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This profile is for Zachary Luna, a junior at Niles North High School who conducted an independent research project on manipulating how fast oil-eating microbes can consume oil. Over the past year in his SIRS class, Zachary was able to successfully increase the rate at which microbes consumed oil by adding variables like nitrogen and oxygen to soil samples. As a result of his research, Zachary won gold at his regional science fair and qualified for the Illinois State Science Fair. He also received a special Stockholm award for his work studying these oil-eating microbes native to Lake Michigan.

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This profile is for Zachary Luna, a junior at Niles North High School who conducted an independent research project on manipulating how fast oil-eating microbes can consume oil. Over the past year in his SIRS class, Zachary was able to successfully increase the rate at which microbes consumed oil by adding variables like nitrogen and oxygen to soil samples. As a result of his research, Zachary won gold at his regional science fair and qualified for the Illinois State Science Fair. He also received a special Stockholm award for his work studying these oil-eating microbes native to Lake Michigan.

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Zachary

Luna

8521KarlovAve
Skokie,IL60076

8479330466
2243835478
zaclun1@nths219.org
http://oileatingmicrobes.weebly.co
m/

PROFILE

IamajunioratNilesNorthhighschoolcurrentlyenrolledinSIRS.ThisyearI
continuedmyprojectfromsophomoreyearfocusingonmanipulatinghowfastoil
eatingmicrobesnativetoLakeMichigancanconsumeoil.Ididthisbyadding
variablestooillacedsoilsampleswithmicrobespresent.ThisyearIwasableto
havesuccessfulresultsandfurtherincreasemyknowledgeonthetopic.Iwas
abletowingoldandbeadmittedtostateaswellaswinaspecialawardcalled
theStockholmaward.IwouldliketothankStevenRockaresearcherwhoguided
methroughtheexperimentationprocessandbackgroundinformationonthe
project.Ilearnedhowtoincreaselevelsofnitrogenandoxygentoasoilsample
andcorrectlyapplytheoileatingmicrobes.IappliedthenitrogenbyaddingUrea
tothesoilandoxygenbyusingoxygenstonesthatconsistentlyreleaseoxygen
foramonth.SophomoreyearIwasonlyabletoworkonmyprojectforhalfofthe
schoolyearsoIwasnotabletoachieveresultsuntilnow.

EXPERIENCE

SIRsStudent,NilesNorth
Skokie,IL20142015

SIRSisaspecialscienceclassthatallowsyoutoworkonanindependent
researchprojecttheentireyear.SIRSallowsyoutomanageyourownprojectat
yourownpaceaslongasdesignatedduedatesarefollowed.
Inthespring,the
studentspresentattheregionalsciencefairforachancetowinawardsand
qualifyfortheIllinoisStateScienceFairheldinMay.
Accomplishments

VisitedGalena,ILtoseeactualoilspill.
Createdgraphtopresentdata.
DiscoveredthatmicrobesnativetoLakeMichiganfavoredincreased
Oxygenandwarmertemperaturesbasedoffofresults.
WonGoldatRegionalScienceFair
QualifiedfortheIllinoisStateScienceFair

EDUCATION

NilesNorthHighSchool
2012Present

Completedsciencecourses:
HonorsBiology
HonorsChemistry
APPhysics1
STEMInquiryandResearch

SKILLS

TimeManagement
Thiscourseallowedmetolearnalotaboutmonitoringmytime
wisely.Timemanagementwaskeytothiscourseduetothe
factthatyouaresoindependentwhenitcomestotheactual
experiment.Meetingdeadlineswasattimesdifficultformeand
allowedmetoimprovehowIusedmytime.WhatIhave
learnedfromthisyearwillmostdefinitelybeusedfornext
1

yearsclass.
Analyzingdata
OnceIcollectedallmydata,Ihadtocalculateaveragesand
determinewhatthedataactuallymeanttomyexperiment.I
hadtocompareandfindthemostfavoredvariableforthe
microbesbasedontheresults.
CalculatingDensity
Ilearnedhowtocalculatedensityinacarefulmannerto
preventexperimentalerrorinmyproject.
UsingExcel
Ilearnedhowtotakemydataandplaceitintoagraphusing
Exceltodemonstratelegitimateresultstoviewersatamore
visuallypleasinglevel.
PublicSpeakingandCommunication
Ilearnedhowtocorrectlypresentmyprojectinfrontofjudges
atsciencefair.Iwasabletoovercomemyanxietyofspeaking
toasmallindividualaudienceandbecomesuccessfulatboth
fairs.Ialsoimprovedmycommunicationskillsbycontactingmy
mentorforadviceoraskingforhelpwithmyexperimenttomy
SIRSteacher.

ACHIEVEMENTS

AwardedGoldbyIllinoisJuniorAcademyofScience(IJAS)atRegional
ScienceFair
QualifiedforIJASStateScienceFair
StockholmJuniorWaterPrize

REFERENCES

Mentor:
Steven Rock-rock.steven@epa.gov

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