2006 State NMJAS Paper Competition Winners

Cash awards were provided by a grant from Sandia-Lockheed Martin.

Senior Division

First Place
Anna Trugman
Environmental Engineering of Pogonomyrex Harvester Ant Mounds
Los Alamos High School
Los Alamos, NM

Second Place
Samantha Stutz
Post-Fire Hydrology
Los Alamos High School
Los Alamos, NM

Third Place
Bennet Grill
Limitations of Cottrell's Equation: Plotting Electrochemical Coefficients of Potassium Ferricyanide and Potassium Ferrocyanide as Functions of Temperature and Concentration
Rio Rancho High School
Rio Rancho, NM

Junior Division

First Place
Emily TenCate
Achoo!  Modeling the Spread of the Flu
Los Alamos Middle School
Los Alamos, NM

Second Place
Ryan Erickson
Voracious Vortices
Los Alamos Middle School
Los Alamos, NM

Third Place
Laura Lane
Grey Water Backwash:  Filtering Household Waste Water for Everyday Use
Koogler Middle School
Aztec, 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

Junior Division