Aerodynamics/ Hydrodynamics (Junior Division Only)
Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals The purpose of this project was to find the combination of bend location and bend degree for the wings of a cross boomerang that produced a flight as close to parallel to th…
Aerodynamics/ Hydrodynamics (Junior Division Only)
Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals The objective is to find out which angle of boomerang will return closest to the starting point. Methods/Materials A basic two-arm boomerang shape with eight inch arms was s…
Electronics & Electromagnetics
Second Award
Objectives/Goals Driver distraction is a major cause of traffic crashes in the United States. According to National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) statistics, distracted drivi…
Physics & Astronomy
Objectives/Goals Our objective was to see which color was affected the most by heat by absorption of light. Our hypothesis was the the color black would have the greatest average increase in…
Physics & Astronomy
Objectives/Goals The purpose of this project was to try and mitigate simulated industrial noises with air bubbles in water to reduce the effect of sound, thereby providing a possible reducti…
Physics & Astronomy
Objectives/Goals The objective is to determine how quickly different types of cloth under different states of wear and different temperatures ignite and how quickly they combust. Methods/Mat…
Physics & Astronomy
Objectives/Goals I wanted to recreate and mathematically calculate the Double Slit Experiment to prove that it worked and to help understand how it worked. Methods/Materials First, I calcula…
Electronics & Electromagnetics
Objectives/Goals I always wondered if there was a better way to charge a mobile device than by plugging it into a wall socket, and if there was any way to harvest stray radio waves that woul…
Physics & Astronomy
Objectives/Goals If I increase the volume of air, then a candle would burn out more slowly. Adding carbon dioxide and oxygen will cause a candle to burn longer. Methods/Materials My first ex…
Electronics & Electromagnetics
Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals My objective is to test my hypothesis that FM radio waves are blocked by terrain along the line of sight. Methods/Materials Materials: Car Maps Computer Google Earth Java Pr…
Aerodynamics/ Hydrodynamics (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals The objective of my project was to try and find out which material, between plastic, newspaper and silk, resisted gravity the most therefore making the best parachute. Metho…
Physics & Astronomy
Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals The main objective of the Chladni plates is to map out a series of nodes (places on the Chladni plate were there is no vibration) and modes (places on the Chladni plate in w…
Physics & Astronomy
Objectives/Goals Objective The purpose of this experiment was to find which wavelengths of light provide the strongest photovoltaic effect in a solar-powered vehicle. Methods/Materials Mater…
Electronics & Electromagnetics
Objectives/Goals This project attempts to probabilistically determine the likelihood of a particular malfunction in a computer chip. Basically, if too many transistors in a computer chip are…
Aerodynamics/ Hydrodynamics (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals My project is to determine if the number of fins on a rocket affect its altitude. I believe a rocket with three fins will gain the most altitude. Methods/Materials Six rocke…
Electronics & Electromagnetics
Objectives/Goals My goal was to find which type of wire would work best in an alternating current generator. Methods/Materials I used 3 different types of wire at 3 different lengths with 5…
Physics & Astronomy
Objectives/Goals The objective of my project was to assess whether the distance of the Sun was an important variable in the light received by the Earth. My hypothesis was that the distance o…
Physics & Astronomy
Objectives/Goals Project was a continuation of a previous project that I had done. It concentrated its results on the variables of reflectivity rather than the variables of a stealth vehicle…
Physics & Astronomy
Objectives/Goals My experiment involves measuring how a yttrium-based ceramic (YBCO) superconductor is affected by an external magnetic field. To do this, I measured the temperature at which…
Physics & Astronomy
Third Award
Objectives/Goals Glass-Ceramics are a commonly used material, found in for example mugs and stove tops. A new machining method is the Direct-Write method: a stationary pulsed UV laser and a…
Physics & Astronomy
Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals Objective: The purpose of my project is to find out whether or not an electric discharge will disrupt an electrostatic field. Also, I wanted to find the correlation between…
Physics & Astronomy
Objectives/Goals Question: What fruit or vegetable is the best conductor of electricity? The avocado will be the best conductor of electricity because of the high amount of iron. Methods/Mat…
Physics & Astronomy
Objectives/Goals I chose to do a project on viscosity. My question was #Does temperature affect the viscosity of a liquid?# My hypothesis was that a hot fluid would be less viscous than a co…
Electronics & Electromagnetics
Objectives/Goals Our objective was to explore micro-size, hydro-electric reaction turbines by experimenting with turbine sizes, materials, baffles, and blade-shapes to discover which combina…
Physics & Astronomy
Objectives/Goals What is the fastest way to bring a soda from room temperature to a drinkable temperature? Methods/Materials 1.Prepare an ice-only bath by adding enough ice to a Styrofoam co…
Physics & Astronomy
Objectives/Goals To find which surface area to volume ratio wether it be big or small has the fastest cooling rate. Methods/Materials 2 sets of 1 square, 1 rectangle, and 1 triangle are cut…
Physics & Astronomy
Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals Electroluminescent tubes ionized at a high frequency demonstrate a distinct beading pattern characterized by bright, equally spaced plasma beads or oscillations. The purpose…
Electronics & Electromagnetics
Objectives/Goals This project was designed to test if you can measure how far away something is by using sound and light. The idea is that if a light and sound were emitted from the exact sa…
Physics & Astronomy
Objectives/Goals The objective of the project was to determine what method of limiting friction was both most efficient and cost effective. My hypothesis was that the electromagnetic repulsi…
Electronics & Electromagnetics
Objectives/Goals The objective of my investigation was to find how much power the major parts and programs of a computer consume and how you can configure your PC so that it conserves power.…