Mammalian Biology
Objectives/Goals This experiment will determine if there is a correlation between public school lunch meal costs and the public school physical fitness test in the state of California. Metho…
Zoology
Objectives/Goals The objective of this project was to determine if, in a period of thirty days, goldfish will learn a pattern they must swim through to get food. The hypothesis was that, in…
Zoology
Third Award
Objectives/Goals The globally distributed Ediacara biota is comprised of the oldest macroscopic organisms on Earth. They lived on shallow sandy sea bottoms between 575 and 543 million years…
Mammalian Biology
Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals To investigate the risk factors associated with acute coronary syndrome (heart attack) in young adults in Central California. Methods/Materials Patients admitted over a ten-…
Mammalian Biology
Third Award
Objectives/Goals The goal of my project was to try to find at least one homeopathic remedy that had the strength to slow down the growth of cancer or even kill cancer cells. Methods/Material…
Zoology
Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals My main question was to see if Monkeyface pricklebacks could OhomeO by using their own chemical trail. I setup a choice experiment with clean and OscentedO water in a tank.…
Zoology
Third Award
Objectives/Goals My objective is to determine if honey production is effected when certain pollen is stored in hives prior to the honey production period. Methods/Materials During the course…
Zoology
Objectives/Goals The focus of this project was on trying to figure out whether Testudines are able to distinguish colors. Methods/Materials To test this hypothesis, a maze was created with d…
Mammalian Biology
Objectives/Goals The objective of my project was to determine if there would be differences in the facial temperatures of secondary school students and elementary school students after exerc…
Zoology
Objectives/Goals Sand crabs are very important to the world, such as medical research because of their sensory neurons. This is also because sand crabs carry many parasites such as Acanthoce…
Mammalian Biology
Objectives/Goals The purpose of this project was to determine the sweetness of five fruits based on the taste in order from highest to lowest, compared to the reading of glucose strips. My h…
Zoology
Fourth Award
Objectives/Goals Microsatellites are two to six base pair length sequences repeated up to hundreds of times within a genome. This project analyzes twelve different fly genomes to find a rela…
Mammalian Biology
Objectives/Goals The purpose of my science project is to determine if equine chiropractics affects stride length and flexibility. I will be testing to see if there is a change in horses' str…
Zoology
Fourth Award
Objectives/Goals The purpose of my project is to determine what color insects are most attracted to: white, red, orange, yellow, green, or blue. The reason I am doing this investigation is t…
Zoology
Objectives/Goals While observing birds at a local lagoon, I noticed that the overall bird abundance and diversity seemed to differ at high versus low tide. I was interested to learn more abo…
Mammalian Biology
Objectives/Goals This experiment was performed to see if changes in sleep cadence affected a mouse's learning ability. This builds on my previous five years study of the effects of artificia…
Mammalian Biology
Objectives/Goals The purpose of my project was to determine how the moon phase affected the overall number of animals passing through the Scotts Creek Watershed. My hypothesis stated as the…
Zoology
Second Award
Objectives/Goals The goal and objective of the experiment is to figure out the duration of memory for natural memetics (e.g. learned information) in three species of captive Tetras, includin…
Zoology
Objectives/Goals On the way to school one morning, and I saw a group of unusual looking birds flying overhead. They had a large wingspan, and an odd shaped beak. I told my science teacher ab…
Mammalian Biology
Objectives/Goals Mountain lions are being spotted all over Santa Cruz, even downtown. Mountain lions are powerful and dangerous animals with the ability to harm people. The purpose of this p…
Mammalian Biology
Second Award
Objectives/Goals The number of people using visual aids is rapidly increasing. However, it is still not completely clear what is causing this. This epidemiological study uses a sample of the…
Mammalian Biology
Objectives/Goals Our project was to determine which dog was more obedient, a Chihuahua or a Doberman. We believed the Doberman was more obedient than the Mexican Hairless Chihuahua and also…
Zoology
Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals The goal of my project was to examine the different ways Sea Star Wasting Syndrome affected the species of the sea star known as Pisaster Ochraceus. I believe that the effec…
Mammalian Biology
Objectives/Goals The effects of Sanfilippo syndrome type B, a rare genetic lysosomal storage disease, on the mouse brain were studied. It was hypothesized that affected mice would have decre…
Mammalian Biology
Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals My project goal was to find out if the activity level of the pika, Ochotona princeps, is affected by temperature. Pikas are small mammals that live at high elevations in the…
Zoology
Objectives/Goals For this year#s science fair project I chose to investigate if after being cut in half will the top half or bottom half of a planarian worm regenerate faster. The reason I c…
Mammalian Biology
Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals Everyone knows that your eye constricts and dilates when exposed to different light levels. However almost 100 years ago scientists observed that other things can cause your…
Mammalian Biology
Objectives/Goals Little is known about the social behavior of domesticated male and female rabbits nor the best way to house them. I investigated whether male rabbits change their dominance…
Mammalian Biology
Objectives/Goals The objective was to determine which color (out of red, yellow, green, and blue) a child could see most readily using their peripheral vision. Research done on this says tha…
Zoology
First Award
Objectives/Goals My objective was to determine whether Pieris rapae butterflies can retain memories of experiences from their larval stage. Methods/Materials Pieris rapae eggs were obtained…