Mathematics & Software
Third Award
Objectives/Goals In this project, an analytic description of the counter clockwise rotations of regular polygons is obtained. This project is a continuum of last years project. Methods/Mater…
Plant Biology
Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals Most of us only think of fungi as pathogens, parasites and decomposers. The purpose of my project is to call attention to the important role of fungi in symbiosis with plant…
Earth & Planetary Sciences
First Award
Objectives/Goals My project was to determine the profile of a desert wash from top to bottom.I hypothesized the profile of a desert wash would change down the length of the wash.I predicted…
Microbiology
First Award
Objectives/Goals I did my project on ways of washing spinach to eliminate bacteria. I used 5 different washes. My hypothesis was if I washed the spinach with a salt water solution then there…
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals The goal of my project was to investigate whether age had an impact on the Stroop Effect. Methods/Materials 30 subjects were tested in each of three groups: younger group (2…
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals Does the process of reading the word affect the task of naming the color of the ink the font was written in and is there a gender difference? Methods/Materials o Stop watch…
Applied Mechanics & Structures
Objectives/Goals Recent research on baseball bats by Robert Adair, Rod Cross and Daniel Russell has shown what happens when the bat hits a ball, and why there are some locations on the barre…
Pharmacology/ Toxicology
Objectives/Goals My goals were to find out what the effects of Black Tea and Chamomile Tea would have on an adult's heart rate. Methods/Materials The materials I used for my procedure were t…
Mathematics & Software
Objectives/Goals In Phase 1 of this project, utilizing real-time research data I was able to confirm that classic predator-prey mathematical models fail to include dynamics that influence po…
Applied Mechanics & Structures
Objectives/Goals To prove that fiber wrap strengthens materials Methods/Materials 20 square foot sheet of SikaWrap Hex 103C, 20 square foot sheet of SikaWrap Hex 100G, Sikadur epoxy resin, 4…
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals To discover which gender has better reflexes as they grow older. Methods/Materials 1. Put the test subject's hands in parallel, clapping position, 9.9 cenitmeters apart. 2.…
Electronics & Electromagnetics
Objectives/Goals Create thousands of volts from a battery. I think that direct connection of a battery to a transformer will produce high voltage. Methods/Materials Use a transformer to incr…
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only)
Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals My experiments have determined the effect of witness confidence and clarity on accuracy. I also concluded the level of eyewitness accuracy when questioned using a questionna…
Biochemistry/ Molecular Biology
Objectives/Goals The objective of my project was to determine which plant contains the most chlorophyll. I believe that Pine leaf contains the most chlorophyll and Banana tree leaf contains…
Mathematics & Software
Second Award
Objectives/Goals Trailing stop loss is a technology that provides investors with an exit strategy that can help to maximize profits. The purpose of this project was to find an equation in th…
Plant Biology
Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals Growing in the sand is the plant Sea Rocket (Cakile edentula) that produces a floating fruit in order to spread its seeds along the beach. The fruit of the Sea Rocket is div…
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals To find the most effective learning tool that provides the most efficient and long lasting utilization of time and effort. Methods/Materials To give a subject two tests one…
Applied Mechanics & Structures
Second Award
Objectives/Goals The goal of my project is to build a highly robust custom autonomous search and rescue robot platform. The design of the robot would be a major improvement on previous desig…
Chemistry
Objectives/Goals The purpose of this experiment was to determine if a notable amount of lead could be detected in candy samples and wrappers. The reason I am seeking the presence of lead dus…
Electronics & Electromagnetics
Objectives/Goals The purpose of this study was to determine if I could develop a circuit that could detect if an end device was plugged into a transformer or not, thereby turning off when no…
Plant Biology
Objectives/Goals The objective of this experiment was to determine if there was a relationship between a pattern of transpiration and how long plants are in the sun. The hypothesis was that…
Mathematics & Software
First Award
Objectives/Goals A fast algorithm for both testing the tree-realizability of a distance matrix and constructing the optimal realization is presented. The fastest existing algorithms are only…
Applied Mechanics & Structures
Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals The project is find out the relationship between difference factor between different types of truss bridge, for example, the longevity of a covered truss bridge and to the t…
Applied Mechanics & Structures
Objectives/Goals My objective is to learn which of three truss bridges will support support the most mass. The three bridges are: the Baltimore (Pratt), the Lattice, and the Subdivided Warre…
Applied Mechanics & Structures
Objectives/Goals Objective: The objective for this experiment was to find out which truss design, a Warren, a Warren with Vertical Supports, a Pratt, or a Curved Chord Pratt, would have the…
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals I decided to find out what effect classical music and hard rock have on a person#s heart rate because I always feel more relaxed when listening to classical music and feel s…
Physics & Astronomy
Objectives/Goals This project was designed to determine how accurate, and operator friendly the navigational tools were (compared to each other) when determining latitude, and using GMT to d…
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals Estimation skills are important in everyday life, such as when predicting how many bags of groceries will fit in the truck of a car, or detecting computational errors. Howev…
Aerodynamics/ Hydrodynamics (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals This project on rocket aerodynamics had two goals. The first goal was to determine which fin shape and location would yield the greatest stability and thus the highest maxim…
Applied Mechanics & Structures
Fourth Award
Objectives/Goals The objective of the original/first phase of this project was to test if a simple solar panel steering system might improve panel energy production enough to reduce the over…