2023 Colorado Science & Engineering Fair
View the 2023 CSEF Projects Digitally!
April 13 – 15, 2023
Colorado State University – Fort Collins
- Drake Coffield-Bamber (7th grade) & Bryce Bickel (7th grade): 3D Fly Trappas – La Junta Jr/Sr High School
- Majeed Issa (7th grade): Dirt Detectors: How Well Worms Can Find Dirt – Colorado Early Colleges
- Jaelie Jaminet (6th grade): It’s Getting Hot in Here – Sanford Elementary School
- Grace Jones (7th grade): I’m Not Yolking Around: Evaluating How the Food that Chickens Eat Affect the Width of the Egg Shell – Wray Jr/Sr High School
- 3rd Place Category Award
- CSU College of Agricultural Sciences Award
- Grace Marmorstein (8th grade): The Insect Repellent Properties of Nepetalactone – Challenge School
- 2nd Place Category Award
- Colorado Biology Teachers Association Award
- CSU Department of Agricultural Biology Award
- USAID Science Champion Award
- Thermo Fisher Scientific Junior Innovators Challenge Nomination
- Avalyn Martinez (8th grade): Superworms vs. Mealworms: Who Can Eat the Most Styrofoam? – Challenge School
- Diya Mehta (8th grade): Environmental Effects on the Embryonic Development of Sea Urchins – Flagstaff Academy
- 1st Place Category Award
- 2nd Place Best-of-CSEF Award
- Thermo Fisher Scientific Junior Innovators Challenge Nomination
- Ayra Memon (7th grade): Bioluminescence in Pyrocystis Fusiformis – Crescent View Academy
Honorable Mention Category Award - Kimberly Pargin (8th grade) & Kandace Pargin (8th grade): Weight Watchers: Determination of Optimal Genetics of Best Quality Water Affect Average Daily Gain in Cattle – Sargent Junior High School
- Rylan Richmann (7th grade) & Russell Fehr (7th grade): What Is the Best Ever Saddle Pad? – Cardinal Community Academy
- Wyatt Smith (6th grade): Eat It Up – West Grand Middle School
- Vivian Wolkow (6th grade): Does the Tail Remember What the Head Saw? – North Middle School
- Honorable Mention Category Award
- Pioneer of Science Award
- Colorado Biology Teachers Association Award
- Colorado Veterinary Medical Association Award
- Arian Yoder (8th grade): Wagyu vs. Angus – Wiggins Middle School
- Kynley Yzaguirre (6th grade): What Color Are Birds Attracted To? – North Middle School
- Luci Bruchez (10th grade) & Joseph Bropst (10th grade): Pasture Plump – West Grand High School
- CSU College of Agricultural Sciences Scholarship
- Campbell Carlson (12th grade): A Comparison of the Acoustic Energy Produced by Beluga and Narwhal Echolocation Clicks – Evergreen High School
- Marissa Martinez (12th grade): The Efficacy of Abiotic/Biotic Factors and Trap Design for Effective Capture of Invasive American Bullfrogs – Monte Vista High School
- 1st Place Category Award
- 5th Place Best-of-CSEF Award
- Ralph Desch Technical Writing Award
- Colorado Biology Teachers Association Award
- Zoey Montoya (10th grade) & Everett Ediger (11th grade): How Qualities of Soil Affect Where Aphonopela Mentzi Burrows in the Colorado Grassland – La Junta Jr/Sr High School
- 2nd Place Category Award
- Poster Art Contest
- CSU Department of Agricultural Biology Award
- Nayla Ramos Vega (10th grade): The Effect of Light and Fertilizer Exposure on Planaria Regeneration – Yuma High School
- Harrison Ruleman (12th grade): Do Snakes Avoid Certain Colors of Light? – 12th grade – Evergreen High School
- 3rd Place Category Award
- Colorado Veterinary Medical Association Award
- Brandon Stup (12th grade): Mimicking Invasive Crayfish Feeding Behavior with the Northern Crayfish – Evergreen High School
- Trout Unlimited Award
- Mae Baker (8th grade): Bullying – Cardinal Community Academy
- Sunand Bhandaram (7th grade): Do Phones Amongst Middle Schoolers Affect Their Grades? – Campus Middle School
- 1st Place Category Award
- Thermo Fisher Scientific Junior Innovators Challenge Nomination
- Eliana Feit (8th grade): Grip Strength: Increase Amount – Summit Middle Charter School
- Quincy Flagg (7th grade) & Soraya Hassan (7th grade): The Taste of Color: The Relationship Between Color and Perceived Taste – Friends School
- Samantha Goetz (6th grade): How Childproof Are Medication Bottles? – St. Peter Catholic School
- 3rd Place Category Award
- Ryan Horansky (8th grade) & Liam Yee (8th grade): Does the Student-Teacher Ratio in Middle School Affect How Connected Students Feel to Their Teachers? – Horizons K-8 School
- 2nd Place Category Award
- Thermo Fisher Scientific Junior Innovators Challenge Nomination
- Juliet Huckabay (6th grade): The Effect of Visual Stimulus on Heart Rate Across Different Age Groups – Skinner Middle School
- American Psychological Society Award
- Karlene Kindvall (7th grade): Are Your Taste Buds Tricking You? – Firestone Charter Academy
- Layla Mitchell (6th grade): Boys vs. Girls: Optical Illusions – Mancos Middle School
- Adaline Pedersen (8th grade): Rise Up – West Grand Middle School
- Ling-Ling Ryan (8th grade): How Do Gender and Age Affect the Legibility of Handwriting? – Summit Middle Charter School
- Honorable Mention Category Award
- Ainsley Sauer (7th grade): Organic vs. Non-Organic – Wiggins Middle School
- William Walker (8th grade): Is This for a Grade? – Monte Vista Middle School
- Pioneer of Science Award
- Asia Alarid (11th grade): Neuron My Mind: Analysis of Different Brain Altering Substances on Student Performance – Monte Vista High School
- Honorable Mention Category Award
- Elise Brodsky (12th grade): The Effects of Perpetrator Race and Gender on the Reliability of Eyewitness Accounts – Nederland Middle-Senior High School
- 1st Place Category Award
- Morrow Family Award
- American Psychological Society Award
- Cadence Casey (9th grade): The Effects of Peer Pressure in Social Media – SkyView Academy
- 2nd Place Category Award
- Bella Ilgner (9th grade): How Does Color Affect Mood? – West Grand High School
- Rylee Kelly (9th grade) & Rhegan Sitzman (9th grade) & Armoni Walsh (9th grade): What School Test Makes Your Anxiety and Heartrate Go Up the Most? – Genoa-Hugo School
- Rowan Kittrell (10th grade): Science Fair Stress – West Grand High School
- Madhav Kowdle (11th grade): Using a Cluster Analysis Framework to Explain Voter Behavior and Election Outcomes: The Colorado Case – Mountain Vista High School
- Alijah Mattson (11th grade) & Cristian Calvin (12th grade) & Gunner Nestor (11th grade): Aphantasia: A 20/20 Look into the Mind’s Eye – Genoa-Hugo School
- Emma Miller (9th grade): The Power of Suggestion – Genoa-Hugo School
- Landon Nestor (11th grade) & Kylar Hampton (11th grade): The Crystal Companion? – Limon High School
- Evelyn Seevers (9th grade): Analyzing Data of Data Analysis of Analyzed Data About Exoplanets – Conifer High School
- 3rd Place Category Award
- Emma Beeby (8th grade): The Effect of Stress on the Amount of Carbon Dioxide Exhaled – Skinner Middle School
- 1st Place Category Award
- Thermo Fisher Scientific Junior Innovators Challenge Nomination
- Colorado BioScience Institute Award
- STEMGirls, Inc. award
- Kapil Bhandaram (7th grade): Is There a Relationship Between Meditation and Muscle Reaction Time? – Campus Middle School
- 2nd Place Category Award
- Thermo Fisher Scientific Junior Innovators Challenge Nomination
- Colorado Medical Society Award
- Catherine Deacon (8th grade): Are You Positive You’re Positive? – Sargent Junior High School
- Jaden DePue (8th grade): The Correlation Between Sleep and Obesogenic Tendencies – Wray Jr/Sr High School
- Kaitlyn Divelbiss (7th grade): Which Moisturizers Are Best? – Goodnight School
- Mykaela Fury (8th grade): Let’s Get Fit! – Dove Creek Middle School
- Lauren Gdantiz (8th grade) & Scarlett Paulson (8th grade): Applying Ionizing Radiation to DNA: Determining the Effectiveness of Different Protection Methods Against Ionizing Radiation – Wray Jr/Sr High School
- 3rd Place Category Award
- Beckett Kite (6th grade): Are Protein Shakes Healthy and Helpful for Kids? – Idalia Jr/Sr High School
- Dakota Reid (8th grade): Runners Efficiency – Springfield Jr/Sr High School
- Terra McClure (7th grade): Oh Snap! – Rocky Ford Jr/Sr High School
- Honorable Mention Category Award
- Pioneer of Science Award
- Morrow Family Award
- Grace Prast (8th grade): How Clean Is Mr. Clean? – St. John the Baptist Catholic School
- Zoe Wheeland (6th grade): Run a Ton – Good Shepherd Catholic School
- Aditi Avinash (11th grade): Model Validation and Preclinical Testing of Digestive Enzymes for Gluten Breakdown – Rock Canyon High School
- 1st Place Category Award
- 2nd Place Best-of-CSEF Award
- Colorado Biology Teachers Association Award
- Colorado BioScience Institute Award
- Colorado Medical Society Award
- CSU College of Agricultural Sciences Award
- Wojtaszek Family Award
- Colorado School of Mines Scholarship
- Joseph Benavides (12th grade): The Inhibitory Effects of Platinum Compounds on K12 E. coli Growth – Monte Vista High School
- Jessie Hsu (11th grade): Predicting Patient Disability in MS from MRI Brain Abnormalities Using Machine Learning – Fairview High School
- 2nd Place Category Award
- Colorado School of Mines Scholarship
- Om Rajasekharan (11th grade): Binding Habits of Ubiquitin – Fossil Ridge High School
- Vignesh Velmurugan (9th grade): Evaluating the Performance of Natural and Commercial Moisturizers for Dry Skin: A Study Using Agar Agar Skin Model – Cherry Creek High School
- Angelina Wang (10th grade): The Bowman-Birk Inhibitor: The Peptide with Potential Improvement for the Oral Delivery of Insulin – Fairview High School
- 3rd Place Category Award
- American Statistical Association Award
- Arath Carrazco (8th grade): Amount of Caffeine in Coffee – Wiggins Middle School
- 1st Place Category Award
- Thermo Fisher Scientific Junior Innovators Challenge Nomination
- American Chemical Society Award
- Montserrat Delval Gomez (8th grade): What Liquid Will Dissolve the Skittle the Fastest? – Wiggins Middle School
- Ansley DePue (6th grade): Smelly World: Evaluating the Effect of Aromatherapy on Indoor Air Quality – Wray Elementary School
- Logan Drullinger (6th grade): Let It Snow? The Affects of Components and Surface Area on Snow Melt – Liberty School
- Gwendolyn Hohl (7th grade) & Joe White (7th grade): Does pH Affect How Fast Water Freezes? – Genoa-Hugo School
- CSU Department of Chemistry Award
- Joselyn Kramer (6th grade): The Exodus of Ca+: Does Container Material Affect Calcium Levels in Milk? – Good Shepherd Catholic School
- 2nd Place Category Award
- Thermo Fisher Scientific Junior Innovators Challenge Nomination
- Pioneer of Science Award
- American Association of University Women Award
- American Chemical Society Award
- United States Metric Association Award
- Skyelyn Lefever (8th grade): Gel Electrophoresis – Peetz Jr/Sr High School
- American Chemical Society Award
- Tymbri Priestly (6th grade): Key Leavening Agents in Baking – Mancos Middle School
- American Chemical Society Award
- Ren Richards (7th grade): Ice, Ice, Baby – Hi-Plains School
- ASM International Award
- Rocky Mountain Water Environment Association Award
- Maya Rokhlenko (7th grade) & Olive Spohn (7th grade): Water = Bad: Your Solution To Not Seeing in Rain – Flagstaff Academy
- Honorable Mention Category Award
- American Chemical Society Award
- Emma Smith (6th grade): Apple Rot Test – Mancos Middle School
- American Chemical Society Award
- Tami Torgler (8th grade): May the Force Be with You – Sargent Junior High School
- 3rd Place Category Award
- River Wilson (6th grade): The Magnificent Mastication Mechanism – Lamar Middle School
- Honorable Mention Category Award
- Colorado Chemistry Teachers Association Award
- Morrow Family Award
- Victoria Balleau (12th grade): The Effectiveness and Toxicity of Various Chemicals When Removing Aerosol Oil-Based Spray Paints – Evergreen High School
- 3rd Place Category Award
- Colorado Chemistry Teachers Association Award
- American Chemical Society Award
- Emilio Martinez (10th grade): Project SP-8 (Sabatier Process to Infinity) – Alamosa High School
- American Chemical Society Award
- Augustus Miller (11th grade): Synthesizing Cellulose Acetate and Paper-Based Plastic from Cellulose Derivatives to Produce a Biodegradable 3D Printable Filament – Monte Vista High School
- 1st Place Category Award
- American Chemical Society Award
- Colorado School of Mines Scholarship
- Yale Science & Engineering Association Award
- Daniel Saeb (11th grade): Investigating How Hydrogel Connectivity Influence Their Mechanical Properties – Boulder High School
- 2nd Place Category Award
- American Chemical Society Award
- Colorado School of Mines Scholarship
- Ainsley Soleta (12th grade) & Luke Ferguson (12th grade): Tensile Strength of Nylon 6, 10 – Brush High School
- United States Metric Association Award
- Natalie Tinoco (10th grade): Cleaning Products and Their Effects on Household Surfaces – Miami Yoder High School
- American Chemical Society Award
- Anntheylea Bachicha (7th grade): To Filter or Not to Filter – Goodnight School
- American Institute of Chemical Engineers Award
- Kaycee Clark (7th grade): Putting Down Roots: The Study of How Poaceae Roots Affect Water Erosion – Wray Jr/Sr High School
- 3rd Place Category Award
- Elemer Bernath Technical Writing Award
- Colorado Native Plant Society Award
- CSU Colorado Natural Heritage Program award
- Society of Women Engineers Award
- Society for Mining, Metallurgy & Exploration Award
- Soil & Water Conservation Society Award
- Trout Unlimited Award
- Colter Dennison (7th grade): The Extinguisher – Mancos Middle School
- Alora Dible (8th grade): Dust in the Wind: A Wind Erosion Analysis – Liberty School
- Colorado Foundation for Agriculture Award
- Colorado Mineral Society Award
- National Centers for Environmental Information Award
- Science Toy Magic Award
- Mathangi Kurup (8th grade): The Effect of Microalgae Grown in Different Concentrations of Liquid Carbon on Atmospheric CO2 Levels – Challenge School
- 2nd Place Category Award
- Thermo Fisher Scientific Junior Innovators Challenge Nomination
- Elemer Bernath Technical Writing Award
- Cassius Middlemist (7th grade) & Carson Stone (7th grade): Retain the Rain – Brush Middle School
- Rocky Mountain Water Environment Association Award
- Parker Mitchell (7th grade): What Are You Breathing? Radon Levels in School – Sargent Junior High School
- American Statistical Association Award
- Colorado Environmental Health Association
- Durae Naranjo (8th grade): What Are We Really Drinking? – Sargent Junior High School
- Pioneer of science Award
- Adam Ouattara (7th grade): Fires in the Comanche Grasslands – La Junta Jr/Sr High School
- Pioneer of Science Award
- Colorado-Wyoming Society of American Foresters
- Jax Poss (6th grade): How Much Water Does It Take To Keep Water from Freezing? – Genoa-Hugo School
- Juakin Sawatzky (8th grade): Analysis of Mine Tailing Run-Off for Mine Tailings – Liberty School
- Air & Waste Management Association Award
- State of Colorado Division of Reclamation, Mining & Safety
- Association for Women Geoscientists Award
- Water Environment Federation Award
- Gintri Shaw (7th grade): Dust Busters – Springfield Jr/Sr High School
- Naomi Thomas (7th grade): The Wisdom of Sushruta: The Examination of Water Quality in Relationship to Filter Mediums – Home Schooled
- Harley Vaughn (6th grade): Can the Density of Geodes Predict if They Are Hollow? – Liberty School
- Varun Velmurugan (7th grade): Risk Assessment of Fluoride Contamination in Water: A Study Using Brine Shrimp Model – Campus Middle School
- Honorable Mention Category Award
- American Industrial Hygiene Association Award
- Ayush Vispute (8th grade): Investigating Alternate Treatments of Acid Rain – Mountain Ridge Middle School
- Colorado Foundation for Agriculture Award
- CSU College of Agricultural Sciences Award
- National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Award
- Angelina Wan (6th grade): Colorado’s Precipitation and the Effects on Traffic Accidents – Challenger Middle School
- Tyler Wise (8th grade): Does Crop Residue Affect Soil Water Retention – Liberty School
- 1st Place Category Award
- Thermo Fisher Scientific Junior Innovators Challenge Nomination
- CSU Department of Agricultural Biology Award
- Water Environment Federation Award
- Grace Xue (8th grade): Using C. elegans to Determine Toxicity of Marshall Fire Soil – Summit Middle Charter School
- Honorable Mention Category Award
- Elemer Bernath Technical Writing Award
- Haydan Drullinger (9th grade): The Effects of Agricultural Chemicals on Soil Microorganisms – Liberty School
- Lilly Figueroa (12th grade): Environmental DNA Testing of Rural Aquatic Ecosystems for the Presence of Fish as Bioindicators – Mancos High School
- Trout Unlimited Award
- Valerie Goodland (11th grade): You’re Fired: An Analysis of Fire on Soil Sterilization and Hydrophobicity – Monte Vista High School
- CSU College of Agricultural Sciences Award
- Colorado-Wyoming Society of American Foresters Award
- Society for In Vitro Biology Award
- Landon Hartman (12th grade): Economic Impacts of Wolf Population on Livestock Ranching and Big Game Hunting in the Northern Rockies – Evergreen High School
- 3rd Place Category Award
- Colorado Foundation for Ariculture Award
- CSU Colorado Natural Heritage Program Award
- Soil & Water Conservation Award
- Jacob Ho (11th grade): How Abnormally Dry and Windy Were Days with Fires in Colorado’s Front Range from 1984-2021? Towards Identifying Fire-Predictors for a Machine Learning Modeling System – Fairview High School
- 1st Place Category Award
- Colorado School of Mines Scholarship
- Joshua Ho (11th grade): The Effects of Dissolved Organic Matter (DOM) on Emiliania Huxleyi – Fairview High School
- Honorable Mention Category Award
- Society for In Vitro Biology
- Minna Most (12th grade) & Teddy Blum (12th grade): Environmental Changes and the Effects of the SAM on Coccolithophores in the Southern Ocean – Monarch High School
- 2nd Place Category Award
- National Geographic Society Award
- NASA Award
- Siena Parr (10th grade) & Samantha Abate (10th grade): Radon in Rural Colorado: The Not So Noble Gas – Dolores High School
- Air & Waste Management Association Award
- American Industrial Hygiene Association Award
- Rocky Mountain Association of Geologists Award
- Society for Mining, Metallurgy & Exploration Award
- Association for Women Geoscientists Award
- Sky Richards (9th grade): To Reuse or Not to Reuse: That Is the Question – Hi-Plains School
- Cami Wolkow (9th grade): Isolation of Fungi Capable of Antibiotic Bioremediation – Palmer High School
- Honorable Mention Category Award
- American Association of University Women Award
- Colorado Mycological Society Award
- Chase Buron (7th grade): Save by the Light – Vail Mountain School
- Pioneer of Science Award
- Sylvia Daugherty (8th grade): Fuels of the Future – Sargent Junior High School
- Rocky Mountain Association of Geologists Award
- Science Toy Magic Award
- Taylor Hartman (8th grade) & Sydnie Berry (8th grade): Electrolyzed by Electrolytes – Hi-Plains School
- Advait Jadhav (6th grade): Sweat It Out, The Green Way! – Chinook Train Elementary School
- 2nd Place Category Award
- Thermo Fisher Scientific Junior Innovators Challenge Nomination
- Vikram Raju (8th grade): Energenius: Clean Energy on the GO – Aurora Quest K-8 School
- 3rd Place Category Award
- United States Navy & Marine Corps Award
- Lockheed Martin Award
- Platte River Power Authority Award
- Science Toy Magic Award
- Aanshi Shah (8th grade): Make Some Noise! An Innovative Method to Produce Electricity Using Sound – Thunder Vista PK-8 School
- 1st Place Category Award
- 1st Place Best-of-CSEF Award
- Thermo Fisher Scientific Junior Innovators Challenge Nomination
- United States Navy & Marine Corps Award
- American Vacuum Society Award
- Little Shop of Physics Award
- Science Toy Magic Award
- Society of Women Engineers Award
- Euan Shorkey (8th grade): Embouchure Energy – Colorado Early Colleges
- Honorable Mention Category Award
- Isabella Yoder (8th grade): Nuclear Waste to Nuclear Power – Pueblo School for Arts & Sciences
- Keegan Gomez (12th grade): Micro-renewable Energy – Centaurus High School
- Honorable Mention Category Award
- Little Shop of Physics Award
- Platte River Power Authority Award
- Rocky Mountain Association of Geologists Award
- Science Toy Magic Award
- Wilson Moyer (12th grade): Applying Machine Learning to Forecast Solar Production and Reduce Reliance on Fossil Fuels – Lakewood High School
- 2nd Place Category Award
- CSU Energy Institute Award
- Rocky Mountain Association of Geologists Award
- Science Toy Magic Award
- Society of Manufacturing Engineers Award
- Natalie Muro (9th grade): Buoy Wave Energy Converters Capture of Ocean Wave Energy – Palmer High School
- 1st Place Category Award
- Science Toy Magic Award
- Society of Women Engineers Award
- Will Noble (10th grade): Turbine Efficiency in Small-Scale Hydropower – Yuma High School
- United States Agency for International Development Award
- Shrey Rohilla (10th grade): Electrify Your Step – The Next Stride: Converting Foot Traffic into Renewable Energy Using Piezoelectric Transducers – The Classical Academy
- 3rd Place Category Award
- Alex Mwangi Wachira (10th grade): Self-Powered Electric Cars – Central High School
- Platte River Power Authority Award
- Cuinn Archer (7th grade): Colorado Air Conditioning – Mancos Middle School
- 3rd Place Category Award
- Benjamin Bagelman (8th grade) & Dominc Osterholt (8th grade): Enchanted Sand: A Device to Turn Sand into a Fluidized Bed – Friends School
- American Institute of Chemical Engineers Award
- Justin Bendixson (8th grade) & Myles Marhofer (8th grade): Driver Safety Tech – Pueblo School for Arts & Sciences
- Lemelson Foundation Award
- Aedan Brandreth (8th grade): Burn Those Calories – Challenge School
- Charlie Danko (8th grade): An Affordable Robot for Dangerous Factories – Flagstaff Academy
- 1st Place Category Award
- 3rd Place Best-of-CSEF Award
- Thermo Fisher Scientific Junior Innovators Challenge Nomination
- IEEE Award
- Society of Manufacturing Engineers Award
- Morgan Drullinger (6th grade): Combining TPU and PLA to Make a Better 3D Printer Filament – Liberty School
- Honorable Mention Category Award
- Lucy Dunkly (8th grade): Baffled by Sound – Challenge School
- Andrew George (7th grade): Moving Water with the Archimedes Screw – Springfield Jr/Sr High School
- Kate Guengerich (7th grade): Infill Percentage and Strength to Weight Ratio of 3D Printed Parts – Peak to Peak Charter School
- ASM International Award
- Zonta Club Award
- Cody Howard (8th grade): How Much Resistance Can a Hot-Air Engine Handle? – Cardinal Community Academy
- Logan James (8th grade): The Eggcellent Egg Drop – Burlington Middle School
- David Kent V (8th grade): The Super Speaker: Using Digital Signal Processing to Improve Low-Quality Speakers – Eagleview Middle School
- 2nd Place Category Award
- Thermo Fisher Scientific Junior Innovators Challenge Nomination
- Connor Rosling (8th grade): Will It Snap? – Cardinal Community Academy
- Rylen Ross (6th grade) & Zaiden Villegmoez (6th grade): Energy * Mass – Monte Vista Middle School
- Lawrence Roy (7th grade): Vex Robotics – Roncalli STEM Academy
- Patrick Thomas (8th grade): Volatus Veritas: The Examination of Aircraft Wing Shape According to Two Different Speed Variables – Home Schooled
- Honorable Mention Category Award
- Student Choice Award
- United States Air Force Award
- Paisley Vezeau (8th grade): Skyscrapers Built to Last – Ignacio Middle School
- Annalena Werner (8th grade): Can You Hear It? – Wiggins Middle School
- Teagan Archer (10th grade): Dress for Less Air Resistance – Mancos High School
- John Butler (9th grade): Pecker Protector Egg Defender – West Grand High School
- Honorable Mention Category Award
- Student Choice Award
- CSU College of Agricultural Sciences Award
- Nathaniel Ellis (11th grade): MOON-OPOLY II: Employing Additive Manufacturing Technology for Lunar Construction with Waterless Concrete – Durango High School
- 1st Place Category Award
- 3rd Place Best-of-CSEF Award
- American Vacuum Society Award
- Lockheed Martin Award
- Colorado School of Mines Scholarship
- Ersel Serdar (10th grade): Designing a More Efficient Altitude Compensating Rocket Nozzle – Cherry Creek High School
- United States Air Force Award
- United States Navy & Marine Corps Award
- Gromko Family Award
- Goe Raguraman (11th grade): Regeneratus: An Adaptive Regenerative Protection Suit for All Law Enforcement and Armed Personnel – Discovery Canyon High School
- 3rd Place Category Award
- Claire Seger (10th grade): Utilizing 3D Printing Technology to Engineer Prosthetic Human Heart Valves – Monte Vista High School
- Rhys Hanson (12th grade): The View from Above: Designing a High Power Rocket Glider to Expand Options for SAR, Mapping and Military Applications – Conifer High School
- 2nd Place Category Award
- United States Navy & Marine Corps Award
- Kelly Yang (10th grade): Skin PT: Pressure and Temperature Sensors for Electronic Skin – Fairview High School
- American Vacuum Society Award
- Kenneth Zittel (11th grade): R.O.T. Slide – Central High School
- Honorable Mention Category Award
- Theodore Chastang (8th grade): Using Green Roofs to Absorb Floodwaters – Summit Middle Charter School
- 3rd Place Category Award
- CSU Department of Horticulture & Landscape Architecture Award
- Ricoh Award
- Bode Monahan (6th grade): Air Pollution Detection System – Liberty School
- Honorable Mention Category Award
- Pioneer of Science Award
- Toshiro Nagafuji (8th grade): Alternatives to Sand in Concrete – The Logan School
- 2nd Place Category Award
- Thermo Fisher Scientific Junior Innovators Challenge Nomination
- American Vacuum Society Award
- Society for Mining, Metallurgy & Exploration Award
- Ricoh Award
- Zoe Wang (8th grade): Recycling by Zapping: Recyclability and Efficiency of Recycling Different Polyesters – Summit Middle Charter School
- 1st Place Category Award
- Thermo Fisher Scientific Junior Innovators Challenge Nomination
- Air & Waste Management Association Award
- NASA Award
- Anneke Ausema (9th grade): For the Birds: What Type of Plastic Makes the Best Recycled Bird Feeder? – Colorado Early Colleges
- Emma Perry (9th grade): Artificial Rain Indoors – South High School
- Amrita Saini (11th grade): Investigating Natural Hydrogels to Sustain Bioluminescent Algae for Sustainable Lighting and CO2 Removal – Peak to Peak Charter School
- 2nd Place Category Award
- Science Toy Magic Award
- Colorado School of Mines Scholarship
- Colorado State University Pueblo Scholarship
- Autumn Schulz (9th grade): Presence of PFAs in Colorado Water – Ignacio High School
- American Institute of Chemical Engineers Award
- Colorado Environmental Health Association Award
- Rocky Mountain Water Environment Association Award
- Ella Seevers (12th grade) & Cole Gropp (12th grade): Energy Efficient Cooling of Buildings in the Mountains – Conifer High School
- 1st Place Category Award
- American Institute of Chemical Engineers Award
- Society of Women Engineers Award
- Wilkins Family Award
- Alexander Zhang (10th grade) & Stella Laird (10th grade): Reprint: Closed-Loop Materials Flow in Additive Manufacturing – Fairview High School
- 3rd Place Category Award
- Ralph Desch Technical Writing Award
- Society of Manufacturing Engineers Award
- Dillon Frueh (7th grade): Microbit Conductor – Roncalli STEM Academy
- Liam Griffin (7th grade): Running Low on Water: Formula for the Future – Sargent Junior High School
- 1st Place Category Award
- Thermo Fisher Scientific Junior Innovators Challenge Nomination
- Water Environment Federation Award
- Hank Guiles (7th grade): Wanna Bet? – Mancos Middle School
- Daniel Joshua (8th grade): Pattern Detection i+6/8*n Rubik’s Cubes – Southern Hills Middle School
- Honorable Mention Category Award
- Aidan McGuire (7th grade): How Does Background Clutter Affect Image Recognition? – St. Peter Catholic School
- Honorable Mention Category Award
- United States Navy & Marine Corps Award
- Michelangelo Rocha (8th grade): Microbit Network – Pong – Roncalli STEM Academy
- Fares Abisai Sanchez-Parada (8th grade) & Braxton Hopper (8th grade): Microbit Alarm System – Roncalli STEM Academy
- Lucca Tumbush (8th grade) & Seth Wilson (8th grade): Friend/Foe Light – Eagleview Middle School
- 3rd Place Category Award
- Berkely Ulibarri (8th grade): Using Probability to Model Radioisotope Dating – St. John the Evangelist Catholic School
- Pioneer of Science Award
- Helen Wan (8th grade): Measuring the Particulate Matter in Air Quality with Raspberry Pi – Challenger Middle School
- 2nd Place Category Award
- Thermo Fisher Scientific Junior Innovators Challenge Nomination
- Broadcom Foundation Award
- Platte River Power Authority Award
- Joshua Wells (8th grade) & Zander Braun (8th grade): Redefining Basketball Bank Shots by Applying Geometrical Mathematical Models – Weldon Valley School
- Margaret Arthur (11th grade): A Novel Phosphosite Localization Approach Using Tandem Phosphoprotein Mass Spectra and Temporal Dilated Networks – Fairview High School
- 1st Place Category Award
- 1st Place Best-of-CSEF Award
- Ralph Desch Technical Writing Award
- IEEE Award
- Regerenon Award
- The Sarah Volz Family Award
- Colorado School of Mines Scholarship
- Michael Gao (10th grade): Long Short-term Memory Recurrent Neural Networks as a Novel Strategy for Designing Targeted Antibiotic Treatments – Fairview High School
- 2nd Place Category Award
- Liam Sweeney (12th grade): American Sign Language Translator – Centaurus High School
- 3rd Place Category Award
- Trista Hartman (8th grade): Cleaning My School, One Bacterium at a Time – Hi-Plans School
- 3rd Place Category Award
- Kennedy Henschel (7th grade) & Maggie Gorton (7th grade): Bacteria Busters – Hi-Plains School
- Lilly Hirsch (7th grade): How Well Do Disinfectants Work? – Foundations Academy
- 1st Place Category Award
- Thermo Fisher Scientific Junior Innovators Challenge Nomination
- Connor Knight (7th grade): Disinfecting with Boiling Water: Does It Make Objects Safe? – Corwin International Magnet School
- Honorable Mention Category Award
- Bella Laydon (7th grade): Put Your Hands in the Air – Corwin International Magnet School
- Ryker Lockhart (7th grade): Which Bread Will Mold Faster: Wet or Dry? – Genoa-Hugo School
- Makayla Milligan (8th grade): Does the Environment Matter? – Cardinal Community Academy
- Honorable Mention Category Award
- Selia Montoya (7th grade): Do Antibacterial Cleaners Actually Work? – Ignacio Middle School
- Piper Reitz (7th grade): Inflection Reflection: An Inquiry on Antibiotic Resistance – Lamar Middle School
- 2nd Place Category Award
- Thermo Fisher Scientific Junior Innovators Challenge Nomination
- Jaylee Rodriques (8th grade): Rubby, Rub, Dub: What’s in Your Tub? – Sargent Junior High School
- Pioneer of Science Award
- Kylie Berg (11th grade): Effect of Ionic Zinc Availability on the Replication of Human Mammary Epithelial Carcinoma Cells – Fairview High School
- 1st Place Category Award
- The Biophysical Society Award
- Armaan Gill (10th grade): Confirming E. coli Transformations Using PCR Assay Tests and Electrophoresis – Lamar High School
- 3rd Place Category Award
- Vanya Lavu (10th grade): Am I Effective? – The Classical Academy
- 2nd Place Category Award
- Max Montoya (9th grade): Terrific Tardigrades – Ignacio High School
- Honorable Mention Category Award
- Nathan Dinges (8th grade): Airsoft BB Price vs. Accuracy – Cardinal Community Academy
- Hayden Forst (6th grade): From Ignition, Will Cotton, Wool or Polyester Burn the Longest? – Dove Creek Middle School
- 3rd Place Category Award
- Olivia Galm (7th grade): Microwave vs. Oven: Does Material Shrink Better in the Microwave or Oven? – St. John the Evangelist Catholic School
- Kinleigh Hathorn (7th grade): Will It Stick? – Sargent Junior High School
- Sage Ketels (7th grade): Does Shot Size Matter? (2.0) – Lamar Middle School
- Karleigh Kinn (6th grade): Meteor Impact 101 – St. Columba Catholic School
- Colorado Mineral Society Award
- Jayce Kisamore-Saldana (6th grade): Safe School – Lamar Middle School
- Evelyn Lapp (6th grade): The Force Is Strong with This One – Brush Middle School
- Honorable Mention Category Award
- Science Toy Magic Award
- Julian Lochte-Bono (8th grade): Thermal Paste – St. Columba Catholic School
- Tynan Lohman (7th grade): Does Wing Design Influence Force of Impact? – Liberty School
- Ian McClure (6th grade): How Do Different Sizes and Shapes of Rocket Fins Affect How High the Rocket Flies? – Evangel Christian Academy
- Lucas Miller (7th grade): Does Temperature Affect How High a Tennis Ball Bounces? – Genoa-Hugo School
- Lexi Oder (8th grade): How Does Asymmetry Affect Human Optics? – Summit Middle Charter School
- 1st Place Category Award
- Thermo Fisher Scientific Junior Innovators Challenge Nomination
- Pioneer of Science Award
- Fischer Robbins (8th grade): The Affects of Ski Wax – Summit Middle Charter School
- 2nd Place Category Award
- Thermo Fisher Scientific Junior Innovators Challenge Nomination
- Kane Schrock (6th grade): Wind Tunnel Tests of Airfoil Performance – Arickaree School
- United States Air Force Award
- United States Navy & Marine Corps Award
- Little Shop of Physics Award
- Science Toy Magic Award
- Rhett Taylor (8th grade): Battle of the Tape: Which Tape Has the Strongest Tensile and Adhesive Strength? – Centauri Middle School
- Little Shop of Physics Award
- Adrian Adubato-Koch (11th grade) & Peyton Smith (11th grade): Chapped Golf – Central High School
- Dillon Brann (9th grade): Sunspot Weather Correlation – Ignacio High School
- Alexandra Flint (12th grade): Effect of Different Rover Wheel Materials on Triboelectric Charge of Lunar Simulant Dust Particles – Peak to Peak Charter School
- 2nd Place Category Award
- United States Navy & Marine Corps Award
- Addison Mondragon (9th grade): Flourenheit: Does the Type of Flour Effect Its Flammability? – Monte Vista High School
- Honorable Mention Category Award
- Abigail Ross (12th grade): Detecting Flares (Part 5) – Lamar High School
- 1st Place Category Award
- The Sara Volz Family Award
- Parker Stone (12th grade) & Bailey Link (12th grade): Performance of Pyramidal Airfoils in an Oscillating Wind Chamber – Brush High School
- 3rd Place Category Award
- United States Air Force Award
- Little Shop of Physics Award
- Science Toy Magic Award
- Myer Wickham (12th grade) & Ty Griffith (12th grade): Save Money Live Brighter – Brush High School
- Shary Batiz (6th grade): Vita-Grow? – Alta Vista Charter School
- 3rd Place Category Award
- Teagan Bruchez (8th grade): Grass Matters! – West Grand Middle School
- Science Toy Magic Award
- Makenzie Consaul (8th grade): The Power of Pantego? – Sargent Junior High School
- Colorado Mycological Society Award
- Pason Dible (6th grade): The Effect of Organic Fertilizer on Corn – Liberty School
- Science Toy Magic Award
- Gaby Falter (8th grade): The Chealation Effect: Maximizing Plant Growth – Firestone Charter Academy
- Levi Goncharov (8th grade): Ascorbic Acid in Leaves as a Method of Determining Air Quality – Challenge School
- 1st Place Category Award
- Thermo Fisher Scientific Junior Innovators Challenge Nomination
- CSU Department of Horticulture & Landscape Architecture Award
- Tenleigh Lorenzini (8th grade): Light IT Grow – Wiggins Middle School
- Pioneer of Science Award
- Grady Mundell (7th grade): Are Polymers the Answer? – Walsh Jr/Sr High School
- Tessa Pineiro (6th grade): Plentiful Waterful: Which Propagation Solution Helps Plants Grow? – Good Shepherd Catholic School
- 2nd Place Category Award
- Thermo Fisher Scientific Junior Innovators Challenge Nomination
- Addison Powers (8th grade): Does the Water Matter? – Cardinal Community Academy
- Ivan Schefter (7th grade): Fight the Light: How Light Affects Plant’s Natural Protection from UVB – Colorado Early Colleges
- Paisley Wiersma (6th grade) & Ashlyn Mosher (6th grade): How Fast Dow Corn Mold? – Genoa-Hugo School
- Honorable Mention Category Award
- Naomi Kruse (9th grade): Finding Ferns: Defining the Microclimate That Enables Gametophyte Growth in the Santa Monica Mountains – Schullandheim Home School
- 2nd Place Category Award
- CSU Department of Agricultural Biology Award
- CSU Department of Horticulture & Landscape Architecture Award
- Carlos Ochoa-Marquez (12th grade): The Effect of Heavy Metal Toxicity in Solanum tuberosum, Cucurbita pepo, Medicago sativa, and Capsicum annuum Plants Inoculated with Mycorrhizae – Monte Vista High School
- 1st Place Category Award
- 4th Place Best-of-CSEF Award
- Air & Waste Management Association Award
- Colorado Foundation for Agriculture Award
- Colorado Mycological Society Award
- Colorado Native Plant Society Award
- CSU Department of Horticulture & Landscape Architecture Award
- Science Toy Magic Award
- Society for Mining, Metallurgy & Exporation Award
- State of Colorado Division of Reclamation, Mining & Safety Award
- Hannah Shelton (10th grade): Warning! High Fire Danger! Observing the Relationship Between the Fuel Moisture Levels of Pinyon Pine and Sagebrush to Observed Precipitation Levels – Centauri High School
- 3rd Place Category Award
- Science Toy Magic Award
Colorado International Science & Engineering Fair Delegation
Dallas, TX May 14 – 19, 2023
