2024 Results
Below are the award winners of the 2024 STEM Fair.
| Student(s) | Grade | School and District | Project Title and Category | Award(s) | CSEF | JIC |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|
Tomer Milo
Noah Liu |
6 | Ronald C. Wornick Jewish Day School | AI or Human? Behavioral Sciences |
First Place | State Elligible | Broadcom Elligible |
| Oscar Kimmell | 6 |
Parkside Intermediate
San Bruno Park Elementary |
Does Music improve Short Term Memory Behavioral Sciences |
Second Place | ||
| Geneva Keintz | 6 | Episcopal Day School of San Mateo | The World of a 6th Grader Behavioral Sciences |
Second Place | ||
| Xavier Ablang | 6 |
Parkside Intermediate
San Bruno Park Elementary |
Does a certain pH level in a soil affect a marigold's growth? Biological Systems |
Second Place | ||
| Tabitha Kaiman | 6 | Hilldale School | Handle With Care Biological Systems |
Honorable Mention | ||
| Theodore Moore | 6 | The Nueva School | Impact of Exercise On Blood Glucose Post-Meal Biological Systems |
First Place | State Elligible | Broadcom Elligible |
|
Alphonse Normant
Mattea Kovaleski |
6 | Good Shepherd Elementary | Rising In The Yeast Biological Systems |
Second Place | ||
|
Grace Wilkins
Gabriella Gunderman |
6 | St. Charles Elementary | Who has a cleaner mouth a dog or a human? Biological Systems |
Honorable Mention | ||
|
Harper Yang
Hazel Cancilla |
6 |
Central Middle
San Carlos Elementary |
Are you bready for it? Chemistry |
First Place | State Elligible | Broadcom Elligible |
| Nikhil Jha | 6 |
Corte Madera
Portola Valley School District |
Grey Water Experiment Chemistry |
Second Place | ||
| Mason Hernandez | 6 | All Souls Catholic Elementary | How does pH levels affect Corrosion Chemistry |
Honorable Mention | ||
|
Aubrey Khaw
Carter Philippe |
6 |
Central Middle
San Carlos Elementary |
Air Quality Levels at Different Locations in San Carlos Earth, Space and Environmental Sciences |
Honorable Mention | ||
| Aarav Bharat | 6 | Episcopal Day School of San Mateo | Can Plants Grow On Mars Earth, Space and Environmental Sciences |
First Place | State Elligible | Broadcom Elligible |
| Justin Tha | 6 |
Central Middle
San Carlos Elementary |
Different Waters’ Effect on Microgreens’ Growth and Flavor Earth, Space and Environmental Sciences |
Second Place | ||
| Jayden Lam | 6 |
Parkside Intermediate
San Bruno Park Elementary |
Germ-Free Candle Extinguisher (2023 SMCOE STEM FAIR PROJECT) Engineering, Technology and Application of Science |
Second Place | ||
| Annabelle Yu | 6 |
Crocker Middle
Hillsborough City Elementary |
Motion Sensor Power Switch Engineering, Technology and Application of Science |
Honorable Mention | ||
| Avi Buxbaum | 6 |
La Entrada Middle
Las Lomitas Elementary |
Remember My... Engineering, Technology and Application of Science |
First Place | State Elligible | Broadcom Elligible |
| Charles Grifffith | 6 | Episcopal Day School of San Mateo | Solutions for Rising Sea Levels in the Bay Area and Beyond Materials Science |
First Place | State Elligible | Broadcom Elligible |
| Franklin Greenfield | 6 |
Corte Madera
Portola Valley School District |
STONE BREAKERS: Testing the Impact of Variables on the Breaking Weight of Concrete Materials Science |
Second Place | ||
| Coby Lee | 6 | Menlo | Can AI help prove the Collatz Conjecture? Math and Software |
First Place | State Elligible | Broadcom Elligible |
| Ethan Devan | 6 | Episcopal Day School of San Mateo | The Poppin' Cork Physics |
First Place | State Elligible | Broadcom Elligible |
| Phoebe Aloft | 7 |
Lipman Middle
Brisbane Elementary |
Conformity Abnormity Behavioral Sciences |
Honorable Mention | ||
| Tanishk Saxena | 7 | Crystal Springs Uplands School | Does AI make us write better? Behavioral Sciences |
First Place | State Elligible | Broadcom Elligible |
| Matthew Molinelli | 7 | St. Pius Elementary | Hand Dominance & Layup Success Behavioral Sciences |
Honorable Mention | ||
| Raina Oquendo | 7 |
Lipman Middle
Brisbane Elementary |
The Basketball State of Mind Behavioral Sciences |
Second Place | ||
| Zaki El Alami | 7 | Hilldale School | Antibiotics vs. Nature’s Arsenal Biological Systems |
Second Place | ||
| Emma Terry | 7 |
Burlingame Intermediate
Burlingame Elementary |
Comparison of Fat Content from Different Foods Biological Systems |
Second Place | ||
| Maria Pavlidou | 7 |
Ralston Intermediate
Belmont-Redwood Shores Elementary |
The Effect of Sunscreen on Phytoplankton Biological Systems |
First Place | State Elligible | Broadcom Elligible |
|
Gulnoza Usmanova
Lam Chung |
7 |
Benjamin Franklin Intermediate
Jefferson Elementary |
Can salt affect the freezing rate of water? Chemistry |
Second Place | ||
| Alexandra Weber | 7 | Sacred Heart Schools, Atherton | More That Just The Outside - How Different Liquids Affect Your Teeth Chemistry |
Honorable Mention | ||
| Penelope Galifianakis | 7 | Hilldale School | Red Velvet Vegan Challenge Chemistry |
First Place | State Elligible | Broadcom Elligible |
| Arman Zarrin | 7 | Hilldale School | Catch it to Cool it Earth, Space and Environmental Sciences |
First Place | State Elligible | Broadcom Elligible |
| Gianna Herden | 7 | Sacred Heart Schools, Atherton | Cooking Source and Indoor AIr Pollution Earth, Space and Environmental Sciences |
Honorable Mention | ||
| Ashlyn Wulf | 7 | St. Matthew Catholic | Dirt vs. Squirt Which will Make Plants Spurt? Earth, Space and Environmental Sciences |
Honorable Mention | ||
| Molly Sikorski | 7 |
Woodside Elementary
Woodside School |
What Plant is the Best at Reducing Soil Erosion? Earth, Space and Environmental Sciences |
Second Place | ||
|
Yuvan Subbiah
Archer Troy |
7 |
Terra Linda Middle School
San Carlos Elementary |
Eco Sorter- AI Waste Identifier Engineering, Technology and Application of Science |
Honorable Mention | ||
| Delainey Guenther | 7 |
Crocker Middle
Hillsborough City Elementary |
SKIN Engineering, Technology and Application of Science |
First Place | State Elligible | Broadcom Elligible |
| Arjun Somani | 7 |
Crocker Middle
Hillsborough City Elementary |
SwishBack Engineering, Technology and Application of Science |
Second Place | ||
| Reed Hengehold | 7 |
Woodside Elementary
Woodside School |
Wasted Tennis Balls Materials Science |
Honorable Mention | ||
|
Zoya Klein
Magdalena Peiffer |
7 |
Woodside Elementary
Woodside School |
Which Wipe Works Wonders? Materials Science |
Honorable Mention | ||
| Izaiah de Luna | 7 | St. Matthew Catholic | Shake it Up! What type of buildings best survive earthquakes? Materials Science |
Honorable Mention | ||
| Jackson Ryan | 7 | Nativity Catholic School K-8 | Radiation shielding on Mars: Finding an optimal material to protect astronauts. Materials Science |
First Place | State Elligible | Broadcom Elligible |
|
Maxmilian Margolis Margolis
Advaith Vijayasankaran |
7 |
Terra Linda Middle School
San Carlos Elementary |
AI-Powered Emotion Detection Math and Software |
Second Place | ||
| Joey Guo | 7 | The Nueva School | Are Sports Tournaments Wasting Our Time? Math and Software |
Second Place | ||
|
Vikram Fox
Julian Berke |
7 |
Corte Madera
Portola Valley School District |
Chat SEL Math and Software |
First Place | State Elligible | Broadcom Elligible |
| Jasper Schwab | 7 | Hilldale School | Reproductive rate and evolutionary fitness in a computer simulation Math and Software |
Honorable Mention | ||
| Lily Sommerfeld | 7 | St. Matthew Catholic | Discover the WIN in Protecting your SKIN Physics |
Honorable Mention | ||
| Avi Davidovits | 7 |
Terra Linda Middle School
San Mateo County Office of Education |
How Does Seating Arrangement Affect String Orchestra Performance and Perception? Physics |
First Place | State Elligible | Broadcom Elligible |
|
Antero Torkos
Ansel Ricci |
7 |
North Star Academy
Redwood City Elementary |
In Pursuit of Smoothness: A Scientific Inquiry
Physics |
Honorable Mention | ||
| Derek Eglington | 7 | Hilldale School | Spin it to curve it Physics |
Second Place | ||
| Yoav Malek | 8 | Ronald C. Wornick Jewish Day School | Mathematics’ Effect on Logic, an Experiment in K-Level Behavioral Sciences |
Second Place | ||
| Kiran Richards | 8 |
Lipman Middle
Brisbane Elementary |
The Mental Pressure of a Plank Behavioral Sciences |
Honorable Mention | ||
| Geffen Hoffmann | 8 | Ronald C. Wornick Jewish Day School | Who turned the clock? Music's effect on time perception Behavioral Sciences |
First Place | State Elligible | Broadcom Elligible |
| Emma Sun | 8 | Sacred Heart Schools, Atherton | Cyanobacteria and Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide Biological Systems |
Honorable Mention | ||
| Sofia Barrientos | 8 |
Lipman Middle
Brisbane Elementary |
It's Time to Run Biological Systems |
Second Place | ||
| Akira Nakamura | 8 |
Burlingame Intermediate
Burlingame Elementary |
Understanding the Genetic Variation of Fish From Different Subspecies Biological Systems |
First Place | State Elligible | Broadcom Elligible |
| Laura Lenny | 8 | Good Shepherd Elementary | Are You Sweet... or Salty? Chemistry |
Second Place | ||
|
Arya Charati
Nanaha Mizoi |
8 |
Sandpiper Elementary
Belmont-Redwood Shores Elementary |
Cooking Quantum Dots Chemistry |
Second Place | ||
| Aarav Agrawal | 8 | All Souls Catholic Elementary | Curds and Whey: Exploring Milk Curdling Chemistry |
Honorable Mention | ||
| Darren Tam | 8 |
Burlingame Intermediate
Burlingame Elementary |
Lacking Lactase Chemistry |
Honorable Mention | ||
| Caitlin Grahmann | 8 | Sacred Heart Schools, Atherton | Monoammonium Phosphate Crystals: Altering melting point, size, and stucture Chemistry |
Second Place | ||
| Lyla Kane | 8 |
Manuel F. Cunha Intermediate
Cabrillo Unified |
Sugar Rush: Sugar's Effect on Cake Chemistry |
Honorable Mention | ||
| Angelina Truong | 8 | Nativity Catholic School K-8 | At what time of day does a plant grow most? Earth, Space and Environmental Sciences |
Honorable Mention | ||
| Anna Fong | 8 | Sacred Heart Schools, Atherton | Commercially Compostable Straws: Ocean’s friends? Earth, Space and Environmental Sciences |
First Place | State Elligible | Broadcom Elligible |
| Piper Ventura | 8 | Nativity Catholic School K-8 | What is the Best Way to Preserve Strawberries Earth, Space and Environmental Sciences |
Second Place | ||
| Zane Lynn | 8 |
Corte Madera
Portola Valley School District |
Autonomous Solar Powered Kayak Engineering, Technology and Application of Science |
Second Place | ||
| Aiden Yun | 8 | The Nueva School | BSMAE: Improving lung cancer detection in Low-Dose CT scans with Bidirectional Siamese Masked Auto-encoders Engineering, Technology and Application of Science |
First Place | State Elligible | Broadcom Elligible |
| Jacob Panchula | 8 |
Crocker Middle
Hillsborough City Elementary |
Extracting Water from the Air Using a Thermoelectric Cooler Engineering, Technology and Application of Science |
Honorable Mention | ||
|
Kayla Huang
Ellwyn Runcie |
8 |
Ralston Intermediate
Belmont-Redwood Shores Elementary |
Synthetic Organ Engineering, Technology and Application of Science |
Second Place | ||
| Suhani Bansal | 8 |
Sandpiper Elementary
Belmont-Redwood Shores Elementary |
Sea to Style: Crafting Sustainable Seaweed Biofabrics Materials Science |
First Place | State Elligible | Broadcom Elligible |
| Jonah Hsu | 8 |
North Star Academy
Redwood City Elementary |
Which Fabric is Best for Swimwear: Polyester-Elastane or Nylon-Elastane? Materials Science |
Second Place | ||
| Soren Grierson | 8 |
Manuel F. Cunha Intermediate
Cabrillo Unified |
Which Floss Is Boss? Materials Science |
Honorable Mention | ||
| Daniel Jiang | 8 |
Crocker Middle
Hillsborough City Elementary |
Developing A New Anti-Cancer Drug Carrier Formulation Materials Science |
Second Place | ||
|
Camille Yung
Teri Sullivan |
8 |
Central Middle
San Carlos Elementary |
The Ultimat(um) Strategy Math and Software |
First Place | State Elligible | Broadcom Elligible |