Environmental Engineering
Honorable_mention Award
Objectives The objective of this experiment was to use Waxworms to biodegrade different types of plastic and household waste. It lowers the amount of time it takes for plastic to biodegrade…
Applied Mechanics & Structures
Objectives Create a winglet that has the ability to reduce drag more effectively than the winglets that are currently being used on airplanes. Methods Autodesk Fusion 360 to design the new w…
Environmental Engineering
Third Award
Objectives The world s waters are continuously being contaminated and polluted by microplastics and microfibers with almost 30% of marine pollution coming from microplastics and microfibers…
Electronics & Electromagnetics
Objectives Rockets today are extremely expensive to launch due to the cost of fuel. If we want to get closer to commercial space travel, we must make the cost of launching rockets to space a…
Plant Biology
Second Award
Objectives My research aims to validate the effectiveness of algorithm-generated crop rotations that I found last year. Methods Previously, I wrote an algorithm in C++ that found crop rotati…
Biochemistry/ Molecular Biology
Objectives Our objective is due to altered protein and DNA sequence in GMO vs Organic/NonGMO plant, there will be change in yield of the DNA extracted and measured. Methods Different types o…
Mammalian Biology
Objectives The objective of this study is to determine whether there is a correlation between the strength of gravity's pull and the energy that an organism requires to perform a task. Metho…
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives My project is about introverts and extroverts! I wanted to know if introverts or extroverts from different ages and genders were healthier. ? My hypothesis was that extroverts wer…
Mammalian Biology
Fourth Award
Objectives The purpose of this experiment is to measure the short-term effects of virtual reality on the body, specifically our biology related to heart rate and blood pressure. The goal is…
Biochemistry/ Molecular Biology
Objectives I wanted to discover if the vitamin C contents and acidity of tangerines changes as the fruit grows and develops. Methods I used iodine titration to find the pH. I mixed a little…
Mammalian Biology
Objectives In order for the seal population to endure global warming, these animals are likely to need to adapt to warmer water temperatures. As the water temperatures increase, these seals…
Alternative Energy (Junior Division Only)
First Award
Objectives The purpose is to measure the effects of a phase change material (PCM) unit on efficiency of a thermoelectric generator (TEG) waste heat recovery system and determine the appropri…
Computational Systems & Analysis (Senior Division Only)
Objectives Waterborne disease remains an economic and health burden to approximately 2 billion people, particularly in impoverished regions. Current control methods for waterborne parasites…
Earth & Environmental Sciences
Objectives We wanted to learn how different commercial building materials affect the contamination of rainwater. This project will help our community, nation, and world, because it will prov…
Zoology
Objectives The objective of this study is to determine how fast mosquito pupae will emerge as adult mosquitoes in different water temperatures. Methods Three mosquito breeding jars where fil…
Plant Biology
Objectives The objective of this project is to determine which drought resistant shrub has the lowest water uptake rate out of boxwood, Russian sage, and rosemary. Methods I tested the water…
Applied Mechanics & Structures
Objectives The objective of this project was to determine if the type of perforations of a water well casing would determine the efficiency of the yield of a water well. Methods Constructed…
Alternative Energy (Junior Division Only)
Objectives The goal of this project is to determine what mechanisms work best for capturing energy from certain wave shapes, sizes, and speeds. This is important because wave energy could be…
Alternative Energy (Junior Division Only)
Objectives Our goal was to create a self-sustaining energy source that relied on natural occurrences. We decided to make a wave powered generator, after researching several alternative energ…
Biochemistry/ Molecular Biology
Honorable_mention Award
Objectives The goal of this project is to determine the effects of electromagnetic micro radiation on Vitamin B12 levels in foods after heating them in the microwave. Methods RIDASCREEN FAST…
Zoology
Objectives The purpose of this project is to investigate whether or not different audio frequencies will repel Pogonomyrmex barbatus (also known as Red Carpenter ants). This is a second year…
Toxicology
Honorable_mention Award
Objectives The purpose of my project is to determine how the levels of nitrogen in the ocean affect Daphnia. I will be observing and calculating the rate of change in daphnia's heart rate su…
Product Science (Physical) (Junior Division Only)
Objectives The objective of this study is to determine which brand of baseballs will travel a further distance when hit off of a tee with the exact same bat velocity. Methods Seven different…
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Honorable_mention Award
Objectives The objective of this study is to evaluate the associations between smartphone usage and the well-being and academic performance of high school students. The null hypothesis is th…
Microbiology (General)
Fourth Award
Objectives The objective of this project was to identify which substances in manuka honey give it its anti-bacterial properties. It was also to determine if the same beneficial effects of ma…
Product Science (Biological) (Junior Division Only)
Objectives The objective of this study was to determine the best way to disinfect a toothbrush. I compared five different disinfection techniques (salt water, mouthwash, ultra-violet toothbr…
Physics & Astronomy
Objectives The objective of this study is to establish if the relationship between helium and mass increases in a linear way. Methods Same size balloons, same lengths of string, various weig…
Earth & Environmental Sciences
Objectives The problem of drought increase in severity leads to the conservation of water and the efficiency of water use in the garden. With this idea, I decided to test how the moisture of…
Materials Science (Junior Division Only)
Objectives The objective of our project is to create strong wood boards made of entire trees, twigs and sapwood deemed unusable as well as heartwood, the center part of the tree, that, after…
Earth & Environmental Sciences
Objectives The objective of my project was to see what materials would last longer in wave erosion and prevent the least erosion. For this my hypothesis was that the sand and clay mixture wo…