARCH - JR J11 Alan Yoon Portola Highly Gifted First Place Tsunamis v. Seawalls: Magnet 379 Comparing Different Seawalls to Find Out Which is Most Efficient
Patrick Andrianopoulos Sierra Madre Middle Second Place Research of the amount of John Andrianopoulos School 690 blue light emitted by different electronic devices and settings that can minimize it
Leila Nafarrete Blair High School Third Place Suspension vs Cable 647 Stayed
Erik Aragon Montebello Intermediate Honorable Mention Mag Force 1 Jose Ramirez 21 Nathan Andon
Emely Cruz Montebello Intermediate Recognition The Hover Craft 30
Linda Esparza Montebello Intermediate Recognition Go Green Drink Clean 26
Yaroslav Kutepov Beverly Vista Middle Recognition Which Bridge is Stronger? School 609
Abisai Padilla Hale Charter Academy Recognition Homemade vs Store STEAM Magnet 266 Bought Solar Panel
Goryune Papazian Rose and Alex Pilibos Recognition Motorized Sifter Armenian Middle School 73
Giovanni Rodriguez La Merced Intermediate Recognition How Wings Affect a 193 Plane's Flight
Dylan Rodriguez-Romero Sarah Ross Science Fair Recognition Hybrid vs. Battery Car Junior Division 48
Lauren Smith Incarnation Parish Recognition Operation Build A Bridge Kyla Mohnani School 386 And Get Over It 2020 Los Angeles County Science Fair Category Winners Page 25 ENGINEERING RESEARCH - SR S09 Aksh Garg Palos Verdes Peninsula First Place Machine Learning Coupled High School 273 Trajectory and Communication Design for UAV Facilitated Wireless Networks
Ethan Wong Arcadia High School Second Place Proverse Yaw 91 Characteristics of a Powered Flying Wing of Novel Design and Manufacture
Maximillian Bhatti Temple City High School Third Place Evaluation of Transient 385 Flow Propulsion in a Novel Biomimetic MultiMode Aerial-Aquatic ROV
Akash Anand Palos Verdes Peninsula Honorable Mention 3D Optimization of High School 268 Unmanned Aerial Vehicles for 5G Cellular Network Systems in Rural and Urban Areas
Sean Fleming Loyola High School Recognition Crossroads: Safety 13 Proposals for Grade- School Adjacent Roads in Los Angeles Based on Traffic-Patterns Analysis
Kimberly May Temple City High School Recognition An Exploration of 382 Piezoelectric Generator Schemes
Kai Mohl Palos Verdes High Recognition Understanding the Utility of School 607 Visual, Haptic and Auditory Stimuli for Use in VR and AR Technology
Vale Rasmussen The Buckley School Recognition Winglets: Gateway to Flight 10 Efficency
Grace Weilbacher Quartz Hill High School Recognition Laminar Flow Wind Tunnel 355 Demonstration: How Different Airfoils Affect the Production or Disturbance of Laminar Flow
Yudong (Tim) Zhang Flintridge Preparatory Recognition Genetically engineering a School 70 novel red fluorescent biosensor for the imaging of deep brain glutamate transmission 2020 Los Angeles County Science Fair Category Winners Page 26 ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT - JR J12 Caleb Kodama Sierra Madre Middle First Place Can We Harness the School 206 Mechanical Energy of Cars to Power our Cities
Kyla Marie Daez Rudecinda Sepulveda Second Place How Aquatic Plants Affect Danica Madamba Dodson Gifted/HA 429 pH Levels in Seawater? Kasandra Robledo Magnet MS
Kawthar Hemdan New Horizon School Third Place Testing Different Barriers 321 to Prevent Soil Erosion
Yusuf Alnajjar Institute of Knowledge Honorable Mention Cleaner Water 628
Javeria Kashif Institute of Knowledge Honorable Mention The War of Paper Fibers 640
Audrey Mantong Saint Joseph Long Honorable Mention Bio-Bowl Lazuli Gentile Beach 352
Katherine Ting St. Timothy School Honorable Mention Disposable ≠ Degradable 370
Elvin Yang Monterey Highlands Honorable Mention RecyclaBall 686
Athena Abrera Saint Joseph Long Recognition Fire Flighter Drone Lillian Richardson Beach 520
Maia Alvarez Archer School for Girls Recognition A Gassy Situation: BioGas 279 Production
Rehya Arora Gaspar de Portola Recognition Can Plants Stop Soil Charter AIAT 505 Erosion
Kianet Badal Hale Charter Academy Recognition Is the Future Bright with STEAM Magnet 259 the UV Light?
Kabir Bindra Chandler School Recognition Piezoelectricity - An 377 Efficient Way To Generate Electricity From Wind and Noise
Raffi Boghossian Chamlian Armenian Recognition How To Make Nature- School 364 Friendly Or Biodegradable Plastic? 2020 Los Angeles County Science Fair Category Winners Page 27 Jonah Delson Pressman Academy Recognition Waste Not Want Not Arieh Elad 85 Hannah Carr
Christopher Deng Huntington Middle Recognition Purify water naturally for School 267 developing countries
Zara Edler St. Timothy School Recognition California Dreamin': How 250 the Weather Affects Solar & Wind Power
Omar Hamdan Al-Huda Islamic School Recognition Drink This Not That! 227
Natalie Huang Archer School for Girls Recognition Shining a Light on Francesca Horton 123 Particulate Matter Anya Stutz
Daron Kasparian Chamlian Armenian Recognition The Fuel of the Future - School 211 Recycling Cooking Oils to produce Biodiesel
San Ko Rudecinda Sepulveda Recognition Electric Water Recycling Dodson MS 82 Sink
Skylar Li Sierra Madre Middle Recognition Which Fertilizer Results in School 423 the Most Nitrate-rich Runoff?
Roberto Llamas South Gate Middle Recognition Water Purification School 645
Aalyah Martinez South Gate Middle Recognition Substitute Straws School 606
Addison Pressnall Blair High School Recognition Can we purify water using 410 plants
Alexandra Reisner Walter Reed Middle Recognition Magnetic Plants School 199
Nour Saad New Horizon School Recognition Testing how effective 275 Water lilies, Water irises, Watercress, and Water lettuce are in preventing algae blooms in freshwater ecosystem
Vani Tatoulian St Gregory A. & M. Recognition Is School Drinking Hovsepian School 282 Fountain Water Clean? 2020 Los Angeles County Science Fair Category Winners Page 28 Carys Thompson Saint Martin of Tours Recognition The Effect of Microplastics School 205 On Diatoms (Cyclotella and Thalassiosira)
Alayna van de Ven American Martyrs School Recognition pHysically clean Hattie Wildes 331
Ellen Vartanyan St Gregory A. & M. Recognition Water Filter vs. Boiling Hovsepian School 354
Treana Witek American Martyrs School Recognition Renewable Energy is our 342 Destiny! 2020 Los Angeles County Science Fair Category Winners Page 29 ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT - SR S10 Jasper Cerone The Buckley School First Place Methanotrophic Mason Lee 8 Bioremediation for the Forest Pineo-Cavanaugh Degradation of Oceanic Methane
Diana Michaelson Cabrillo Marine Second Place Concrete Surface Structure Aquarium 358 Influence on Marine Settlement
Candace Baik Palos Verdes Peninsula Third Place Thermoelectric Generator High School 359 as a Green Energy Alternative
Serah Park Cabrillo Marine Honorable Mention The Effect of Microalgae Aquarium 365 Growth on Oil-Degrading Properties of Bacteria
Christopher Grushka California School of the Recognition Using Natural Compost to Arts - San Gabriel Valley 210 Increase the Nutritional Value of Crops
Isabel Li Temple City High School Recognition The Development of a 344 Novel Density-Separation Method of Sands
Adam Lonstein Delphi Academy - Senior Recognition How Does Temperature Division 111 Affect CO2 Uptake from Plants?
Sophia Novo California School of the Recognition Effect of household plantae Arts - San Gabriel Valley 174 on humans when completing the same math task
Caroline Pack Palos Verdes High Recognition How Varying Oceanic School 327 Nitrate Concentrations Affect the Growth of Ulva lactuca and Dissolved Oxygen Levels
Brayden Stark The Buckley School Recognition A Systematic Method to 7 Combat Harmful Algal Blooms
Jacqueline Yang Cabrillo Marine Recognition Which is the Best Nitrate Aquarium 623 Detoxifier: Phytoremediation, Bioremediation, or Hybrid? 2020 Los Angeles County Science Fair Category Winners Page 30 MATERIALS SCIENCE - JR J13 Lori Khemichian Chamlian Armenian First Place The Effect of Glycerin on School 360 the Strength of Bioplastic
Aram Kenderian Ribet Academy (Junior Second Place Force, Energy and Work Division) 338 Done by Shape Memory Alloys
Declan Laney Walter Reed Middle Third Place Stuck On You School 158
Caleb Ivison Walter Reed Middle Honorable Mention Breaking the Brickwork School 172
Jonas Nissanoff Pressman Academy Honorable Mention May The Force Be With 74 You
David Chau Hale Charter Academy Recognition How Does Temperature STEAM Magnet 217 Affect Rust in Metals?
Moniba Derakhshani New Horizon School Recognition Comparing the Amount of 409 Ultraviolet Absorption Between Cotton, Polyester, and Polyester/Cotton Fabric
Maryam Zahid Al-Huda Islamic School Recognition Smile for Slime! Reeam Elokour 191
Allison Pacheco James A. Foshay Recognition Cell Phone Jazmine Chavez Martinez Learning Center 424 Electromagnetic Radiation Ashley Camacho
Sophie Perez Hale Charter Academy Recognition Which Power Source to STEAM Magnet 292 Use?
Phoebe Prentice Sierra Madre Middle Recognition Which Brand of Plastic School 683 Wrap Can Best Prevent Enzymatic Browning in Fruit?
Odelia Shofet Beverly Vista Middle Recognition Soluble Balloons Leila Kashani School 619 Sophia Manavi
Sebastian Teves St. Timothy School Recognition Boom! Boom! Bop! 566 2020 Los Angeles County Science Fair Category Winners Page 31 MATHEMATICS & COMPUTER SCIENCES - JR J14 Aeneas Wood Portola Highly Gifted First Place Neural Network Magnet 392 Classification of J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter Passages: Effect of Activation Function and Input Type
Eric Lind Gaspar de Portola Second Place The Mockulus Project: Charter AIAT 681 Making Virtual Reality Low Cost
Maia Rocha American Martyrs School Third Place The Effect of Search Depth 351 on the Percentage of Wins in Connect 4
Jerry Yang Walter Reed Middle Honorable Mention Cracking and Hacking School 153
Dohyun Kim Western Christian Recognition Galaxy type classification School 548 by machine learning.
Elijah Kopp Oak Hills Elementary Recognition Emotion Commotion School 406
Dhruv Kulkarni Oak Hills Elementary Recognition Geometric Model for Easy School 254 Learning
Luke Laychak American Martyrs School Recognition Do Indoor Stadiums Affect 503 Baseball Players Stats?
Hriday Meka Gaspar de Portola Recognition What Is The Best Possible Charter AIAT 308 Basketball Team For The Last Five Years and How Does Budget Tie Into It?
Michael Wong Walter Reed Middle Recognition All Net School 189 2020 Los Angeles County Science Fair Category Winners Page 32 MATHEMATICS & COMPUTER SCIENCES - SR S11 Suraj Anand Palos Verdes Peninsula First Place MedBrain: A Novel Deep High School 270 Learning Tool for Holistic Patient Data Interpretation and Clinical Event Prediction
Shuwen Zhang The Webb Schools in Second Place Mining Common Structural Claremont CA 545 Features of Aggregating Proteins in Neurodegenerative Diseases
Junseo Park The Webb Schools in Third Place Automated Acute Claremont CA 257 Lymphoblastic Leukemia Detection using Image Processing and Machine Learning
Jiaju Liu Palos Verdes Peninsula Honorable Mention Autocorrelation-Based High School 357 Diffusion Maps for Identifying High-Frequency Oscillations: A Translational Study in Detecting Epileptogenesis
Garbo Chung The Webb Schools in Recognition The Robust and Low-cost Claremont CA 215 Diagnosis of Cataract Based on Deep Residual Learning
Sarina Fereydooni Granada Hills Charter Recognition Robotic Hand Trisha Devchoudhury High School 563 Yashvi Agrawal
Nathan Kim Granada Hills Charter Recognition Utilizing Machine Learning High School 732 in Order to Characterize Different Rates of Progression of Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis
Ellen Kozlov The Science Academy Recognition Early Identification of STEM Magnet High 421 Cancer School
Matvei Popov Ribet Academy (Senior Recognition Artificial Intelligence Division) 128 Territorial Surveillance System
Xin (Anna) Wang Ribet Academy (Senior Recognition Algorithms for Autonomous Alina Li Division) 329 Robot Navigation
Angela Xie The Webb Schools in Recognition A Novel Method of Music Claremont CA 304 Generation Based on Three Different Recurrent Neural Networks 2020 Los Angeles County Science Fair Category Winners Page 33 Heather Young North Hollywood High Recognition Improving the Quantum School 589 Computer Simulator: Optimizing for Noisy Intermediate-Scale Quantum Algorithm Design
Chunyuan Zheng The Webb Schools in Recognition Automation of Political Bias Claremont CA 236 Detection in News using Machine Learning 2020 Los Angeles County Science Fair Category Winners Page 34 MICROBIOLOGY - JR J15 Max Norden The Science Academy First Place Totally Photosynthetic! A STEM Magnet 180 study of the effects of pollution on phytoplankton
Mahesh Arunachalam Rosemont Middle School Second Place Effects of Chemicals on 343 Aquatic Life
Nicole Alvarado Arroyo Seco Museum Third Place The Horrors of Hand Science Magnet 611 Drying
Arman Ghasemi Portola Highly Gifted Third Place Impacts of Concentrated Magnet 139 Disinfectants on Bacteria
Micaela De Leon Hollenbeck Middle Recognition Which Will Grow More School 453 Mold? Incubator Or Refrigerator Storage Methods?
Remy Kushner Portola Highly Gifted Recognition What Role Does the Magnet 289 Flagellum Protein Flagellin Play in Bacterial Resistance to Silver Nanoparticles?
Ghino Lee Gaspar de Portola Recognition The Effect of Oxygen in the Haily Kang Charter AIAT 674 Production of Electricity in Microbial Fuel Cells
Sebastian Martinez Royal Oak Middle School Recognition Biomining in Space: Can 523 the Bacteria Acidithiobacillus Ferrooxidans Survive in Extraterrestrial Planets with High Atmospheric pressures?
Olivia Petlak Pressman Academy Recognition Just spit on it! Can Bubba's 68 saliva kill bacteria?
Shruthi Sathya Narayanan Portola Highly Gifted Recognition Mission to Mars Magnet 198
Sabrina Walker Saint Martin of Tours Recognition Wash It! School 149
Laia Yanez Mt. Gleason Middle Recognition Pumpkin Decomposition Annette Suleymanyan School 481 Natalie Dominguez 2020 Los Angeles County Science Fair Category Winners Page 35 MICROBIOLOGY - SR S12 Yeonji Choi Cabrillo Marine First Place The effect of pH on Aquarium 248 fucoxanthin concentration of Isochrysis Galbana
Nolan Brandt Palos Verdes High Second Place Dependency of Phillipe Wiederkehr School 400 Exiguobacterium St. Y2 on Larvae Microbiome for Polystyrene Degradation
Victoria Marquez Cabrillo Marine Honorable Mention The Effect of pH on Aquarium 586 Rhodomonas Population
Melissa Qin Palos Verdes Peninsula Honorable Mention The Effect of Volumetric High School 361 Ratios on Genotyping the Sox9 Gene for Type 1 Diabetes
Emma Lotts The Buckley School Recognition CRISPR CAS-9 and Devon Frank 4 Histone Regulation: A Process Working Hand in Hand to Destroy Cancer
Sophia Norouzi The Buckley School Recognition Unraveling Stress: the 5 effects of MECP2 on Anxiety Disorders
Rebekah Tkach California School of the Recognition Effect of Plastic on the pH Arts - San Gabriel Valley 181 of Bacteria's Ocean Environment 2020 Los Angeles County Science Fair Category Winners Page 36 PHARMACOLOGY - JR J16 Simra Mirza Institute of Knowledge First Place It's More Than a Weed, It's 631 Sunscreen
Kaitlyn Baghdassarian Chamlian Armenian Second Place The Effect of Green Tea on School 373 the Heart Rate of Daphnia
Natalie Jeronimo Hollenbeck Middle Honorable Mention Which Brand Of Ibuprofen School 417 Dissolves The Quickest?
Christine Safri Gaspar de Portola Honorable Mention How does the pH Level of Charter AIAT 264 our Stomach Acid Affect the Amount of Time Different Pills Dissolve into the Bloodstream?
Thomas Kim The Science Academy Recognition D-α-tocopheryl Daniel Bang STEM Magnet 456 polyethylene glycol Jonathan Kim succinate LC50 - Utilizing Artemia to Research the Limit of Substitution of THC Vaping Oils with Vitamin E
Christa Kudaverdian La Canada Preparatory Recognition Are Stem Cells the Future? Private School 510
Natalie Ramirez Hollenbeck Middle Recognition The Affects of Children's Juanpablo Baez School 127 Medicine On Activity Of Crickets 2020 Los Angeles County Science Fair Category Winners Page 37 PHARMACOLOGY - SR S13 Elisha Johnston Palos Verdes Peninsula First Place Pharmacodynamics of High School 558 Dextrose-Based Cartilage Regeneration: A Microscopic Approach
Amy Huang Palos Verdes Peninsula Honorable Mention Mitochondrial-Derived High School 310 Peptide SHLP2 as a Therapeutic Potential in Parkinson's Disease
Eileen Stiles Crescenta Valley High Honorable Mention Developing a Model for School 345 Studying the Role of Triple Negative Breast Cancer Cells Under Arginine Starvation 2020 Los Angeles County Science Fair Category Winners Page 38 PHYSICS - AERODYNAMICS/HYDRODYNAMICS - JR J17 Jack Wood American Martyrs School First Place Laminar Flow 366
Elan Lonstein Delphi Academy - Junior Second Place Vibrations of Rocketry Division 55
Abiya Hasan Al-Huda Islamic School Third Place Right Flight 124
Trisha Buranabul Monterey Highlands Honorable Mention Measuring Motion in 691 Tennis Serves
Andrew Maalouf Incarnation Parish Honorable Mention Powerful Windmill School 316
Menal Abdikarim Al-Huda Islamic School Recognition Can Water Float on Water? 194
Jack Amerine Holy Angels School Recognition Rocket Fin Test 592
Nola Foran Walter Reed Middle Recognition Waterpower? I'm a Big School 283 Fan!
Daniel Matthew St. Cyril of Jeruselem Recognition Exploring Air Rockets School 367
Nicolas Tenorio Holy Angels School Recognition Up Up and Away Isaac Mgaluyan 528 Gabriel Benoit
Claire Wu Gaspar de Portola Recognition What's the Hydrodynamics Charter AIAT 414 of an Object?
Sarah Zhang Beverly Vista Middle Recognition Age of wood compared to Aviv Pilipski School 551 sound quality 2020 Los Angeles County Science Fair Category Winners Page 39 PHYSICS - ELECTRICITY & MAGNETISM - JR J18 Ella Baghdassarian Chamlian Armenian First Place The Spectra of Different School 487 Light Sources: Are LEDs Harmful to your health?
Sophie Sexton Portola Highly Gifted Second Place Measuring and Comparing Magnet 253 Electromagnetic Fields in Varying Locations in Los Angeles
Marian Delfin St. Timothy School Third Place All Aboard The Maglev 271 Train!
William Pearce Saint Joseph Long Honorable Mention Why the Attraction? A Beach 108 Study of How Temperature Affects Magnet Strength
Harrison Reisner The Science Academy Honorable Mention Dueling Magnets; A New STEM Magnet 183 Invention To Prevent Damage To Your Car
Yusuf Syed New Horizon School Honorable Mention Comparing the Amount of 323 EMR given off by Nintendo Switch, 3DS XL, and Playstation 4 at different durations of playing
Natalie Chavez La Merced Intermediate Recognition How Much Glare Does a Alondra Ceja-Galvez 196 Light Bulb Produce?
Zavien Demirjian St Gregory A. & M. Recognition Can We Make Free Hovsepian School 595 Electricity?
Lauren Espanola Rudecinda Sepulveda Recognition Will fusing two energy Dodson Gifted/HA 715 sources together generate Magnet MS more energy than they generate alone?
Yalda Khazaieli Al-Huda Islamic School Recognition Light It Up! Lubna Simjee 219
Madeline Kim Rudecinda Sepulveda Recognition Hydroelectric Generated Dodson MS 675 Lightbulb
Joseph Knepper St. Cyril of Jeruselem Recognition Magnetic Fruit School 350
Yuha Lim Rudecinda Sepulveda Recognition How Does The Different Dodson MS 87 Type Of Food Battery Affect The Length of How Long An Electronic Clock Lasts? 2020 Los Angeles County Science Fair Category Winners Page 40 Myles Luciano Walter Reed Middle Recognition Maglev Trains: The Real School 202 "Polar" Express
Daron Simitian Rose and Alex Pilibos Recognition Defying Gravity using Armenian Middle School 75 Lenz's Law
Hamish Welte American Martyrs School Recognition Are We Cooked? 305
William Wetzel Saint John Fisher Recognition Can a Banana Produce 341 More Electricity Than a Potato
Leanna Yeressian St Gregory A. & M. Recognition The Effect of Temperature Hovsepian School 293 on Magnet Velocity 2020 Los Angeles County Science Fair Category Winners Page 41 PHYSICS - GENERAL - JR J19 Angus Norden The Science Academy First Place How pressure affects the STEM Magnet 235 energy usage of desalination
Jett Do Mark Twain Middle Second Place Proving Conservation of School 591 Energy
Daniel Stefanini St. Monica Academy Second Place Science of Suction 684
Alexandra Seres Oak Hills Elementary Honorable Mention Tale Of Two Bows School 284
Hamza Dajani Al-Huda Islamic School Recognition Let Gravity Take Over! 233
Tali Goldkorn Beverly Vista Middle Recognition Heating a pool without School 615 using too much energy, using different materials.
Ariel Hoffman Hale Charter Academy Recognition The Secret Combos of STEAM Magnet 105 Batting
August Medrano Saint John Fisher Recognition Angleic Marshmallows 440
Viola O'Beirne Incarnation Parish Recognition Endless Energy School 340
Shelby Velandia St. Cyril of Jeruselem Recognition Air Pressure Affects the School 653 Distance a Soccer Ball Travels 2020 Los Angeles County Science Fair Category Winners Page 42 PHYSICS - SR S14 Jasmine Li Harvard-Westlake First Place High Performance School 395 Nanocomposite Electrical Conductors for Energy Sustainability
Klara Matuszewska Ribet Academy (Senior Second Place Projectile motion and range Jhony Ye Division) 116 equation
Brian Malkan Crespi Carmelite High Third Place The Photoelectric Effect School 336
Daniel Belzberg Palos Verdes High Honorable Mention Feasibility of Using a Kapil Dheeriya School 300 Spatially Varying Magnetic Beom Joon (John) Kim Field to Ascertain the Muon's Magnetic Moment
Alec Mnatzakanian Armenian Engineers and Honorable Mention Which Airfoil Produces the Scientists of America 322 Greatest Lift?
Candy Gao The Webb Schools in Honorable Mention Metal Property: Analysis of Isabella Shi Claremont CA 644 magnetoresistance through temperature yield
Aimee Zhou Ribet Academy (Senior Honorable Mention Wave Division) 129
Lena Hernandez Huntington Park High Recognition Cans and Sounds School 471
Ryan Jung Cathedral High School Recognition Ramp/Lift Installation for 733 Wheelchairs
Luke Mercado California School of the Recognition The Effect of the Ball Core Arts - San Gabriel Valley 175 on How a Bowling Ball Reacts on a Lane
Samantha Reyes Compton Unified School Recognition UV Radiation District 704
Suraj Shah Temple City High School Recognition 3D Printing in the real 299 world
Jack Sheehan California School of the Recognition Paper Airplane Arts - San Gabriel Valley 195 Aerodynamics 2020 Los Angeles County Science Fair Category Winners Page 43 PLANT BIOLOGY & PHYSIOLOGY - JR J20 Abby Liebrecht Portola Highly Gifted First Place Comparing the Effects of Magnet 137 Fish Waste and Tiger Bloom Plant Fertilizer on Husky Cherry Red Tomatoes
Nolan Cheng La Canada Preparatory Second Place PharmaKarma Private School 334
Mariam Owainat New Horizon School Third Place Comparing The Moisture 274 Content of Soil and Growth of Pisum Sativum (Snap Peas) Using an Ancient Watering Method (Olla) to Regular Watering
Sumaiya Bawany Institute of Knowledge Honorable Mention Can Plants Be Used to 594 Purify the Air of Total Volatile Organic Compounds?
Jacob Caldwell Royal Oak Middle School Honorable Mention Does Caffeine have an 326 effect on the Growth and Production of Capsicum Annuum
Aisha Kharaeva New Horizon School Honorable Mention The Effects of Antioxidants 312 (Vitamin A, E, and C) and pH (alkaline, acidic and neutral) on radish seed germination
Maggie Stepanek Walter Reed Middle Honorable Mention Defying Gravity School 234
Xian Au Our Lady of Refuge Recognition What Insulations and School 575 Roofings can Pansies Benefit From?
Adrianna Baumle Blair High School Recognition Can changing the light Devin Baumle 463 source increase photosynthesis?
Jeanie Chua Lennox Middle School Recognition Tomatoes vs. The 730 Environment
Rashad Entabi New Horizon School Recognition Comparing Whether 207 Tomato Food, Compost, or Cow Manure Grows Snap Peas the Tallest.
Mathias Gutierrez Saint John Fisher Recognition Does Sound Affect Plant 328 Growth? 2020 Los Angeles County Science Fair Category Winners Page 44 Khalid Ibrahim New Dimensions Recognition Does Fertilizer Actually 314 Help Plants Grow
Ariela Jomsky Gaspar de Portola Recognition Magnesium's Effect on Charter AIAT 242 Aquatic Philodendron Plants
Sufyan Khan Al-Huda Islamic School Recognition Let's Sprout Out! 285
Bailee Kim Walter Reed Middle Recognition Shady Plants School 156
Olivia Kim The Science Academy Recognition The Measurement of the STEM Magnet 187 Growth of Mung Beans Supported by Varying Types of Irrigation
Pateel Krikorian St Gregory A. & M. Recognition Which Vitamins affect Hovsepian School 280 plants?
Isabel Laezman Weizmann Day School Recognition Hydroponics or soil? 349
Shelby Mancia Rudecinda Sepulveda Recognition Green Onion Project Dodson Gifted/HA 438 Magnet MS
Kaylani Parker Sierra Madre Middle Recognition What Effects do School 422 Phosphates have on Aquatic Plants?
Usman Salman Institute of Knowledge Recognition Oil in the Soil 635
Sophia Shin Archer School for Girls Recognition The Effects of Ocean Lucia Williams 225 Acidification on Algae August Kohn
Savanna Villa Our Lady of Refuge Recognition What Is The Best School 434 Substitute for Soil in Seed Germination?
Jay Vizzie Saint Martin of Tours Recognition A Burning Problem: Plants, School 106 Fire, and the Future of Vegetation in California
Angelina Waluszko Sierra Madre Middle Recognition What is the Effect of School 381 Increased UV Radiation Exposure on Plant Germination and Growth? 2020 Los Angeles County Science Fair Category Winners Page 45 Lara Yeghiayan St Gregory A. & M. Recognition Tea Time! Hovsepian School 495 2020 Los Angeles County Science Fair Category Winners Page 46 PLANT BIOLOGY & PHYSIOLOGY - SR S15 Cameron Ito California Academy of First Place Effect of Artemia (brine Mathematics and 402 shrimp) waste on the Science growth rate of Chaetomorpha (green macroalgae) for aquaponic gardening
Melanie Khachatryan Crescenta Valley High Second Place Utilizing Silica Powder to School 318 Improve and Enhance Plant Growth
Gary Shirikchian Rose and Alex Pilibos Third Place The Effect of Hydroponics Armenian School 134 Agriculture Methods on Plants
Amrutha Srivatsav Palos Verdes Peninsula Honorable Mention How Can the Ethanol Yield High School 356 of Lemna minor Duckweed Be Maximized?
Steven Cao Temple City High School Recognition The Response of Auxins 67 and Gibberellins in Plants
Sarah Cao Palos Verdes Peninsula Recognition Invasive vs. Native: High School 303 Comparison of NaCl and Fe tolerances of L. peploides and P. amphibia
Shua Cho California Academy of Recognition Effect of Bisphenol A on Mathematics and 514 growth rate of Isochrysis Science galbana
Steven Chung Lawndale High School Recognition Tomato Speed Growth 664
Gabriela Jimenez Garey High School Recognition Plant Xperiment Jorge Roman 19 Eduardo Ventura
Kevin Tan Temple City High School Recognition An Evaluation and 383 Optimization of Aeroponic Growing Solutions and Techniques
Emily Victor Garey High School Recognition Photosynthesis Rates 708 2020 Los Angeles County Science Fair Category Winners Page 47 PRODUCT SCIENCE - JR J22 Ross Goldberg Pressman Academy First Place Get A Grip 69
Amelia Hines Archer School for Girls Second Place Brew-tiful Biofuels: Finding 231 the Best Method for Creating an Alternative to Firewood Using Coffee Grounds
Connor Barrett Saint Joseph Long Third Place Do Concussion Guards Beach 107 Really Work?
Abira Dost Institute of Knowledge Honorable Mention Ouch! What a burn! 638
Celine Gharapetian Chamlian Armenian Honorable Mention Heat Dissipation School 485 Effectiveness of Different Laptop Cooling Mats
Sierra Alva Sierra Madre Middle Recognition Do Green Bags Extend the School 251 Shelf Life of Produce?
Rehem Arviv Pressman Academy Recognition Unveiling the Standards of 140 Sticky Bumps Surf Wax
Chloe Bae Rudecinda Sepulveda Recognition How Does the Dodson MS 642 Temperature Affect How Well Hair Color Dyes Hair?
Danica Bondoc Saint Joseph Long Recognition Helmet Protection Beach 97
Arek Boynerian Chamlian Armenian Recognition Is There Bisphenol A School 368 (BPA) In Store-Bought Canned Foods?
Chloe Capalad Holy Angels School Recognition Bleach AnaLucia Romero 490
Hiwot Fasika Saint Joseph Long Recognition Porta-Filter Angela Karanja Beach 72
Emily Flores Saint Joseph Long Recognition Eco-friendly watercolors Beach 62
Ruqayyah Hossain Institute of Knowledge Recognition Uncovering Hidden Sugar 630 In Your Foods 2020 Los Angeles County Science Fair Category Winners Page 48 Ahmad Kandil New Horizon School Recognition Comparing the Efficiency 315 of 29 Anti-Malware Cybersecurity Programs in Removing 1,054 Malicious Files
Ava Larson American Martyrs School Recognition How Dirty Are Your 276 Retainers?
Andy Lasso Saint John Fisher Recognition Which Baseball Bat Can 306 Hit a Ball the Farthest - Aluminum, Wood, or Composite?
Hajin Lee Walter Reed Middle Recognition Could Your Phone Be Bad School 164 For Your Health
Alice Mardanian Portola Highly Gifted Recognition Studying the Effects of Magnet 92 Vitamin C on Iron Absorption
Elie Netzah The Science Academy Recognition Skate Shoe Durability: STEM Magnet 178 Which Skate Shoe Lasts The Longest
Gerald Po Holy Angels School Recognition Ice in Your Favorite Drink 339
Ashley Prudencio Montebello Intermediate Recognition Crazy Sugar!? Samantha Delgadillo 50
Gwen Rodriguez Montebello Intermediate Recognition Pops 25
Saishriya Sathya Gaspar de Portola Recognition Comparative Study of Shelf Narayanan Charter AIAT 260 Life and Nutritional Effect of Iron, Non-Stick, and Earthen Mud Pots
Natalie Simonian Saint Martin of Tours Recognition What Type of Climate can School 101 Protect a House from a Wet Climate
Gabriella Tarpay Brentwood School Recognition How baking soda affects Maile Naito 84 the physical properties and taste of cookies
Ariannah Torres Montebello Intermediate Recognition What candle burns faster 52 colored or white
Alina Valencia Montebello Intermediate Recognition Sugar Vanessa Llanes 22