Spring 2021 BIO 130L Biology of Organisms – SustainaCell competition winners 

Samuel DalCais (’21) – Grand Prize – elegant, aesthetically pleasing design – good incorporation of both found and natural materials. Two different textures of cardboard for plasma membrane and cytoplasm was an interesting choice. The intricacy of wrapping broken popsicle sticks around paper tubes to create centrioles (O) was impressive.

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Avery Avalos (’22) – Best Use of Found Materials (tie) 
Takeout container for cell wall, discarded divider page from a notebook (plasma membrane), a plastic container from a quarter machine for nucleus, adhesive wall mounts for peroxisomes, cytoplasm, old darkroom photography test strips, crumbled gum wrapper for ribosomes, can tabs for mitochondria, cut up cover of disinfecting wet mop cloth container for chloroplasts. 

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Madison Lawley (’24) – Best Use of Found Materials (tie) 
Nice execution of plant cell wall using cardboard Commendation for rolled-up Capri Sun packets as ribosomes and cut up Capri Sun straws as cytoskeleton 

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Morgan Gingras (’24) – Best Use of Found Materials (tie) 
Styrofoam box creation is architecturally impressive. Like the painted spoon heads, and creative use of WELLS Together 100 Day Mask Challenge card for the nucleus. 

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Sahara Vinneccy (‘24 ) and Jessalyn Rios-Rodriguez (‘24) – Best Use of Found Materials (tie) 
Elastic from a disposable face mask, scrap paper, bottle caps - a lot of reused materials crammed into a compact cell model that is kind of “Muppety”-looking

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Magda Garrity (’24) and Berenika Lehrman (’24) – Best Use of Natural Materials (tie) 
“Small but Mighty” commendation for an exceptionally compact model that still clearly displays all relevant   organelles 

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James Stover (’22) - Best Use of Natural Materials (tie) 
Kentucky Coffee Tree seeds (from Golf Course) as plasmodesmata; grapevine as Chromatin; Pinecone  
as rough endoplasmic reticulum; plus commendation for effective reuse of empty condiment packages. 

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Rowan Mayette (’24) and Janelle Smalls (’24) – Most Amusing Use of Found or Natural Materials – tie 
Use of condom as vacuole (will give a pass on “reused” item) Special commendation for pumpkin seeds attached to water bottle sections representing chloroplasts.  

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Lydia Thomas (’24) and Lauren Spiegel (’24) – Most Amusing Use of Found or Natural Materials - tie 
Cytoplasm represented by a “sloshy” Ziploc bag filled with hand sanitizer and mouthwash (will also give a pass on “reused” item for contents).  

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Justin Colindres (’24) and Aaron Izquierdo (’24) – Most Amusing of Found or Natural Materials - tie 
Wells lanyard for Golgi apparatus; toothpaste as cytoplasm; dental picks as smooth and rough e.r. (will also give a pass on “reused” item for contents); disposable face mask elastic string as chromatin, Wet Wipe sections forming cytoskeleton; nucleus from Gatorade bottle top with a baseball core as nucleolus. 

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