The 2022 LRSEF Virtual Fair took place on Saturday, March 5. The winners were announced during a livestream ceremony on Monday, March 7, 2022 (watch the Awards Ceremony recording here with access code LRSEF01LRSEF). View the award ceremony slideshow presentation [PDF] and the 2022 Winners Gallery.
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Junior Divisional Awards
Animal Sciences
4th Place
Olive Zitzer – Saint Francis of Assisi, Louisville – The Effect of Noise Pollution on Fish
3rd Place
Emary Thomas – Saint Francis of Assisi, Louisville – The Effects of Sucralose on Mystery Snails’ Behaviors
2nd Place
Cole Sprague – Saint Francis of Assisi, Louisville – Does climate change affect growth in vanessa cardui butterfly
1st Place
Emma Diehl – Saint Francis of Assisi, Louisville – Exploring the Purpose of Cicada Distress Call
Behavioral and Social Sciences
4th Place
Bella Holtgrave – Saint Francis of Assisi, Louisville – Implicit, Explicit Attitudes and Impulsivity and Alcohol Use In Teens
3rd Place
Gracyn Stockwell – Saint Francis of Assisi, Louisville – Does an Elevated Heart Rate Affect Decision Making in Children?
2nd Place
Sam Church – Saint Francis of Assisi, Louisville – Reaction Time to Senses: Does Smell Matter?
1st Place
Grayson Clark – J Graham Brown Middle School – Grayson’s Science Fair on Distracting Noises
Biochemistry
3rd Place
Ellery Reynolds – Saint Francis of Assisi, Louisville – A Molecular Exploration: Vinyl Flooring and its Role in Leukemia
2nd Place
Agnes Loeser – Saint Francis of Assisi, Louisville – Milkweed Extract Impacts PTP-1B and Cell Division
1st Place
Lucy Koerber – Saint Francis of Assisi, Louisville – Do different beverages or artificial sweeteners affect lactase activity?
Biomedical Engineering
4th Place
George Bryant – Saint Francis of Assisi, Louisville – Designing an early detection device for diabetic neuropathy
3rd Place
Ethan Reynolds – Saint Francis of Assisi, Louisville – Designing a Heel Cup for Sever’s Disease
2nd Place
Grady Amick – Saint Francis of Assisi, Louisville – Brace Yourself: A Device Monitoring Medical Device Usage Compliance
1st Place
Callan Petruska – Saint Francis of Assisi, Louisville – Testing the Properties of Agarose Axonal Conduits
Biomedical and Health Sciences
4th Place
Hayden Ramsey – Saint Francis of Assisi, Louisville – Parkinson’s Disease: Exploring the Combined Exposure Of Herbicides
3rd Place
Margaret Meador – Saint Agnes School – The effect of Rosa damascena and Lavandula angustifolia on reducing human stress levels
2nd Place
Elli Keeley-Fine – Saint Francis of Assisi, Louisville – A Concern for Veterans: Exploring Plastic Burn Pit Smoke Toxicity
1st Place
Tasneem Faiz – Nur Islamic School – The Effect of Solution Type on Electrolyte Levels
Cellular and Molecular Biology
2nd Place
Katelyn Stroud – Saint Francis of Assisi, Louisville – Crumb Rubber Playground Pads May Cause Cell Toxicity in Children
1st Place
Charlotte Connally – Saint Francis of Assisi, Louisville – Synergism: Magnetic Fields Decrease the Need for a Novel Cancer Therapy
Chemistry
4th Place
Avery Lloyd – Saint Francis of Assisi, Louisville – Avoiding Cancer: Nitrates and Nitrites in Vegetables
3rd Place
Kai Nakamura – Saint Francis of Assisi, Louisville – comparing thrust production: exploring potassium chlorate and nitrate
2nd Place
Aisha Abdulbaqi – Nur Islamic School – The Effects of Surface Temperatures on the Visibility of Fingerprints
1st Place
Turner Gooch – Saint Francis of Assisi, Louisville – Exploring Scale Remediation and pH
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
2nd Place
Jacob Holtgrave – Saint Francis of Assisi, Louisville – DOES SMOKING INCREASE THE RISK AND SEVERITY OF SKIN CANCER
1st Place
Drew Ashley – Saint Francis of Assisi, Louisville – Phylogenetic Analysis of Omicron Gene Sequences in the Kentuckiana Region
Earth and Environmental Science
3rd Place
Patrick Galla – Saint Francis of Assisi, Louisville – Exploring Microfiber Migration in Soil
2nd Place
Johanna Hawley – Saint Francis of Assisi, Louisville – Does the Sinuosity of Streams Affect Erosion?
1st Place
Jackson Briley – Saint Francis of Assisi, Louisville – Effects of Foliage Density on Near Road Pollution Levels
Embedded Systems
3rd Place
Elise Aubrey – Saint Francis of Assisi, Louisville – The Cane-Eye: A pothole detecting cane for the visually impaired
2nd Place
Louie Murr – Saint Francis of Assisi, Louisville – Developing an Artificially Intelligent Device to Detect Vape Use
1st Place
Annika Chadha – Noe Middle – Building an Air Flow Sensor to monitor room air replacement for safety against COVID and other diseases
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
4th Place
Thomas Galla – Saint Francis of Assisi, Louisville – Improving Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells with Sodium Alginate
3rd Place
Jacob Quinn – Saint Francis of Assisi, Louisville – seeing the effects that antioxidants have on bio fuel raw material
2nd Place
Frances Fendig – Saint Francis of Assisi, Louisville – Electrolytes and Membranes Roles in Hydrogen Production Through Electrolysis
1st Place
Emily Koch-Serrano – Saint Francis of Assisi, Louisville – Constructing PEM fuel cells
Engineering Technology: Statics and Dynamics
4th Place
Zoey Van Zee – Shelby County East Middle School – Truss Me, I’m an Engineer
3rd Place
Meredith Elder – Saint Francis of Assisi, Louisville – Exploring Power Line Galloping
2nd Place
Mason Nunn – Saint Francis of Assisi, Louisville – Exploring Earthquake Tuned Mass Dampers
1st Place
Maxwell Griffin – Sacred Heart Model School – Star Track: An Automated Radio Telescope
Environmental Engineering
4th Place
Seth Niemann – Saint Francis of Assisi, Louisville – Increasing Milkweed Effectiveness to clean oil spills with desiccants
3rd Place
Mckenna Riley – Saint Francis of Assisi, Louisville – Exploring Microfiber Remediation with Food Waste
2nd Place
Julia Keeney – Saint Francis of Assisi, Louisville – Carbon-Scrubbing Insulation with Polyurethane Foam
1st Place
Josie Dunn – Saint Francis of Assisi, Louisville – Metal Remediation Using Fish Bones
Materials Science
3rd Place
Reagan Fleming – Saint Francis of Assisi, Louisville – Exploring Strengths of bioplastics after exposed to sunlight using antioxidants
2nd Place
Finn Oetken – Saint Francis of Assisi, Louisville – Exploring the Creation of Electrically Conductive Glass
1st Place
Silas Noonan – Saint Francis of Assisi, Louisville – Exploring the Effects of a Vacuum on Biofoam
Mathematics
3rd Place
Gus Reinhart – Saint Francis of Assisi, Louisville – Exploring the Fractal Dimensions of Melanoma
2nd Place
Maylin Kidwell – Noe Middle – Do Pips on Gaming Dice Introduce a Bias?
1st Place
Owen Singer – Saint Francis of Assisi, Louisville – Correlating Anxiety and Depression with Coronavirus Cases and Deaths
Microbiology
4th Place
Charles Hummel – Saint Francis of Assisi, Louisville – Exploring the Effect of Mixed Plastic Leachates on Human and Soil Bacteria
3rd Place
Ella McGee – Saint Francis of Assisi, Louisville – Effects of Various Sugars on Specific Gravity when Fermenting Kombucha
2nd Place
Marlowe Jeffreys – Saint Francis of Assisi, Louisville – Exploring the Effects of Different Sodas on Streptococcus Mutans
1st Place
Calla Magnuson – Saint Francis of Assisi, Louisville – City vs. Country Honey, Which Kills Bacteria More Efficiently
Physics and Astronomy
4th Place
Leland Bernauer – Saint Francis of Assisi, Louisville – Composite, Aluminum,Wood; Which bat produces the most exit velocity?
3rd Place
Ellie Jones – Saint Francis of Assisi, Louisville – Exploring How Temperature Affects Magnet Strength
2nd Place
Christopher Kehdy – Saint Albert the Great School – Magnet Gun
1st Place
Penelope Harris – Saint Francis of Assisi, Louisville – Does the Center of Mass Effect Golf Ball Carry
Plant Sciences
4th Place
Ava Thompson – Saint Francis of Assisi, Louisville – How can seed priming affect drought tolerance?
3rd Place
Eva Donis – Saint Francis of Assisi, Louisville – Climate Change and Salinity Effects Plants
2nd Place
Iris Apple – Saint Francis of Assisi, Louisville – Signaling Transduction and Learning: A Molecular Basis in Plants
1st Place
Amina Albarqawi – Nur Islamic School – The Impact of Aquaponic and Soil Systems on the Growth of Radish Plants
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
2nd Place
Shazia Shaik – Noe Middle – Project DeepWater: Using AI Deep Learning for Water Quality
1st Place
James Welch – Saint Francis of Assisi, Louisville – Creating a Robotic Gripper
Systems Software
4th Place
Isaac Given – Saint Francis of Assisi, Louisville – Refugee Transportation Help: An App to help Refugees with Transportation
3rd Place
Rihaan Kapoor – Saint Francis of Assisi, Louisville – A Machine Learning Algorithm to Predict Disease Outbreak
2nd Place
Fahmeeda Mohammad – Nur Islamic School – Hacking the Airgap: Stealing Info from a Computer Disconnected From the Internet.
1st Place
Ifrah Shaik – Nur Islamic School – PostureBeepAI: Posture Detection and Alert Program
Translational Medical Science
3rd Place
Caroline Cotton – Saint Francis of Assisi, Louisville – Neoplasms: Exploring their creation and cure with Kentucky native plants.
2nd Place
Harrison Jeffreys – Saint Francis of Assisi, Louisville – Does UV Exposure Effect Sunscreen Toxicity
1st Place
Leah Rasnake – Saint Francis of Assisi, Louisville – Exploring Blood Coagulation: The Effect of Native American Plant Extracts
Senior Divisional Awards
Animal Sciences
3rd Place
Brooke Bond – Ballard High School – Music affecting behavior
2nd Place
Samuel Shumway – Ballard High School – How does ants’ speed change based on the repetition of traveled pheromone paths?
1st Place
Bhavyasree Puchakayala – Ballard High School – The Perfect Environment for Terrestrial Isopods
Behavioral and Social Sciences
4th Place
Renelleda Saint-Hilaire, Andrea Salazar Cortez – Ballard High School – The Effects of Social Classes on Weight Loss
3rd Place
Safi Fofana – Ballard High School – The Effect of the Tempo of Music on People’s Mood
2nd Place
Alisha Mullick – Bowling Green High School – Effects of Different Pressure Types of the Development of Muscle Dysmorphia in High School Students
1st Place
Suchita Tipirneni – Ballard High School – Now You See Me, Now You Don’t…
Biochemistry
2nd Place
Margaret Beatty – Assumption High School – Kentucky Native Plants: Agents Against Cancer?
1st Place
Krish Gupta – Trinity High School, Louisville – Biodegradation of Phthalate Esters in Landfills using Bacterial Dehydrogenase Consortium
Biomedical Engineering
2nd Place
Krithik Nadimpally – Ballard High School – The Road to Developing an Artificial Pancreas
1st Place
Bismah Rana – Central High School – Non-Invasive Glucose monitoring
Biomedical and Health Sciences
4th Place
Emmanuel Edwards – Central High School – The effects of music on pulse and respiration
3rd Place
Katy Cano – Central High School – Real Scent Vs Artificial Scent
2nd Place
Katey Buszkiewicz – Ballard High School – Comparison Between Family Fingerprints
1st Place
Benjamin Cullens, Abby Ramsey – Ballard High School – The Effect of Sugary Drinks on Tooth Color
Cellular and Molecular Biology
3rd Place
Zaynab Pervez – Ballard High School – Endogenous Dipeptides Regulate Myosin ATPase During Skeletal Muscle Agin
2nd Place
Jace Taila – Saint Xavier High School, Louisville – Do Citric acid sensitive taste neurons innervate more taste bud cells that transduce sour tastes?
1st Place
Veenasravani Pendyala – North Oldham High School – The Sensory Potential of Synaptopodin
Chemistry
4th Place
Maggie Hall, Menah Ali – Eastern High School – Does salt make water boil faster?
3rd Place
Hadley Pearl – Eastern High School – Hadley Pearls Project
2nd Place
Sydney Breitenstein, Isabella Keyzer – Eastern High School – How is water’s ability to Freeze affected by other substances?
1st Place
Samahir Dirie – Central High School – SKIN MOISTURIZER
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
4th Place
Andrew Park – Gatton Academy of Science & Mathematics – Identifying the Transcription, Translation, and Functionality of Circular RNAs Using High- Throughput Sequencing Data
3rd Place
Sharini Shah – KY Country Day School – Outcomes of Tricuspid Valvectomies on IV Drug Users with Infective Endocarditis
2nd Place
Bella Norman, Sarisha Lohano – Gatton Academy of Science & Mathematics – GenFind – “Predicting Mycobacteriophage Gene Start Sites Using Artificial Intelligence”
1st Place
Brian Nguyen – Gatton Academy of Science & Mathematics – Analysis on an Extend Chronic Wound Model
Earth and Environmental Science
2nd Place
Jamiah Brown – Central High School – How does acid rain effect soil?
1st Place
Aiddan Robinson, Ben Kane – Ballard High School – Fluidized Sand Bed
Embedded Systems
1st Place
Sahil Krishna, Nishu Anekere, Harrison Cover – Gatton Academy of Science & Mathematics – Water Pollution Detection Using Autonomous Drone Hardware and Software
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
3rd Place
LaMya Hickman – Central High School – The effect of storage temperature on batteries lifespan
2nd Place
Malachi Barnes – Eastern High School – How Extreme Cold Effects Batteries, and how we can lessen the Effect
1st Place
Matthew Casey, Isaac Miller, Andrew Coleman – Eastern High School – fuel cell car
Engineering Technology: Statics and Dynamics
2nd Place
Addison Siwicki – Eastern High School – Mousetrap Powered Vehicle
1st Place
Eldino Kilim – Ballard High School – Can the Shape of an Airfoil Effect Fuel Consumption?
Environmental Engineering
4th Place
Malick Diallo – Central High Magnet Career Academy – Comparison between natural and synthetic material water filters
3rd Place
Sophia Cheng – Ballard High School – The Most Efficient Method of Cleaning Oil Spills to Prevent Further Marine Pollution
2nd Place
Dorcas Matsoumou – Central High School – The Purification Process of a Valuable Resource.
1st Place
Journee Abernathy – Central High School – Can microorganisms mitigate plants with high levels of salt
Materials Science
1st Place
Jaxson Liening – Ballard High School – Analyzing the Dimensional Stability of Fabrics
Mathematics
3rd Place
Nehemiah Borland – Eastern High School – Testing the Chaos Theory with M&Ms.
2nd Place
Jaden Marshall – Central High School – The Science of The Bank Shot
1st Place
Jordan Weiss – Eastern High School – The Monty Hall Problem
Microbiology
4th Place
Carlos Figueredo Zamora – Ballard High School – Toothpaste Competition
3rd Place
Isabella Martinez – Ballard High School – The Effect of the Amount of Time a Mask is Worn on the Quantity of Bacteria
2nd Place
Muhilan Balasubramanian – Ballard High School – Effect of Homeopathic Disinfectants on Cultured Bacteria from the School Environment.
1st Place
Sahil Chhabra – Gatton Academy of Science & Mathematics – Genome Engineering of Bacteriophage MooMoo
Physics and Astronomy
4th Place
Fernando Salazar Cortes – Ballard High School – Physics in a pinball machine
3rd Place
Aidan Koenig, Isabelle Hoffman, Robert Rupley – Eastern High School – Multi-Design Bridge Test
2nd Place
Logan Lewis – Central High School – The Spectrominator – A Transversely Excited Atmospheric Lasing System
1st Place
Curtis Feller – Eastern High School – Running Water: How Does Temperature Vary?
Plant Sciences
4th Place
Zakariya Hassan – Central High School – The Effect of Protein Supplements on Plant Growth
3rd Place
Lillian Long, Paris Boles – Ballard High School – Hydroponic Lettuce
2nd Place
Ciarra Russell – Central High School – The Effect of Ph on Plant Growth
1st Place
Taylor Thompson – Ballard High School – Future of Farming: How does the way we farm affect the results?
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
1st Place
Isaac Ingram – Eastern High School – Solar Powered Robot
Systems Software
4th Place
Tanner Aslan – Ballard High School – Exploring Inverse Kinematics & Procedural Animation
3rd Place
Kevin Brothers – Ballard High School – Found: Reuniting Families Using Facial Recognition
2nd Place
Karthik Nadimpally – Ballard High School – Using Multivariate Time Series Forecasting Neural Networks to Predict Stock Prices
1st Place
Zaheeb Tariq – Ballard High School – Making accessing information easy using an automated system with Python.
Translational Medical Science
4th Place
Ornella Massy – Central High School – acne
3rd Place
Tuqa Saedi – Central High School – dandruff
2nd Place
Gia Patel – Central High School – which product works best for people with eczema?
1st Place
Vaishu Pendyala – North Oldham High School – Impact of Chemokines on Immune Cells in Pediatric Medulloblastoma Tumor Cells
Junior Special Awards
American Chemical Society Awards
1st place – Turner Gooch – Saint Francis of Assisi, Louisville – Exploring Scale Remediation and pH
2nd place – Aisha Abdulbaqi – Nur Islamic School – The Effects of Surface Temperatures on the Visibility of Fingerprints
1st place – Lucy Koerber – Saint Francis of Assisi, Louisville – Do different beverages or artificial sweeteners affect lactase activity?
2nd place – Agnes Loeser – Saint Francis of Assisi, Louisville – Milkweed Extract Impacts PTP-1B and Cell Division
American Meteorological Society Award
Julia Keeney – Saint Francis of Assisi, Louisville – Carbon-Scrubbing Insulation with Polyurethane Foam
American Psychological Association Award
Margaret Meador – Saint Agnes School – The effect of Rosa damascena and Lavandula angustifolia on reducing human stress levels
American Society of Civil Engineers Awards
Todd Niemann – Saint Francis of Assisi, Louisville – Pier Brace: Shapes and Drag Resistance
Nate Shields – Saint Francis of Assisi, Louisville – Exploring Tsunami Wave Energy Dissipators
ASM Materials Sciences
Lila Glaser – Saint Francis of Assisi, Louisville – The Effects of Thermochromic Pigments on Bioplastics
Finn Oetken – Saint Francis of Assisi, Louisville – Exploring the Creation of Electrically Conductive Glass
Association for Women Geoscientists Award
Johanna Hawley – Saint Francis of Assisi, Louisville – Does the Sinuosity of Streams Affect Erosion?
Ellie Jones – Saint Francis of Assisi, Louisville – Exploring How Temperature Affects Magnet Strength
Bakelite Synthetics – Community Impact Award
Frances Fendig – Saint Francis of Assisi, Louisville – Electrolytes and Membranes Roles in Hydrogen Production Through Electrolysis
Bakelite Synthetics – Creative Project Award
Gavin Thomson – Saint Francis of Assisi, Louisville – Functional Physics: Sound Analysis Using Machine Learning
BC Plumbing Company – Water Award
Turner Gooch – Saint Francis of Assisi, Louisville – Exploring Scale Remediation and pH
Broadcom Masters
Nominees are invited to apply for entry into national competition to wi n a trip and up to $25,000. Entry deadline is June 2022.
Amina Albarqawi – Nur Islamic School – The Impact of Aquaponic and Soil Systems on the Growth of Radish Plants
Grady Amick – Saint Francis of Assisi, Louisville – Brace Yourself: A Device Monitoring Medical Device Usage Compliance
Iris Apple – Saint Francis of Assisi, Louisville – Signaling Transduction and Learning: A Molecular Basis in Plants
Drew Ashley – Saint Francis of Assisi, Louisville – Phylogenetic Analysis of Omicron Gene Sequences in the Kentuckiana Region
Annika Chadha – Noe Middle – Building an Air Flow Sensor to monitor room air replacement for safety against COVID and other diseases
Grayson Clark – J Graham Brown Middle School – Grayson’s Science Fair on Distracting Noises
Tasneem Faiz – Nur Islamic School – The Effect of Solution Type on Electrolyte Levels
Maxwell Griffin – Sacred Heart Model School – Star Track: An Automated Radio Telescope
Julia Keeney – Saint Francis of Assisi, Louisville – Carbon-Scrubbing Insulation with Polyurethane Foam
Maylin Kidwell – Noe Middle – Do Pips on Gaming Dice Introduce a Bias?
Ifrah Shaik – Nur Islamic School – PostureBeepAI: Posture Detection and Alert Program
Shazia Shaik – Noe Middle – Project DeepWater: Using AI Deep Learning for Water Quality
Katelyn Stroud – Saint Francis of Assisi, Louisville – Crumb Rubber Playground Pads May Cause Cell Toxicity in Children
James Welch – Saint Francis of Assisi, Louisville – Creating a Robotic Gripper
Churchill Downs Incorporated – Equine Industry Innovations Award
Emary Thomas – Saint Francis of Assisi, Louisville – The Effects of Sucralose on Mystery Snails’ Behaviors
Department of Defense – Department of Defense STEM Leadership Prize
Maxwell Griffin – Sacred Heart Model School – Star Track: An Automated Radio Telescope
GE Appliances Asia Pacific American Forum (APAF) – Clear Thinker Award
Annika Chadha – Noe Middle – Building an Air Flow Sensor to monitor room air replacement for safety against COVID and other diseases
Gibson Family – Sustainability Award
Shazia Shaik – Noe Middle – Project DeepWater: Using AI Deep Learning for Water Quality
Jefferson County Conservation District – Conservation Awards
1st place – Amina Albarqawi – Nur Islamic School – The Impact of Aquaponic and Soil Systems on the Growth of Radish Plants
2nd place – Jacob Quinn – Saint Francis of Assisi, Louisville – seeing the effects that antioxidants have on bio fuel raw material
3rd place – Johanna Hawley – Saint Francis of Assisi, Louisville – Does the Sinuosity of Streams Affect Erosion?
Kentucky Science and Engineering Fair with support of Amazon Corporation – Amazon Innovation Award
Octane Hinojosa – Montessori School of Louisville – Copper vs Silicon Solar Cell
Ester Line – Saint Francis of Assisi, Louisville – Exploring the Impacts of Covid Mask Wearings on Exercise
Hayden Ramsey – Saint Francis of Assisi, Louisville – Parkinson’s Disease: Exploring the Combined Exposure Of Herbicides
KPFF-Engineering Achievement Award
Zoey Van Zee – Shelby County East Middle School – Truss Me, I’m an Engineer
KY Chapter of Air & Waste Management & Conservation Award
Josie Dunn – Saint Francis of Assisi, Louisville – Metal Remediation Using Fish Bones
Louisville Water Company Award
Josie Dunn – Saint Francis of Assisi, Louisville – Metal Remediation Using Fish Bones
NASA Earth Systems Science Award
Kai Nakamura – Saint Francis of Assisi, Louisville – comparing thrust production: exploring potassium chlorate and nitrate
National Geographic Society – That’s Geography Award
Charles Hummel – Saint Francis of Assisi, Louisville – Exploring the Effect of Mixed Plastic Leachates on Human and Soil Bacteria
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Award
Nate Shields – Saint Francis of Assisi, Louisville – Exploring Tsunami Wave Energy Dissipators
Office of Naval Research Award
Luke Conway – Saint Francis of Assisi, Louisville – Hydrophobic Coatings Effect Submarine Skin Friction
Meredith Elder – Saint Francis of Assisi, Louisville – Exploring Power Line Galloping
Lucy Koerber – Saint Francis of Assisi, Louisville – Do different beverages or artificial sweeteners affect lactase activity?
Ricoh USA, Inc.-Sustainable Development Award
Todd Niemann – Saint Francis of Assisi, Louisville – Pier Brace: Shapes and Drag Resistance
Lemelson Early Inventor Prize
Drew Ashley – Saint Francis of Assisi, Louisville – Phylogenetic Analysis of Omicron Gene Sequences in the Kentuckiana Region
U.S. Air Force Certificate of Achievement
Elli Keeley-Fine – Saint Francis of Assisi, Louisville – A Concern for Veterans: Exploring Plastic Burn Pit Smoke Toxicity
US Metrics Award
Lucy Koerber – Saint Francis of Assisi, Louisville – Do different beverages or artificial sweeteners affect lactase activity?
Senior Special Awards
American Chemical Society Awards
1st Place Chemistry – Samahir Dirie – Central High School – SKIN MOISTURIZER
2nd Place Chemistry – Sydney Breitenstein, Isabella Keyzer – Eastern High School – How is water’s ability to Freeze affected by other substances?
1st Place Biochemistry – Krish Gupta – Trinity High School – Biodegradation of Phthalate Esters in Landfills using Bacterial Dehydrogenase Consortium
2nd Place Biochemistry – Margaret Beatty – Assumption High School – Kentucky Native Plants: Agents Against Cancer?
American Psychological Association Award
Suchita Tipirneni – Ballard High School – Now You See Me, Now You Don’t…
Bakelite Synthetics – Community Impact Award
Gia Patel – Central High School – which product works best for people with eczema?
Bakelite Synthetics – Creative Project Award
Margaret Beatty – Assumption High School – Kentucky Native Plants: Agents Against Cancer?
BC Plumbing Company Award
Menah Ali, Maggie Hall – Eastern High School – Does salt make water boil faster?
FirstBuild Scholarship Award
Nishu Anekere, Harrison Over, Sahil Krishnani – Gatton Academy of Science & Mathematics – Water Pollution Detection Using Autonomous Drone Hardware and Software
Logan Lewis – Central High School – The Spectrominator – A Transversely Excited Atmospheric Lasing System
GE Appliances Asia Pacific American Forum (APAF)- Clear Thinker Award
Zaheeb Tariq – Ballard High School – Making accessing information easy using an automated system with Python.
Gibson Family – Sustainability Award
Taylor Thompson – Ballard High School – Future of Farming: How does the way we farm affect the results?
Kentucky Science & Engineering Fair with support of Amazon Corporation – Amazon Innovation Awards
Tanner Aslan – Ballard High School – Exploring Inverse Kinematics & Procedural Animation
Kentucky Society of Professional Engineers – Engineering Award
Nishu Anekere, Harrison Gover, Sahil Krishnani – Gatton Academy of Science & Mathematics – Water Pollution Detection Using Autonomous Drone Hardware and Software
KPFF – Engineering Achievement Award
Andrew Key, Isaac Meffert – Eastern High School – The P-Shot
KY Chapter of Air & Waste Management Conservation Award
Krish Gupta – Trinity High School, Louisville – Biodegradation of Phthalate Esters in Landfills using Bacterial Dehydrogenase Consortium
KY Chapter of Certified Hazardous Materials Managers KCHMM – Environmental Science Award
Journee Abernathy – Central High School – Can microorganisms mitigate plants with high levels of salt
Dorcas Matsoumou – Central High School – The Purification Process of a Valuable Resource.
Louisville Chapter of the Society for Neuroscience – Neuroscience Award
Suchita Tipirneni – Ballard High School BEHA-014-HS – Now You See Me, Now You Don’t…
Mu Alpha Theta -National Mathematics Honor-Certificate
Dane Paprocki – Ballard High School – Can Humans Generate Truly Random Numbers?
Veenasravani Pendyala – North Oldham High School – The Sensory Potential of Synaptopodin
Naval Research Award
Sophia Cheng – Ballard High School – The Most Efficient Method of Cleaning Oil Spills to Prevent Further Marine Pollution
Sahil Chhabra – Gatton Academy of Science & Mathematics – Genome Engineering of Bacteriophage MooMoo
Vaishu Pendyala – North Oldham High School – Impact of Chemokines on Immune Cells in Pediatric Medulloblastoma Tumor Cells
Ricoh USA, Inc. – Sustainable Development Award
Paris Boles, Lillian Long – Ballard High School – Hydroponic Lettuce
Achievement In Vitro Biology
Journee Abernathy – Central High School – Can microorganisms mitigate plants with high levels of salt
Stockholm Junior Water Prize
Amelia Dries – Ballard High School – pH Levels in the Ohio River
Aryanna Fisher – Eastern High School – Capillary action
U.S. Agency for International Development – Science Champion Award
Kevin Brothers – Ballard High School – Found: Reuniting Families Using Facial Recognition
Krithik Nadimpally – Ballard High School – The Road to Developing an Artificial Pancreas
U.S. Air Force Certificate of Achievement
Eldino Kilim – Ballard High School – Can the Shape of an Airfoil Effect Fuel Consumption?
US Metrics Award
Veenasravani Pendyala – North Oldham High School – The Sensory Potential of Synaptopodin
Yale Science and Engineering Award
Karthik Nadimpally – Ballard High School – Using Multivariate Time Series Forecasting Neural Networks to Predict Stock Prices
School Awards
Top schools receive trophies and $400 for 1st, $250 for 2nd and $175 for 3rd
Middle Schools
1st St. Francis of Assisi
2nd Nur Islamic School
3rd J. Graham Brown Middle School
High Schools
1st Eastern High School
2nd Ballard High School
3rd Central High School
GE Appliances Best of Fair
Junior
Winners each receive a certificate, trophy and $240.
Julia Keeney – Saint Francis of Assisi, Louisville – Carbon-Scrubbing Insulation with Polyurethane Foam
Maylin Kidwell – Noe Middle – Do Pips on Gaming Dice Introduce a Bias?
Ifrah Shaik – Nur Islamic School – PostureBeepAI: Posture Detection and Alert Program
Senior
Winners each receive a certificate, trophy and $420 (per project), plus an invitation to the Regeneron International Science and Engineering Fair in Atlanta, Georgia, May 8-13, 2022.
Nishu Anekere, Harrison Gover, Sahil Krishnani – Gatton Academy of Science & Mathematics -Water Pollution Detection Using Autonomous Drone Hardware and Software
Karthik Nadimpally – Ballard High School – Using Multivariate Time Series Forecasting Neural Networks to Predict Stock Prices
Sarisha Lohano, Bella Norman – Gatton Academy of Science & Mathematics – GenFind – “Predicting Mycobacteriophage Gene Start Sites Using Artificial Intelligence”
Veenasravani Pendyala – North Oldham High School – The Sensory Potential of Synaptopodin
Suchita Tipirneni – Ballard High School – Now You See Me, Now You Don’t…