STUDENTS FROM CAPE, STEELE WIN TOP SCIENCE FAIR HONORS

Top winners for the 39th annual Southeast Missouri Regional Science Fair were honored Thursday night. Robert Felker, a junior at Cape Central High School and Erica Morton, a senior at South Pemiscot High School in Steele both won trips to the international science fair.

Felker's project centered on Catheter Sterilization at Home; Morton's topic was an experiment on Selective Inhibition of Animal Enzymes by Natural Defense.

More than 300 junior high and high school students from throughout Southeast Missouri competed for honors. Their research was judged by professional scientists on Tuesday.

Other special award winners announced Thursday night:

Alliance Blue Cross Blue Shield

First place: Chris Geers, Kennett Middle School, the Effects of pH on Bacterial Growth; Robert Felker, Cape Central High, Catheter Sterilization at Home.

Second place: Rebecca Mattes, St. Vincent de Paul, Cape Girardeau, How Important is Your Thumb?; Stephen Stricker, Sikeston High School, At What Point will Calcium Deposition on a Human Heart Valve Cause Failure?

Third place: Kristina Taylor, South Pemiscot High School, Steele, the Effect of Iron on the Heart Rate of Daphnia; Susan Ellis, South Pemiscot High School, Steele, the Effects of UBV Light on the Growth Rate of the Mutant Strand; Matthew DeJournett, Advance High School, Which Type of Biofilter Works More Efficiently.

American Chemical Society

Junior Biochemistry: Michael Sirimaturos, St. Vincent de Paul, Cape Girardeau, Which Chewing Gum Has the Most Sugar.

Junior Chemistry: Oliver Sanders, St. Vincent de Paul, Cape Girardeau, Are All Plastics the Same.

Senior Biochemistry: Erica Morton, South Pemiscot High School, Steele, an Experiment on Selective Inhibition of Animal Enzymes by Natural Defense.

Senior Chemistry: Cassandra Doherty, Sikeston High School, How Much Voltage do Common Household Materials Give Off?

American Foundation of Vision Awareness

Bethany Caplan, Cape Central Junior High, Do You See What I See?

American Meteorological Society

Kristy Reed, South Pemiscot High School, Steele, the Effects of Greenhouse Gases on the Temperature of a Closed System.

Association of Women Geoscientists Award

Stephanie Miller, St. Vincent de Paul, Cape Girardeau, What is the Most Efficient Substance for Melting Ice?

Cape Girardeau Area Engineers Club

John David Hahs, Sikeston Middle School, Friction is a "Drag"; Aaron Garland, Meadow Heights High School, Patton, ABAQUS Verification.

Eastman Kodak

Jessica HeiRonimus, Sikeston High School, Bioremediation.

Edison Society

First place: Brad Kiesling, Sikeston High School, Consumption of Crude Oil by Pseudomonas olevorans and Fertilizer.

Second place: Jenny Stark, Sikeston HIgh School, Lead in Plants and Soil.

Third place: Lauren Mosley, Sikeston High School, The Effects of D-Limonene on the Dog Flea Egg.

Outstanding Teachers

Wanda Throop, Sikeston High School; David Walls, South Pemiscot High School, Steele; Marilyn Peters, St. Vincent de Paul, Cape Girardeau.

Environmental Analysis South

Seventh grade: Christine Kimball, St. Vincent de Paul, Cape Girardeau, Which Method will be Most Effective in Preventing Soil Erosion by Water.

Eighth grade: Ashley Hodgson, Kennett Middle School, the Effect of Pollutants on the Light Retained by an Underwater System.

Ninth grade: Kristina Taylor, South Pemiscot High School, Steele, the Effect of Iron on the Heart Rate of Daphnia.

Junior Engineering Technical Society

Aaron Garland, Meadow Heights High School, Patton, ABAQUS Verification.

Louis Unfer Award

Stephanie Miller, St. Vincent de Paul, Cape Girardeau, What is the Most Efficient Substance for Melting Ice?; Mark Adams, Sikeston Junior High, Which Material Would Allow the Least Amount of Heat Loss?

Louis Unfer Scholarship

Erica Morton, South Pemiscot High School, Steele, An Experiment on Selective Inhibition of Animal Enzymes by Natural Defense.

NACE

Zach Miller, St. Vincent de Paul, Cape Girardeau, What pH Level is Most Conducive to Corrosion in Iron and Copper.

NASA

Jason Cowan, Oak Ridge HIgh School, Gravity Affects C. Blumei; John David Hahs, Sikeston Middle School, Friction is a "Drag"; Cory Elfrink, St. Vincent de Paul, Cape Girardeau, Which Type of Material Surface Creates the Most Friction.

National Association of Biology Teachers

Robert Felker, Cape Central High School, Catheter Sterilization at Home.

National Council of Mathematics Teachers

Kari DelVecchio, St. Vincent de Paul, Cape Girardeau, Does Increasing the Number of Sides of a Polygon Affect a Spiral's Area.

Southeast Missouri Dental Society

Chris Geers, Kennett Middle School, The Effects of pH on Bacterial Growth; Robert Felker, Cape Central High School, Catheter Sterilization at Home.

Union Electric

Laura Simon, St. Vincent de Paul, Cape Girardeau, EMF.

U.S. Army

Overall winner: Cathlin Miller, Cape Central Junior High School, Temperature Range.

Susan Ellis, South Pemiscot High School, Steele, the Effects of UBV Light on the Growth Rate of the Mutant Strand; Kristy Reed, South Pemiscot High School, Steele, the Effect of Greenhouse Gases on the Temperature of a Closed System; Andrew White, West County High School, Leadwood, Roundball Statistics; Erica Morton, South Pemiscot High School, Steele, An Experiment on Selective Inhibition of Animal Enzymes by Natural Defense.

U.S. Department of Energy

Kristy Reed, South Pemiscot High School, Steele, the Effect of Greenhouse Gases on the Temperature of a Closed System.

U.S. Metric Association

Julie Hicks, South Pemiscot, Steele, the Effect of Water Content the Spectral Absorbance of Leaves.

U.S. Navy

Travis Ponder, Oak Ridge High School, Keeping Warm; Erica Morton, South Pemiscot High School, Steele, An Experiment on Selective Inhibition of Animal Enzymes by Natural Defense; Jessica HeiRonimus, Sikeston High School, Bioremediation; Stephen Stricker, Sikeston High School, At What Point Will Calcium Deposition on a Human Heart Valve Cause Failure; Robert Felker, Cape Central High School, Catheter Sterilization at Home.

U.S. Public Health

Heather Quinn, Charleston Junior High School, Smoking Effects.

Best Group Exhibit

Justin Essner and Matthew Essner, St. Denis School, Benton, Does Sampling Cause People to Make an Impulse Buy?

Overall Junior Life Science Award

Rebecca Throop, Sikeston Middle School, Does the Amount of Bacteria Affect the Number of Root Nodules on Soy Beans.

Overall Junior Physical Science Award

Michael Sirimaturos, St. Vincent de Paul, Cape Girardeau, Which Chewing Gum Has the Most Sugar.

Dr. E. Lawrence Bahn Memorial Award

Winner: Joshua Barnes, West County High School, Leadwood.

Alternate: Stephen Stricker, Sikeston Senior High School.

Top Eighth Grade Student

Ashley Hodgson, Kennett Middle School, the Effect of Pollutants on the Light Retained by an Underwater System.

1996 Logo Contest

Designer: Emily Unverferth at St. Vincent de Paul in Perryville. Her science teacher is Pam Siegmund. Her principal is Fr. Kevin Fausz.

Category Winners

Junior Behavioral and Social Sciences

First place: Daniel Mothershead, Kelso Junior High, Benton, Attractives or Gender.

Second place: Matthew Antill, Cape Central Junior High School, the Effects of Coca Cola on the Appetite of Mus Musclus Mice.

Third place: Justin Essner and Matthew Essner, St. Denis School, Benton, Does Sampling Cause People to Make an Impulse Buy?; Jessica Smith and Jacqueline Whitehead, Charleston Junior High School, Does the Nose Know?

Junior Biochemistry

First place: Michael Sirimaturos, St. Vincent de Paul, Cape Girardeau, Which Chewing Gum Has the Most Sugar.

Second place: Jennifer Markin, St. Vincent de Paul, Cape Girardeau, Proteins in Wheat Flour.

Third place: Jennifer Seabaugh, Oak Ridge High School, Moisturizers.

Junior Botany

First place: Rebecca Throop, Sikeston Middle School, Does the Amount of Bacteria Affect the Number of Root Nodules on Soy Beans.

Second place: Jason Cowan, Oak Ridge High School, Gravity Affects C. Blumei; Charles Roth, Malden Junior High School, Is Seed Growth Affected by Temperature?; Nora Renka, Cape Central Junior High, the Effect of Soil pH on the Growth of Beans.

Third place: Samuel Smith, Sikeston Junior High School, Salinization Effects on Plant Growth; Zach LeGrand, St. Mary Cathedral, Cape Girardeau, the Effect of Different Types of Music on Plant Growth; Ryan Fenwick, St. Vincent de Paul, Cape Girardeau, Seeding Up Nature's Green Machine; Aaron Westrich, Advance High School, the Effects of Methanol on Sucrose Production in Lycoperasicum.

Junior Chemistry

First place: Oliver Sanders, St. Vincent de Paul, Cape Girardeau, Are All Plastics the Same.

Second place: Laura Jennings, Sikeston Junior High School, Which Solutions are Electrolytes?; Nichole Davie, St. Ambrose School, Chaffee, Can a Nail be Made Rustproof?

Third place: Lillian Dean, L.J. Schultz School, Cape Girardeau, Really "Hot" Fabrics; Matthew Bollinger, St. Vincent de Paul, Cape Girardeau, Electric Current in an Electro-Chemical Cell.

Junior Earth and Space Science

First place: Stephanie Miller, St. Vincent de Paul, Cape Girardeau, What is the Most Efficient Substance for Melting Ice?

Second place: Breanna Harter, St. Vincent de Paul, Cape Girardeau, Heat From the Sun.

Third place: Neal Davis, Cape Central Junior High, How Erosion Effects Grasses.

Junior Engineering

First place: Mark Adams, Sikeston Junior High School, Which Material Would Allow the Least Amount of Heat Loss?

Second place: Tina Blackwell, Cape Central Junior High, Which Material Can Hold Up to the Most Wear?

Third place: John David Hahs, Sikeston Middle School, Friction is a "Drag"; Ryan Bohnert and Drew Richardet, St. Vincent de Paul, Perryville, Which Type of Fire Resistant Material Resists Fire the Best?

Junior Environmental Science

First place: Ashley Hodgson, Kennett Middle School, the Effect of Pollutants on the Light Retained by an Underwater System.

Second place: Kevin Lankheit, Sikeston Middle School, How Hard is Your Water?; Tim Welch, South Pemiscot Junior High School, Steele, the Quicker Picker-Upper.

Third place: Christine Kimball, St. Vincent de Paul, Cape Girardeau, Which Method will be Most Effective in Preventing Soil Erosion by Water; Travis Ponder, Oak Ridge High School, Keeping Warm.

Junior Mathematics and Computer Science

First place: Kari DelVecchio, St. Vincent de Paul, Cape Girardeau, Does Increasing the Number of Sides of a Polygon Affect a Sprial's Area?

Second place: Rachel Stanley, Cape Central Junior High School, Finding Pi By Weight.

Junior Medicine and Health

First place: Chris Geers, Kennett Middle School, the Effects of pH on Bacterial Growth?

Second place, Rebecca Mattes, St. Vincent de Paul, Cape Girardeau, How Important is Your Thumb?

Third place: Kristina Taylor, South Pemiscot Junior High, Steele, the Effect of Iron on the Heart Rate of Daphnia.

Junior Microbiology

First place: Ben Askew, Sikeston Junior High School, Which cutting Board Surface Will Result in the Least Amount of Bacteria.

Second place: Andrew Essner, St. Mary Cathedral, Cape Girardeau, A Scrub a Day Keeps the Bacteria Away!

Third place: Wendy Bartosik, Cape Central Junior High, the Effects of Microwaving on Bread Mold Growth.

Junior Physics

First place: Laura Simon, St. Vincent de Paul, Cape Girardeau, EMF.

Second place: Erik Stidham, St. Vincent de Paul, Cape Girardeau, Which Kind of Wood and Floor Finish Resists Against BB's the Best?

Third place: Meredith Fallert and Valerie Klaus, St. Vincent de Paul, Perryville, Chain Reaction.

Junior Zoology

First place: Marcus Jones, Cape Central Junior High School, Leapin' Lizzards.

Second place: Michael Riddick, South Pemiscot Junior High School, Steele, Teaching Ants.

Third place: Amanda Sharp, St. Vincent de Paul, Cape Girardeau, Effect of Temperature on Heart Rate of Esturine Fish Fundalis Grandis.

Senior Behavioral and Social Science

First place: Sherry Carter, Sikeston High School, Can Earthworms Learn to Tell Right From Left?

Second place: Kelly Moss, Sikeston High School, Testing the Mozart Effect.

Third place: Dawnette Menees, West County High School, Leadwood, the Effects of Changed Conditions on Behavior of Annelids.

Senior Biochemistry

First place: Erica Morton, South Pemiscot High School, Steele, An Experiment on Selective Inhibition of Animal Enzymes by Natural Defense.

Senior Botany

Second place: Trina Swogger, Sikeston High School, Can Plant Cloning be Used Effectively by Produce Growers?

Third place: Kendric Holder, Advance High School, What Affects Microbial Activity in Soil?

Senior Chemistry

First place: Cassandra Doherty, Sikeston High School, How Much Voltage do Common Household Materials Give Off?

Senior Earth and Space Science

Second place: Cathlin Miller, Cape Central Junior High, Temperature Range.

Senior Environmental Science

First place: Jenny Stark, Sikeston High School, Lead in Plants and Soil.

Second place: Brad Kiesling, Sikeston High School, Consumption of Crude Oil by Pseudonomas olevorans and Fertilizer.

Third place: Samantha Schoen, Oak Ridge High School, The Effect of Herbicide on Daphnia.

Senior Mathematics and Computer Science

First place: Brandon Stricker, Sikeston High School, By What Percentage does an External CPU Cache Increase a PC/s Performance.

Second place: Joseph Parker, Farmington High School, Neural Networks.

Third place: Aaron Garland, Meadow Heights High School, Patton, ABAQUS Verification.

Senior Medicine and Health

First place: Robert Felker, Cape Central High School, Catheter Sterilization at Home.

Second place: Stephen Stricker, Sikeston High School, At What Point will Calcium Deposition on a Human Heart Valve Cause Failure.

Third place: Susan Ellis, South Pemiscot High School, Steele, the Effects of UBV Light on the Growth Rate of the Mutant Strand; Matthew DeJournett, Advance High School, Which Type of Biofilter Works More Efficiently.

Senior Microbiology

First place: Matt Kriete, Sikeston High School, Which is More Effective: AcMNPV or NPV.

Senior Physics

First place: Joey Myers, Sikeston High School, Does the Quantity of a Superplasticizer Affect the Strength of Concrete.