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2018 Science Olympiad

OVERVIEW

The 17th annual Science Olympiad was held at the Glendale Community College on March 4, 2018. 

GALLERY

AWARDS

JUNIOR PHYSICAL SCIENCES

Award Name and Place 

Student Name(s) / Project Name 

School

Guevrekian Family First Place Award

Daron Yacoubian / PorSHA H2O (Portable Solar Heating Apparatus) 

St. Gregory A&M Hovsepian School 

Mr. and Mrs. Zaven and Sonia Akian First Place Award 

Jake Grigorian / Which Robotic Apparatus Picks up a Cone the Fastest? 

Vahan & Anoush Chamlian Armenian School 

Dr. Alex Grigorian and Family Second Place Award 

Ani Karajayan / Ozone Alert: Increasing Levels of Tropospheric Ozone 

C & E Merdinian Armenian Evangelical School 

Norman Sarafian and Family Second Place Award 

Michael Gureghian / Artificially Intelligent Virtual Assistant Capable of Semi-Human Conversation (Winston) 

St. Gregory Merdinian Armenian Evangelical School

Eddie Atoian Third Place Award 

Adam Muradyan / Off the Grid: Using Solar Energy to Power a Web Server

Vahan & Anoush Chamlian Armenian School 

 

JUNIOR PHYSICAL SCIENCES

Award Name and Place 

Student Name(s) / Project Name 

School

Abrahmian and Shamirian Families Third Place Award 

Robert Dergharapetian / The Challenges of Building a Self-Driving Car

C & E Merdinian Armenian Evangelical School

Oukhtens Families Third Place Award

Raffi Martirosian / How to Disinfect Water Using Sunlight 

Vahan & Anoush Chamlian Armenian School 

Friends of Helen Dabaghian Honorable Mention Award 

Andrew Hacopians and Derik Tomasian / Fast and Friction 

Vahan & Anoush Chamlian Armenian School 

Mr. Rafael Mnaskanyan Honorable Mention 

Annie Hakobyan / Crystals in the Sky 

AGBU Manoogian – Demirdjian School 

Ms. Helen Dabaghian Honorable Mention Award 

Arthur Tamazyan / Calculating The Acceleration of the Car and Ramp Experiment 

Ribet Academy 

 

SENIOR PHYSICAL SCIENCES

Award Name and Place 

Student Name(s) / Project Name 

School

Ms. Helen Dabaghian First Place Award 

Hagop Chinchinian/ Algorithmic Radio Data Classification and Pulsar Detection Using MATLAB

AGBU Manoogian – Demirdjian School 

Barkoudarian Second Place Award 

Marie Uygan / The Illustration of Chemical Equilibria 

Ribet Academy 

Dr. Agbabian and Family Third Place Award 

Haroutiun Boyadjian / Gel Electrophoresis with Dyes 

AGBU Vatche and Tamar Manoukian High School

Mr. Simon Guevrekian in the memory of George Guevrekian Honorable Mention Award 

Narek Daduryan and Ethan Keshishian / Making a portable, phone-powered muon detector 

AGBU Vatche and Tamar Manoukian High School 

Shahmirian Honorable Mention Award 

Haig Simitian and Nareh Aghakhanian / A Gaze into Space 

Rose and Alex Pilibos Armenian School 

 

JUNIOR LIFE SCIENCES 

Award Name and Place 

Student Name(s) / Project Name 

School

Dr. Emmanuel Aaron Shirajian First Place

Award

Shant Koutnouyan/ Yet Another Way to

Prevent Infections

Vahan & Anoush Chamlian Armenian School

Mrs. Amalia Guevrekian And Alex Gregorian

Second Place Award

Eric Markarian / Unnecessary and Excessive Antibiotic Use: An Uprising of

Resistant Bacteria

Vahan & Anoush Chamlian Armenian School

Dr. Chahen Khandjarian and Harmik Hovnanian Third Place Award 

Inesa Haghnazaryan / Solar Powered

Water Desalination With Airflow

St. Gregory A&M Hovsepian

School

Dr. Vrejouhi Darian And Nazari Family HM Award

Gary Shirikchian / The Survival of Germs

Vahan & Anoush Chamlian Armenian School

Bezdikian Family Honorable Mention Award 

Nareh Almassian / Fruits out of 

Vahan & Anoush Chamlian Armenian School

Kalayan family HM award

Alec Eyssakhanian/ Microwave Risk

St. Gregory A&M Hovsepian School 

 

SENIOR LIFE SCIENCES

Award Name and Place 

Student Name(s) / Project Name 

School

Dr. Vaughn Gregor and Helen Dabaghian Second Place Award

Aren Kasparian / Bacteria as factories of the future: Bacterial Transformation

Efficiency

Rose and Alex Pilibos Armenian School

Dr. Svetlana Minassian Third Place Award

Kyle Kalindjian / Stem Cells: The Perfect

Rose and Alex Pilibos Armenian School

 

JUNIOR CHEMISTRY 

Award Name and Place 

Student Name(s) / Project Name 

School

Anonymous First Place Award

Aleen Kojikian / Got Stain

St. Gregory A&M Hovsepian School 

Anonymous Second Place Award

Nayiri Kalindjian / Gravimetric Analysis: Removing Lead from Soil

Vahan & Anoush Chamlian Armenian School

Peter Shirajian Third Place Award 

Daniel Shakaryan / Acidic Solutions around my House

Balboa Elementary School

Juharyan Family Honorable Mention Award 

Andrew Bagherloo / Marble Race: Which liquid has the highest velocity? 

Vahan & Anoush Chamlian Armenian School