Zoology
Objectives/Goals The purpose of this experiment was to determine the effect of temperature on the speed at which ants locate food. Methods/Materials Three ant colonies, one 30 degree Celsius…
Physics and Astronomy
Third Award
Generations of stable nanobubbles (NBs) in aqueous solutions have been demonstrated to be feasible. Their physical characters and applications, however, remain to be discovered. In this proj…
Biomedical and Health Sciences
According to the National Cancer Institute, breast cancer is the most common malignancy in United States women, accounting for more than 40,000 deaths each year. The main cause of death in b…
Mammalian Biology
Objectives/Goals Recent studies have demonstrated that topically applied sunblock may enter both the bloodstream and breast milk with unknown consequences. The purpose of this experiment is…
Materials Science
Graphene oxide (GO) is a 2D insulative material whose conductivity can be partially restored in localized regions via photothermal reduction with a focused laser beam (FLB). While silver mig…
Mammalian Biology
First Award
Objectives/Goals With the pressing issue of antibiotic resistant bacteria, anti-virulence therapies have emerged as a non-antibiotic strategy for bacterial elimination through removal of bac…
Systems Software
Electronic gadgets used in ICT today, are dedicated to doing a lot of business and providing healthcare services amongst other services in rural and urban areas worldwide. These devices use…
Materials Science (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals The objective of this experiment is to test and determine the best heat insulating material out of a variety of natural and artificial materials. Methods/Materials Plastic b…
Chemistry
Objectives/Goals The objective of this science fair project was to determine the effectiveness of natural pigments at dyeing a Tagua nut, an Ecuadorian plant also known as "vegetable ivory"…
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Third Award
Alzheimer’s Disease affects an estimated 5.4 million people, making it the sixth leading cause of death in the United States. Seeking to increase therapeutic gains, near infrared light (NIR)…
Embedded Systems
It goes without saying that the blind are in serious need of getting information by studying and working independently. Despite a vast array of state-of-the-art devices such as Braille books…
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Fourth Award
The novel human-computer interaction tool developed in this study replaces the features of keyboard and mouse by using a highly accurate gaze tracker based on a neural network for general us…
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Although machine learning is becoming increasingly necessary in every industry, its programming is still difficult for most people, even to some experts. Scripting for neural network usually…
Translational Medical Science
Cardiovascular system diseases are leading causes of mortality worldwide and in all age groups. Moreover, specialists believe that in 90% of cases, cardiovascular diseases can be cured if di…
Biomedical Engineering
Each year about 50,000 patients die from colon cancer – it is the second leading cause of cancer death in the United States. Colon cancer usually develops from polyps, which are growths on t…
Biochemistry
Abstract Produced by traumatic brain injury such as concussions, free radicals cause many problems when released in the brain including memory loss, attention problems, depression, and disor…
Earth & Atmospheric Sciences (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals Our project displays a simulation of a common rainfall in the San Joaquin Valley. The objective is to determine what rate common soils (sandy, silt, clay, and topsoil) found…
Biochemistry/ Molecular Biology
Objectives/Goals In today's world, many instances of alcohol abuse and engagement are common and evident. There are various consequences of this behavior, ranging from a hangover the next da…
Chemistry
Second Award
Insertion of a fluorine atom into organic molecules allows to increase their bioactivity. Nowadays 40% of all medicines contain in their structure one or more fluorine atoms. Particularly in…
Computational Systems & Analysis
Objectives/Goals In cartographic visualization, nodes are represented as horizontal lines and edges as vertical lines. This method provides advantages over node-link diagrams because nodes a…
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Detecting rare cell types would allow very early disease diagnosis (e.g., cancer, infection), identification of new cell types, and deepen our understanding of cell differentiation. We devel…
Mathematics
The N-Queens Problem is the problem of placing N chess queens on a NxN chessboard so that no two queens attack each other. Calculation of the number of different solutions is related to the…
Engineering Mechanics
After Hurricane Maria devastated the island's power grid. Most of the people were left without electricity for a long time. It is not cost effective to invest from $500-$2,000 plus $504 mont…
Biochemistry
Serum proteins can generally be a rich resource for the illness’ indication. They are invaluable resources to detect illnesses such as inflammation, cancer, diabetes, malnutrition, cardiovas…
Translational Medical Science
Purpose: The experiment identified Stearoyl-CoA desaturase 1 (SCD1) as a novel molecular target in Serous Ovarian Carcinoma determined the potential of SSI-4, an SCD1 inhibitor, as a novel m…
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Fourth Award
Kinesins are motor proteins that move unidirectionally along microtubules as they hydrolyze ATP. Although the general features of the kinesin walking mechanism are becoming increasingly clea…
Embedded Systems
Our team took on this challenge by copying the skills of some animals such as bats and dolphin, which emit sonar calls into their surroundings and receive it again to divert away from them.…
Computational Systems & Analysis
Objectives/Goals Serial block face scanning electron microscopy (SBEM) is a highly advanced technology to create 3D EM image stacks from 2D EM. Challenges of 3D EM have now shifted from how…
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Next-generation intracellular delivery solutions are necessary and will provide essential roles in drug therapeutic applications as well as being critical components of genome editing approa…
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Second Award
Pharmaceuticals and personal care products(PPCPs) are aquatic contaminants that have been detected in surface water globally. However, their aquatic toxicity, especially in complex mixtures,…