Curiosity Challenge 2014 Winners The Cambridge Science Festival asks students ages 5-14 to tell us what they are curious about! http://www.cambridgesciencefestival.org/2014Festival/CuriosityChallenge.aspx

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CURIOSITY CHALLENGE
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7. Alisa Lorden
Age 12
WHY DOES RIGOR MORTIS OCCUR
IN THE BODY?
Abdulwahid Siidi
Age 5
I AM CURIOUS ABOUT RECYCLING
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Ahiaya Milton
Age 8
HOW ARE MATERIALS MADE?
Anika Banerjee
Age 10
DO FISH HAVE THEIR OWN LANGUAGE?

9. Flavia Fernandes
Age 8
I’M CURIOUS
ABOUT FLYING IN THE FUTURE
John Lian
Age 11
WHEN WILL HUMANS
GO EXTINCT?
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Katie Houde
Age 13
WHY ARE OUR EYES
DIFFERENT COLORS?
Jahki Bryant
Age 10
HOW DO CRABS BREATHE
UNDERWATER?

11. Anya Kamara
Age 5
CURIOUS ABOUT KIND PEOPLE
Anthony Elizier
Age 6
I AM CURIOUS ABOUT GIRAFFES
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Ayden Cassano
Age 6
WHY DO DOGS BARK?
Ashley R. Joseph
Age 7
CURIOUS ABOUT
HOW KEYS START CARS

13. Brandon Anderson
Age 7
HOW WIND
TURNS INTO TORNADOES
Eden Cherisme
Age 7
WHERE DO SEEDS COME FROM?
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Domenico Villani
Age 8
HOW CAN WE SAVE SHARKS?
Eliana Mamo
Age 7
WHY DO YOU HAVE HAIR COLOR?

15. Inga Bartsch
Age 7
SEA LEVEL RISE
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Christian Valentin
Age 11
WHY DOES SATURN HAVE RINGS?
Helena Crate
Age 8
WHY DO PLANETS ROTATE?

17. Mia Bilic
Age 12
MOTHER NATURE, WHERE IS SHE?
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Yanecy Fletcher Lewis
Age 7
I AM CURIOUS ABOUT RAINBOWS

19. Rachel Reilly
Age 10
WHY DO TORNADOS SPIN?
Mia Maria Akiki
Age 8
WHY IS EARTH THE ONLY
PLACE YOU CAN LIVE?
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Simone Veile
Age 5
WHY DO BUTTERFLIES FLY?
Nicole Squizzero
Age 13
HOW DO SQUIRRELS KNOW
WHICH TREE IS THEIRS?

21. Willoughby Bonnette
Age 8
CURIOUS ABOUT CARNIVOROUS PLANTS
Victoria Gonzalez
Age 12
WHAT PRODUCES THE WIND?
Sofia d’Arbeloff
Age 6
HOW ARE DINOSAURS MADE?
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Te’ Mya Polk
Age 5
I WANT TO LEARN
ABOUT APPLES
Tim Fargiano
Age 12
HOW CAN WE PROTECT
AGAINST CONCUSSIONS?

23. Tina Nguyen
Age 13
WHY ARE TIGERS SO FIERCE?
Josephine Garland
Age 14
I WONDER HOW ZEBRAS
GOT THEIR STRIPES
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Sophia Lamm
Age 8
HOW DO BUTTERFLIES FLY?
Sadcla Jacinthe
Age 7
HOW DO THE LEAVES
CHANGE COLOR?

25. Stephanie Trendell
Age 11
WHAT WILL HAPPEN WITH
GLOBAL WARMING?
Vanessa Pugliesi
Age 8
CURIOUS ABOUT TURTLES
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Sebastian Suplice
Age 10
WHY DOES SPACE GROW?
Tania Pierre-Louis
Age 11
WHY DO CHAMELEONS
CHANGE COLOR?

27. Ali Landy
Age 12
WHY DO THE SEASONS CHANGE?
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28. Savannah Suplice
Age 5
WHY DO LADYBUGS HAVE BLACK DOTS?
Sean Taylor
Age 7
HOW DO DRAWINGS MOVE YOUR EYES?
Alexia Panayiotopoulos
Age 6
HOW DO VOLCANOS EXPLODE?
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29. Percilla Wilkins
Age 12
WHY DO WE NEED WHITE BLOOD CELLS?
Seth Turk
Age 14
SNOWFALL
Catherine Zhou
Age 9
HOW DO ATOMS BOND?
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Olivia Blaufuss
Age 13
WHAT IS CONSCIOUSNESS?
Olivia Duffy
Age 10
WHY DO THERE HAVE TO BE SHADOWS?

31. Abdelrahman Abougalala
Age 13
DO PLANTS
HAVE AN IMMUNE SYSTEM?
Adam Chrifiabioui
Age 9
I AM CURIOUS ABOUT CLOUDS
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Alina Shkurikhina
Age 10
THE WONDERS OF LIFE
Aine Büchau
Age 12
WHY DO SOME PEOPLE
HAVE ALLERGIES?

33. Nicholas Hardy
Age 12
WHY ARE LETTERS
BACKWARDS IN MIRRORS?
Matty Hong
Age 10
HOW DO PEOPLE KNOW TIME EXISTS?
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Mary Sives
Age 10
CURIOUS ABOUT THE HUMAN BODY
Macy Broderick
Age 13
IS THERE AN END TO SPACE?

35. Amy Liu Sharma
Age 9
DIFFERENCE BETWEEN MINERALS
AND CRYSTALS
Anda Gravlin
Age 12
WHAT IS A SHOOTING STAR?
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April Robinson
Age 9
HOW DO OCTOPUS’S
TENTACLES REGENERATE?
Ashley McNamara
Age 11
DANGEROUS CHEMICALS IN
EVERYDAY PRODUCTS

37. Desiree Petion
Age 9
HUMANS ATTRACTED TO TECHNOLOGY
Avery Clough
Age 7
WHY DOES ICE CREAM MELT?
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Ava Costa
Age 9
HOW WERE PLANETS FORMED?
Angelina Cross
Age 12
HOW CAN AN OWL
TURN ITS HEAD AROUND?

39. Bailey Marlowe
Age 11
SUNRISE, SUNSET
Caroline Robinson
Age 11
I’M CURIOUS ABOUT WATER
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Isabella Corredor
Age 8
HOW DO STARFISH GROW
BACK THEIR ARMS?
Jada Riley
Age 8
CURIOUS ABOUT CONTINENTS

41. Michael Deaver
Age 6
I AM CURIOUS ABOUT
ANIMALS AND WEATHER
Kalkidan Mamo
Age 12
HOW MUCH ENERGY
DO WE USE PER YEAR?
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Sarah Pollard
Age 13
WHY DO SOME SEA CREATURES GLOW?

43. David Meech
Age 14
CURIOSITY ACROSTIC
Domenic Jancaterino
Age 13
DO YOU HEAR WHAT I HEAR?
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44. Holly Chadwick
Age 12
DIFFERENT FINGERPRINTS
Eden Lewis
Age 8
ROCKS AND MINERALS
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45. Jillian Rundlett
Age 12
WHY DO PEOPLE
HAVE A DOMINANT HAND?
Nellisha Leonce
Age 13
CURIOUS ABOUT A
CURE FOR ALL CANCER
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Sara Crimmins
Age 10
HOW DO AIRPLANES FLY?
Dev Mehra
Age 7
CAN THE CONTINENTS
EVER RECONNECT?

47. Maksim Román
Age 6
HOW HOT IS THE SUN?
Eman Aburezak
Age 8
HOW DID VENUS CHANGE?
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Leah Batarseh
Age 12
HOW DOES THE HUMAN BRAIN WORK?
Lukeman Nouri
Age 6
HOW DOES TIME MOVE?

49. Kathryn McCarthy
Age 11
HOW DOES THE
LUNG SYSTEM WORK?
Katie Tocci
Age 7
WHERE DO WAVES COME FROM?
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Maneyris Silva Brea
Age 9
WHY IS GRASS WET WITH DEW?
Khalid Jama
Age 10
WHY DOES THE TEXTURE OF BABY
HAIR CHANGE?

51. Eile Purdy
Age 10
I’M CURIOUS
Kira Tosi
Age 13
WATER PARTICLES AND RAIN DROPS
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Clarissa Waldmann
Age 12
GLOBAL WARMING
Hope Bell
Age 13
WHY ARE YAWNS CONTAGIOUS?

53. Ivy Rose McNamee
Age 9
A WORLD WITHOUT TREES OR PLANTS
Jaxson Cahn
Age 8
HOW DO HURRICANES FORM?
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Kaeson Sandhu
Age 11
I AM CURIOUS ABOUT IPHONES
Jeremiah Julce
Age 9
WHAT ARE ROBOTS?

55. Kelsey Golden
Age 11
WILL THERE BE A CURE FOR DIABETES?
Kafia Jama
Age 10
WHERE DOES SNOW COME FROM?
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Kiara Cerruti
Age 10
WHAT GOES ON IN ANIMAL’S MINDS?
Keyah Adamson
Age 10
I AM CURIOUS ABOUT HAIR

57. Anyee Li
Age 8
HOW MUCH SUNLIGHT DID WE GAIN?
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Brave Arimah Sherab
Age 6
WHY ARE FIREWORKS SO LOUD?
Lulu Wright
Age 11
HOW DO WE KNOW DINOSAURS
WEREN’T BRIGHT PINK?
Pennie Sullivan
Age 13
WHY DON’T WE THINK BEFORE WE DO?

59. Leyla Ewald
Age 12
TO SWIM AROUND THE WORLD
Maeve DiSandro
Age 11
HOW THE HUMAN MIND WORKS
Siddharth Nirgudkar
Age 6
VEINS THAT CARRY BLOOD
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60. Manuela DePina
Age 11
WRINKLY FINGERS
Marwa Dissa
Age 10
WHY DO TIGERS HAVE STRIPES?
Richard Cahoon
Age 8
WHY ARE DOLPHINS SO SMART?
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61. Max Bennett
Age 8
HOW DID KANGAROOS AND KOALAS
GET TO AUSTRALIA?
Maya Ashour
Age 9
WOULD WE BE ABLE TO LIVE
ON THE MOON?
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Nora Watras
Age 7
I AM CURIOUS ABOUT NATURE
Neil Mueller
Age 8
WHY DO CLOUDS FLOAT?

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