Biomedical and Health Sciences
A recent rise in the use of opioids during pregnancy in the United States has resulted in an increase in neonatal abstinence syndrome (NAS). The effects of opioid use during pregnancy on new…
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Purpose: Acute Myocardial Infarction (AMI) affects > 1 million people, kills ~ 400,000/year and costs > 300 Billion dollars. Some patients with AMI die from various causes, one of which is E…
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Humanity produces around 1.3 billion metric tons of waste a year, and most of them ends up in landfills. To make things worse, even much of recyclable garbage is eventually wasted. The main…
Environmental Engineering
Objectives The intent of this project is to create a device that will monitor the health of plants in order to maximize plant production using less water. Given that there is no standard for…
Applied Mechanics & Structures
Honorable_mention Award
Objectives The objective of our project was to understand the relationship between the wave nature of light and storage data capacity by examining optical media using lasers. Methods Our met…
Physics & Astronomy
Fourth Award
Objectives My project measures the amount of beta, alpha, and gamma rays emitted by polonium 210, americium 241, and an unknown mix from an antique lamp. The experiment then compares the sam…
Physics & Astronomy
Objectives The objective of this project is to find the quality of a road by use of the process of vibration analysis. I believe that a frequency with a higher than average amplitude would i…
Physics & Astronomy
Objectives The purpose of my experiment was to measure the speed of sound in gases through acoustic interferometry. Key objectives were to verify the expected temperature dependence of sound…
Mammalian Biology
Objectives Katie and I both being athletes have experienced knee stress or strain at one point in our athletic career, so we wanted to pin point exactly what major angles contribute most to…
Environmental Engineering
Water scarcity affects upwards of a billion people worldwide. Big cities like Cape Town, Mexico City, Melbourne, and Jakarta are threatened by the water crisis today. Ironically, these very…
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Honorable_mention Award
Objectives The main objective of the project is to identify if students are more impressionable into choosing an image with more number of likes than teachers. I predicted that if students a…
Product Science (Physical) (Junior Division Only)
Honorable_mention Award
Objectives Ordering things online has become an instinct for our generation and mail ordered medications are no exception. When medicine is ordered in the mail especially in the summer the p…
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis (IPF) is a lung disease that results in scarring (fibrosis) of the lungs with no known cause. Over time, the scarring becomes so severe that breathing becomes i…
Biomedical and Health Sciences
We developed a calorimetrical method for calculating the energetical value of the pre-made food. We propounded the results to the restaurants in Tbilisi and other regions of Georgia and sugg…
Mathematics
*Introduction Mersenne Primes:- A number of the form 2^n – 1 where n is a natural number is a Mersenne number. If its value is prime then it is known as a Mersenne Prime. Mersenne primes are…
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Craniosynostosis, a congenital disease that affects 1 in 2000-2500 people, shares genetic mutations implicated in cancer progression, yet has not been studied as a potential predictive marke…
Microbiology
Diabetes is a metabolic disease impacting more than 400 million adults worldwide. Most of the major complications associated with diabetes are caused by hyperglycemia. Under hyperglycemic co…
Chemistry
Honorable_mention Award
Objectives The objective of this project is to measure the rate of corrosion in a wet/dry case in which the wet area of a given metal remains constant while the dry area exposed to air/oxyge…
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Fourth Award
Downstream riverside communities in the Four Corners Region face a potential threat from metals and metalloids from abandoned mines located in southwestern Colorado. In 2015, the Gold King M…
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Annually, the environmental bacteria cause food-borne illnesses that affect over 50 million persons worldwide. Over half the pharmaceuticals utilize bacterial products. Less than 1% of the e…
Animal Sciences
Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease has become a prevalent issue and today, over 80 million people in the U.S. are affected. NAFLD starts with the accumulation of lipids droplets in the liver…
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) is one of the most malignant cancers worldwide. However, the current treatments fail to control its progression. PDAC cells utilize glutamine as the m…
Microbiology (General)
Objectives Measurement of efficacy of 40% concentrated methylglyoxal fabric treatment on the elimination of Staph. aureus-related nosocomial bacteria on healthcare personnel's apparels which…
Chemistry
Carcinogenic acrylamide naturally forms in common foods and drinks containing asparagines and reducing sugars when processed at temperatures above 120°C. Recent worldwide concern for consume…
Freeze casting, the controlled unidirectional solidification of water-based solutions and slurries, is a new technique for the fabrication of tissue scaffolds with highly aligned porosity an…
Animal Sciences (inferred)
There is an increasing amount of evidence showing that the microbiome is a contributor to both immune and stress responses in a variety of organisms. One of these organisms is the nematode C…
Energy: Physical
High-efficiency GaAs solar cells are good candidates for roof-top photovoltaics for automobiles but, they are very expensive and inflexible. If GaAs photovoltaics can be made as microcells a…
Applied Mechanics & Structures
First Award
Objectives Harvesting atmospheric moisture is an innovative way to help solve the world's freshwater shortages. Torrey Pine trees are well known for their moisture harvesting capabilities, b…
Embedded Systems
Wearable technology relies on the use of sensors to monitor bodily movement. Soft, flexible, and durable sensors are needed in devices for everyday use. Here, I present a novel method for cr…
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
A quarter of the soil in the world is eroding as the result of deforestation, agricultural overexploitation, soil contamination, forest fires, etc. All of these cause loss of cultivable land…