| Place | Category | Student | School | Project Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1st | animal sciences | RaeDiance Fuller | St. Joseph`s Academy (SJA) | "The Effect of BMP-2 and an Alginate-Chitsan Scaffold on the Osteogenic Differentiation of Adipose Stem Cells" |
| 2nd | animal sciences | Savannah S. Esteve | St. Joseph`s Academy (SJA) | "Explorative Study on the Brain Lateralization of the Baton Rouge Police Canines " |
| 3rd | animal sciences | Genta L. Teruyama | Baton Rouge Magnet High School | "Chemoreception in American Crayfish" |
| 4th | animal sciences | Gabby Walker | The Dunham School | "Classical vs. Operant Conditioning" |
| 1st | behavioral and social sciences | Shantal Garcia | St. Joseph`s Academy (SJA) | "The Effect of Enviromental Impoverishment on the Performance of C57BL/6J Mice in the Morris Water Maze" |
| 2nd | behavioral and social sciences | Ting Li | Baton Rouge Magnet High School | "iTeens" |
| 3rd | behavioral and social sciences | Francesca E. Baker | St. Joseph`s Academy (SJA) | "Teaching the Human Being to Strengthen Sensory Abilities and Joint Perceive Using Grapheme-color Synesthesia Association Training" |
| 4th | behavioral and social sciences | Eleanor M. Koonce | St. Joseph`s Academy (SJA) | "The Effects of Malus Domestica and Caffeine as Sleep Deprivation Increases" |
| 1st | biochemistry | Caroline P. Babin | St. Joseph`s Academy (SJA) | "The Effects of the Housing of a Chicken on Its Egg`s Nutritional Composition" |
| 2nd | biochemistry | Addison R. Hollis Lauren Dartez |
St. Joseph`s Academy (SJA) | "The Effects of Anthocyanin on the Viability of UV-B Treated Cells" |
| 3rd | biochemistry | Nihal Agrawal | Baton Rouge Magnet High School | "What`s Cooking?" |
| 4th | biochemistry | Bailey C. Pate | Iberville Math, Science, and Arts Academy- West | "Green Or Brown Which One Makes You Frown?" |
| 1st | cellular and molecular biology | Molly E. Lieux | St. Joseph`s Academy (SJA) | "The Effect of Environmental Stress on R1, R2, and Copia Retrotransposons in Drosophila melanogaster" |
| 2nd | cellular and molecular biology | Wendy Xu | Baton Rouge Magnet High School | "Comparing Bacteria Amounts on Meat Defrosted in Different Conditions" |
| 3rd | cellular and molecular biology | Rosalind C. Remsen | Baton Rouge Magnet High School | "Phylogenetic Relationships of Calyptomena Broadbills as Revealed by DNA Sequencing" |
| 4th | cellular and molecular biology | Kelsie A. Guzik | Baton Rouge Magnet High School | "Berry Interesting: DNA Extraction Discovery" |
| 1st | chemistry | Elya Courtney | Carmel Hill School | "Can we get the lead out? Effects of environmental conditioning on the performance of lead free and lead based primers." |
| 2nd | chemistry | Mary M. Ibert | St. Joseph`s Academy (SJA) | "Ascorbic Acid Concentration Variance in Vine Ripened Tomatoes and Tomatoes Ripened Off the Vine with Ethylene" |
| 3rd | chemistry | Stephen Zhang | Baton Rouge Magnet High School | "Getting tothe point" |
| 4th | chemistry | Clayton E. Black | St. Joseph`s Academy (SJA) | "The Electrolyte Concentration of Coconut Water versus the Electrolyte Concentration of Powerade, Gatorade, EX5, and Distilled Water" |
| 1st | computer science | Chi L. Cao | Baton Rouge Magnet High School | "Differential Evolution and Homes for Hubs" |
| 2nd | computer science | Jacques Comeaux | Iberville Math, Science, and Arts Academy East | "How does the amount of randomness affect performance" |
| 3rd | computer science | Annie E. Lewis | St. Joseph`s Academy (SJA) | "Using Pitch Senor Enabled Lego Mindstorm NXT Robots to Search and Rescue" |
| 4th | computer science | Katie M. Thompson | St. Joseph`s Academy (SJA) | "Keeping It Cool: Testing the Effects of Increasing the Temperature of Chilled Water Temperature Set Point and Applying the Hot Aisle Containment System in Data Centers" |
| 1st | earth and planetary science | Leslie C. Purpera | St. Joseph`s Academy (SJA) | "The Influence of Atmospheric CO2 Changes on C3 and C4 Plant Growth" |
| 2nd | earth and planetary science | Cayley E. LeBlanc | St. Joseph`s Academy (SJA) | "The Relationship Between Annual Sunspot Activity and Frequency of Major Hurricanes in the Atlantic Basin" |
| 3rd | earth and planetary science | Brian Turner | Iberville Math, Science, and Arts Academy East | "Weathering and Erosion" |
| 1st | engineering: electrical and mechanical | Maggie A. Perry | Baton Rouge Magnet High School | "Rethink Your Stink" |
| 2nd | engineering: electrical and mechanical | Elijah Courtney | Carmel Hill School | "Shock Tube Design for High Intensity Blast Waves for Laboratory Testing of Armor and Combat Materiel" |
| 3rd | engineering: electrical and mechanical | Madeline E. Van Pelt | St. Joseph`s Academy (SJA) | "The Ideal School Window" |
| 4th | engineering: electrical and mechanical | Kadi H. Runnels | Baton Rouge Magnet High School | "Modeling Equilibrium Temperature Distribution of Water in an Isosceles Right Triangle" |
| 1st | environmental management | Renee M. Trepagnier | Catholic High School of Pointe Coupee | "Solar Power + Fresnel Lens = Clean Water " |
| 2nd | environmental management | Kylie McNamara Andree Laville |
St. Joseph`s Academy (SJA) | "What`s Our Footprint? Carbon Dioxide Sequestration by Trees at St. Joseph`s Academy vs. Carbon Dioxide Emissions from Vehicle and Utility Sources" |
| 3rd | environmental management | Lauryn N. Bass | St. Joseph`s Academy (SJA) | "Carbon Accumulation in Four Marsh Types of the Mississippi River Deltaic Plain" |
| 4th | environmental management | Jackson Morgan | Iberville Math, Science, and Arts Academy- West | "Artificial Incubation vs Live Incubation of Wood Ducks" |
| 1st | engineering: materials and bioengineering | Marygrace Summers. Duggar Olivia Guidry |
St. Joseph`s Academy (SJA) | "A Greener Shade of Grey: The effects of Fly Ash in Concrete a Second Year Study" |
| 2nd | engineering: materials and bioengineering | Mason Meredith | The Dunham School | "Remedying the Effect of Water on a Cardboard and Styrofoam Structure with Resin" |
| 3rd | engineering: materials and bioengineering | Abigail G. Saia | St. Joseph`s Academy (SJA) | "Factors that Contribute to the Recovery Results in Ankle Fractures " |
| 4th | engineering: materials and bioengineering | Asia Nelson | Iberville Math, Science, and Arts Academy- West | "#ballislife" |
| 1st | energy and transportation | Gloria E. Alvarado | St. Joseph`s Academy (SJA) | "Study of Alternative Sources for Ethanol Production as Biofuel in Resource-Lacking Regions" |
| 2nd | energy and transportation | Chloe R. Boudreaux Sarah Bertrand |
St. Joseph`s Academy (SJA) | "Evaluation of Sugar and Ethanol Yields from Ammonia Treated Sorghum Bagasse" |
| 3rd | energy and transportation | Lucy Guo | Baton Rouge Magnet High School | "Taking Flight" |
| 4th | energy and transportation | Katherine Donofrio | The Dunham School | "Optimizing the Blade Length of A Wind Turbine" |
| 1st | environmental sciences | Madison A. Hasenkampf | St. Joseph`s Academy (SJA) | "Phytoremediation of Heavy Metals from Contaminated Soil Using Hyperaccumulators" |
| 2nd | environmental sciences | Samhita D. Rao | Baton Rouge Magnet High School | "Solar Ponds: Clean and Green" |
| 3rd | environmental sciences | Ashley Roy M. Roy Caroline Kurzweg |
St. Joseph`s Academy (SJA) | "The Effect of Ethylenediaminetetraacetic Acid on the Phytoremediation of PbSO4 in Eichhornia crassipes" |
| 4th | environmental sciences | Emma LeBlanc | Iberville Math, Science, and Arts Academy East | "The use of vetiver for the bioremediation of dairy manure lagoon water" |
| 1st | mathematical sciences | David C. Luo | Baton Rouge Magnet High School | "Mysteries of the Euclidean Algorithm Reveled: With Applications" |
| 2nd | mathematical sciences | Benjamin A. Meltzer | Baton Rouge Magnet High School | "An Elo-like Rating System For n-way Competitions" |
| 3rd | mathematical sciences | Caroline E. Matthews | St. Joseph`s Academy (SJA) | "The Effect of the Return Shot in a Rally During a Tennis Match" |
| 4th | mathematical sciences | D`Wane Bell | Iberville Math, Science, and Arts Academy East | "Absorbance vs. Transmittance of Color" |
| 1st | medicine and health sciences | Sanjana Easwar | Baton Rouge Magnet High School | "To treat or not to treat?" |
| 2nd | medicine and health sciences | Mary Margaret Strange | St. Joseph`s Academy (SJA) | "Immunocytochemical Localization of Vasopressin and Oxytocin in the Hypothalamus in Transgenic Rat Expressing Vasopressin and Oxytocin with Fluorescence Markers" |
| 3rd | medicine and health sciences | Landon R. Repp | Iberville Math, Science, and Arts Academy- West | "pulsed" |
| 4th | medicine and health sciences | Katie M. Vukovics | St. Joseph`s Academy (SJA) | "The Effects of Biomechanics on the Speed of Long Distance Runners" |
| 1st | microbiology | Aniko A. Nowakowski | St. Joseph`s Academy (SJA) | "The Effects of Various Inhibitors on the dermatophyte "Trichopyton rubrum"" |
| 2nd | microbiology | Madeline E. Ford | St. Joseph`s Academy (SJA) | "The Effect of Aseptic Technique and Environment on the Sterility of Compounded Sterile Preparations " |
| 3rd | microbiology | Joseph A. Schwartzenburg | Episcopal High School of Baton Rouge | "Determining Desiccation and Ultraviolet Light Resistance of Deinococcus radiodurans" |
| 4th | microbiology | Sarah Beth Saffell | The Dunham School | "The Effect of Different Brands of Toothpaste on the Growth of Dental Bacteria" |
| 1st | physics and astronomy | Marianne V. Konikoff | St. Joseph`s Academy (SJA) | "Quantitative Spectral Classification of R Coronae Borealis Stars" |
| 2nd | physics and astronomy | Kayleigh Hoppe | St. Joseph`s Academy (SJA) | "The Effect of Temperature on the Pitch of Varying Types of Guitar Strings" |
| 3rd | physics and astronomy | Erandi M. Herath | Baton Rouge Magnet High School | "What`s With All the Tension?" |
| 4th | physics and astronomy | Kate L. Labtut | Catholic High School of Pointe Coupee | "Temperature vs. Magnetic Strength" |
| 1st | plant sciences | Natalie M. Bush | St. Joseph`s Academy (SJA) | "Amelioration of Hypoxic Marshes Using Spartina Grasses, Demonstrated by Applying Pick`s Theorem to the Isle Derniere Islands " |
| 2nd | plant sciences | Elizabeth A. Sicard | St. Joseph`s Academy (SJA) | "The Effects of Stem Length Above and Below the Node for the Sprouting and Growth of Panicum amarum" |
| 3rd | plant sciences | Kaylynn Bromfield | Iberville Math, Science, and Arts Academy East | "The effect of pH, temperature, and light exposure to the growth of algae" |
| 4th | plant sciences | Brooke Smith | The Dunham School | "Aiding Plant Growth" |
| School | City |
| St. Joseph`s Academy (SJA) | Baton Rouge |
| Awards | Div | Category | Student | School | Project Title |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| OverAll_1st | SR | physics and astronomy | Marianne V. Konikoff | St. Joseph`s Academy (SJA) | "Quantitative Spectral Classification of R Coronae Borealis Stars" |
| OverAll_2nd | SR | mathematical sciences | David C. Luo | Baton Rouge Magnet High School | "Mysteries of the Euclidean Algorithm Reveled: With Applications" |
| Award | Name (Place) |
| American Meteorologial Society | Leslie C. Purpera |
| American Psychological Association | Shantal Garcia |
| ASM Materials Education Foundation | Marygrace Summers. Duggar |
| Association for Women Geoscientists | Renee M. Trepagnier |
| GENIUS Olympiad | Renee M. Trepagnier |
| Intel Excellence in Computer Science | Chi L. Cao |
| Iota Sigma Pi | Caroline P. Babin |
| Mu Alpha Theta | David C. Luo |
| National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration | Madison A. Hasenkampf |
| Society for In-Vitro Biology | Molly E. Lieux |
| U.S. Air Force | Mary M. Ibert Stephen Zhang |
| U.S. Metric Association | Natalie M. Bush |
| U.S. Stockholm Junior Water Award | Lauryn N. Bass Ashley Roy M. Roy |
| Yale Science and Engineering Association | Marygrace Summers. Duggar |