Earth and Environmental Sciences
First Award
Developing countries often have poor monitoring and reporting of weather and crop health, leading to slow responses to droughts and food shortages. Here, new satellite data analysis tools we…
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
I hypothesized that two completely uninformed artificial intelligences (AI) could learn by competing to restore obstructed images. Like two novice chess players, they might learn just from p…
Microbiology
In a time where antibiotics are becoming increasingly ineffective, especially against our most common bacterial infections, the student researchers believe that part of the solution involves…
Materials Science
Graphene and Carbon nano-materials are amongst the most exciting materials of the next decades. Graphene’s superbly low resistivity and extraordinary strengths characteristics give it tremen…
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Third Award
Crop yields are strongly dependent on average summertime temperatures and extreme heat waves, both of which are projected to increase in the coming century. A statistical model was created t…
Cellular and Molecular Biology
Fourth Award
Migraines are the third most prevalent illness, affecting one billion people worldwide. Migraine symptoms may include a severe throbbing headache, disturbed vision, nausea, and sensitivity t…
Biomedical Engineering
Undiagnosed type 1 diabetes can cause death if left untreated. Current detection methods utilize urine or blood, both of which are invasive to obtain, especially considering the young demogr…
Mathematics
Egyptian Fractions can be defined as the series of distinct unit fractions that can be summed to equal a proper fraction. Any fraction can be expressed in this way, and the Egyptians had a m…
Embedded Systems
The purpose of my project was to create a device that can detect objects and warn the person with the device about the object. The hypothesis of this project was yes, an arduino uno R3 could…
Embedded Systems
About 50% of Americans snore while they’re sleeping a symptom of Sleep Apnea. Some 18-20 million Americans are living with Sleep Apnea, though doctors estimate that 80-90% of them remain und…
Materials Science
Graphene is a multipurpose nano particle that is difficult and expensive to produce. This project focuses on a safer, more efficient and cost effective method of producing graphene using nat…
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Fourth Award
Drylands make up 41% of the biosphere and support 38% of the world’s population. The intensity and frequency of rainfall events controls processes that drive dryland soil nutrient cycling. C…
Biochemistry
Finding potential heavy metal and metalloid toxins in the Animas and San Juan riverbeds and onion bulb after the 2015 Gold King Mine Spill are crucial to the effects of the mitotic index of…
Cellular and Molecular Biology
Allergies are an important health issue. We want to study the allergy signal cascade by characterizing IgE receptors in mast cells. Mast cells are immune cells. Our project focuses on an IgE…
Chemistry
Alpha and Beta rays are both particles that are emitted during radioactive decay. Alpha rays consist of 2 neutrons and 2 protons. If a substance emitting these rays is inhaled, radiation sic…
Engineering Mechanics
As the interest grows and people become more determined to travel to Mars and beyond, the need for efficient rockets has also increased and become more pressing. Traditionally, chemical rock…
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Fourth Award
Deaf and hard of hearing children across many parts of the world recount severe problems with their education because of the lack of access to the curriculum via a sign language on the one h…
Chemistry
Some say “if one is driving a cement mixer and is stuck in traffic, throw your soda into the mixture.” The rational for people adding sugar to cement is that it extends the time before it se…
Physics and Astronomy
How are we going to provide food when colonization of Mars begins? Before this huge step in exploration can commence, an outline must be in place for growing food. This project asks three qu…
Physics and Astronomy
The purpose of this project is to find the entire orbit of an asteroid and develop an effective way to move the asteroid so that it will not impact the earth. The asteroid will be moved with…
Energy: Physical
The purpose of this science project is to build a Thin-Panel, Cylinder-Arrayed, and Solar Water Heater that could heat water to the maximum temperature and use it for homes in the rural area…
Engineering Mechanics
This project’s purpose is to investigate the usage of the spidron system for automotive crush zones and force absorption applications. The engineering goal of this project is to utilize the…
Fourth Award
What if type-1 diabetes could be cheaply and non-invasively detected? Untreated type-1 diabetics produce large amounts of ketones, which are not otherwise typically produced in the body. Tes…
The purpose of this project was to explore alternatives to commercially manufactured antibiotics. This experiment was meant to test if natural alternative medicines, honeys, and herbal essen…
Fourth Award
Sixteen percent of all deaths every year are caused by infectious diseases. Currently, many models over or under-predict the long term progression of diseases, and provide little information…
A robotic lawn mower will use a process of radio distance determination to autonomously map and mow a yard. The three sensors will communicate with the robotic lawn mower via radio frequenci…
Fourth Award
Antibiotic resistance and pharmaceutical contamination are an emerging threat to drinking water sources, particularly those that stem from an aquifer. These items are difficult to neutralize…
Few layer Graphene flakes were synthesized from C(gr)[NOM] disintegrated from atmospheric CO2 in the Bosch Reaction. The C(gr) was oxidized utilizing a version of the Modified Hummers Method…
Numerous locations throughout the United States are reporting the presence of radon and uranium in their drinking water, particularly in households with well water drinking sources. Areas in…
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Legally blind and visually impaired individuals were asked to quickly and correctly complete a set of tasks (numbers, words, and mathematical expressions) by utilizing traditional classroom…