10 students win
Intel science awards
Ten Hawaii high school students won prestigious awards at the 2003 Intel International Science and Engineering Fair in Cleveland last month.
Kimberly Reinhold, 15, St. Joseph Junior-Senior High School, Hilo, won a second-place Grand Award of $1,500 in computer science, for "Artificial Intelligence: A Model of Perception by the Visual System."
Reinhold also won the Intel Foundation Women in Engineering and Computational Sciences Award, $2,500 and a high-performance computer; a Schlumberger Excellence in Educational Development award ($500); and a second-place award of $150 from the Patent and Trademark Office/U.S. Department of Commerce.
Jill Harunaga, 18, Kamehameha Schools, Honolulu, won a second-place Grand Award of $1,500 in medicine and health, for "Damnacanthal and the Cytoskeleton: Noni Anthraquinone Normalizes the Cancer Cell Phenotype."
Richard Rodrick, 17, Kapaa High School, Kauai, won a third-place Grand Award of $1,000, in botany, for "Analysis of a Possible Aphid Toxin in Zuuiki Taro (Colocasia gigantea), Year Three: Continued Toxin Isolation and Progeny Testing for Trait Transference."
Matthew Jachowski, 17, Maui High School, Kahului, Maui, won a third-place Grand Award of $1,000 in earth and space science, for "Evolution of Initial Orbit Determination Error Correction Functions by Genetic Programming."
Jachowski also won a special award from NASA, an all-expenses-paid trip to attend the U.S. Space Camp in Huntsville, Ala., and a certificate of excellence. NASA selects projects that best relate to a NASA mission.
Kiana Frank, 16, Kamehameha Schools, Honolulu, won a third-place Grand Award of $1,000 in environmental science for "The Effect of Agricultural and Residential Runoff on the Microbiology of a Hawaiian Ahupuaa."
Frank also won a second-place award of $150 from the Patent and Trademark Office/U.S. Department of Commerce.
Karen Tumaneng, 18, Waipahu High School, won a fourth-place Grand Award of $500 in biochemistry for "The Role of Anthaquinone in the Chemotherapy Effect of the Leaves of Morinda citrifolia."
Whitney Haraguchi, Kapaa High School, won a fourth-place Grand Award in botany for "Mineral Uptake and Accumulation in Lowland Taro (Colocasia esculenta var. Maui Lehua) as Affected by Elevated Levels of Copper Sulfate."
The team of Carrie Esaki, Samuel Moats-Messing and Jeremy Albano from Kapaa High School won a first-place award of $1,000 from the Weed Science Society of America for their project, "Isolation and Characterization of Possible Allelo-Chemicals in Buffalo Grass (Buchloe dactyloides) and Ti (Cordyline terminalis), Second Year Study."