Microbiology (General)
Objectives/Goals Can bakers yeast of the species Saccharomyces cerevisiae respire, metabolize, and reproduce without an adverse effect in the presence of the amount of brominated vegetable o…
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only)
Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals Hypothesis 1: Consumers of caffeine will have higher test performance after consuming the beverage than their test performance before consuming the beverage. Hypothesis 2: P…
Zoology
Objectives/Goals Through my investigation, I hope to discover the effect of a loss of calcium on bone strength. I have heard that you must have a lot of calcium per day in order to have stro…
Electronics & Electromagnetics
Objectives/Goals The purpose of this experiment was to find whether it is more energy efficient to run a CPU at a high frequency (running a task quickly, then having the CPU sleep for the re…
Pharmacology/ Toxicology
Objectives/Goals My objective is to determine whether rat glial cell colony formation is decreased when caffeine or kava is added to the growth medium. Methods/Materials I incubated 60 wells…
Zoology
Objectives/Goals What concentration of carbon dioxide will reduce the lifespan of Ctenocephalides felis, the cat flea? I predict that the carbon dioxide will negatively affect the fleas at a…
Biochemistry/ Molecular Biology
Objectives/Goals The objective of this experiment is to find the effect of cooking methods and time on the Vitamin C content in food, specifically spinach. Methods/Materials 20 grams of spin…
Pharmacology/ Toxicology
Second Award
Objectives/Goals Deer antler, an intriguing natural substance, is the only mammalian organ capable of regenerating, and has been extensively used in Traditional Chinese Medicine for over 200…
Physics & Astronomy
Objectives/Goals To find efficiency of different kinds of cup holders depending on their volume of air pockets Methods/Materials Part I: Preparation for the experiment Gather materials: Pape…
Chemistry
Objectives/Goals The purpose was to determine the effect of d-limonene in oils extracted from various citrus fruit rinds on disintegration of two different types of polystyrene foams-expande…
Chemistry
Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals I investigated whether the electrolysis of water affects solar desalination. My hypothesis was that electrolysis of saline water will increase the solar desalination process…
Microbiology (General)
Objectives/Goals To find the effect of elevated CO2 on the growth of freshwater algae. Methods/Materials Procedures: 1. I collected pond water with algae 2. I made a CO2 source using yeast t…
Biochemistry/ Molecular Biology
Objectives/Goals This experiment will show if the amount of catalase enzyme directly affects its reaction rate. Methods/Materials Potatoes were cut and peeled and mixed with purified water i…
Environmental Science
Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals The purpose of this project is to use fluorimetric assay analysis to determine the activity levels of CBH, BG, BX, AG, NAG, LAP, and AP four years after the 2007 Santiago Fi…
Electronics & Electromagnetics
Objectives/Goals The objective was to determine if a type of solar concentrator, known as a Fresnel lens, could optimize the energy produced by a solar cell and it's energy application on an…
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals To determine if the number of junior high students willing to accept a Facebook friend request from a random stranger can be increased by listing a certain gender or profile…
Microbiology (General)
Objectives/Goals What is the effect of different sources of geobacteraceae on the power generation of a microbial fuel cell? Is one of the products of the microbial fuel cell pure, drinkable…
Mammalian Biology
Objectives/Goals The purpose of this research experiment was to learn more about the factors that predispose horses to getting melanomas. This is currently an important field of study becaus…
Pharmacology/ Toxicology
Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals My goal of this experiment to address the obesity dilemma in America and its relation to the artificial sugar HFCS-55. I wanted to test if 30 mice (15 male and 15 female) wo…
Aerodynamics/ Hydrodynamics (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals The goal of this project was to determine the shape of a ships hull that would provide the least drag for a given unit of the ship's volume. Methods/Materials 4 single hulle…
Aerodynamics/ Hydrodynamics (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals My objective was to determine if changing the size of a hole in a flying disc affects the distance it flies. I hypothesized that the larger the circle cut from the center of…
Environmental Engineering (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals In this project, The Effect of Magnetism on Mineral Deposition, it was hoped that a family-friendly, environmentally conscientious alternative form of water treatment would…
Environmental Science
Second Award
Objectives/Goals The objective of this project was to prove that a correlation exists between the presence of manufactured nanoparticles in wastewater influent and membrane fouling in Membra…
Biochemistry/ Molecular Biology
Objectives/Goals The purpose of my project is to test whether natural solar UV radiation is energetic enough to damage DNA to the point where cell cycle checkpoints are required. Methods/Mat…
Plant Biology
Objectives/Goals This study was designed to test whether the invasive plant ripgut brome (Bromus diandrus) has a competitive advantage over the native dune plant beach buckwheat (Eriogonum l…
Pharmacology/ Toxicology
Objectives/Goals The objective is to determine whether non-native allelopathic plants affect the growth of native California poppy seeds and whether different non-native allelopathic plants…
Environmental Science
Objectives/Goals Cars and power plants release carbon dioxide. This dissolves into water and makes it acidic. This process is called ocean acidification. I want to know how this will effect…
Mathematics & Software
Objectives/Goals My project aimed to find what level of parallel processing, quantified in threads, results in the best performance of an MD5 brute force algorithm determined by permutations…
Electronics & Electromagnetics
Fourth Award
Objectives/Goals The objective of this project is to address the question: what is the effect of distance between a transmitter and a receiver on the propagation loss of signal power? Unlike…
Product Science (Physical) (Junior Division Only)
Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals I conducted this experiment to see the effects of pill coatings, heat, and antacids on pill solubility rate. For the different pill coatings, I wanted to see which type of c…