Earth and Environmental Sciences
Fourth Award
A primary goal of cryptographic research is to develop more secure cryptosystems to ensure secrecy in the information-centric era we live in. Only the one-time pad cryptosystem achieves the…
Physics and Astronomy
Wild beet, including Beta macrocarpa and Beta vulgaris ssp. maritima, is a major production constraint on sugar beet throughout the world and especially to the Imperial Valley, California’s…
Plant Biology
First Award
Objectives/Goals Wild beet poses a major risk to the 1.2 billion dollar sugar beet industry in the US, since hybridization will allow the glyphosphate resistance gene to transfer to the wild…
Mathematics
Newborn screening is a vital process that defines the course that a baby’s life could take. Identifying metabolic diseases at early stages gives the opportunity of early treatment, making th…
Materials Science
According to the biodiversity theory, the decrease in piscivore population will result in direct, shrot-term increase in planktivore biomass, reductions in crustacean herbivore biomass, and…
Mathematics & Software
Objectives/Goals My objective was to find the best answer to the Monty Hall problem using a computer program I created. Methods/Materials Materials: Computer Scratch 2.0 Programming Language…
Energy: Chemical
Third Award
The purpose of this project was to make a vest that a visually impaired or blind person could use to have an easier time moving around in their environment. The project was chosen due to int…
Mathematics
For centuries, man has turned to plants to provide not only sustenance but also medicine. The purpose of this project is to isolate and identify the compound(s) responsible for the antibacte…
Plant Sciences
The purpose of this experiment is to prevent the deacetylation of microtubule-associated tubulin protein through the use of the inhibitory mechanisms of histone deacetylase inhibitors, thus…
Mathematics
Second Award
With a 5-year survival rate of only 6%, pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDA) is the 4th leading cause of cancer related deaths in the United States. Transforming Growth Factor-ß1 (TGF-ß1),…
Energy: Physical
This project was done for the purpose of identifying the best source of sediment for a sediment microbial fuel cell. The initial idea was to determine which source of sediment generated the…
Mathematics
Fourth Award
The idea of the project is the design of advanced systems potentially useful in targeted cancer therapy and neurosurgery. In my project I have focused on composites of modified gold nanopart…
Energy: Physical
Semiconductor solar cells are used to harness solar energy, a clean renewable energy source for solving global pollution and energy crisis. These photovoltaic-cells are expensive and non-eco…
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
With the world population increasing by 60 million every year, the search for clean water becomes a growing concern especially in Less Economically Developed Countries (LEDCs). Waste of anim…
Engineering Mechanics
The entire world and UAE is in the search of a new source of renewable energy instead of oil and gas that pollute the air and destroy our beautiful planet . As a part of this , a big effort…
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
This experiment tested whether the muon count is altered by changing the conditions between counter scintillators, with the purpose of determining if applied fields could cause any deflectio…
Electronics & Electromagnetics
Objectives/Goals The movie Lone Survivor tells the story of Lt. Michael Murphy. When his squad came under attack, during a covert mission in a valley in Afghanistan, their radio could not tr…
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals What genre of music, if any, increases efficiency while doing schoolwork? I tested this because when I was listening to music while working. While researching, I discovered…
Chemistry
Although music is characterized as the world’s most common shared language, it can be quite abstract and complex. It is my mission to revolutionize the way how people learn to play and compr…
Microbiology
Third Award
The treatment of tuberculosis requires a minimum of 6 months of multidrug therapy. Antibiotic efficacy is complicated by a bacterial subpopulation of “persisters”. The persisters are genotyp…
Microbiology
The purpose of this experiment was to determine if Mycoplasma bovis could be isolated from milk fluid, blood, lachrymal fluid, and nasopharyngeal cultures. The veterinarian collected milk fl…
Environmental Engineering (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals The purpose of this experiment was to see whether Pleurotis Ostreatus (pearl oyster mushrooms) can break down diesel in contaminated wheat straw substrate. The hypothesis st…
Earth and Environmental Sciences
In 2010, the World Health Organization estimated that over 285 million people are considered to be visually impaired. Current techniques that attempt to help these people navigate require ei…
Mammalian Biology
Objectives/Goals The goal of this study is to better understand joint cracking. This experiment analyzes differences between the sexes, which joints are involved, what percent of people are…
Mathematics
Fourth Award
Muscular dystrophies are heritable, heterogeneous, neuromuscular disorders characterized by deterioration and severe atrophy of skeletal muscle. This disease is caused by mutations in protei…
Product Science (Biological) (Junior Division Only)
Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals In this project, I used agar plates to test if HEPA filters actually remove mold spores and bacteria from the air. I was interested in this project because I am highly aller…
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
The Euclidean Algorithm is a method in finding the greatest common divisor of two integers efficiently, I have decided to observe the running time of the algorithm and create a Euclidean Alg…
Materials Science
A critical issue in the world today is providing clean drinking water for people throughout the world. Nearly 780 million people are unable to access clean drinking water today. Despite the…
Energy: Physical
First Award
According to Moore’s law, the number of CPU transistors doubles every 18 months. Increased transistor density causes increased heat production. The need for CPU cooling is therefore increasi…
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Neuroblastoma is an aggressive pediatric cancer, with two thirds of all cases found in children ages five or younger. Current drugs cause adverse side effects which greatly affects the devel…