Translational Medical Science
We survived 1322 fifteen to twenty-year-old students to learn how much they knew about their sleep and if they employed any sleep educing techniques. We found that 43,57% of students are uns…
Computational Systems & Analysis
Objectives/Goals Many families lost decades of wealth during the last economic recession and turning away from financial markets resulted in them being unable to recover their losses fast en…
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals Is there a connection between how much inatterntional blindness you experience and your personality? I will categorize subjects into Type A personality and Type B personalit…
Energy: Physical
Fourth Award
The purpose of this project is to determine if pumping is a useful method of increasing tidal barrage energy output and how to implement pumping most effectively. Pumping is the process of u…
Electronics & Electromagnetics
Objectives/Goals This project seeks to use different antennas to increase the signal strength in a wireless Bluetooth connection between a speaker and a host device. Methods/Materials Jam Sp…
Electronics & Electromagnetics
Objectives/Goals Using fossil fuel in vehicles significantly harms our environment by releasing about 1.5 Billion metric tons of CO2 and many other poisonous gasses into the atmosphere every…
Biochemistry
Epinephrine is a hormone naturally secreted by the body in response to stress. It is also used as the primary treatment for anaphylaxis, a severe and often fatal allergic reaction. Prompt in…
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Third Award
What is the feasibility of a sustainable heterotrophic Chlorella vulgaris growth system to become a replacement for the tertiary phase of a municipal wastewater treatment plant, and to succe…
Embedded Systems
Third Award
This experiment was conducted to investigate the feasibility of utilizing a phased array that is able to focus its signal strength on a specific location. In the 21st century, where robust i…
Electronics & Electromagnetics
First Award
Objectives/Goals This experiment was conducted to investigate the feasibility of utilizing a phased array that is able to focus its signal strength on a specific location. In the 21st centur…
Mathematics
In the modern age, public-key cryptography has become a vital component for secure online communication. To implement these cryptosystems, rapid primality testing is necessary in order to ge…
Energy: Physical
A study by the IER, Institute for Energy Research, show that around 66.9%, of the electricity in the U.S. alone rely on non-renewable fossil-based fuels, which harm the environment, the rene…
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Indium is widely used in green technologies, including solar energy production. Indium is often found in trace amounts in zinc deposits; however, it is becoming scarcer. A neural net was use…
Biomedical Engineering
The recent Zika outbreak in over 48 countries has severe socioeconomic impact due to its damage to fetal brain development. Currently, Zika virus (ZIKV) is diagnosed with polymerase chain re…
Biomedical Engineering
Second Award
Diabetes currently affects over 346 million people worldwide and is one of the leading causes of death. Current treatment requires frequent blood-glucose tests followed by necessary insulin…
Translational Medical Science
Third Award
Diabetic retinopathy (DR), the leading cause of blindness among working-age adults, is also leading cause of preventable blindness worldwide. Many patients, particularly in developing areas,…
Cellular and Molecular Biology
Neurogenesis, the proliferation of neural cells in the brain, has been shown to correlate with higher rates of epileptogenesis (the progression of epilepsy in the brain). It has been shown t…
Chemistry
The aim of the project was to discern the cause of thermochromism in [Fe(NH2trz)3]Br2·H2O. It was hypothesized that it occurred due to a spin transition, which would be measurable through IR…
Behavioral and Social Sciences
In a highly competitive global marketplace, creativity is one of the most invaluable tools for an individual or group to have at their disposal. Countries invest millions into research on ed…
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Until the discovery of the CAL-1 cell line, blastic natural killer cell lymphoma (BNKCL), a highly fatal form of leukemia, was an insurmountable obstacle for oncologists. Even with CAL-1, cu…
Translational Medical Science
Glioblastoma multiforme (GBM) is the most common and aggressive type of primary brain tumor. Patients with GBM have a median survival of 15 months. Current treatments for GBM are quite limit…
Microbiology
The purpose of this project was to look at the effect of S.aureus protein A, the extracellular adherence protein of Staphylococcus aureus, on the bone metastatic processes of breast and pros…
Plant Sciences
Sclerotinia sclerotiorum, also referred to as White Mold, is a necrotrophic fungal pathogen which causes damage to Glycine max health and yield. Fungicides to combat this fungus are very exp…
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Global freshwater temperatures have increased and are projected to rise a further 3°-7°C in the next 100 years. Critical for drinking and agriculture, these highly temperature dependant ecos…
Applied Mechanics & Structures
Objectives/Goals The common shocks absorbers for vehicles use mechanical springs as cushion with air, fluid as damping. My goal is to design a shock absorber using only magnetic force as cus…
Plant Sciences
The farmers in the rice production area across India and Asia are very much dejected over the condition of agriculture because of the issues like poor rainfall and labor availability, which…
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Fourth Award
According to WHO’s Global Database on Child Growth and Malnutrition nearly one third of children under 5 suffer irreversible damage to their physical and cognitive development due to severe…
Energy: Physical
Our goal is to improve mainstream solar cells with only 18% efficiency – it’s a major problem in physics, because ‘green’ energy will one day replace fuel-based machines on global market for…
Applied Mechanics & Structures
Objectives/Goals A CubeSat is a small satellite, where 1U, measures 10cm^3. These satellites can be built in different sizes, such as 1U, 2U, etc. They serve a variety of functions including…
Environmental Engineering
Water deficiency causes various agricultural problems in many areas of Thailand. We observed that the bromeliad plant (Aechmea aculeatosepala) can grow in dry areas because its leaves can co…