36th Annual Frederick County Science & Engineering Fair

Awards Ceremony

Saturday, April 1, 2017Tuscarora High School

Booklet Cover Art WinnersMiddle School Division

Isabel Chen (6) Urbana Middle - Honorable Mention Athena Higgins (8) Monocacy Middle - Honorable Mention

Julie Melong (8) Monocacy Middle - Honorable Mention Grace Roark (6) Monocacy Middle - Honorable Mention Angelino Tijo (8) Monocacy Middle - Honorable Mention

Samiha Vali (6) Ballenger Creek Middle - Honorable Mention

Eden Leon (6) Urbana Middle – Winning Cover Art Design

Booklet Cover Art WinnersHigh School Division

Megan Chang (9) Oakdale High – Honorable Mention Michelle Morales (10) Urbana High– Honorable Mention

Grace Neff (10) Urbana High – Honorable MentionElle Newman (9) Urbana High – Honorable Mention

Abbey Smead (12) Oakdale High – Honorable MentionMorgan Walker (11) Oakdale High – Honorable MentionMaggie Wilcom (10) Urbana High – Honorable Mention

Susannah Auderset (10) Urbana High– Winning Cover Art Design

Local Specialty Award Winners

AstraZeneca Award

Evan Yamaguchi (GTJHS)

Local Specialty Award WinnersThermoFisher Outstanding MS Projects (presented by ThermoFisher)

Brina Ratangee (UMS)Kevin Guinan, Mathias Buccheister & Gavin Marshall (Mother Seton)

Maansi Manoj (UMS)Meghan Moberly (FCCS)

Isha Sahai (UMS)Nikhil Kurian (UMS)Samuel Errett (BMS)

Bishoy Ibrahim (WFMS)Julia Keyes (WMS)

Amogh Kashyap (UMS)

Local Specialty Award WinnersThermoFisher Outstanding HS Projects

Jackie Liu (UHS)Soujanya Viswanathan (UHS)

Arissa Bavari (GTJHS)Charlie Giglio & Jorgen Miller (UHS)

Catharine Dietrich (CTC)Sanjana Subramanian (UHS)

Rachel Beall (BHS)Evan Yamaguchi (GTJHS)

Caleb Chen (WHS)Akilesh Mukadam (THS)

Local Specialty Award Winners17th Annual Dr. Raymond Ediger Award for Excellence in

Agriculture Josephine Isaacson (CHS)

Abhiraman Senthilkumar (UMS)

Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments, Baltimore Metropolitan Council and Clean Air Partners

Rachel Beall (BHS) Sanjanaa Viswanathan (UMS)

NIST Sigma Xi Measurement Science Rachel Beall (BHS)

Local Specialty Award WinnersSociety of Women Engineers Awards

Outstanding Engineer Sanjana Subramanian (UHS)

Rachel Beall (BHS)Maybelin Orellana Cruz (CHS)

Charlotte Hively (UMS)

Promising EngineerHelen Jackson (St. John RCS)Bridget Adams (Mother Seton)

Local Specialty Award WinnersQiagen Award First Place

Sanjana Subramanian (UHS)

Qiagen Award Second Place Josephine Isaacson (CHS)

Qiagen Award Third Place Helen Jackson (St. John RCS)

Local Specialty Award Winners

Catoctin Wildlife Preserve & Zoo - Coronautus Award HSZachary Carter (CHS)

Catoctin Wildlife Preserve & Zoo - Coronautus Award MSShane Zaw-win (UMS)

Local Specialty Award WinnersAchievers League Creative Idea Awards

Reagan Hattenberger (WFMS)Rachel Beall (BHS)

Millie Ransohoff (FCCS)Sanjana Subramanian (UHS)

Bailey Jorgensen (WMS)Atul Thomas (UMS)

Mudra Thakkar (UMS)

Local Specialty Award WinnersGenius Olympiad SUNY Oswego

Rachel Beall (BHS) Sanjana Subramanian (UHS)

Iman Mansoor & Khunoot Mansoor (UHS)

Local Specialty Award WinnersFrederick Community Foundation Participation Award

URBANA MIDDLE SCHOOL

Regional Awards Affiliated with Intel ISEF

American Meteorological Society Josephine Isaacson (CHS) Alyssa Baker (CHS) Maybelin Orellana Cruz (CHS) Abhiraman Senthilkumar (UMS)

American Psychological Society Millie Ransohoff (FCCS)

ASM Materials Education Foundation Sanjana Subramanian (UHS)

Association for Women Geoscientists Iman & Khunoot Mansoor (UHS)

Regional Awards Affiliated with Intel ISEF

ASU Walton Sustainability Solutions Initiatives Rachel Beall (BHS) Sanjana Subramanian (UHS)

Intel Excellence in Computer Science Charlie Giglio (UHS) Jorgen Miller (UHS)

NASA Earth System Science Jonathan Merki (CHS)

National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration Josephine Isaacson (CHS)

Regional Awards Affiliated with Intel ISEF

Office of Naval Research

Senior Awards (HS) Jackie Liu (UHS)

Sanjana Subramanian (UHS)

Junior Award (MS)Isha Sahai (UMS)

Sanjanaa Viswanathan (UMS)Nikhil Kurian (UMS)

Regional Awards Affiliated with Intel ISEF

Ricoh Americas Corporation Rachel Beall (BHS)

Society of In Vitro Biology Jackie Liu (UHS)

US Metric Association Seraphim Kozlov (UMS)

Regional Awards Affiliated with Intel ISEFUnited States Public Health Service High School Awards (presented)

Distinguishing Achievement 1st place Award Sanjana Subramanian (UHS)

Distinguishing Achievement 2nd place AwardCaleb Chen (WHS)

Distinguishing Achievement 3rd place Award Soujanya Viswanathan (UHS)

Meritorious AwardJackie Liu (UHS)

Category Winners

Honorable Mention

MS Honorable Mention Winners

Biomedical & Health Sciences Meghan Moberly (FCCS)

Engineering Mechanics Caroline Mackin (WKMS)

Physics & Astronomy Tyler Rutledge (BCMS)

HS Honorable Mention WinnersBiomedical & Health Sciences Laila Ghaffari (UHS)

Chemistry Bassem Rafiq (UHS)

Zain Shamsuddin (UHS)

Akshey Suresh (UHS)

HS Honorable Mention WinnersEarth & Environmental Sciences

Iman Mansoor (UHS)

Khunoot Mansoor (UHS)

Engineering Mechanics Neha Mathur (FHS)

Physics & Astronomy Lincoln Curtis (UHS)

Category Winners

Third Place

MS Third Place WinnersBehavioral & Social Sciences Maya Irvin (Lucy School)

Biomedical & Health Sciences Maeve Sharkey (MMS)

MS Third Place WinnersChemistry Samantha Foster (FCCS)

Earth & Environmental Sciences Hritaal Saha (UMS)

Azhan Zafar (UMS)

Energy: Chemical & Physical Sarah Mansoor (UMS)

Amogh Kashyap (UMS)

Engineering Mechanics Reagan Hattenberger (WFMS)

MS Third Place WinnersMicrobiology Seraphim Kozlov (UMS)

Physics & Astronomy Orion Carrera (Friends Meeting School)

HS Third Place WinnersAnimal Sciences Zachary Carter (CHS)

Biochemistry Arissa Bavari (GTJHS)

Biomedical & Health Sciences Catharine Dietrich (CTC)

HS Third Place WinnersRobotics & Intelligent Machines

Charlie Giglio (UHS)

Jorgen Miller (UHS)

Category Winners

Second Place

MS Second Place WinnersAnimal Sciences Shane Zaw-win (UMS)

Behavioral & Social Sciences Maansi Manoj (UMS)

Biomedical & Health Sciences Iman Kazmi (UMS)

MS Second Place WinnersChemistry Nikhil Kurian (UMS)

Earth & Environmental Sciences Abhiraman Senthilkumar (UMS)

Energy: Chemical & Physical Tahir Haroom (UMS)

Engineering Mechanics Bridget Adams (MMS)

MS Second Place WinnersMicrobiology Joseph Romanic (Friends Meeting School)

Physics & Astronomy Hannah Thompson (BCMS)

Plant Sciences Hannah Scheirey (UMS)

Robotics & Intelligent Machines -Tie - Alexander Bindewald (WFMS)

-Tie - Ben Bonen (OMS)

Systems Software Mabel Heine (NMMS)

HS Second Place WinnersBiomedical & Health Sciences Soujanya Viswanathan (UHS)

Category Winners

First Place

MS First Place WinnersAnimal Sciences - Tie - Ember Carrera (Friends Meeting School)

Tie - Ava Coffman (Lucy School)

Behavioral & Social Sciences Millie Ransohoff (FCCS)

Biochemistry Jack Schneider (FCCS)

Biomedical & Health Sciences Isha Sahai (UMS)

Cellular & Molecular Biology Charles Millard (FCCS)

MS First Place WinnersChemistry Brina Ratangee (UMS)

Computational Biology & Bioinformatics Vineet Ravichandran (WMS)

Earth & Environmental Sciences Sanjanaa Viswanathan (UMS)

Energy: Chemical & Physical Charlotte Hively (UMS)

Engineering Mechanics

Kevin Guinan, Jr. (Mother Seton)

Matthias Buccheister (Mother Seton)

Gavin Marshall (Mother Seton)

Environmental Engineering Kaylie Musard (WMS)

MS First Place WinnersMaterial Sciences Ashwin Ramkumar (UMS)

Microbiology Julia Keyes (WMS)

Physics & Astronomy Theodore Darnell (WMS)

Plant Sciences Atul Thomas (UMS)

Robotics & Intelligent Machines Samuel Errett (BMS)

Systems Software Ritik Gupta (BCMS)

HS First Place WinnersBiochemistry Evan Yamaguchi (GTJHS)

Cellular & Molecular Biology Jackie Liu (UHS)

Computational Biology & Bioinformatics Akhilesh Mukadam (THS)

Energy: Chemical & Physical Rachel Beall (BHS)

Engineering Mechanics Sanjana Suvramanian (UHS)

Robotics & Intelligent Machines Caleb Chen (WHS)

Exemplary Non-Mentored HS Project Awards

Charlie Giglio & Jorgen Miller (UHS)Caleb Chen (WHS)

Leila Ghaffari (UHS)

MS Design ChampionsEngineering Design

Kevin Guinan Jr. (Mother Seton)Matthias Buccheister (Mother Seton)

Gavin Marshall (Mother Seton)

Observational/Theoretical Design Vineet Ravichandran (WMS)

Experimental DesignCharlotte Hively (UMS)

HS Design ChampionsExperimental Design

Jackie Liu (UHS)

Observational/Theoretical Design Akilesh Mukadam (THS)

Engineering Design Rachel Beall (BHS)

MS Broadcom MASTERSMatthias Buccheister (Mother Seton)

Theodore Darnell (WMS)Kevin Guinan (Mother Seton)

Charlotte Hively (UMS)Julia Keyes (WMS)

Gavin Marshall (Mother Seton)Charles Millard (FCCS)Millie Ransohoff (FCCS)Brina Ratangee (UMS)

Vineet Ravichandran (WMS)Jack Schneider (FCCS)

Sanjanaa Viswanathan (UMS)

MS Overall WinnerRunner Up

Charles Millard (FCCS)

Analysis of DNA Fragmentation by Gel Electrophoresis

MS Overall WinnerGrand Prize

Vineet Ravichandran (WMS)Clustering: A Technique that Helps Us Discover Similarity Among Invisible Viruses to NBA Players and Everything In

Between!!!

HS ISEF Student Observers(Sponsored by TheromFisher)

Rachel Beall (BHS)Charlie Giglio & Jorgen Miller (UHS)

HS Overall Winner (ISEF Finalist)

Grand PrizeEvan Yamaguchi (GTJHS)

An Achilles Heel in Oncogenic Ras