Skyway Conference STEM Poster Contest
| SKYWAY STEM POSTER CONTEST OAKTON COMMUNITY COLLEGE Friday, April 12, 2013 |
| SKYWAY STEM POSTER COMPETITION RESULTS Spring 2013 |
CHEMISTRY
1st Place
Preparation and Development of Novel Diaminomaleonitrile-Derived Porpyrazine Photosensitizers
Oakton Community College
Kenneth Gore, Hyun Lee, and Elina Golsteyn
2nd Place
Preparation of Biodiesel Surrogates by Stereoselective Hydrogenation of 3 Alkynoates
Oakton Community College
Miae Lee, An Lam and Min Ho Lee
3rd Place
The Reactions of Sucralose in the Presence of Emulsifiers
McHenry County College
Alejandra Hernandez
PHYSICAL SCIENCE, PHYSICS, ENGINEERING AND MATHEMATICS
1st Place
Lovie Smith, NFL and Separating Hyperplanes (Mathematics)
Prairie State College
Timothy Colin Dannels
2nd Place
Environmental Sensor (Engineering)
Oakton Community College
Hsiang-Yi Tseng
3rd Place
The Effects of Hydrophilic and Hydrophobic Interactions on Melting (Physical Science)
Moraine Valley Community College
Matt Dixon, Leah Stankus, Sara Dunn, David Dunn
LIFE SCIENCE AND EARTH SCIENCE
| Tie 1st Place Development of Three Dimensional Alginate Culture System for A549 Lung Cancer Cell Line |
Tie 1st Place Microarray Comparisons of Male and Female Brains |
| Oakton Community College Nicholas Sielski, Leandro Brahimaj, Mariya Radkevich, Razina Hakimiyan |
Prairie State College Vikki Jones |
2nd Place
Extinguishing Your Heartburn or Your Wallet?
Waubonsee Community College
Jonathan Richards
3rd Place
Antibiotic Susceptibility Testing in Staphylococcus aureus isolates from McHenry County College Employees
McHenry County College
Patricia Kusek and Tara Nathan
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McHenry County College
Carla Scholpp and Dave Degrassi
"Nasal Carriage of Staphylococcus aureus and MRSA in the McHenry County College Biology Student Population"
Waubonsee Community College
1st Place: Melissa Walker, "Herbal Remedies: Using the Scientific Method to Uncover Truth in the Myth"
2nd Place: Lisa Booker, "Bird Size vs. Seed Size"
3rd Place: Katheryn E. Billing, "Vermicompost: Eisenia fetida vs. Lumbrcus terrestris"
Waubonsee Community College
1st Place: Hannah Dorn
"Mastodont Enviornments?: Answers Beneath the Surface"
Moraine Valley Community College
2nd Place: Carla McLaurin, Kaleb Elam, and Belissa Beltran
"Bottoms Up: Safety and Health Awareness Against Human Pathogen Residue During Toilet Use"
3rd Place: Ashley Morris and Tiwana S. Morrison
"Can a Common Food Additive Assist Coastal Communities During Environmental Disasters?"
Moraine Valley Community College
1st Place: Alexander Papak, Ivan Chow, Johnson Chan, Kyriakos Anastasopoulos, Patrycja Guza, and Rohail Kidwai
"Sparking Simplicity: Constructing and Testing the Effects of Several Variables on the Performance of Lord Kelvin's Water Generator"
College of Lake County
2nd Place: Lori Brandon
"How Do You Improve Video Streaming Performance?"
Oakton Community College
3rd Place: Hardik Prajapati and John Kowols
"Microclimate Analysis of Oakton Community College Campus"
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SKYWAY STEM POSTER WINNERS 2011
Biological Science
Oakton
1st: Effects of plant growth regulators on the inhibition of tomato seed germination by allelo chemicals in the berries of common buckthorns.
- Kyle Vanden Bosch,
- Agnieska Starzec
- Jinu Thomas
Waubonsee
2nd: The Role of Shape and Color in Agonistic Behavior in Siamese Fighting Fish
- Taylor Joray
Waubonsee
3rd: Using Different Temperatures to Measure the Rate of Cellular Respiration on Crickets
- Candice Schickel
Math/Technologies
Prairie State
1st: A deeper look into the Bobo Sequence
- Dan Clancy
Oakton
2nd: Solar Updraft Tower
- John Kowols
College of Lake County
3rd: How does ATM provide support for real time applications?
- Gerald Turner
Physical Science
Moraine Valley
1st: Are Pollutants More Likely to Enter the Water Table After Intense Rainstorms or Lasting Steady Rains?
- Joseph Petriello
- Marty Keske
- Kathleen Clancy
Moraine Valley
2nd: Are There Safety Advantages to Odorless Acrylic Fingernail Products
- Alicia Cook
- Sharon Porte
- Terri Schmidt
Moraine Valley
3rd: Safer Locations during a Nuclear Event
- Alicia Henniger
- Joel Serna
- Mike Stevens
- Angel Yanez