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…
Animal Sciences
Problem: To determine if Turmeric or Motherwort is more successful in lowering the heart rate of a Daphnia. Hypothesis: If we are to expose the Daphnia to the Motherwort it will be a bit mor…
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…
Mammalian Biology
Objectives/Goals Hyperventilation before free diving allows the diver to hold their breath longer, but also increases the risk of shallow water blackout and drowning. The urge to come to the…
Mammalian Biology
Objectives/Goals The objective of this project was to determine whether playing video games on a small screen, as opposed to a larger screen, will cause a greater amount of eye strain that w…
Zoology
Objectives/Goals I was inspired to visit an aquarium, and there I noticed a surprising pattern in sea urchin behavior. A purple urchin was nestled nearby a purple sea star, a red urchin was…
Mammalian Biology
Objectives/Goals I have always been interested in sound, and I had just discovered synthesized waveforms. My goal was to investigate if synthesized sound waveforms might affect the ability t…
Mammalian Biology
Objectives/Goals The objective was to determine the effect laughter yoga has on perceived stress levels, blood pressure, oxygen saturation, and heart rate. Methods/Materials 25 human subject…
Mammalian Biology
Objectives/Goals My objective/goal of this experiment was to see if stress can affect body temperature. I did reach that goal, but it wasn't exactly determined by myself. It was mostly deter…
Mammalian Biology
First Award
Objectives/Goals The purpose of my experiment was to find out if texting while walking has an effect on balance and coordination. It was hypothesized that if one walks while texting, it will…
Mammalian Biology
Objectives/Goals The aim of this study was to determine if there is a higher occurrence of atypical laterality, as manifested by mixed handedness, mixed eyedness, and hand-eye cross dominanc…
Zoology
Objectives/Goals This experiment was designed to test if taking the folic acid pills is the initial factor of their faster development and hyperactivity. Methods/Materials MATERIALS 10 femal…
Animal Sciences
The purpose was to study the effect of formulation of moxidectin when administered orally on barber pole worm levels in goats. Barber pole worms are a major threat to a goat’s health. These…
Mammalian Biology
Objectives/Goals The foremost goal of this study was to help diabetics keep low glucose levels without any pharmaceutical products. Methods/Materials This approach explores the use Bitter me…
Mammalian Biology
Fourth Award
Objectives/Goals The objective of my project is to explain the correlation and connection between air quality index, or AQI, and lung capacity in adolescents, or their FEV1 (forced expirator…
Mammalian Biology
Objectives/Goals The goal of this experiment was to determine the effects of eyeglass temple (joint part connecting eyeglass arm and supporting frame) width on vertical and lateral periphera…
Zoology
Objectives/Goals The purpose of this project is to examine how the specific gravity of the environmental sea water in sea urchin population areas affects their spawning and fertilization. I…
Mammalian Biology
Objectives/Goals My project was to determine if I tested subjects with brown, green/hazel, and blue eyes on their ability to identify motion, shapes, and colors, the subjects with the blue c…
Mammalian Biology
Objectives/Goals The objective of this project is to find the impact of age and gender on vocal ranges. Methods/Materials In this trial, people of different genders and age groups were teste…
Zoology
Objectives/Goals According to scientific research, the only animals capable of feeling pain are those that can feel fear, anxiety, distress and terror, similar to what humans feel when we re…
Mammalian Biology
Objectives/Goals The objective of my project is to determine if deep breathing can effect blood pressure, temperature and pulse and therefore help reduce the physiological effects of stress.…