State Science & Engineering Fair
2024 Pasco Awards
Aiden Kirkley - 1st Place
Title:
Locating a Fire: Remote Sensing Towers Year 2
Category - Environmental Engineering - JR
Angeline Academy of Innovation - Gr 7
Randall Quinones - 3rd Place
Title:
Custom Phone App
Category - Engineering - JR
Centennial Middle School - Gr 8
Grady Wildt - 3rd Place
Title:
Water 2 Fuel
Category - Chemistry - JR
Seven Springs Middle School - Gr 7
Meghna Manjith - 3rd Place
Title:
Investigating Biofilm-Related Biomarkers to Predict Therapy Response in Colorectal Cancer Tumors: Year 2
Category - Mathematics and Computational Sciences - SR
Wiregrass Ranch High School - Gr 11
Arshiya Ghosh - 4th Place
Title:
An Ayurvedic Approach to Aortic Stenosis
Category - Biomedical - JR
Starkey Ranch K8
Johnny Powers - 4th Place
Title:
Pool System Hydroelectric Production
Category - Engineering - JR
Starkey Ranch K8
Mary Farag - 4th Place
Title:
Increasing the Effects of Carbon Capture in Dracaena Sanderiana by Increasing Efficiency of Ribulose-1
Category - Plant Sciences - JR
Seven Springs Middle School - Gr 6
Gwendolyn Pender - 4th Place
Title:
Developing a Novel Incubation System to Protect Immature Butterfly Stages from Florida Carpenter Ant Predation
Category - Animal Sciences - SR
Wiregrass Ranch High School - Gr 12
Tristan Pasquale - 4th Place
Title:
ForestCast: Developing a Novel Convolutional Neural Networks to Enhance Prevention of Fragmentation in the United States
Category - Earth & Environmental Sciences - SR
Wiregrass Ranch High School - Gr 11
Andrew Lambert - 4th Place
Title:
Developing a Modified Quasi-Z Source Inverter with a Widened Triple Port to Decrease Voltage Loss Between Electric Vehicle Lithium-Ion Batteries and Electric Stability Control Systems: A Year Two Approach
Category - Engineering - SR
From Wiregrass Ranch High School - Gr 12
Ian Kim - 4th Place
Title:
A Re-Engineering of the PID Controller Using a Novel 10-MF Fuzzy Logic Module for Regulating the Electromagnetic Force in Magnetic Levitation (Maglev) Vehicles
Category - Physics & Astronomy - SR
Wiregrass Ranch High School - Gr 11
Sydney Ficks - Honorable Mention
Title:
Optimization of the Ethylene Vinyl-Acetate (EVA) Dissolution Process for Monocrystalline c-Si Model Solar Panels
Category - Chemistry - SR
Wiregrass Ranch High School - Gr 11
Saksham Batra - Recognition
Title:
Can liquid magnets save the ocean?
Category - Earth & Environmental Sciences - JR
Dr. John Long Middle School - Gr 8
Pranshu Shah- Recognition
Title:
Decoding Air Quality: Intense Data Analysis To Uncover Influential Factors Affecting Breathable Air
Category - Mathematics and Computational Science - JR
Seven Springs Middle School - Gr 6
Landon Edwards - Recognition
Title:
Amazing Fuel Cells
Category - Physics and Astronomy - JR
Dayspring Academy Secondary - Gr 6
Nolan Zapata - Recognition
Title:
Plants in Space: At Home
Category - Plant Sciences - JR
Seven Springs Middle School - Gr 8
Rohil Agarwal - Recognition
Title:
Assessing Academic Performance: Personalized Federated Learning for Identifying Overperforming and Underperforming Schools and Individual-Level Implications
Category - Intelligent Machines, Robotics & Systems Software - SR
Land O Lakes High School - Gr 12
Grady Wildt - United States Navy Science Office of Naval Research Award
Medallion & Certificate
Category - Chemistry - JR
Seven Springs Middle School - Gr 7
Sydney Ficks - Florida Society of Environmental Analysts Award
$150 Cash Award
Category - Chemistry - SR
Wiregrass Ranch High School - Gr 11
It requires a pretty fantastic team to take 26 brilliant minds on a 3 day adventure. A huge thank you goes out to Karen Getty Stewart (Pasco PEPS), Branden Anglin (WRHS), Danielle Ambriz (Pasco PEPs), and Lesley Kirkley (OLL) and Ms. Edwards (parent) for supporting the State Delegates during the fair and all the work that goes into getting them ready to compete. Another thank you to Cassie Lopata (OLL) for all the behind the scenes work in getting everything organized. To the Pasco Education Foundation for continuing to support the science fair and our Pasco County students. Thank you to the science team for embracing and modeling experiential science learning in everything we do. Thank you to Superintendent Browning, Vanessa Hilton and the amazing Assistant Superintendents that support what we do. Thank you to our distinguished School Board Members. To the parents of these AMAZING students, thank you for all you do to support their endeavors. This was a great group of students and I am confident they will help solve our world's most pressing issues . Finally, thank you to our director of OLL, Lea Mitchell. Your commitment to access and opportunity coupled with your drive for excellence in every experience, continues to make this experience so impactful for our students. Thank you!
