ALAMOSA — Following are the place awards for the 70th SLV Regional Science Fair held February 28-March 1 in Alamosa.

Behavioral & Social Sciences

Elementary School

First Place — Frannie Edelen, Del Norte Elementary School, Testing with Stress and Anxiety

Second Place — Sara Kelly, Alamosa Elementary School, The Power of Your Taste Buds!

Third Place — Aleigha Lanelle Sanchez, Sierra Grande Elementary School, What’s Your Mood?

High School

First Place — Amada M. Quintana, Monte Vista High School, The Effects of Stress on Teenage Substance Use

Middle School

First Place — Marissa Lilianna Martinez, Monte Vista Middle School, Imagine the Perfect Title!

Second Place — Presley Jane Louise Wilson, Sangre de Cristo Middle School, William Clint Wilson, Does Anybody Really Know What Time It Is?

Third Place — Presley Lozoya, Monte Vista Middle School, Don’t Over React!! 

Honorable Mention — Anikah Roybal, Sierra Grande Middle School, SEL Rollercoaster

Honorable Mention — Celeste Dominique Chacon, Monte Vista Middle School, Are You a Shady Sister? (Criminal Activity in Colorado)

Biomedical Sciences

Elementary School

First Place — Corbin Castillo, Sargent Elementary School, Scurf Away

Second Place — Elena Baumgardner, Bill Metz Elementary School, Blindfold Taste Test

Third Place — Connor Mellott, Bill Metz Elementary School, My Crazy Lazy Eye

Honorable Mention — Evie Hinds, Bill Metz Elementary School, Horror Heart Rates

Honorable Mention — Naylie Addison Velasquez, Del Norte Elementary School, Autumn Gallegos, Where Do Germs Hang Out?

Honorable Mention — Brianna Martinez, Alamosa Elementary School, Fingers and Families

High School

First Place — Amanda L. Avila, Monte Vista High School, Trinady A. Gonzales, Let There Be Light: The Effects of UV Rays on Bacterial Growth in Food

Second Place — Elora Smith, Sargent High School , It Takes Guts Part One

Third Place — Blaine Solomon Gillespie, Monte Vista High School, Are Your Hands as Clean as You Assume?

Honorable Mention — Shunna Shuntel Sauls, Monte Vista High School, Super Supplements:  Antibiotic Properties of Foods and Herbal Remedies

Middle School

First Place — Grayson Givens, Sargent Middle School, Bacteria Battle!

Second Place — Lawson Culver, Sangre de Cristo Middle School, Which Sugar?

Third Place — Megan Peterson, Sargent Middle School, Stephanie Johnson, The Great Vape Debate

Honorable Mention — Jordan Rockey, Sargent Middle School, Bacteria Busters

Honorable Mention — Wyatt Cross, Sargent Middle School, AJ Garcia, Severe Atmosphere

Botany

Elementary School

First Place — Kyra Griffin, Sargent Elementary School, Icy or Hot? Does Water Temperature Affect Plant Growth?

Second Place — Jadyn Martinez, Sierra Grande Elementary School, What Grows?

Third Place — Teyler Bartee, Home School - Elementary School , Factors That Effect Quinoa Fields

Honorable Mention — Kynlei Curtis, Sangre de Cristo Elementary School, Which Beans Grow Faster?

High School

First Place — Ashlyn Rockey, Sargent High School, Physiological, Yield, and Tolerance Response, to Managed Irrigation In Chenopodium Quinoa

Second Place — Gurleen Kaur, Alamosa High School, Detection of Compounds in the PVY Phloem of Salanum Tuberosum Using GC-MS

Honorable Mention — Caleb Mose Riggenbach, Monte Vista High School, A Study On The Effect High Carbon Dioxide levels Have on Raphanus sativus L. and its Environment

Middle School

First Place — Trenton Ryse Paskett, Sargent Middle School, Wild Fire vs. Wild Flower

Second Place —  Urianna Azita Acosta, Monte Vista Middle School, Micro-WAVE Goodbye to Radiation!

Third Place — Kaden Ray Mellott, Monte Vista Middle School, A Bean’s Fight At Night

Honorable Mention — Carlos Ochoa Marquez, Monte Vista Middle School, Let’s Squash That Theory!

Chemistry

Elementary School

First Place— Alex Gonzales, Bill Metz Elementary School, Gummy Bear Osmosis

Second Place — Corbin Tane Horrocks, Del Norte Elementary School, Foaming Fermentation

Third Place — Jaron Mason, Sangre de Cristo Elementary School, Elephant Toothpaste Max

Honorable Mention — Madison Henderhan, Bill Metz Elementary School, DIY Party Balloon Fill Up

Honorable Mention — Carlos Lopez, Sierra Grande Elementary School, A Fresh Explosion

Honorable Mention — Estella Trujillo, Sierra Grande Elementary School, The Best Potato Battery

High School

First Place — Alyssa H. Rawinski, Monte Vista High School, Tracking Microplastics through a Food Chain to Determine the Effectiveness of Plastic Biodiversity

Second Place — Chinmay N. Jayanty, Sargent High School, Pure or Impure: Rapid Test for Adulteration in Milk

Third Place — Elizabeth Shown, Alamosa High School, Growth of Crystals

Honorable Mention — Jameson P. Oberrick, Monte Vista High School, My Car Won’t Turn Over in This Cold Weather!

Honorable Mention — Alexandria Taylor, Centennial High School, Crystal Heat

Middle School

First Place — Madelyn Beiriger, Sargent Middle School, More Than Just a Malt

Second Place — A’maree Lopez, Ortega Middle School, Got Milk?

Third Place — Westen Holder Burkhart, Sargent Middle School, The Crappiest Project

Honorable Mention — Maria F. Sears, Saint Peter’s Lutheran Middle School, Safe or Sorry

Honorable Mention — Christopher Joseph Gonzalez, Monte Vista Middle School, Fantastic Bioplastic!

Consumer Sciences

Elementary School

First Place — Julia Leary, Alamosa Elementary School, Bake, Bake! Will It Make a Cake?

Second Place — Isreal Gomez, Sierra Grande Elementary School, Search It!

Third Place — Leah Smith, Sanford Elementary School, 5 Second Rule

Honorable Mention — Lucas Vaughn Miller, Sanford Elementary School, It’s No Stinkin’ Joke!  Seriously, Don’t Smoke!

Honorable Mention — Maya Cordero, Alamosa Elementary School, How Much Sugar Is in That?

Honorable Mention — Kasey Gylling, Sanford Elementary School, Nail Polish Nail Polish But Not A Drop In Sight

Middle School

First Place — Ada Pence, Centauri Middle School, Which Sunscreen Is Best?

Second Place — Jacob Watson, Sargent Middle School, Matthew Voss, Frozen Truck

Third Place — Alizandria Jones, Sanford Middle School, Soil vs. Oil

Earth & Space Sciences

Elementary School

First Place — Ryan Cordova, Alamosa Elementary School, Slake Test

Second Place—Sheyla Molina, Haskin Elementary School, The Green House Effect

Third Place — Kenna Culver, Sangre de Cristo Elementary School, Magic Magnet Sand

Honorable Mention — Audrianna Gerardo , Centennial Elementary School, Volcano

Honorable Mention — Alejandro Puentes, Haskin Elementary School, Save Our Water

High School

First Place — Amber L. Michel, Monte Vista High School, Rock On: Limestone’s Potential to Improve Water Quality in the Alamosa River Drainage

Second Place — Matyson Raye Jones, Monte Vista High School, Fire Storm: Examining the Relationship Between El Nino/ LA Nina Weather Cycles and Wildfires

Middle School

First Place — Erica Miller, Home School - Middle School, Where On the World Am I?

Second Place — Brigid Lopez, Sargent Middle School, Drift Away

Honorable Mention — Dakota Rael, Centennial Middle School, Cloud in a Jar

Engineering

Elementary School

First Place — Harley David, Alamosa Elementary School, Building the Tallest Tower

Second Place — Abigail Adams, Alamosa Elementary School, Go Fetch!

Third Place — Eli Baumgardner, Bill Metz Elementary School, Lend a Hand

Honorable Mention — Diana Villa, Bill Metz Elementary School, Hour of Tower Topple Fun

Honorable Mention — Lorena Ortiz, Sierra Grande

Elementary School, Catapult

Honorable Mention — Timone Dolan, Haskin Elementary School, Seeing Below the Surface

High School

First Place — Josiah Shown, Alamosa High School , The Strength of Sand in the World of Engineering

Honorable Mention — Marian Helen Kidd, Sargent High School, Oh Shift!

Honorable Mention — Ethan Hotz, Monte Vista High School, Plastic Joints: A Study into 3D Printing Orthopedics

Middle School

First Place — Augustus Gerald Miller, Monte Vista Middle School, Device for the Ice!

Honorable Mention — Cayden J. Larimore, Sargent Middle School, Under Pressure

Honorable Mention — Kaden Tolsma, Sargent Middle School, Solar Water Heater

Environmental Sciences

Elementary School

First Place — Logan Futrell, Bill Metz Elementary School , UV and Altitude Exploration

Second Place — Celestina Martinez, Del Norte Elementary School, The Melting Snow Competition

Third Place — Elijah D. Swanson, Haskin Elementary School, Salt Water Affecting Icebergs

Honorable Mention — Carmen Villasenor, Haskin Elementary School, In Hot Water

High School

First Place — Andres Villa, Monte Vista High School, Examining the Toxicity of Herbicides and Fungicides on Terrestrial and Aquatic Organisms

Second Place — Brian Duenas, Centennial High School, Is Your Soil Safe?  Contamination

Middle School

First Place—Tyler Kester, Sierra Grande Middle School, Little Marvel: A Comparative Study of Plant Growth

Second Place — Garett Thomson, Sargent Middle School, Clean Up Your Act

Third Place—Aaron Codie Price, Sargent Middle School, I Dichn’t See You There

Honorable Mention — Ayana Nieto,Ortega Middle School, Dezarai McLane, Something Fishy About That Fertilizer!

Mathematics & Computers

Elementary School

First Place — Tanner Houser, Sargent Elementary School, The Blind Platformer

Second Place— Bogar Quezada, Sierra Grande Elementary School, Crafting a Code for Minecraft

Third Place — Khloe Spangler, Alamosa Elementary School, What Are the Chances?

Honorable Mention — Zuimi Perez ,Haskin Elementary School, What Is the Chance

High School

First Place — Sara Nehring, Monte Vista High School, Pattern Recognition Using Neural Networks in the MATLAB Programming Environment

Physics

Elementary School

First Place — Jakoby Ross, Bill Metz Elementary School, Head Over Heels

Second Place — Domyon Naranjo, Bill Metz Elementary School, Over or Under

Third Place — Reagan Futrell, Bill Metz Elementary School, 3-2-1 Blastoff!

Honorable Mention — Emily Raya, Alamosa Elementary School, Does Hot Water Freeze Faster Than Cold Water?

Honorable Mention — Giovanni E. Jaquez, Sierra Grande Elementary School, Tumbling and Separating

Honorable Mention — Julia Sanchez, Alamosa Elementary School, Flying Marble

High School

First Place—Molly M. Nehring, Monte Vista High School, Galactic Outcasts: A Simulation and Study of the Interaction Between Stars Within Globular Clusters

Second Place — Cullen Rushing, Sierra Grande High School, Evander Espinoza, The Duality of Light

Middle School

Second Place — Evan Watts, Sargent Middle School, Gyroscoped

Third Place — Joshua Carbutt, Sargent Middle School, Do A Barrel Roll

Honorable Mention — Jaxon S. Ritchey, Saint Peter’s Lutheran Middle School, Give Me Your Best Shot

Zoology

Elementary School

First Place — Davina Anika Dodds, Sierra Grande Elementary School, Detangle My Tangle

Second Place— Ezra Lopez, Sangre de Cristo Elementary School, The Zombie Ant Project

Third Place — Jorge Garcia, Sangre de Cristo Elementary School, Daphnia Heart Rate

Honorable Mention — Hailee Wilson, Sangre de Cristo Elementary School, Daphnia Soap Rush

Honorable Mention — Elicia Abeyta, Mountain Valley Elementary School, If Your Happy and You Know It Wag Your Tail

Honorable Mention— Julian Fernandez, Mountain Valley Elementary School, Heart Race

High School

First Place — Camille P. Rawinski, Monte Vista High School, UnBEElievable Pollination - Examining the Effects of Air Pollutants on Bumble Bee Pollination

Honorable Mention — Brandy Almeida, Center High School, Abelardo Gomez, Hamster Jam

Middle School

First Place — Madison Patricia Miller, Monte Vista Middle School, Fowl Play: How Different Types of Recreational “Play” Affects Flush Response In Waterfowl

Third Place — Alexandrea L. Paulson, Sargent Middle School, The A”maze”ing Race

Honorable Mention — Gabriellla Castillo, Ortega Middle School, Paws-itively Perfect

Honorable Mention — Kaedyn Kristopher Serak, Monte Vista Middle School, Stop Bugging Me!

Honorable Mention — Kord Lawrence Tideman, Monte Vista Middle School, Gettin’ Jiggy With It!