Behavioral & Social Sciences
First Award
Objectives/Goals Unwarranted variation, a phenomenon in the healthcare sector, refers to wide ranges of discharge rates, Medicare payments, and, most crucially, care delivery. Unwarranted va…
Energy & Power (Junior Division Only)
Fourth Award
Objectives/Goals The objective is to determine if a solar cell attached to a sun tracker is more efficient than a stationary solar cell perpendicular to the sun's rays at noon. The scientist…
Plant Biology
Objectives/Goals My primary goal was to determine which of my three plants would survive in car exhaust contaminated climates and to determine which of my plants were the most adversely effe…
Electronics & Electromagnetics
Objectives/Goals The drift speed of electrons traveling through a circuit is directly related the current traveling through the circuit. Based on the idea that the current through a transist…
Earth & Environment (Senior Division Only)
Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals This project determines whether or not Ballona Creek has high levels of bacterial contamination. I will also determine if the Del Rey Lagoon impacts the contamination of the…
Plant Biology
Third Award
Objectives/Goals Test six distinct species of plant leaf, Plumeria, Jasminum, Hibiscus, S. romanzoffiana, C. limon, and, S. oleracea each with different characteristics on their ability to p…
Mathematics & Software
Objectives/Goals The objective of this project is to make progress toward the proof of the Primitive Cycles Existence Conjecture. Also, the project intends to present an analysis of total st…
Applied Mechanics & Structures
Objectives/Goals The goal of my experiment was to learn at what angle an arrow will fly the farthest distance. Methods/Materials The materials used were: a bow (with a set draw length and we…
Plant Biology
First Award
Objectives/Goals Around 5 million years ago, long after the spread of basaltic magma over the southern California region, the Brodiaea Santarosae came into play. Despite it's long existence,…
Microbiology
Fourth Award
Objectives/Goals Greening (citrus), Psyllid Yellows (tomato) and Zebra Chip (potato) are diseases caused by 'Candidatus Lieberibacter' bacteria. Symptoms include yellow leaves, poor growth a…
Human Biology (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals Does the style of grasping a pencil affect the quality of the penmanship? Hypothes:Peoples penmanship depends on the way of grasp Methods/Materials Materials # 15 Pencils, #…
Physics & Astronomy
First Award
Objectives/Goals Frustrated Total Internal Reflection (FTIR) is an optical phenomenon important in many practical applications. The greatest difficulty in studying FTIR is designing an appar…
Chemistry
Objectives/Goals Is it possible to alter the pH of a selected fruit juice (orange) by varying the volumetric exposure to oxygen? Methods/Materials Fresh oranges were obtained, washed, peeled…
Aerodynamics/ Hydrodynamics (Junior Division Only)
Third Award
Objectives/Goals Viscosity can be determined using the falling ball viscometer and Stokes' law. It is, however, limited to flows at Reynolds Numbers (Re) less than one. A method is needed to…
Microbiology
Second Award
Objectives/Goals Chlamydomonas reinhardtii algae are a potential means for producing renewable hydrogen gas. However, current methods to produce hydrogen using these algae are inefficient, c…
Mathematics & Software
Objectives/Goals This project investigated a novel approach to text compression using principles of natural language. After observing traditional algorithms compress small text files and yie…
Microbiology
Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals Goal 1 - Grow the diatoms Goal 2 - Get the diatom to engulf the LAL molecule - to create packaging for LAL Goal 3 - The LAL engulfed diatom must detect endotoxin consistentl…
Microbiology
Objectives/Goals The initial idea was to determine the reasons for Korea to have the strictly low rate of flu affects such as SARS, AI, and SI compare to other countries such as the United S…
Environmental Engineering (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals I came across an article about people in India who are throwing copper and silver coins into their rivers. They believe copper and silver coins will be able to disinfect the…
Pharmacology (Senior Division Only)
Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals This study sought to identify the potential of a novel biocide system consisting of chitosan nanoparticles encapsulated by the peptides found in green coconut water (GCW). M…
Biochemistry/ Molecular Biology
Fourth Award
Objectives/Goals To extract antioxidants from natural sources and to compare their polyphenolic content by Folin Ciocalteau Assay, and activity by DPPH Assay, and also to determine their ant…
Environmental Science (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals The purpose of this experiment is to find out which vehicle has a better effect on the environment for the geographical area of the Bay Area, a Toyota Prius Hybrid or a Toyo…
Environmental Science (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals The objective was to see if non-native species that occur in a young growth forest can invade an adjacent old growth forest. Background research suggested non-native species…
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only)
Third Award
Objectives/Goals The objective of this project was to determine if medium chain triglycerides found in coconut oil could become an alternative fuel in bringing glucose to the dormant regions…
Environmental Engineering (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals The objective is to determine if natural products are as effective in cleaning oil spills as commercial products. My goal is to reduce needless pollution at an oil spill by…
Microbiology
Objectives/Goals There are currently three scientific studies in contention over whether or not plants are producing the potent greenhouse gas methane; this experiment aims to find a possibl…
Earth & Environment (Senior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals The objective of this project is to determine if pollution from fishing weights, plastic, fishing line, aluminum, pesticide and sewage are absorbed by the digestive systems…
Microbiology
Objectives/Goals The objective of this experiment was to find what types of antibiotics E. coli, bacteria commonly found in raw or undercooked meat and produces, can grow resistant to. My hy…
Biochemistry/ Molecular Biology
Objectives/Goals The purpose of this project is to study the effect of different cooking methods on Vitamin C content, Lycopene content, and Antioxidant activity in vegetables. Based on my r…
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals My goal was to find out what percent of teenagers is overindulged and the prevailing differences between the indulged and the non-indulged teens. Methods/Materials I created…