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Soil Profiles

We tested if natural disasters had an effect on the micronutrient count in the soil. If we test the following scenarios: forest fire, grassland fire, and blizzards to see how they affect the…

Soil Remediation through the Use of Nutrient-Based Nanocomposite Hydrogels

The growth in land development has resulted to a loss of arable land for crop production. The remaining unused marginal lands are low in productivity and can’t be utilized to produce food to…

Solar and Wind Integrated Electric System

Egypt faces a lot of challenges concerning energy. The aspects we worked on are limiting electricity problems and pollution’s ones as there are a lot of places in Egypt that don’t have acces…

Solar Cell Pyramids

Introduction: Surface texturing is a beneficial and essential step in the fabrication process of monocrystalline silicon (c-Si) and multicrystalline silicon (mc-Si) solar cells It leads to a…

Solar: Cell vs. Mirror

Electronics & Electromagnetics

Objectives/Goals This project was created to attempt to qualify and quantify the benefits and drawbacks of two different methods for converting solar power to electricity. Methods/Materials…

Solar Energy Concentrator Integrated into Windows: Smart Solar Energy Conversion

Alternative Energy (Junior Division Only) Second Award

Objectives/Goals Converting solar energy into electricity has become very common. Modern buildings have many windows, which receive a lot of sun light. Is it possible to engineer an energy c…

Solar Energy: Increasing Power with Helio-Trackers and Fresnel Lenses

Alternative Energy (Junior Division Only) Fourth Award

Objectives/Goals My goal was to determine whether or not you can increase the power generated by a solar panel by using concentrated lenses and tracking the sun with a helio-tracker (Sun-tra…

Solar Heat Storage with Salt Hydrates Using Phase Change Effects: Materials, Analysis and Application

Currently, thermal energy gained from sun can be used for heating purposes. However, at the moment this huge amount of energy cannot be stored and used adequately. During this project I rese…

Solar Powered Desalination

Environmental Engineering

Objectives/Goals The objective is to determine if salt water can be turned into fresh water using only the power of the sun and if certain surface materials are more effective than others. M…

Solar Powered Hydrogen Vehicle with Current Inducing Shock Absorbers

21st century has come up with certain challenges that humanity has to confront with. Amongst these, fast depleting non-renewable energy resources, global warming and air pollution are foremo…

Solar Powered UV-c Treatment for Fecal Coliform and Enterococcus Bacteria in Storm Water Overflow

Second Award

After a heavy rainfall, beaches are closed and swimming is prohibited. Sewers fill to capacity and are unable to handle the combined sanitary and storm water; thereby causing water to overfl…

Solar Powered Water Desalination

Environmental Engineering

Objectives/Goals The objective of this experiment is to determine how the color of the bottom of a solar powered desalination device affects its efficiency. Methods/Materials Tested and comp…

Solar Survival: Dyed Water in a Solar Still

Physics & Astronomy

Objectives/Goals Solar stills are systems in which contaminated water is evaporated and condensed to produce clean water. I created four cups of water (one containing regular water and the r…

Solar Tracker: An Optimal Method to Generate the Highest Energy

Alternative Energy (Junior Division Only) Honorable_mention Award

Objectives/Goals The objective of this experiment is to determine which angle of incidence and which reflective material would generate the highest energy output from the solar panel. The se…

Solar Tracker Design and Analysis

If we could capture all the energy the sun beams to the Earth in a single hour, we would have enough to fuel the world's needs for a year. Currently, solar power produces less than one-tenth…

Solubility of Sugar Cubes in Soft Drinks: A Measure of Saturation

Product Science (Biological) (Junior Division Only)

Objectives/Goals The objective of the experiment is to demonstrate that many of the commercially available soft drinks have high sugar content by trying to dissolve an increasing number of s…

Some Algebraic Combinatorics on Prime Constrained Languages

The purpose of this research is to create the languages that can be defined by alphabet {0,1,2,...,n-1}, where n is a natural number. From Bacher(2010), we decided to create a new equivalenc…

Sonification of Software's Behavior and Its Application to Information Security

The author proposes sonification of software's behavior to improve information security. Nowadays many people use computers without knowing what are going on inside. Computers are usually co…

Soordi: Glasses to Hear Again

Electronics & Electromagnetics

Objectives/Goals There are over 38 million people who are deaf in the United States alone (Harrington, 2014). Cochlear implants, which are used to treat patients who are deaf or hard of hear…

Sound and Triboluminescent Correlation of Manganese Doped Zinc Sulfide Doped Resin Beams

The objective of this study was to demonstrate the validity of triboluminescence (TL) as a structural health-monitoring characteristic within composite materials. Fiber reinforced composite…

Sound Dampening

Materials Science (Junior Division Only)

Objectives/Goals The objective was to measure the desiples the speaker amplifide with the different materials from inside a box. Methods/Materials Testing the difference between different ma…

Sound Extermination

Materials Science (Junior Division Only)

Objectives/Goals The objective of this experiment is to measure and compare two different sound frequencies once the materials are put in front of it. Methods/Materials Acoustic foam (2¡± x…

Spaceship Soup: Predicting the Emergence of Moving Objects from Random Configurations of Cells in Cellular Automata

Mathematics & Computer Science

Objectives/Goals I wanted to find what conditions were necessary for moving objects, known as #spaceships#, to be produced in cellular automata with varying birth rules (how many of an empty…

SPARQL Query Generation and Semantic Similarity for Medical RDF Databases

Querying RDF databases is now made accessible to everyone through a natural text to SPARQL query converter Java program. For this specific project, query generation was done in the context o…

Spatial Distance Heuristics for Multidimensional Graph-Based Pathfinding

The least-cost graph traversal algorithm A* has diverse applications from video game pathfinding to accessibility programs for the visually impaired. While there is substantial research conc…

Spatter Proof: How Height and Angle Affect Blood Spatter Patterns

Physics & Astronomy

Objectives/Goals The purpose of this project was to analyze two possible blood spatter pattern variables. Specifically, it was to determine if: a) the greater the height from which the blood…

Spectral Type and Frequency Correlation in Stars

Physics & Astronomy

Objectives/Goals The main objective of this project is to determine whether there is a clear correlation between the spectral type of a star, and the frequencies of light it emits (color). M…

Spectrophotometric Analysis of the Effects of Insect Growth Regulators on Tenebrio molitor

Biochemistry

This project focused on discovering how mealworms will be affected by Insect Growth Regulators, specifically focusing on the Juvenile Hormone Mimics pyriproxyfen, methoprene, and hydroprene.…

Spectroscopic Analysis of Titanium Oxide Presence in Stars

In this study, a spectroscopic data analysis of Titanium Oxide Presence in stars will be presented and the elemental composition will be discussed. The experimental procedure consisted of an…

Spice of Life: Oregano as an Antibacterial Agent: Does State Matter?

Microbiology (Medical) (Junior Division Only)

Objectives/Goals The purpose of this experiment was to compare the antibacterial effectiveness of different states of oregano (essential oil and liquid herbal decoctions from dry and fresh p…