Zoology
First Award
Objectives/Goals The goal of our project was to test if nicotinamide and curcumin, two natural compounds, are viable treatments for Parkinson's disease. We assessed the effects of nicotinami…
Zoology
Objectives/Goals Earth#s magnetic field has periodically reversed polarity, some believe that it has begun a process of slowly reversing. Since this isn#t in recorded history,it is unknown w…
Mammalian Biology
Objectives/Goals The objective of my project was to measure and compare the effectiveness of four key components of energy drinks, advertised to increase performance, at improving reaction t…
Mammalian Biology
Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals This study aimed to understand the effect of temperature on basophilic activation, as well as the effect of environmental factors during an allergic reaction. Methods/Materi…
Zoology
Objectives/Goals Our objective was to find if pogonomyrmex barbatus ants are able to remember their surroundings by going through several trials without the help of pheromonal cues Methods/M…
Zoology
Objectives/Goals The purpose of this project is to find a good diet for the farmers' friends, the best composting worms, the red wigglers or red worms-Eisenia fetida. Vermicomposting plays a…
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…
Animal Sciences
Current trends indicate a distressing worldwide decline in honeybees with disease/pests, pesticides and sub-optimal nutrition likely offenders. Optimal energy metabolism may support colony h…
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…