Engineering Mechanics
The construction of the rockets will be divided into 3 parts. The first part will be the making of the rocket bodies. They will be made using rolled up pieces of cardstock that are covered i…
Biomedical Engineering
First Award
The goal of this project is to design a cost effective, 3D printable biocompatible prosthetic foot, capable of facilitating full function with little compromised gait. 3D printing enables th…
Environmental Engineering
Objectives/Goals Our goal was to design something that could help different parts of the world obtain clean water. Our problem that we were addressing was the lack of clean, drinkable water…
Electronics & Electromagnetics
Objectives/Goals The purpose of this project is to create a prosthetic arm that is affordable, easy to control, and easy for anybody to make themselves. The design constraints were for it to…
Biomedical Engineering
In the U.S., catheter-associated urinary tract infections (CAUTIs) are attributed to 49,334 CAUTIs/year, 13,000 deaths/year, and sum expenses of over $340 million/year. The objective of this…
Materials Science
The biodegradable materials from renewable natural resources contributes to sustainability and reduction in the environment impact associated with waste disposal. 3D printing offers the manu…
Biomedical Engineering
Introduction: MYH6 gene variants are associated with Hypoplastic Left Heart Syndrome (HLHS), a complex form of Congenital Heart Disease (CHD). CRISPR/Cas9 is a new gene-editing technology th…
Biomedical Engineering
In the field of targeted therapeutic treatment, there is growing interest in utilizing 3-D printing to advance personalized medicine. The aim was to create modified biodegradable polymer com…
Product Science (Physical) (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals This project is intended to produce a battery among a chosen set of Duracell and Energizer batteries which will save you time and money in various situations such as emergen…
Animal Sciences
This project was conducted to determine the effects of weaning methods on the weight gain, growth rate, feed intake, and feed efficiency of beef calves. Three different weaning methods were…
Energy: Chemical
The purpose of this project is to test whether or not bacteria can produce enough electricity to eliminate the need to use electricity that comes from a power plant. The question proposed is…
Electronics & Electromagnetics
Objectives/Goals The objective of this project is to create a shirt that possesses the ability to monitor and display one's heart rate and body temperature. Methods/Materials Materials used…
Mammalian Biology
Objectives/Goals Respiratory illnesses and other such medical complications in humans account to a loss of $58 billion annually, and nearly 7% of all deaths are accounted to respiratory illn…
Energy: Chemical
Solar energy is a rising new alternative to fossil fuel. The most common source of solar energy, silicon-based solar cells, are often overpriced and environmentally harmful. In light of this…
Biomedical Engineering
Currently cardiovascular diseases are the leading cause of death in the world, for this reason it is essential that patients suffering from these diseases and asymptomatic ones, have an adeq…
Systems Software
Clients using public logs should be able to securely verify that data in the log has not been maliciously changed or removed by the log’s server. Unfortunately, this verification in existing…
Animal Sciences
Planarians are a form of flathead worm from the Tubellaria class. Their regenerative properties are renowned. The properties of the frequency of 528Hz are being introduced into the medical f…
Animal Sciences
Honeybee populations in the U.S. are declining at an unsustainable rate. For Apis mellifera, aka the domestic honeybee used on farms, the primary culprit is the varroa mite. This is not the…
Engineering Mechanics
The study of rapid chemical kinetics is limited by the homogenization time of the reaction mixture. In our schools, we can study transformation periods whose characteristic time is of a few…
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Multiple sequence alignments, alignments of three or more biological sequences play a critical role in phylogenetic tree development and identification of evolutionarily conserved regions. E…
Computational Systems & Analysis
Objectives/Goals The objective of this study is to find the most accurate integration scheme using planet trajectory simulations. Methods/Materials Computer, Python Programming Language (VPy…
Animal Sciences
First Award
Nicotinic acetylcholine receptors (nAChRs) are important components of the peripheral and central nervous systems. Nematostella vectensis, the starlet sea anemone, is an important model syst…
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Pathogen populations are not static, but instead sporadically mutate, posing a difficult threat to combat as they evolve to resist antibiotics. Fortunately, we can look to genetics to help p…
Physics & Astronomy
Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals At LHC, the largest particle accelerator, the discovery of Higgs boson and confirmation of Higgs fields rattled the world in 2013, sealing a major unverified gap in SM. Ener…
To efficiently remove aluminum from coal fly ash, a two-step acid leaching method was used. The first leaching residue was acquired through a direct leaching of coal ash with 10 molar sulfur…
Toxicology
Objectives/Goals It is well known that the burning of fossil fuels causes the acidification of rain. Plant life makes up the base of our food chain and food supply. We must understand the re…
Earth and Environmental Sciences
The phenomenon of the Sailing Stones refers to grinding tracks in the clay with stones at their end. The most common place showing this phenomenon is the Racetrack Playa in Death Valley Cali…
Embedded Systems
This project introduces new implementation and design of planner low profile antenna for UWB (Ultra-Wideband) applications. Our new microstrip antenna mainly consists of the partial conducti…
Mammalian Biology
Objectives/Goals The objective of this project was to determine the tensile strength and elastic modulus of mammalian ventricles in order to compare these values between hearts of different…
Animal Sciences (inferred)
One of the most well recognized methods of conditioning in planarian flatworms is light-shock therapy, a form of Pavlovian conditioning where the worm is trained to exhibit a negative respon…