Our Tesla STEM students once again competed with excellence and pride at the Central Sound Regional Science and Engineering Fair. Of the 9 categories this year, our students competed in 8 of those categories and took home a total of 28 awards and prizes.
Congratulations to all of our scholars who participated at CSRSEF!! Tremendous research, critical thinking, and work ethic.
Organismal Science: Animal (ANIM), Plant (PLNT)
2nd place: Gurleen Gill, Gabrielle McDaniel and Kanae Lancaster, Bio-Photovoltaic Solar Panels from Micro Photosynthetic Power Cells Using Blue-Green Algae
Honorable Mention: Olivia Edgington and Megan Lawther, Effect of Processed vs. Whole Foods on Memory
Supernova Award: Izabella Filippini and Rose Matta, The Effect of Washington Water Pollutants on Daphnia Heart Rates
Behavioral and Social Sciences (BEHA)
1st place: Christine Pham, Elena Rettig, and Varsha Veeramachaneni, The Effects of Social Media Usage on Stress Levels
2nd place: Tara Ghazanfari and Lola Par, Project Recidivism Reduction
3rd place: Catalina Fox, The Effects of Meditation on Blood Pressure Levels
Honorable Mention: Helen Maslen, Maanasa Nandula and Priyanka Taneja, The Effect of Placebo on Menstrual Pain Reduction
Honorable Mention: Bradley Devin, Ben Schwedler and Megan DeSilva, The Effects of Binaural Beats on Working Memory Capacity in High School Students
Supernova Award: Anna Miller, The Effects of Classical Music vs. Pop Music on the Memory of an Illustration
Biomedical and Health Sciences (BMED), Bioengineering (ENBM), Materials Science (MATS)
Honorable Mention: Afeef Sheikh, A Helping Hand: Utilizing Augmented Reality to Aid in Rehabilitation Processes
Honorable Mention: Andrew Wang and Effie Jia (from CA), The Implementation of Polystyrene and Graphene in the Active Layer of PCDTBT: PCBM Inverted Organic Solar Cells to Increase Energy Conversion Efficiency
Earth and Environmental Sciences (EAEV), and Engineering (ENEV)
1st Place: Maheck Jerez Terceros, Margo Nanneman and Ben Zabback, SODIS Support Device
3rd Place: Alissa Acheson, Agata Skarbek and Caylynn Berosik, The Analysis of Water Variation in Various Populated Areas Based on pH, Turbidity, Total Dissolved Solids, Dissolved Oxygen and Nitrates
Honorable Mention: Chirag Das, Osmotic Pressure and Electric Circuit with the Early Detection of Toxins in Water
Supernova Award: Aimee Roseberry and Quinton Skinner, Collecting Energy Through Piezoelectric Sensors
Embedded Systems (EBED) and Systems Software (SOFT), Robotics and Intelligent Machines (ROBO)
Honorable Mention: Neha Nagvekar, Smart Health Monitoring
Energy: Chemical (EGCH) and Physical (EGPH)
2nd place: Anne Lee, Brandon Yue and Isaac Perrin, Pressurized Distillation: An Energy Efficient Approach to Ethanol Extraction in Biofuel Production
Special Awards:
US Air Force Awards: Gurleen Gill, Gabrielle McDaniel and Kanae Lancaster, Bio-Photovoltaic Solar Panels from Micro Photosynthetic Power Cells Using Blue-Green Algae
and
Andrew Wang and Effie Jia (from CA),
The Implementation of Polystyrene and Graphene in the Active Layer of PCDTBT: PCBM Inverted Organic Solar Cells to Increase Energy Conversion Efficiency
Excellence in Scientific Research and Engineering Awards: Helen Maslen, Maanasa Nandula and Priyanka Taneja, The Effect of Placebo on Menstrual Pain Reduction
and
Sarah Tarta and Neav Topaz,
Bioremediation of Soil and Conversion of Expanded Polystyrene (ESP) Solvated by D-Limonene to Fungal Sugars (Bioavailable Carbon) by Pleurotus Ostreatus Fungi
American Psychological Association for Achievement in Research in Psychological Science: Christine Pham, Elena Rettig, and Varsha Veeramachaneni, The Effects of Social Media Usage on Stress Levels
Association for Women's Geoscientist Award: Alissa Acheson, Agata Skarbek and Caylynn Berosik, The Analysis of Water Variation in Various Populated Areas Based on pH, Turbidity, Total Dissolved Solids, Dissolved Oxygen and Nitrates
People's Choice Award: Rifat Rashid and Sohaib Moinuddin, Implementation of a Fingerprint Sensor on Door Locks
Stockholm Junior Water Prizes: Hemil Gajjar and Apoorv Khandelwal, Optimizing Water Permeability in Nanoporous Graphene Membranes for Reverse Osmosis Water Desalination
and
Maheck Jerez Terceros, Margo Nanneman and Ben Zabback, SODIS Support Device
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA's) 2015 Taking the Pulse of the Planet Award: Alissa Acheson, Agata Skarbek and Caylynn Berosik, The Analysis of Water Variation in Various Populated Areas Based on pH, Turbidity, Total Dissolved Solids, Dissolved Oxygen and Nitrates
ASU Walton Sustainability Solutions Award (also affiliated with ISEF): Maheck Jerez Terceros, Margo Nanneman and Ben Zabback, SODIS Support Device
Thank you to Tesla STEM instructor, Ms. Kate Allender, for her guidance and passion for student learning. Job well done!!
The 2016 Allen Distinguished Educators Awards Bestowed on Redmond, Wash. Teacher
AUSTIN, Texas, March 9, 2016 - In the quest to ignite innovation in education, the Allen Distinguished Educators (ADE) program awarded $25,000 to a teacher from Redmond's Nikola Tesla STEM High School. Alyson Nelson was recognized as 2016 ADE for her engineering program that demonstrates the best in classroom innovation across the country.
Nelson was one of seven awardees selected from the 81 initial applications from 31 states. From the 16 finalists, seven winning projects were chosen, representing 12 k-12 teachers from six different states.
"A national search for innovation in education revealed a significant appetite for student-led education programs," said Dave Ferrero, Senior Program Director for Education at Vulcan Inc., a Paul G. Allen company. "We believe that recognizing and supporting innovative teachers and their programs will create hands-on, real-world opportunities for student that are replicable models of success."
Thank You to the PTSA Grants Committee!!
"I cannot think of any lab equipment that I have acquired for my classroom in recent years that has gone into more immediate use and had a broader impact than the Vernier Probeware that Tesla STEM PTSA purchased for our AP Environmental Science program last fall. I began training T-STEM students involved with the Darrington STEM Initiative in November to use the probes, and in January we went to Darrington to mentor middle school students in the use of the probes to analyze water quality in Darrington area lakes and streams. T-STEM and Darrington students alike had a fun and engaging time working with the probes. It was great to see our T-STEM students stepping into leadership roles and being so kind and encouraging with the Darrington students. I watched our students discovering their inner mentors right in front of my eyes!
In February, Ms. Danaee and I implemented our 12-week EcoColumn lab in APES where we use the probeware to analyze the water in the aquatic component of the column to see how it changes over time with inputs from the other chambers of the column. Our students will be experts with the probes by the time we finish the unit and will understand the ecological significance of each test that we run.
Thanks again for a great investment in hands-on, problem-based learning at T-STEM!"
As we enter into Spring, we are beginning to notice that we have a few students starting to miss classes on a sporadic basis. Please remember that as parents and guardians, you may view your student's attendance status by accessing Skyward. This is the same system you access to review a student's grades. Skyward is web based and available 24/7. Just as a quick reminder, LWSD policy requires absence notification within twenty-four hours of a student's absence from school. Thanks!!
Thanks for all the parent and community support for our Tesla STEM scholars!!
Cindy Duenas, Principal
The Tesla STEM PTSA runs as well as it does because of the energy, intelligence, and dedication of its many volunteers! It is you who do the hands-on work and creative thinking that serves our students and drives our PTSA forward each year.
