2008 SRSEF Winner

Discovery Education’s Young Scientist Challenge

School: Folsom Middle School

Recipient: Shyamal Buch

Grade: 7^th

Title:  “Live Green or Dye Hard: Analysis of Nanocrystal Dye-sensitized Solar Cells using New Low-Cost Robotic D-SCOPE”

School: Alta Vista School

Recipient: Shawn Phillips

Grade: 8^th

Title:  “Water Bubbles”

School: Alta Vista School

Recipient: Cole Brewster

Grade: 6^th

Title:  “Electric Motor”

School: Alta Vista School

Recipient: Ian Fisher

Grade: 8^th

Title:  “Down Force of a Stock CAR”

School: Sutter Middle School

Recipient: Aravind Vadali

Grade: 7^th

Title:  “Solar Powered Hydrogen Fuel Cell”

School: Emerson Jr. High School

Recipient: Lucas McGrew

Grade: 8^th

Title:  “What's My Vector?”

School: Granite Bay Montessori

Recipient: Tina Zolfaghari

Grade: 6^th

Title:  “iROBOT”

School: Valley Oak Elementary

Recipient: Han-ah Sumner & Helen Heo

Grade: 6^th

Title:  “Effects of Music on Silkworm Development”

School: Folsom Middle School

Recipient: Ashu Shrestha & Satyaprit Das

Grade: 8^th

Title:  “Energy Lost to Friction”

School: Alta Vista School

Recipient: Hannah Kintzle

Grade: 8^th

Title:  “Does Natural or Pharmaceutical Antibiotics Work Better at Preventing Antibiotic Resistance from Occurring Within E. Coli?”

School: Alta Vista School

Recipient: Ben Porter

Grade: 8^th

Title:  “Plax vs. Listerine: Which Kills the Most Bacteria?”

School:  Folsom Middle School

Recipient: Millun Atluri

Grade: 7^th

Title:  “Does Music Affect your Blood Pressure and Heart Rate?”

School: Alta Vista

Recipient: Chris Mendes

Grade: 8^th

Title:  “Placebo Effect on Food Labeling”

School: Sutter Middle School

Recipient:  Austin LaComb

Grade: 8^th

Title:  “A Wii Bit of Exercise”

School:  Alta Vista School

Recipient:  Anna Rea & Makayla Meng

Grade: 6^th

Title:  “Skinny Worms"