Applied Mechanics/ Structures & Mechanisms/ Manufacturing
Objectives/Goals The purpose of my experiment was to test the relationship between the diameter of different flywheels of equal mass and the energy they each could store. I believe that the…
Microbiology
Objectives/Goals My goal was to learn about the fundamentals of water purification. I used three treatment methods: iodination, boiling, and filtration. I believed that boiling would be the…
Mathematics & Software
Objectives/Goals My goal was to deduce whether or not a selection of aleatory music really was random. I questioned if the composers, and perhaps the human mind, can truly operate on an inde…
Biochemistry/ Molecular Biology
Objectives/Goals Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) is the cause of the Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS). HIV causes disease by killing the T-cells of the host and destroying the h…
Physics & Astronomy
Objectives/Goals My project's title was "Don't Lose Your Cool - A Study of Insulators". The problem of the experiment was finding which material would be the best insulator. Methods/Material…
Microbiology
Objectives/Goals I compared three different ways of detecting tomato spoilage. I did this by following the steps of the Malthus Method, the Direct Microscopic Count, and the Petri dishes met…
Microbiology
Objectives/Goals The purpose of this experiment is to test if sweat is a natural antibacterial. Methods/Materials In order to conduct this project, I collected skin flora samples and grew ba…
Aerodynamics/ Hydrodynamics
Objectives/Goals The goal of my project was to discover if there was a substance that could be added to oil to enhance the viscosity, and what affects the contaminants had on the oil. Method…
Behavioral Sciences
Objectives/Goals I tested if people remember color or black and white (B&W) pictures better and if there would be an effect of age. In order to do this I chose five people from three age gro…
Chemistry
Objectives/Goals The objective of my project was to see if the pH and the peel-to-water ingredient ratios in my mixture would affect its performance level on plants in freezing conditions. M…
Earth Sciences/ Planetary Sciences/ Physical Environments
Objectives/Goals The purpose of the project is twofold: (1) to determine the affect of object size on crater and ray size and (2) to determine the affect of the altitude an object is dropped…
Behavioral Sciences
Objectives/Goals I wanted to see whether talking on a cell phone impairs driving ability, which has not been studied very much. So I created an experiment using a video game that simulates d…
Pharmacology/ Toxicology
Objectives/Goals Having studied, for two years, mutant genes and characteristics that resulted from mutation, I have become curious about the causes of mutations. Various forms of radiation…
Electricity & Electronics
Objectives/Goals Tesla Coils have been used for over 100 years to study high voltage, high frequency discharge (1,000,000+ volts!), but over half of the input power is lost in the simple spa…
Earth Sciences/ Planetary Sciences/ Physical Environments
Objectives/Goals The purpose of this project is to find if the amount of haze coming from Owens Valley has been reduced from 1997 due to Los Angeles Department of Water and Power's dust miti…
Behavioral Sciences
Objectives/Goals My objective was to see if subjects could be educated through subliminal messages embedded in an enjoyable video. Methods/Materials I used a computer program, "Final Cut Pro…
Pharmacology/ Toxicology
Objectives/Goals The goal of this study was to test the resistance of E.coli to Ampicillin through the process of transformation in the DNA. The hypothesis of this pharmacology experiment id…
Plant Biology
Objectives/Goals My objective was to find out what temperature of water would leach the tannins out of acorns using the least amount of water. Methods/Materials First, I gathered, cracked an…
Microbiology
Objectives/Goals My objective is to see which antibacterial hand soap has the most effect on E. coli bacteria. Methods/Materials I tested six different kinds of antibacterial hand soaps. I m…
Pharmacology/ Toxicology
Objectives/Goals The objective was to determine if caffeine could be a future larvicide. Therefore, one of my main goals was to find which concentration would kill majority of the population…
Chemistry
Objectives/Goals The purpose of this experiment was to determine how the optical rotation of aqueous solutions of sucrose, fructose, and glucose is affected by concentration and temperature.…
Biochemistry/ Molecular Biology
Objectives/Goals Thymidylate synthase (TS) is the enzyme that catalyzes the transformation of deoxyuridine monophosphate (dUMP) into deoxythymidine monophosphate (dTMP) in cells. In cancer c…
Behavioral Sciences
Objectives/Goals The objective is to determine if age and/or sex has an effect on aggressive behavior in chickens when a stress is introduced. Methods/Materials Fifty 2-month chicks of unkno…
Pharmacology/ Toxicology
Objectives/Goals I wanted to determine that higher concentrations of aluminum in leaves has a negative correlation to the consumption of those leaves. Methods/Materials I used an oven to dry…
Zoology
Objectives/Goals There are many ponding basins in Fresno, but not much other wetland habitat. Many birds use these basins. I looked at how the habitat diversity and size of ponding basins af…
Applied Mechanics/ Structures & Mechanisms/ Manufacturing
Objectives/Goals The problem that I wanted to find out is, if you change the hardness of the roller skate wheel, does it affect the outcome of the speed or distance in which it will travel?…
Chemistry
Objectives/Goals My objective was to determine if the amount of weight on a wire, and the surface area and conductivity of the wire affects the rate at which it pressure-melts (regelation) t…
Applied Mechanics/ Structures & Mechanisms/ Manufacturing
Objectives/Goals My objective was to find whether stiffness, density, or both, affected a material's natural frequency. Methods/Materials First, I gathered five springs of different stiffnes…
Biochemistry/ Molecular Biology
Objectives/Goals To find out how Vitamin D3 will benefit bone formation by testing the effects of Vitamin D3 on osteocalcin mRNA expression in MG63 cells Methods/Materials Methods: 1). Grow…
Zoology
Objectives/Goals My objective was to find out if spider mites lay their eggs in the same areas on the leaves of different plants. Methods/Materials I selected three different types of plants…