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Lackawanna High School Participants: Madeleine Faircloth, Daniel Luong, Jasmina Ogric, Brittany Packard, Kenneth Sobol, and Jeffrey Turner Teacher: Greg Opalinski Poster Presentation Chaos Theory, Cancer, and Bethlehem Steel Company in Lackawanna Cancer is a significant medical and societal problem. Chaos theory is a powerful conceptual framework to understand the limits of predictability in clinical situations especially applied to cancer. Cancer is exponential and unrestricted cellular growth which destabilizes the human body as a system. Chaos theory is a system theory and is beginning to be applied in the field of cancer medicine. We are studying the theory of chaos and how it applies to cancer. We are also studying the environmental effects of Bethlehem Steel, Lackawanna, on its employees. From 1949 to 1952, Bethlehem Steel had a contract with the federal government to roll uranium fuel rods for nuclear reactors. The radiation exposure significantly increased cancer risk in these workers.

Holland Central High School Participants: Nathan DeMario, Joseph DembiK, Matthew Finley, Siobhan Hacker, Jonathan Langford, Zachary Neudeck, Paige Nichols, Tyler Perry, Eric Schiltz, Noah Teluk Teachers: Scott Hunt and Amy DeMario Designing a Digester for Producing Biofuel Over the course of the 2010-2011 school year, we succeeded in selecting a group of 10 students 9-12 grade to act as the developers/researchers of the project. The project they selected was to build a digester that would be run off of waste materials from the cafeteria as well as organic waste collected from the community. The students created a design, collected the materials to construct the digester, and began to construct a scale model. During the process, Mr. Hunt and Mrs. DeMario based their evaluation of the students on their abilities to make decision collectively, organize and implement a plan, and work together in the shop to construct their design.