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Project Type: Experiment

Project Division: Health and Life Sciences

Project Summary: For our science fair project, we extracted DNA from fruits and vegetables. We had multiple steps that we followed and we had created different mixtures. Our control variables are how much we used of the materials, what we used and our experiment steps. Our manipulated variables are the fruit and vegetables that we used in this experiment. The responding variable is how much DNA is extracted from the manipulated variables. Our reason for choosing this experiment is that we wanted to see how much DNA could be extracted from certain fruits and certain vegetables and extracting and seeing DNA is something that fascinated us!

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Supplementary Information: Project write-up, Project Log book

Project Type: Experiment

Project Division: Health and Life Sciences

Project Summary: The Question we wanted the answer to is does sight actually affect taste, and if so, how big of an impact? In this experiment we tested 15 different people ages 7 through 37 by giving them 3 different glasses of apple juice, coloring one red, one blue, and one green. We then asked them which glass they preferred most and what they thought each of the glasses contained. The controlled variables during this experiment was the type of juice, how much juice we put in the cups, and the colors that we dyed them. The manipulated variables were the volunteers, their ages, and their genders. The responding variables were how they reacted and their response to the drinks. The purpose of this experiment was to see if sight does actually affect taste, and to see how we could connect it to the real world and we succeeded. We found out in this experiment that green is the least favorite color for drinks to be, we think this is because when we think of green we think of garbage or mold. Applying this knowledge to real world instances could help in the marketing business and in the restaurant business. When picking what colors to make foods/drinks like icing, they can keep in mind that green is the least favorite color out of three that were tested and is not the most appealing color for food. In programs where kids or even adults have trouble eating, coloring foods blue or red rather then green can help them want to eat again. 

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Supplementary Information: Supplementary Material

Project Type: Innovation

Project Division: Biotechnology, Engineering, and Mathematics

Project Summary: I have innovated a way for prothstetics to be made cheaper through expansion and Contraction. Prothstetics are very expensive to get and maintain and I want to make them more accessible to the public. The prothstetics would expand and contract to grow with the user. This would also allow mass production of prothstetics to be made possible. I also did tests on different types of plastics to cover the prothstetics and I built a prototype of an arm with my dad.

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Supplementary Information: Supplementary Material

Project Type: Innovation

Project Division: Biotechnology, Engineering, and Mathematics

Project Summary: In my project I will be creating two water filters. One imitating the natural water filtration process of peat or muskeg and the other, a coal and rock based filter. The filters are tested by running contaminated water through them. My goal is to create an easy and sustainable water filtration method to assist with the water quality issues on First Nations Reserves. I hope that my research will be able to help the clean drinking water crisis on First Nations Reserves. 

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Supplementary Information: Brief Overview, Project Report, Research Plan, Parameters Tested For, Procedure, Graphed Data, Data organized in Charts

Project Type: Experiment

Project Division: Health and Life Sciences

Project Summary: This project aims to determine whether plant roots have the ability to detect sound vibrations in order to seek water sources. By using the same type of bean seed, and growing conditions, I manipulated the plants' exposure to water and sounds of water and recorded the growth patterns of each plant's roots. My manipulated variable was the water and sound expoure. The responding variable was the quantity and directional growth of plant roots. My controls were seed type, soil type, light exposure, ambiant room temperature and size of pots. I was interested in this experiment because I had heard about it on a podcast called This American Life. I wanted to do the experiment and see if I could replicate their findings.

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Supplementary Information: Logbook, Project Report, Setup image 1, Setup image 2, Setup image 3, Setup image 4, Results image 1, Results image 2, Results image 3, Results image 4, Results image 5, Results image 6, Results image 7, Results image 8, Results image 9