Behavioral and Social Sciences
PURPOSE: Patients often need to use their arms to assist with functional activities but after open heart surgery pushing with the arms is limited to minimize force across the healing sternum…
Embedded Systems
The children in preschool age spend, at least, six hours in the school. The safety of these children is an aspect that more concern the parents /guardian as well the education professionals.…
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives In order to determine whether children value something more if they worked for it, I studied whether children would rather keep something they earned or an identical item they rec…
Mammalian Biology
Second Award
Objectives Nowadays consumers are buying organic materials rather than synthetic chemicals. We are aiming to relieve common pains such as arthritis, back pain, muscle pain, and gout pain usi…
Chemistry
Fourth Award
Chloramine in swimming pools is considered hazardous. It is generated by reaction of free chlorine with amine compounds including urine and perspiration. To eliminate chloramine, excessive a…
Environmental Engineering
Lead in drinking water is a worldwide health issue and can cause permanent damage to vital organs, and in children developmental delays and behavioural disorders. This project investigates w…
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
EEG (electroencephalogram) based identification systems have a myriad of applications ranging anywhere from scalable EEG systems for disease diagnostics, anti-epileptic drug administration,…
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is the science of creating machines that can perform tasks which normally require human abilities (e.g. visual perception, speech recognition, decision-making).…
Mathematics
Magic squares are defined as matrices whose rows, columns, and main diagonals all add to the same number. They have existed and have been a topic of great interest since as early as 190 BCE,…
Mathematics
This number theory project investigates identities found by multiplying together quaternions in L[x,y,z,w], the Lipschitz quaternions L adjoined with the indeterminates x, y, z, w. Recall th…
Systems Software
Fourth Award
The project entitled classroom 2.0, seeks a practical solution to the economic deficiencies that prevent the proper implementation of classrooms with the latest technological resources. Our…
Environmental Engineering
Used plastics have become a global environmental challenge. So, the purpose of my project is to create a way of spreading microorganisms which can feed on plastic waste and accelerate the de…
Applied Mechanics & Structures
Objectives There is a widespread and urgent need to improve the quality of water that hand pumps, such as India Mark II, deliver. To achieve this, a filtration mechanism must be designed to…
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Eye movement disorders (EMD) are common with Multiple Sclerosis (MS) patients, caused by lesions in the brain hindering patients’ simplest daily activities. These lesions are additionally be…
Microbiology
Serratia marcescens is one of the most effective Gram-negative bacteria for degradation of chitin 1, 4-B-glucosamine, which is a major structural component of not only the exoskeletons of in…
Plant Sciences
Seedling mortality from water deficit during rain delay period is a major problem of highland rice farming. The objective of this project is to investigate a method to protect the rice seeds…
Toxicology
Objectives Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) estimated that in 2016 lead exposure accounted for 540,000 deaths and 13.9 million years of healthy life lost worldwide due to i…
Product Science (Physical) (Junior Division Only)
Objectives The objective of this project was to determine which sock fabric, Merino Wool, Nylon, Acrylic, Spandex or Cotton worked best for keeping the feet warmest during cold weather. Meth…
Behavioral and Social Sciences
The collaborative economy is generating a new paradigm of commercial interactions and innovative business models at the core of the ICT. Are Uber and BlaBlaCar just intermediary enterprises…
Environmental Engineering
The purpose of the project is to proof that static electricity has the ability of collecting soil moisture. Procedures: I made two separated boxes which is filled with the same kind of soil…
Zoology
Third Award
Objectives To determine whether mosquitoes prefer to lay their eggs in a specific colored oviposition trap. Methods Method: Set up and fill traps 2/3 of the way with water. Every day record…
Chemistry
Objectives Gold and silver nanoparticles exhibit intense colors, because of surface plasmon resonance. In this project, I demonstrate that this unique property can be exploited for the color…
Systems Software
This work presents a deep learning based, fully automatic system for image colorization. A fully convolutional neural network was created, providing the ability to colorize images of any res…
Chemistry
The purpose of this experiment was to create a customized painting kit for blind and visually impaired people using paints made with perfumes and other non-toxic materials extracted from pla…
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Fourth Award
Objectives Social Media is replete with toxic comments. AI algorithms built to identify toxicity often exhibit bias as they associate identity terms with toxicity, lacking an understanding o…
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Fourth Award
Stuttering, a communication disorder in which the flow of speech is broken by repetitions, prolongations, or abnormal stoppages of syllables, affects tens of millions of people. Stuttering c…
Plant Sciences
Third Award
12% of the global population is impacted by undernutrition, the number one risk to health worldwide, affecting one in three children in developing countries. Fresh produce has large nutritio…
Environmental Engineering
Over the last few years lead has been a large problem throughout the United States (1). Lead has impacted many states, cities, and even schools (1). One such city, Flint, Michigan is current…
Plant Sciences
This project proposes alternative and innovative ideas for the use of manure released by animals such as fertilizer, providing the rural worker increase their income and propose better quali…
Chemistry
Water is the most important source for life and for the well-being maintenance of the planet earth. Economic and viable alternatives have been proposed for the treatment of waters, among the…