Southern Arizona Research, Science and Engineering Foundation had their science fair on Thursday, April 12th and Sahauro has come back with 1 winner from Mr. Rutherford’s biology classes and 11 winners from Ms. Wexler’s chemistry classes.

Mine and Jarilyn Jackson’s project, “Who’s a Good Boy?”, won an Excellence in Veterinary Science Award as well as Valeria Romero’s project,  “The Effect of Music on the Heart Rate of Canines” in the category of Animal Sciences.

The experiment “Effects of Renal Transplant on Patients with lupus Erythematsus and Renal Failure” by Vy Ngyuen won the award of The Lonely Memories in the Biomedical and Health Sciences category.

Chloe Chavez and Peyton Nielson won the Best Use of International System of Units Award for their project, “The Effects of Different Water Fountains and the Amount of Chemicals Found in the Water” in Chemical and Material Sciences group.

The Acoustic Excellence Award was given to Austin J. Harley’s experiment, “Homo Sapiens Productivity Under the Influence of Separate Genres of Music” in the group of Behavioral and Social Sciences; other winners in that category include Isabella Doodle Hoy with her project “Effects of Social Influences on Prey Capture in Streptopelia Capicola” with the SARSEF 3rd place Grand Award and the Tucson Audubon Fledgling Birder Award,

Sasha Ndisabiye  also won a SARSEF  3rd place Grand Award with her experiment, “The Differences in Mental Health of Honors/AP 10th Grade Students vs. 10th Grade Standard Curriculum Students”.

“Observing To Find If An Acute Sleep Restriction Is a Significant To a Mild Traumatic Brain Injury (mTBI)” by Logan Martin received the Air Force Future Leaders of STEM Award.

Grace Ann Merrit won a SARSEF 3rd place Grand Award for her project, “Effects of Gryllidae, Blaptica Dubia, Tenebrio Molitor, and Pyralidae on Growth of Dionaea Muscipula” in Plant Sciences.

Macy Hannah Sigafus’ project, “Identifying the Effects Synthetic Sweat Poses on Mineral Foundation” in the category of Chemical and Material Sciences won a SARSEF 3rd place Grand Award.

Alyssa Jordan Urff’s project, “The Effects of Sodium Lauryth Sulfate Shampoos vs. Shampoos Without Sodium Lauryth Sulfate on Breakage of Chlorine Damaged Hair” won the SARSEF 1st place Grand Award in the same category.

Lastly, Ayissa Faith Vizuet won the SARSEF 1st place Grand Award in the Physics, Astronomy, and Mathematics group for her experiment, “The Effects of Cylinder Head Temperature, Ambient Temperature, Humidity, and Weight on the Elapsed Time of a Junior Dragster”.

Below are images of all the winning projects. Congratulations to all who participated for getting to experience such an amazing event and to all of those who made winning projects!