Physics & Astronomy
Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals This study determines how the Coefficient of Deformation of a telescope's mirror affects the size of image produced (Transverse Aberration). Coefficient of Deformation is a…
Physics & Astronomy
Objectives/Goals The objective of this project is to learn about speakers and how they work, understand the movement and characteristics of sound waves and how they affect the speaker, how f…
Physics & Astronomy
Objectives/Goals Our objective was to determine how the mass and height of dominoes and the distance between them would affect the speed at which they fell. Methods/Materials We set-up 20 mi…
Physics & Astronomy
Objectives/Goals My objective is to use a Newtons spring scale to measure how tire pressure affects the force required to pull a bike in a straight line. Methods/Materials This science proje…
Electronics & Electromagnetics
Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals Classical computers must use power to perform calculations, and this fundamental fact leaves them vulnerable. Since all data is bound to physical electric charge, a computer…
Electronics & Electromagnetics
Third Award
Objectives/Goals The Internet as we know 5 years ago was made of mostly computers. Today it is more than computers - cars, dishwashers, clothing, keychains - the Internet of Things has arriv…
Electronics & Electromagnetics
Objectives/Goals Even a few decades, the possibility of frictionless vehicles seemed impossible, but today the new invention of floating maglev trains is more common all around the world. By…
Aerodynamics/ Hydrodynamics (Junior Division Only)
Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals The purpose of this project was to determine the effects of camber on airfoil lift. The upper surface of a cambered airfoil is longer than the lower surface. As air moves ov…
Physics & Astronomy
Objectives/Goals To find the most fuel efficient combination of plate charge and plate distance in a gridded ion engine. Methods/Materials Materials: A computer old enough to run Java plugin…
Physics & Astronomy
Objectives/Goals My objective was to try and make graphite a pressure sensitive resistance, and then to study the parameters influencing it's resistance (width of the graphite, elasticity...…
Electronics & Electromagnetics
Fourth Award
Objectives/Goals The purpose of this project was to build a device that generated power from a soccer ball. I researched existing products, build and designed a prototype and then analyzed i…
Electronics & Electromagnetics
First Award
Objectives/Goals The LittleDog project was part of the DARPA Learning Locomotion program, which involved using a quadruped robot, LittleDog (constructed by Boston Dynamics), to walk through…
Physics & Astronomy
Objectives/Goals The purpose of this science project is to build a simple and inexpensive spectrophotometer using a cellphone that will work as well as commercial spectrophotometers, and tes…
Physics & Astronomy
Objectives/Goals My objective was to measure the acceleration constant and mass of the earth to within 10% accuracy using a non-automated system. Methods/Materials I manually timed how long…
Physics & Astronomy
Objectives/Goals We can all see that some foods change color when they cook. I wanted to understand what aspect of reflectivity changes in food as it cooks. The human eye has difficulty quan…
Aerodynamics/ Hydrodynamics (Junior Division Only)
Second Award
Objectives/Goals The objective of my project was to create a new design of wind turbine blade and test its efficiency at varying wind speeds against two previously designed blades, the stand…
Physics & Astronomy
Objectives/Goals The objective of this project was to see how the morphology of galaxies who host Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) are different from those that do not. Methods/Materials -If the…
Aerodynamics/ Hydrodynamics (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals The objective is to construct a small scale wind tunnel to observe the aerodynamics of various car designs. Methods/Materials A small scale wind tunnel was constructed from…
Electronics & Electromagnetics
Objectives/Goals The purpose of my project was to show if energy can be transferred without using wires. My project used an air-core transformer that stepped up low DC voltage to a very high…
Aerodynamics/ Hydrodynamics (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals The objective of this project is to determine how the pitch, length, and number of blades affect propeller efficiency. Methods/Materials The following materials were used to…
Aerodynamics/ Hydrodynamics (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals My objective for this project was to determine if changing the amount of blades on a wind turbine, or in this case a pinwheel, would affect how sensitive it was to wind. Met…
Aerodynamics/ Hydrodynamics (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals The objective is to determine if planes will save fuel when flying in a "V" shape formation. My hypothesis is "If planes fly in a "V" shape like birds, then they will save f…
Physics & Astronomy
Objectives/Goals My objective was to predict and measure Coronal Mass Ejections (CMEs). I plan to develop and implement an algorithm generated from an Excel graph, that spans an entire solar…
Electronics & Electromagnetics
Objectives/Goals The purpose of this project was to create a wildfire detection system to reduce chances of a large blaze. PyroVisions detects the temperature and wirelessly sends it to the…
Physics & Astronomy
Fourth Award
Objectives/Goals Despite the incredible amount of automated flight capability in both manned and unmanned aircraft, human oversight is still required, especially during the landing process.…
Physics & Astronomy
Objectives/Goals This project was developed on the speculation that water could be refracted through a plastic bottle to provide light inside of a home. Furthered it dwelled upon the underst…
Electronics & Electromagnetics
Objectives/Goals Radiation. We are exposed to it every day from cell phones and electronic devices. This is why the objective of my project is to find out if it is possible to reduce our exp…
Physics & Astronomy
Objectives/Goals The purpose of my project is to find out how fast light travels through different mediums. Methods/Materials Materials 5 Sheets of Paper; Pen; Ruler; Printer; Printable Radi…
Electronics & Electromagnetics
Objectives/Goals The objective is to investigate the effect of the separation distance between the transmitting and receiving coils on the efficiency of resonance wireless energy transfer. M…
Electronics & Electromagnetics
Objectives/Goals The goal for my project was to create a device/musical minstrument that is able to play any instrumental sound and can be played without any physical contact through the use…