Plant Sciences
As the world’s dependence on the depleting sources of fossil fuels increase, scientists are beginning to look into algae as viable alternative energy sources. Algae can produce the necessary…
Energy and Transport (inferred)
There is an increasing interest in the development of renewable energy technologies. Biomass is being utilized as an energy source, and several technologies have been developed that convert…
Plant Sciences
Third Award
Second-generation biofuels, which involve the conversion of waste products such as agricultural and paper waste into ethanol-based sources, present a promising environmentally-friendly alter…
Materials Science
This project includes the utilization of electro pulsing to optimize the production of ceramic filters, specifically Yttria-Stabilized Tetragonal Polycrystalline Zirconia (3Y-TZP). Due to th…
Energy: Chemical
Solar energy can be utilized through photovoltaic cells to simultaneously meet the global demand for energy and decrease the production of greenhouse gases. However, their low efficiency rat…
Energy: Chemical
Fossil fuels are currently used in the automobile industry. Many problems have occurred because of the harmful emission of greenhouse gases and alternatives such as hydrogen fuel can help re…
Chemistry
Fourth Award
Typical graphene is grown through chemical vapor deposition (CVD) which requires high temperatures (1,100-1,600 °C) and complicated transfer processes that frequently result in the loss and…
Materials Science
Boron nitride nanotubes (BNNTs) possess significant potential in water transport applications, demonstrating greater water flux over that of carbon nanotubes and contemporary reverse osmosis…
Cellular and Molecular Biology
Third Award
Vaccines are the one of greatest health innovations in human history, saving an estimated two million lives annually. They function by exposing the body to an antigen mimicking a pathogen an…
Biochemistry
According to the Alzheimer's Foundation of America, it is estimated that about 5.1 million Americans have Alzheimer's disease. Signal Peptide Peptidase (SPP) is a membrane protein that is lo…
Translational Medical Science
My school, Cascades Academy, has a sister school in Peru named Casa Chapi. The students at this school struggle with anemia, which is not surprising considering that the World Health Organiz…
Animal Sciences
Fourth Award
To maintain the nuclear integrity of somatic cells that provide the beneficial traits for cloning, tissue culture techniques are used to culture cells in vitro using a growth medium suppleme…
Biochemistry/ Molecular Biology
Objectives/Goals The objective of this project was to develop a diverse library of Light-Oxygen-Voltage sensing (LOV2) domain variants that could permit for more precise protein manipulation…
Energy: Physical
The purpose was to develop a system that can harness vibrational energy from a bladeless wind turbine that is small enough to implement in a residential area. The hypothesis was if a system…
Systems Software
Fourth Award
One of the most pressing issues in modern computing is computational speed. In supercomputers, hundreds of thousands of processors, or nodes, are connected in configurations called topologie…
Mathematics
Mersenne Primes are prime numbers of the form 2^p-1 where p is prime. These numbers have been studied for over 2,000 years and continue to mesmerize mathematicians today with a number of uns…
Electronics & Electromagnetics
Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals Many patients depend on implantable medical devices, such as pacemakers and left ventricular assist devices (LVAD). Some of these devices require electrical wires to supply…
Chemistry
Owing to increasing demands for sustainable and renewable energy an exploration of lighttoenergy converters has become an area of great interest for many scientists and engineers. Having a…
Plant Biology
Objectives/Goals The objective of this project is to determine if a synthetic fertilizer (miracle-gro) will make the plants grow at a faster rate than the organic fertilizer mixes. The goal…
Surface grafted polymer brushes comprised of poly(2-(methacryloyloxy)ethyl phosphorylcholine) (pMPC) have a attracted the attention of researchers due to their unique lubricating properties.…
Mathematics
Third Award
This work deals with an open question in math with direct implications to spectral theory and to mathematical physics. A measure describes the distribution of mass over a general set. Given…
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Musculoskeletal disorders include diverse complications but all suffer from the physiological orthopedic domino effect, namely bone mineral density (BMD) alterations. For instance, increased…
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Aminoglycosides are antibiotics that are often used to treat patients suffering from severe bacterial infections yet they induce irreversible hearing loss. The mechanisms by which these drug…
Chemistry
Objectives/Goals In my experiment I tested whether aspirin, naproxen, or ibuprofen will keep the pH the same and also dissolve in the fastest time. Methods/Materials # Hydrochloric Acid, .01…
Alternative Energy (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals The objective of this study proves that heat from pavement can be converted into energy based on the Seebeck Effect. Solar radiation can heat water in pipes within the pavem…
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Second Award
Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer (NSCLC) is the most prominent form of Lung Cancer and kills at least 800,000 people each year. Early diagnosis of NSCLC yields higher survival rates among patients…
Product Science (Biological) (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals The objective of this study is to determine which remedy would work best on skunk spray (n-Butyl mercaptan) to remove it's odor from fur. Methods/Materials Synthetic fur was…
Materials Science and Engineering (inferred)
Post-polymerization modification of thermomechanical properties is a useful approach to help address the limitations due to the inherently anisotropic nature of thermosetting materials used…
Energy: Chemical
Third Award
The use of sulfur in a cathode for lithium batteries has garnered increasing attention in recent years for next-generation energy storage because of its high energy density and low cost. A r…
Embedded Systems
Third Award
In this study, we have developed a thermal printing technology to fabricate circuits on the surface of ordinary paper. We designed a machine to print a paper circuit board by thermally melti…