California State Science Fair

1 GOVERNOR ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGERMay 18, 2009 California State Science FairIt is a pleasure to extend my greetings to everyone gathered for thefifty-eighth annual California State Science fantastic event allows our State s top middle and high schoolstudents to proudly share their hard work in the areas of scienceand technology. Their achievements will help to shape the futureof our world and these industries, and I have no doubt that thestudents projects are both fascinating and applaud the youth participating for their creativity andaccomplishments. Additionally, I thank their teachers, familiesand all those who made this wonderful fair possible for supportingour young people and encouraging a greater interest in Science inour Golden behalf of all Californians, I send my very best wishes for amemorable experience and every future.

2 Arnold SchwarzeneggerCalifornia Science CenterCALIFORNIA State Science FAIRG oals of the FairTOmotivate and stimulate student interest in the fields of scienceand to make them aware of opportunities in outstanding achievement of student efforts in fields ofscience through their Science fair the corporate community in recognizing outstandingstudents in technological and scientific fields of teacher effort and achievement in promotingstudent participation and interest in Science through Science awareness Statewide of the efforts of student and teacherswho participate in the California State Science 58th AnnualCalifornia State Science FairMay 18-19, 2009 California Science CenterExposition Park ! Los AngelesCalifornia State Science fair BoardAllan Frew ChairSunny BoydCharlene B.

3 ChalonerPhilip Fine, Gould, KerrTom LeBon, J. Peters, Trainor700 Exposition Park DriveLos Angeles, California90037(213) 18, 2009 Welcome to the 2009 California State Science to the talented students and their teachers, mentors andfamilies. You have all worked very hard and given a great deal to reach thisprestigious event. We are pleased to provide you this challengingopportunity. The excitement and impact of Science is pervasive in Californiaand our State is home to the largest number of Nobel Laureates in the extraordinary event is made possible by our supporters, volunteer staff,volunteer judges and California Science Center staff whose hard work, enthusiasm and generous contributions are essential to the success of theCalifornia State Science fair .

4 We are deeply grateful to our PresentingBenefactor, the Northrop Grumman Corporation, for providing essentialfunding to make possible the 2009 California State Science fair . Specialthanks also go to THE MUSES of the California Science Center Foundationfor their generous donations and volunteer is an honor to have the opportunity to spend these two days with thescience leaders of the future. I wish you all good luck .. and have fun!Sincerely,Allan FrewChair1 California Science CenterCALIFORNIA State Science FAIR2009 DonorsThe California Science Center Foundation extends heartfelt gratitude to thefollowing donors to the California State Science fair whose generous supportmakes possible this extraordinary experience for our State 's best and brightestyoung Science BENEFACTORN orthrop GrummanBENEFACTORSTHE MUSES of the California Science Center FoundationThe Ralph M.

5 Parsons FoundationIN-KIND CONTRIBUTORSLos Angeles Downtown NewsPenta Water Company2 California Science CenterCALIFORNIA State Science FAIR2009 Special and Recognition AwardsPatricia Beckman Project of the Year Awardsgiven in honor of Dr. and Mrs. Arnold O. BeckmanSPECIAL AWARDS!Dr. Ibrahim El-Hefni Achievement in Science Awards, Hefni TechnicalTraining Foundation!Air Quality/ Climate Change Award, South Coast Air QualityManagement District!Excellence in Agriculture Award, California Association of Pest ControlAdvisors!SPIE Optics and Photonics Awards, International Society for OpticalEngineering!Center for Plant Cell Biology Award, UC Riverside!UCLA BRI Award, Brain Research Institute (BRI)!Sheila Kar Merit Award, Sheila Kar Health Foundation!

6 MLIM Award for Excellence in Mathematics and Software, Anonymous!MLIM Award for Excellence in Electronics, Anonymous!Coastal Science Award, California Shore and Beach PreservationAssociation!The Silicon Boule Award, Dale HallRECOGNITION AWARDS!American Institute of Professional Geologists and California Council ofGeoscience Organizations!Bone Clones Osteological Reproductions Inc. and the Hauta vonWissmann Foundation! California Association of Professional Scientists! California Shore and Beach Preservation Association!Health Physics Society - Southern California Chapter!International Society for Optical Engineering! Science Buddies, Kenneth Lafferty Hess Family Charitable Foundation!Society of Petroleum Engineers, Los Angeles Basin Section!

7 UC Irvine, Earth Systems Science Department!UCLA Brain Research Institute!US Fish & Wildlife Award3 California Science CenterCALIFORNIA State Science FAIR2009 JudgesThe California State Science fair would not be possible without the voluntary efforts ofhundreds of professional scientists and engineers from throughout the State who havevolunteered this day for the purpose of meeting with the participants and discussing the especially recognize Dr. Philip M. Fine, Dr. Thomas R. LeBon, and Dr. Geraldine J. Peterswho have coordinated all of the judges for the 2009 addition, we want to recognize the extra efforts by some of the members of the JudgesAdvisory Committee who, among other duties, read every project s summary andcollaboratively assigned each project to the panels in this Program: Dr.

8 Phyllis C. Hirsch, Weitkamp, Dr. Jonathan W. Arenberg, Mr. John J. Germroth, Mr. Sherman Lambert,Dr. Shalini Kumar, Mr. Robert V. Anderson, Ms. Anita E. Gale, and Mr. Richard P. Edwards,in addition to the Directors of Judging , we recognize all judges who had confirmed their participation by the time this Programwas produced on May Kim AaronDr. Henry I. AbrashMs. Angelik C. AchekianMr. Kent D. AdamsMr. Luis F. AguileraMr. Syed Z. AhmedDr. Rizaldo E. AldasMr. Christopher S. AlgerDr. Michael AllenDr. Sariah J AllenMr. Patrick AlsupMr. Lee L. AmatangeloMr. Robert V. AndersonMrs. Amber N. AnkowskiDr. Jonathan W. ArenbergDr. Chander P. AroraDr. Yogesh K. AroraMrs. Marianna ArutyunyanDr. Nili BachchanMr. Steve A. BachmanMr. Alfonso H.

9 Baez, Lilit BaldjyanMr. Kent BannoMr. Tereso BanuelosMr. Terry A. BargielskiDr. Alon BarlevyMr. Lynn E. BaroffMr. Adam P. BatemanDr. Gregory BeckerMr. Andrew J. Bedoian, Ronald A. BehrensDr. Doug BenderDr. Prosper BenhaimMs. Elizabeth J. BilletProf. Wendy J. BinderDr. Joseph C. BoisvertMr. William R. BoleyMr. Jeremy L. BonnellMr. Stephen D. BowenDr. Susan L. BowerMr. John D. BoydMr. Robert BraslauDr. Elizabeth Crabb BreenDr. Lindsay R BremnerMr. Gregory C. BristolMr. Martin Paul BronsteinDr. Thomas E. BrowneMr. Macarius B. BrownfieldMr. Deep BuchMs. Kimberly M. BurtnykProf. Pamela B. Byrd-Williams Dr. Michael L. CampbellDr. Kristin E. Cano-McCueMs. Barbara A. CarrollMr. Timothy G. Cassidy-Curtis Dr. Perry S ChanMr. Daniel C.

10 CharlinMr. Ramesh N. ChaubeyDr. Ching ChenMs. Donna ChenDr. Lin ChenDr. Peter ChoiMrs. Aurea M. ChuMiss Cathleen CollinsMr. Luke DanielsProf. Werner DappenMr. Dean Earl DavisMr. Bob De LorenzoMs. Kerry DeereMr. Dennis M. DelaneyDr. Roberto A. Delgado, Margie DellMr. Douglas S. DeLongMr. Robert J. DempsterMs. Ellen Q. DentDr. Sridevi DevarajDr. Yvonne DrechslerMr. Richard A EastonMrs. Karen E. EdwardsDr. Kenneth B. ElconinProf. Moh El-NaggarMr. Mark A. EmanuelliDr. Jane F. EmersonDr. John J. ErmerMs. Sandra L. Essner2009 California State Science fair Judges4Mr. Daniel P. FaiginMiss Rana A. FeidiMr. Jeffrey Alan FeinDr. Robert F. ForanDr. Frank FrischDr. Kenn K. FujiokaDr. Julia R. GageMr. Cesar V. GarciaMr. Juan C. GarciaMiss Yvette Y.