Mathematics & Software
Fourth Award
Objectives/Goals The objective of this project is to use computers to learn music from great composers and generate new compositions that contain desirable characteristics as in the original…
Alternative Energy (Junior Division Only)
Fourth Award
Objectives/Goals Biodiesel can be used to lessen our dependence on fossil fuels and decrease our carbon footprint and carbon emissions. If all the cooking oil is converted to Biodiesel, it w…
Zoology
Fourth Award
Objectives/Goals The Santa Cruz Sandhills is a rare and unique habitat found only in central Santa Cruz County, California. There are two distinct communities that make up the habitat which…
Materials Science (Junior Division Only)
Fourth Award
Objectives/Goals The purpose of this project is aimed for business buildings that either have sound that does not want to flow out to the streets (e.g. Music Schools, Bands, etc.), or buildi…
Pharmacology/ Toxicology
Fourth Award
Objectives/Goals To find out it caffeine elevates the heart rate of Daphnia magna. Methods/Materials 1. Erlenmeyer flask 2. Graduated Cylinder 3. NoDoz Caffeine Pills, 200mg 4. Fresh Spring…
Environmental Engineering (Junior Division Only)
Fourth Award
Objectives/Goals I chose to investigate carbon sequestration in farming. I specifically wanted to look at the effect by varying the planting densities of cover crops and to calculate how muc…
Plant Biology
Fourth Award
Objectives/Goals Objectives: The experiment was to measure the effects of Beta Carotene (a nutrient commonly found in carrots) on the growth of sunflowers infected with the Crown Gall plant…
Biochemistry/ Molecular Biology
Fourth Award
Objectives/Goals 1. Adding more substrate will increase the volume of oxygen linearly, so the rate of oxygen production / concentration of peroxide should remain constant. 2. The higher the…
Chemistry
Fourth Award
Objectives/Goals Volatile organic compounds (VOCs) represent significant health and environmental safety hazards. Sensors for VOCs exist, but are limited, due to cost and size constraints. W…
Environmental Science
Fourth Award
Objectives/Goals The North Pacific Central Gyre (NPCG) is a key area of interest for investigating the effects of plastic debris on the lives of marine organisms because much of this debris…
Biochemistry/ Molecular Biology
Fourth Award
Objectives/Goals Underlying severe complications of diabetes mellitus (DM) is impaired neovasculogenesis. Vasculogenesis (wound healing) involves recruitment of progenitor cell populations,…
Product Science (Biological) (Junior Division Only)
Fourth Award
Objectives/Goals Many people have stopped eating beef, or really cut it out of their diet, because of the health problems caused by saturated fat. Saturated fat can cause heart attacks, stro…
Mammalian Biology
Fourth Award
Objectives/Goals This project will determine if body mass index (BMI) is related to cardiovascular (CV) fitness in children and adolescents aged 12-18 years. I will also examine if the relat…
Zoology
Fourth Award
Objectives/Goals This project analyzes the egg count and maturation time of the hermaphroditic snail Lymnaea stagnalis in cross-bred and grouped populations. My hypothesis was that cross-bre…
Applied Mechanics & Structures
Fourth Award
Objectives/Goals Build a fetal pacemaker for the hydrops fetalis condition, which has a 100% fatality rate, with prior microtechnology expertise in order to be injected into the fetal heart…
Pharmacology/ Toxicology
Fourth Award
Objectives/Goals The objective of my project was to observe the quantitative effects that caloric restriction, rapamycin and resveratrol supplementation, and intermittent starvation had on l…
Mammalian Biology
Fourth Award
Objectives/Goals The purpose of this project is to evaluate how severely music affects a human#s ability to perform spatial tasks that require coordination accuracy and quick reaction time.…
Applied Mechanics & Structures
Fourth Award
Objectives/Goals Gasoline for cars is becoming an expensive and valuable resource. Everyone looks to save on car fuel, but there appears to be no easy solution. One often-overlooked solution…
Earth & Planetary Sciences
Fourth Award
Objectives/Goals The objective of my project was to find what soil (cat litter, dirt, sand) protected Lego towers the best against earthquakes on a shake table with varying voltage, building…
Microbiology (General)
Fourth Award
Objectives/Goals Citrus greening disease (or huanglongbing, HLB) was introduced in the Western hemisphere in 2004, has already destroyed about a third of the industries in both Florida and B…
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Fourth Award
Objectives/Goals Can memories be warped and changed by suggestion? If so, to what extent does gender play one's susceptibility to suggestion? And finally, are eye witness testimonies trustwo…
Microbiology (General)
Fourth Award
Objectives/Goals Based on my experiments from the last two years testing the effects of plant essential oils on the growth of E. coli, I decided to expand on my previous research and separat…
Earth & Planetary Sciences
Fourth Award
Objectives/Goals The purpose of this research was to determine the shape, size, optical properties, and age of Borneo smoke plumes imaged by the MISR instrument between 2001 and 2009. The Mu…
Aerodynamics/ Hydrodynamics (Junior Division Only)
Fourth Award
Objectives/Goals The objective of this project is to determine which shape of horizontal stabilizers provides a safe, twenty-degree-angled touchdown for an air-plane. I tested seven shapes o…
Physics & Astronomy
Fourth Award
Objectives/Goals If it's possible to measure the speed of an object moving in a linear path with a strobe light, then it's possible measure the speed of an object moving in a circular path.…
Electronics & Electromagnetics
Fourth Award
Objectives/Goals Both a robotics project and an experiment comparing the effectiveness and tuning process of different control algorithms, I investigated a system in which a robot balances o…
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only)
Fourth Award
Objectives/Goals The objective is to determine if memory is affected by recording information on a keyboard versus handwriting. This study is particularly relevant in today's society, as key…
Electronics & Electromagnetics
Fourth Award
Objectives/Goals To build a working model of a small scale superconducting magLev train that provides sufficient dada to calculate weather or not building a full scale superconducting MagLev…
Mathematics & Software
Fourth Award
Objectives/Goals My purpose was to discover how classic Prisoner#s Dilemma changes or stays the same when expanded to three players, in terms of winning strategy and defection versus coopera…
Physics & Astronomy
Fourth Award
Objectives/Goals We wanted to know how old is Monoceros R2, a little-researched start cluster in the Unicorn Constellation. We took images of Monoceros R2 using the Faulkes Telescope in Aust…