Youth Water Summit 2018 winners
The Confluence Project completed a yearlong project with close to 400 high school students from seven different schools.
The Youth Water Summit, held May 22, was the culminating event that showcased student research projects at North Idaho College in a professional style conference. Nearly 100 judges from various scientific professions reviewed and judged the students projects. They used scientific rubrics to help evaluate the quality of the projects to determine their scores.
These students worked hard all year to create these thoughtful and creative solutions to issues in North Idaho's local watersheds.
Youth Water Summit winners and projects:
Coeur d’Alene High School
First Place: Chloe Whiteside, McKenzie Brett, Keri Drechsel, Anna Carpenter — "Riverstone Pond vs. Spokane River"
Second Place: Caid Wood, Daniel Oyler, Lauren Knoblich — “Reoxygenation”
Third Place: Josiah Funderburg, Hunter Williams — “Stormwater Mitigation”
Lake City High School
First Place: Hayden Addams, Brock Sween, Toriana Wilson — “Natural Filtration for Stormwater”
Second Place: Emma Benz, John Behrens — “Effects of Lawn Runoff on Water Quality”
Third Place: Eric Kennedy, Tyson Crowley, Madison Shay — “Mining Pollution”
Moscow High School
First Place: Emily Izzo, Eden Leonard — “12 Months of Water Conservation”
Second Place: Aspen Palmer, Aila Carr-Chellman — “Water Use Treatment and Conservation Surrounding Moscow”
Third Place: Isaac Staszkow, Theo Dicus, Brendan Greshober — “pH Levels in Water”
Paradise Creek Regional High School
First Place: Makenzee Osborne-Jacobsen — “What Can Bee Done?”
Second Place: Cameron Benson, Shandale Smithee — “Microplastics in Our Community”
Third Place: Kade Hooper, Alyssa Slusher — “The Purple Pipe Project”
Post Falls High School
First Place: (tie) Samantha Lee — “Life of Plastic” Brian Hansen, Conner Milbrath — “The Pressure Valve System”
Second Place: (tie) Rylee Garrett, Bailey Shannahan, Micah Sharples — “Clean Water” Tatum Jones, Charlee Bastedo, Allyson Dewhirst — “Is Your Lawn in Style?”
Third Place: Maddy Lasher, Ali Carpenter, Tyler McCliment-Call — “Stormdrain Research Project”
Timberlake High School
First Place: Riley Hughes, Austin Daniels — “Mill Pond Drainage”
Second Place: Cheyenne Kiecker, Dylan Mock — “Alyssums and Lake Waters”
Third Place: (tie) Emma Gustin, Jackie Ferguson — “Water Consumption vs. Population Growth in Kootenai County” Melissa Holbrook, Becca Roush — “Oh DAM”
Wallace High School
First Place: John Webb, Adidtiya Jakuchan, Kelsie Sullivan — “Water Quality at Wallace High School”
Second Place: Logan Brantz, Hunter Stutzke, Hunter Schulz — “Silver Valley Mine Waste”
Third Place: MeKayla Messick, Keyra Raiha — “Water Quality of the Silver Valley”