Product Science (Biological) (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals The objective of my experiment was to determine which type of cleaning product removes the most oil from duck feathers in the case of an oil spill: Dawn Dishwashing Liquid,…
Environmental Engineering (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals My objective is to measure the efficiency of using nanotechnology and magnetism to clean up oil spills and determine if it is a viable alternative compared to other methods…
Plant Sciences
Megacopta cribraria is a newly invasive stink bug species significantly reducing soybean crop yield across the southeastern United States. Chemical pesticides are a limited method of control…
Materials Science
The purpose of this project is to see what the Olympic Medal results would look like if they were based on Gender and to see if Gender Equality is being promoted throughout the Olympic Games…
Plant Sciences
Demyelinating diseases, such as multiple sclerosis (MS), are devastating disabling neurological disorders most commonly affecting millions of young adults worldwide. Microglia represent rati…
Product Science (Biological) (Junior Division Only)
First Award
Objectives/Goals To determine the number of flushes that are required to remove microorganisms from toilet water after an episode of diarrhea. To determine the effects of different automatic…
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Barnette's conjecture states that every cubic, planar, 3-connected, bipartite (Barnette) graph is Hamiltonian. The conjecture is a famous unsolved problem in the field of graph theory. Due t…
Materials Science
Second Award
This project is inspired by a recent breakthrough in the study of the lower central series filtration of unitary associative Lie algebras. We consider the successive quotients of elements (a…
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Given a bipartite graph, let us pick an acyclic orientation of its edges. Then, if we consider the partially ordered set (poset) induced by this orientation, the number of linear extensions…
Plant Sciences
Third Award
Our project analyzes the utility of amorphous silica produced from rice husk biowastes in producing higher quality, thermostable pigments. Heating the husks produces rice husk ash (RHA) cont…
Materials Science
In this project, we provide a new notion of a topological homeomorphism by defining such in terms of a dynamical system. That is, we want to construct a time-dependent quasi-attractor and a…
Mathematics & Software
Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals In this project, we attempt to provide a new notion of a topological homeomorphism by defining such in terms of a dynamical system. That is, we want to construct a time-depe…
Materials Science
This work employed an information theoretic approach in order to understand how information is stored and manipulated in mammalian neocortical circuits. Through massive in silico simulations…
Microbiology
First Award
Young supernova remnants (YSNRs) are possible sites of cosmic-ray (CR) acceleration, thanks to which the CRs were observed to reach energies as high as 10e15 eV. However, such acceleration c…
Mammalian Biology
Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals To study the prevalence of plaque rupture, plaque erosion, and fibrocalcific nodule in culprit lesions defined by optical coherence tomography in male and female patients pr…
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Chloramines have been used to disinfect potable water because they do not product carcinogenic DBP’s like traditional free chlorine. However, chloramines have been linked with lead leaching…
Plant Sciences
When equines fracture their phalanx, the most common ‘treatment’ is euthanasia because of the high cost and risk of surgery. Additionally, few non-invasive preventative measures and/or treat…
Engineering Mechanics
Fourth Award
The purpose of this project is to develop and evaluate combinations of technologies which will ultimately lead the design of a system tuned to collision avoidance. The goal is to observe and…
Materials Science
Pancreatic cancer is a deadly disease that is very difficult to diagnose early and to treat effectively. It has a 95% mortality rate, the highest of all cancers, and only a 3-6% 5-year survi…
Energy: Chemical
The search for forms of alternative energy has led to wind turbines, hydro-electric dams, bio-diesel, and nuclear power being tested but can only be used in specific areas, restricting their…
Environmental Engineering
The purpose of this experiment is to reduce the environmental impact of burning fossil fuels by removing carbon dioxide from the flue gas that is the produced during this process. CO2 is a p…
Chemistry
Objectives/Goals The purpose of this study was to determine the optimization conditions of enzyme recovery in polymer-salt aqueous two phase systems (ATPS) by manipulating three factors: pol…
Energy: Physical
After the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster (Japan, March 2011), radioactive decontamination has appeared increasingly obvious for humanity. Is it possible to improve the actual processes t…
Engineering Mechanics
Due to the high consumption of gasoline around the world, it becomes a priority to look for alternatives that can reduce its consumption. The research’s purpose is to reduce gasoline consump…
Energy: Physical
Third Award
The recently developed Lithium-Sulfur (Li-S) primary battery technology possess a theoretical energy capacity of 1600 mAh/g, which is significantly higher than any other battery on the marke…
Engineering Mechanics
In today’s society, gasoline is becoming more expensive and harder to find, causing scientists to look for alternative fuels. One of these alternative fuels is biodiesel converted from oil e…
Energy: Physical
Organic Photovoltaic (OPV) cells are important in the field of materials science due to their light weight, simple fabrication, and flexibility. Bulk-Heterojunction OPV devices contain photo…
Biochemistry/ Molecular Biology
Objectives/Goals Giant unilamellar vesicles (GUVs) are biomimetic cells used by researchers to study the qualities of lipid membranes, specifically the permeability. These vesicles are forme…
Systems Software
NASA has developed the Advanced Resistive Exercise Device (ARED) to help astronauts maintain lower body muscle mass on the International Space Station (ISS). While ARED squat exercise has be…
Embedded Systems
I tried to determine if there was a chromosome that could best predict an individual's response to toxins so that my process could be shortened for future use. I started out with a spreadshe…