Behavioral and Social Sciences
First Award
Suicide is the second leading cause of death for teenagers. Depressed teens feel obligated to deal with these serious issues by themselves to avoid burdening those around them and keep quiet…
AJAS · 2022
Behavioral Science
Suicide is the second leading cause of death for teenagers. Depressed teens feel obligated to deal with these serious issues by themselves to avoid burdening those around them and keep quiet…
Biomedical Engineering
Inspection of a myriad number of thermometers for commercial sale reveals many discrepancies with the reading. More specifically, things like tympanic and temporal readings are greater than…
Behavioral and Social Sciences
The purpose of this experiment is to see if there are statistical trends that exist with student’s GPAs before and after COVID-19. Deidentified data was collected from the Monte Vista School…
Behavioral and Social Sciences
The notable increase in workplace injuries in industrial workshops and factories in Palestine, and the growing percentage of human lives that are lost in such environments due to non-commitm…
Plant Sciences
Second Award
Global warming and the rapidly growing world population are among the most serious issues that threaten global food security. A new approach to support plant productivity is through exploiti…
Chemistry
Acylation of biphenyl with acetyl chloride is a commonly used Friedel-Crafts reaction. Side products observed between the reactant and the acetylating agent are often due to incorrect stoich…
Physics and Astronomy
Third Award
Does quantum mechanics embed the possibility to be a true theory that corresponds to the principle of nature? If locality and reality, common assumptions of physics, are valid, quantum mecha…
Behavioral and Social Sciences
In the world today many children with autism or Asperger struggle with atypical eating that will follow them into their adult lives. It is hypothesized that being able to taste Phenylthiocar…
Earth and Environmental Sciences
In this experiment we tested the purity of several different sources of water including spring water from Cress Creek, water from the Snake River, water directly from a glacier lake located…
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Fourth Award
Wildfires have caused devastation across the American-West during summer months, eradicating entire belts of natural plant growth and resulting in immense loss of life and property. Furtherm…
AJAS · 2022
Environmental Science
Indoor Air Pollution, an overlooked aspect of Air Pollution, causes 1.6 million premature deaths annually. COVID-19 pandemic has augmented concerns about this issue, as many people are indoo…
Embedded Systems
Third Award
Globally, 250 million people have visual impairment, and many are unable to move around safely without human assistance due to the complexity of finding pathways, avoiding obstacles, risk of…
In the status quo, traffic signal control systems operate on predetermined patterns and instructions devised from past data. While this method functions effectively for traffic under normal…
Leukoencephalopathy with Brainstem and Spinal Cord Involvement and Lactate Elevation (LBSL) affects the white matter of the central nervous system, and there are about 100 documented cases i…
Cellular and Molecular Biology
Diabetes is a growing and deadly epidemic around the world and particularly in the United States. Complications associated with diabetes arise from prolonged high blood glucose concentration…
Over 12 million Americans live with Type 1 Diabetes (T1D), a debilitating autoimmune disease marked by insulitis of the pancreas and the destruction of beta-islet cells by effector Tcells (T…
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Visual tracking is an important skill to have to be successful in any sport. However, in baseball, the eyes play a vital role in the success of players. A fastball thrown by a pitcher will r…
Microbiology
Digitate silica sinter found in the outflow apron of terrestrial hot springs have been found to contain biosignatures of microbial communities, including into the ancient past. In 2007, the…
Biochemistry
Dairy farmers get paid on components such as protein and fat in the milk. Therefore, knowing what stage in a cow's lactation they will produce milk with the highest percent of components can…
Embedded Systems
Landfills are the 3rd largest sources of anthropogenic methane emissions in US. As methane is measured monthly, inadvertent fugitive emissions are undetected, and problems are realized late.…
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Accurate and robust autonomous landing of fixed-wing aircraft will revolutionize economic, industrial, and military missions that are generally dangerous or suboptimal for humans to perform.…
Earth and Environmental Sciences
In the last two years, COVID 19 has drastically increased the use of household disinfectants across the world. Is the increase of chemicals negatively affecting our environment more than we…
Mathematics
My novel method of machine learning that I utilized with cluster analysis can be done on any computer and is fast and easy to learn. My novel method investigated a genome-wide association st…
Physics and Astronomy
Fourth Award
In the formation of the solar system, frequent collisions on terrestrial bodies left behind populations of impact craters scattered on planetary and satellite surfaces. This study focuses on…
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
As the Coronavirus continues to spread globally, different mutations arise. These variants often take long periods of time until being discovered, resulting in large spikes of infection. Thi…
Extracurricular activities are a large part of the American high school experience, helping shape youth development and relationships. However, the COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted the lives…
Physics and Astronomy
Fourth Award
Just recently discovered, branched flow of light (bfol) describes light beams propagating in intricate and random treetop-like patterns instead of rectilinearly. Building up on current publi…
Cellular and Molecular Biology
Third Award
Neuroblastoma (NB) is the most common extracranial cancer diagnosed in children, accounting for 6% of all pediatric cancer cases and 15% of childhood cancer deaths. The disproportionate NB m…
Animal Sciences
Third Award
In this study the N-Methyl D-aspartate (NMDA) receptor was perturbed, and the resulting phenotypic effects were studied. It was hypothesized that the role of the NMDAR in neurodevelopmental…