Winners
Listed below are the winners of the 2010 Technology Fair.
| Place | Recipients | School | Entry Name | Details |
| 1st | Ms Ekern’s class | Fall River Elementary School | Colorado Conservation Project | +/- |
•Project Description: Students created a presentation using technology that introduces the viewer to environmental issues in Colorado and offers solutions to the problems. In writing class and science class we are doing a year-long integrated research project about Colorado Conservation. It involves every student researching environmental topics and giving speeches. We also created solutions to the environmental problems that we researched and presented them at a science fair-type conservation fair. This technology project is a small part of the year-long project.
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| 2nd | TempleMark’s, Mault’s and Morrow’s classes | Blue Mountain Elementary School | Multimedia of Weather and Native Americans | +/- |
•Project Description: Podcasts about the interactions of air and weather; digital photos of clouds; inquiry journal; podcast script writing or podcasts about Native American cultures compared to own culture; diaoramas of tribes, digital photos of diaoramas.
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| 3rd | Ms Potter’s Class | Eagle Crest Elementary School | MESA Garden Project — G.R.O.W. | +/- |
•Project Description: Research, planning and creation of a school yard garden. Content included: Science: research plant types and projects; Math: measuring plot spaces and planters; Environmental Awareness: Greenstar training taught by students to parents; Art: create logo and acronym; Language Arts: write summaries and evaluations of accomplishments; Technology: incorporate writing, art, music through audio podcast and visual journal.
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| Place | Recipients | School | Entry Name | Details |
| 1st | Jackie Reh | Flagstaff Academy | Using Walking to Generate and Store Electrical Power | +/- |
•Project description: Many devices are small hand-held units that require batteries that can run down. Jackie demonstrated a technology that uses a Piezoelectric device mounted inside a shoe so that as the user walks, the force of the weight of the foot generates and stores usable power. |
| 2nd | Jackson Scheppers | Trail Ridge Middle School | Eighth Grade Survival Guide | +/- |
•Project description: The Eighth Survival Guide is a wiki allowing students to have access to subjects in the Eighth Year. |
| 3rd | Sam Sartor | Flagstaff Academy | Operation of the Sterling Engine Project | +/- |
•Project description: The Stirling Engine is often called an "external" combustion engine or "heat" engine. As humans explore alternative power sources, the Stirling Engine is gaining attention. Sam's submission showed a working Stirling Engine and he explained how it works. |
| Place | Recipients | School | Entry Name | Details |
| 1st | Josh Rahm | Skyline High School | Modulus Calculator | +/- |
•Project description: Calculator built and developed in the Java Programming Language, complete with 2D and 3D graphing.
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| 1st | Ethan Helms | Lyons Middle/Senior High School | Ethan Helms Portfolio Website Project | +/- |
•Project description: Student portfolio including Photoshop , After Effects, video & images.
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| 2nd | Mari Burgess, Willow McGinty, Travis Rebhan, and JR Byrne | Niwot High School | Theatrical Automated Light Demonstration | +/- |
•Project description: To learn how to program and operate the lights in the auditorium for concerts, recitals and other events. As part of the Technical Theatre proficiency, the students must program the lights of the theatre to sync with a song. This process usually takes about a minimum of 15-20 man hours for a three minute song. Videos of these Light Shows were shown at the Theatrical Automated Light Demonstration Booth.
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| 3rd | Christopher Apple and Kristian Ziel | Erie High School/Niwot High School | Swim Link | +/- |
•Project description: SwimLink, an iPhone App created by the students, is the easiest way to keep track of your swimming times. Set up a meet; add times to that with ease. You can easily see all of your times, track improvements, see trends, and set goals. It also serves as a time converter for the different types of pools. http://twitter.com/SwimLink http://search.appvee.com/swimlink-iphone-125047/app. |
| Recipients | School | Entry Name | Details |
| Kristi Ekern’s class | Fall River Elementary School | Colorado Conservation Project | |