Social Sciences (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals Our project was to find out if the placement on a ballot mattered in the voting results. Methods/Materials 120 subjects Ballot 1 Red,Yellow,Green,Blue-30 Ballot 2 Yellow,Gre…
Structural Capability & Strength of Materials (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals I studied the correlation between length and weight support on a simple beam bridge. I thought that the longer the beam, the less weight it would support. Methods/Materials…
Zoology
Objectives/Goals One day I was out in the chicken coop. I was listening to my ipod. All of a sudden, I thought that it would be interesting and fun to test if music affects chickens# laying…
Mammalian Biology
Objectives/Goals The purpose of my project was to find out whether practicing yoga produces better cardio-respiratory fitness benefits than running. I believed that yoga participants would r…
Environmental Engineering
Objectives/Goals The purpose of this experiment was to determine whether purple sea urchins are healthier in a more polluted or in a less polluted environment. It was hypothesized that pollu…
Environmental Science (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals My goal was to test the soil to see if repetitive flooding would affect it. Differences in soil absorption in my local neighborhood gave me the idea for this project. I stud…
Mammalian Biology
Objectives/Goals The objective of this project is to determine if and how much the heart rate of twelve to thirteen year old females changes when listening to four different types of music;…
Earth Sciences/ Planetary Sciences/ Physical Environments
Objectives/Goals The purpose of my project was to determine if the energy contained in waves is proportional to the wave's size (amplitude). Methods/Materials To test my hypothesis I built a…
Zoology
Objectives/Goals I wanted to find out whether ants would go to a certain food regardless of how far it is from them. I wanted to observe the characteristics of ants. Methods/Materials I coll…
Social Sciences (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals The purpose of my project was to determine if the potential of a reward affected a females, between the ages of six and fifteen, motivation to perform a task faster. I thoug…
Environmental Science (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals My objectives, or goals, for this project was to see if the runoff from a golf course would affect the healthiness of a stream below it. Methods/Materials The materials you…
Microbiology
Objectives/Goals The objective of my project is to see if the sun intensity affects the pH of waters containing green algae. My hypothesis is that, due to the process of photosynthesis, the…
Plant Biology
Objectives/Goals The objective was to investigate how different soils affect plant growth. It was hypothesized that when radish seeds are placed in potting soil, local soil, sand, and gravel…
Materials Science (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals Does turning a light bulb on and off every couple of seconds affect its life positively or negatively? My objective is to find out the answer to this question. Methods/Mater…
Mammalian Biology
Objectives/Goals The objective of this project is to see that if we change the protein in the diets of dairy goats if that will affect the pH, EC or TDS of the milk. Methods/Materials Clean…
Microbiology
Objectives/Goals The goal of my experiment was to grow E. coli on nutrient agar treated with quantitative amounts of vitis extract. After allowing growth I harvested the colonies following t…
Behavioral Sciences
Objectives/Goals The goal of this study was to find out how facial expressions, specifically the raising or lowering of eyebrows, affect an individual's ability to sing pitches accurately. T…
Zoology
Objectives/Goals The objective of the project Do Fruit Flies Have Food Preferences is to determine if the fruit fly has fruit food preferences if given the choice to choose between 7 fruits…
Microbiology
Objectives/Goals The objective of this experiment was to explore bacterial content in water we come in close contact with every day. I chose a total of six sources of water within a 2 mile r…
Applied Mechanics/ Structures & Mechanisms/ Manufacturing
Objectives/Goals Will the replacement of stiff cross-members by viscous dampers decrease the amount of acceleration that a building undergoes during an earthquake? My objective is to test tw…
Materials Science (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals Digital photography and home-based printing methods now allow anyone to produce photographs. This study examines how the photo printer used, the paper selected, and the imag…
Pharmacology/ Toxicology
Objectives/Goals What is the effect of drugs on the heartrate of daphnia? Methods/Materials Daphnia Magna standard microscope droppers/ pipettes 5 petri dishes beakers (to make solutions) al…
Plant Biology
Objectives/Goals My project was to determine if photosynthesis and growth rate affect stomatal density in a growing plant. I believed that photosynthesis drives stomatal density in the growi…
Environmental Science (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals The purpose of our project was to see if pollution indicator levels increase in Los Angeles River water as the river moves through Los Angeles County to its mouth, from Enci…
Plant Biology
Objectives/Goals I thought up this experiment when I noticed that there were always different experiments dealing with plants being watered with a typical type of liquid (like soda or vinega…
Plant Biology
Objectives/Goals The purpose of my science project is to investigate do different soils affect a bean plants growth. After my investigation, I will learn which soil best affected a bean plan…
Physics & Astronomy
Objectives/Goals This project was conducted to find out whether the distance between double-slits in a slide would affect the resulting interference fringes the same way with a piece of glas…
Social Sciences (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals 'Children at Play' signs and many other signs with the same intent have been becoming more and more common among residents in our community. Although the signs are being pos…
Behavioral Sciences
Objectives/Goals My project is about sound and how people hear sounds. How we hear and interpret them varies from person to person. The primary focus of my project was to find out whether pe…
Social Sciences (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals What is the impact of gender familiar items to ones short-term memory? Is there any impact at all? My hypthosesis was that the sex of the person would determine which items…