Huntington Herald

Students compete in science fair with Sudoku, energy and memory

Last Updated on Tuesday, 07 February 2012 15:53 Written by The Huntington Herald
Saturday, 18 February 2012 01:50

More than 350 students competed in this year's science fair. Eight projects were chosen to go to the state finals at Quinnipiac University.

The Shelton High School Annual Science Fair was held Feb. 1 in the school's auxiliary gymnasium. More than 204 projects, involving 352 students, were submitted. Winners of the fair were awarded the next day. Rigel Mahmood was congratulated for submitting the number one project in the Shelton High Science Fair that won the entire fair. More than $1,500 in prize money was awarded with monetary donations.

Honorable mentions — Composting with Radishes (Katherine Funes); Childhood Obesity in America: Are School Lunches Part of the Problem? (Carley Maleri, Erisa Kamolli); How Does Humidity Affect the Rebound of a Baseball? (Austin Kothary; Brett Peterson); A Wave of Possibilities: A Study of Wave Particle Duality Theory (Elida Paiz); Cleaning the Spill by Eating its Fill (Ben Yambao, Chris Herlihy, Ryan Cyr); The Speed of Color (Samantha Rubio, Madison McCurdy); Can't Live Without Your Liver (Carliana Percivalle); Salty Spheres (Emily Apicerno) and It's Shocking (Rachel Najarian, Jessica Olavarria).

Third place — Do You Remember? (Alison Scalenghe); Lighting Up with Luminol (Neel Swamy); Don't Eat Your Veggies - Turn Them into Energy (Adam Zhitomi) and What is the Fastest Way to Solve a Sudoku Puzzle (Michael Dellolio, Ryan Zuklie, Alex Wlcek).

Second place — Tooth Decay (Matthew Minutolo); Return of the Germ (Thomas Ball); Fire Retardant Paint (Rachel Cataudella, Myles Hoponick, Alessandra Boisvert) and Bass Attack (Gary Thompson Jr., Ryan Daiss).

First place — How Radiation of Cell Phones Affects Cells (Caroline Steadham, Johnna Bakalar); Revolutionary Cancer Treatment: A Simulation of Nanocarriers Using Swarm Intelligence for Targeted Cancer Cells (Rigel Mahmood); Effects of Humidity on Music (Lauren Montagna, Alyssa Johnson) and The Application of LT and 5-HTP in Serotonin Synthesis (Anna Maria Marini).

The following eight projects were overall winners and will participate in the Connecticut State Science Fair at Quinnipiac University in March: Fire Retardant Paint (Rachel Cataudella, Myles Hoponick, Alessandra Boisvert); What is the Fastest to Solve a Sudoku Puzzle? (Michael Dellolio, Ryan Zuklie, Alex Wlcek); Return of the Germ (Thomas Ball); Bass Attack (Gary Thompson Jr., Ryan Daiss); How Radiation of Cell Phones Affects Cells (Caroline Steadham, Johnna Bakalar, Syndey Carter); Effects of Humidity on Music (Lauren Montagna, Alyssa Johnson); The Application of LT and 5-HTP in Serotonin Synthesis (Anna Maria Marini) and Revolutionary Cancer Treatment: A Simulation of Nanocarriers Using Swarm Intelligence for Targeted Cancer Cells (Rigel Mahmood).

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