CENTRAL KENTUCKY REGIONAL SCIENCE and ENGINEERING FAIR

American Meteorological Society:For Outstanding Achievement in Meteorological Science.
Andrew Strehl , Spinning the Wind; Josiah Brock, How does the temperature of moving air affect the motion of a frictionless sail?

The International Society for Optical Engineering provides on certificate and a chance
for a $100 prize. Ben Nosarzewski, Index of Refraction

The National Society for Engineers gave 1 certificate, lapel pin and subscription
to Engineering Times to an outstanding Engineering project.
Michael Edwards, Wing Design & Dynamics

Tri-Beta Awards, The University of Kentucky has a chapter of Beta Beta Beta, the honorary
society for biology. $25 dollar award.
Roshan Palli, Nature's Bug Busters

U. S. Metric Association. A certificate award is presented to a student whose project is outstanding
in its incorporation of quantitative measurements and use of SI units.
Cyrus Saffari, Breathe in, Breathe out

U. S. Public Health
Service Award The Surgeon General's special award certificate is presented to
a student whose project focuses on promoting healthy lifestyles through the benefits
physical activity, balanced nutrition, and/or avoidance of tobacco.
Cyrus Saffari, Breathe in, Breathe out

Herbert Hoover Young Engineer Award, This award of a medallion and certificate is presented
to an outstanding project in the senior division relating to engineering fundamentals
and their communication.
Navid (John)Soleimani-Meigooni,
Spatially Fractionated Radiation (GRID) beam Dosimetry using Film and TLDKodak

Photography Award
This is a prize of a photo kit and
camera presented for the best use of photography in collecting information and developing a science fair project.
Ann Cooper, Soil Erosion and Grass Growth
& Gregory Weinberger, Transpiration: Wet or Dry

Technical Sergeant Ronald Albert from The United States Air Force honored the following projects
with certificates end pins.
Kelsey Carlstedt,
Logically Speaking: Are you laterally thinking?
Zachary Whaley,The effects of age on steadiness of hands.
Christopher Henry, Do you have a bunny inside?
Ben Jacoby, Pitch, Yaw and Roll
Matthew Powell, Gauss's Gun
Navid Soleimani-Meigooni, Spatially Fractionated Radiation (GRID) beam Dosimetry using Film and TLD
Erin Bellhorn, How much can you remember ? The effect of quantity on memory.
Jonathan Gettlefinger, Ball Blaster

U. S. Army Awards
The United States Army honors High School projects with certificates.
Naivid (John)Soleimani-Meigooni,
Spatially Fractionated Radiation (GRID) beam Dosimetry using Film and TLD
Gregory Weinberger,Transpiration: Wet or Dry The U. S. Army
presents its highest award of a bronze medallion for science/engineering excellence.
DavidSoleimani-Meigooni,
A Novel Method of Enhancing Prostate Cancer Radiosensitivity by Natural Compound Curcumin

Intelligent Products Award
Mr. Dale Perry from
Intelligent Products provided awards for projects that demonstrate the most creative
and resourceful use of available materials in the physical and natural science
areas, both in experimental design and display.
A $50 award in senior division.

Gregory Weinberger,Transpiration: Wet or Dry
A $50 award in junior division.
Sarah Marks, Heat Wave Contact Machining & Manufacturing
Fred and Ruth Ann Lawson (Owners) & Ray Hazard (General Manager) provided
a $100 award for a project in the area of Engineering & Physics.
Edwin Feurestein, May the Force be With You

Blue Grass Grotto Award
A $25 award to the best project related to cave (Karst) science or engineering.
Ann Cooper, Soil Erosion and Grass Growth

The University of Kentucky College
of Engineering presents a monetary award for the most outstanding project relating
engineering and computer science $100,
Nick Fedorchuk, Cleaning Kentucky's water: The search for natural
filtration

UK Department of Biology Awards
The University of Kentucky Department of Biology presents a $25 Gift certificate to Joseph Beth
Book Store for each an outstanding projects relating to the life sciences.

Senior Division
Gregory Weinberger, Transpiration: Wet or Dry Junior Division
Shuang Xu, Do cut garlic bolts grow faster than uncut garlic bolts?
Jake Henderson, Animal Insulators
Jonathan Coburn,Survival of the beans
Alex DeMoll, Will my germs grow in milk?
Tamas Nagy, Microbes under threat

UK Department of Psychology Award. The University of Kentucky Department of Psychology
presents a certificate and an $ award for an outstanding project relating to Psychology

Elizabeth Riley, More than meets the ear

American Psychological Association
American Psychological Association offers a certificate
for outstanding research in psychology under the category of behavioral and social
sciences. This was determined by the UK Department of Psychology representative
Elizabeth Riley, More than meets the ear

UK Department of Chemistry Award
The University of Kentucky Department of Chemistry presents a monetary award for an outstanding
project relating to chemistry
$50 Hannah Daniel, Metals in liquids
$25 Sarah Guthrie, Color on the move
$50 Hannah Simpson, Professor Evaporator

$75 Sarah West, Osmosis Eggtrodinaire: The effectof
concentration of sugar on movement of water across an egg membrane
$100 Amanda Florence, Let's get meltin

Junior Division

Grade 4
Awards in the junior division werel
presented in eight categories. Students received CKRSEF award medals and a sack
of science toys.

1. Behavioral Science
Erin Bellhorn, How much can you remember? The effect of quantity on memory.
2. Botany
1st Anna Fedochuk, Winter weather heavy on our branches
2nd Jonathan Coburn, Survival of the beans

3. Chemistry
1st Regan William, Warm up with renewable fuels
2nd Paul Henderson, Floating water
3rd Hannah Daniel, Metals in Liquids

4. Earth and Space Science
Alexie Basil, Seeds in Space

5. Microbiology
Alex DeMoll, Will my germsgrow in milk?

6. Physics
JohnathonGettlefinger, Ball Blaster

7. Zoology
Brittany Lawson, Got Milk- What flavor?

8. Engineering
Adam Miller, Moving magnets

OVERALL WINNERS of 4th grade
1st Regan Williams, Warm up with renewable fuels
2nd Anna Fedorchuk, Winter weather heavy on our branches
3rd Erin Bellhorn, How much can you remember? The effect of quantity on memory.

The OVERALL winners 1st ($25), 2nd ($25), 3rd ($25)
were awarded gift certificates by Office Depot to
Office Depot. First place overall- was given a trophy.

Second place overall- a large plaque.
Third place overall- a plaque.
Grades 5 to 8 Projects

1. Behavioral Science
1st Elizabeth Riley, More than meets the ear
2nd Robin Fain, Memory Treble
3rd Deepa Patel, Is OBESITY hiding in your lunch

2. Botany
1st Lucy Arthur-Parati, Invasive Allelepathy
2nd Bobbie Smith, How do pH levels of a local water samples affect plant growth?
3rd Shuang Xu, Do cut garlic bolts grow faster than uncut garlic bolts?

3. Chemistry

1st Amanda Florence, Let's get meltin
2nd Sarah West, Osmosis Eggtrodinaire:
The effect of concentration of sugar on movement of water across an egg membrane
3rd Hannah Simpson, Professor Evaporator

4. Earth and Space Science
1st Ann Cooper, Soil erosion and plant growth
2nd Justin Graff, Testing the waters
3rd Matther Stagnolia, Fast as a speeding smoke ring
3rd Sarah Marks, Heat wave

5. Microbiology
1st Rohith Palli, Nature's Antibiotics
2nd Jay Schrader, Spongetacular Showdown
3rd Jordon Kearns, Yeast Feast
3rd Hannah Shell, Yeast, the microscopic view

6. Physics
1st Ben Nosarzewski, Index of refraction
2nd Matthew Powell, Gauss's gun
3rd John Rupp, Anyone have a light?

7. Zoology
1st Papa Chakravarthy, Can you see me now?
2nd Lindsay Williams, ICU
3rd Michael Murray, Maturing mouse memory

8. Engineering

1st Michael Edwards,Wing design dynamics
2nd Nick Fedorchuk, Cleaning Kentucky's water: The search for natural filtration
3rd Ben Jacoby, Pitch,yaw, and roll

9. Environmental
1st Bobbie Wilson, Sediment: It's a pain in the drain
2nd Andy Wang, Environmental factors vs. Dissolved Oxygen in water
3rd Andrew Weinberger, Soil erosion and fertilizer

Team project of 5th-8th grade
1st Ashleigh Tuttle & Cheyenne Davis, What household products keeps fresher longer?
OVERALL of 5th-8th grade
1st Ben Nosarzewski, Index of refraction
2nd Papa Chakravarthy, Can you see me now?
3rd Ann Cooper, Soil erosion and plant growth
The OVERALL winners 1st ($50),
2nd ($25), 3rd ($25) were awarded gift certificates by Office Depot.
First place overall- was given a trophy.
Second place overall- a large plaque.
Third place overall- a plaque.
DISCOVERY CHALLENGE

The Discovery Channel Young Scientist Challenge (DCYSC)
is a competition designed to award students in the 5th through 8th grades for
their knowledge of science and their ability to communicate effectively about
science. Each person awarded at our fair will now compete at a national level.
They are to submit a series of written essays of their research as stipulated
in the guide book provided to them at the fair.
The projects chosen for this
award from our Regional fair are:
Ben Nosarzewski, Index of refraction
Papa Chakravarthy, Can you see me now?
Ann Cooper, Soil erosion and plant growth
Elizabeth Riley, More than meets the ear
Lucy Arthur-Parati, Invasive Allelepathy
Amanda Florence, Let's get meltin
Rohith Palli, Nature's Antibiotics
Michael Edwards, Wing design dynamics
Bobbie Wilson, Sediment: It's a pain in the drain
Ashleigh Tuttle, What household products keeps fresher longer?
Cheyenne Davis, What household products keeps fresher longer?

Senior
Division (HIGH SCHOOL)
Awards in the senior division were:

1. Botany
1st Gregory Weinberger, Transpiration: Wet or Dry

2. Engineering
1st Navid (John) Soleimani-Meigooni, Spatially Fractionated Radiation (GRID) beam
Dosimetry using Film and TLD

3. Microbiology
1st DavidSoleimani-Meigooni, A Noval Method of Enhancing
Prostate Cancer Radiosensitivity by Natural Compound Curcumin

OVERALL
WINNERS of 9th-12 grade

1st
DavidSoleimani-Meigooni, A Noval Method of Enhancing
Prostate Cancer Radiosensitivity by Natural Compound Curcumin

2nd
Navid (John) Soleimani-Meigooni, Spatially Fractionated
Radiation (GRID) beam Dosimetry using Film and TLD

3rd
Gregory Weinberger, Transpiration: Wet or Dry

The OVERALL winners received 1st ($100), 2nd ($75), 3rd
($50) in gift certificates to Office DEPOT for Office Depot.
In addition the
BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES / PHYSICAL SCIENCES:

First place overall - a trophy and an all-expenses-paid trip to
the International Science and Engineering Fair for the student and an adult sponsor.
Second place overall - a plaque, and an all-expenses-paid
trip to the International Science and Engineering Fair for the student and an
adult sponsor. PROJECTS SELECTED
TO GO TO THE STATE SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING FAIR AT EASTERN KY UNIVERSITY
KY state fair http://www.kysef.eku.edu/regionalfairs.html

Ben Nosarzewski, Index of refraction
Papa Chakravarthy, Can you see me now?
Ann Cooper, Soil erosion and plant growth
Elizabeth Riley, More than meets the ear
Lucy Arthur-Parati, Invasive Allelepathy
Amanda Florence, Let's get meltin
Rohith Palli, Nature's Antibiotics
Michael Edwards, Wing design dynamics
Bobbie Wilson, Sediment: It's a pain in the drain
Ashleigh Tuttle, What household products keeps fresher longer?
Cheyenne Davis, What household products keeps fresher longer?
Robin Fain, Memory Treble
Deepa Patel, Is OBESITYhiding in your lunch?
Bobbie Smith, How do pH
levels of a local water samples affect plant growth?
Shuang Xu, Do cut garlic bolts grow faster than uncut garlic bolts?
Sarah West, Osmosis Eggtrodinaire:The effect of concentration of sugar on movement of water across
an egg membrane
Hannah Simpson, Professor Evaporator
Justin Graff, Testing the waters
Jay Schrader, Spongetacular Showdown
Matthew Powell, Gauss's gun
John Rupp, Anyone have a light?
Lindsay Williams, ICU
Michael Murray, Maturing mouse memory
Nick Fedorchuk, Cleaning Kentucky's water: The search for natural filtration
Andy Wang, Environmental factors vs. Dissolved Oxygen in water

DavidSoleimani-Meigooni, A Noval Method of Enhancing Prostate Cancer Radiosensitivity by Natural Compound Curcumin

Navid (John) Soleimani-Meigooni, Spatially Fractionated Radiation (GRID) beam Dosimetry using Film and TLD

Gregory Weinberger, Transpiration: Wet or Dry