Earth & Environment (Senior Division Only)
First Award
Objectives/Goals To utilize the isotopic signature of macroalgae to identify the sources of nitrogen pollution in streams and rivers and to evaluate the usefulness of stable isotope analysis…
Aerodynamics/ Hydrodynamics (Junior Division Only)
Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals To chart the vortices generated by different combinations of winglets and dihedral angles, and then determine the most effective configuration to minimize wingtip vortices.…
Chemistry
Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals The objective of this project is to investigate the property of surface tension of liquids and to determine how it is affected by rising temperatures and detergent additives…
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only)
Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals The purpose of my project was to reduce or eliminate the Stroop Effect. My hypothesis was if there are manipulations of words, then it would reduce or eliminate the Stroop E…
Earth Science (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals My goals are to determen how slow low energy waves verses the high energy waves could affect the beach. Methods/Materials Methods:Step1: cover the shallow end of the paint r…
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Third Award
Objectives/Goals Paper towels are a very wasteful use of natural resources. Even though more paper is used to make newspapers and magazines than paper towels, paper towels cause more landfil…
Environmental Science (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals My science project was designed to determine if swimming in Little River, Moonstone Beach, poses a health risk due to bacterial contents. Methods/Materials Using sterile sam…
Environmental Engineering (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals The objective is to determine if plants can be safely watered with greywater-water created in a household containing soap, detergent, or other impure material residue. Metho…
Energy & Power (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals The goal of this project was to determine the best tilt angle for a solar panel to generate electrical power. Methods/Materials I aligned the solar panel at true south or th…
Materials Science (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals My project was to find out what materials could block Wi-Fi waves the best. Methods/Materials Using a transmitter (an Apple Time Capsule) and a receiver (an Apple MacBook Pr…
Energy & Power (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals The goal of my project was to find out if a buoy could be 'tuned' to a wave in order to maximize energy output. If this was possible, wave energy devices could be altered in…
Chemistry
Objectives/Goals This experiment will document the way in which the starting temperature affects an exothermic reaction. The reaction to be tested is an instantaneous reaction between Calciu…
Aerodynamics/ Hydrodynamics (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals Can a functional wind tunnel be constructed that allows the aerodynamic testing of automotive models? Will this testing match known aerodynamic values for modern vehicles? C…
Applied Mechanics & Structures
Objectives/Goals I mainly want to find out if the floating speed of an object depend only on the object volume or also on some other factors when the object is floating across a certain dept…
Microbiology
Objectives/Goals When people get a case of the "munchies," they go foraging in their refrigerator for last night's (or last week's!) leftovers. Although much research has been done on the lo…
Physics & Astronomy
Objectives/Goals Can a car equipped with quicker illuminating LED brake lights, as opposed to incandescent brake lights, attract the attention of a following driver quicker thus reducing the…
Human Biology (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals To find out how much damage iPods can cause if listened frequently with a high volume. Methods/Materials To conduct this experiment an iPod, headphones, and 50 8th graders,…
Biochemistry/ Molecular Biology
Objectives/Goals My objective was to see how temperature, salt, and sugar affect the speed of fermentation in kimchi. I hypothesized that warmer temperatures and increased amounts of salt an…
Toxicology (Junior Division Only)
Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals My project was about the effect of pH on aquatic snail reproduction. I wanted to study a project in the zoology category because I like studying the life of animals and what…
Toxicology (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals Our objective was to learn what happens to tomato plants when they are exposed to different levels of acid rain and if the effects can be neutralized through simple chemistr…
Product Science (Biological) (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals My goal was to learn what method cleaned stuffed animals of dirt and bacteria the best. Methods/Materials I used 15 stuffed animals (5 for the control group and 10 for testi…
Human Biology (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals My experiment is the effect food has on vocal range. Methods/Materials I tested this with peanut butter, soda, and chocolate. I measured a person's voice by using the piano…
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals The purpose of this experiment was to investigate how different age groups would react to an authoritative presenter versus a non-authoritative presenter. When given a speec…
Environmental Engineering (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals Cover crops affect soil pH and the ranch soils we chose as our control variable had a variety of cover crops planted, so we tested our hypothesis by sampling soil to see how…
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals 1) Identify the effects of sugar on memory 2) Identify all the effects of sugar Methods/Materials MATERIALS pens, 2 different laminated pictures, 2 different tests regarding…
Mammalian Biology (Senior Division Only)
Third Award
Objectives/Goals Chronic abdominal pain occurs in 30% of children (ref. 1). A symptom of fructose malabsorption is abdominal pain (AP). Fructose is commonly used as a sweetener. Initial stud…
Zoology
Objectives/Goals I and doing an experiment in which texture ladybugs are most attracted to. I am doing this project because I want to know which types of terrain have a texture that ladybugs…
Microbiology
Objectives/Goals Abstract In my project I am testing the amount of bacteria that can collect and grow on commercial ice machines. The four locations on the machine that I picked were the tub…
Zoology
Objectives/Goals The objective of this project was to determine the best alternate solution (instead of surgery) that would decrease the size of an enterolith to the greatest degree. An ente…
Microbiology
Objectives/Goals The purpose of my project is to compare different types of substances to see what works the best to kill Candida Albican, a type of thrush bacteria, on horse hooves in winte…