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The Solution Is the Blood

Injecting any drug into the blood directly offers a big fight between how fast is the healing and how fast will the body reject it , that is what made us think of a way to solve this mystery…

The Sonic Fire Extinguisher

We all know fire can be fought with water, chemicals, and even fire, but could we have ever imagined that sound could fight fire? In my experiment, I set out to create a sonic fire extinguis…

The Sparkler Rotor

This research focuses on the question whether sparklers can - when tangentially attached to a rotor - turn it only by their exerted force due to the burning process. To study the phenomenon…

The Spread of Seeds through Cattle

Fourth Award

Using livestock as an economic and environmentally friendly method of weed control is becoming a common approach within farming communities globally. My family have observed contradictions t…

The Teaching Style Files

Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only)

Objectives/Goals The purpose of our experiment was to find out which teaching method would be most useful in teaching a new skill. Methods/Materials Our method was to give each student a pre…

The Testing of the Mpemba Effect at Varying Salinities

Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design

The Mpemba Effect is a rare phenomenon that results in the freezing of hot water faster as opposed to cold water temperatures. The foundation of this finding were the studies done by the Tan…

The Triplet Fingerprint Study: Comparison of Fingerprint Patterns of Identical and Non-Identical Co-Triplets

Mammalian Biology

Objectives/Goals Fingerprints develop while a person is within the womb. It is not known whether fingerprint patterns are due solely to environmental factors in the womb, or if there is a ge…

The Use of Curcumin in the Treatment of Cervical Cancer

The anti-tumor and anti-viral properties of curcumin, in addition to its pharmacological safety and negligible cost render curcumin an effective agent against cervical cancer, which continue…

The Use of Graph Theory to Determine the Effect of Loss Taxonomic Diversity on Trophic Function

Does loss of taxa affect trophic function? To examine this question I estimated taxonomic diversity and trophic function for aquatic insects across streams exhibiting a gradient of habitat d…

The Use of Lactic Acid Levels in Saliva as a Novel Biomarker for Sepsis

Biochemistry/ Molecular Biology Honorable_mention Award

Objectives/Goals Sepsis is a severe inflammatory immune-based response to an overwhelming infection, which can lead to shock, organ failure, and death. Each year, over one million people in…

The Use of Photoplethysmography (PPG) to Develop a Prototype Heart Rate Wristband to Monitor Life Threatening Arrhythmia

Mathematics & Computer Science Honorable_mention Award

Objectives/Goals The objective of our project is to save the lives of the nearly 300,000 people that die of cardiac arrest in the United States alone, every year. These peoples deaths are pr…

The UV Protection Level of the Materials

The portion of the solar electromagnetic spectrum incident on the earth's surface, the range extending from 280 to 400 nm, which corresponds to Ultraviolet Radiation, and has been the cause…

The Water Friendly Toilet Tank: Saving Millions of Gallons of Water Daily

Environmental Engineering Honorable_mention Award

Objectives/Goals The objective of this experiment was to isolate the best detachable dual mode toilet tank apparatus design (out of the two constructed apparatuses) based on its efficiency,…

The Water Wheel: An Exploration of Deterministic Chaos

Fourth Award

A chaotic water wheel is a special kind of mill wheel where the paddles have holes in the bottom so that they are leaking. If a water support is installed at the top, the top paddles where f…

The Wetting Properties of Metallic Substrates Modified with Organic Self-Assembling Monolayers

Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design

This study involved the fabrication and characterization of copper substrates treated with six different self-assembling monolayers following electroless galvanic deposition of silver. The s…

The Wobble: A Sustainable Noise Barrier Consisting of Noise Absorbing Materials and a Revolutionary Shape

Third Award

Today 70 million people in the EU suffer from traffic noise pollution. On a global basis, this is much worse. Known effects on the wellbeing are sleep interference, deafness and irritation.…

TiC- Tongue Interface Communication: Assistive Technology for Severe Impairments

Third Award

The World Health Organization reports that globally over a billion people have some form of disability and between 110 and 190 million have significant limitations in functioning. Worldwide,…

Time and Atom Economy Method for the Synthesis of (1-6) Linked Glycosides

Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design

Carbohydrates with (1-6)-linkage between monosaccharide units either in pyranoside or furanoside form are common in the structures of polysaccharides isolated from pathogenic bacteria and fu…

Time-Domain Reflectometry Applied to Irrigation Control

Third Award

This paper consists in an irrigation control system that aims to rationalize the use of water in crops, reaching the area of biggest water demand in the world, the agriculture. To this end,…

Time to Bust the Mars Dust

Martian dust has an electrostatic charge which causes it to easily attract to moving objects, has the ability to invade machinery, and is hazardous to humans. With space exploration heading…

Time to Score: The Physics of Penalty Kicks

Physics & Astronomy

Objectives/Goals I compared the speed of the fastest penalty kick with the time it takes the goalie to reach the goal post. I also tested how a player can kick it the fastest and how a goali…

Tiny but Mighty: Small Scale Wind Power

Renewable energy offers potentially endless supplies of power. It's becoming vital to harness any of these sources in the most efficient way possible. Wind power is just one source of renewa…

Tissue Culture of the Hawaiian Papaya

The purpose of this study was to create a more efficient method of papaya production through the clonal propagation of hermaphroditic Hawaiian papaya. The current labor-intensive practice in…

To Characterize the Energy Loss for Different Types of Light Bulbs, and Ways to Recover & Reuse Some of the Energy Loss

Alternative Energy (Junior Division Only)

Objectives/Goals The light emitted by lamps in the backward direction is not useful. The purpose of my project is to make an efficient device to collect the wasted light by studying optimal…

To Drink or Not to Drink: The Lysis of Escherichia coli by Ultraviolet Light through a Makeshift Filtration System

The purpose of this research was to determine whether controlled amounts of Escherichia coli, K-12 could be killed by a makeshift water filtration system and UV irradiation. Twenty four nutr…

To Rust, or Not to Rust?

Product Science (Physical) (Junior Division Only)

Objectives/Goals The goal of this experiment was to see which acid mixture or chemical would prevent the most rust. Methods/Materials For this experiment I used 24 finishing nails, 261 grams…

Tough Beans: How Various Substances Affect the Cooking Time of Legumes

Chemistry

Objectives/Goals The objective of this project is to measure how different substances cooked with beans affects bean hardness and cooking time. My goal was to determine what substances short…

Toward a Better Model of the Extragalactic Background Light: The Value of Splines

Physics & Astronomy Honorable_mention Award

Objectives/Goals Our research aimed to more effectively model the extragalactic background light (EBL), which is the sum of all the optical and infrared light that has been emitted since the…

Towards a Novel Method for Combating Harmful Cyanobacteria in Freshwater

Microbiology (General)

Objectives/Goals Across the globe, freshwater cyanobacterial harmful algal blooms (HABs) are increasing in frequency, and toxic blooms produced by several common species can pose significant…

Towards Common Algorithm for Computation of Polygonal Numbers

Polygonal numbers are important for Number Theory and in modern recreational and educational mathematics . A Polygonal Number is a number represented as dots arranged in the shape of any reg…