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Safety Bracelet

Safety bracelet is a device used to prevent people loss and reduce facing danger. Any person can use it including children, special needs. and elderly. It consists of two parts, the bracelet…

Sand Reflectance: Does Beach Sand Reflect More Light than Desert Sand?

Earth & Atmospheric Sciences (Junior Division Only)

Objectives/Goals The problem/purpose of this project is to test which location#s sand reflects more light, beach or desert. I figured this out by using a spectrometer to measure the light re…

Satya: Steganography Utilizing Individual Pixels

In a technological age where increased GPU performance is able to crack cryptographic functions faster, stronger and more subtle protection methods are necessary to prevent data loss. The ob…

Saving Grandpa

Electronics & Electromagnetics Honorable_mention Award

Objectives/Goals One big worry for elderly and for their loved ones is falling. One third of the population above 65 is injured by falling, and falling can cause serious injuries and even de…

Saving the Lives of Wildland Firefighters with a Hydrated Polyacrylate Fire Shelter

Materials Science (Junior Division Only) Second Award

Objectives/Goals The objective of my project is to develop a shelter that will address both the radiant and convection heat that is generated in wildfires. My goal is that this improved fire…

SCC: Reversible Multi-Translation of High-Level Programming Languages and a Platform for Performance-Controlled Execution in Multi-Agent Systems

Fourth Award

Nowadays there are many different programming languages. They are used in product development, programming contests and research, so the problem of translation from one high-level language t…

Schwann Cell Differentiation from Stem Cells of Neurofibromatosis 1 Patients and Normal Controls

Biomedical Engineering

One in every 4,000 newborns is diagnosed with Neurofibromatosis 1 (NF1), a common genetic disorder. Many NF1 patients develop painful tumors along their peripheral nervous system. NF1 patien…

Science4All

Biomedical and Health Sciences

Illiteracy, elder abandonment, elder abuse, poor scientific awareness, misunderstanding of what science really is... These are just some of the problems our societies face nowadays and makes…

Screening of Bacillus Strains Isolated from the Gastrointestinal Tracts of Shrimp to Develop Novel Probiotics for Improving Shrimp Quality and Yield

Fourth Award

Shrimp aquaculture is increasing worldwide, and probiotics are extensively used as feed supplements to improve the gut health and yield of shrimp. However, most of the commercial probiotics…

Screen Size and Eyes

Mammalian Biology

Objectives/Goals The objective of this project was to determine whether playing video games on a small screen, as opposed to a larger screen, will cause a greater amount of eye strain that w…

Search and Rescue

Electronics & Electromagnetics

Objectives/Goals This project is about building a robot that can efficiently and safely help recover humans or any other life forms from a disater Methods/Materials We used tape to make the…

Search for Eccentric Accretions in Kepler Binary Systems

A study is being presented on observations of Kepler eclipsing binaries to study eccentric accretions. This study was done on binary systems KIC: 04848423, 010480952, 04157488, 4908495, 6620…

Search for New Ways to Improve Immune Response against Cancer: Modulation of FASL (CD95L) by Lipid Mediators on Lymphocytes

Translational Medical Science

Searching mechanisms to improve the immune system against cancer can be an alternative for treatments used nowadays. In that way, my project studies the relation of lipid mediators (such as…

Searching for an Ally: Investigating the Effects of Thiamethoxam on Podisus maculiventris for Possible Integrated Pest Management, Year Three

Fourth Award

n 2001, thiamethoxam, a second-generation neonicotinoid, was brought onto the insecticide market. Very few studies have been conducted on thiamethoxam for the purpose of integrated pest mana…

Sea Urchin Reaction to UVA and Various Wavelengths of Visible Light

Zoology

Objectives/Goals I was inspired to visit an aquarium, and there I noticed a surprising pattern in sea urchin behavior. A purple urchin was nestled nearby a purple sea star, a red urchin was…

Secrets of San Lorenzo Valley's Atmosphere, Part Three: The Dangers of Particulate Matter 2.5 and SLV Inversion Analysis

For the past three years, we have been studying atmospheric inversions in the San Lorenzo Valley (SLV). In our first year, we established that strong inversions occurred frequently—as we had…

See the Force: Can Vision Help Tactile Memory?

Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only)

Objectives/Goals The objective is to see how accurately people can remember and reproduce a specific force level when they push on a deformable object where they can see the indentation, or…

See the Light: A Study of Measuring Electromagnetic Wavelengths

Physics & Astronomy

Objectives/Goals The purpose of my project was to determine if common household supplies could be used in building an effective way to measure wavelengths of a spectrum. Methods/Materials Fo…

Selective Adhesion to Protein-Coated Surfaces for Bacterial Cell Enrichment and Separation

Fourth Award

Detection of foodborne and environmental pathogens is becoming increasingly imperative for the maintenance of public health. Rapid detection of these detrimental bacteria may be greatly faci…

Self-assembly and Characterization of Macroscopic Monolayer Films Composed of Ligand Gold Coated Nanospheres

This project’s objective was to build materials with unique optical properties, such as a custom tailored refractive index, with applications in solar cells and fiber-optics. Using self-asse…

Self-Driving Car Intersection

Traffic lights are one of the most dreaded aspects of daily life. They are slow and often inefficient. One possible fix is a self-driving car intersection. Since self-driving cars can drive…

Self-healing Polymers: What Factors Affect the Speed at Which Polymers Self-heal?

Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design

The purpose of my experiment was to understand self-healing polymers and their interaction with catalysts. I studied the speed of rebonding with and without external catalysts on self-healin…

Self-Powered Wireless Sensor Network for Smart Buildings

Currently, between single-family residences, multi-family residences, and commercial buildings, buildings consume a significant share of the total energy in the United States, contributing t…

Self-sanitizing Door Handle

Door handles of public conveniences in hospitals, malls and schools show high incidence of contamination by various strains of bacteria and viruses. Our research has led us to create an effe…

Sending Sound Waves through Citrullus lanatus as a Model for Hidden Tunnel Detection

Earth & Atmospheric Sciences (Junior Division Only) Second Award

Objectives/Goals The objective was to determine whether sound waves could detect secret tunnels and sinkholes in the ground. Watermelons were used as a model of the ground, and holes represe…

Sensory Glasses for the Blind

Electronics & Electromagnetics

Objectives/Goals Our project is to create inexpensive glasses allowing the visually impaired to navigate the urban areas efficiently. Methods/Materials The sensory glasses has a vibration mo…

Separating Mixed Signals in a Noisy Environment Using Global Optimization

Mathematics & Software Fourth Award

Objectives/Goals The main objective of my research is to design improved blind source separation methods guided by rigorous error analysis. Blind source separation aims at recovering source…

Separation Anxiety: A Plan for Safer Model Rocket Deployment

Applied Mechanics & Structures Fourth Award

Objectives/Goals Current model rocket deployment systems are limited to single motor ejection charges or separate explosive charges controlled by electronics. The purpose of this project is…

Settlement of Tropical Moth into Korean Peninsula due to Global Warming

Biochemistry

This study has been designed to publicize the possibility that foreign species introduced to the Korean Peninsula by port entires and disoriented ones thrown by typhoons from Southeast Asia…

SFI: Science Fair Investigation

Chemistry

Objectives/Goals How does the concentration of bleach solution affect the effectiveness of the chemiluminescence of luminol on surfaces of varying type and with varying degrees of hydrophobi…