2024 Colorado Science & Engineering Fair
View the 2024 CSEF Projects Digitally!
April 11 – 13, 2024
Colorado State University – Fort Collins
Junior Division
- Adalen Aldridge (7th grade): Tricky Treats – Sargent Junior High School
- Kelly Carpenter (7th grade): Shady Buckets – West Grand Middle School
- Hayden Forst (7th grade): How Does a Cow’s Digestive System Work? – Dove Creek Middle School
- Sienna Harden (6th grade) & Vivian Bozek (6th grade): We Got GOOD Milk! – St. Joseph’s Catholic School
- 1st Place Category Award
- Thermo Fisher Scientific Junior Innovators Challenge Nomination
- Brealynn Huwa (8th grade): Buzz, Buzz, Buzz – Wiggins Middle School
- Jaelie Jaminet (7th grade): Thermoregulation in Horses – Sanford Middle School
- Priya Mayjoy (8th grade): Monitoring Apis Mellifera Linnaeus for Winter Survival – Lamar Middle School
- Honorable Mention Category Award
- Kellen McClure (6th grade): My Pogo Project – Jefferson Intermediate School
- Honorable Mention Category Award
- Natalia Romero (7th grade): Attachment Issues – Justice & Heritage Academy
- Jessa Wilson (7th grade): Equine Heart Rate – Wiggins Middle School
- 3rd Place Category Award
- Vivian Wolkow (7th grade): Can Planaria Distinguish One Color from Another? – North Middle School
- 2nd Place Category Award
- Thermo Fisher Scientific Junior Innovators Challenge Nomination
Senior Division
- Sierra Allen (11th grade): Canine Response to Human Language – Genoa-Hugo School
- Maggie Anderson (10th grade): Analysis of Expected Progeny Difference: Predictability in Beef Cattle – Yuma High School
- 3rd Place Category Award
- Bayley Frazier (9th grade): Bedding!!! – West Grand High School
- Robert Horner (10th grade): Fin-Tastic: Aquaponics with Betta – Monte Vista High School
- Lydia Mekelburg (11th grade): Spatial Analysis of Deer Populations in Northeastern Colorado – Yuma High School
- 1st Place Category Award
- 4th Place Best-of-CSEF Award
- Hansini Mudumala (11th grade) & Aryana Havash (11th grade): The Effect of Microplastics on Neocaridina davidi – SkyView Academy
- 2nd Place Category Award
Junior Division
- Destiny Aberle (8th grade): How Does Smell Affect Taste? – Genoa-Hugo School
- Sunand Bhandaram (8th grade): Artificial Intelligence Assisted Deployment of Emergency Resources for Natural Disasters – Campus Middle School
- Pioneers of Science Award
- Samantha Goetz (7th grade): Is There a Medication Bottle That Senior Citizens Can Open and Children Cannot? – St. Peter’s Catholic School
- Juliet Huckabay (7th grade): The Influence of Persuasive Language on Long Term Memory – Skinner Middle School
- Honorable Mention Category Award
- Ahsa Jeter Patel (8th grade): Conversation Topics – Sacred Heart of Jesus Catholic School
- 1st Place Category Award
- Thermo Fisher Scientific Junior Innovators Challenge Nomination
- Pioneer of Science Award
- Omar Manshad (6th grade): Beyond Pegs & Holes: Building an Improved Chessboard for Blind and Low Vision Chess Players – West Ridge Academy
- Zadira McGee (8th grade): The Effects of Stimulants and Depressants on the Heart Rate of Daphnia – Summit Middle Charter School
- 3rd Place Category Award
- Brysan Medina (8th grade): Crazy Concussions – Sargent Junior High School
- Layla Mitchell (7th grade): Serving Under Pressure – Mancos Middle School
- Zoe Smith (7th grade): Journey to the Center of the Mind – Loveland Classical School
- 2nd Place Category Award
- Thermo Fisher Scientific Junior Innovators Challenge Nomination
- Allyson Solze (7th grade): Do People Remember Better in Color? – Genoa-Hugo School
- Bailey Wudtke (6th grade): Does Music Affect Your Mood? – Idalia School
Senior Division
- Kenedy Jiron-Baker (12th grade): Income and the Environment – Evergreen High School
- 1st Place Category Award
- Theo Levinger (12 grade): Cat’s Out of the Bag: Exploring How Different Cat Characteristics Affect Adoptability – Compass Community Collaborative School
- Loretta Love-Brown (11th grade): How Stress Affects Everyday Decisions – Monte Vista High School
- Zoey Montoya (11th grade) & Everett Ediger (12th grade): Determining Prosodic Patterns in the Speech of Online Science Communication – La Junta Jr/Sr High School
- 2nd Place Category Award
- Bianca Perez Ramos (10th grade): What Language Do You Think In? – West Grand High School
- Victoria Santillana Reyes (9th grade): What Is the Effect That Stress Has on Education? – Green Mountain High School
- Madelynn Sellers (9th grade): How Does How Much Sleep You Get Affect Your Memory the Following Day? – Green Mountain High School
- Micah Tanner (11th grade): Musical Memory – Stratton School
- William Walker (9th grade): Listen, Look, Touch: The Impacts of Learning Modality on Student Academic Performance and Retention – Monte Vista High School
- Ethan Wang (12th grade) & Vincentius Aaron Chen (12th grade) & James Kerrane (12th grade): Liminal Spaces and the Uncanny Valley: An Interdisciplinary Virtual Reality and Psychology Experimental Research Design – Peak to Peak Charter School
- Alexander Zhang (11th grade): Multi-Layer Structural Equation Modeling of Behavioral Traits and Entrepreneurial Interest – Fairview High School
- 3rd Place Category Award
Junior Division
- Kapil Bhandaram (8th grade): What Model Performs the Best When Using Artificial Intelligence to Detect Pneumonia Using Chest Radiographs – Campus Middle School
- 1st Place Category Award
- Thermo Fisher Scientific Junior Innovators Challenge Nomination
- Logan Drullinger (7th grade): Does the Amount of Helmet Pads Determine the Severity of Concussion? – Liberty School
- Jade Howell (8th grade): Inheriting Blood Types – Ignacio Middle School
- Honorable Mention
- Maddison Juliano (8th grade): Like a Good Neighbor: Heath Protection Is There – Hope Community Christian Academy
- Sage Ketels (8th grade): Trapshooting and Eye Exercises – Lamar Middle School
- Devon Mahorney (8th grade): A Spoonful of Sugar – West Grand Middle School
- Honorable Mention Category Award
- Terra McClure (8th grade): Make It Snappy – Rocky Ford Jr/Sr High School
- Isabella Melster (8th grade) & Austin Sheppard (8th grade) & Tobais Patzke (8th grade): Who Got Away with It? – Liberty Point International School
- Vedanth Raju (6th grade): Curcuza: A Nanogel Antibiotic Using Neem and Turmeric Nanoparticles to Help Tackle Antibiotic Resistance – A Global Health Threat – Aurora Quest K-8 School
- 3rd Place Category Award
- Colorado Biology Teachers Association Award
- Maya Rokhlenko (8th grade) & Olive Spohn (8th grade): All Boxed Up: The Effects of Prescription Eyewear on Peripheral Vertigo – Flagstaff Academy
- 2nd Place Category Award
- Thermo Fisher Scientific Junior Innovators Challenge Nomination
- Colorado Medical Society Award
- Isaac Vercammen (7th grade) & Oliver Hahn (7th grade): The Hydraulic Robotic Prosthetic Arm – Flagstaff Academy
- Travis Wise (7th grade): Do Various Acid pH Levels Impact the Breakdown of Glucose? – Liberty School
Senior Division
- Ashley Acton (12th grade): The Effects of Caffeine on Stem Cells and Skeletal Muscle Regeneration – Fairview High School
- 2nd Place Category Award
- The Warnock Family Award
- Colorado Medical Society Award
- Deacon Brown (12th grade): Will Pre-Workout Workout? – Yuma High School
- Kennedy Camacho-Orona (10th grade) & Emma Perry (10th grade): Lung Transplant Theory: Mechanical Pumps and How the Body Accepts Foreign Ventilators – South High School
- Hayden Eubanks (10th grade): Real vs Fake Blood Splatter – West Grand High School
- Logan Futrell (9th grade): Stabilizing Sugars: The Impacts of Food Choice on Glucose Levels During Athletic Performance – Monte Vista High School
- Honorable Mention Category Award
- Julia Gao (9th grade) & Om Vegesna (9th grade): G.L.O.W.: A Novel Hybrid Neural Network Approach for Glioblastoma Localization Using Carcinogenic Oxidative Stress Biomarkers – Fairview High School
- 1st Place Category Award
- 5th Place Best-of-CSEF Award
- American Statistical Association Award
- Ralph Desch Technical Writing Award
- Levi Goncharov (9th grade): Essentiale Forte and Its Effect on NAFLD – Cherry Creek High School
- Maria Horn (12th grade): Sorry, I Didn’t See You: Testing the Effects of Photosensitive Medications on Crystallin Alpha to Study the Development of Cataracts – Yuma High School
- Vanya Lavu (11th grade): Healthy Gut! Healthy You!: Using Dorotocephala Dactyligeria as a Model to Treat Gastrointestinal and Psychological Disorder with Novel Regenerative Enzymes – The Classical Academy
- 3rd Place Category Award
- Hayden Poe (12th grade): Kinetosis Will Knock You Off Your Toes Sis – Justice and Heritage Academy
- Garrett Rymer (11th grade): Windlass Tourniquets: Using Medical Instructions to Prepare for Massive Hemorrhage – Cherry Creek High School
- Honorable Mention Category Award
- Claire Seger (11th grade): An Analysis of Spaceflight-Induced Osteopenia and Muscular Atrophy over Extended Zero Gravity Missions – Monte Vista High School
- Kazlei Vaughn (9th grade): Drug Solubility – Genoa-Hugo School
- Amy Xia (10th grade): Determining Whether the PTPN2 Gene Plays a Role in the Development of Type 1 Diabetes – Cherry Creek High School
- Honorable Mention Category Award
Junior Division
- Sophia Bronstein (8th grade): The Vanishing Palette: Comparing the Fading Rates of Different Oil-based Paints – Summit Middle Charter School
- 1st Place Category Award
- Thermo Fisher Scientific Junior Innovators Challenge Nomination
- Elemer Bernath Technical Writing Award
- Marin Cantrell (8th grade): Toilet Talk – Cardinal Community Academy
- Honorable Mention Category Award
- Karissa Freund (8th grade): The Corrosion of Steel – Stratton School
- Reuben Friedlander (7th grade): Endothermic Chemical Reaction to Make a Colder More Efficient and Affordable Ice Pack Making a Better More Efficient and Cheaper Cold Pack – Denver Jewish Day School
- Colorado Chemistry Teachers Association Award
- Fallyn Gregersen (7th grade): Purifying Water with Activated Charcoal – Wiggins Middle School
- Eli Harrison (6th grade): The Effect of the Amount of Sugar in Kombucha Leather – Home School
- Gwendolyn Hohl (8th grade): Does pH Affect the Rate of Corrosion on Steel – Genoa-Hugo School
- Humza Memon (6th grade): From Batter to Biofuel: Exploring Microbial Magic – Crescent View Academy
- CO2/Greenhouse Gas Reduction Award
- Tyson Montague (8th grade): Orange Juice: Sunshine in Your Cup – Centauri Middle School
- Gianna Murphy (8th grade): Durability of Homemade Perfumes – La Junta Jr/Sr High School
- Azucena Perez (6th grade): Corrosion Conundrum – Lamar Middle School
- Tess Price (8th grade): Polymerization Using Alginate Spherification – Ken Caryl Middle School
- 2nd Place Category Award
- Thermo Fisher Scientific Junior Innovators Challenge Nomination
- American Institute of Chemical Engineers Award
- Colorado Section of the American Chemical Association Award
- Valeria Roman (8th grade): Impossible Cookie – Wiggins Middle School
- Varun Velmurugan (8th grade): Water Purification: A Solution for Fluoride Contamination – Campus Middle School
- 3rd Place Category Award
- Morrow Family Award
- Colorado Section of the American Chemical Society Award
Senior Division
- Helena Borsholm (12th grade) & Charlotte Harrington (12th grade): Tuning the Concentration of Active Sites on the Surface of Heterogeneous Catalysts Using Self-Assembled Monolayers – Monarch High School
- 3rd Place Category Award
- American Vacuum Society Award
- Colorado State University Department of Chemistry Award
- Claire Huang (11th grade) & Sophia Zhang (10th grade): Natural Eutectogels as a Novel Material for Green Wearable Electronics – Fairview High School
- 1st Place Category Award
- Colorado School of Mines Scholarship (Claire Huang only)
- Colorado Section of the American Chemical Society Award
- CO2/Greenhouse Gas Reduction Award
- Katelyn Marquez (10th grade): Effects of Acids on Alloy Metals of Costume Jewelry: A Way to Improve Appearance – Miami-Yoder High School
- Augustus Miller (12th grade): Synthesizing Cellulose Acetate-Polyurethane for the Removal of Heavy Metal Ions from Water via Adsorption – Monte Vista High School
- William Nguyen (12th grade): Searching for a Rainbow: Quantifying Mixtures of Liquid Crystal Compounds for Visual Temperature Monitoring – Denver School of Science & Technology: Montview
- Cole Randolph (12th grade): Calcium Carbonate Cooling Caps – Green Mountain High School
- Honorable Mention Category Award
- Katherine Zheng (11th grade): Visible Light Photocatalytic Degradation of Congo Red Using LaFeO3 Nanofibers – Fairview High School
- 2nd Place Category Award
- Colorado Section of the American Chemical Society Award
- Colorado School of Mines Scholarship
- Mariami Zhuzhunashvili (12th grade): Producing Biodiesel from Spent Coffee Grounds – Cherry Creek High School
- Honorable Mention Category Award
Junior Division
- Maya Calle (8th grade): How Nitrites Affect the Growth of Algae – Aspen Middle School
- Kaycee Clark (8th grade): What Lies Beneath: A Study on the Effects of Grazing Intensities on the Nutrients in the Soil – Wray Junior High School
- 3rd Place Category Award
- Colter Dennison (8th grade): Toxic Tributaries – Mancos Middle School
- Honorable Mention
- Ansley DePue (7th grade): Republican Ripples: Investigating Water of the Republican River – Wray Junior High School
- Elise Gavin (7th grade): Biodegradable or Not? Trial by Fire! – The Classical Academy
- 2nd Place Category Award
- Thermo Fisher Scientific Junior Innovators Challenge Nomination
- Kinleigh Hathorn (8th grade): Return from the Brink: The Effect of Slurry on the Natural Environment – Sargent Junior HIgh School
- Stuti Katrodiya (8th grade): Water Organisms: What Environment Do They Best Thrive In? – Challenge School
- Cameron Kempisty (7th grade): To Grow or Not to Grow: Testing Biomass-based Alternatives for a Greener World – Eagleview Middle School
- 1st Place Category Award
- Thermo Fisher Scientific Junior Innovators Challenge Nomination
- Katherine Madrid (7th grade): What Type of Sediment Makes the Best Imprint Fossil? – Liberty School
- Ayra Memon (8th grade): From Bioluminescence to Global Warming: Unveiling the Glow – Crescent View Academy
- United States Agency for International Development Award
- Lucia Montello (6th grade): Snow Force: Testing Which Avalanche Control Method Is Most Effective – Eagleview Middle School
- Honorable Mention Category Award
- Kendyl Osborn (6th grade): Shells to Cells – La Junta Intermediate School
- Colorado Mineral Society Award
- Colorado State University, College of Agricultural Sciences Award
- Tripp Platt (8th grade): What Stock Tank Cleaner Works the Best? – Wiggins Middle School
- Tejas Raman (8th grade): Pattern-Based Seismology – Boulder Country Day School
- Pioneers of Science Award
- Broadcom Foundation Award
- Rocky Mountain Association of Geologists Award
- Taelynn Rojas (8th grade): Using Microbes to Solve the Microplastic Problem – Liberty School
- Ainsley Sauer (8th grade): Testing Minerals in Drinking Water – Wiggins Middle School
- Emma Smith (7th grade): Nitrates vs Plants – Mancos Middle School
- Harley Vaughn (7th grade): Does Organic Material Influence Nitrogen Levels in Soil? – Liberty School
Senior Division
- Aspen Fisher (12th grade): Comparing Pygmy Nuthatch Population Size Between Thinned and Unthinned Forests – Evergreen High School
- Valerie Goodland (12th grade): Hidden Fragments: Isolating and Detecting Microplastics in Rivers and Municipal Water Supplies – Monte Vista High School
- Hannah McClintock (12th grade): The Effects of Recycled Calcium Hydroxide on the Average Growth and Mortality Rate of an Ecosystem Affected by Ocean Acidification – Strasburg High School
- Zachariah Nagle (11th grade): Testing Pollution and Radioactivity Levels Near Suncor’s Petrochemical Refinery in Commerce City, Colorado – Fairview High School
- 1st Place Category Award
- Colorado School of Mines Scholarship
- Isaiah Peralta (10th grade) & Julian Chapa (10th grade): Highway to Hail – La Junta Jr/Sr High School
- Ria Rajasekharan (9th grade): Anthropogenic Impacts on Rainfall: A Data Science Approach – Fossil Ridge High School
- Miles Rutledge (11th grade): Comparison of Canola, Sunflower, Soybean and Used Fryer Biodiesels on Their Engine and Emission Properties – Yuma High School
- Juakin Sawatzky (9th grade): The Effects of the Run-Off from Mine Tailings on Daphnia Magna – Liberty School
- Kaedyn Serak (11th grade): Are You a Water Addict? – Monte Vista High School
- Hannah Shelton (11th grade): Applied Mycology: Do Fungal Endophyte Communities Differ Between Western Spruce Budworm Infested Douglas Fir and Uninfested Douglas Fir? – Centauri High School
- 2nd Place Category Award
- Asha Thompson (10th grade): Rain, Rain, Don’t Go Away – Limon School
- Elizabeth Vossler (11th grade): Detention Basin Systems: Mitigating Stormwater in Hampden Heights and Its Implications on Cherry Creek Water Quality – Denver School of the Arts
- 3rd Place Category Award
- Anya Wieder (11th grade) & Taryn McDermid (12th grade): Application of eDNA and qPCR Techniques for Detecting Northern Redbelly Dace in Aquatic Environments – St. Vrain Valley Innovation Center
- Trout Unlimited Award
Junior Division
- Neave Henschel (6th grade): Hold the Heat – Hi-Plains School
- Madison Kirchhoff (8th grade): Can I Break the Law of Conservation of Energy by Making a Magnetic Motor Run on Magnetic Potential Energy – Craver Middle School
- 2nd Place Category Award
- Thermo Fisher Scientific Junior Innovators Challenge Nomination
- Benjamin Knight (6th grade): Keeping Cool: What Is the Best House Color to Save on Air Conditioning? – Corwin International Magnet School
- Collin Richardson (7th grade): Which Fuel Is More Efficient? – Wiggins Middle School
- Rylen Ross (7th grade): Cooling for Solar – Monte Vista Middle School
- 1st Place Category Award
- Thermo Fisher Scientific Junior Innovators Challenge Nomination
- Paisley Wiersma (7th grade): Biomass to Biogas – Genoa-Hugo School
- 3rd Place Category Award
Senior Division
- Anna Kumar (12th grade): Glucose Fuel Cells Made from Graphene Membranes – Fairview High School
- Honorable Mention Category Award
- American Institute of Chemical Engineers Award
- Natalie Muro (10th grade): Effects of Mooring Systems on Submerged Point Absorber Wave Energy Converters – Palmer High School
- 2nd Place Category Award
- Landon Nestor (12th grade): Let’s Get Rowdy! – Limon School
- Alex Nuzzo (11th grade): Which Windmill Blade Type Works Best? – South High School
- Shrey Rohilla (11th grade): Waste to Watts: Converting Locally Sourced Organic Waste Material into Activated Carbon-Based Supercapacitors – The Classical Academy
- 1st Place Category Award
- 2nd Place Best-of-CSEF Award
- Kelly Yang (11th grade): Enhancing Dry Cooling in Power Plants through High-Conductivity Thermal Ground Planes – Fairview High School
- Ralph Desch Technical Writing Award
- Platte River Power Authority Award
Junior Division
- Cuinn Archer (8th grade): Automatic Water Vol. 2 – Mancos Middle School
- 1st Place Category Award
- 3rd Place Best-of-CSEF Award
- Thermo Fisher Scientific Junior Innovators Challenge Nomination
- Vaughn Bankston (8th grade): Can You Truss-t the Truss? – Mancos Middle School
- 2nd Place Category Award
- Thermo Fisher Scientific Junior Innovators Challenge Nomination
- Morgan Drullinger (7th grade): Comparing the Accuracy of 3D Printed Airsoft BB’s – Liberty School
- Alexa Enriquez (8th grade) & Gael Enriquez (6th grade): Vex Robotics: Overcoming Obstacles – Plainview School
- Laurel Amber Kent (6th grade): Cool Running: A Heat Stroke’s Downfall – Using a Peltier Module to Prevent Heat Stroke – Eagleview Middle School
- 3rd Place Category Award
- Benjamin Knauf (6th grade): Breaking Bridges – Bear Creek Elementary School
- Ansley Martin (7th grade): Making A Leather Substitute Out of Kombucha SCOBY – Challenge School
- CO2/Greenhouse Gas Reduction Award
- Little Shop of Physics Award
- Aiden Mayer (8th grade): Hydraulics – Wiggins Middle School
- Emma McNerney (8th grade): Crazy Catapults – Burlington Middle School
- Parker Mitchell (8th grade): Lure launcher – Sargent Junior High School
- Tidus Overkill (8th grade): Cheap ROV – Genoa-Hugo School
- Honorable Mention Category Award
- Junyao Yin (8th grade): Aerodynamic and Downforce: The Leading Edge in Formula One Racing – Summit Middle Charter School
- Honorable Mention Category Award
- United States Navy & Marine Corps Award
Senior Division
- Ana Alarcon Palacios (12th grade) & Matthew DeGroot (12th grade): B.O.B. (Building on Blocks) Year 2: Testing Ice Safety – Yuma High School
- Teagan Archer (11th grade): The Perfect Pan II – Mancos High School
- Ethan Bonnell (10th grade): Improving Detection of Subterranean Objects Using Infrared Sensors – Centaurus High School
- John Butler (10th grade): Jolts for Volts – West Grand High School
- Zachary Carr (10th grade): The Simulation of Gravity Waves – Limon School
- Haydan Drullinger (10th grade): Is It Clogged? Productions of an Instrument to Detect Clogged Sprinkler Heads and Notify a Cellular Device – Liberty School
- 1st Place Category Award
- 1st Place Best-of-CSEF Award
- Ruolin (Leo) Hai (11th grade): HarvestSpectra: An Enhanced Crop Spectral Analysis Using a Novel Vertical Take-off Fixed Wing Structure for Precision Agriculture – Campion Academy
- Ky Harkness (11th grade): Shakin’ and Quakin’ – Plainview School
- Emilio Martinez (11th grade): F.A.L.L. (Falling Avionic Light Landing): Analysis of Control Surfaces Upon Atmospheric Re-entry – Alamosa High School
- Denton Peil (12th grade): Gutter Guardian: Gutter Cleaning Drone – Yuma High School
- Honorable Mention Category Award
- Alexander Polazkowyj (12th grade): The Effect of Helical Curves to Reduce Vortex-induced Vibrations on Subsea Cables – Evergreen High School
- Geo Raguraman (12th grade): InvisiEye 2.0: A Compact, Modernized Solution to Aid the Blind and Visually Impaired – Discovery Canyon High School
- 3rd Place Category Award
- Stephen Rigsbee (12th grade) & Lance Refior (12th grade): How to Minimize Your Ballista in Three Easy Steps – Alamosa High School
- Ersel Serdar (11th grade): Bending Fire: A New Approach to Steer Rockets Using Electric Fields – Cherry Creek High School
- 2nd Place Category Award
- Malcolm Smith (11th grade): Unfurl: A Physical Reservoir Computing Algorithm for Deploying Complex Origami Structures – Niwot High School
- Honorable Mention Category Award
- Willard Wilton (12th grade): Alternate Alternator – Central High School
- Kenneth Zittel (12th grade): Arc Drift – Central High School
- Honorable Mention Category Award
Junior Division
- Ripley Goode (8th grade): Wax: Not Cool Dude – Boulder Country Day School
- Honorable Mention Category Award
- Pioneers of Science Award
- Andrew Kohler (8th grade): Blade Types and Quantity vs. Blade Efficiency for Wind Turbines – Blessed Sacrament Catholic School
- 3rd Place Category Award
- Anirudh Rao (6th grade): An Early Tornado Warning System – STEM School Highlands Ranch
- 1st Place Category Award
- Thermo Fisher Scientific Junior Innovators Challenge Nomination
- United States Navy & Marine Corps Award
- National Security Agency Award
- Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers Award
- Miles Stelzer (8th grade): Drone Fire Detection and Firefighting – Summit Middle Charter School
- 2nd Place Category Award
- Thermo Fisher Scientific Junior Innovators Challenge Nomination
- Colorado-Wyoming Society of American Foresters Awards
Senior Division
- Galileo Hannigan (12th grade): That’s So F.I.R.E.! The Forefront in Inferno Research Equipment – Centaurus High School
- CO2/Greenhouse Gas Reduction Award
- Naomi Kruse (10th grade): Paper for the Planet: Development of a Novel Paper Inoculated with Wildflower Seed and Carbon-Sequestering Fungi – Schullandheim Home School
- 1st Place Category Award
- 3rd Place Best-of-CSEF Award
- Will Livingood (12th grade): Monitoring Utilities for Wildfire Containment and Prevention – Green Mountain High School
- 3rd Place Category Award
- Lucia Nuel (11th grade): Using Entanglement Entropy to Make a Solid Substance Out of Staples – Fairview high School
- Science Toy Magic Award
- Molly Odgren (12th grade): Reducing Effects of Everyday Light Pollution with Headlight Filters – Evergreen High School
- Will Thompson (12th grade) & Dmitriy Kazantsev (12th grade): Sustainability That Grows on You – Centaurus High School
Junior Division
- Lucy Brittain (7th grade): Mosquito Bite: West Nile Fright – Creede Schools
- 2nd Place Category Award
- Thermo Fisher Scientific Junior Innovators Challenge Nomination
- Ellery Kallal (8th grade): MisinformAtIon: How AI Can Create Realistic Misinformation That Humans Read as Fact – Flagstaff Academy
- 3rd Place Category Award
- National Security Agency Award
- Bode Monahan (7th grade): Learning the Lie: Coding a Machine Learning Algorithm to Analyze Brain Activity for Lie Detection – Liberty School
- Ian Pfenning (8th grade): A.I. Powered Pet Feeder – Flagstaff Academy
- 1st Place Category Award
- Thermo Fisher Scientific Junior Innovators Challenge Nomination
- Pioneers of Science
- Charliann Soehner (6th grade): How Accurate Is Chat GPT on Various Topics? – Idalia School
Senior Division
- Christina Abraham (11th grade): Optimizing Sustainable Fisheries with Machine Learning: Analyzing Ecosystem-friendly Fishing in the Coral Triangle – Mountain Vista High School
- Honorable Mention
- Abigail Adams (10th grade) & Julia Leary (10th grade): Fano Finesse: Spot the Plant – Alamosa High School
- Pablo Becerra (12th grade): Use of Artificial Intelligence for Cancer Diagnosis – Yuma High School
- Elton Cao (12th grade): National Ground-Level NO2 Predictions Via Satellite Imagery Driven Hybrid Neural Networks – Fairview High School
- 3rd Place Category Award
- CO2/Greenhouse Gas Reduction Award
- Air & Waste Management Association Award
- Department of Commerce Boulder Labs Internship
- Ralph Desch Technical Writing Award
- Anirudh Gadepalli (10th grade): Predictive Football Analysis: Leveraging a Random Forest Model and Double Deep Q-Network – Cherry Creek High School
- Michael Gao (11th grade): ADMM-FBA: Novel High-Level, Robustly Convergent Flux Balance Analysis Using Dual Anderson-ADMM – Fairview High School
- 1st Place Category Award
- Colorado School of Mines Scholarship
- The Sara Volz Family Award
- Stella Laird (11th grade): A Study of Numerical Machine Learning Approaches to Tennis Swing Analysis – Fairview High School
- 2nd Place Category Award
- Colorado School of Mines Scholarship
- Isabella Lorenzini (10th grade): Basic Bioinformatics Functionality Using BioPython – Ignacio High School
- Max Montoya (10th grade) & Evan Perkins (10th grade): Audio Recognition and Speech in Python – Ignacio High School
- Logan Overkill (10th grade): Experimental Change to Alpha 1 Antitrypsin – Genoa-Hugo School
- Maria Sears (11th grade): Help! I Need Somebody: An Assistive Device That Notifies Emergency Services Once a Fall Has Been Detected – Monte Vista High School
- Honorable Mention Category Award
- Amy Zhang (9th grade): Feel the Ball: Convert Ball Motion to Touch for Vision/Hearing Impaired Sport Audiences – Lakewood High School
Junior Division
- Peighton Arndt (6th grade): Bubble Blast – Weldon Valley School
- Izzy Barter (8th grade): The Effect of Heat on Bacterial Evolution – Denver Jewish Day School
- Honorable Mention Category Award
- Bailey Cook (8th grade) & Esmeralda Dominguez (8th grade): Is It Really Clean? – West Grand Middle School
- Rylie Harmon (7th grade): Safe to Drink? – Sargent Junior High School
- 2nd Place Category Award
- Thermo Fisher Scientific Junior Innovators Challenge Nomination
- Ainsley Lehman (7th grade) & Jocelyn Demster (7th grade): Save Our Sandwiches – Firestone Charter Academy
- Honorable Mention Category Award
- Jose Lopez (6th grade): The War of Bacteria at School – Alta Vista Charter School
- Bella Maze (8th grade): Warehouse Worries – Sargent Junior High School
- Honorable Mention Category Award
- Miles Montgomery (8th grade): Want a Clean House? Household Environments and Disinfectant Types – Flagstaff Academy
- Julia Muro (7th grade): The Effect of Various Vinegar Rinse Concentrations on the Shelf Life of Strawberries – North Middle School
- 3rd Place Category Award
- Espen Plotkin (8th grade): How Different Substances Effect the Zone of Inhibition of Bacteria – Vail Mountain School
- 1st Place Category Award
- Thermo Fisher Scientific Junior Innovators Challenge Nomination
- Tymbri Priestly (7th grade): The Effect of Antibacterial Soap on Abilities to Kill Bacteria – Mancos Middle School
- Cynthia Stevens (8th grade): Mouthwash vs. Bacteria – Risley International Academy of Innovation
- Serenity Westerfer (7th grade): Can Medicinal Plants Prevent Infection? – Liberty School
Senior Division
- Emma Coonts (10th grade): Washing Away Acne – Limon School
- Destiny Cornelius (11th grade): Slobbers and Saliva – Plainview School
- Zechariah Dilley (10th grade): The Effects of Potential Antibiotics Against Antibiotic Resistance Bacteria – South High School
- Honorable Mention Category Award
- Hailey Rae Geva (12th grade): Gene Knock-out with CRISPR – Denver School of Science & Technology: Montview
- Armaan Gill (11th grade): Exploring the Antimicrobial Effects of Phenethyl Isothiocyanate – Lamar High Schoo
- 3rd Place Category Award
- Kyra Jordan (12th grade): The Measurement of Expelled Zooxanthellae Using Sensor and Data Fusion to Predict Heat Waves – Golden High School
- Honorable Mention Category Award
- Ayush Vispute (9th grade): ProteinFlow: A Novel Biocomputational Approach to Discovering Bacteria with Applications to Global Issues Using Protein Sequence – Rampart High School
- 2nd Place Category Award
- Angelina Wang (11th grade): Toxin-like Microproteins: A Novel Approach to Unveil the Intricacies of Acetylcholine Receptors – Fairview High School
- 1st Place Category Award
- The Sara Volz Family Award
- Colorado BioScience Institute Award
- Society for In Vitro Biology Award
- Cameron Wolkow (10th grade): Just When You Thought Beer Couldn’t Get Any Better: Engineering an Eco-friendly Brewing Yeast – Palmer High School
Junior Division
- Quinlan Childs (8th grade): Dynamics of Flight: Testing Airplane Wings to Demonstrate Efficiency Using a Wind Tunnel – Summit Middle Charter School
- United States Metric Association Award
- Lockheed Martin Award
- United States Air Force Award
- Science Toy Magic Award
- Julian Ciszek (7th grade): Radioactive Shields – Vail Mountain School
- Sydney Curtis (7th grade): Sail Your Ship to Positivity: A Comparison of Sail Shape and Material – Sargent Junior High School
- Kacianna Ford (8th grade): Does the Size of a Marble Affect the Speed of a Newton’s Cradle? – Craver Middle School
- Madison Gunnels (8th grade) & Carolin Prieto (8th grade) & Layna Snyder (8th grade): It’s a Bird, It’s a Plane, It’s a Paper Airplane – Brush Middle School
- Mario Jacobo (8th grade): How the Temperature Affects the Distance a Soccer Ball Travel – Wiggins Middle School
- Alexander Knight (6th grade): Taking a Leap: Does Size Affect Parachute Safety? – Corwin International Magnet School
- Connor Knight (8th grade): Fly Away with Me: Designing More Aerodynamic Planes – Corwin International Magnet School
- Jacob Kossler (8th grade): Seeing Radiation to Find Out How to Block It – Turner Middle School
- Honorable Mention Category Award
- Evelyn Lapp (7th grade): Refraction in Action – Brush Middle School
- 2nd Place Category Award
- Thermo Fisher Scientific Junior Innovators Challenge Nomination
- Tynan Lohman (8th grade): Stealth Aircraft Aerodynamics – Liberty School
- Lane Mattive (7th grade): Just Wingin’ It – Sargent Junior High School
- 3rd Place Category Award
- MaKenna McCoy (6th grade): A Safer Landing – Alta Vista Charter School
- Carson Stone (8th grade) & Connor Stone (6th grade): Shake Rattle and Roll – Washboard Phenomenon: The Effect of Wheel Velocity on a Roadbed – Brush Middle School
- 1st Place Category Award
- 2nd Place Best-of-CSEF Award
- Thermo Fisher Scientific Junior Innovators Challenge Nomination
- Pake VanderLinden (6th grade): Using Mechanical Advantage to Lift – West Grand Middle School
- Emmett Wiedenheft (6th grade): Change in Energy of Bouncing Balls – Southern Hills Middle School
- Pioneers of Science Award
- Brady Woods (6th grade): Getting Traction – Turner Middle School
- Honorable Mention Category Award
Senior Division
- Jessa Book (10th grade): Strength of EMF waves Radiating from High Powered Electric Lines – Miami-Yoder High School
- Tristan Cao (10th grade): Toward Realization of Novel Quantum Materials via Magneto-Synthesis – Stargate Charter School
- 1st Place Category Award
- Dillon Curtis (9th grade): At My Breaking Point – Brush High School
- Alexander Diener (11th grade): An Analysis of the Coronal Temperature Spike using Solar Spectroscopy – Fairview High School
- CO2/Greenhouse Gas Reduction Award
- CO2/Greenhouse Gas Reduction Scholarship
- Adalynn Mason (10th grade) & Ema Sandlin (10th grade): Measuring Solar Panel Performance with the Reflected Laser Beams – Brush High School
- Vikram Raju (9th grade): A Novel Way to Significantly Improve TEM Efficiency by Altering Hologram Interference – Cherry Creek High School
- 3rd Place Category Award
- Elsie Thompson (10th grade): Does Tee Height Affect Driving Distance? – Limon School
- 2nd Place Category Award
Junior Division
- Quorra Benally (6th grade): Bombs Away – Mancos Middle School
- Gabe Carr (7th grade) & Jax Poss (7th grade): Does the Height of Grass Effect Its Growth? – Genoa-Hugo School
- Honorable Mention Category Award
- Elaina Consaul (7th grade): Boost the Roots! – Sargent Junior High School
- 2nd Place Category Award
- Thermo Fisher Scientific Junior Innovators Challenge Nomination
- Caroline Cookson (7th grade): Growing While It’s Snowing – Good Shepherd Catholic School
- Andrew Dube (8th grade): The Effect of Acidification on the Health of Elodea – Aspen Middle School
- Honorable Mention Category Award
- Gabriel Ferguson (6th grade): Thriving Waters – Craver Middle School
- Courtney Francone (8th grade): Does a Pothos Plant Grow Better in Sunlight or Darkness? – Wiggins Middle School
- Katelyn Juliano (6th grade): Drink Better Grow Better – Hope Community Christian Academy
- Callie Kane (6th grade): I Wet My Plants – Alta Vista Charter School
- Brooklynn Labonte (8th grade): Playing with Fire – Cardinal Community Academy
- Ryker Lockhart (8th grade) & Joe White (8th grade): Effects of Gravity – Genoa-Hugo School
- Braelyn Matson (7th grade): Let It Glow – Firestone Charter Academy
- Konnor Nicholas (8th grade): To Grow or Not to Grow – Craver Middle School
- Ashton Power (6th grade): The Effect of Stem Length and Humidity on Transpiration of Flowers – Heritage Heights Academy
- Colorado State University Department of Horticulture & Landscape Architecture Award
- Finnley Reitz (6th grade): Sumac Shindig: An Investigation into Scarification – Alta Vista Charter School
- 1st Place Category Award
- 1st Place Best-of-CSEF Award
- Thermo Fisher Scientific Junior Innovators Challenge Nomination
- Flynn Rodstrom (6th grade): Does Microwaved Water Change How Plants Germinate or Grow? – Hope Community Christian Academy
- Kilah Rojas (7th grade): What Is the Best Method for Removing Pollen from Strawberries? – Liberty School
- Jossilyn Wagar (8th grade): Rotten Project: How Effective Are Fungicides That Prevent Post-Harvest Potato Rot? – Sargent Junior High School
- 3rd Place Category Award
Senior Division
- Jann Angelli Bacolod (12th grade): Wi-Fry: Detrimental Impacts of Wi-Fi Router Radiation on Crop Seed Viability and Vigor – Rocky Ford Jr/Sr High School
- Honorable Mention Category Award
- Amanda Castillo-Lopez (12th grade) & Caitlin Dong (12th grade): Biodegradation of Plastic by Pleurotus ostreatus – Cherry Creek High School
- 3rd Place Category Award
- Jaden DePue (9th grade): Roots of Success: Investigating the Optimal Water Conditions for Corn Root Growth – Wray High School
- Honorable Mention Category Award
- Suhani Dureja (11th grade): Persistent Plastics: Addressing the Effects of Amorphous Polypropylene on Radish Growth – Stargate Charter School
- Abby Mirsky (12th grade) & Dylan Greco (12th grade) & Sasha Trask (12th grade): Sustainable Synergy: A Greenhouse Revolution Towards Self-Sufficiency – Centaurus High School
- CO2/Greenhouse Gas Reduction Award
- Ricoh Award
- Siena Parr (11th grade): The Effect of Gray Water on Soil Composition and Growth of Phaseolus coccineus – Dolores High School
- 2nd Place Category Award
- Jordan Rockey (12th grade): Effectiveness of Insect Management Practices on the Spread of Potato Virus Y – Monte Vista High School
- 1st Place Category Award
- Jessie Stong (12th grade): Botanic Panic at Welchester Tree Grant Park – Green Mountain High School
- Joshua Wells (9th grade) & Zander Braun (9th grade): Plant Warfare: Investigating the Mechanisms of Plant Allelopathy on Agriculture Crops – Weldon Valley School
Colorado International Science & Engineering Fair Delegation
Los Angeles, CA May 12 – 17, 2024
