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These projects, along with those of nine other Greenwich High School students, recently captured top honors at the Connecticut Science Fair. ....
...Eliana Carmona, 16, of Greenwich, drew her inspiration from watching a sister with diabetes get regular insulin shots. Seeing the pain her sister goes through and having herself an aversion to needles, Eliana decided there must be a better way to give insulin...
... Eliza McNitt, 16, of Greenwich, came upon her idea after being warned against eating an apple without washing it because the skin might carry the residue of pesticides used in the orchard....
... Harris Davidson, 18, of Old Greenwich, decided wine would be the subject of his project, testing to see what type of bottle top would best keep the wine unchanged months from its initial uncorking....
... Other projects included one by a senior, Courtney Fogwell, and ninth-grader Likhitha Aidunuthula, who together discovered in lab tests that when exposed to water and high temperatures, rubber pellets used to create the artificial turf fields at Greenwich High School leached traces of a toxin....
... Michael Tom, 15, of Greenwich, experimented with a more efficient way of extracting energy from human biowaste, which may in the future help provide an alternative to using fossil fuel.
Sophie Voss, 16, of Riverside, discovered that the amount of a hormone, cortisol, found in tears shed while crying varies depending on the stress a person is under. Her project looked at how the chemical make-up of tears could help predict a person's vulnerability to stress-related diseases.
Michael Miller, 17, of Old Greenwich, experimented with instant messaging and ways to flag possible identify theft or unauthorized use of a person's instant messaging account.
Other science fair winners from the class include Jessica Blanton, Ryan Chou, George Hansel and William Newberry.
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