20TH EAC SCIENCE FAIR INTEL – ISEF

Ninety five projects were presented at the 20th EAC Science Fair held on March 14 and 15, 2005. The objective of the Science Fair program is to provide the students with an opportunity to undertake a long-term semi-independent project on a topic that they are interested in.
We were lucky to have the help of the following judges: Benedito Oliveira Filho, Berenice Carneiro, Cassio Murin, Elza da Cruz Vascocellos, José Armando Valente, José Luiz Donato, Luciana Benjamin Benatti, Nancy Lopes Garcia, Otavio Henriqure Pavan, Rene Brenzikofer and Douglas Takeuti. We would like to thank them for generously donating their time and also giving us some very valuable feedback. On the positive side, we have improved in the area of data collection but we must work on the analysis and significance of the results. Students also have also shared some concerns and ideas, which we will try to incorporate into our future fairs.
Our award winners this year were:

SPECIAL AWARDS
Ricoh Sustainable Development - Flavia Hennessey &  Natasha Naday
Project - Further assessment of Eichornia crassipes
ASM International Foundation - Joel Suslick & Philip Martin
Project - Magnetorheological Fluids and their viscosity
Eastman Kodak Company - Mariana Medeiros
Project - The Atibaia River’s water
Yale Science and Engineering Association - Rodrigo Luger & Giuliano Sider
Project - Multi-layered Optical Data Storage System

MIDDLE SCHOOL - INDIVIDUAL
First - Mariana Netto
Project - Advertisements effect on recycling
Second - Eduardo Costa
Project -Circuits
Third - Barbara Dias 
Project -Staying Alive!
Honorable Mention - Mariana Fulanetti
Project - Dropping Breads

MIDDLE SCHOOL - TEAM
First - Cristina Prudencio & Erica Engelman
Project - Thermal Expansion
Second - Gabriel Paes & Vinicius Pinto
Project - To run or not to run
Third - Juliana Oliveira & Marcos Fernandes
Project - Chromatography

HIGH SCHOOL - INDIVIDUAL
First - Antonio Mei
Project - Making Artificial Diamonds
Second - Sarah Menezes 
Project - Sound Blockage
Third - Walid Radwan 
Project - Different views of the same subject

HIGH SCHOOL - TEAM
First - Rodrigo Luger & Giuliano Sider
Project - Multi-layered Optical Data
Second - Gabriel Slenes &  Bruno Chan
Project - Seasonal variations in serum lipids
Third - Joel Suslick & Philip Martin
Project - Magnetorheological Fluids and their viscosity
Honorable Mention - Flavia Hennessey &  Natasha Naday
Project - Further assessment of Eichornia crassipes