Behavioral and Social Sciences
Parkinson’s disease (PD) diagnostic methods are hindered by lack of validated biomarkers, or objective indicators of disease onset. Clinical symptoms occur when up to 60% of dopamine neurona…
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Since the last implementation of sociometrics in 1970, the dynamics of a school room, public opinion, and social classes has changed greatly. Our study was contrasted on comparing past class…
Biochemistry
This study aimed to take a novel approach to bacterial detection using a the chemical, 3-aminophthalhydrazide, also known as luminol. An additional goal of experimentation was to attempt to…
Chemistry
Third Award
This project investigates a novel synthesis of superparamagnetic iron oxide nanoparticles (SPIONs) and effective applications thereof. SPIONs are a type of nanoparticle, typically ranging fr…
Materials Science
Do you like the idea of the shirt on your back melting into a fiery goo on your bare skin? If not, read about the experiment I conducted to determine which clothing materials react the most…
Product Science (Physical) (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals By testing the effectiveness of different antacids in the same acid, I was able to determine which antacid had the highest acid neutralizing capacity, and I was also able to…
Plant Biology
Objectives/Goals Evaluate the effect of the biopesticides based on a plant extract, beneficial bacteria, and entomopathogenic fungi, on cotton plants infected with the fungal plant pathogen,…
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Studies are predicting that by 2050, the microbes that reduce the effectiveness of antibiotics known as the antibiotic-resistant superbugs will kill 10 million more people per year, which is…
Microbiology (Medical) (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals I am testing which type of antibiotic, natural or synthetic, leaves a larger zone of inhibition against bacteria. Methods/Materials I used LB agar plates, and s. epidermidis…
Translational Medical Science
Various natural plant products have been thought to contain compounds that could possibly counteract the deadly effects of many diseases, like cancer. Using this knowledge, I hypothesized th…
Materials Science
Millions of people undergo joint replacement surgeries each year and the number continues to increase rapidly. Deep infection of artificial joints is a serious complication after surgery and…
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Objective: Oxygen is essential for life and is an element with a double physiological profile, indispensable for life and for the environment; it can also become toxic, as unstable molecules…
Translational Medical Science
Osteosarcomas prove to be as dangerous as any other cancer and even with multi model poly-chemotherapies, it is extremely difficult to only target the carcinogens without it harming the heal…
Biomedical and Health Sciences
The human epidermis undergoes continuous homeostatic regeneration and mutations, these mutations disturb the balance of homeostatic regeneration of epidermis which leads to Skin Cancer. Tumo…
Zoology
Objectives/Goals By conducting an experiment using natural sugar and artificial sugar substitutes, determine whether ants have the ability to communicate the quality of a food source through…
Embedded Systems (inferred)
This research involved the development of an ultrasonic detection device for obstacle avoidance for the visually impaired. An Arduino Mega digital control unit was programmed with an Annikke…
Energy: Chemical
Present-day blood glucose monitoring test kits are antiquated, requiring a finger prick to draw blood. This study’s purpose was to develop a paper-based microbial fuel cell (pMFC) for glucos…
Mathematics
Patients with end-stage renal disease may receive a kidney transplant from a deceased or living donor. However, kidney transplants are time-sensitive and not all kidneys have the same expect…
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Third Award
Previously, it was concluded that East Indian Sandalwood Oil (EISO) inhibits AGS Gastric Cancer cells at low concentrations. This led to the question: how? To study EISO’s mechanism of inhib…
Biomedical Engineering
Clinical trials of liver-directed gene therapies are rapidly increasing. Though exciting, there are obstacles to overcome. Significant viral injection is necessary to achieve therapeutic lev…
Chemistry
Pharmacokinetics, by definition, is the study of the movement of drugs within the body. In order for a drug to aid in the healing of a body from disease or other ailment, a drug must be pres…
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Multiple myeloma is a B-cell malignancy characterized by the proliferation of plasma cells derived from B cells in the bone marrow. Several novel drugs and therapies have been explored as po…
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Approximately nine out of ten patients will have some level of paralysis due to a stroke and need physical therapy to rehabilitate the paralyzed region of the body. Physical therapy often ca…
Chemistry
Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals The goal of my research project was to create reusable electrical biosensors which utilize nanostructured porous silicon as a substrate to accurately measure the concentrati…
Systems Software
The kidney exchange market allows patients with kidney disease to obtain compatible donors by swapping an incompatible friend or family member’s kidney. With over 93,000 people on the kidney…
Microbiology
Fourth Award
The magnetite crystals produced within Magnetospirillum magneticum's (AMB-1) are nearly perfect in their geometry as opposed to lab generated magnetite which has a large amount of structural…
Systems Software
Artificial limbs have the potential to help people who lost a leg or an arm, to live and work normally. But, unfortunately, this technology has not reached the wanted goal of humanlike perfo…
Systems Software
Third Award
It is estimated that the U.S. wastes 61% of its energy consumption, 24% of which occurs in buildings. This project explores the novel idea of using WiFi Channel State Information (CSI) to de…
Mathematics
The method exposes an approximation of the zeros of any differentiable function. The functions in which the method is fulfilled are the logarithmic, exponential, algebraic, and trigonometric…
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals The goal of this project is to determine how much time people spend on their technology devices & whether age/gender impacts this. The information learned from this experime…