Applied Mechanics & Structures
Objectives/Goals Unseen and undetectable, noise pollution is a severely unaddressed issue in the world. Yet its effects are widespread, affecting everyone, and significantly dangerous, leadi…
Biomedical Engineering
Third Award
Acetabular labral tears comprise 22% of reported groin pain. Repairs involve suturing torn tissue to the bone via anchors, or removing inflamed tissue. Both prevent the body from healing nat…
Chemistry
The constant innovation and search for new technologies is a fundamental part of the development of the national pharmaceutical industry, wich has a integral implication in the development a…
Environmental Engineering
Our project is about used the Garbages and sewages water to generate electric and methane gas and treatment the sewages water to use in watering the plant and produce fertilizers to the plan…
Energy: Physical
Piezoelectric ambient energy harvesting is a unique way to create electrical energy. The piezoelectric effect explains that when a crystal is compressed it produces a potential difference or…
Carbon dioxide (CO2) is the number one greenhouse gas emitted from human activities through the combustion of fossil fuels from transportation vehicles and industry factories. Recent increas…
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Over the last few decades, since the industrial revolution, the climate system lost its natural balance leading to noticeable change in the climate. The greenhouse gases G.H.Gs have been maj…
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Robots are used in various ways to assist the elderly and handicapped. Since the elderly and disabled often have issues with mobility and manual dexterity, they are more likely to select the…
Engineering Mechanics
With the increasing number of cars, and buses and the evolution of transportation led to steadily increase the number of problems, including the problem we faced which is faulty fuel in the…
Environmental Engineering
Objectives/Goals The objective of this study is to determine if raising the ambient temperature without any additional energy sources will increase the output of purified water in a solar po…
Environmental Engineering
Second Award
Growing concerns about eutrophication induced by elevated phosphorus (P) and nitrogen (N) levels in water and wastewater demand innovative water quality treatment technologies. My previous r…
Microbiology (General)
Objectives/Goals I researched types of mold (fungus). My project was to find out if aloe juice will help fruit from molding. I choose this topic because I don#t know very much about mold and…
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Metastasis causes 100% of deaths from breast cancer, the most common cancer in women worldwide. Fusion genes, a combination of two genes due to genetic structural variation, are potential dr…
Systems Software
Some reviews of why children watch television closely are said to be the cause, not the result, and that the child may have one of the defects of the eye. In addition to this, to attract att…
Cellular and Molecular Biology
Fourth Award
The purpose of this project was to characterize human galectin-4 and its anti-microbial properties against self-like antigen bearing gram-positive and gram-negative bacteria while identifyin…
Applied Mechanics & Structures
Objectives/Goals My objective was to see if I could create a Peltier tile cooling device that would reduce the temperature within a tennis shoe under simulated heat conditions compared to co…
Embedded Systems
Ghana lost close to GHS 86 million between January and September of 2016 alone. Within that same period about 4373 fire outbreaks were recorded. Majority of these cases were as a result of L…
Alternative Energy (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals With increasing concerns about clean energy sources, clean water supplies and degraded farmland soils, recycling biomass waste products through the process of gasification m…
Behavioral and Social Sciences
In my project, gas price fluctuations were compared with average consumer purchase prices at two gas stations/convenience stores to identify if there was a significant correlation between th…
Engineering Mechanics
Third Award
Outbreaks of Zika and Malaria in third world countries have proven how borderless our world has become. Scientists are paramount in combatting these global challenges. The reality exists tha…
Every year over 3000 automobile accidents occur due to the sun impairing a driver’s vision. While there have been attempts to solve this serious problem, such as sunglasses or sun visors, th…
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals The purpose of this project is to find out whether gender plays a role in an individual's ability to recognize and identify facial expressions. Participants of two genders,…
Mathematics
Fourth Award
The theory of Lie groups and algebras is an important and developing part of mathematics. Lie groups and algebras occur in different areas of science such as quantum physics, mathematical ge…
Mathematics
Fourth Award
Problem of Apollonius is a famous geometric problem. Apollonius of Perga posed it in the 3d century BC. The statement of the problem: construct (by straightedge and compass) a circle that is…
Mathematics
We address n-sided dice whose face values lie between 1 and n and whose faces sum to n(n+1)/2. We tackle the problem of generating n-sided dice by developing an algorithm to generate the int…
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Genetic Algorithms (GAs) are a recent and relatively unexplored form of basic artificial intelligence. Many applications still need development. This project is an attempt to determine the c…
Biochemistry/ Molecular Biology
Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals The goals of this project is to a)identify and validate novel CpG biomarkers for early diagnosis and prognosis of leukemia; b) Develop a low-cost, non-invasive, rapid screen…
Materials Science
Present day surgical gloves are designed to provide a protective barrier, prevent the transmission of diseases, and the breakthrough of hazardous chemicals that could otherwise permeate onto…
Environmental Engineering
Objectives/Goals I wanted to create an inexpensive air filtration system that cleaned particles from smog-filled air. Methods/Materials Peat moss, ductwork, powdered titanium dioxide, fan, c…
Plant Sciences
Glyphosate is a systemic herbicide that is absorbed through foliage and is translocated via the phloem throughout the plant following absorption through the leaf tissues. Most commonly, Glyp…