UAB-CORD CARSEF Winners
March 9, 2013

Will Pannell
10th Grade
Altamont School
Project Title – Exploring Magnetohydrodynamic Propulsion: Using Magnetohydrodynamic
Propulsion to Propel a Vessel

 

Payton Walker
12th Grade
Alabama School of Fine Arts
Project Title – Stay "Kinected": A Home Monitoring System Combining Safety and Comfort

 

Jessica Maya
12th Grade
Alabama School of Fine Arts
Project Title – The Use of Metabolic Profiling to Diagnose Obesity in Mice

 

Lakshmi Raju
12th Grade
Alabama School of Fine Arts
Project Title – A Novel Pulsed LED Excitation Device for Optical Mapping of Transmembrane Potential in Cardiac Muscle

 

CARSEF Category Winners
Senior Division

1st Place
Priya Shah
10th Grade
Alabama School of Fine Arts
Project Title – An Examination of the Factors that Effect Common Misconceptions of Obesity

2nd Place
Amy Strong
11th Grade
Jefferson County International Baccalaureate
Project Title – The Effects of Technology on Memory

3rd Place
Keenah Mays
10th Grade
Altamont School
Project Title – How do Tragedies Affect a City's Crime Rate?

Honorable Mention
Elizabeth Brown
11th Grade
Altamont School
Project Title – Autoshaping in the American Toad (Bufo americanus): The Classical Conditioning Paradigm with Light as the Conditional Stimulus

Honorable Mention
Olivia Jones
10th Grade
Altamont School
Project Title – Loop the Stroop: Warped Words and the Stroop Effect

Honorable Mention
Larissa Ramos
10th Grade
Pell City High School
Project Title – Suggestive Memory: Sight vs. Hearing

 

1st Place
Mihir Limdi
9th Grade
Altamont School
Project Title – Influence of Interleukin-8 and proline-glycene-proline on Macrophage Phenotype

2nd Place
Hunter Hollis
12th Grade
Jefferson County International Baccalaureate
Project Title – Attack Behavior of Solenopsis invicta Against the Influence of Salvia officinalis

3rd Place
Zhichun Li
12th Grade
Alabama School of Fine Arts
Project Title – Protein Kinase C (PKC) Mediated Kainate-Induced Glycine Receptor Endocytosis

Honorable Mention
Laure Bender
11th Grade
Altamont School
Project Title – Expression of Na+/K+ Regulatory Proteins in the Brain

Honorable Mention
David Gamlin
11th Grade
Jefferson County International Baccalaureate
Project Title – The Effects of pH in Food Acid on the Erosion of Teeth

Honorable Mention
Payton Davis, Allyson Bailes and Jay Rucks
12th Grade
Hewitt Trussville High School
Project Title – An Alternative Method for Creating a Waste Treatment System

 

1st Place
Cailan Bevel
9th Grade
Thompson High School
Project Title – Investigation of Anti-Corrosive Agents for Aluminum

2nd Place
Dylan Fullilove
9th Grade
Altamont School
Project Title – SPF: Appearance of Reality?

3rd Place
Kimmy Wise
10th Grade
Jefferson County International Baccalaureate
Project Title – The Effects of Magnesium of Foxfire Fungus

Honorable Mention
Alexandria Hawkins
11th Grade
Woodlawn High School
Project Title – Flavor that Food!

Honorable Mention
Katherine Young
10th Grade
Altamont School
Project Title – The Use of Naturally Occurring Lactose as a Beverage Sweetener

Honorable Mention
Charles Lampman
10th Grade
Pell City High School
Project Title – Dissolution of Vitamins

 

1st Place
Will Pannell
10th Grade
Altamont School
Project Title – Exploring Magnetohydrodynamic Propulsion: Using Magnetohydrodynamic Propulsion to Propel a Vessel

2nd Place
Adam Smith
11th Grade
Pell City High School
Project Title – Wind Tunnel vs. Actual Flight Results for Paper Airplanes

3rd Place
Kaylea Lott
10th Grade
Pell City High School
Project Title – Magnetic LevitatingTrain

Honorable Mention
Caroline Borden and Jaylan Jacobs
9th Grade
Indian Springs School
Project title – Excrement to Eggs

 

1st Place
Muna Al-SafarJalani
12th Grade
Alabama School of Fine Arts
Project title – Optimizing Green Concrete Strength and Cost

2nd Place
William Tang
9th Grade
Altamont School
Project Title – Noise Barrier Design Based on Sound Spectrum Analysis

3rd Place
Darby Franklin and Bella Goubeaux
12th Grade
Hewitt Trussville High School
Project Title – Sip and Puff Robotic Arm Exoskeleton for a Quadriplegic

Honorable Mention
Lauren Luker
10th Grade
Pell City High School
Project Title – M & M Sorter

Honorable Mention
Chase Tollison
11th Grade
Pell City High School
Project Title – Which Type of Bridge Will Withstand the Most Weight Capacity

Honorable Mention
Andrew Cox, Jaden Cowan and Taylor Allen
12th Grade
Hewitt Trussville High School
Project Title – A 21st Century Modification to the Insulin Pump

 

1st Place
Alexander Nelson
12th Grade
Alabama School of Fine Arts
Project Title – The Effects of Endomycorrhizal Fungi on Growing a Health Lawn

2nd Place
Quinn McCormick
9th Grade
Jefferson County International Baccalaureate
Project Title – The Effect of Bisphenol A (BPA) on Artemia Salina Survival

3rd Place
Jack Vogt
12th Grade
Alabama School of Fine Arts
Project Title –The Effect of Soil Contaminants on the Growth of Wisconsin Fast Plants

Honorable Mention
Alexandria VanDall
10th Grade
Pell City High School
Project Title – The Effects of E.Coli on Warm Water Fish Species

Honorable Mention
Margaret Hunt
11th Grade
Altamont School
Project Title – The Effectiveness of Water Purification Methods

Honorable Mention
Justin Nail
11th Grade
Jefferson County International Baccalaureate
Project Title – Hydroponics: Using Ionic Compounds in Place of Soil to Enhance Radish Seedling Growth

 

1st Place
Payton Walker
12th Grade
Alabama School of Fine Arts
Project Title – Stay “Kinected”: A Home Monitoring System Combining Safety and Comfort

2nd Place
Jefferson Zou
12th Grade
Alabama School of Fine Arts
Project Title – Numerical Studies of Existence for A Singular Boundary Value Problem of Ordinary Differential Equations

3rd Place
Casey Barnette
12th Grade
Alabama School of Fine Arts
Project Title – CLIP: Learning Language for Beginning Programmers

Honorable Mention
Jonathan Hurowitz
11th Grade
Altamont School
Project Title – Will You Win? A Look Into Lotteries

Honorable Mention
Nate Tumlin
10th Grade
Alabama School of Fine Arts
Project Title – Using Battling Virtual Robots to Teach the Basics of Artificial Intelligence and Programming

 

1st Place
Jessica Maya
12th Grade
Alabama School of Fine Arts
Project Title – The Use of Metabolic Profiling to Diagnose Obesity in Mice

2nd Place
Karyn Ding
12th Grade
Alabama School of Fine Arts
Project Title – Targeting the Dual Survival Signaling Pathway in Pancreatic Cancer Cells

3rd Place
Ramsha Farrukh
12th Grade
Alabama School of Fine Arts
Project Title – O-GlcNAc Expression is Reduced in Alzheimer's Disease Post Mortem Human Hippocampus

Honorable Mention
Karan Jani
12th Grade
Alabama School of Fine Arts
Project Title – Covalent Modification of Melphalen Increases its Anticancer Effects

Honorable Mention
Tara Market
11th Grade
Indian Springs School
Project Title – Gliomas’ Temozolomide Resistance Can Be Overcome With Cytochrome C Oxidase Inhibitors

Honorable Mention
Yuyang Ye
11th Grade
Vestavia Hills High School
Project Title – The Role of Alcohol on Connexin43 Expression

 

1st Place
Lakshmi Raju
12th Grade
Alabama School of Fine Arts
Project Title – A Novel Pulsed LED Excitation Device for Optical Mapping of Transmembrane Potential in Cardiac Muscle

2nd Place
Deanna Abrams
12th Grade
Alabama School of Fine Arts
Project Title – A Dynamical Systems Analysis of Monodisperse Aerosol Coagulation Model

3rd Place
Jasmin Revanna
10th Grade
Alabama School of Fine Arts
Project Title – Using A Digital Camera to Measure Pollution

Honorable Mention
Ashlyn Perrigin
11th Grade
Pell City High School
Project Title – Variable Luminosity of Algol

Honorable Mention
Hanna Noah
10th Grade
Jefferson County International Caccalaurate
Project Title – Average Levels of Microwave Emissions From Cell Phones and Microwave Ovens

Honorable Mention
Wesley Biddie
11th Grade
Evangel Christian School
Project Title – Wireless Electricity Transfer Through Various Materials

 

CARSEF Category Winners
Junior Division

1st Place
Max Klapow
8th Grade
Indian Springs School
Project Title – Down The Rabbit Hole

2nd Place
Guru Arjun
8th Grade
Altamont School
Project Title – A Randomized Placebo-Controlled Study of the Efficacy of an Ultrasonic Dog Deterrent

3rd Place
Aishah Duha
6th Grade
Islamic Academy of Alabama
Project Title – Teaching, Are You Doing It Right?

Honorable Mention
Isabel Coleman
7th Grade
Altamont School
Project Title – Addicted to Technology?

Honorable Mention
Allison Epperson
8th Grade
O.D. Duran Junior High School
Project Title – Does the Color of Text Affect Someone’s Ability to Retain Information

Honorable Mention
Waleed Abdelqader
6th Grade
Islamic Academy of Alabama
Project Title – Can Our Eyes Trick Our Taste Buds?

 

1st Place
Aaron Miller
7th Grade
Altamont School
Project Title – Regeneration of Brown Planaria in Alabama River Water

2nd Place
Mariah Cobbin
8th Grade
W.J. Christian School
Project Title – Don’t Do Da Dew!

3rd Place
Halle Bakir
7th Grade
Altamont School
Project Title – Birdseed Showdown

Honorable Mention
Malik El-Husari
7th Grade
Islamic Academy of Alabama
Project Title – Nature vs. Bleach

Honorable Mention
Jackson White
8th Grade
Indian Springs School
Project Title – Fish Trapping

 

1st Place
Imani Richardson
8th Grade
Altamont School
Project Title – Is Premium Worth the Price? An Analysis of Vitamin C Concentration in Orange Juice

2nd Place
Vivek Sasse
6th Grade
Altamont School
Project Title – Hydrolysis Catalysts

3rd Place
Dasia Primus
7th Grade
Phillips Academy
Project Title – Lighten Up!

Honorable Mention
Kelci Marable
8th Grade
Holy Family Catholic Academy
Project Title – The Magnificent Glowing Powers of Sodium

Honorable Mention
Grace Spencer
5th Grade
Our Lady of the Valley
Project Title – Let it Glow

Honorable Mention
Abbie Brown
5th Grade
Williams Intermediate School
Project Title – Does the Storage Temperature Affect the Amount of Popcorn?

 

1st Place
Ali Carter
8th Grade
Childersburg Middle School
Project Title – Who Has the Best Brown Energy?

2nd Place
William Randall
7th Grade
Altamont School
Project Title – Increasing Electricity Output of Wind Turbine by Adding a Brim

3rd Place
Hanna Becerra
8th Grade
St. Francis Xavier Catholic School
Project Title – Use of Enzymes in the Production of Biogas

Honorable Mention
Samantha Sinak
8th Grade
St. Francis Xavier Catholic School
Project Title – Waterwheel Efficiences

Honorable Mention
Zachary Hamby
7th Grade
Everest Academy
Project Title – Parachutes: How Slow Can You Go?

 

1st Place
Ariel Herren
8th Grade
O.D. Duran Junior High School
Project Title – You’re Getting Warmer

2nd Place
John Simmons
8th Grade
Indian Springs
Project Title – Auditory Guidance for the Visually Impaired Dog

3rd Place
Aarthi Namasivayam
8th Grade
Altamont School
Project Title – Which Materials and Shapes are Most Invisible

Honorable Mention
Carolyn Clearly
8th Grade
Altamont School
Project Title – Comparison of Geodesic Domes to Flat Roots

Honorable Mention
Sydney Calhoun
8th Grade
Altamont School
Project Title – What is the Safest Playground Surface Material

Honorable Mention
Josh Evans
8th Grade
O.D. Duran Junior High School
Project Title – Heat Loss

 

1st Place
Mohammad Hamo
7th Grade
Islamic Academy of Alabama
Project Title – Water For All

2nd Place
Derrin Wilson
6th Grade
W.J. Christian School
Project Title – Does Vitamin C Lead to Plant Growing Spree and the Effect of Vitamin D on Plant Growth

3rd Place
Wamda Eltoum
6th Grade
Islamic Academy of Alabama
Project Title – Earth Box vs. Regular Pot

Honorable Mention
Cameron Brown, Nicholas Adams and Myranda Bell
6th Grade
W.J. Christian School
Project Title – Plant Hard Grow Hard

Honorable Mention
Arjun Lakhanpal
8th Grade
Altamont School
Project Title – The Effect of Moisture on Soil Strength

Honorable Mention
Truitt Bridgewater
5th Grade
Williams Intermediate School
Project Title – How Does the Soil Temperature Affect the Germination of a Bean Seed?

 

1st Place
Hunter Scott
8th Grade
Altamont School
Project Title – Comparing Data Types and Mathematical Computation Times on CPUs

2nd Place
Ashlin Tyler
8th Grade
O.D. Duran Junior High School
Project Title – Fun or Frustrated?

 

1st Place
Nivedita Rao
7th Grade
Altamont School
Project Title – Vitamins as Antioxidants!

2nd Place
Danna Rafai
7th Grade
Islamic Academy of Alabama
Project Title – Sugar Rush

3rd Place
JaMarcus Ellison and Jarian Lee
8th Grade
W.J. Christian School
Project Title – Sniff This

Honorable Mention
Williams Denniston
6th Grade
Altamont School
Project Title – Where’s the Dot? Group Testing for Color Blindness

Honorable Mention
Lauren Shields and Jackson Shields
8th Grade and 6th Grade
Our Lady of the Valley
Project Title – Clean Water Solutions for Personal Consumption

Honorable Mention
Seema Mallon
6th Grade
Islamic Academy of Alabama
Project Title – Effects of Drinks on Teeth

 

1st Place
Jason Lucas and Dylan Ebert
7th Grade
Columbiana Middle School
Project Title – The Physics of Cheating in Baseball

2nd Place
Will Roberts and Will Morris
6th Grade
Columbiana Middle School
Project Title – Bombs Away – A Ping Pong Catapult

3rd Place
Peter Kolar
7th Grade
St. Rose Academy
Project Title – Rain of Arrows, Distance of Arrows

Honorable Mention
Ezra Vaughn
5th Grade
Williams International School
Project Title – Which Fruit Can Produce the Most Electricity?

Honorable Mention
Kristine Golden
8th Grade
O.D. Duran Junior High School
Project Title – Does the Same Paint Color on Different Surfaces Appear Warmer Under Incandescent Light Than Fluorescent Light

Honorable Mention
Mollie Parker
7th Grade
St. Rose Academy
Project Title – Flame vs. Fabric