Materials Science
Purpose: A series of biomonitoring techniques were used to assess the surface water quality of Weeks Bayou subwatershed using chemical, macroinvertebrate, and bacterial analyses. The aquatic…
Materials Science
Third Award
Endocrine Disrupting Compounds (EDCs) have a profound impact on aquatic reproductive processes. Current municipal waste water treatment plants (MWTP) do not eliminate highly persistent EDC’s…
Materials Science
The effects of acid rain on plants and soil have been carefully studied. By using sacrificial metals, like magnesium, these negative effects of acid rain can be offset. Both mortality rate a…
Materials Science
This investigation studied the effect of various exposures of Ultraviolet radiation on Fruit Flies (Drosophila melanogaster) cultivated in Turmeric, a spice that has previously been proven t…
Materials Science
Quadratic function is a second degree polynomial function that is used in many subjects, such as mathematics, statistics, and architectures. The Purpose of this study is to find out applicat…
Materials Science
One of the problems of the infrastructure of EPO 102, is the scarcity of water. This project will cover 100% of the demand for water in the rainy season and 48% annual, with a significant co…
Materials Science
Peat soils are natural resources that have high adsorption capacity to remove heavy metal in polluted water. In this work, peat soils from Indonesian tropical forest were used to investigate…
Materials Science
For parts of Oklahoma, Kansas, and Missouri, lead mining was a prominent industry. This has created medical and ecological concerns in Picher, OK, which the EPA calls “the most toxic place i…
Materials Science (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals My objective is to measure the diamagnetism of different materials. I hypothesized that pyrolytic graphite would be the most diamagnetic because the material is known for it…
Materials Science (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals My objective was to find out what household liquid will take the rust off of pennies the best. Methods/Materials I selected 15 pennies of similar dullness. I picked 5 differ…
Materials Science (Junior Division Only)
Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals I wanted to create a lunchbox/personal cooler that would keep food at safe temperatures for at least five hours. I designed a prototype of a cooler using a carbon based aero…
Materials Science (Junior Division Only)
First Award
Objectives/Goals I am a self-taught seamstress, and I love to sew. The objective of my science project was to determine which stitch type makes the strongest seam and see how that strength v…
Materials Science (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals The purpose of this project was to find the optimal light weight rooftop farm substrate with the lowest organic to inorganic matter ratio that will still support the growth…
Materials Science
The purpose of this project is to design and develp a filtration system that will filter nitrates and/or phosphates from rain water. A media will be selected to test the pilot filter at one…
Materials Science
Population growth and climate change will increase global water demand while water supplies diminish. Creating a compact, inexpensive solar desalination device to salt water into drinking wa…
Materials Science
In 2004, the State of Montana deemed the lower Sun River between the town of Sun River and the city of Great Falls impaired for conductivity, sedimentation, nitrogen, and phosphorous. The pu…
Materials Science
Fourth Award
There are nearly a billion people worldwide who do not have access to clean water and this lack of access has led to nearly 3.4 million deaths annually. This project attempted to determine a…
Materials Science
The purpose of this experiment was to determine the difference of enterococci levels with increasing depths of shoreline sediment beneath aquatic vegetation and sediment clear of vegetation.…
Materials Science (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals The main objective of this science project was to find out how fabric content might have an effect on heat absorption of different fabrics. Methods/Materials Six fabrics wer…
Materials Science
I ran a series of tests on water samples testing the overall water quality with an emphasis on high nitrate concentrations. Based on studies I completed, this is continuation research involv…
Materials Science
The purpose of this experiment was to determine the effect phosphorus has on the growth of duckweed in an aquatic environment. The hypothesis was that if increased amounts of phosphorus are…
Materials Science
According to the Center for Disease Control (CDC), roughly four out of five women will use birth control at some point in their lives. After the main hormone, Ethinyl estradiol, runs its cou…
Materials Science
Hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, describes the recovery of natural gas from deep layers inside the earth. In this method, porous rock is fractured by the use of water, sand, and chemicals…
Materials Science
The degree of deep infiltration in the vadose zone is an important measurement to obtain for many applications and studies in the field of agriculture, containment management, and groundwate…
Materials Science
Aculco is a cheese village; processing about 100,000 liters of milk daily, which obtains 10,000 kg of cheese and 85.000 liters of whey. The whey or cheese whey is the liquid that is separate…
Materials Science (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals The objective of my experiment is find which fabric is the most effective insulator. The supposition of this experiment was that wool would insulate the best, due to its thi…
Materials Science
Statistics are important for identifying, diagnosing, and regulating tumors in some types of cancers. This project studied the effects of type of statistical analysis on the p-value. A data…
Materials Science
Purpose: To analyze the decontamination ability of coontail, sago pondweed, and barley straw. Secondly, to determine the decontamination ability of natural wetlands. Procedures: Small Scale…
Materials Science (Junior Division Only)
Second Award
Objectives/Goals This project aimed to develop a thermosensitive injectable hydrogel that will form gel at body temperature. When loaded with antibiotics, the hydrogel can locally release th…
Materials Science
This project was designed to find the statistics from the 2013 Major League Baseball regular season that showed the most correlation to a team’s ranking in wins. It was hypothesized that the…