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Finalists & Winners
2004 Finalists
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Kasey Lynn Borchardt

Pinaki Bose

Rebecca Ann Chan

Sara Catherine Clark

Shireen Dhir

Nicholas Samir Ekladyous

Julia Alexine Fanning

Austin Tracey Fullmer

Sherri Ann Gerten

Joy Ellen Hines

Daniel James Jakubisin

Christine Elizabeth Johns

Sravya Ramadugu Keremane

Kevin Nelson Lane

Amanda Jane Lu

Philip George Mansour

David J. Marash-Whitman

Shannon Noel McClintock

Elijah Login Mena

Mary Anne Messer

Maryam Khadijah Mohammed

Ana Christina Pedrajo

Jordan William Pennell

Molly Lauren Pettit

Jonathan William Reasoner

Chana Leora Rich

Anastasia Nast Roda

Michael L. Rutenberg-Schoenberg

Celine Michelle Saucier

Anton H. Schraut

David R. Sharples

Dustin James Shea

Daniella Sinay

Janet Song

Eric William Strege

Adam Ryoma Tazi

Blake Alexander Thompson

David John Westrich

Kyle James Yawn

Blake Gordon Zwerling
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Kevin likes to be outdoors fishing and camping. He also enjoys playing video games and completing puzzles. Because he loves building things and making paper airplanes, Kevin would like to pursue a career in building airplanes. Kevin's science heroes include his father, an environmental engineer, and his uncle, a chemical engineer.
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Kevin toured his local wastewater treatment plant and discovered they were harvesting biogas from organic sludge. He had read that cow flatulence contains methane, and he began devising a scheme to harvest biogas from cow manure.
 
Kevin collected cow excrement and separated it into 1,000-gram batches. He placed each batch and 250 ml of distilled water in metal tubes or "digesters," and vacuum-pumped each digester to remove all air. He incubated the digesters at 100° Celsius and then collected and measured the amount of gas generated by each digester. Kevin found that weekly depressurization of the digesters produced the most methane.
 

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