PCS Sweeps 2025 County Science Fair!
Mar 20, 2025 | by Ildi Carlisle-Cummins
PCS student scientists had an OUTSTANDING science fair season this year, sweeping up more than 40 prizes and heading on to the state and international science fairs! Congratulations to our students and the Science Department, led by Wayne Conley, that supports them!
PCS County Category Winners:
Behavioral sciences
Amelie Oderman, First Place for "How Do Gender And Age Affect the Reaction to Peer Pressure?"
Biosciences
Beatrice Campbell, Diana Deyhim, First Place for "Do Bacteria Byproducts Increase Bubble Lifetimes?"
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Hazel Campbell, First Place for "Kelp’s Potential to Attenuate Wave Energy By Imposing Drag: Determining Constants For Drag Force Models"
Engineering
Kilian Kesting, Third Place for "Auto-Bike Brakes."
Health and Medical Sciences
Musa Shafi, First Place for "Developing an Adjustable Transtibial Prosthetic to Accommodate for Pediatric Lower Limb Loss in Under Resourced Areas"
Robotics, Computation and Mathematics
Adi Menon, First Place for "Using Deep Learning AI to Enable the Safety of Self Driving Cars"
Best in Show
Hazel Campbell for "Kelp’s Potential to Attenuate Wave Energy By Imposing Drag: Determining Constants For Drag Force Models"
Best in Show Runner Up
Musa Shafi for "Developing an Adjustable Transtibial Prosthetic to Accommodate for Pediatric Lower Limb Loss in Under Resourced Areas"
International Science and Engineering Fair Finalists
Hazel Campbell, Adi Menon, Musa Shafi
CSEF (State Science fair finalists)
Kilian Kesting, Beatrice Campbell, Hazel Campbell, Diana Deyhim, Taylor Weaver. Adi Menon, Anastasia Miin, Annabelle Miin, Amelie Oderman, Musa Shafi
Special Awards
Friends of Alan Miller Memorial Award from the California Botanical Society
Taylor Weaver for Improved large scale offshore wind turbines.
Regeneron Biomedical Science Award
Musa Shafi
Thermo Fisher Scientific Junior Innovators Challenge
Beatrice Campbell, Diana Deyhim, Amelie Oderman
US Air Force
Anastasia Miin, Annabelle Miin for "Travel Planner X: Optimizing Large Language Models for Dynamic Constraints through Human-in-the-Loop Discriminators"
Genius Olympiad
Hazel Campbell, Adi Menon, Musa Shafi
Keet Family Award
Musa Shafi, Adi Menon
United State Metric Association
Hazel Campbell
US Navy
Taylor Weaver
Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers
Anastasia Miin, Annabelle Miin, Kilian Kesting, Adi Menon
Healthy Oceans, Healthy People
Taylor Weaver
The Yale Science & Engineering Association
Hazel Campbell
Click here for a list of all the winners in Santa Cruz County.