2004 State NMJAS Paper Competition Winners

Cash awards were provided by a grant from Intel Foundation.

Senior Division


First Place
Mahlet Woldemariam
Utilizing Bacterial Carpets for Bionanotechnology Applications
Deming High School
Deming, NM

Second Place
Brian Geistwhite
Turning the Red Planet into the Green Planet: Modeling the Martian Greenhouse Effect
Farmington High School
Farmington, NM

Third Place
Keely Goodgame
The Enhanced Regeneration of Dugesia Tigrina Utilizing 670 nm LED Photobiomodulation
Deming High School
Deming, NM

Honorable Mention
Daniel C. Appel
Electroenzymatic Biofuel Cells II
Eldorado High School
Albuquerque, NM

Honorable Mention
Anna Trugman
A Nonlinear Bug's Life
Los Alamos High School
Los Alamos, NM




Junior Division

First Place
Vivienne Clark
Determining the Effect of a Trumpet's Curvature on it's Timbre
Clark Homeschool
Albuquerque, NM

Second Place
Shandiin Copeland
Cool Clear Water
Kirkland Middle School
Kirkland, NM

Third Place
Kevin Lane
Biogas Production from Bovine Excrement
Koogler Middle School
Flora Vista, NM





AVS Science & Technology Society Winners




The AVS Science & Technology Society, formerly the New Mexico Chapter of the American Vacuum Society, sends judges and selects its own winners in the paper competition and awards prizes to these winners as well as to their teachers/sponsors. The New Mexico Academy of Science is very grateful for their support.

Senior Division
Place Student School Sponsor
First Daniel Appel Eldorado High School Plamen Atannasov
Second Keely Goodgame Deming High School Steve Goodgame

Junior Division
Place Student School Sponsor
First Vivenne Clark Clark Homeschool Shang-Ying Clark
Second Morris Huang Sarracino Middle School Ms. Gerry Klinglesmith


Senior Division Competitors



Junior Division Competitors



Photos by Jerry Nelson, AVS Science & Technology Society



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Lynn Brandvold
last modified: 30-Apr-2004