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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 Cardiomyopathy Passed Through Fruit Flies To Their Offspring 232 Zyg Ramsay Boheng Cao The Science Academy STEM Magnet Second Place The Butterfly Effect: The correlation between the population of the butterfly Danaus plexippus and California wildfires 176 Serj Petrossian Gaspar de Portola Charter AIAT Third Place Magnetic Healing? 493 Abril Rivas South Gate Middle School Honorable Mention Effect of Salinity Level on Isochrysis Galbana Population Growth 656 Marissa Cerda South Gate Middle School Recognition Warming Brine 521 Alma Nanny South Gate Middle School Recognition Sea Urchins Reproduction Rate in Different pH 474 Nanar Shahinian Chamlian Armenian School Recognition The Effect of Temperature on the Eating Habits of Drosophila Melanogaster 391

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2020 Los Angeles County Science Fair Category Winners Page 1ANIMAL BIOLOGY - JR J01Lacey Thompson Archer School for Girls First Place Hypertrophic

Cardiomyopathy PassedThrough Fruit Flies ToTheir Offspring

232

Zyg RamsayBoheng Cao

The Science AcademySTEM Magnet

Second Place The Butterfly Effect: Thecorrelation between thepopulation of the butterflyDanaus plexippus andCalifornia wildfires

176

Serj Petrossian Gaspar de PortolaCharter AIAT

Third Place Magnetic Healing?493

Abril Rivas South Gate MiddleSchool

Honorable Mention Effect of Salinity Level onIsochrysis GalbanaPopulation Growth656

Marissa Cerda South Gate MiddleSchool

Recognition Warming Brine521

Alma Nanny South Gate MiddleSchool

Recognition Sea Urchins ReproductionRate in Different pH474

Nanar Shahinian Chamlian ArmenianSchool

Recognition The Effect of Temperatureon the Eating Habits ofDrosophila Melanogaster391

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2020 Los Angeles County Science Fair Category Winners Page 2ANIMAL BIOLOGY - SR S01Gavin Peters Palos Verdes High

SchoolFirst Place Improving Captive

Management Strategies forConservation ofDendrobates auratus

561

Stanley Liu Arcadia High School Second Place A Fully IntegratedMicrofluidic Device forBlood Plasma Separationand Biomarker Detection

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Julia Marquez Cabrillo MarineAquarium

Third Place The Impact of Fertilizer onSea Urchin ZygoteDevelopemnt580

Cecilia Alves California School of theArts - San Gabriel Valley

Honorable Mention The Effect of DifferentTypes of Pesticides on theDeath Rate of Bees162

Nareh Almassian Rose and Alex PilibosArmenian School

Recognition The Effect of Fruit andColor Stimulants on thereaction of Drosophilamelanogaster

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Jessica Bahny Palos Verdes HighSchool

Recognition Reprogramming ThresherShark (Alopias vulpinus)Cells into InducedPluripotent Stem Cells

524

Anne-Sophie Corry Palos Verdes HighSchool

Recognition A Study of the Grey Foxand Red Fox Populationson the Palos VerdesPeninsula

452

Rhanya Cruz PVNet Education &Technology Center

Recognition A preliminary study forbioprinting an octopusheart536

Sophia Huezo Cabrillo MarineAquarium

Recognition The Impact of Varying pHLevels on Purple SeaUrchin ZygoteDevelopment

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Ryan Ngo Crescenta Valley HighSchool

Recognition Physical Effects ofElevated DissolvedOxygen Levels on Trout214

Tejas Shivkumar Brentwood High School Recognition Neural Control of CardiacRelaxation in Giraffes53

Camryn Whitmore Lawndale High School Recognition Hatching Brine Shrimpeggs in Salt Water668

Malia WeissSasha WinterstellerIsabelle Townley

Flintridge PreparatorySchool

Recognition Salty Shrimp: The Effect ofSalinity on Brine ShrimpHatch Rate269

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2020 Los Angeles County Science Fair Category Winners Page 3ANIMAL PHYSIOLOGY - JR J02Maddy Pieronek American Martyrs School First Place U'V Got Me Feeling Blue

380

Amaanah Ali Institute of Knowledge Second Place Winning Worms632

Scott SmithLuke Metcalf

St. Bede The VenerableSchool

Third Place The Effect of Exercise onthe Sleep Patterns andWeight Loss of Mice679

Maayan Mazar Pressman Academy Honorable Mention Under Pressure ... I CanHardly See60

Shreya Bhargava Blair High School Recognition Are Fingerprint PatternsInherited?408

elsy galvez Hollenbeck MiddleSchool

Recognition Can Children Under 18Years Old Have Cancer?What Are The MostCommonTypes/Symptoms?

418

Jessica Garth Saint John Fisher Recognition How does age and genderaffect taste?307

Sarah Hafez New Dimensions Recognition Keep it Down! The Effect ofNoise Pollution on BloodPressure and Pulse Rate inAdults

201

Caroline Kboudi Pressman Academy Recognition Newton's Fall83

Marco MelikaChristian Mueller

American Martyrs School Recognition Parkinson's DiseaseTreatments On BrownPlanaria371

Michelle Rhee The Science AcademySTEM Magnet

Recognition Knee Pain: The Study ofthe Angle that Puts theMost Amount of Strain onthe Knee

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2020 Los Angeles County Science Fair Category Winners Page 4ANIMAL PHYSIOLOGY - SR S02Mia Moran Garey High School First Place The synergistic activity of

Betalain and Trehalose onthe reduction of Fat lipiddeposits to induce ahealthier life

333

Junhee Lee California Academy ofMathematics andScience

Second Place Effect of Water SolubleFractions of Diesel onFertilization and EmbryonicDevelopment of PacificSand Dollars, Dendrasterexcentricus

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Janet HigaredaRosario RangelAnnmarie Ponce

Garey High School Third Place Jamaica (hibiscus flowers)a popular drink amongLatinos an easy source ofBetalain to extend theLifespan of C.Elegans.

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Hilary Ly California School of theArts - San Gabriel Valley

Honorable Mention Effect of Glucose inVegetables on BloodGlucose Levels in Humans173

John HanDarius Esfahani

Diamond Bar HighSchool

Recognition Is the CCR5 Mutation thatconfers HIV resistancereally Adaptive?491

Aidan HymanLiza Tabachnik

The Buckley School Recognition An Optogenetic Study ofNeural ResponseEnhancement Correctionusing PhysarumPolycephalum

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2020 Los Angeles County Science Fair Category Winners Page 5BEHAVIORAL SCIENCE - NON-HUMAN - JR J03Eden Golden-Krasner Weizmann Day School First Place Mirror Mirror on the Wall:

Do Spiders Have Self-Recognition?104

Dylan Kelley Saint John Fisher Second Place Which Treat Does My DogLike Best?330

Sienna Anderson Royal Oak Middle School Recognition Are Dogs Right or LeftPawed?241

Andrea Arce South Gate MiddleSchool

Recognition Coloring Algae480

Isabella ShpallMiranda Diaz Fuchs

St. Timothy School Recognition Light vs. Heat221

Taylor Viducic Rudecinda SepulvedaDodson Gifted/HAMagnet MS

Recognition Which Treat is Best?411

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2020 Los Angeles County Science Fair Category Winners Page 6BEHAVIORAL/SOCIAL SCIENCES - HUMAN - JR J04Nadia AlamadJasmine Hassan

Al-Huda Islamic School First Place Sound Sound Go Away! AStudy on the Effect ofDecreased BackgroundNoise on the ReactionTime of Special NeedsChildren Suffering fromHyperacusis

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Katherine Humphrey Saint Martin of ToursSchool

Second Place Serif or Sans Serif? TheQuest for ImprovedReading197

Ayla Richland Pressman Academy Third Place Catchy Memory59

Benjamin Elbaz Pressman Academy Honorable Mention Political Campaigns: GoNegative?58

Michael Isayan Portola Highly GiftedMagnet

Honorable Mention Homework: Does it Help orHarm?115

Scar Lutz Arroyo Seco MuseumScience Magnet

Honorable Mention Chromebooks orSketchbooks? Comparingoff-task behavior585

Emily AvilaEvelyn Loza

Lennox Middle School Recognition Music vs. Stress729

Isabella Guglielmetti St. Timothy School Recognition First Impressions239

Evelyn MahoneyAndrea AlfaroKimberly Olmedo

Mt. Gleason MiddleSchool

Recognition Subliminal Messages inRunning433

Suzuko Ohshima Walter Reed MiddleSchool

Recognition Shootings, Hurricanes,Earthquakes, and yourSocial Status154

Ponciano Rubio Arroyo Seco MuseumScience Magnet

Recognition A Look at GenerationalLogical Reasoning587

Nicole Timour Chamlian ArmenianSchool

Recognition Is Your Mind Playing TricksOn You?281

Keren Tizabi Pressman Academy Recognition He or She?88

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2020 Los Angeles County Science Fair Category Winners Page 7BEHAVIORAL/SOCIAL SCIENCES - SR S03Diego BorgsdorfSarah ShapiroSarah Tran

Granada Hills CharterHigh School

First Place La Gente de MaÃz: A Storyof (De)Colonization, Food,and Transnationalismamong Latinx Youth in LosAngeles

597

Alec Guthrie Flintridge PreparatorySchool

Second Place Fairness and AltruismAmong High SchoolStudents - A Global Studyin Behavioral Economics

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Timmy ParkAditya Sehgal

La Canada High School Third Place Muscle Music600

Ellen Chen Bonita High School Honorable Mention A Meta-analysis of theCauses of Autism533

Maeve Humphrey Palisades Charter HighSchool

Recognition The Effect of Stress andMeditation on BloodGlucose in Students DuringFinals Week

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Sofia Mathews California School of theArts - San Gabriel Valley

Recognition The possible correlationbetween reading timebefore sleep and P.S.Q.Iscore

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Angelica AgahsiRana MehaiLilian Tahmasian

Crescenta Valley HighSchool

Recognition The Role of Football inIncreasing ConcussionRisk244

Anika (Hyojin) Park California School of theArts - San Gabriel Valley

Recognition The Reason Why ParentsDon't Want Their Childrento Pursue Art Careers167

Charlotte Tight Palos Verdes HighSchool

Recognition The Effect of FamilyGroups on Non-VerbalCommunication in Humans504

Ruby WuElise Kwon

Diamond Bar HighSchool

Recognition What are the Major Causesof Suicide in Children?502

Maya WurtembergJulian Moser

California School of theArts - San Gabriel Valley

Recognition The Correlation BetweenHorror-Related Adjectivesin Stephen King's Novelsand the Sales of HisNovels

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Luke Zhou Diamond Bar HighSchool

Recognition Climate Change in theClassroom14

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2020 Los Angeles County Science Fair Category Winners Page 8BIOCHEMISTRY & MOLECULAR BIOLOGY - JR J05Manav Desai Portola Highly Gifted

MagnetFirst Place Effects Of Omega-3 Fatty

Acids On NeuronalRegeneration142

Alana Baumgartner Saint John Fisher Second Place Flour 101: How differentflours affect weight,density, and volume ofmuffins

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Brooklin Baylor Royal Oak Middle School Honorable Mention Soda, Energy,Juice.Comparing LeftoverAbundance of Sugar404

Jordan Fleischman Blair High School Honorable Mention Pretty Please with sugarON top, but how much isIN what we eat? How much"hidden sugars" are in ourfood?

671

Jana Hafez New Dimensions Honorable Mention iron Rich foods465

Zeena Hajhamid Institute of Knowledge Honorable Mention finding the C in oj641

Anaiis Marcarian Saint Martin of ToursSchool

Honorable Mention Regular chips V.S. Bakedchips138

Monica Steinbeck American Martyrs School Honorable Mention Infusing Plants WithVitamin C441

Mark Wood American Martyrs School Honorable Mention Iron: How to Get the Most369

Stephanie Harrison Archer School for Girls Recognition Testing Heat v. Electricityon the Coagulation ofBlood448

Tess Hubbard Archer School for Girls Recognition Testing for GMO437

Skye Inal New Horizon School Recognition Comparing the Amount ofVitamin C in Home-grownOranges and Store-boughtOranges

309

AMBROSE LUOZhou Long

La Canada PreparatoryPrivate School

Recognition Stopping Cancer fromSpreading, with Informationfrom Genes346

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2020 Los Angeles County Science Fair Category Winners Page 9Layan Mustafa Institute of Knowledge Recognition Insulin Enduring Enzymes

626

Alina NaranjoIsabella Milliken

Sarah Ross Science FairJunior Division

Recognition The Brownie Experiment49

Reef Santos Saint John Fisher Recognition The Edible Bubble: HowSpherification Is Achievedwith Various Liquids390

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2020 Los Angeles County Science Fair Category Winners Page 10BIOCHEMISTRY & MOLECULAR BIOLOGY - SR S04Jaya Hamkins Crescenta Valley High

SchoolFirst Place Investigation of Adhesion

Peptide Interactions withHydroxyapatite ThroughComputational MolecularDynamics

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Sudi Feng La Canada High School Second Place Tau Phosphorylation byHSV Protein US3 inAlzheimer's Disease602

Katherine Wedekind Palos Verdes PeninsulaHigh School

Third Place Correction of MPS IIIAInduced Pluripotent StemCells Using CRISPR-Cas9348

Abigail Maemoto Palos Verdes HighSchool

Honorable Mention Effect of TKS4 Inhibition onInvadopodia Growth andActivity Rate of Head andNeck Carcinomas

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Jiyoun Roh Crescenta Valley HighSchool

Honorable Mention Quinacrine InducesLysosomal MembranePermeabilization (LMP)and Enhances Sensitivityfor TRAIL, an Anti-TumorAgent

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Ana Gonzalez The Buckley School Recognition Stop Stressing Out! Astudy of the EpigeneticAspect on Vertebrates andInvertebrates

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Jackson Karlitz Palos Verdes HighSchool

Recognition A Novel In VitroComparative Study on theEffects of TNF-a Inhibitorson HLA-B27 Cells

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Keghon Kasparian Rose and Alex PilibosArmenian School

Recognition Is Your Favorite FoodGenetically Modified?464

Jordan LayArtis Phillips

La Canada High School Recognition Studying the Mechanismsof a Chaperone Protein583

Paris Pappas Crespi Carmelite HighSchool

Recognition Organic vs Inorganic:TheEffect of Various Catalaseson the Decomposition ofthe Toxin HydrogenPeroxide

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Jingyu Yan La Canada High School Recognition 3D Structural Investigationof an Anti-viral Antibody265

Stella Zilberberg The Buckley School Recognition Protecting The Skin FromWithin3

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2020 Los Angeles County Science Fair Category Winners Page 11CHEMISTRY - APPLIED - JR J06Aleen Kojikian St Gregory A. & M.

Hovsepian SchoolFirst Place Toxic Metals in Baby Food

324

Molly Gelino Royal Oak Middle School Second Place Which method ofdesalination and dirtextraction from an impurityfilled water source worksthe best?

484

Zalea Nunes Sierra Madre MiddleSchool

Third Place How do the expirationdates of hyaluronic acid gelfillers affect the fillers interms of sterility, andresponse tohyaluronidase?

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Rafael Enfiadjian Chamlian ArmenianSchool

Honorable Mention Lungs vs. Aerosols378

Nicole Hacopians Chamlian ArmenianSchool

Honorable Mention Fire Resistant House245

Grace Petoyan St Gregory A. & M.Hovsepian School

Honorable Mention Cold Pack Chemistry:Where Does the Heat Go?290

Ava Almand St. Cyril of JeruselemSchool

Recognition Fueling the Future withFuel Cells651

Brooke Chopiuk Saint Martin of ToursSchool

Recognition Which Brand of WaterBottle Will Keep YourDrinks Cold for the LongestAmount of Time?

145

Max Coleman Saint Martin of ToursSchool

Recognition Does A Carbon WaterFilter Really Work?246

Beatrix Khachaturian Sierra Madre MiddleSchool

Recognition what is the most effectiveamount of acid to removegelatin out of hair688

William Zheng Portola Highly GiftedMagnet

Recognition How does the voltage ofthe electrical power(battery) affect how muchhydrogen is produced?

146

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2020 Los Angeles County Science Fair Category Winners Page 12CHEMISTRY - GENERAL - JR J07Christian Ramirez Royal Oak Middle School First Place The Science of Baking: Do

Different IngredientsImpact the Size & Textureof Chocolate ChipCookies?

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Michael ShamoyanVincent Hovsepian

Rose and Alex PilibosArmenian Middle School

Second Place Analysis of Alum426

Daniela Gutierrez Hale Charter AcademySTEAM Magnet

Third Place How do different amountsof exercise affect bloodsugar levels294

Leah Bacigalupi Blair High School Honorable Mention Water Filtration: Whichfilter works best for cleandrinking water, Natural orSynthetic?

537

Ella LesneverCorinne Moreno

Blair High School Honorable Mention How do different liquidsaffect the health of teeth?362

Cecilia AlfaroJoselyn Soto

Lennox Middle School Recognition Vitamin C466

Nicole Gorbacheva Beverly Vista MiddleSchool

Recognition What happens when youmix and acid and a base?618

charlotte hargrove Saint John Fisher Recognition Water evaporation568

Hera Hovsepian St Gregory A. & M.Hovsepian School

Recognition Electrolytes For The Win295

Mallory Louie Sarah Ross Science FairJunior Division

Recognition Sweet as Sugar680

Adara Martin-Mur Blair High School Recognition Does Xanthan GumContribute to Flammabilityin Food?337

Jeremy Sanchez Hollenbeck MiddleSchool

Recognition Using Known SubstancesFrom A Light Spectrum ToIdentify UnknownSubstances

526

Zayd Syed New Horizon School Recognition Producing Energy fromHydrogen Fuel Cell302

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2020 Los Angeles County Science Fair Category Winners Page 13Chloe Vuong Sierra Madre Middle

SchoolRecognition How does the environment

affect the pigment in aplant?673

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2020 Los Angeles County Science Fair Category Winners Page 14CHEMISTRY - SR S05Aaron Zhao Harvard-Westlake

SchoolFirst Place Pancreatic Cancer Therapy

(PCT) using MOF151

Lydia Neguse California Academy ofMathematics andScience

Second Place Characterization of LatticeDistortion in SrTiO3 Grownon LSAT Substrate throughQuantitative STEMAnalysis

399

Jonathan BrahimVishal Ravi

Crespi Carmelite HighSchool

Third Place Investigation of Solid StateElectrolytes for Lithium IonBatteries462

Jacob HagemanCarter Harrigian

Palos Verdes HighSchool

Recognition The Effects of EnergyDrinks on Lumbriculusvariegatus389

Martin Leung Temple City High School Recognition Filtration of Ammonia usingOxidation Techniques65

Miriam Meraz Compton Unified SchoolDistrict

Recognition Plop Plop, Fizz Fizz709

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2020 Los Angeles County Science Fair Category Winners Page 15EARTH / SPACE SCIENCES - JR J08Emily HattenbachGianna Nixon

St. Timothy School First Place Sunscreen: The SecretKiller224

Alex Muradian St Gregory A. & M.Hovsepian School

Second Place Martian Mission388

Julia Huffstutter Saint John Fisher Third Place Which Surface MaterialsCan Reduce theGreenhouse Effect?296

Emily Johnson Blair High School Honorable Mention How do you capture thepower of heat?347

Jake Mu Royal Oak Middle School Honorable Mention Discovering SodiumChloride Levels ofSouthern CaliforniaBeaches Through theProcess of Desalination

249

Deepika Sharma Hale Charter AcademySTEAM Magnet

Honorable Mention How do differentgroundwater levels impactbuilding shaking duringearthquakes?

278

Luca GaglioEdin Kapetanovic

Incarnation ParishSchool

Recognition The Dangers of UV Light:Are You Protected?325

Eshal Saif Institute of Knowledge Recognition Erosion in Motion629

Binyam Sisay Saint Joseph LongBeach

Recognition Understanding Landslides98

Mark Wang Sarah Ross Science FairJunior Division

Recognition How Do I Measure TheSize of the Earth37

Logan Weinstein Hale Charter AcademySTEAM Magnet

Recognition Is the Intensity ofTornadoes Dependent onClimate Change?102

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2020 Los Angeles County Science Fair Category Winners Page 16EARTH / SPACE SCIENCES - SR S06Jason Wang Walnut High School First Place Climate Change and

"Stuck" Weather Patterns:Longer Rainstorms,Drought, Heat Waves, andExtreme Cold

258

Amyrah Doty Palos Verdes HighSchool

Second Place Classifying GeomagneticStorms through TotalElectron Content Modeling564

Hillary Giang Lawndale High School Third Place Amount of Salt at DifferentBeaches661

Adhila AkbarManasvi Chandra

Arcadia High School Recognition Correlation of CoronalMass Ejections with theSolar Sunspot Cycle608

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2020 Los Angeles County Science Fair Category Winners Page 17ECOLOGY - JR J09Una Mclain Portola Highly Gifted

MagnetFirst Place Public Drinking Water:

Comparing Lead Exposure317

Annika AndersonJune Zamora

St. Timothy School Second Place Plants Vs. Polymers220

Noah Kupferwasser Pressman Academy Third Place The Impact ofTemperature, ExtremeWeather and Milkweed onthe Development of theMonarch Butterfly

93

Rachel ChungAddie MyersGigi Appelbaum-Schwartz

Archer School for Girls Honorable Mention Does Climate ChangeMake Marigold GrowthStrange?228

LUDOVICO CORDARA La Canada PreparatoryPrivate School

Honorable Mention Nanosilver: A GiganticProblem?420

Morgan Gaskell Sierra Madre MiddleSchool

Honorable Mention How Can AquaticMacroinvertebrates beUsed to Help DetermineWater Quality?

141

Maya Itani New Horizon School Honorable Mention The Effects of DifferentAmounts of Phosphate onElodea dense andMelanoides tuberculata

313

Kyra Nakamura Hale Charter AcademySTEAM Magnet

Honorable Mention Should Aquaponics be theFuture for Agriculture?291

Claire Wang Archer School for Girls Honorable Mention Effects of Olivine onGrowth of Glass Anemone(aiptasia) and pH230

Chiara Ayuste St. Timothy School Recognition A Temperature's Effect OnTrash222

Gilbert Banuelos Hollenbeck MiddleSchool

Recognition A Comparison Of CO2From An Intact Plant AndWhen Burned416

Adeeb Dawabi New Dimensions Recognition Purifying Water WithActivated Charcoal Powder455

Jolie Diep All Souls WorldLanguage CatholicSchool

Recognition Project Misty667

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2020 Los Angeles County Science Fair Category Winners Page 18Michael Espinoza Royal Oak Middle School Recognition Which Soils Can Absorb

And Preserve Water inDifferent Conditions?376

Sophia Gallivan Saint Martin of ToursSchool

Recognition Plants Vs. Plastic100

David KhachatourianDaren Stepanians

Chamlian ArmenianSchool

Recognition Up in the Air: MeasuringPollution in a WeatherBalloon375

Karina KrugerChloe Nejad

Beverly Vista MiddleSchool

Recognition Will the Dead Sea die?How rising salinity maysave the Dead Sea617

Aarush Pillai Oak Hills ElementarySchool

Recognition Particulate Matter298

Summer Quistgaard Walter Reed MiddleSchool

Recognition From Bad To Worse177

Edwin Romero Royal Oak Middle School Recognition Water Sample Testing: TenDifferent Cities in the SanGabriel Valley vs. CityWater Quality Reports

734

Alishba Salman Institute of Knowledge Recognition Eat Lead and Your Dead627

Aakash Senthilnathan Hale Charter AcademySTEAM Magnet

Recognition How Does a Wildfire AffectFuture Plant Growth?277

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2020 Los Angeles County Science Fair Category Winners Page 19ECOLOGY - SR S07Ashwin Sivakumar Flintridge Preparatory

SchoolFirst Place Fossil-Augmented Species

Distribution Models Revealthe Shifted Baselines ofCalifornia Avifauna underClimate Change

95

David Kwon Palos Verdes PeninsulaHigh School

Second Place Modeling and statisticalanalysis of the habitatdistribution of Macrocystispyrifera and Sargassumhorneri off the PalosVerdes Peninsula coastline

320

Sabrina Li Walnut High School Third Place Effects of Baycrete Textureand Tidal Elevation onRecruitment of OstreaLurida and AmphibalanusAmphitrite in San DiegoBay, CA

213

Patrick Kim North Hollywood HighSchool

Honorable Mention Comparing ProtectedHabitat of ThreatenedSpecies in High CarbonStock Concessions andProtected Areas inIndonesia

621

Sofia Gutierrez California School of theArts - San Gabriel Valley

Recognition The Effect of Pollution onevery Species of Turtles inFlorida168

Elyse HwangHailey Chee

La Canada High School Recognition Air Quality Monitor11

Aman Kumar Don Bosco TechnicalInstitute

Recognition Silver the Killer: The GreenSynthesis andCharacterization of SilverNanoparticles

401

Camilla Martinez North Hollywood HighSchool

Recognition Genetic Factors in theEvolution of OstracodMating Displays16

Crystal Yang Cabrillo MarineAquarium

Recognition Which Carbon Sink ReignsSupreme: Microalgae,Macroalgae, or Limestone?622

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2020 Los Angeles County Science Fair Category Winners Page 20ENGINEERING APPLICATIONS - JR J10Julian Olschwang Pressman Academy First Place Talk To The Hand

61

Quinn Donoghue Saint Joseph LongBeach

Second Place Echo Assist Travel Buddy57

Shai LangVan Brunelle

The Science AcademySTEM Magnet

Third Place Designing An UltrasonicGlove For VisuallyImpaired People186

Lauren Weldon Saint Joseph LongBeach

Third Place Robotic Glove56

Rosabelle Dunlap Mark Twain MiddleSchool

Honorable Mention Did You Stop?515

Malik Husaini New Horizon School Honorable Mention Building a HandheldVacuum Cleaner Using aPlastic Bottle218

Jasper Mejia The Science AcademySTEM Magnet

Honorable Mention Solar Mini Fridge200

Jacie Salonga Rudecinda SepulvedaDodson MS

Honorable Mention Creating a robot that canfollow through a maze.86

Gavin Sarmiento Rudecinda SepulvedaDodson MS

Honorable Mention R.C. Tennis Ball Collector237

Sasha KutnerLila ShimanskyEli Stoff

Pressman Academy Honorable Mention Engineering BuildingStructures to Adapt toRising Sea Levels152

Thom SlijperLuke Muir

Portola Highly GiftedMagnet

Honorable Mention Creating a Homemade IonEngine552

Isabella Alcala Saint Joseph LongBeach

Recognition Skate-N-Stop94

Kaiden Chin Rudecinda SepulvedaDodson MS

Recognition Automatic Cutting Board80

Dean Cornett Saint Joseph LongBeach

Recognition 4 in 1 Plant Sitter99

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2020 Los Angeles County Science Fair Category Winners Page 21Lilly Dembo Archer School for Girls Recognition Oil Spill Solutions

610

Jonathan DiazSaul PerezEmanuel Garcia

James A. FoshayLearning Center

Recognition Solar Energy Oven445

Hengrui Hu Chandler School Recognition A microscope that willchange the world.208

Erik Johnson Blair High School Recognition Heat Powered Desalination287

Rabeeah Khan Al-Huda Islamic School Recognition Increasing Wi-Fi SignalStrength and Speed withHomemade Boosters332

Gion Mandia Rudecinda SepulvedaDodson MS

Recognition Ping pong ball shooter697

Peter Monev Hale Charter AcademySTEAM Magnet

Recognition Are Hydraulically AmplifiedElectrostatic ActuatorsBetter ThanElectromagneticActuators?

319

Diego Pa All Souls WorldLanguage CatholicSchool

Recognition Which Weight is Wright?648

Erinne Park Rudecinda SepulvedaDodson Gifted/HAMagnet MS

Recognition Solar Powered WirelessCharger718

Richard Renteria Lennox Middle School Recognition The Paper AirplaneLauncher451

Jeffrey Smithwick Sierra Madre MiddleSchool

Recognition How does Tire Pressureaffect Rolling Resistance?431

Ian Turalva Rudecinda SepulvedaDodson MS

Recognition I Will Create A HovercraftThat I Will Be Able ToManeuver699

Heather Yang Walter Reed MiddleSchool

Recognition Charge it Up155

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2020 Los Angeles County Science Fair Category Winners Page 22ENGINEERING APPLICATIONS - SR S08Jennifer Lew Palos Verdes Peninsula

High SchoolFirst Place SafeBuild: A Structural

Engineering Program forDesigning Safer UtilityPoles

256

Katie Champion Vistamar School Second Place Semi-autonomous CollisionAvoidance System forElectric Wheelchairs657

Aaron Lee Flintridge PreparatorySchool

Third Place Novel Mobile-DeviceApplication for Early StrokeDetection Using MachineLearning

216

Rachel Bai The Webb Schools inClaremont CA

Honorable Mention Low Cost Sleep Trackingusing Arduino605

Victor Acuna Marco Antonio FirebaughHigh School

Recognition S.H.I.N.E. 2.0297

Jonah Greenbaum California School of theArts - San Gabriel Valley

Recognition Can drones be used forcall slip delivery at theCSArts-SGV Campus?439

Megha Jain Granada Hills CharterHigh School

Recognition Baby SOS: A Raspberry Piand Arduino Alarm Sytemto Prevent InfantAbandonment andHeatstroke in Vehicles

613

Taylor Kubisen California School of theArts - San Gabriel Valley

Recognition Benefit of Aircraft LandingWheels That Spin atGround Speed atTouchdown on TireLongevity

170

Kaddie Le Lawndale High School Recognition Sturdiest Bridges669

Hovhannes NercessianHambik MadanyanChristopher Ghazarian

Rose and Alex PilibosArmenian School

Recognition FWEC (Floating WaterEnergy Converter)117

Carlo Miranda Lawndale High School Recognition Fan Blade Differences672

Phuong Nguyen Lawndale High School Recognition Catapult Volleyball663

Alex Nikolian Armenian GeneralBenevolent Union-Vatche & TamarManoukian

Recognition Makon: oceanographicresearch device702

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2020 Los Angeles County Science Fair Category Winners Page 23Amber OrellanaMelany RamirezNayeli Rincon

Bell Gardens HighSchool

Recognition Vertical Gardens SaveSpace and Time160

Clarice Pranyoto Flintridge PreparatorySchool

Recognition BinBot: IncreasingEnvironmental AwarenessThrough a ClosedAutomated DisposalSystem

212

Ariana Sandoval Lawndale High School Recognition Efficient Rain Shelters693

Katherine Tan Temple City High School Recognition Quadrupedal Locomotion:Which Leg ConfigurationMaximizes Efficiency?405

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2020 Los Angeles County Science Fair Category Winners Page 24ENGINEERING RESEARCH - JR J11Alan Yoon Portola Highly Gifted

MagnetFirst Place Tsunamis v. Seawalls:

Comparing DifferentSeawalls to Find OutWhich is Most Efficient

379

Patrick AndrianopoulosJohn Andrianopoulos

Sierra Madre MiddleSchool

Second Place Research of the amount ofblue light emitted bydifferent electronic devicesand settings that canminimize it

690

Leila Nafarrete Blair High School Third Place Suspension vs CableStayed647

Erik AragonJose RamirezNathan Andon

Montebello Intermediate Honorable Mention Mag Force 121

Emely Cruz Montebello Intermediate Recognition The Hover Craft30

Linda Esparza Montebello Intermediate Recognition Go Green Drink Clean26

Yaroslav Kutepov Beverly Vista MiddleSchool

Recognition Which Bridge is Stronger?609

Abisai Padilla Hale Charter AcademySTEAM Magnet

Recognition Homemade vs StoreBought Solar Panel266

Goryune Papazian Rose and Alex PilibosArmenian Middle School

Recognition Motorized Sifter73

Giovanni Rodriguez La Merced Intermediate Recognition How Wings Affect aPlane's Flight193

Dylan Rodriguez-Romero Sarah Ross Science FairJunior Division

Recognition Hybrid vs. Battery Car48

Lauren SmithKyla Mohnani

Incarnation ParishSchool

Recognition Operation Build A BridgeAnd Get Over It386

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2020 Los Angeles County Science Fair Category Winners Page 25ENGINEERING RESEARCH - SR S09Aksh Garg Palos Verdes Peninsula

High SchoolFirst Place Machine Learning Coupled

Trajectory andCommunication Design forUAV Facilitated WirelessNetworks

273

Ethan Wong Arcadia High School Second Place Proverse YawCharacteristics of aPowered Flying Wing ofNovel Design andManufacture

91

Maximillian Bhatti Temple City High School Third Place Evaluation of TransientFlow Propulsion in a NovelBiomimetic MultiModeAerial-Aquatic ROV

385

Akash Anand Palos Verdes PeninsulaHigh School

Honorable Mention 3D Optimization ofUnmanned Aerial Vehiclesfor 5G Cellular NetworkSystems in Rural andUrban Areas

268

Sean Fleming Loyola High School Recognition Crossroads: SafetyProposals for Grade-School Adjacent Roads inLos Angeles Based onTraffic-Patterns Analysis

13

Kimberly May Temple City High School Recognition An Exploration ofPiezoelectric GeneratorSchemes382

Kai Mohl Palos Verdes HighSchool

Recognition Understanding the Utility ofVisual, Haptic and AuditoryStimuli for Use in VR andAR Technology

607

Vale Rasmussen The Buckley School Recognition Winglets: Gateway to FlightEfficency10

Grace Weilbacher Quartz Hill High School Recognition Laminar Flow Wind TunnelDemonstration: HowDifferent Airfoils Affect theProduction or Disturbanceof Laminar Flow

355

Yudong (Tim) Zhang Flintridge PreparatorySchool

Recognition Genetically engineering anovel red fluorescentbiosensor for the imagingof deep brain glutamatetransmission

70

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2020 Los Angeles County Science Fair Category Winners Page 26ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT - JR J12Caleb Kodama Sierra Madre Middle

SchoolFirst Place Can We Harness the

Mechanical Energy of Carsto Power our Cities206

Kyla Marie DaezDanica MadambaKasandra Robledo

Rudecinda SepulvedaDodson Gifted/HAMagnet MS

Second Place How Aquatic Plants AffectpH Levels in Seawater?429

Kawthar Hemdan New Horizon School Third Place Testing Different Barriersto Prevent Soil Erosion321

Yusuf Alnajjar Institute of Knowledge Honorable Mention Cleaner Water628

Javeria Kashif Institute of Knowledge Honorable Mention The War of Paper Fibers640

Audrey MantongLazuli Gentile

Saint Joseph LongBeach

Honorable Mention Bio-Bowl352

Katherine Ting St. Timothy School Honorable Mention Disposable ≠ Degradable370

Elvin Yang Monterey Highlands Honorable Mention RecyclaBall686

Athena AbreraLillian Richardson

Saint Joseph LongBeach

Recognition Fire Flighter Drone520

Maia Alvarez Archer School for Girls Recognition A Gassy Situation: BioGasProduction279

Rehya Arora Gaspar de PortolaCharter AIAT

Recognition Can Plants Stop SoilErosion505

Kianet Badal Hale Charter AcademySTEAM Magnet

Recognition Is the Future Bright withthe UV Light?259

Kabir Bindra Chandler School Recognition Piezoelectricity - AnEfficient Way To GenerateElectricity From Wind andNoise

377

Raffi Boghossian Chamlian ArmenianSchool

Recognition How To Make Nature-Friendly Or BiodegradablePlastic?364

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2020 Los Angeles County Science Fair Category Winners Page 27Jonah DelsonArieh EladHannah Carr

Pressman Academy Recognition Waste Not Want Not85

Christopher Deng Huntington MiddleSchool

Recognition Purify water naturally fordeveloping countries267

Zara Edler St. Timothy School Recognition California Dreamin': Howthe Weather Affects Solar& Wind Power250

Omar Hamdan Al-Huda Islamic School Recognition Drink This Not That!227

Natalie HuangFrancesca HortonAnya Stutz

Archer School for Girls Recognition Shining a Light onParticulate Matter123

Daron Kasparian Chamlian ArmenianSchool

Recognition The Fuel of the Future -Recycling Cooking Oils toproduce Biodiesel211

San Ko Rudecinda SepulvedaDodson MS

Recognition Electric Water RecyclingSink82

Skylar Li Sierra Madre MiddleSchool

Recognition Which Fertilizer Results inthe Most Nitrate-richRunoff?423

Roberto Llamas South Gate MiddleSchool

Recognition Water Purification645

Aalyah Martinez South Gate MiddleSchool

Recognition Substitute Straws606

Addison Pressnall Blair High School Recognition Can we purify water usingplants410

Alexandra Reisner Walter Reed MiddleSchool

Recognition Magnetic Plants199

Nour Saad New Horizon School Recognition Testing how effectiveWater lilies, Water irises,Watercress, and Waterlettuce are in preventingalgae blooms in freshwaterecosystem

275

Vani Tatoulian St Gregory A. & M.Hovsepian School

Recognition Is School DrinkingFountain Water Clean?282

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2020 Los Angeles County Science Fair Category Winners Page 28Carys Thompson Saint Martin of Tours

SchoolRecognition The Effect of Microplastics

On Diatoms (Cyclotella andThalassiosira)205

Alayna van de VenHattie Wildes

American Martyrs School Recognition pHysically clean331

Ellen Vartanyan St Gregory A. & M.Hovsepian School

Recognition Water Filter vs. Boiling354

Treana Witek American Martyrs School Recognition Renewable Energy is ourDestiny!342

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2020 Los Angeles County Science Fair Category Winners Page 29ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT - SR S10Jasper CeroneMason LeeForest Pineo-Cavanaugh

The Buckley School First Place MethanotrophicBioremediation for theDegradation of OceanicMethane

8

Diana Michaelson Cabrillo MarineAquarium

Second Place Concrete Surface StructureInfluence on MarineSettlement358

Candace Baik Palos Verdes PeninsulaHigh School

Third Place Thermoelectric Generatoras a Green EnergyAlternative359

Serah Park Cabrillo MarineAquarium

Honorable Mention The Effect of MicroalgaeGrowth on Oil-DegradingProperties of Bacteria365

Christopher Grushka California School of theArts - San Gabriel Valley

Recognition Using Natural Compost toIncrease the NutritionalValue of Crops210

Isabel Li Temple City High School Recognition The Development of aNovel Density-SeparationMethod of Sands344

Adam Lonstein Delphi Academy - SeniorDivision

Recognition How Does TemperatureAffect CO2 Uptake fromPlants?111

Sophia Novo California School of theArts - San Gabriel Valley

Recognition Effect of household plantaeon humans whencompleting the same mathtask

174

Caroline Pack Palos Verdes HighSchool

Recognition How Varying OceanicNitrate ConcentrationsAffect the Growth of Ulvalactuca and DissolvedOxygen Levels

327

Brayden Stark The Buckley School Recognition A Systematic Method toCombat Harmful AlgalBlooms7

Jacqueline Yang Cabrillo MarineAquarium

Recognition Which is the Best NitrateDetoxifier:Phytoremediation,Bioremediation, or Hybrid?

623

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2020 Los Angeles County Science Fair Category Winners Page 30MATERIALS SCIENCE - JR J13Lori Khemichian Chamlian Armenian

SchoolFirst Place The Effect of Glycerin on

the Strength of Bioplastic360

Aram Kenderian Ribet Academy (JuniorDivision)

Second Place Force, Energy and WorkDone by Shape MemoryAlloys338

Declan Laney Walter Reed MiddleSchool

Third Place Stuck On You158

Caleb Ivison Walter Reed MiddleSchool

Honorable Mention Breaking the Brickwork172

Jonas Nissanoff Pressman Academy Honorable Mention May The Force Be WithYou74

Tyler Brockermeyer Saint Martin of ToursSchool

Recognition To see which helmet brandis best to keep you safe.144

David Chau Hale Charter AcademySTEAM Magnet

Recognition How Does TemperatureAffect Rust in Metals?217

Moniba Derakhshani New Horizon School Recognition Comparing the Amount ofUltraviolet AbsorptionBetween Cotton, Polyester,and Polyester/CottonFabric

409

Maryam ZahidReeam Elokour

Al-Huda Islamic School Recognition Smile for Slime!191

Allison PachecoJazmine Chavez MartinezAshley Camacho

James A. FoshayLearning Center

Recognition Cell PhoneElectromagnetic Radiation424

Sophie Perez Hale Charter AcademySTEAM Magnet

Recognition Which Power Source toUse?292

Phoebe Prentice Sierra Madre MiddleSchool

Recognition Which Brand of PlasticWrap Can Best PreventEnzymatic Browning inFruit?

683

Odelia ShofetLeila KashaniSophia Manavi

Beverly Vista MiddleSchool

Recognition Soluble Balloons619

Sebastian Teves St. Timothy School Recognition Boom! Boom! Bop!566

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2020 Los Angeles County Science Fair Category Winners Page 31MATHEMATICS & COMPUTER SCIENCES - JR J14Aeneas Wood Portola Highly Gifted

MagnetFirst Place Neural Network

Classification of J.K.Rowling's Harry PotterPassages: Effect ofActivation Function andInput Type

392

Eric Lind Gaspar de PortolaCharter AIAT

Second Place The Mockulus Project:Making Virtual Reality LowCost681

Maia Rocha American Martyrs School Third Place The Effect of Search Depthon the Percentage of Winsin Connect 4351

Jerry Yang Walter Reed MiddleSchool

Honorable Mention Cracking and Hacking153

Dohyun Kim Western ChristianSchool

Recognition Galaxy type classificationby machine learning.548

Elijah Kopp Oak Hills ElementarySchool

Recognition Emotion Commotion406

Dhruv Kulkarni Oak Hills ElementarySchool

Recognition Geometric Model for EasyLearning254

Luke Laychak American Martyrs School Recognition Do Indoor Stadiums AffectBaseball Players Stats?503

Hriday Meka Gaspar de PortolaCharter AIAT

Recognition What Is The Best PossibleBasketball Team For TheLast Five Years and HowDoes Budget Tie Into It?

308

Michael Wong Walter Reed MiddleSchool

Recognition All Net189

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2020 Los Angeles County Science Fair Category Winners Page 32MATHEMATICS & COMPUTER SCIENCES - SR S11Suraj Anand Palos Verdes Peninsula

High SchoolFirst Place MedBrain: A Novel Deep

Learning Tool for HolisticPatient Data Interpretationand Clinical EventPrediction

270

Shuwen Zhang The Webb Schools inClaremont CA

Second Place Mining Common StructuralFeatures of AggregatingProteins inNeurodegenerativeDiseases

545

Junseo Park The Webb Schools inClaremont CA

Third Place Automated AcuteLymphoblastic LeukemiaDetection using ImageProcessing and MachineLearning

257

Jiaju Liu Palos Verdes PeninsulaHigh School

Honorable Mention Autocorrelation-BasedDiffusion Maps forIdentifying High-FrequencyOscillations: ATranslational Study inDetecting Epileptogenesis

357

Garbo Chung The Webb Schools inClaremont CA

Recognition The Robust and Low-costDiagnosis of CataractBased on Deep ResidualLearning

215

Sarina FereydooniTrisha DevchoudhuryYashvi Agrawal

Granada Hills CharterHigh School

Recognition Robotic Hand563

Nathan Kim Granada Hills CharterHigh School

Recognition Utilizing Machine Learningin Order to CharacterizeDifferent Rates ofProgression of IdiopathicPulmonary Fibrosis

732

Ellen Kozlov The Science AcademySTEM Magnet HighSchool

Recognition Early Identification ofCancer421

Matvei Popov Ribet Academy (SeniorDivision)

Recognition Artificial IntelligenceTerritorial SurveillanceSystem128

Xin (Anna) WangAlina Li

Ribet Academy (SeniorDivision)

Recognition Algorithms for AutonomousRobot Navigation329

Angela Xie The Webb Schools inClaremont CA

Recognition A Novel Method of MusicGeneration Based onThree Different RecurrentNeural Networks

304

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2020 Los Angeles County Science Fair Category Winners Page 33Heather Young North Hollywood High

SchoolRecognition Improving the Quantum

Computer Simulator:Optimizing for NoisyIntermediate-ScaleQuantum Algorithm Design

589

Chunyuan Zheng The Webb Schools inClaremont CA

Recognition Automation of Political BiasDetection in News usingMachine Learning236

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2020 Los Angeles County Science Fair Category Winners Page 34MICROBIOLOGY - JR J15Max Norden The Science Academy

STEM MagnetFirst Place Totally Photosynthetic! A

study of the effects ofpollution on phytoplankton180

Mahesh Arunachalam Rosemont Middle School Second Place Effects of Chemicals onAquatic Life343

Nicole Alvarado Arroyo Seco MuseumScience Magnet

Third Place The Horrors of HandDrying611

Arman Ghasemi Portola Highly GiftedMagnet

Third Place Impacts of ConcentratedDisinfectants on Bacteria139

Micaela De Leon Hollenbeck MiddleSchool

Recognition Which Will Grow MoreMold? Incubator OrRefrigerator StorageMethods?

453

Remy Kushner Portola Highly GiftedMagnet

Recognition What Role Does theFlagellum Protein FlagellinPlay in BacterialResistance to SilverNanoparticles?

289

Ghino LeeHaily Kang

Gaspar de PortolaCharter AIAT

Recognition The Effect of Oxygen in theProduction of Electricity inMicrobial Fuel Cells674

Sebastian Martinez Royal Oak Middle School Recognition Biomining in Space: Canthe BacteriaAcidithiobacillusFerrooxidans Survive inExtraterrestrial Planets withHigh Atmosphericpressures?

523

Olivia Petlak Pressman Academy Recognition Just spit on it! Can Bubba'ssaliva kill bacteria?68

Shruthi Sathya Narayanan Portola Highly GiftedMagnet

Recognition Mission to Mars198

Sabrina Walker Saint Martin of ToursSchool

Recognition Wash It!149

Laia YanezAnnette SuleymanyanNatalie Dominguez

Mt. Gleason MiddleSchool

Recognition Pumpkin Decomposition481

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2020 Los Angeles County Science Fair Category Winners Page 35MICROBIOLOGY - SR S12Yeonji Choi Cabrillo Marine

AquariumFirst Place The effect of pH on

fucoxanthin concentrationof Isochrysis Galbana248

Nolan BrandtPhillipe Wiederkehr

Palos Verdes HighSchool

Second Place Dependency ofExiguobacterium St. Y2 onLarvae Microbiome forPolystyrene Degradation

400

Victoria Marquez Cabrillo MarineAquarium

Honorable Mention The Effect of pH onRhodomonas Population586

Melissa Qin Palos Verdes PeninsulaHigh School

Honorable Mention The Effect of VolumetricRatios on Genotyping theSox9 Gene for Type 1Diabetes

361

Emma LottsDevon Frank

The Buckley School Recognition CRISPR CAS-9 andHistone Regulation: AProcess Working Hand inHand to Destroy Cancer

4

Sophia Norouzi The Buckley School Recognition Unraveling Stress: theeffects of MECP2 onAnxiety Disorders5

Rebekah Tkach California School of theArts - San Gabriel Valley

Recognition Effect of Plastic on the pHof Bacteria's OceanEnvironment181

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2020 Los Angeles County Science Fair Category Winners Page 36PHARMACOLOGY - JR J16Simra Mirza Institute of Knowledge First Place It's More Than a Weed, It's

Sunscreen631

Kaitlyn Baghdassarian Chamlian ArmenianSchool

Second Place The Effect of Green Tea onthe Heart Rate of Daphnia373

Natalie Jeronimo Hollenbeck MiddleSchool

Honorable Mention Which Brand Of IbuprofenDissolves The Quickest?417

Christine Safri Gaspar de PortolaCharter AIAT

Honorable Mention How does the pH Level ofour Stomach Acid Affectthe Amount of TimeDifferent Pills Dissolve intothe Bloodstream?

264

Thomas KimDaniel BangJonathan Kim

The Science AcademySTEM Magnet

Recognition D-α-tocopherylpolyethylene glycolsuccinate LC50 - UtilizingArtemia to Research theLimit of Substitution of THCVaping Oils with Vitamin E

456

Christa Kudaverdian La Canada PreparatoryPrivate School

Recognition Are Stem Cells the Future?510

Natalie RamirezJuanpablo Baez

Hollenbeck MiddleSchool

Recognition The Affects of Children'sMedicine On Activity OfCrickets127

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2020 Los Angeles County Science Fair Category Winners Page 37PHARMACOLOGY - SR S13Elisha Johnston Palos Verdes Peninsula

High SchoolFirst Place Pharmacodynamics of

Dextrose-Based CartilageRegeneration: AMicroscopic Approach

558

Amy Huang Palos Verdes PeninsulaHigh School

Honorable Mention Mitochondrial-DerivedPeptide SHLP2 as aTherapeutic Potential inParkinson's Disease

310

Eileen Stiles Crescenta Valley HighSchool

Honorable Mention Developing a Model forStudying the Role of TripleNegative Breast CancerCells Under ArginineStarvation

345

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2020 Los Angeles County Science Fair Category Winners Page 38PHYSICS - AERODYNAMICS/HYDRODYNAMICS - JR J17Jack Wood American Martyrs School First Place Laminar Flow

366

Elan Lonstein Delphi Academy - JuniorDivision

Second Place Vibrations of Rocketry55

Abiya Hasan Al-Huda Islamic School Third Place Right Flight124

Trisha Buranabul Monterey Highlands Honorable Mention Measuring Motion inTennis Serves691

Andrew Maalouf Incarnation ParishSchool

Honorable Mention Powerful Windmill316

Menal Abdikarim Al-Huda Islamic School Recognition Can Water Float on Water?194

Jack Amerine Holy Angels School Recognition Rocket Fin Test592

Nola Foran Walter Reed MiddleSchool

Recognition Waterpower? I'm a BigFan!283

Daniel Matthew St. Cyril of JeruselemSchool

Recognition Exploring Air Rockets367

Nicolas TenorioIsaac MgaluyanGabriel Benoit

Holy Angels School Recognition Up Up and Away528

Claire Wu Gaspar de PortolaCharter AIAT

Recognition What's the Hydrodynamicsof an Object?414

Sarah ZhangAviv Pilipski

Beverly Vista MiddleSchool

Recognition Age of wood compared tosound quality551

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2020 Los Angeles County Science Fair Category Winners Page 39PHYSICS - ELECTRICITY & MAGNETISM - JR J18Ella Baghdassarian Chamlian Armenian

SchoolFirst Place The Spectra of Different

Light Sources: Are LEDsHarmful to your health?487

Sophie Sexton Portola Highly GiftedMagnet

Second Place Measuring and ComparingElectromagnetic Fields inVarying Locations in LosAngeles

253

Marian Delfin St. Timothy School Third Place All Aboard The MaglevTrain!271

William Pearce Saint Joseph LongBeach

Honorable Mention Why the Attraction? AStudy of How TemperatureAffects Magnet Strength108

Harrison Reisner The Science AcademySTEM Magnet

Honorable Mention Dueling Magnets; A NewInvention To PreventDamage To Your Car183

Yusuf Syed New Horizon School Honorable Mention Comparing the Amount ofEMR given off by NintendoSwitch, 3DS XL, andPlaystation 4 at differentdurations of playing

323

Natalie ChavezAlondra Ceja-Galvez

La Merced Intermediate Recognition How Much Glare Does aLight Bulb Produce?196

Zavien Demirjian St Gregory A. & M.Hovsepian School

Recognition Can We Make FreeElectricity?595

Lauren Espanola Rudecinda SepulvedaDodson Gifted/HAMagnet MS

Recognition Will fusing two energysources together generatemore energy than theygenerate alone?

715

Yalda KhazaieliLubna Simjee

Al-Huda Islamic School Recognition Light It Up!219

Madeline Kim Rudecinda SepulvedaDodson MS

Recognition Hydroelectric GeneratedLightbulb675

Joseph Knepper St. Cyril of JeruselemSchool

Recognition Magnetic Fruit350

Yuha Lim Rudecinda SepulvedaDodson MS

Recognition How Does The DifferentType Of Food BatteryAffect The Length of HowLong An Electronic ClockLasts?

87

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2020 Los Angeles County Science Fair Category Winners Page 40Myles Luciano Walter Reed Middle

SchoolRecognition Maglev Trains: The Real

"Polar" Express202

Daron Simitian Rose and Alex PilibosArmenian Middle School

Recognition Defying Gravity usingLenz's Law75

Hamish Welte American Martyrs School Recognition Are We Cooked?305

William Wetzel Saint John Fisher Recognition Can a Banana ProduceMore Electricity Than aPotato341

Leanna Yeressian St Gregory A. & M.Hovsepian School

Recognition The Effect of Temperatureon Magnet Velocity293

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2020 Los Angeles County Science Fair Category Winners Page 41PHYSICS - GENERAL - JR J19Angus Norden The Science Academy

STEM MagnetFirst Place How pressure affects the

energy usage ofdesalination235

Jett Do Mark Twain MiddleSchool

Second Place Proving Conservation ofEnergy591

Daniel Stefanini St. Monica Academy Second Place Science of Suction684

Alexandra Seres Oak Hills ElementarySchool

Honorable Mention Tale Of Two Bows284

Hamza Dajani Al-Huda Islamic School Recognition Let Gravity Take Over!233

Tali Goldkorn Beverly Vista MiddleSchool

Recognition Heating a pool withoutusing too much energy,using different materials.615

Ariel Hoffman Hale Charter AcademySTEAM Magnet

Recognition The Secret Combos ofBatting105

August Medrano Saint John Fisher Recognition Angleic Marshmallows440

Viola O'Beirne Incarnation ParishSchool

Recognition Endless Energy340

Shelby Velandia St. Cyril of JeruselemSchool

Recognition Air Pressure Affects theDistance a Soccer BallTravels653

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2020 Los Angeles County Science Fair Category Winners Page 42PHYSICS - SR S14Jasmine Li Harvard-Westlake

SchoolFirst Place High Performance

Nanocomposite ElectricalConductors for EnergySustainability

395

Klara MatuszewskaJhony Ye

Ribet Academy (SeniorDivision)

Second Place Projectile motion and rangeequation116

Brian Malkan Crespi Carmelite HighSchool

Third Place The Photoelectric Effect336

Daniel BelzbergKapil DheeriyaBeom Joon (John) Kim

Palos Verdes HighSchool

Honorable Mention Feasibility of Using aSpatially Varying MagneticField to Ascertain theMuon's Magnetic Moment

300

Alec Mnatzakanian Armenian Engineers andScientists of America

Honorable Mention Which Airfoil Produces theGreatest Lift?322

Candy GaoIsabella Shi

The Webb Schools inClaremont CA

Honorable Mention Metal Property: Analysis ofmagnetoresistance throughtemperature yield644

Aimee Zhou Ribet Academy (SeniorDivision)

Honorable Mention Wave129

Lena Hernandez Huntington Park HighSchool

Recognition Cans and Sounds471

Ryan Jung Cathedral High School Recognition Ramp/Lift Installation forWheelchairs733

Luke Mercado California School of theArts - San Gabriel Valley

Recognition The Effect of the Ball Coreon How a Bowling BallReacts on a Lane175

Samantha Reyes Compton Unified SchoolDistrict

Recognition UV Radiation704

Suraj Shah Temple City High School Recognition 3D Printing in the realworld299

Jack Sheehan California School of theArts - San Gabriel Valley

Recognition Paper AirplaneAerodynamics195

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2020 Los Angeles County Science Fair Category Winners Page 43PLANT BIOLOGY & PHYSIOLOGY - JR J20Abby Liebrecht Portola Highly Gifted

MagnetFirst Place Comparing the Effects of

Fish Waste and TigerBloom Plant Fertilizer onHusky Cherry RedTomatoes

137

Nolan Cheng La Canada PreparatoryPrivate School

Second Place PharmaKarma334

Mariam Owainat New Horizon School Third Place Comparing The MoistureContent of Soil and Growthof Pisum Sativum (SnapPeas) Using an AncientWatering Method (Olla) toRegular Watering

274

Sumaiya Bawany Institute of Knowledge Honorable Mention Can Plants Be Used toPurify the Air of TotalVolatile OrganicCompounds?

594

Jacob Caldwell Royal Oak Middle School Honorable Mention Does Caffeine have aneffect on the Growth andProduction of CapsicumAnnuum

326

Aisha Kharaeva New Horizon School Honorable Mention The Effects of Antioxidants(Vitamin A, E, and C) andpH (alkaline, acidic andneutral) on radish seedgermination

312

Maggie Stepanek Walter Reed MiddleSchool

Honorable Mention Defying Gravity234

Xian Au Our Lady of RefugeSchool

Recognition What Insulations andRoofings can PansiesBenefit From?575

Adrianna BaumleDevin Baumle

Blair High School Recognition Can changing the lightsource increasephotosynthesis?463

Jeanie Chua Lennox Middle School Recognition Tomatoes vs. TheEnvironment730

Rashad Entabi New Horizon School Recognition Comparing WhetherTomato Food, Compost, orCow Manure Grows SnapPeas the Tallest.

207

Mathias Gutierrez Saint John Fisher Recognition Does Sound Affect PlantGrowth?328

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2020 Los Angeles County Science Fair Category Winners Page 44Khalid Ibrahim New Dimensions Recognition Does Fertilizer Actually

Help Plants Grow314

Ariela Jomsky Gaspar de PortolaCharter AIAT

Recognition Magnesium's Effect onAquatic PhilodendronPlants242

Sufyan Khan Al-Huda Islamic School Recognition Let's Sprout Out!285

Bailee Kim Walter Reed MiddleSchool

Recognition Shady Plants156

Olivia Kim The Science AcademySTEM Magnet

Recognition The Measurement of theGrowth of Mung BeansSupported by VaryingTypes of Irrigation

187

Pateel Krikorian St Gregory A. & M.Hovsepian School

Recognition Which Vitamins affectplants?280

Isabel Laezman Weizmann Day School Recognition Hydroponics or soil?349

Shelby Mancia Rudecinda SepulvedaDodson Gifted/HAMagnet MS

Recognition Green Onion Project438

Kaylani Parker Sierra Madre MiddleSchool

Recognition What Effects doPhosphates have onAquatic Plants?422

usman salman Institute of Knowledge Recognition Oil in the Soil635

Sophia ShinLucia WilliamsAugust Kohn

Archer School for Girls Recognition The Effects of OceanAcidification on Algae225

Savanna Villa Our Lady of RefugeSchool

Recognition What Is The BestSubstitute for Soil in SeedGermination?434

Jay Vizzie Saint Martin of ToursSchool

Recognition A Burning Problem: Plants,Fire, and the Future ofVegetation in California106

Angelina Waluszko Sierra Madre MiddleSchool

Recognition What is the Effect ofIncreased UV RadiationExposure on PlantGermination and Growth?

381

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2020 Los Angeles County Science Fair Category Winners Page 45Lara Yeghiayan St Gregory A. & M.

Hovsepian SchoolRecognition Tea Time!

495

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2020 Los Angeles County Science Fair Category Winners Page 46PLANT BIOLOGY & PHYSIOLOGY - SR S15Cameron Ito California Academy of

Mathematics andScience

First Place Effect of Artemia (brineshrimp) waste on thegrowth rate ofChaetomorpha (greenmacroalgae) for aquaponicgardening

402

Melanie Khachatryan Crescenta Valley HighSchool

Second Place Utilizing Silica Powder toImprove and EnhancePlant Growth318

Gary Shirikchian Rose and Alex PilibosArmenian School

Third Place The Effect of HydroponicsAgriculture Methods onPlants134

Amrutha Srivatsav Palos Verdes PeninsulaHigh School

Honorable Mention How Can the Ethanol Yieldof Lemna minor DuckweedBe Maximized?356

Steven Cao Temple City High School Recognition The Response of Auxinsand Gibberellins in Plants67

Sarah Cao Palos Verdes PeninsulaHigh School

Recognition Invasive vs. Native:Comparison of NaCl andFe tolerances of L.peploides and P. amphibia

303

Shua Cho California Academy ofMathematics andScience

Recognition Effect of Bisphenol A ongrowth rate of Isochrysisgalbana514

Steven Chung Lawndale High School Recognition Tomato Speed Growth664

Gabriela JimenezJorge RomanEduardo Ventura

Garey High School Recognition Plant Xperiment19

Kevin Tan Temple City High School Recognition An Evaluation andOptimization of AeroponicGrowing Solutions andTechniques

383

Emily Victor Garey High School Recognition Photosynthesis Rates708

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2020 Los Angeles County Science Fair Category Winners Page 47PRODUCT SCIENCE - JR J22Ross Goldberg Pressman Academy First Place Get A Grip

69

Amelia Hines Archer School for Girls Second Place Brew-tiful Biofuels: Findingthe Best Method forCreating an Alternative toFirewood Using CoffeeGrounds

231

Connor Barrett Saint Joseph LongBeach

Third Place Do Concussion GuardsReally Work?107

Abira Dost Institute of Knowledge Honorable Mention Ouch! What a burn!638

Celine Gharapetian Chamlian ArmenianSchool

Honorable Mention Heat DissipationEffectiveness of DifferentLaptop Cooling Mats485

Sierra Alva Sierra Madre MiddleSchool

Recognition Do Green Bags Extend theShelf Life of Produce?251

Rehem Arviv Pressman Academy Recognition Unveiling the Standards ofSticky Bumps Surf Wax140

Chloe Bae Rudecinda SepulvedaDodson MS

Recognition How Does theTemperature Affect HowWell Hair Color Dyes Hair?642

Danica Bondoc Saint Joseph LongBeach

Recognition Helmet Protection97

Arek Boynerian Chamlian ArmenianSchool

Recognition Is There Bisphenol A(BPA) In Store-BoughtCanned Foods?368

Chloe CapaladAnaLucia Romero

Holy Angels School Recognition Bleach490

Hiwot FasikaAngela Karanja

Saint Joseph LongBeach

Recognition Porta-Filter72

Emily Flores Saint Joseph LongBeach

Recognition Eco-friendly watercolors62

Ruqayyah Hossain Institute of Knowledge Recognition Uncovering Hidden SugarIn Your Foods630

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2020 Los Angeles County Science Fair Category Winners Page 48Ahmad Kandil New Horizon School Recognition Comparing the Efficiency

of 29 Anti-MalwareCybersecurity Programs inRemoving 1,054 MaliciousFiles

315

Ava Larson American Martyrs School Recognition How Dirty Are YourRetainers?276

Andy Lasso Saint John Fisher Recognition Which Baseball Bat CanHit a Ball the Farthest -Aluminum, Wood, orComposite?

306

Hajin Lee Walter Reed MiddleSchool

Recognition Could Your Phone Be BadFor Your Health164

Alice Mardanian Portola Highly GiftedMagnet

Recognition Studying the Effects ofVitamin C on IronAbsorption92

Elie Netzah The Science AcademySTEM Magnet

Recognition Skate Shoe Durability:Which Skate Shoe LastsThe Longest178

Gerald Po Holy Angels School Recognition Ice in Your Favorite Drink339

Ashley PrudencioSamantha Delgadillo

Montebello Intermediate Recognition Crazy Sugar!?50

Gwen Rodriguez Montebello Intermediate Recognition Pops25

Saishriya SathyaNarayanan

Gaspar de PortolaCharter AIAT

Recognition Comparative Study of ShelfLife and Nutritional Effectof Iron, Non-Stick, andEarthen Mud Pots

260

Natalie Simonian Saint Martin of ToursSchool

Recognition What Type of Climate canProtect a House from aWet Climate101

Gabriella TarpayMaile Naito

Brentwood School Recognition How baking soda affectsthe physical properties andtaste of cookies84

ariannah torres Montebello Intermediate Recognition What candle burns fastercolored or white52

Alina ValenciaVanessa Llanes

Montebello Intermediate Recognition Sugar22