Coppell High School’s winners for the science fair were announced on Jan. 22. There are 65 projects across 13 different scientific categories. The names of the projects, categories, contestants and contest place is listed here. The first place projects also have a short description of their purpose.

The full list is also posted outside the CHS library. The projects are going to be on display in the CHS library through Jan. 29.

BC – Biochemistry

1st – Fantastic Bio-plastic – Aditya Rajesh and Arnav Saxena
The purpose of this project is to find the most efficient material for creating bioplastic (plastic made from biological substances rather than petroleum), using strength and cost efficiency as the main evaluating standards.

2nd – Going Bananas for Bio-plastics – Rachana Inteti

2nd – Weight Gain to Brain Gain – Shreya Hariharakumar

3rd: Yeast: The Fungus that is a Beast – Bhaash Pathak and Yash Sharma

BE – Behavioral Sciences

1st – Computer vs. Human Learning –  Dhannya John and Jessica Krampitz
The purpose of this project is to determine if children in different age groups learn better and more efficiently from a computer program or from a human teacher.

2nd – How Many Dots Do You See – Madeline McGregor

2nd – Does Your Eye Lie – Dail Kang and Nathaniel Leach

3rd – Let me play it again – Gabriela Nelson

3rd – Laughter On Line – Melissa Lucena

CH – Chemistry

1st – Sanitary Journey of H20 – Seungmin Chun and Prajeet Tangirala
The purpose of this project is to find the most convenient and effective method of purifying mildly and greatly contaminated water out of the four methods of heat purification, primitive purification, bleach purification, and iodine purification.

2nd – Will More Spark hit the Mark – Zubair Siddiqui

3rd – Suds and Suds – Isabel Mascarenhas

CM – Cellular and Molecular Biology

1st – Opening Doors to Glioblastoma Causes and Contributors – Bhoomika Kumar and Madhumahita Maddukuri
This project investigates the effects of white fat on the early stages of glioblastoma metastasis (grade IV brain cancer), and the effects of fat storage cells on the expression of genes that cause such cancers.

2nd – Antibiotic Resistance in E.coli – Dwija Dammanna and Kelsey Shannon

2nd – Accelerated Apoptosis – Swapnika Alahari

3rd – How to Make Mighty Mouse – Ameriah Taleb

3rd – Muscle Power – Aditya Bhavikati

3rd – Molecular Tools – Manasa Gudavalli and Akila Muthukumar

EE – Earth and Environmental Systems

1st – Rode, Rode, Rode on the Waves – Jayashree Ganesan and Ishita Rastogi
This project investigates the relationship of  annual soil loss to earthquakes and landslides by simulating rainfall on soil and observing seismic activity.

2nd – De-Rivered from the filter – Elizaveta Pchelko, Eunice Tan and Karina Teruya

2nd – Water Those? – Yutika Ineni

3rd – Can Trash Save Water? – Daniel Adams

3rd – Energy from Nature – Nithya Thiru

EG – Energy (Chemical and Physical)

1st – The Key to Storing Wind Energy – Monica Mahajan
This project’s purpose is to build and test a wind turbine design that can store excess energy produced by the turbine, once wind speed reaches a point that the turbine cannot produce energy, improving the viability and efficiency of wind energy as an alternative to fossil fuels.

1st – Let it fall – Srinidhi Kaushik
The purpose of this project is to determine the optimum height on a dam that water should fall from in order to produce the maximum amount of electricity.

2nd – Optimize the energy of solar cells – Anjali Massand

2nd – Pot in a Pot Refrigerator – Manas Mishra

3rd – Trashy but Classy – Sarah Singer and Shruti Nair

3rd – Salt Water Energy – Raaghav Ramji

3rd – Dripping Clean Energy – Melody Shen

EM – Engineering/Mechanics

1st – Deadly Addiction – Rithvik Nagarajan and Tejas Mehta
The purpose of this project is to create a cell phone case that can reduce harmful radiation levels from cell phones by at least 75%, effectively rendering non-ionizing radiation harmless and reducing the probability of cancer.

2nd – Power to the People – Deepika Krishnan

2nd – Soundproof Savvy – Hansa Boddu

3rd – Tomorrow’s Energy – Michael Ozymy

3rd – Using the Heat from Your Hand to Power a Flashlight – Natasha Shibu

3rd – Sound Stoppers – Nicholas Arispe

EN – Environmental Engineering

1st – “LED” The Lead Light Way – Kaitlyn O’Quinn and Alexis Rivera
This project investigates the use of light-emitting diodes and incandescent lights in traffic signals, using three different circuits to determine the best type of light for the signals.

1st – “Berry” Efficient Solar Cells – Veena Praveen
The purpose of this project is to create a dye-sensitized solar cell and determine if dye-sensitized solar cells can convert solar energy into usable energy, the most efficient dye, and the height that light has to hit the solar cell at in order to create the maximum amount of voltage.

2nd – A “Grassp” Towards Bioplastics – Jerry Gao and David Trakhtengerts

2nd – Radiation Resolution – Hiren Premkumar

3rd – Mud Works – Sneha Korlakunta and Uttami Godha

3rd – Gone With the Wind – Namratha Mohan and Nisha Ramesh

3rd – Purity for the Poor – Saket Ashar and Matthew D’Souza

LS – Life Sciences (Plant and Animal)

1st – Pests Inside – Tanmay Karandikar and Pratik Koppikar
This project investigates the prevalence of herbicide and insecticide residue in organic and nonorganic produce.

2nd – Outrunning a Sugar High – Emily Milligan

3rd – Lact-Grow-Bacillus – Mercedes Hoyos and Alyssa Valenzuela

MH – Medicine and Health

1st – The Pimple Project – Karvi Bhatnagar
This project investigates the relationship of the over supplementation of vitamins to the virulence of Propionibacterium acnes (a bacteria connected to the occurrence of acne), and also observes the inflammatory response of skin cells once infected by the treated bacteria.

2nd – Could your allergies be linked to cancer – Carrie Chen and Priyanka Srivastava

2nd – Spicing up some memories – Sahana Ramasamy

3rd – How much sugar is in your smoothie? – Prateek Kasliwal

3rd – Solution for Radiation – Alarika Voora

MI – Microbiology

1st – Man Vs Nature – Suzuka Nishino and Jingchun Quan
This project has the goal of finding a healthier, natural alternative preservative to the artificial preservatives currently used in the food industry, simulating the exact preservation qualities but removing the harmful effects.

2nd – Hidden Secrets – Rithvik Gunda

3rd – Antibiotics: Positive or Negative – Sruthi Kilari and Rishika Rakwal

PA – Physics and Astronomy

1st – Can You Handle The Pressure – Johnny Koponen
This project’s purpose is to discover the effect of ball pressure on soccer ball behavior and overall performance.

2nd – WAAS that a storm – Nilesh Kodali

2nd – Deflategate 2.0 – Michael Tierney

3rd – Jello Speed – Supraj Punnam

3rd – CTE Kills – Margaret Wier and Peyton Williams

SS – System Sciences

1st – Innovating Industry (an investigation in rocketry) – Ethan Wang and Min Kim
The purpose of this project is to build and test a sorting robot to learn about the use and development of robotics in history and to discover the differences they create.

2nd – Blind Gaming – Christina Abraham

2nd – Shocking Walking – Shane Gomes

3rd – Radiation in your pocket – Stephen Liang

3rd – Beating the Repeating Greeting – James Cook

3rd – The Perfect Bath Every Single Time – Rudransh Dikshit

These projects are going to be advancing to the Dallas Regional Science & Engineering Fair on Feb. 26 at Fair Park in Dallas.