2016 Region VII Science and Engineering Fair (Junior Division)

Category Winners:     (HM = Honourable Mention)
Place Category Student School Project Title
1st animal sciences Emma C. Smith
Haley Dowden, Abby Fabre
Catholic High School of Pointe Coupee "Turn up the HEAT on dust mites!"
2nd animal sciences Joseph W. Boykin Dutchtown Middle School "Dogs and Digestion"
3rd animal sciences Kenneth Menville
Elliot Fogle
Glasgow Middle School "Are Fingerprint Patterns an Inherited Trait?"
4th animal sciences JP Dowling The Dunham School "If You Give a Mouse a Cookie"
HM animal sciences Elizabeth C. Seidemann Prairieville Middle School "The Effect of Food on Tooth Wear"
1st biochemistry Steven Guo Glasgow Middle School "What Home Remedies Prevent Spoilage in Milk?"
2nd biochemistry Ju-Woo Nho Glasgow Middle School "The Most Effective, Osmotic, Organic Facial Care Ingredient "
3rd biochemistry Colin W. Herke Westdale Middle School "Optimizing the Qubit dsDNA High Sensitivity Assay for Estimating Concentrations of Plasmid DNA"
4th biochemistry Haden j. Worley Dutchtown Middle School "Capsaicin: How Do You Beat the Heat?"
HM biochemistry Alise Broussard The Dunham School "Yeast Reproduction using Artificial Sweetener"
1st behavioral and social sciences Maddy K. Manning-Bi Glasgow Middle School "Music and Emotons"
2nd behavioral and social sciences Hannah E. Woodring Dutchtown Middle School "What Motivates You?"
3rd behavioral and social sciences Adrienne Simmons
Lanie Wang
Glasgow Middle School "Gum and Memorization"
4th behavioral and social sciences John Walker McDonlad The Dunham School "String Music"
HM behavioral and social sciences Jenna Guidry
Maggie Peltier, Ainsley Garrett
Catholic High School of Pointe Coupee "How Does Exercise Affect Memory?"
1st biomedical and health sciences Abhirami Jeyaseelan Glasgow Middle School "Natural Antibiotics: The Magic Bullet?"
2nd biomedical and health sciences Hiba A. Hasan Dutchtown Middle School "Do You Dairy To Digest?"
3rd biomedical and health sciences Alexzandrea Ursin Kenilworth Science and Technology "What liquids will damage your teeth?"
4th biomedical and health sciences Logan Fox The Dunham School "Most Effective Hand Soaps at Killing Bacteria"
HM biomedical and health sciences Ruibing Feng Glasgow Middle School "How do Multivitamins Affect Plant Growth?"
1st computational biology and bioinformatics Ananya Pathak Glasgow Middle School "How Much DNA Can You Pack into A Cell?"
1st cellular and molecular biology Jaela Drumgole Iberville Math, Science, and Arts Academy East "Can yeast grow in a sugar substitute?"
2nd cellular and molecular biology Gracie-Claire Monceret Catholic High School of Pointe Coupee "Egg Geodes"
1st chemistry Sebastian A. Acosta-Martinez Dutchtown Middle School "Why does old Soda go flat?"
2nd chemistry Jackson Jeter The Dunham School "Potato Power"
3rd chemistry Kyla Johnson
The Dunham School "Just Replenish It"
4th chemistry Cindy Zheng Glasgow Middle School "Peppermints and Reaction Times"
HM chemistry Justin Kim Glasgow Middle School "How Does Heat Affect Viscocity"
1st earth and environmental sciences Autumn Smith Chrisitan Life Academy "Pondering Healthy Habitat"
2nd earth and environmental sciences Kevin Nolde St. Amant Middle "Static Electricity vs Humidity "
3rd earth and environmental sciences Fayth Thibodeaux St. Amant Middle "Somthing Is Fishy About that Fertilizer"
1st embedded systems Jason D. Park Glasgow Middle School "Run! Raspberry PI Run!!"
2nd embedded systems Jonathan Wu Glasgow Middle School "When Does Your Phone Become Obsolete?"
3rd embedded systems Brock C. Houston Prairieville Middle School "Materials That Attenuate a Wi-Fi Signal"
4th embedded systems Magnolia McCarty St. Amant Middle "Parabolic Refelctors"
HM embedded systems Ellis J. Talley Prairieville Middle School "The Effect of Different Building Strategies"
1st energy: chemical Toby J. Latino Prairieville Middle School "The Effects of the Purity of Water on the Electrical Conductivity of the Water Relative to Distilled Water"
2nd energy: chemical Krishna Pochana Glasgow Middle School "Alternative Energy for Cars"
3rd energy: chemical Alyssa Aucoin Prairieville Middle School "Shocking Materials"
4th energy: chemical Nijah King Kenilworth Science and Technology "Solubility of Refrigerant in deep eutectic solvent"
HM energy: chemical James A. Young Dutchtown Middle School "A battery that makes cents"
1st environmental engineering Siyuan Feng Glasgow Middle School "Can Leaves Tell the Air Quality?"
2nd environmental engineering Kaitlyn Johnson Kenilworth Science and Technology "Converting Greenhouse Gases to Synthesis Gas"
3rd environmental engineering Joshua D. Gatz Prairieville Middle School "Can Recycling be “Basic” in Our World?"
4th environmental engineering Marie Stewart Chrisitan Life Academy "Whatever Floats your Boat"
HM environmental engineering Kevin U. Barro Woodlawn Middle School "Erosion How weather effects erosion"
1st engineering mechanics Camden Holmes The Dunham School "Bridges: The Weght on their shoulders"
2nd engineering mechanics Jonathan J. Ding Glasgow Middle School "How does the design of objects affect the particles reflecting on it?"
3rd engineering mechanics Grant D. Scronce Catholic High School of Pointe Coupee "Fun with Catapults"
4th engineering mechanics Ira A. Anderson Iberville Math, Science, and Arts Academy- West "My amzing hover"
1st energy: physical Navya Murugesan Glasgow Middle School "Thermoelectric Energy Harvesting"
2nd energy: physical Samuel A. Juneau
Kevin Holcomb
McKinley Middle Academic Magnet School "Win-Win with Wind"
3rd energy: physical Kaylie Ash Chrisitan Life Academy "Heavy Lifting"
4th energy: physical Sohan Atluri Glasgow Middle School "Does Material Affect the Sound Proofing of a Room"
HM energy: physical Ariana Domingue Prairieville Middle School "Solar Oven- Cooking Time and Location Correlation"
1st mathematics Zayeed A. Akhter Glasgow Middle School "What Is the Optimal Angle for a Projectile`s Trajectory?"
2nd mathematics Aaliyah Martin Kenilworth Science and Technology "Counting On Fingers"
3rd mathematics Alab Yan Glasgow Middle School "Surface Area and Reaction Time"
1st microbiology Jay M. Iyer Glasgow Middle School "ANTIBACTERIAL EFFECT OF SPICES ON PATHOGENIC BACTERIA USING DISK DIFFUSION METHOD"
2nd microbiology Elizabeth Bourgeois Prairieville Middle School "A Bug in the Bees"
3rd microbiology Camille R. Anthony Prairieville Middle School "Battling Bacteria"
4th microbiology Anna Miller Iberville Math, Science, and Arts Academy - East "Germs on different surfaces at school"
HM microbiology Heejoon M. Shin McKinley Middle Academic Magnet School "Spoiled Milk"
1st materials science Cole L. Angelloz False River Academy "Parachutes: Does Size Matter?"
2nd materials science Andrew Knott Kenilworth Science and Technology "Foam Reduced Sloshing"
3rd materials science Corbin Cherry
Ali Nofal
Glasgow Middle School "Which Basketball Has the Best Grip?"
4th materials science Keshaun Hollins East Iberville School "Coke and Mentos Explosion - Boom"
HM materials science Mystique Price
Elijah Nejad
Kenilworth Science and Technology "The Fizz Inflator"
1st physics and astronomy Andrew Trepagnier Catholic High School of Pointe Coupee "Yes, It is Rocket Science II"
2nd physics and astronomy Peyton I. Race Westdale Middle School "Using Light to Identify Contaminated Water"
3rd physics and astronomy Anna M. Johnson Most Blessed Sacrament School "What metal will be propelled highest by the Elihu Thomson Apparatus"
4th physics and astronomy Rishabh Malani Galvez Middle School "Thermocouples"
HM physics and astronomy Joshua Harris The Dunham School "Inclined Plane vs. NXT"
1st plant sciences Davis A. Gilder Prairieville Middle School "Stomatal Behavior of the Hedera Algeriensis"
2nd plant sciences Tre` Landaiche The Dunham School "Fed Up"
3rd plant sciences Jasmine Gray McKinley Middle Academic Magnet School "Microwaves: Helpful or Hazardous?"
4th plant sciences Kealyn S. Wang Woodlawn Middle School "Will It grow Asexually?"
HM plant sciences Madeleine C. Stout Baton Rouge Lutheran School "The Plants Fight Back"
1st systems software Fariz H. Firdausi Glasgow Middle School "How Does Image Quality Affect Perceived Quality?"
2nd systems software Bingmiao Guan Glasgow Middle School "Computer v. Humans"
3rd systems software Justice Starks Kenilworth Science and Technology "Prostate Cancer Classification with a Support Vector Machine Model"
4th systems software Queasia Stafford Kenilworth Science and Technology "Air Pollution"


Top School:
School City
Glasgow Middle School Baton Rouge


Overall Winners:
Awards Div Category Student School Project Title
OverAll_1st JR biomedical and health sciences Abhirami Jeyaseelan Glasgow Middle School "Natural Antibiotics: The Magic Bullet?"
OverAll_2nd JR biochemistry Steven Guo Glasgow Middle School "What Home Remedies Prevent Spoilage in Milk?"


Special Awards:
Award Name   (Place) School
Broadcom MASTERS nominees Zayeed A. Akhter
Elizabeth Bourgeois
Joseph W. Boykin
Jaela Drumgole
Siyuan Feng
Davis A. Gilder
Steven Guo
Hiba A. Hasan
Colin W. Herke
Jay M. Iyer
Abhirami Jeyaseelan
Anna M. Johnson
Rishabh Malani
Maddy K. Manning-Bi
Ju-Woo Nho
Jason D. Park
Peyton I. Race
Emma C. Smith & Haley DowdenAbby Fabre
Andrew Trepagnier
Jonathan Wu
Glasgow Middle School
Prairieville Middle School
Dutchtown Middle School
Iberville Math, Science, and Arts Academy East
Glasgow Middle School
Prairieville Middle School
Glasgow Middle School
Dutchtown Middle School
Westdale Middle School
Glasgow Middle School
Glasgow Middle School
Most Blessed Sacrament School
Galvez Middle School
Glasgow Middle School
Glasgow Middle School
Glasgow Middle School
Westdale Middle School
Catholic High School of Pointe Coupee
Catholic High School of Pointe Coupee
Glasgow Middle School
Iota Sigma Pi Kyla Johnson & 
The Dunham School
Naval Science Award Elizabeth Bourgeois
Steven Guo
Jay M. Iyer
Abhirami Jeyaseelan
Prairieville Middle School
Glasgow Middle School
Glasgow Middle School
Glasgow Middle School