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Which roofing material and color offers the best energy efficiency? Challange: a new roofing material that changes colour based on temperature?
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Find out if the colour of a house affects the temperature inside the house in different environments and which colour absorbs more or less heat. [P] To determine whether bean plants, chives, or mint leaves will most suitable in a green roof. [P] Which type of wood resist mold growth the best: redwood, pine wood, or white wood? [E] Find how colors represented by a CMYK (Cyan-Magenta-Yellow-Black) model reflects light. [E] How changing the contrast of a digital photo will change the colors and quality of the printed image. [E] Investigate the relationship between the number of bits in a digital image and the number of colors and file size of the image. [E] Investigate how different color profiles combine colors to produce an image. [E] Does the Color of Your House Affect the Temperature Inside? [E] Can the Color of Your House Reduce Your Energy Bill? [E] Long and Short Wavelength Colors: Will They Balance Out Interior and Exterior Temperature and Insulation Rate? [E] Green Building |
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A novel colorimeter constructed from brightness-controlled LEDs, phototransistors, and a microcontroller that interfaces with a computer.
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Color Mixing with Red, Green, & Blue LEDs [E] Color Mixing with Red, Green, & Blue LEDs [E] Build a color sensor [E] Infra Red (IR) Remote Control Tester [C] Build an Audio Light Modulator / Colored Organ (1 bulb) [C] Build an Audio Light Modulator / Colored Organ (2 bulbs) [C] Build an Audio Light Modulator [C] Infra Red (IR) Links [C] [C] Infra Red Switch [C] Infra Red Remote Control Extender [C] [C] [C] [C] |
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Use gel electrophoresis to investigate food dyes used in candies
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Will yellow corn kernels pop more than white? [E] Use paper chromatography to see which dyes are used in the coatings of your favorite colored candies. [E] A simple statistical analysis of the frequency of colors of M&M's in a bag [E] The Effectiveness of Various Preservatives on the Color of Applesauce [P] Determine spectrophotometrically how much food coloring is in soda pop and Kool-Aid. [E] Determine what color bell pepper (red, yellow, green) contains the greatest amount of vitamin C concentrate. [E] Which amount of carbon will best decolorize apple juice? [P] What is the effect of the hydrogen ion concentration on the colorants of foods? [P] |
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Investigate how hydrogen-peroxide based hair treatments change the color of human hair.
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The effects of a highlighting solution on various colors of hair [E] Which shampoo for dyed hair keeps hair color from fading? [P] Which color hair lightens fastest under the sun and under an ultraviolet bulb? [E] Thin-layer chromatography vs. spectroscopy: analysis techniques of color identification in cosmetics [E] |
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Determine if it is possible to predict the size of a geode's crystals and its inside color from its texture and color on the outside.
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Test if soil color can be used to evaluate the moisture content of the soil. [E] Identify the texture, depth, color, structure, moisture, presence of rocks, roots and free carbonates in your neighborhood. [E] See how weather causes and affects the sunrises and sunsets. [E] |
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Colour Image Edge Detection Using Clifford Algebra
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Determine if tests printed on colored paper would affect math test scores. [P] The effects of color on the brain's ability to complete mathematical and logical problems. [P] |
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Does the Color of Light and the Temperature of Solar Panels Improve the Efficiency?
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How Do Different Natural Dyes Affect the Longevity and Power Output of Nanocrystalline Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells? [E] Solar power harvesting using fruit dye solar cells [P] See if green algae can be tricked into producing H(2) via photosynthesis and the optimal conditions for maximum production. [E] Produce Cellobiose Dehydrogenase from fungi Trametes versicolor in a exogenous expression system, either in E.coli or in transgenic tobacco plants. The recombinant CDH obtained from this project could be used in a cellulase cocktails to more efficiently degrade lignocellulose materials. [P] Determine if dye-sensitized solar cells that implement berry pigments absorb more solar energy than dye-sensitized solar cells that implement leaf pigments. [E] Light effects - intensity, wavelength (color), angle of radiation - on the energy developed by a solar panel (photovoltaic cell). [E] [E] [E] [E] [E] [E] [E] [E] [E] [E] [E] [E] [P] [P] |
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Investigate how temperature affects the blue glow created by the chemical luminol.
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Compare two colors (monochrome and contrast) and see which one is better for iris pattern analysis. [E] Find if adding a substance during the cyanoacrylate fuming process will make a latent print appear in color. [E] Find out if adding color in a liquid form during fuming would enhance the visibility of latent prints using the Superglue or Cyanoacrylate Fuming Method. [P] |
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| Discover if oil in Purple Sage leaves is allelopathic and whether it inhibits the germination of the California Poppy or Fennel the most drastically. [E] |
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| The Effects of Different Colored Lights on Algal Oxygen Production [E] |
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Use a Color-based Test to Measure the Concentration of Iron in Water
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Inducing Anaerobic Conditions for Hydrogen Production in Chlamydomonas reinhardtii (a single celled green alga) [E] Try to reduce the amount of phosphate and nitrate in water in order to reduce the amount of blue green algae blooms. [E] The Effects of Environmental Nitrite Levels on the Reproductive Success of Purple Sea Urchins [E] Greenhouse Effect & Greenhouse Gases |
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Use the patterns of fur color in tortoiseshell cats to determine if X chromosomes are inactivated in a random or in an allele-dependent manner.
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Using a Punnett square to help in acheiving the desired results when breeding Polish rabbits with specific color patterns. [E] |
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| Understanding Color Development in Citrus [E] |
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| Botany (Plant and Flower Pigments and Colors) |
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Why is snow white?
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Dyes, Paints and Colors |
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How Camouflage Affects the Predatory Behavior of the Praying Mantis
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Use DNA Sequencing to Trace the Blue Whale's Evolutionary Tree [E] Animal Color Vision |
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Behavioral Sciences & Psychology The Stroop Effect |
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| Physics of Color |
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See how food coloring affects plants.
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Color Perception and Vision |
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An injection of antibodies that would react with the skin cancer cells and make a patch of blue show up on your hand. This would help diagnose skin cancer a lot quicker and easier.
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Science Fair Projects Resources
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