Embedded Systems
Fourth Award
A new generation tilt sensor created in a totally new vision in order to accomplish the tasks where wide measurement range, high accuracy and simplicity required. By involving the most impor…
Microbiology (General)
Objectives/Goals The objective of this study was to determine whether exposure to nitrogen fertilizer will decrease the number of beneficial mycorrhizal fungi that grow into the root systems…
Mathematics (inferred)
The ratios used in this experiment, which were derived from the Fibonacci sequence by dividing the numbers in the sequence to get each individual ratio used. The Fibonacci sequence was deriv…
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals The objective of this study is to evaluate if speech-disabled children can identify positive traits in themselves and improve coping strategies with bullying. Methods/Materi…
Plant Biology
Objectives/Goals To find out if using two types of filtered water (potassium softened water or reverse osmosis water) has an affect on seedling growth (height and weight) compared to city wa…
Environmental Engineering
Microplastics are of much environmental concern due to its pollution of waterways and its impact on various aspects on ecosystems. While water treatment plants are effective at filtering mos…
Microbiology (General)
Objectives/Goals The objective of this project is to determine a cheap, efficient, effective, and easily accessible way to filter out water for those in developing countries. Methods/Materia…
Mammalian Biology
Objectives/Goals The objective of this study is to determine whether meditation or mobile games are more effective in activating calming brain waves. Methods/Materials 40 subjects, a Muse me…
Physics and Astronomy
First Award
Barnes’ and Raymond’s Packed Planetary System (PPS) hypothesis postulates that planetary formation is efficient and creates dynamically packed planetary systems that cannot contain additiona…
Physics and Astronomy
New discoveries are constantly being made about the origin, components, and future of our universe. To discover traces of undetected stellar and sub-stellar companions around more than 1,100…
Mathematics
\textit{Draw of choice} (Finnish: "hutunkeitto") in Finnish baseball can be seen as a finite two-player game with winning and losing positions. By inspecting winning and losing positions one…
Animal Sciences
The main goal of this project is promoting conservation of Río Negro (Black River) fish diversity by helping people to know and identify local species. A practical and users-friendly tool wa…
Biomedical Engineering
Majority of the collagen used for commercial products are extracted from cow and pig skins. However, with the emergence of fish collagen as a potential option of wound healing, tilapia skin…
Chemistry
The purpose of this project is to test out what each softener could do to flames and what changes could be done from the burning. From this we can also determine the safety of each detergent…
Electronics & Electromagnetics
Objectives/Goals Our project goal is to design a flexible capacitive touch panel for traditional displays by taking the advantages of graphene properties. Methods/Materials The graphene cond…
Physics and Astronomy
GaAs photovoltaics are the most efficient but also the most expensive. If GaAs photovoltaics can be made on inexpensive metal substrates (cost $8/m^2) instead of GaAs wafers (cost $11,000/m^…
Applied Mechanics & Structures
Objectives/Goals The goal was to measure lift (via weight) and drag (via Hooke's Law) on wings with varying cant angles in subsonic conditions with a 2-degree angle of attack. Methods/Materi…
Applied Mechanics & Structures
Objectives/Goals The purpose of our study is to compare the succeeding rate of a bottle flip in different angles and different water height, in this experiment, we can find out the best angl…
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Second Award
Water bodies are life lines of cities. However, water quality has become a global issue. Bangalore has become one of its victims. Bangalore was once called the “city of lakes”. “Records show…
Earth and Environmental Sciences
“Clean, accessible water for all” is one of the United Nations’ sustainable development goals. Electrocoagulation(EC), a form of decontamination using electricity, can help meet this goal fo…
Engineering Mechanics
Commercial jet airliners use an average of $1,212 in jet fuel per hour. This translates to $34.1 billion per year spent on jet fuel by commercial carriers. There are several factors that hel…
Zoology
Objectives/Goals This study was conducted to expand the minute section of human knowledge that is dedicated to the ocean and marine life. Using the data collected, the behavioral patterns of…
Microbiology (Medical) (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals The objective of this study is to determine if naturally occurring antibacterial agents can be derived from plants and soil-dwelling microorganisms in the Sierra Nevada Foot…
Materials Science
The fabrication of electrical circuits by printing conductive inks is gaining a lot of interest, due to its promising capacity to simplify the production and reduce costs. However, the high…
Zoology
Objectives/Goals Fish have been used as the test subject in many scientific psychological studies. They are used as a base of animal behavioral research. The objective of our project is to d…
Mathematics
Considering all of the different areas of math, including advanced geometry, one of the least heard of is fractals, geometric figures in which each part has the same statistical characterist…
Earth and Environmental Sciences (inferred)
To gain insight into the effect that gasoline contamination and ethanol flushing (a means of counteracting gasoline contamination) have on freshwater microorganisms, research on the physiolo…
Alternative Energy (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals The objective of this project is to figure out if I can increase the electricity you can receive with a solar panel by increasing/decreasing the temperature and using a Fres…
Electronics & Electromagnetics
Objectives/Goals A flashlight is essential tool that is critical whenever a natural disaster occurs. However, what happens if the flashlight runs out of battery or there is no battery charge…
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Third Award
Objectives/Goals The objective of this project is to determine the best way to educate people about environmental issues so that they will want to participate in environmental activism. Meth…