The Lawrence Science and Engineering Fair attracted more than 150 entries from students in grades 4-8. The experiments ranged from determining which citrus fruit conducts the most electricity to whether paper towels will keep ice cool.
The winners of the science and engineering fair are as follows:
Grade 4: 1st Place Shiamak Kalwachwala and Adam Levinsky. Cookie Wars: Butter vs. applesauce and butter v. Greek yogurt.
2nd Place Nicole Cadieu and Katherine Dorfman. Can you speed up the composting of kitchen scraps.
3rd place Eric Maest. Which evaporates water faster – high or low watt bulbs.
Honorable mention: Daniel Lonarker. Effect of hull form on boat speed; Kaia Dyckman. Petri dish death match soap v. hand sanitizer; Manit Niwas. Effect of seed size on germination.
Grade 5: 1st Place Simon Cull. Fat, salt or sweet? What do dogs like to eat.
2nd Place Kiran Hiremath and Saloni Sharma. Keep it cool.
3rd Place Andrew Tziarriz-Over. Electromagnets what affects their strength.
Honorable mention Aluen Tomat-Kelly: Ghost plant; Disha Bharj and Riddhi Bharj: Plant growth in different environments; Matthew Joseph: Water race.
Grade 6: 1st Place Matthew McChesney. Underwater adventure.
2nd Place Abhyan Jaikishen. Seeing is believing.
3rd Place Charlotte Bohra and Grace Dismukes. Why do our cookies burn.
Honorable mention Harshil Bhullar and Faraz Khan: What is the bacterial content of milk; Adeline Ripberger: The big squeeze; Teddy Masterson: Pulling with pulleys; Anusha Aggarwal: Battle of the screens.
7th Grade: 1st Place Natasha Kalwachwala. How permanent are permanent markers.
2nd Place Ryan and Dylan Morris. Bridges falling down.
3rd Place Roja Vanaparthi. Can you taste the difference.
Honorable mention Catherine Chen and Sarah Chu: Surface tension and salt water; Mrs. Zapata’s class: Get your heart pumping.
8th Grade: 1st Place James Gow and Rohan Pahwa. Intercellular and intracellular cellular communication.
2nd Place Anjali Agarwal. Soiled Soil.
3rd Place Ritesh Dash and Kiran Aiyar. Soundwaves.
Honorable mention Gwenyth Lavery: Measuring surface tension of water with a penny.

