Electronics & Electromagnetics
Objectives/Goals To create a true 3D display that does not rely on illusion of depth, design should be capable of projecting simple geometric shapes and some animation in three dimensions. M…
Applied Mechanics & Structures
Fourth Award
Objectives/Goals To study the effect of the addition of non-Newtonian fluid to helmet padding on the force generated on the head during a football hit. Methods/Materials I studied this conce…
Materials Science (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals My hypothesis stated that by changing the air pressure of a high performance paint gun will it make the color of paint change lighter or darker? To test this hypothesis I fo…
Alternative Energy (Junior Division Only)
Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals As traditional energy resources such as petroleum oil diminish, we need to explore alternative energy sources, including nuclear energy, hydro power, wind energy, and solar…
Materials Science (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals My objective was to determine what acoustical properties are employed in a musical instrument. Methods/Materials First, I measured the distance between the frets on a guitar…
Applied Mechanics & Structures
Objectives/Goals The goal was to analyze stability derivative changes based on manipulation of horizontal tail geometrical properties of a Boeing 787-8 Vortex-Lattice model. Methods/Material…
Chemistry
Objectives/Goals Cypermethrin is a highly chiral synthetic pyrethroid pesticide. Despite having desired insecticidal effects, it is harmful to the environment because certain stereoisomers i…
Pharmacology/ Toxicology
Objectives/Goals My projects objective was to find out which antacid has the highest potency to cure heartburn. Hypothesis: I believe that Equate will cure heartburn the fastest, because whe…
Environmental Science
Objectives/Goals How will rising carbon dioxide levels in the ocean caused by rising fossil fuel emissions affect calcium carbonate shells of marine animals? Higher carbon dioxide in the oce…
Mammalian Biology
Second Award
Objectives/Goals The goals are: 1) to develop a cookie-baking like method to fabricate micro-devices (with feature size of 10 µm) at home; 2) design, fabricate, and test a homemade micro-dev…
Mathematics & Software
Objectives/Goals My objective was to learn how to more quickly compute the number of quadratic residues modulo semiprimes. This was because I proved last year that the number of quadratic re…
Chemistry
Second Award
Objectives/Goals About 130 neutral and about a dozen positively-charged molecules have been discovered in space (the most abundant of which include H3+, CO+, N2H+, CH5+, etc). However, only…
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals The objective of my project is to find out if children who are younger that the rest of their classmates being misdiagnosed with ADHD/ADD just because they are more immature…
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals People's perceptions can affect their health. For example, perceptions about pain can affect how much pain someone feels. Only 7.6% of teens get the needed 9 to 10 hours of…
Biochemistry/ Molecular Biology
Third Award
Objectives/Goals MicroRNAs (miRNAs) have the ability to regulate large gene networks and are estimated to regulate 50% of the human genome. The primary objective of my project is to investig…
Plant Biology
Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals In a world where population sizes are increasing exponentially, and farmland is decreasing, there is a need for more efficient and space saving farming methods. If plants ar…
Electronics & Electromagnetics
Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals This project aimed at developing a compact, foldable solar panel with an improved hill climbing (HC) maximum power point tracker (MPPT) to address the need for efficient and…
Mathematics & Software
Fourth Award
Objectives/Goals The objective of the project was to derive a closed form formula for the A-th element of a N-Nacci recursive sequence using the residue theorem from complex analysis. Method…
Product Science (Physical) (Junior Division Only)
Second Award
Objectives/Goals My project was designed to determine whether commercially available bio-based lubricants offer viable alternatives to petroleum-based lubricants when all relevant factors (t…
Alternative Energy (Junior Division Only)
Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals The objective is to determine which type of air cathode (Gore-Tex, Tyvek, Windex cloth or Teflon) can produce the most power for the least cost in a microbial fuel cell (MFC…
Aerodynamics/ Hydrodynamics (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals The goal of this project is to find out if opening windows before activating the A/C system helps cool down the automobile's interior faster than a baseline of A/C only. Mea…
Aerodynamics/ Hydrodynamics (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals To find out if airfoils become more aerodynamic when a winglet is attached. I believe winglets will make a wing more aerodynamic. Methods/Materials For my experiment I made…
Environmental Engineering (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals Objective: To find the most effective method of aerating compost Methods/Materials Materials and Methods: 12 plastic bins were filled with equal amounts and types of waste.…
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals The National Institute on Drug Abuse reports that substance abuse and addiction cost American society $559 billion dollars a year in increased health care costs, crime, and…
Microbiology (General)
Objectives/Goals Here we explore the effects of both different wavelengths of light and shorter day-periods on algal growth. We selected three different day/night periods (3, 6 and 12 hours…
Microbiology (General)
Objectives/Goals My hypothesis is: If I expose algae to an electric field, then it will separate from the medium and lyse the cell membrane and release the biomass and lipids which can be us…
Mammalian Biology
Second Award
Objectives/Goals The purpose of this research was to determine if there was a co-occurrence among allergies and asthma, if there was a certain age when people develop and outgrow allergies,…
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals The purpose of this experiment was to determine if the performance of an altruistic act would positively affect cognitive function and self-esteem. Methods/Materials Consent…
Mammalian Biology
Objectives/Goals Many facilities are designed for right-handed people. Does this affect which side of the body people use for everyday activities other than writing, or does the writing hand…
Biochemistry/ Molecular Biology
Objectives/Goals Research suggests that there is a correlation between the absence of the membrane receptor protein, Ror2, and the presence of facial deformities, such as cleft lip and cleft…