University of Utah
Science & Engineering Fair

Inspiring the next generation of scientists and engineers

SAVE THE DATE: March 10-13, 2026

2026 Project Photos (Elementary)

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3D-Car time-trials

A Hard Egg to Crack

A Motorized Inhaler Aid for Patients with Hand Disability

A Pinch of Salt

A Prehistoric Native American Petroglyph that Aligns with Equinoxes, Solstices, and the Pole Star

A Project Called 101 - What fabric insulates best against the cold

A Wrinkle in Time

ABA with cats

Afterimage Phenomenon in Different Age Groups

AI Generated or Real

AI Images vs Human Photography

AI Tomato Doctor - Can a Computer Diagnose Tomato Leaf Problems

Air Powered Train

Air vs. Helium vs. Breath

All Terrain Hiking Backpack

Are food label calories accurate

Are microplastics hiding in our water

Artificial Light vs Natural Light

Attitude towards A.I

Auto Water - Smart Soil Sensor Irrigation System

Auto Watering Bot

Axolotl Feeder

Balls and Dogs - Exploring what color of ball dogs will choose

Baseball launcher

Battery Luminosity and Efficiency Variability

Battle of the Bandages

Beating SHEAR

Beeswax vs Plastic Wrap

Bio Buzz

Bird Buffet - What seeds do birds like the best

Bookinator! 200!

Breaking Bridges

Bubble Trouble - Gum Edition

Can plants see colors

Can you affect magnetic waves

Can you use lemons to make power

Candy Rockets

Carbonation Competition

Carpet Cleaner Calamity

Catalyst Clash

Catapults

Cheap or Protection - Why All the Hot Air

Chew On This!

Chicken Bedding Insulators

Coating Protection Test

Coffee vs Cleaner

Converting Hydrogen Peroxide into Oxygen and Water

Cookie Catastrophe

Cookie Chemistry

Cookie Chemistry!

Cool Beans

Crafting Quality Cookies

Curie-ously Permeable

Dance Buddy

Dark Mysteries of Eyes

Data Mining Our Diet - Using Mathematics to Decode What's In Our Food

Density vs Egg

Desk Organizer

Did The Egyptians Find the Best Way to Mummify Things

Die or Dye

Discovering New Violin Harmonics

Dissolving Jolly Ranchers in Different Liquids

Do brown apples taste bad

Do video games cause stress

Does Baseball Bat Material Impact Performance - Comparing Exit Velocity of Wood, Aluminum, and Composite Bats Using Tittrax

Does Elevation Change the Air You Breathe

Does Practice Really Make Perfect

Does Salt Increase the Speed at Which Ice Melts

Does the angle of a windshield affect damage

Don't be dirty!

Droppin' Voltage

Durable, Eco-Friendly Bioplastics

Educational Inclution

Egg-cellent Engineering

Egghead

Electrolyte Challenge

Electromagnetic Ball Accelerator

Electromagnets

Everyday Medicine... Unexpected Effects

Feeling downie eat a brownie

Filters You Can Trust!

Fizz-Factor

Flash Floods

Flavor Savor Remix

Flavor that Food

Floating

Fluffy Bird Feasts

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Foraging Boxes on the Jordan Trail

Forget Counting Sheep, Here are Some Better Ways to Sleep! Improving Sleep, From the Sleep Lives of 5th Graders

Fresh Sown Or Twice Grown

Fruit and Veggie Batteries

Germ Ball

Giant Bubbles

Goal!

Good Vibrations - Visualizing Sound

Good Vibrations! How Does String Weigh Affect Pitch

GPS - Seeking Accuracy

Gravity Water Wheel

Great Salt Lake Dust vs. Snowpack

H2O Rockets to the Max

Happy Life - The App That Reduces Social Media Addiction

Heart 2 Heart

Homework or stresswork - a study of how homework affects kids

Homopolar Motor

Hot Rocks! How Different Rock Types Affect Temperature

Hot Wheels vs Other Brands

Houses Against High Wind Pressure

Hover Mouse

How Different Activities Affect Your Heart Rate and Blood Pressure

How Different Insulators Affect Water Temperature

How Do Different Liquids Affect Tooth Enamel

How Do Plants Like Their Light

How does color affect taste

How Does Exercise Affect Heart Rate

How does it roll

How does light color affect the growth of plants

How does sugar affect the sweetness of cupcakes

How Does The Key of Music Affect Feelings

How Far Can I Throw A Frisbee and How Much Further Can I Throw It

How long will it last

How Poor Man's Fiberglass Can Lower Homeless Rates and Housing Prices

How school strategjes affect school proficiency

How sugary drinks dissolve tooth enamel

How to Build a Trebuchet

Human behavior - Identifying AI images

If It's Wet Let It Set If It's Dry Bike On By

Ignite Your Science - The Ultimate Fire Starter Showdown

Impact of color additives on 3D printed tensile strength

Impossible Chocolate

Is It Real or AI

Is it really worth the hype

Is this a good decision

Isopod growth vs types of food

Jams to Exams - How Music Affects Attention

Jordan Trail Foraging Boxes

Keep It Bloomin

Keeping My Hot Cocoa Warm

Lead Pollution in Thrift Stores

Leaf and Let Die - The Effect of Leaf Size on Survival After Temporary Water Deprivation of Basil Plants

Leaky Pipeline Analyzing Female Participation in the University of Utah Science and Engineering Fair

Left or Right - Do dogs have a dominant paw like humans do hands

Lenz's Law Experiment

Let It Snow

Librarian Computer Device

Lighting up Crime Scenes with Luminol's Glow

Lights, lenses, action!

Magnetic Levitation

Magnetic Strength

Magnets - The more the merrier

Mango Slicing - Reduce Waste, Increase Yield

Manicure Marathon

Marker Mayhem!

Marshmallow Expansion Test

Measuring the Intensity of Speed Humps

Meltdown - What Makes Ice Melt the Fastest

Melting Ice

Mento Mania

Mini Earthquake Shake Table

Mirabilite Formation - Temperature & Humidity

Molecular Motion

Music's affect on dogs

Mystery Message

Natural Light vs Artificial Lighting

Nature's Recyclers

NHL Puck Freeze

Nom, Nom, Nom, at a Ski Resort

Oil Pastels Problem

Oil Spills

Old Seeds vs New Seeds

Operation - Clean Slick

Peak Sep-a-ra-tion

Piano Page Turner

Pitching It To Rover

Plants DO or DIE

Popping Popcorn

Posture Pal

Potato Power

Power Play - Finding the Best Battery

Probiotic Buddies

Probiotic Buddies

Putting rocks, fossil horned coral, and shells in an acid

Putting your peripherals to the test

Radioactive Particles

Ratio Reactions! Speed, Strength, and the Perfect Blend!

Real vs. A.I. - Can you tell the difference

Recycling Robot - Training an AI object detection model to classify recycling

Reducing Phosphate Pollution with Calcium Modified Biochar

Removing Toxins from the Great Salt Lake

Resisting Microplastics

Rethink Your Drink

Rock Weathering Freeze - Thaw Cycles

Rollback & Shoot

Rotten Teeth

Rover Wheels vs Sand

Running from the Heart

Rusty and Zula's Boat Thing

Saturation - How Saturation Effects Crystal Growth

Say What!

Science Gets Stylin'

Science in Sports - Predicting the Flight Path of a Baseball with Simulation

Science that Sucks

Screen Time and Mood

Sensational Speed

Shake It Off - How do we help buildings stay standing during on earthquake

Shoreline Saviors

Sight vs. Taste

Size Matters!

Sleep Study

Sleep Time Slayer

Small Push, Big Lift

Soap, Signs & Science

Soaring Science

Social Media on Kids

Soda on Your Teeth

Solar Oven

Sound and density of liquid

Space Time vs Normal Time

Speed Traps for CO2 - How Zeolite Type Affects Carbon Capture Rates

Spelling with Beethoven - Exploring the Effect of Classical Music on Studying

Spud Science - How potato variety affects open-circuit voltage in a potato battery

Stacked vs Spread Magnets for a Levitating Train

Starch Wars - The Amylase Awakens

Stop the Stink!

Strong Voltage

Structure Durability

Sudden Impact - A Biochemical Reaction

Sugar vs Brain

Superlative Structures

Sus Suspect - Exploring Potential Biases in Eyewitness Identification

Sweet and Salty Experiment

T and T - Temperature and Tornadoes

Taekwondo Bot

Tastiest Snow on Earth

Temperature vs. Ball

Testing The Best Food For Tardigrades In -109°F Without Dying

The 5-Second Myth

The automatic door opener

The Bathroom Sink is Clogged Again

The Battery Blanket

The Best Paper Plane

The Dark Secret - Why Dirty Snow Disappears First

The Effect of Water Volume on the Efficiency of Solute Dissolution

The Effects of AI Music on Plants

The Effects of Music on Stress

The Future Wrap - Testing Smart Biodegradable Plastics for Sustainable Packaging

The Grabbler

The Great Material Showdown

The Great Rise-ish Bake Off - Can I get taller, fluffier cupcakes by adding different leaveners

The Launch

The Piano Bag Hold Opener-Inator

The Power of Flame-Resistant Solutions

The Power within Potatoes!

The Scroll Effect

The secret behind strong bones

The Silent Signal

The Strongest Bridge

The Strongest Packaging Material

The strongest paper towel

The Super-Spectacular Case of the Permanent Ink

The Undiminator

The Yeast Buffet

Think Before You Drink

This Project is Fire!

Too much of a good thing

Toothpaste Testing

Tower of Power

Under Pressure

Up, Up & Away - What Parachute Shape Spends the Most Time Aloft

Using Machine Learning to Detect Psychological Stress from Text

UV Blocking... Fact or Fiction

Vacuum Effects on Floatation

Variables in Hiking Patterns of Dogs and Humans

Vortex Velocity

Was the yellow brick road the best choice

Water filter

Water Purification

Water Temperature and Sugar

Water Weightlifters

Weak Wi-Fi

Weather Lamp - A lamp that changes color based on the weather

Weights on a Plane

What Affects Wifi

What amount of salt melts ice the fastest

What are the chemical and physical changes in the process of making charcoal

What chemical show the most plant growth

What colored light and type of music attract fish

What Dark Beer Will Make the Best Beer Bread

What is the best watering solution for Marigold flowers

What makes ice melt faster

What's in the air

What's that smell

Which bridge holds the most weight

Which bridge is best

Which fruit makes the best battery

Which Structural Design is Most Resistant to Earthquake-like Shaking

Which Truss can you trust

Which type of bridge can hold the weight

Why does soda explode when you shake it

Why Shouldn't You Put a Piano on a Wall Leading Outside

Will Creator Interactions Result in YouTube Channel Growth

Will different fruits andor vegetables power a low voltage digital clock

Wind vs Water - Which resource generates more voltage

Wonders of Wax!

You Read That How Fast