Plant Biology
Objectives/Goals The objective of my project was to determine if location in an orchard effected the sugar levels in Navel oranges. Methods/Materials Randomly collected Navel oranges from si…
Environmental Science (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals The objective was to determine if water evaporates more in a polluted atmosphere or a non-polluted one. Methods/Materials Experiments were carried out to determine whether w…
Microbiology
Objectives/Goals I wanted to see if water temperature had any affect on the amount of oil digested by microbes. I thought that this would be important in cleaning up oceanic oil spills. The…
Biochemistry/ Molecular Biology
Objectives/Goals The purpose of the experiment is to test how effectively red clover binds to the estrogen receptor (ER), and to see if the fresh plant extracts of red clover flowers and lea…
Aerodynamics/ Hydrodynamics
Objectives/Goals Our objective is to see how the shape of a car can affect how fast it will go. Our hypothesis is that the shape of the cars will make a difference in how fast they go. This…
Electricity & Electronics
Objectives/Goals The objective of this science project is to determine if the temperature of household AA alkaline batteries are stored at will affect their life when tested in a low resiste…
Applied Mechanics/ Structures & Mechanisms/ Manufacturing
Objectives/Goals Our objective was to determine if super balls (large and small), ping-pong balls, and golf balls bounce higher when they are warmer or colder. Methods/Materials The experime…
Chemistry
Objectives/Goals To measure the amount of Vitamin C in packaged juices and to determine the relationship between the amount of natural fruit juice and Vit. C. My hypothesis is that the amoun…
Materials Science (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals Part one was to find out if color of a shirt makes a difference in blocking ultraviolet rays. Part two was to determine if using Rit SunGuard increases the ultraviolet prote…
Physics & Astronomy
Objectives/Goals The objective was to compare various colors of the same fabric in terms of their effectiveness as barriers against UV radiation. My hypothesis was that the darker fabrics (b…
Plant Biology
Objectives/Goals The purpose of this years experiment is to build on the previous four years work on presoaking of cottonseed before planting. This years project is to see if presoaking cott…
Applied Mechanics/ Structures & Mechanisms/ Manufacturing
Objectives/Goals The purpose of my experiment was to test the relationship between the diameter of different flywheels of equal mass and the energy they each could store. I believe that the…
Microbiology
Objectives/Goals My goal was to learn about the fundamentals of water purification. I used three treatment methods: iodination, boiling, and filtration. I believed that boiling would be the…
Mathematics & Software
Objectives/Goals My goal was to deduce whether or not a selection of aleatory music really was random. I questioned if the composers, and perhaps the human mind, can truly operate on an inde…
Biochemistry/ Molecular Biology
Objectives/Goals Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) is the cause of the Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS). HIV causes disease by killing the T-cells of the host and destroying the h…
Physics & Astronomy
Objectives/Goals My project's title was "Don't Lose Your Cool - A Study of Insulators". The problem of the experiment was finding which material would be the best insulator. Methods/Material…
Microbiology
Objectives/Goals I compared three different ways of detecting tomato spoilage. I did this by following the steps of the Malthus Method, the Direct Microscopic Count, and the Petri dishes met…
Microbiology
Objectives/Goals The purpose of this experiment is to test if sweat is a natural antibacterial. Methods/Materials In order to conduct this project, I collected skin flora samples and grew ba…
Aerodynamics/ Hydrodynamics
Objectives/Goals The goal of my project was to discover if there was a substance that could be added to oil to enhance the viscosity, and what affects the contaminants had on the oil. Method…
Behavioral Sciences
Objectives/Goals I tested if people remember color or black and white (B&W) pictures better and if there would be an effect of age. In order to do this I chose five people from three age gro…
Chemistry
Objectives/Goals The objective of my project was to see if the pH and the peel-to-water ingredient ratios in my mixture would affect its performance level on plants in freezing conditions. M…
Earth Sciences/ Planetary Sciences/ Physical Environments
Objectives/Goals The purpose of the project is twofold: (1) to determine the affect of object size on crater and ray size and (2) to determine the affect of the altitude an object is dropped…
Behavioral Sciences
Objectives/Goals I wanted to see whether talking on a cell phone impairs driving ability, which has not been studied very much. So I created an experiment using a video game that simulates d…
Pharmacology/ Toxicology
Objectives/Goals Having studied, for two years, mutant genes and characteristics that resulted from mutation, I have become curious about the causes of mutations. Various forms of radiation…
Electricity & Electronics
Objectives/Goals Tesla Coils have been used for over 100 years to study high voltage, high frequency discharge (1,000,000+ volts!), but over half of the input power is lost in the simple spa…
Earth Sciences/ Planetary Sciences/ Physical Environments
Objectives/Goals The purpose of this project is to find if the amount of haze coming from Owens Valley has been reduced from 1997 due to Los Angeles Department of Water and Power's dust miti…
Behavioral Sciences
Objectives/Goals My objective was to see if subjects could be educated through subliminal messages embedded in an enjoyable video. Methods/Materials I used a computer program, "Final Cut Pro…
Pharmacology/ Toxicology
Objectives/Goals The goal of this study was to test the resistance of E.coli to Ampicillin through the process of transformation in the DNA. The hypothesis of this pharmacology experiment id…
Plant Biology
Objectives/Goals My objective was to find out what temperature of water would leach the tannins out of acorns using the least amount of water. Methods/Materials First, I gathered, cracked an…
Microbiology
Objectives/Goals My objective is to see which antibacterial hand soap has the most effect on E. coli bacteria. Methods/Materials I tested six different kinds of antibacterial hand soaps. I m…