Environmental Engineering
First Award
Objectives/Goals The present day world faces an extremely serious threat. Nearly 750 million people worldwide lack access to clean drinking water, and 82% of these live in rural areas. Diarr…
Our project is about using a fuel cell with carbon cloth and copper wire to produce electricity and purify sewage water. Aiming to connect between the use of fuel cells and easily available…
Mathematics & Software
Objectives/Goals Creating a new method of stop sign detection that generates more accurate results than a heavily used traditional method (neural network) Determine a equation relating the s…
First Award
Recent Influenza, SARS and Ebola epidemics invoke fear of infection among billions of air travelers worldwide. Isolated air in densely packed aircraft cabins propagate disease via direct air…
Product Science (Physical) (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals For my science project, I investigated how well cheap air filters and more expensive filters improved indoor air quality. I measured the air quality in my home using a range…
Third Award
The purpose of this project is to create an inexpensive, simple, and effective airplane wing gust suppression system that has the capability to reduce the accelerations associated with unsta…
A key part of augmented reality is an area of research called computer vision. Computer vision is an area of research that deals with the way computers respond to camera input. Webcams have…
Which harvest/extraction method will be most efficient for extracting lipids from Chlorella vulgaris grown heterotrophically? Will Chlorella vulgaris biodegrade atrazine that is used as a nu…
Third Award
Electronics is being widely used in cars. Applications include – lane departure warning systems, collision avoidance systems, antilock braking systems, and adaptive cruise control. Electric…
Biomedical Engineering
Common antibiotics are becoming less effective as bacteria are acquiring an increased resistance. A solution to this problem may lie in plant derived allelopathic molecules (allelomolecules)…
Biochemistry/ Molecular Biology
Objectives/Goals This project's overall objective is twofold: (1) to optimize the treatment of allopregnanolone/Allo (a neurosteroid proven to reduce Alzheimer's symptoms in mice) with human…
Electronics & Electromagnetics
Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals Water conservation is a pressing national and global concern, and due to the ongoing drought in our state Californians are under increased pressure to conserve water. In my…
Mathematics & Software
Objectives/Goals Emergency vehicles on duty are generally allowed to pass a red light. However that is not always be possible if there are several cars blocking its path. My project objectiv…
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
Combining plasma and cataluminescence, with MgO nanomaterials prepared by sol-gel method as the sensing element, we have developed a low temperature plasma-assisted cataluminescence sensor f…
Environmental Engineering
Objectives/Goals Increased use of edible biomass in the production of first generation bio-fuel has been a leading cause of increase in food price index and world hunger. The alternate fuel…
Human civilization needs environmentally friendly, low cost energy alternatives. Hydrogen was discovered as a great source of energy because it generates electricity by reacting with Oxygen…
Mammalian Biology
Objectives/Goals Since no preventive methods or precise diagnostic tests exist for Alzheimer's disease, I hypothesized that one can create an accurate diagnostic/ prognostic software tool fo…
Systems Software
Alzheimer’s disease is a progressive and primarily age-dependent neurodegenerative disease that is the sixth leading cause of death in the US. An aged-onset model of Alzheimer’s disease in D…
The behaviorisms and parameterization of Ebola hemorrhagic fever (EBOV) transmission define the methods that must be taken in order to effectively mediate dissemination and prevent large-sca…
Using an accurate mathematical model would allow for the prediction and analysis of ethyl alcohol’s impact on fecal decaying bacteria. This model would confirm that a high initial concentrat…
Fourth Award
The purpose of this project is to develop a low-cost flight safety and location system which transmits salient mechanical data in instance of a in-flight emergency. The 2014 disappearance of…
Second Award
The BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill was detrimental to the prosperity of marine and wildlife habitats, as well as the fishing and tourism industry in the surrounding region. Oil spills can al…
This project created an effective mathematical method that simplifies the power elevating process for the golden ratio, (Phi). When using irrational numbers, approximations are used in utili…
Environmental Engineering
Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals Missions has always been a big part of my life. I am passionate about loving people and helping them in any way I can. I am interning in South Africa over the summer doing m…
Biochemistry/ Molecular Biology
Objectives/Goals This project#s objective is to develop an efficient method for identifying and screening cellulose-degrading enzymes used in biofuel production. Methods/Materials First, I m…
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
Ever since it’s discovery in 1975, Lyme Disease has been an issue especially in North America and effects both children and adults. In 2013, the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CD…
Electronics & Electromagnetics
Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals Last year#s research explored a multi-architectural approach to the development of embedded hardware. While a small portion of the study was dedicated to the fabrication of…
Environmental Science
Fourth Award
Objectives/Goals Our project enumerates and identifies trends in coliform and enterococcus bacteria levels throughout Newport Bay and its surrounding watershed using multiple methods assesse…
Environmental Engineering
Objectives/Goals Cow manure has Obligate Anaerobes present which decomposes and converts cow manure to gas with the right environment. What is added to the cow manure can cause a variation i…
Alternative Energy (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals Solar power is the leading way to address the problem of global warming and pollution from the use of fossil fuels. This project studies the impact energy production of the…