2019 Los Angeles County Science Fair Category Winners Page 1 ANIMAL BIOLOGY - JR J01 Wahida Rahman New Horizon School First Place Using Waxworms (Galleria J0112 mellonella) to Reduce the Amount of Household Split group: - Wastes in Our Landfills and Oceans Christian Mueller American Martyrs School Second Place Effects of Dietary J0104 Supplements on Brown Planaria Split group: - Charlotte Greene Archer School for Girls Honorable Mention The Mortality Rate of J0103 Daphnia when Exposed to Copper Sulfate Split group: - ANIMAL BIOLOGY - SR S01 Maya Khurana Flintridge Preparatory First Place Occult Breast Cancer: School S0111 Does Molecular Profile Matter in Treatment? Split group: - Changhyun Kim Palos Verdes High School Second Place Observing Mutualism of S0102 Vermivora cyanoptera and Psaltriparus minimus Split group: - Corynn Branche Windward School Third Place Potential Contribution of S0103 Polymorphisms in the POMC Gene to Obesity in Split group: - Labrador Retrievers Haley Lopez Sun Valley Magnet Honorable Mention Effect of global warming on S0107 buterflies Split group: - ANIMAL PHYSIOLOGY - JR J02 Jasmine Hassan Al-Huda Islamic School First Place Testing the Correlation Ameera Alkwadri J0202 Between Hypothyroidism and Type 2 Diabetes in Split group: - Down Syndrome Patients ANIMAL PHYSIOLOGY - SR S02 Junhee Lee Cabrillo Marine Aquarium First Place Effect of Temperature on S0207 Embryonic to Larval Development of Sand Split group: - Dollars, Dendraster excentricus Adolat Beshimova Francisco Bravo Medical Second Place Calpains 8 and 9 are Magnet High School S0202 Expressed in the Murine Intestine and Regulated by Split group: - wnt3a in Colon Cancer Cells Susanna Kim Technology, Engineering, Third Place Identification of Novel Art, Math and Science S0213 Biomarkers for the Early Diagnosis of Acute Split group: - Myocardial Infarction 2019 Los Angeles County Science Fair Category Winners Page 2 Summer Ruyle California School of the Honorable Mention The Effect of Using Post- Arts - San Gabriel Valley S0212 Concussive Syndrome (PCS) Treatments on Split group: - Concussion Symptom Severity and Recovery Time BEHAVIORAL SCIENCE - NON-HUMAN - JR J03 Sarai Golden-Krasner Weizmann Day School First Place A Bug's Life: An Insect's Maya Lurvey J0311 Neuromotor Responses to Olfactory and Visual Split group: - Stimuli Alondra Ruiz South Gate Middle School Second Place Pressuring Microalgae J0302 Split group: - Haig Parsekyan Holy Martyrs Ferrahian Third Place Sleeping Safety: Digital Middle School J0306 Alarm Clock or Smartphone? Which is Split group: - Safer as an Alarm? Owen Wheatley Walter Reed Middle School Honorable Mention Does age affect J0310 chimpanzee behavior? Split group: - Nareh Mikail-Almassian Chamlian Armenian School Honorable Mention The Combined Effect of J0308 Color and Fruit Stimulants on the Reaction of Split group: - Drosophila melanogaster MaryJane Garcia South Gate Middle School Honorable Mention Hermit Crabs V.S J0307 Environmental Polution Split group: - BEHAVIORAL/SOCIAL SCIENCES - HUMAN - JR J04 Angela Hoffmann St. John Fisher First Place Now You See It, Now You J0401 Don't: Does age and gender affect change Split group: - blindness? Hamza Dajani Al-Huda Islamic School Second Place Reading, Focus, and the J0407 Elderly Split group: - Ayla Richland Pressman Academy of Third Place A Catchy Bug Temple Beth Am J0402 Split group: - Jasmine Padilla Sun Valley Magnet - Junior Honorable Mention Exercising Your Memory Diana Vilches Division J0410 Split group: - Esther Blum Pressman Academy of Honorable Mention Don't judge a person by Temple Beth Am J0406 their car Split group: - 2019 Los Angeles County Science Fair Category Winners Page 3 Benjamin Elbaz Pressman Academy of Honorable Mention Order Effect: Data Temple Beth Am J0403 Incorrect Split group: - BEHAVIORAL/SOCIAL SCIENCES - SR S03 Diego Borgsdorf Granada Hills Charter High First Place The Language of Sarah Shapiro School S0305 Extremism: A Socio- Sarah Tran Linguistic Diction Analysis Split group: - of Nationalist Content in the Context of Linguistic Purism Lorelei Santa Maria The Science Academy Second Place Can We Psyche You Out?: Katelyn Santa Maria STEM HS S0314 The Study of the Effect of Positive and Negative Split group: - Encouragement on Physical and Mental Activities Melanie Wu California School of the Third Place How Parental Pressure Isabella Fajardo Arts - San Gabriel Valley S0318 and Stress Levels Affect Cheating in Students Split group: - Chloe Silverman The Buckley School Honorable Mention The Effects of a Glucose- S0304 Based Diet Split group: - Yiyi Ouyang The Webb Schools of Honorable Mention Measuring the Effects of California S0325 Isolation on Mice through an Elevated Plus Maze Split group: - Method Lizbeth Martinez - Ramos Garey High School Honorable Mention Improving the use of a S0313 health related mobile application by selecting the Split group: - proper vocabulary grade and background color. Olivia Theard California School of the Honorable Mention The Effects of Social Media Arts - San Gabriel Valley S0321 and other Distractions on Short-Term Memory Split group: - Maya Burch Mayfair High School Honorable Mention Determining the S0316 Correlation Between Students' Morning Split group: - Routines and their GPA's BIOCHEMISTRY & MOLECULAR BIOLOGY - JR J05 Zaighum Nagra Portola Highly Gifted First Place The Effect of Corn Silk Magnet J0513 Extract on Neuronal Regeneration Split group: - Isabelle Whetsel South Pasadena Middle Second Place Glorious Gluten; An School J0505 experiment measuring the levels of gluten in different Split group: - Flours 2019 Los Angeles County Science Fair Category Winners Page 4 Emelie Anzaldo Ovando Sierra Vista Junior High Third Place Home Remedies vs Over School J0504 The Counter Medications: Finding the best remedy to Split group: - alleviate Dysmenorrhea Nicolas Jesuele Walter Reed Middle School Honorable Mention Carbon Complication J0508 Split group: - Atiqa Shafiq ICC Community School Honorable Mention A Diabetic Dilemma: Which J0502 Drink has the Highest Glucose Concentration Split group: - After Adding Invertase Enzyme? BIOCHEMISTRY & MOLECULAR BIOLOGY - SR S04 Andre Yeung Arcadia High School First Place Induction and Observation S0404 of Endosymbiotic Gene Transfer from Chloroplast Split group: - to Nuclear Genome in the Green Alga Chlamydomonas reinhardtii Katherine Wedekind Palos Verdes Peninsula Second Place Generation of MPS IIIA High School S0409 Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells and Correction Using Split group: - CRISPR-Cas9 Stanley Liu Arcadia High School Third Place An Integrated Microfluidic S0411 System for Blood Plasma Separation and Disease Split group: - Diagnostics Eileen Stiles Crescenta Valley High Honorable Mention Role of Mitochondrial NAD School S0406 + Levels in Triple-Negative Breast Cancer Cells Under Split group: - Arginine Starvation CHEMISTRY - APPLIED - JR J06 Uzair Sajid Institute Of Knowledge First Place The Emergence of A New J0632 Fuel Cell Split group: - Grace Lin South Pasadena Middle Second Place Keep the Ice Warm! School J0613 Measuring How Initial Temperature Affects Split group: - Sodium Acetate Hand Warmers Conner Chu The Science Academy Third Place Wave Rave-A Competitive STEM Magnet J0607 Enzyme Immunoassay for the Quantitative Split group: - Determination of Vitamin B12 in Substances before and after Micro Radiation Exposure Isaac Peck Intellectual Virtues Honorable Mention Food pHreservation Academy of Long Beach J0614 Split group: - 2019 Los Angeles County Science Fair Category Winners Page 5 Aleen Kojikian St. Gregory Alfred & Honorable Mention Heartburn Away Marguerite Hovsepian J0601 School Split group: - CHEMISTRY - GENERAL - JR J07 Mariko McCabe Sierra Madre Middle First Place How do the shells and School J0722 spines of red sea urchins affect plant health/growth? Split group: - Karen Garcia Archer School for Girls Second Place Are Microplastics Present J0715 in Sea Salts of Different Qualities? Split group: - Shruti Chand South Pasadena Middle Third Place Bath Bomb Science Sabrina Bluml School J0731 Split group: - Maya Urshansky Saint Cyril Of Jerusalem Honorable Mention What Wrapping Affects School J0723 Oxidation Split group: - Rafael Enfiadjian Chamlian Armenian School Honorable Mention Pesticide Levels in Organic J0728 and Non-Organic Produce Split group: - Kyle Lin Blair High School Honorable Mention How does the flame color J0718 of a metal salt correlate to the cation/anion of a salt? Split group: - Kazu Ho Mark Twain Middle School Honorable Mention How pH Levels Affect Rocco Gentilini J0716 Corrosion Rate Split group: - Jordan Fleischman Blair High School Honorable Mention How does the hardness of J0714 water differ across the country and locally and Split group: - what is its significance CHEMISTRY - SR S05 Christina An Palos Verdes Peninsula First Place Year 2: Building a High School S0506 Magnetic Multilayered Hydrogel Microsphere Split group: - Crosslinked by Genipin For Controlled Dissolution in Drug Release Benjamin Liu Arcadia High School Second Place A Novel Printing Technique S0504 of 3D Inverse Opals from Free-Standing Crystalline Split group: - Structures for Next- Generation Optical Sensing Aliza Arya East College Prep Third Place PLA is The Way to Sustain Leslie Almaraz S0501 a Biodegradable Mckayla Vargas Environment Split group: - 2019 Los Angeles County Science Fair Category Winners Page 6 Jacob Kang Palos Verdes Peninsula Honorable Mention Analyzing Temperature High School S0516 Dependent Deprotonation Using Fourier Transform Split