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PCS Sweeps 2025 County Science Fair!

Mar 20, 2025 | by Ildi Carlisle-Cummins

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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.

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