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2026 Project Photos (Junior)

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A Better Algorithm For Multiplication Practice

A Compact 3D Printer

A Matter of Taste

Acid Rain

AI vs. The Human Eye

An assessment of Oobleck as a non-Newtonian component in Magnetorheological Fluids

Are Your Daily Habits Affecting Your Sleep and How Stressed You Are

Autism Bias

Before the Crash - When a Blink Changes Everything

Bio Buddies

Bleach Damage

Blood - What can we learn from it

Blood Stain Analysis

Bone Vibes

Bot-tling Up Emotions

Brick By Brick - The Influence of Substrate Composition on the Structural Integrity of Mycelium Bricks

Bubble Gum Pop!

Bubbling Plants

Bubbling With Energy

Building a Smart Trash Sorter - Is AI the Solution to Pollution

Can Airplanes Agree With The More the Merrier

Can Exercise Sharpen the Adolescent Mind

Can I Influence the Compromise Effect of Decision Making

Can I save the Mammoth in the ice maybe even and apple slice

Can You Change the Compromise Effect of Decision Making

Catalase vs Hydrogen Peroxide

Catalyzed Oxidation

Catchin More Z's

Charged By The Wind

Chemiluminescense's Essence

Chill or Thrill - How Does Water Temperature Affect Guppies Behavior

Chill Out, Apple!

Chipped or Champion - Does Nail Polish Price Predict Durability

Clean Steps Ahead - A UV-C Shoe Sanitizing Mat

Clear Winner - Finding the Best Water Filter

Cloud Chamber

Cloudy with a Chance of SPF

Color Changing Flowers

Color Preference in Horses

Comparative Modeling of Lung Cancer Progression Using Gompertz and Baranyi Kintetic Frameworks

Crystal growing

Density Separation

Dental Decay

Designing and Building a Fully Electric Radio-Controlled Miniature Plane

Determining how the amount of light affects a plant's phototropic response

Developing a Machine Learning Model to Identify Hidden Heart Failure from Public Health Data

Do Different Drinks Affect The Shape Of Popping Boba Balls

Do dogs have a dominant paw

Do oranges lose vitamin c

Do The Factors That Cause Stress Change Between Genders

Does Clothing Affect Or Impact The Behaviors Of Others

Does mood affect text scores

Does music affect the learning of a dyslexic child

Does Salinity Affect Evaporation

Does the air pressure of a volleyball affect its distance

Does the color of a food or drink affect how people perceive its taste

Dream or Stream

Eating Your Water Bottle

Effect of lighting on brine shrimp survival

Effect of Time Exercised on Cognitive Ability

Effectiveness of Biodegradable Chitosan from Shrimp Shells in Water Purification

Electromagnets

Empowering Engines

Evaporative Cooling a Sustainable Solution for AI Data Centers

Exposing Plants to Sunlight

Fabulous Flexible Films

Filtering Out PM 2.5

Flexibility With Age & Gender

Flow Rates Effect On Hydropower

Fluoride Armor - Protecting Calcium Compounds Against Acid Erosion

From Alginate to Awesome

From Bottle to Build

From Space Landers to Earthquake-Proof Bridges - Tensegrity as Nature's Shock Absorber

Fruit vs Lemons

Fuel for Thought - This Project is FIRE

Fuels n' Fire

Gimme Some Sugar

Glucose Concentration in Different Food Categories

Go With the Flow

Go With the Flow!

Grow, Algae Grow! Or Don't

Hammer'n Rebar V2

Hand Position & Accuracy in Volleyball

High Sugar Drink Alternative Miracle Berry

Hot n' Cold Wire Makes Hall Voltage Higher

Hot Wheels Suck - An Engineered Solution to Prevent Hot Car Deaths

How Different Ages Detect Scammers

How Do Different Colors of Light Affect Plant Growth

How Do Sugar Substitutes Affect Yeast Fermentation

How Does Exposure to Blue light affect memory and reaction time

How does magnet strength and wire thickness affect electromagnetic induction

How does pH affect the growth of bacteria

How does the color of an object affect how much heat it absorbs

How Does the Size of the Blade Affect the Energy Produced by a Homemade Wind Turbine

How does the stroop affect work

How does the type of liquid used affect the success of forming boba popping spheres using the spherification process

How effective is your insulation

How strong are bridge types

How to make the best bottle rocket

Hybrid Car of the Future - Solar & Battery

Ice Cream

Ice Pack Water Bottle

Impact of Large Industrial Facilities and Highways on the Air Quality in the Salt Lake Valley

Infection Detecting Sutures

Insta Kibbler - Pet Feeding With Your Voice

Instasham Should I Be Allowed To Get Social Media

Is Moss an Effective Ground Cover for Xeriscaping

Is the five second rule true

Laser Sensor Glasses

Lego Home Game Console

Let There Be (UV) Light

Levitation HOVER Nation

Lidar or Sonar - Which is the Better Sensor

Light Pollution

Lipase in Action - How do natural additives affect fat digestion

Lithium-ion Battery Performance and Cold Temperature

Look Away! Engineering Smart Glasses That Reduce Eyestrain

Low-Cost Monitoring of Noxious Gases Near Landfills using AI - Health Implications for People Living and Working Nearby

Magnetic Brakes

Magnets Imitating Gravity

Making It Clear

Mannitol is a drug that crystallizes

Meditation Matters

Minty Minds

Miracle Berries

Model Roller Coaster - Factors that affect an object's velocity

Modeling Cancer Prevention - Can Antioxidants Protect Cells

Mycelium Bioplastics - A Sustainable Alternative to Petroleum Based Plastics

Nature's Charger - A wind powered device charger

Neural Network-Driven Drug Repurposing Predicting New Uses for Existing Drugs

No Heartbreak-o-Meter

Now You See Me

Operation Clean Seas!

Optimum 2 Meter Ham Radio Antenna

Osmosis Water Battle

Parakeet Preferences

Passive Solar Homes

Picking Up Speed

Plastics are not Fungis

Pollution in the ocean

Pop vs Teeth - Which pop stains teeth the most

Powder to Power - The Best Curing for Concrete

Power of pH

Predicting Thyroid Cancer Recurrence Using Machine Learning

Project Permafrost

Protecting Native Fish from Invasive Species with Automated Sorting

Pucker Up! The Science of Acid and Taste

Putting a Little Heart Into Your Music

Race to Burn

Reactivation of Aluminas for the Removal of t-Butylcatechol from Isoprene

Recognizing Hand Signals with Mediapipe

Resistance is Futile

Rethinking Wound Care Engineering an Oral Bandage

Rocket Science

Rocks vs. The Elements Of Weathering

Seeing the Unseen - Using a cloud chamber to detect background radiation

Shell Shocked - How CO2 Affects Marine Life

Shell We Compare - A Study of Chicken Egg Growth Rates

Smart Weather Station - AI Powered Air Quality Monitor

Smarter Searches Greener Planet

Smokey Pokey

Snooze tunes

Solar Energy - Powering a Sustainable Future

Sound breaking through the wall

Sour Patch Kids

Spinning in the Sky!

Sports For Deaf People

Squeaky Clean or is it

Stained Teeth

Stretching Improves Athletic Performance

Temperature Control on Magnets

Temperature Effects on the pH Levels of Grape Anthocyanins

Testing a More Environmentally Friendly Fire Retardant

The Age Old Question - Brain vs. Brawn

The Braces Saver!

The Correlation Between Studying Time and Grade Performance

The Effect of Hydrogen Peroxide on the Speed and Volume of the Elephant Toothpaste Reaction

The Effect of pH on Vitamin C in Orange Juice

The Effects of Light on the Foraging Ability of the Western Harvester Ant Pogonomyrmex occidentalis

The Frequency Factor

The Future of Preventing Food Waste - Save My Food

The Glow Show

The Great Dry-Off

The Great Thaw

The Hair Texture Powder Experiment

The Impact of Radiation on Seed Growth

The Impact of Social Media on Teens Mental Health

The Key is Tea

The Kidney Project - Innovating Kidney Filtration

The Power of Exercise!

The Science of Radiation Safety

The Sky is Falling

The Sound of Focus

The Surprising Strength of Eggshells. How Strong are Different Eggshells

Thinking to the Beat

Travel Lax

Truck Weight Speed Study

Turning Wind Into Watts

Unlocking the Dots

Urban Heat Island

Using Medieval Siege Weapons to Launch Rockets Into Space

Utah Water Health

Vision Aide - The Ultra-Sonic Navigation System

What apple browns the fastest What substances stop browning the fastest

What common household practices cause PM 2.5 pollution

What Substances Best Reduce Landfill Methane Gas To Lessen Its Contribution To Global Warming

What Type of Sugar Does a Kombucha Biofilm Prefer

What's in our water

What's so different about our drinking water

When a Magnet Loses It's Cool!

Which citrus fruit has the longest battery life

Which Flocculant Improves Water Clarity The Best

Which Materials Clean Water the Best

Wire Ware

Zinc vs. Chemical Sunscreen