Environmental Engineering (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals Which vegetation planted on the roof, works best to cool down the temperature of a miniature house? Methods/Materials Dirt, Succulent plant, Chocolate Mint herb, Blue fescue…
Chemistry
Objectives/Goals Analyze the corrosive behavior between metal fully submerged in liquid versus metal partially submerged and determine whether corrosion reacts similarly when using three typ…
Chemistry
Objectives/Goals The objective of this project was to test the effect of temperature on the rate of a chemical reaction. I thought that reaction rates would increase with increasing temperat…
Zoology
Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals To determine if the fat content of a Honey Bee, Apis mellifera, can be a factor contributing to colony collapse disorder. Methods/Materials I used a CardioChek Portable Bloo…
Mathematics & Software
Objectives/Goals To model the distortion of an image through a spherical interface. Methods/Materials Assuming that the object in question is a photograph of a cat composed of pixels, I used…
Physics & Astronomy
Objectives/Goals Objective: If I construct a pendulum snake then my model will provide a visual demonstration of the time keeping properties of pendulums, and of wave movement. Methods/Mater…
Mammalian Biology (Senior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals The objective of my experiment was to investigate the physical effects of exposure to constant auditory stressors on Mus musculus (mice) by observing changes in weight, food…
Physics & Astronomy
Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals The objective of my science project was to study the physics of the operation of a compact fluorescent lamp (CFL); specifically why the light output of a CFL is affected by…
Applied Mechanics & Structures
Objectives/Goals My favorite subject being math, I wanted to do something that included many formulas and calculations. I decided to design an experiment in which I could learn more about ho…
Physics & Astronomy
Objectives/Goals The project's goal was aimed to show the feasibility and potential for a digital display that relied solely upon an electrically actuated or induced change in area of some k…
Earth & Environment (Senior Division Only)
Second Award
Objectives/Goals This research investigates the potential for tree based oils as a substitute for diesel fuel. Firstly for an oil to be a viable substitute for diesel, it must provide compar…
Chemistry
Fourth Award
Objectives/Goals This experiment is an extension of a previous experiment on electrolysis that had unexpected results. No oxygen gas was produced and a red substance dissolved into the water…
Environmental Engineering (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals The purpose of this project was to test the effects of recycling water on three different kinds of plants. For that purpose I used three different kinds of water: white wate…
Applied Mechanics & Structures
Objectives/Goals To determine manufacturing factors such as material characteristic of paintball, design of barrels and design of air tanks on whether the paintball will hit or miss. We will…
Mathematics & Software
Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals The purpose of this project is to see if the nth root of the absolute value of the nth term in a random Fibonacci sequence approaches v (1.1319...). The project also resolve…
Environmental Science (Junior Division Only)
Fourth Award
Objectives/Goals The purpose of this experiment was to establish quadrants in three types of land in a burned coastal sage scrub habitat and count the number of each type of plant that regro…
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals The objective of this experiment was to find if there is a relationship between the approximate number system (the ability to tell more from less without counting) and forma…
Applied Mechanics & Structures
Objectives/Goals Objective: The most of wind turbine generator in California have two blades. So I made an experiment to build a wind turbine with an optimal number of blades that is best su…
Physics & Astronomy
Objectives/Goals My experiment will answer what is the relationship between roof color and interior temperature of a house. Environmental experiments show the world at large what is wrong an…
Electronics & Electromagnetics
Objectives/Goals In almost every form of energy use, whether it is braking on a bike or lighting a match, heat energy gets released and is most commonly lost. The purpose of this experiment…
Physics & Astronomy
Objectives/Goals The objective of my project is to determine how does a change in temperature affect the voltage being generated due to the Thermoelectric Effect. The Thermoelectric Effect i…
Biochemistry/ Molecular Biology
Objectives/Goals Pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH) is characterized by progressive loss of vessels in the lungs. The pathology of the disease includes over-proliferation of smooth muscle…
Pharmacology (Senior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals The goal of the project is identifying the amounts of neuronal activation in the dorsal Hippocampus and Prefrontal Cortex regions in response to nicotine. By obtaining the a…
Environmental Science (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals The objective is to determine the presence of Escherichia coli and coliform in the San Diego River and the factors that influence the levels of contamination. The factors st…
Applied Mechanics & Structures
Objectives/Goals The purpose of our experiment was to test for the cleanest running jet fuels from a choice of propane and Av-gas, and compare them to the most commonly used jet fuel, Jet-A.…
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals Our objective is to discover whether the intelligence type of high school students gradually narrows into the scope of only mathematical and linguistic intelligences. Method…
Chemistry
Third Award
Objectives/Goals To 1) provide computational (theoretical) data on 7 non-classical fullerene derivatives (all of which have no previously published characteristic values), 2) compare the cal…
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals The purpose of my experiment was to find a correlation between two variables, solar flux and the stock market, and see if the correlation was consistant and if it was invers…
Applied Mechanics & Structures
Objectives/Goals Hypothesis: The more massive the counterweight, the further the projectile travels. The more potential energy stored in the counterweight, the more kinetic energy the projec…
Electronics & Electromagnetics
Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals The objective of this project is to increase the efficiency of ASL (Arterial Spin Labeling) perfusion imaging. This is done through the application of Background Suppression…