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Dental Whitening and Enamel Loss

The experiment investigated whether whitening toothpastes have a lower pH than non-whitening toothpastes, whether whitening toothpastes whiten teeth more than non-whitening toothpastes and w…

Designing a Program to Investigate Correlation between Rising Sea Levels and Water Loss from Antarctica and Greenland

This project was undertaken with the goal of creating a robust program with the ability to investigate ocean mass gain, and the contributing factors. The expected findings were a very strong…

Eye Connect: Using Computer Vision to Create Low-Cost Assistive Technology

For people with limited muscular control, limb loss or upper body paralysis, human computer interfaces (HCI) have been developed to provide access to computer technology. Conventional human…

Leg-e-vator: An Answer for Lower Leg Edema, Immobility and Venous Insufficiency

The Leg-e-vator is a lightweight mechanical elevating device that attaches to the lower leg. Patients suffering lower leg injuries and conditions can elevate the affected leg, reducing edema…

Lemnoideae: A Sustainable Bioremediation Treatment Targeting Eutrophication

Fourth Award

Eutrophication is a severe type of water pollution from excess nutrient inputs (NO3 and PO4). Many nations cannot maintain its expensive chemical treatments. Lemniodeae, a macrophyte known a…

No Strings Attached: An Investigation into Wireless Charging

Wireless charging is convenient, yet not the most effective way of charging devices. Using coils of enamel wire this experiment aimed to improve the general coil to coil efficiency by findin…

Possideo Manus: Inexpensive Prosthesis for Those Who Truly Need Them

Across the world, 26 000 people per year become limb deficient. For those children that live in developing countries where there is little financial support, an industrial prosthetic hand co…

The Solar System: A Green Power & Water Cleaning Invention for Improved Life Quality in Developing Communities

Fourth Award

Two critical necessities for people in developing communities are generating affordable power and accessing clean water. According to a joint WHO and UNICEF 2015 monitoring report, 9% of the…

The Spread of Seeds through Cattle

Fourth Award

Using livestock as an economic and environmentally friendly method of weed control is becoming a common approach within farming communities globally. My family have observed contradictions t…

Breathe Easy: Developing an Automated Ventilation Cycle System to Regulate CO2 Buildup in Vehicles

Breathe Easy explores the relatively unconsidered subject of CO2 build-up in vehicles, basing its rationale on ventilation studies in buildings and the accepted fact that heightened levels o…

Have a Swingin' Time: Investigation into the Effects of Mass Distribution on a Pendulum's Motion to Model a Swing for Disabled Persons

This project’s aim was to investigate how changing the distribution of mass around a central point of a pendulum affected its motion and to then use the data collected to model a method of s…

Integrating Technologies for the Production of Bioelectricity and Bioethanol

Clean energy alternatives are becoming increasingly important as greenhouse gas emissions are growing and fossil fuels are being depleted. Bioenergy sources can provide renewable transport f…

Much Ado about Oil

The purpose of this investigation was to examine the impacts of an ocean oil spill and of possible recovery efforts on marine flora. Two redox titration experiments were undertaken during th…

PROTEGO: Proactive Technology for Elderly on the Go

An aging population is a powerful and transforming demographic force. It is projected that the number of people above the age of 65 will increase from 524 million in 2010 to 1.5 billion by 2…

Stay Tuned! Comparing the Effects of Long and Short-Term Auditory Stimulation for Increasing the Sensitivity of a Person’s Hearing

Biomedical and Health Sciences

In this investigation, the high frequency hearing sensitivity of 200 subjects were tested, replicating the author’s study performed in 2008 with 178 subjects. The results of this longitudina…

The Effects of Various Surfactants on the Efficiency of the Convection Processes Occurring within Ferrofluid

Ferrofluids are highly viscous liquids that develop the properties of solids whilst remaining liquids in the presence of a magnetic field. When Ferrofluid is heated in the presence of a magn…

Understanding Antagonistic Interactions between Heartburn Drugs and the Effectiveness of Heartburn Drug Combinations

Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design

Antagonistic drug interactions can negatively impact treatment effectiveness. This project investigated the antagonistic interaction between two heartburn drugs: aluminium hydroxide and calc…

Swirlesque: A New Form of Gesture Based Human Computer Interaction

Energy: Chemical

While computers become more powerful every year, the means of interacting with them have not evolved greatly since the beginning - keyboards, mice, and lately touch screens. Intelligent devi…

The Effects of Texting on Driving Safety

Chemistry

Texting while driving is a major contributor to road accidents worldwide. In this experiment, a procedure was designed for measuring the safety of texting while driving, hands-on and hands-f…

The Optimal Reclamation Point of Phosphate from a Wastewater Treatment Plant

Plant Sciences

Phosphorous is one of the most commonly used chemicals in the production of industrial products such as detergent and fertilizers. Due to the non-renewable nature and extensive use of phosph…

The PART* Program: Improving Emergency Response Times (Police and Ambulances Regulating Traffic)

Embedded Systems

The effectiveness of Emergency Response Vehicles (ERV) affects thousands of lives and properties that are at risk each day globally because approximately 1 in 2 ERVs does not reach its desti…

The SMART System: Stroke Management with Augmented Reality Technology

Mathematics Second Award

Purpose : To improve the vision, lifestyle, safety and recovery of the vision impaired and stroke recovery patients suffering from hemianopia and vision induced hemiplegia with the use of an…