Previous Award Winners

SPONSOR an Award

Grand Prize Winners

First Place

Jordan Prawira

Pura Aer 2
Mountain House High School

Second Place

Rishabh Ambavanekar

Enabling Verbal Communication and Accelerating Recovery: the Creation of Novel Low-Cost Electroencephalography-based Brain-Computer Interface for the Differently Abled
Vista del Lago High School

Third Place

Pranavi Khanna

The Effect of Super Absorbent Polymers on Soil Heavy Metal Immobilization
Mira Loma High School

Special Awards

Previous Winners

Category Awards

Middle School

  • Honorable Mention
    Ceily Saenz Gonzalez
    What Wax Can Stay Lit Longer?
    E.V. Cain Charter Middle School
  • Honorable Mention
    Julia Simpson
    An All-Time Grow
    E.V. Cain Charter Middle School
  • Fifth Place
    Gabriel Nucamenti
    What sticky substance makes a ball go faster?
    E.V. Cain Charter Middle School
  • Fourth Place
    Chase Rodarte
    The Great Bambino: Which Bat Has The Biggest Bam?
    E.V. Cain Charter Middle School
  • Third Place
    Caden Cavrikas
    Does the color of the net affect your freethrow average?
    E.V. Cain Charter Middle School
  • Second Place
    Ivyona Stafford
    What is the effect of runoff on a natural habitat?
    E.V. Cain Charter Middle School
  • First Place
    Liam James Manzyuk
    The Wonders of Soil!
    E.V. Cain Charter Middle School

Honorable Mention
Sam Sykes
Cold Feet? Hot Socks!
E.V. Cain Charter Middle School

Honorable Mention
William Hake
Does the surrounding temperature affect the speed at which a candle burns
E.V. Cain Charter Middle School

Fifth Place
Elise Walker
Slippery Sliding Friction
E.V. Cain Charter Middle School

Fourth Place
Cicely Griffitts
How is plant growth effected by using different liquids?
E.V. Cain Charter Middle School

Third Place
Camdyn Ayles
Can you Blaim the Baking Sheet for your Burnt Cookies?
E.V. Cain Charter Middle School

Second Place
Reiley Kaiser
Soar High Fly Far: Which Wing Design has the Most Lift?
E.V. Cain Charter Middle School

First Place
Candace Lu
Development of Home-Built Portable & Sustainable Microbial Fuel Cell System from Living Plants
Sutter Middle School (Folsom)

High School

  • First Place
    Katherine Lee
    Quantum Tunneling: Optimizing Nuclear Fusion
    Vista del Lago High School

First Place
Kaleb Krafka
What Would it Take to Replace all non-Carbon Neutral Power?
West Park High School

Thank you To Past Special Award Sponsors

  • American Meteorological Society
  • American Psychological Association
  • American Public Works Association
  • ASM Materials Education Foundation
  • Association for Women Geoscientists
  • California Air Resources Board
  • California Association of Professional Scientists (CAPS)
  • California Department of Water Resources
  • California Biomedical Research
  • GENIUS Olympiad
  • Intel Excellence in Computer Science
  • I-SWEEEP
  • MU Alpha Theta
  • National Oceanic & Atmospheric Administration
  • Office of Naval Research (US Navy/US Marine Corps)
  • Professional Engineers in California Government (PECG)
  • Ramesh Innovation
  • RICOH Americas Corporation
  • Younger Member Forum of the American Society of Civil Engineers (Sac YMF)
  • SMUD Energy Award
  • Society for In Vitro Biology
  • Stockholm Junior Water Prize
  • US Public Health Service
  • Yale Science & Engineering Association

Sponsorship Levels

Platinum Sponsor

$20,000+

  • Opportunity to present 2-minute welcome message at Awards Ceremony
  • Opportunity to put “swag” in each registered student goodie bag
  • Opportunity for monthly ad in The Beaker to run for 12 months
  • Company acknowledged in e-newsletter, the Beaker, delivered electronically to all participants, business partners and partnering organizations
  • Company banner displayed in the Awards Ceremony auditorium (banner must be provided)
  • Verbal recognition during Award Ceremony
  • Full-page ad in event program
  • Active link from our web site to your home page
  • Opportunity to exhibit at College & Fair Expo with no fee (promotion booth at which you can demonstrate company products/processes)
  • Company name and logo in event program, on sponsors’ billboard list at entrance to event, and on our website

Gold Sponsor

$10,000 – $19,999

  • Opportunity to host one ad in The Beaker (month of own choosing)
  • Company acknowledged in e-newsletter, the Beaker, delivered electronically to all participants, business partners and partnering organizations
  • Company banner displayed in the Awards Ceremony auditorium (banner must be provided)
  • Verbal recognition during Award Ceremony
  • Full-page ad in event program
  • Active link from our web site to your home page
  • Opportunity to exhibit at College & Fair Expo with no fee (promotion booth at which you can demonstrate company products/processes)
  • Company name and logo in event program, on sponsors’ billboard list at entrance to event, and on our website

Silver Sponsor

$5,000 – $9,999

  • Quarter-page ad in event program
  • Active link from our web site to your home page
  • Opportunity to exhibit at College & Fair Expo with no fee (promotion booth at which you can demonstrate company products/processes)
  • Company name and logo in event program, on sponsors’ billboard list at entrance to event, and on our website

Bismuth Sponsor

$1,000-$4,999

  • Opportunity to exhibit at College & Fair Expo with no fee (promotion booth at which you can demonstrate company products/processes)
  • Company name and logo in event program, on sponsors’ billboard list at entrance to event, and on our website

Category Sponsor

$500

  • Selected STEM category identified in program and on state at Awards Ceremony as “presented as (company name)”
  • Possible opportunity for a company representative to assist in presentation of awards on stage during Ceremony
  • Company name and logo in event program, on sponsors’ billboard list at entrance to event, and on our website

Friends of the Foundation Sponsor

Less than $500

  • Company name on our website and in event program

Tax Deductable

Tax ID #91-2169205

Contributions to the NSE Foundation are Tax Deductible —

For additional information contact Nadia Compton, Director at (916) 441-3150 or ncompton@sacstemfair.org