PROJECT DESCRIPTION: Modeling the shape of Earth's orbit around the sun with respect to the center of the galaxy.

PROJECT DESCRIPTION: This is "Project Partisan," inspired by Harvard's "Project Implicit," which studies implicit biases based on race, religion, age, disability, gender, weight, etc. This version of Project Partisan, evolved from last year's research, specifically tests gender bias in crime case sentencing. The project gives descriptions of court-like situations, some with feminine names, some with masculine names, and some with no names, and the participants play jury, assigning a sentence they believe fits the crime. Connections between length of time and the perceived gender will be made in analysis. 

PROJECT DESCRIPTION: A common issue throughout school is the inability of students to achieve their true potential in the academic scene. I have met brilliant students not excel in classes, and that's where my idea of this project stemmed from. For this project, I entered classrooms and introduced various incentives towards students, as a way to motivate and push them to pass any harmful inhibiting characteristics. Some incentives introduced include: Autonomy, Peer competition, Rewards, and more!

PROJECT DESCRIPTION: The electrical output of solar panels, also known as photovoltaics (PV), are highly dependent on operating temperatures, decreasing as temperature increases. Thus, floating photovoltaics have been researched as a possible alternative that can lead to a passive increase in power while dealing with problems of land scarcity by using the space above reservoirs and lakes. This project seeks to investigate this effect, testing a terrestrial and floating PV cell over a natural body of water. The temperature and voltages of both PV cells were collected to compare and illustrate this passive cooling gain of floating PV cells. 

PROJECT DESCRIPTION: I am interested in using hydroponics to provide affordable produce to underserved areas. My research is looking at how to reuse hydroponic wastewater in hydroponic systems, which can reduce the water required to grow plants. In my research, I grew lettuce and reused the water by processing it using different reuse methods. To see their long-term impact, I measured each reuse method's effectiveness over several plant growth cycles. My results are promising and provide evidence that hydroponic wastewater can be reused economically and affordably.

PROJECT DESCRIPTION: This project aims to investigate the eye movement patterns and cognitive strategies employed by individuals of different skill levels in solving a 5x5 mini crossword puzzle. By utilizing eye tracking technology, the study will examine the completion time, inaccuracies, fixation time, saccades, and general scanning patterns of participants categorized as new to crosswords, intermediate, and advanced solvers. 

PROJECT DESCRIPTION: Researching and observing what makes Garlic mustard, Alliaria petiolata, invasive in the U.S. when its natural habitat is in Europe.

PROJECT DESCRIPTION: An observation on how strokes are caused by genetic inheritance. It is a research-based project with an eventual experimental portion which investigates the genetics behind getting a stroke. 

PROJECT DESCRIPTION: I am looking at the effects of pH on thyroid peroxidase (TPO) activity using buffers. 

PROJECT DESCRIPTION: Studies the effect and formation of dendrites in lithium-ion batteries. Dendrites form during the charging process and can cause harm to the batteries performance and cycling.

PROJECT DESCRIPTION: Mark's project is based on testing different types biodegradable plastics to see how fast and how much they degrade over time while buried in the soil.

PROJECT DESCRIPTION: Mark is focusing on drone technology and is researching different ways to improve and use drones. For this year's project, his plan is to use different drone propellor designs to see which one produces the least noise when a drone is on. This has lots of important applications like using drones for delivery and photography since they would be less loud and "annoying." He also plans to share what he learned along the way and see what he can do in the future regarding drones.

PROJECT DESCRIPTION: This year my project focuses on turning plastic into fuel. I do believe that it is an important topic, and finding new ways to reuse old materials is one way to help our planet.

PROJECT DESCRIPTION: The purpose of this research is to examine the satisfaction of having period products free and available to girls in school. We will investigate the impact of menstruation product accessibility. The participants will be teenage females that go to John Jay High School.

PROJECT DESCRIPTION: My project measures the effects of music on focus while doing a task. For this project, I measured the effect that different genre's of music have on focus by comparing time before music, and each genre individually. I'm also connecting this back to my previous project to see if the two have a correlation. 

PROJECT DESCRIPTION: This project is based on the biodegradation of PLA, a bioplastic synthesized from lactic acid that is commonly used as 3D printer filament. The experiment tests the rate of biodegradation in compost piles of different pH levels.

PROJECT DESCRIPTION: The project I will be conducting is how much information can your brain remember in a certain amount of time. I will be giving a group of participants  a specific picture and giving them 5 minutes to remember as much as they can about the picture and then I will have them try and recreate this picture, increasing the amount of time in between for each group.

PROJECT DESCRIPTION: My project focuses on the effects of temperature, residential road runoff, and main road runoff on TDS (total dissolved solid) levels in the Fishkill Creek. Total dissolved solids includes all minerals, salts, metals, and organic matter that is dissolved into ions when placed in water. TDS from soil and fertilizers are transported into streams by way of runoff and pollute the water, causing harm to aquatic life. By conducting this experiment, and determining the factors that affect TDS levels most drastically in a stream, I hope to come up with and suggest solutions to the harm that TDS causes to aquatic organisms and plants.

PROJECT DESCRIPTION: My project is about finding out which oil, coconut or castor oil, can soothe skin better after it has been irritated.

PROJECT DESCRIPTION: The project consists of a custom designed and built maglev system. The system will be a combination of a V and U shaped model. The goal of the project is to create a functioning model with levitation and propulsion.

PROJECT DESCRIPTION: My project determines the effect of organic vs. inorganic fertilizer on runoff water. I will allow for two sods to soak in water. I will add organic fertilizer to one sod, and inorganic fertilizer to the other. I then will drain the water after allowing them to soak. Then, I will test for the concentration of nitrogen and other chemicals in the run-off.

PROJECT DESCRIPTION: My experiment aims to find the effect of road salt on surrounding ecosystems. By measuring the amount of salt present on the roads and the amount that may make its way into the surrounding ecosystem. Then taking that amount of salt and treating common roadside plants with the salt and evaluating the effects on the plants. 

PROJECT DESCRIPTION: Karen’s project consists of testing the efficiency and usability of at home biofuel production methods. Using variables such as amount of time used to create biofuel, cost of materials, amount of end product created, etc., Karen Wong tested the efficiency and usability of 2 of the more common at home biofuel creation methods. Her first test consisted of fermenting sugary liquids to produce ethanol. Her second test consisted of growing algae at home and creating biodiesel from the algal bio-oils. 

PROJECT DESCRIPTION: My experiment is measuring how different sized arms through a 360 video affects their perception of how much weight they are holding. I am testing this by having participants watch a child, teenager or bodybuilder's arms lift a small and a big toolbox through a 360 video mounted by a 360° VR Headset. The participant will reenact this as if the child, teenager or bodybuilder's arms is their own and then estimate the weight of each toolbox. 

PROJECT DESCRIPTION: My project is about the presence of an audience and how it will affect the performance of people. I will have people doing a puzzle both unsupervised and supervised, as well as competing with someone else. I would like to see if it would affect the levels of stress, and if that stress leads to a higher performance or a lower performance.

PROJECT DESCRIPTION: My project analyzes the relationship between social networking apps, (like Instagram, Tik Tok, Facebook, etc), and mental health, specifically areas of mental health dealing with self esteem and confidence. My sample size will be people of three different age ranges, high school students, college students, and those who work full time jobs. I will have these people who choose to participate fill out an anonymous form answering questions analyzing their relationship between social networking apps and self esteem/confidence. After this process is complete, I will take a look at my results from the form and analyze them.

PROJECT DESCRIPTION: His project tests the difference in thrust (forward motion) produced by airplane propeller models varying by blade chord length and the number of blades. The propellers are Computer-aided designed (CAD) models that were 3D printed. The experiment setup consists of a hex motor to mount the propellers and a constant voltage powering it, where each propeller model's strength of thrust is measured.