2025 Colorado Science & Engineering Fair
View the 2025 CSEF Projects Digitally!
April 3 – 5, 2025
Colorado State University – Fort Collins
Junior Division
- Addie Aldridge-Paulson (8th grade): Can You Hear Me Now? A Study of the Efficacy of Equine Ear Plugs – Sargent Middle School
- Hannah Deering (7th grade): The Potential Relationship Between Tibia Length and Speed in Samoyed Dogs Running 100 Yards – Yuma Middle School
- 3rd Place Category Award
- CBTA Best Biology Project Award
- Innovations in the Science of Agriculture Award
- Sienna Harden (7th grade) & Cora Bauer (8th grade): Are Dewormers Needed Here? – St. Joseph’s Catholic School
- 1st Place Category Award
- 2nd Place Best-of-CSEF Award
- Thermo Fisher Scientific Junior Innovators Challenge Nomination
- Kellen McClure (7th grade): The Differences in Temperatur and Moisture Between the Pogonomymex Occidentails and the Pogonomymex Rugosus – Rocky Ford Jr/Sr High School
- Finnley Reitz (7th grade): The Great Quail Query – Lamar Middle School
- 2nd Place Category Award
- Thermo Fisher Scientific Junior Innovators Challenge Nomination
- Khaleesi Reynolds (6th grade): Masking Medication: Finding a Way to Mask the Taste of Medication with Top Dressing with Boer Goats – Sargent Middle School
- Ava Shah (8th grade): How Exercise Affects Stress Levels in Horses – Summit Charter Middle School
- Honorable Mention Category Award
- Dian Fossey Animal Sciences Award
- Levi Spencer (8th grade): Light Triggers on Serotonin Levels – Liberty School
- Honorable Mention Category Award
- Reyansh Varma (8th grade): Effects of Light and Intensity of Newly Hatched Brine Shrimp – Summit Charter Middle School
- Jessa Wilson (8th grade): Holy Buckets – Wiggins Middle School
- Alia Yund (8th grade): Turn and Burn Baby: Does the Color of the Barrel Really Affect Your Run Time? – Centauri Middle School
Senior Division
- Sierra Allen (12th grade): Colors from a Dog’s Perspective – Genoa-Hug School
- Teagan Bruchez (10th grade): The Effects of the Transfer of Wolves and the Fertility Rate of Grand County Cattle – West Grand High School
- Honorable Mention Category Award
- Senior Division Student Choice Award
- CBTA Best Biology Project Award
- Innovations in the Science of Agriculture Scholarship
- Amelie Hunziker (12th grade) & AJ Gruenewald (12th grade): Reaching New Lights: An Explorative Study on the Occurrence of Biofluorescence in Amphibia – Monarch High School
- Trout Unlimited River Conservation Award
- Priya Mayjoy (9th grade): Monitoring Apis Mellifera Linnaeus for Winter Survival Year Two – Lamar High School
- 3rd Place Category Award
- Innovations in the Science of Agriculture Award
- Lydia Mekelburg (12th grade): Year Two: Spatial Analysis of Chronic Wasting Disease in Northeastern Colorado Deer Populations – Analysis of Age Structure Utilizing Cementum Annuli – Yuma High School
- 1st Place Category Award
- 4th Place Best-of-CSEF Award
- Westlea Tipsword (9th grade): Effects of Vitamin E Supplementation on Horse Health and Performance – Homeschool
- CO2 & Greenhouse Gas Reduction Award
- Chloe Whiton (12th grade): The Snacks Snatcher Stopper: An Automatic Locking Dog Bowl – Centaurus High School
- 2nd Place Category Award
Junior Division
- Benjamin Boedeker (7th grade): Hot Shot! An Observational Study of 5th Grade Boy Basketball Shot Percentage Evaluation and Optimization – Fort Morgan Middle School
- Navy Science & Engineering Award
- Anna Catinca Antohe (7th grade): Assessing ChatGPT Effectiveness as a Study Tool for Improving Test Results Over Classical Learning Strategy – Challenge School
- Sydney Curtis (8th grade): Tech or Talk? An Analysis of Training Methods for Muscle Memory – Sargent Middle School
- Marin Hayes (8th grade): No Need for Speed – Boulder Country Day School
- 2nd Place Category Award
- Thermo Fisher Scientific Junior Innovator Challenge Nomination
- CO2 & Greenhouse Gas Reduction Award
- Juliet Huckabay (8th grade): The Impact of Age on Pattern Separation and Completion – Skinner Middle School
- 1st Place Category Award
- Thermo Fisher Scientific Junior Innovator Challenge Nomination
- Sammy Maloney (8th grade): Breaking Barriers: Language learning and Cultural Understanding – Bayfield Middle School
- APA Achievement in Research in Psychological Science Award
- Advancing Equity Through Innovation Award
- Helen Ostrowski (8th grade): Who Wrote It? How Genre Affects Students’ Ability to Detect AI – Monument Academy
- Anabelle Pettinger (8th grade): Technology with the Youth – Villas Schools
- Honorable Mention Category Award
- Leon Festinger Behavioral & Social Sciences Award
- Layla Reiss (8th grade): Saving the Team – Summit Charter Middle School
- Mary Ainsworth Behavioral & Social sciences Award
- Luke Tollefson (6th grade): Where’s Waldo: A Study on Attention Using Eye Tracking – St. John the Evangelist Catholic School
- 3rd Place Category Award
Senior Division
- Ella Blakeley (11th grade): Perceptions Across Generations: Analyzing Age-Related Differences in Distinguishing Between AI and Real Facial Stimuli – Palmer Ridge High School
- 2nd Place Category Award
- Lydia Boyd (10th grade): ADHD in the San Luis Valley – Monte Vista High School
- Daniel Rey Duran (10th grade): Task Tuned-Tunes – Rocky Ford Jr/Sr High School
- Zachary Gao (11th grade): Impacts of Political Views on Donations to Refugees with Different Linguistic Framing – Cherry Creek High School
- 1st Place Category Award
- Calvin Johnson (12th grade) & Aarnav Jain (12th grade): Sympathetic Nervous System Activation Effects on Short-Term Memory in a Virtual Environment – Peak to Peak Charter School
- APA Achievement in Research in Psychological Science Award
- Vanya Lavu (12th grade): Developing a Novel Enzyme Therapy for Improving GAD and Gastrointestinal Health in Rats – The Classical Academy
- 3rd Place Category Award
- Ralph Desch Technical Writing Award
- Jerry Lou (11th grade): The Effects of Cartoons on Developing Healthy Eating Habits in Children – Stargate Charter School
- Honorable Mention Category Award
- Terra McClure (9th grade): Analysis of Patient Perceived Side Effects of Medically Induced Eye Dilation – Rocky Ford Jr/Sr High School
- Alex Schneider (11th grade) & Hailey Cornelius (10th grade): The Scent of Memory: Investigating the Relationship Between Oil Smells and Memory Retention – Plainview School
- Paisley Vezeau (10th grade) & Isabella Lorenzini (11th grade) & Kenya Abaro (10th grade): The Mandala Effect: Identifying Confirmation Bias – Ignacio High School
- Natalia Woolcock (10th grade): Reimagine Meat Labeling: Could We Change Buyer Choices and Lower Greenhouse Emissions by Adding Carbon Footprint Data to Consumer Labels? – The Academy of Charter Schools
- Environmental Health Award
- CO2 & Greenhouse Gas Reduction Award
- Alexander Zhang (12th grade): SchoolFinance: A Novel Machine Learning Framework for Optimizing School Funding Allocation – Fairview High School
- NSA Special Award
Junior Division
- Jordayn Brandon (8th grade) & Khloe Notter (8th grade) & Lucy Kimminau (8th grade): Taping or Cupping? – Stratton Schools
- Lucy Brittain (8th grade): Mosquito Bite: West Nile Fright 2 – Creede Schools
- Elsa Ciembronowicz (7th grade): Original Kitchen Insulin – Vallis Cymbia Academaie Homeschool
- Honorable Mention Category Award
- AAUW Colorado Award for Women in STEM
- Elizabeth Lauren George (8th grade): Which Glucose Monitor Is Most Accurate? – West Grand Middle School
- Honorable Mention Category Award
- Mateo Guerrero (8th grade): Fruit Flies Attraction to Different Doughs to Conclude Health Inferences – Summit Charter Middle School
- 1st Place Category Award
- Thermo Fisher Scientific Junior Innovator Challenge Nomination
- Abigail Lam (8th grade): The Human Body in Space – Flagstaff Academy Charter School
- Navy Science & Engineering Award
- Vedanth Raju (7th grade): A Novel Plant-Based Topical Drug “Curcaza+” to Help Treat Diabetic Foot Ulcers/Infections and Help Reduce Antimicrobial Resistance – Aurora Quest K-8 School
- 2nd Place Category Award
- Thermo Fisher Scientific Junior Innovator Challenge Nomination
- Future of Life Sciences Award
- CMS Education Foundation Award
- Joanna Raguraman (7th grade): Mnemonic Metamorphosis: Evidence for Persistence Memory Store Beyond the Brain in Regenerated Planarian Flatworms – Discovery Canyon Middle School
- Anirudh Rao (7th grade): A Novel Approach to Wound Management Using Hydrovoltaic Sensors – STEM School
- Elemer Bernath Technical Writing Award
- Poster Art Contest
- Excellence in Protection of Occupational Health & Safety Award
- Archer Rogers (6th grade): Testing the Hydration of Cosmetic Facemasks – Genoa-Hugo School
- Gracie Typhair (7th grade): All Hands On – West Grand Middle School
- Trynity Typhair (8th grade): You Are What You Eat – West Grand Middle School
- Elizabeth Helen Blackburn Biomedical & Health Sciences Award
- Travis Wise (8th grade): Analysis of Glucose Levels in Food to Aid in Hypoglycemic Recovery – Liberty School
- 3rd Place Category Award
- Violet Wunsch (8th grade): Is There Really Lead in Tampons? – Wiggins Middle School
Senior Division
- Maylin Carballo de la Cruz (9th grade): Effects of Soap on Skin’s pH Utilizing a Synthetic Skin Model – Yuma High School
- Hugo Gonzalez Gomez (9th grade): Sweaty Dudes – West Grand High School
- Padyn Harris (10th grade): My Hair! – Limon Jr/Sr High School
- Gwendolyn Hohl (9th grade): Not for the Squeamish! How Accurate Is the Kastle-Meyer Blood Test? – Genoa-Hugo School
- Saahithi Kasa (11th grade): Up in Smoke: The Effect of Protective Topical Ointment Against Wildfire Particle Penetration – Cherry Creek High School
- 3rd Place Category Award
- AAUW CO Award for Women in STEM
- CO2 & Greenhouse Gas Reduction Award
- Roa Lee (11th grade): MMP-Deactivating Therapeutic Contact Lenses for Coneal Melting – Mountain Vista High School
- 2nd Place Category Award
- Colorado School of Mines Scholarship
- Divyanshi Pandey (10th grade): Simulating Cardiovascular Flow in a Fontan Heart – Peak to Peak Charter School
- Alexis Pinion (9th grade) & Bryleigh Fox (9th grade): Squeezable C: Quantitative Analysis of Vitamin C Content in Freshly Squeezed Fruits by Titration – Genoa-Hugo School
- Maria Sears (12th grade): Lung Distance Relationship: A Remote Monitoring Device That Tracks Pulmonary Function – Monte Vista High School
- Honorable Mention Category Award
- Excellence in Physical Sciences & Engineering Award
- Future of Life Science Award
- CMS Education Foundation Award
- Warnock Family Award
- Young Entrepreneur’s Award
- Chloe Stone (10th grade): The Heart of Music – Limon Jr/Sr High School
- Jenny Xu (11th grade) & Amanda Zou (11th grade): Disrupting PCSK9 and ANGPTL3 Genes with CRISPR for Hypercholesterolemia Treatment – Peak to Peak Charter School
- 1st Place Category Award
- Colorado School of Mines Scholarship
Junior Division
- Amelie Andujar (7th grade) & Bianeta Ugwu (7th grade) & Emely Quijada (7th grade): How Does UV Light Affect the Protection of Different Brands of Sunscreen? – Brush Middle School
- Excellence in Chemistry Award
- ACS Chemistry Award
- Ava Boblitt (6th grade): Neutralizing Acid from Acid Mine Drainage in Silverton, Colorado – Bayfield Middle School
- Award for Excellence in Mineral Science & Engineering
- Madison Cuckow (6th grade): From the Field to Fuel – Wiggins Middle School
- Elizabeth Gerk (7th grade): A World of Water – Wiggins Middle School
- Honorable Mention Category Award
- Zhaleh Gonzalez (7th grade): The Effect of Different Natural Preservatives on Sliced Avocado in Open Air – Skinner Middle School
- Skyler Kechter (7th grade): Debunking the Bath – Liberty School
- Jocelyn Kramer (8th grade): To Be or Not To Be Organic – Good Shepherd Catholic School
- John Goodenough Chemistry Award
- ACS Chemistry Award
- Humza Memon (7th grade): From Kitchen t Energy: Leveraging Fermentation Enhancers for Improved Biogas Production – Crescent View Academy
- 3rd Place Category Award
- Excellence in Mycological Research Award
- Kenley Mitchell (7th grade): Light It Before You Bite It! – Sargent Middle School
- 2nd Place Category Award
- Thermo Fisher Scientific Junior Innovator Challenge Nomination
- ACS Chemistry Award
- McKayla Red (8th grade): DIY Remedies for Getting a Stain Out – Ignacio Middle School
- Excellence in Chemistry Award
- Collin Richardson (8th grade): Which pH Is Most Efficient in a Hydrogen Gas Generator? – Wiggins Middle School
- Violet Sandridge (8th grade): Radiation Resilience: Evaluating Photostability in Natural and Synthetic Sunscreens – Summit Charter Middle School
- 1st Place Category Award
- Thermo Fisher Scientific Junior Innovator Challenge Nomination
- ACS Chemistry Award
- Kassidy Schlepp (8th grade): The Last Light – St. John The Baptist Catholic School
- ACS Chemistry Award
- Jocelyn Schoenfeld (6th grade): Skittles Chromatography – Genoa-Hugo School
- Honorable Mention Category Award
- ACS Chemistry Award
- Sierra Winslow (8th grade): Radon Detector: Where Does Radon Typically Accumulate in Buildings? – Eagleview Middle School
- Environmental Health Award
- Advancing Equity Through Innovation Award
- Calvin Yang-Jacobs (7th grade): Fruit and Veg Battery – Southern Hills Middle School
Senior Division
- Angelina Gantumur (10th grade): Impact of Cornstarch on Bath Bombs – SkyView Academy
- Jack Griepentrog (9th grade): Baking the Perfect Chocolate Chip Cookie – SkyView Academy
- Honorable Mention Category Award
- Excellence in Chemistry Award
- Neha Pesaramelli (11th grade): Measuring Chemical Kinetics in High School Labs – Peak to Peak Charter School
- 3rd Place Category Award
- CCTA Chemistry Award
- Bogar Quezada (10th grade): Desulfurization – Sierra Grande High School
- Honorable Mention Category Award
- Layna Snyder (9th grade) & Caroline Prieto (9th grade): The Lake Nyos Tragedy: What Caused It? – Brush High School
- ACS Chemistry Award
- Excellence in Chemistry Award
- CO2 & Greenhouse Gas Reduction Award
- Arnav Venkatesh (10th grade): Enhancing Microbot Functionality Through Single Layered Hydrogels – Grandview High School
- 2nd Place Category Award
- ACS Chemistry Award
- Peyton Walther (9th grade): Flicker and Flame: A Showdown of Candle Wax Burn Rates – SkyView Academy
- Sophia Zhang (11th grade): Natural Eutectogels as a Novel Material for Green Electronic Skin – Fairview High School
- 1st Place Category Award
- 3rd Place Best-of-CSEF Award
- ACS Chemistry Award
- SWE Award
- Colorado School of Mines Award
Junior Division
- Lily Beeby (8th grade): The Effect of Water Treatment on Potable Water – Skinner Middle School
- Taha Danisman (7th grade): Soil and Water Retention Dynamics – Crescent View Academy
- Luciana Dougherty (6th grade): Can These Tiny Gels Save Agriculture’s Water Crisis? – Sacred Heart of Jesus Catholic School
- Innovations in the Science of Agriculture Awards
- Logan Drullinger (8th grade): Does the Amount of Soil Compaction Influence Water Drainage? – Liberty School
- Morgan Drullinger (8th grade): Preventing the Tumble – Liberty School
- Neave Henschel (7th grade): Salt or Sink – Hi-Plain School
- Cameron Kempisty (8th grade): Going Nuts Over Biochar: Pistachios vs. PFAS – Eagleview Middle School
- 1st Place Category Award
- 3rd Place Best-of-CSEF Award
- Thermo Fisher Scientific Junior Innovator Challenge Nomination
- CO2 & Greenhouse Gas Reduction Award
- Air & Waste Management Award
- Excellence in Forestry Research Award
- Ainsley Lehman (8th grade) & Braelyn Matson (8th grade) & Jocelyn Demster (8th grade): Do You Want to Build a Water Filter?– Firestone Charter Academy
- Kayla Melby (6th grade): Photosynthesis Through Thick and Thin Development of a Light Collecting Device to Prevent Winterkill in Ice Covered Lakes – Yuma Middle School
- 3rd Place Category Award
- Trout Unlimited River Conservation Award
- Wangari Muta Maathai Earth & Environmental Sciences Award
- Aylin Melgar Bobadilla (8th grade) & Nayla Gutierrez (8th grade): Helpful Organisms: Using Microorganisms in Eutrophic Bodies of Water – Wray Jr/Sr High School
- Honorable Mention Category Award
- AWG Excellence in the Geosciences Award
- Shelby Neal (7th grade): Ecosystem Showdown: Turf vs. Grass – Wiggins Middle School
- Kendyl Osborn (7th grade): Monarch Butterfly Pitstop – La Junta Junior High School
- 2nd Place Category Award
- Thermo Fisher Scientific Junior Innovator Challenge Nomination
- Native Plant Award
- Cy Poss (6th grade): Water Filtration – Genoa-Hugo School
- Jace Poss (6th grade): Wood Chips vs. Water – Genoa-Hugo School
- Gerardo Rodriguez Ramirez (7th grade): Breaking Down Light: Investigating the Effects That Different Wavelengths of Light Have on Plant Growth and Mitosis – Boston K-8 School
- CO2 & Greenhouse Gas Reduction Award
- Allyson Solze (8th grade): From Ground to Growth – Genoa-Hugo School
- Aidan Tipton (8th grade) & Silas Morrison (8th grade): Oceanic Waster Removal – Bayfield Middle School
- Taking the Pulse of the Planet Award
- Harley Vaughn (8th grade): The Influence of Legume Residue on Soil Nitrogen and Corn Growth – Liberty School
- Ben Zhao (8th grade): Earthquake Asperities Relation to Recurrence – Summit Charter Middle School
- Honorable Mention Category Award
- Excellence in Earth Sciences Award
- NASA Earth System Science Award
- Outstanding Achievement in the Use of the International System Award
- Ricoh Sustainable Development Award
Senior Division
- Emma Bahr (12th grade): Effect of Temperature on Growth of Diatoms Skeletonema costatum and Ditylum brightwell – Palmer High School
- 3rd Place Category Award
- Lochlan DaRonco (12th grade): Bear Creek Geological and pH Analysis – Evergreen High School
- Excellence in Earth Sciences Award
- Colter Dennison (9th grade): Toxic Tributaries 2: Rivers Effect on Soil Chemistry – Mancos High School
- Excellence in Protection of Occupational Health & Safety Award
- Best Earth Science Award
- Excellence in Earth Sciences Award
- Lauren Erickson (12th grade): The Effect of Fire Mitigation on Avian Biodiversity as Measured Through Bioacoustics – Evergreen High School
- 2nd Place Category Award
- CNHP Conservation Award
- Reagan Futrell (11th grade): Gaining Ground: Effectiveness of Zeedyk Structures on Herbaceous Establishment and Moisture Retention within Waterways – Monte Vista High School
- CO2 & Greenhouse Gas Reduction Award
- Liam Griffin (9th grade): An Absorbent Advantage: Using Wool Pellets to Conserve Water in Soil – Sargent High School
- Jack Fenwick Award for Agricultural Science
- Sage Ketels (9th grade): Microplastics Quantification of Waterfowl in SE Colorado & SW Kansas – Lamat High School
- Alex Kugler (12th grade) & Zoe Kugler (12th grade): Comparison of Aurora Activity with Termosphere-Ionosphere Na and Fe (TiNa and TiFe) Layers at McMurdo Station – Monarch High School
- 1st Place Category Award
- NASA Earth System Science Award
- Sky Richards (11th grade): Can I Drink That? – Stratton Schools
- Joaquin Romero (10th grade): Bio Guardians: Nature’s Water Purifiers – Rocky Ford Jr/Sr High School
- Abigail Rosenhahn (10th grade): Plants Built for the Future: Testing the Effects of Different Mediums on Cost Effective Hydroponic Lettuce Growth – Palmer High School
- Juakin Sawatzky (10th grade): Developing an Economical Method of Extracting REM from Mine Effluent Water – Liberty School
- Navy Science and Engineering Award
- Award for Excellence in Mineral Science & Engineering
- DRMS OUtstanding Science Exhibit Award
- Hannah Shelton (12th grade): Sediment Signatures: Unveiling the Impact of Sedimentary Deposits on Diatoms Through Lake Bottom Sampling – Centauri High School
- Honorable Mention Category Award
- CO2 & Greenhouse Gas Reduction Award
- Nora Simmons (12th grade): Seasonal Precipitation Swings and Their Impacts on Wildfires in Colorado – Broomfield High School
- Allan Luo Yu (10th grade): The Effects of Climate Change on Allergens and Human Health – Fairview High School
- Taking the Pulse of the Planet Award
Junior Division
- Bianca Buczkowski (8th grade): Should Solar Panels Track the Sun? – Monument Academy
- 2nd Place Category Award
- Thermo Fisher Scientific Junior Innovator Challenge Nomination
- David Young Memorial Award
- Excellence in Physical Sciences & Engineering Award
- Benjamin Knight (7th grade): Wind Turbine Efficiency: Which Blade Design Works the Best? – Corwin International Magnet School
- Honorable Mention Category Award
- Ingram Olson (6th grade): A Better Solar Panel: Can Coating Solar Panels Improve Their Efficiency? – Telluride Intermediate School
- 1st Place Category Award
- Thermo Fisher Scientific Junior Innovator Challenge Nomination
- Burt Ratan Energy Award
- The Colorado EnergyWise Award
- CO2 & Greenhouse Gas Reduction Award
- Colt Sekich (8th grade): Battery vs. Solar vs. Solar/Battery Charge Controller – Cardinal Community Academy
- Connor Stone (7th grade) & Evelyn Lapp (8th grade): Insulation Investigation – Brush Middle School
- 3rd Place Category Award
- PRPA Special Award for Energy Efficiency & Innovation
- The Colorado EnergyWise Award
Senior Division
- Zachary Carr (11th grade): Self-Sustaining Water Flow – Limon High School
- Carson Stone (9th grade) – Brush High School & Chase Pollart (10th grade) – Prairie High School: Water Tower Power: Storing Solar Energy with an Elevated Pumped Storage Hydropower System
- 1st Place Category Award
- The Colorado EnergyWise Award
- CO2 & Greenhouse Gas Reduction Award
- PRPA Special Award for Energy Efficiency and Innovation
- Maddy Witt (10th grade): AGM vs. Acid – Limon High School
Junior Division
- Damien Bencomo (7th grade) & Eugene Lucero (7th grade): Drones: Providing Initial Relief to Disaster Zones – Nettie Freed Expeditionary K-8 School
- Cooper Bolyard (8th grade): Under Pressure – Wiggins Middle School
- Honorable Mention Category Award
- Alex Dicker (7th grade): Screw Water – Monte Vista Middle School
- Steven Chu Engineering Award
- John Finnessy (8th grade): Making a Robotic Hand – Challenge School
- Air Force Award
- Andy Keller Memorial Award
- Winston Luke Fulson (6th grade): How Do Flat Tires Effect Drivability? – Eagleview Middle School
- Evan Gopinath (7th grade): The Pumpkin Carver – Nevin Platt Middle School
- 3rd Place Category Award
- Junior Division Student Choice Award
- Laurel Amber Kent (7th grade): Magic Mouse: A Touchless, Theremin-based Mouse to Help People with Hand Limitations – Eagleview Middle School
- SWE Award
- NSA Special Award
- Matthew McCausland Memorial Award
- Elliot Louthan (6th grade): Special Needs Pig Feeder – Idalia School
- Jack Fenwick Award for Agricultural Science
- Matthew McCausland Memorial Award
- CO2 & Greenhouse Gas Reduction Award
- Omar Manshad (8th grade): Building a Safe Robotic Arm for Table-Top Interaction – Crescent View Academy
- 1st Place Category Award
- 1st Place Best-of-CSEF Award
- Thermo Fisher Scientific Junior Innovator Challenge Nomination
- NSA Special Award
- Ella Music (8th grade): A Haptic Guidance System for Visually Impaired Sport Climbers – Summit Charter Middle School
- 2nd Place Category Award
- Thermo Fisher Scientific Junior Innovator Challenge Nomination
- SWE Award
- IEEE Award
- Elemer Bernath Technical Writing Award
- Calvin Nabors (8th grade) & Quinn Dempsie (8th grade): Sci-Fi in Reality – Bayfield Middle School
- Navy Science and Engineering Award
- Eashan Palakollu (6th grade): Alert for Upcoming Road Signs and Traffic Signals in Advance While Driving – Cherry Creek Academy
- Zayn Rana (7th grade): Dealing with Diabetes: The Road to Developing an Artificial Pancreas – Crescent View Academy
- Xander Skul (7th grade): Tensegrity Table – D60 Online Middle School
- Navy Science & Engineering Award
- Maci Widger (8th grade): Under Pressure – Sargent Middle School
- Honoarble Mention Category Award
- Matthew McCausland Memorial Award
- Best Earth Science Award
- CO2 & Greenhouse Gas Reduction Award
Senior Division
- Cuinn Archer (9th grade): Smart Wheels: An RC Car That Measures and Analyzes Shapes – Mancos High School
- 1st Place Category Award
- Vaughn Bankston (9th grade): Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Iteration IX – Mancos High School
- Air Force Award
- Jude Chen (10th grade): Development of Digital Image Correlation Software to Evaluate Mechanical Properties of 3D-printed Polymers for Sustainable Material Innovation – Fairview High School
- Honorable Mention Category Award
- Haydan Drullinger (11th grade): AgriVision: Augmented Reality for Precision Farming – Liberty School
- Innovations in the Science of Agriculture Award
- Gerald Gromko Memorial Award
- Outstanding Achievement in Science & Engineering Award
- Mateo Feit (9th grade): The PetProfiler: Machine Learning and Mechanics for a Smart Doggy Door – Fairview High School
- 2nd Place Category Award
- Matthew McCausland Memorial Award
- NSA Special Award
- Andy Keller Memorial Award
- Colorado State University Pueblo Scholarship
- Maddox King (10th grade): Future Development of a Computer Chip: Year 1 – Coding – Yuma High School
- Andy Keller Memorial Award
- Connor Knight (9th grade): Engineering a Homemade Wind Tunnel to Test Airfoil Design – East High School
- James Little (11th grade): Shooting for the Stars – Monte Vista High School
- CO2 & Greenhouse Gas Reduction Award
- Devon Mahorney (9th grade): Road Ready – West Grand High School
- 3rd Place Category Award
- Tyler Wickham (12th grade): Breathe Easy: Comfort-Focused Respirators for Wildland Firefighters – Golden High School
- Matthew McCausland Memorial Award
- Fire Fighter Award
Junior Division
- Paisley Anderson (8th grade): Mineral Mining Monsters: Time Will Tail – Creede Schools
- 1st Place Category Award
- Thermo Fisher Scientific Junior Innovator Challenge Nomination
- DRMS Outstanding Science Exhibit Award
- George Tchobanoglous Environmental Engineering Award
- Award for Excellence in Mineral Science & Engineering
- Solomon Charlton-Jones (7th grade): The Poly Cracker 2.0: A Size- and Weight-Controlled Birdhouse – Flagstaff Academy Charter School
- Honorable Mention Category Award
- Lemelson Early Inventor Prize
- Payal Gopinath (7th grade): Plant Growing Conditions – Nevin Platt Middle School
- 3rd Place Category Award
- Jainil Parikh (6th grade): Harnessing Waste Powering Future – Challenger Middle School
- Honorable Mention Category Award
- CO2 & Greenhouse Gas Reduction Award
- PRPA Special Award for Environmental Responsibility
- Air & Waste Management Award
- Lyndee Thomson (7th grade) & Ryder Pryor (7th grade): Water’s Ways – West Grand Middle School
- 2nd Place Category Award
- Thermo Fisher Scientific Junior Innovator Challenge Nomination
- Excellence in Earth Sciences Award
Senior Division
- Ali Abostate (12th grade): The Role of Green Roofs in Urban Sustainability – Lotus School for Excellence
- Innovations in the Science of Agriculture Scholarship
- Ricoh Sustainable Development Award
- Destiny Cornelius (12th grade) & Ky Harkness (12th grade): Biochar: An Organic Approach to Urban Heat Management – Plainview School
- Air & Waste Management Award
- CO2 & Greenhouse Gas Reduction Award
- Naomi Kruse (11th grade): Paper for the Planet 2: Kickstarting Microbial Succession Following California Wildfires – Schullandheim Homeschool
- 3rd Place Category Award
- Excellence in Forestry Research Award
- CO2 & Greenhouse Gas Reduction Award
- Award for Excellence in Mineral Science & Engineering
- Trout Unlimited River Conservation Award
- Hunter Liu (10th grade): Sustainable Nitrate Remediation and Ammonia Production Via Electrocatalysis Using a One-Dimensional Ni-BTA Coordination Polymer – Colorado Rocky Mountain School
- Air & Waste Management Award
- Natalie Muro (11th grade): A Sustainable Cyanobacteria Mitigation Method for Freshwater Ecosystems in the Rocky Mountain Region – Palmer High School
- 1st Place Category Award
- 5th Place Best-of-CSEF Award
- CBTA Best Biology Project Award
- Colorado School of Mines Scholarship
- Siddhi Singh (11th grade): A Low-Cost, Onboard Animal Detection System to Mitigate Wildlife-Vehicle Collisions – STEM School
- 2nd Place Category Award
- SWE Award
- Colorado School of Mines Scholarship
- Varun Velmurugan (9th grade): Enhanced Fluoride Removal from Contaminated Water Using Capacitive Deionization – Cherry Creek High School
- Zoe Wang (10th grade): From Bench to Atmosphere: New Materials for the Direct Air Capture (DAC) of CO2 Using Electro-Swing Chemistry – Fairview High School
- The Colorado EnergyWise Award
- CO2 & Greenhouse Gas Reduction Award
- PRPA Special Award for Environmental Responsibility
Junior Division
- Oliver Ciembronowicz (7th grade): Are They Listening to Us? – Vallis Cymbia Academaie
- Honorable Mention Category Award
- Tim Berners-Lee Mathematics & Computer Sciences Award
- NSA Special Award
- Wensen Fang (8th grade): Blazing Bright: Uncovering the Truth Behind Wildfires in Colorado Via Machine Learning – Summit Charter Middle School
- 1st Place Category Award
- Thermo Fisher Scientific Junior Innovator Challenge Nomination
- Elemer Bernath Technical Writing Award
- CO2 & Greenhouse Gas Reduction Award
- Madeleine Hahn (6th grade): Is AI Racist or Sexist? – Flagstaff Academy Charter School
- 3rd Place Category Award
- Bode Monahan (8th grade): Frequency Chaos: Coding a Wi-Fi Interrupter for Tactical Use – Liberty School
- 2nd Place Category Award
- Thermo Fisher Scientific Junior Innovator Challenge Nomination
- Broadcom Coding with Commitment Award
Senior Division
- Ethan Bonnell (11th grade): A Cohesive Method of Subterranean Object Detection Using Infrared Sensors – Centaurus High School
- Aishwarya Kamineni (10th grade): Optimization of Non-Invasive Pneumonia Prediction Using Novel Machine Learning Algorithms – Grandview High School
- Honorable Mention Category Award
- Regeneron Biomedical Science Award
- Devang Pandey (12th grade): Enhancing Brain Tumor Classification with Synthetic Data Via Gen Models & Hybrid Training – Fairview High School
- 2nd Place Category Award
- Ralph Desch Technical Writing Award
- Tanush Shekhar (11th grade) & Jack Cerullo (12th grade): Revolutionizing CroEt: Novel Simulation Techniques for ML-Based Tomograph Labeling – Peak to Peak Charter School
- Honorable Mention Category Award
- NSA Special Award
- Ayush Vispute (10th grade): “ProteinFlow” v2: Biocomputational Analysis of Metabolic Pathways to Discover New Carbon Capturing Bacteria – Rampart High School
- 3rd Place Category Award
- CO2 & Greenhouse Gas Reduction Award
- Best Contributions to Fundamental Science Award
- CO2 & Greenhouse Gas Reduction Scholarship
- Amy Zhang (10th grade): AI Guides, Vision-Impaired Act: Safety-Aware Actionable Guidance Via Vision-Language Models – Lakewood High School
- 1st Place Category Award
- 1st Place Best-of-CSEF Award
- Air Force Award
- Navy Science & Engineering Award
- NSA Special Award
Junior Division
- Grace Cullen (8th grade): Bacteria Buster – Yuma Middle School
- Honorable Mention Category Award
- Advancing Equity Through Innovation Award
- James Patrick Allison Micro & Molecular Biology Award
- Arriya Haney (7th grade): Battling Biofilms: Understanding Bacterial Resistance – Challenge School
- Eli Harrison (7th grade) & Jagadish White (7th grade): The Effect of Pet Toothpaste on the Canine Oral Microbiome – Homeschool
- Honorable Mention Category Award
- Morrow Family Dental Award
- Maci Hayes (8th grade): The More You Grow the More You Know – West Grand Middle School
- Olivia Hornung (8th grade) & Kandyce Ebright (8th grade) & Gracie Miltenberger (8th grade): Basketballs vs. Bacteria – Stratton Schools
- Booker Kite (6th grade): How Often Should You Really Wash Your Bedding? – Idalia Schools
- Clara Miller (7th grade): Milk Mysteries: Understanding the Differences Between A1 and A2 Proteins – Sanfor Junior High School
- Julia Muro (8th grade): Modified Atmosphere Packaging Strategies for Prolonged Organic Strawberry Health – North Middle School
- 1st Place Category Award
- Thermo Fisher Scientific Junior Innovator Challenge Nomination
- Advancing Equity Through Innovation Award
- CO2 & Greenhouse Gas Reduction Award
- Nataly Rojas (6th grade): Bacteria – Risley International Academy
- Anmoldeep Singh Gill (7th grade): Antibiotic Resistance in E. coli – Lamar Middle School
- 3rd Place Category Award
- Cash Stone (8th grade): Mold Patrol: How Storage Conditions Affect Mold Growth and Animal Feed – Genoa-Hugo School
- Honorable Mention Category Award
- Paisley Wiersma (8th grade): What’s in That Water? – Genoa-Hugo School
- 2nd Place Category Award
- Thermo Fisher Scientific Junior Innovator Challenge Nomination
Senior Division
- Zechariah Dilley (11th grade): Cloning and Testing of Phage Genes – South High School
- Outstanding Achievement in In Vitro Biology Award
- Augustus Gdanitz (11th grade): The Use of Zeolites in Mitigating Red Algae Blooms – Wray High School
- Best Earth Science Award
- CO2 & Greenhouse Gas Reduction Award
- Maxwell Minson (12th grade): Determining the Distribution of Red Fluorescent Protein Marked Agrobacterium Tumefaciens within Different Species of Legumes – Broomfield High School
- Honorable Mention Category Award
- Serene Park (11th grade): The Effect of Glyphosate on Bacillus subtilis Biofilm – Cherry Creek High School
- 1st Place Category Award
- Ralph Desch Technical Writing Award
- Ria Rajasekharan (10th grade): Glycopeptidolipids: A New Diagnosis Tool for COPD and Cystic Fibrosis Patients Infected with Non-Tuberculous Mycobacteria – Fossil Ridge High School
- 3rd Place Category Award
- Paul Wojtaszek Memorial Award
- Taelynn Rojas (9th grade): MIC Drop: Determination of the MIC of Phenol, Hydroquinone, and Naphthalene for Two Species at the Base of an Aquatic Food Web – Liberty School
- Sreyanth Saipavan Alla (11th grade): BactiScan: A Deep Convolutional Neural Network for Tracking Shigella flexneri Infection – Rock Canyon High School
- Honorable Mention Category Award
- Navy Science & Engineering Award
- Cami Wolkow (11th grade): Genetically Enhancing Fungi to Bioremediate Tetracycline – Palmer High School
- 2nd Place Category Award
- Colorado Mycological Society
- Morrow Family Dental Award
- Grace Xue (10th grade): The Effects of L-Dopa on Probiotic Bacteria – Fairview High School
Junior Division
- Emily Abdulsalam (8th grade): How Does Viscosity of Different Liquids Affect the Speed of a Moving Object? – Crescent View Academy
- Matthew McCausland Memorial Award
- Emmett Rae Barger (6th grade): 12 Gauge vs. 20 Gauge – Mancos Middle School
- Vivian Bozek (7th grade): Light It Up and Launch It – St. Joseph Catholic School
- 2nd Place Category Award
- Thermo Fisher Scientific Junior Innovator Challenge Nomination
- Michael Caraher (8th grade): Beware of the Pocket Puck – St. John the Baptist Catholic School
- Matthew McCausland Memorial Award
- Braylon Einspahr (8th grade) & Ryan May (8th grade) & Emmett Bohnen (8th grade): Batter Up – Stratton Schools
- Elly Entz (7th grade): Don’t Interfere with Snow Gear – Sargent Middle School
- 3rd Place Category Award
- Fallyn Gregersen (8th grade): Is Light Made Up of Waves? – Wiggins Middle School
- Yezan Kassir (8th grade): Marble Roller Coaster – Crescent View Academy
- Isaac Newton Physics & Astronomy Award
- Alexander Knight (7th grade): Taking Flight: Why Are Winglets Important? – Corwin International Magnet School
- CO2 & Greenhouse Gas Reduction Award
- Lane Mattive (8th grade): Can I Get a Lift? – Sargent Middle School
- 1st Place Category Award
- Thermo Fisher Scientific Junior Innovator Challenge Nomination
- Lockheed Martin Aerospace Award
- Ryker Monahan (6th grade): The Heat Is On: Testing Heat Resistant Materials – Liberty School
- Honorable Mention Category Award
- Azucena Perez (7th grade): Radiation Safety First: The Life Saving Power of Radiation Shielding – Lamar Middle School
- Excellence in Physical Sciences & Engineering Award
Senior Division
- Tristan Cao (11th grade): Emerging Quantum Inductance in Chiral Orbital Current State – Stargate Charter School
- 1st Place Category Award
- 2nd Place Best-of-CSEF Award
- IEEE Award
- Colorado School of Mines Scholarship
- Dillon Curtis (10th grade) & Meah Ring Hall (12th grade) & Hector Villacana Saucedo (10th grade): Modeling the Flight Paths of Conical Meteorites – Brush High School
- Matthew McCausland Memorial Award
- Julia Gao (10th grade): Toward the Discovery of the Sterile Neutrino: Deep Learning Muon Neutrino Reconstruction at ICARUS – Fairview High School
- 3rd Place Category Award
- David Young Memorial Award
- Best Contributions to Fundamental Science Award
- Warnock Family Award
- Madison Gunnels (9th grade): It’s Not Mike Tyson, But It’s Still a Siphon – Brush High School
- CO2 & Greenhouse Gas Reduction Award
- Tanner Houser (11th grade): Demonstrating the Effect of Decoherence on Quantum Computers – Sargent High School
- Izzy Michael (9th grade): Bone Trauma Analysis – Green Mountain High School
- The Biophysics Award
- Lillian Prime (12th grade): Analysis and Comparison of Gravitational Wave Event Parameters – Palmer High School
- Honorable Mention Category Award
- Amelia Earhart Award
- Helen Wan (10th grade): Time-Sensitive Medicine Dissolution in a Microgravity Environment Emulated by Acoustic Levitation – Pine Creek High School
- 2nd Place Category Award
- Lockheed Martin Aerospace Award
Junior Division
- Ebony Banks (8th grade) & Gabriella Forristall (8th grade): Feel the Rainbow – Genoa-Hugo School
- Elaina Consaul (8th grade): Salinity Solution: A Study of How the Salinity in Water Affects Plant Growth – Sargent Middle School
- 2nd Place Category Award
- Thermo Fisher Scientific Junior Innovator Challenge Nomination
- Agricultural Biology Award
- Excellence in Horticulture Award
- Thomas D’Attilo (7th grade): New Zealand Mud Snails and How Do We Get Rid of Them? – Nevin Platt Middle School
- 3rd Place Category Award
- Ansley DePue (8th grade): The Effects of Light Wavelength Treatments Towards the Germination Responses and Seedling Growth Rate of Zea mays – Wray Jr/Sr High School
- CBTA Best Biology Project Award
- Gabriel Ferguson (7th grade): Rootin’ Rivals – Craver Middle School
- Luther Burbank Plant Sciences Award
- Hadley Huwa (8th grade): Which Pot Is the Jackpot? – Cardinal Community Academy
- Grayson Kassib (8th grade): Aquaponics vs. Aeroponics – West Grand Middle School
- Honorable Mention Category Award
- Chase Ketels (8th grade): Need Some Fertilizer? – Alta Vista Charter School
- Caprise Priestley (6th grade): Electroculture Gardening and How It Affects Plants – Mancos Middle School
- Honorable Mention Category Award
- Jack Fenwick Award for Agricultural Sciences
- CO2 & Greenhouse Gas Reduction Award
- Kyle Shee (6th grade): What Fertilized Water Will Make a Plant Grow Better? – Boulder Country Day School
- CO2 & Greenhouse Gas Reduction Award
- Lola Sondrol (8th grade): Do Endophytes Affect the Growth of Lolium perenne? – Monte Vista Online Academy
- 1st Place Category Award
- Thermo Fisher Scientific Junior Innovator Challenge Nomination
- Excellence in Mycological Research Award
- Agricultural Biology Award
- Kyle Stahlecker (6th grade) & Bentley Ludington (6th grade) & Paul Hornung (6th grade): Rotor Race – Stratton Schools
- Yasaswini Vinjamuri (7th grade): Who Shrank the Potatoes?! – Heritage Heights Academy
- Excellence in Horticulture Award
Senior Division
- Elle Bohnen (11th grade) & Grady Steerman (11th grade): Dangerous Weeds – Stratton Schools
- Kaycee Clark (9th grade): Cheater, Cheater Rangeland Eater: A Study on Mitigating the Spread of Downy Brome Using Pseudomonas Fluorescens D7 and ACK55 – Wray High School
- 2nd Place Category Award
- Native Plant Award
- CO2 & Greenhouse Gas Reduction Award
- Zander de Jager (11th grade): Land vs. Water: Exploring Plant Cell Pressures in Different Ecosystems – Evergreen High School
- Ariadna de Tena (11th grade) & Lea Feckova (12th grade): Lights, Plants, Action – Stratton Schools
- Bennett Esterday (10th grade): Avant-Garde Agriculture: Indole-3-Acetic and Growth in Tomatoes – Animas High School
- Jack Fenwick Award for Agricultural Science
- Janet Ngomba Bajikijay (12th grade) & Mayssan Salim (12th grade) & Nayibe Burciaga Buhaya (12th grade): The Effect of Nano-Particles on Plant Growth – Lotus School for Excellence
- 3rd Place Category Award
- Innovations in the Science of Agriculture Award
- Agricultural Biology Award
- Ernesto Ochoa-Marquez (11th grade): The Effects of Soil Texture on Growth of S. tuberosum, M. sativa, and Z. mays – Monte Vista High School
- Emilio Ortiz (11th grade): Soil Additives Are Spud-Tacular – Monte Vista High School
- Excellence in Horticulture Award
- Siena Parr (12th grade): Absorption of Glyphosate-Based Herbicide in Zea mays Plants Utilizing Zinc-Oxide Nanoparticles – Dolores High School
- Honorable Mention Category Award
- Om Vegesna (10th grade): Combating Root-Knot (Meloidogyne spp.) and Fusarium oxysporum with Stabilized Allicin and siRNA Constructs – Fairview High School
- Honorable Mention Category Award
- Agricultural Biology Award
- Excellence in Horticulture Award
- Laila Waldron (12th grade): Differences in Floral Quality and Ecosystem Health Between Burn Areas and Logged Clear Cuts – Nederland High School
- 1st Place Category Award
- Hailey Yarbrough (9th grade): The Effects of Grey Water on Agricultural Crops – Green Mountain High School
Junior Division Best-of-CSEF Winners: Omar Manshad (1st Place), Cameron Kempisty (3rd Place), and Cora Bauer (not pictured) & Sienna Harden (2nd Place)
Senior Division Best-of-CSEF Winners: Lydia Mekelburg (4th Place), Sophia Zhang (3rd Place), Natalie Muro (5th Place), Amy Zhang (1st Place) and Tristan Cao (2nd Place – not pictured)
Colorado International Science & Engineering Fair Delegation
Columbus, OH May 10 – 15, 2025
