Over spring break, members of Breck's advanced science research team competed at the Minnesota State Science Fair. Congratulations to all!

Tri-State Junior Science and Humanities Symposium Honorable Mention

• Caleb Kumar: Designing and Validating a Java program to improve the Diagnosis of Bladder Cancer: Year 2
• Aris Prince: A Three-generational Study on Knowledge about and Sources Used to Find Information on Brain-related Conditions 

ISEF - International Science and Engineering Fair

• Robert S. Dorn and Saeed Hakim-Hashemi: The Future of Lighting: Improving the efficiency of organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs)  

Seagate Rising Star Award 

• Anna Hendrickson and Eva Wang: Interaction of Cyclin D1 and PPARa in Cancer Cell Metabolism 

Seagate Technology First-year Award

• Alejandro Fenn and Andrew Engel: Engineering an Optical Cell to Determine Dissolution and Re-plating Rates of Metal-particle Contaminants in Lithium-ion Batteries  

Grand Award Silver

• Alejandro Fenn and Andrew Engel: Engineering an Optical Cell to Determine Dissolution and Re-plating Rates of Metal-particle Contaminants in Lithium-ion Batteries  

• Aris Prince: A Three-generational Study on Knowledge about and Sources Used to Find Information on Brain-related Conditions 

Grand Award Bronze

• Robert S. Dorn and Saeed Hakim-Hashemi: The Future of Lighting: Improving the efficiency of organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs)  

• Anna Hendrickson and Eva Wang: nteraction of Cyclin D1 and PPARa in Cancer Cell Metabolism 

• Samarth Damania: A Data-mining Approach to Identify Factors that Contribute to High Pharmaceutical Drug Costs 

• Jessica Ryvlin and Claire Simpson: Mercaptopyruvate-TEA: a possible antidote against threats of chlorine-induced lung injury   

• Roshny Vijayakar: Effects of Perinatal Iron Deficiency on Glucose Transporter Gene Expression in Five Regions of the Brain

Special Awards

• United States Army Award for Scientific/Engineering Excellence: Alejandro Fenn and Andrew Engel
• United States Navy Award: Taylor McCanna
• American Chemical Society Honorable Mention: Nathaniel Breitenfeldt
• American Association for the Advancement of Science Award: Jessica Ryvlin and Claire Simpson
• American Psychological Association Award: Aris Prince
• General Mills Food and Nutrition Award: Annie Jiao 
• General Mills Food-based Social Change Award: Roshny Vijayakar
• Intel Excellence in Computer Science Award: Caleb Kumar, Samarth Damania
• Institute of Food Technology Award: Annie Jiao
• Medtronic Award 2^nd place: Samarth Damania 
• National Society for Professional Engineers: Taylor McCanna
• Pentair Award: Ellie Soskin 
• SPIE Optics and Photonics Award: Robert Dorn and Saeed Hakim-Hashemi
• Wolfram Research Mathematics Award: Alejandro Fenn and Andrew Engel; Anna Hendrickson and Eva Wang