Photo Gallery: Local students participate in the California State Science Fair

Flintridge Prep’s Vick Liu, 15 and a freshman, talks about his project with Dr. Margie Dell during exhibition at the 62nd California State Science Fair competition at the California Science Center in Los Angeles on Tuesday, April 16, 2013. (Raul Roa/Staff Photographer)

April 16, 2013 10:25 PM PT

Local middle and high school students competed for statewide science accolades on Monday and Tuesday at the California Science Center in Los Angeles. The California State Science Fair, now in its 62nd year, featured projects from about 1,000 budding scientists who received high honors at regional science fairs throughout the state.

Photo Gallery: Local students participate in the California State Science Fair at Ca. Science Center

With the space shuttle Endeavour in the background, La Canada High School’s Stella Chen talks about her carbon dioxide concentration project at the 62nd California State Science Fair competition at the California Science Center in Los Angeles on Tuesday, April 16, 2013. (Raul Roa/Staff Photographer)

With the space shuttle Endeavour in the background, Glendale’s Incarnation Parish School 6th graders Krista Celo, 12, left, and Francesca Legaspi, 11, right, show a video of their Building Stability During Earthquakes project at the 62nd California State Science Fair competition at the California Science Center in Los Angeles on Tuesday, April 16, 2013. (Raul Roa/Staff Photographer)

Rosemont Middle School students Kiran Hamkins, left, and Alexandra Bayard, right, show how their Maximizing Solar Cell Performance project was done, at the 62nd California State Science Fair competition at the California Science Center in Los Angeles on Tuesday, April 16, 2013. (Raul Roa/Staff Photographer)

Flintridge Prep’s Makayla Campbell, 16 and a sophomore, shows her #-D printing project results\ at the 62nd California State Science Fair competition at the California Science Center in Los Angeles on Tuesday, April 16, 2013. (Raul Roa/Staff Photographer)

Emma Scott, 8th grader from Blair High School in Pasadena, showed her project on how nail polish works at the 62nd California State Science Fair competition at the California Science Center in Los Angeles on Tuesday, April 16, 2013. (Raul Roa/Staff Photographer)

Incarnation Parish School (Glendale) 8th grader Isabella Williams talks to judge Apollo Gallardo, Jr., about her project, The Effects of Wavelength on the Refraction of Light, during exhibition at the 62nd California State Science Fair competition at the California Science Center in Los Angeles on Tuesday, April 16, 2013. (Raul Roa/Staff Photographer)

Flintridge Prep’s Garrett Gaines talks about his Fertilizwer and Water project during exhibition at the 62nd California State Science Fair competition at the California Science Center in Los Angeles on Tuesday, April 16, 2013. (Raul Roa/Staff Photographer)

La Canada High School’s Alice Zhai, left, and Stella Chen, right, showed their projects near the space shuttle Endeavour at the 62nd California State Science Fair competition at the California Science Center in Los Angeles on Tuesday, April 16, 2013. (Raul Roa/Staff Photographer)

South Pasadena Middle School’s Owen Keith talks to Dr. Wei Zhou about the Effect of Biodiversity on Ecosystem Health during exhibition at the 62nd California State Science Fair competition at the California Science Center in Los Angeles on Tuesday, April 16, 2013. (Raul Roa/Staff Photographer)

Crescenta Valley High’s Easun Arunachalam talks about his Cell Signal Mechanism project during exhibition at the 62nd California State Science Fair competition at the California Science Center in Los Angeles on Tuesday, April 16, 2013. (Raul Roa/Staff Photographer)

Flintridge Prep’s Vick Liu, 15 and a freshman, talks about his project during exhibition at the 62nd California State Science Fair competition at the California Science Center in Los Angeles on Tuesday, April 16, 2013. (Raul Roa/Staff Photographer)

Glendale Chamlian Armenian School’s John Bandek, 13 and in 8th grade, talks about colors in candy and how companies use it, during exhibition at the 62nd California State Science Fair competition at the California Science Center in Los Angeles on Tuesday, April 16, 2013. (Raul Roa/Staff Photographer)

Alexandra Maloof of El Centro’s Central Union High School, talks about her project, Bifidobacteria as Prospective Biotherapeutic in Controlling Type 2 Diabetes, during exhibition at the 62nd California State Science Fair competition at the California Science Center in Los Angeles on Tuesday, April 16, 2013. (Raul Roa/Staff Photographer)

Desert High School’s Maria Hanes, 18 and a senior, talks about her Concussion Cushion project during exhibition at the 62nd California State Science Fair competition at the California Science Center in Los Angeles on Tuesday, April 16, 2013. (Raul Roa/Staff Photographer)