28th Annual
Greater Vancouver Regional Science Fair

University of British Columbia

April 8, 9, 10 / 2010

The following projects are registered for the 2010 Greater Vancouver Regional Science Fair. Project summaries will be posted after the fair. If updates are required to your project summary, please email gvrsf@shaw.ca.

Junior Engineering and Computing Sciences
J1E Which Bridge is Better?
J2E Trebuchet
J3E Earthquakes: Testing How Buildings Withstand the Disaster
J4E A Helping Hand
J24E Micromeld
J25E Bulls- Eye Catapult
J26E Packing Pyramids
J27E Nanotechnology
J28E Borax Plastic
J29E Unbeatable Artificial Intelligence?
J30E Electrolysis
J40E Noise Destroyer: an Experimental Study to Determine the Best of 5 Sound and Noise Insulators

Intermediate Engineering and Computing Sciences
M111E Spots-O-Meter: Automatic Spots Measurement with Flood-Fill Algorithm
M145E Is Anybody Listening?
M150E Heat Regain from Down the Drain
M151E City On Air
M152E A Swimmer's Drag
M153E The Green Pipe: Saving the World, One Pipe at a Time
M154E A Greener World One Scoop of Mud at a Time!
M202E Can You Hear The Laser?
M204E Crystal Clear Radio

Senior Engineering and Computing Sciences
S199E Protein Network for Immune Response and Carcinogenic Process of Human Cells Infected by H. pylori
S200E Man-Made Muscle
S201E Modern Improvements for the Modern Automobile
S203E Wind Turbines On Highways - A Viable Power Generation System?

Junior Earth and Environmental Sciences
J10V Tomorrows Weather?
J11V To Catch a Bug-The Beatles greatest legacy
J13V Plastic: 100%... friendly?
J14V Toilettes Hydro-Energétiques
J16V Biomass to Gas
J68V Can They Hear Us?
J69V The Cost of Freeways
J70V The Flammability of Household Fabrics
J76V The Secret of Fruit Syrup
J77V Yucky Energizers: Garbage = Fuel?!
J78V Rubber Tails in the Fluids
J79V La Purite de L'eau
J80V Which berry stains the most even after being washed?
J81V Water Purification
J104V Cultivation of Lima Beans
J106V How Permanent Is Your Permanent Marker?
J108V What are the effects on the environment when we use our wastewater systems?

Intermediate Earth and Environmental Sciences
M71V Trash to Gas: Biomass Energy
M107V Noise Pollution; Green Solution
M122V Green Detergent?
M123V Smokin' Hot Timber
M124V Bacteria Life Forms on Mars: Possible or Not? Part II
M125V An Olympic Blend
M126V A Survey on the Acute Aquatic Toxicity of Three Common Household Medicines:Human and Environmental Risk Assessment
M127V 3 Shades of Red
M128V Insulation Information
M129V Power Drinks
M130V Does Water Temperature Affect Plant Growth?
M131V Technicolour Plant Growth
M132V Who's Green... You, Me or Nobody?
M188V Sunny Peas
M189V Lethal Liquids: Grass Carnage
M190V Down the Drain
M191V Über Tubers
M192V Something Fishy

Senior Earth and Environmental Sciences
S186V Plant, Can You Hear Me?
S187V END OF THE WORLD ?!

Junior Health Sciences
J5H Are Salt-Water Pools Safe For Your Hair?
J6H Emergency Preparedness hat
J7H Cuisson Sans Levure
J8H Bones
J9H Clothes To Die For?
J12H Plant Insulin
J15H Eau-Zone
J17H Silence ou So What
J18H Debbie Meyer Green Bags à l'Épreuve
J19H Multitasking-friend or foe?
J20H Elastiques Fantastiques
J21H Tricking the Temporal
J22H Vitamin E
J23H Eco-Feutre
J82H Bye Bye Bacteria
J83H Baked Alaska
J84H Definitely Need Antioxidants
J85H Chicken or the Egg? Social, Scientific and Economic Issues surrounding the Egg Industry
J86H Cancer vs. Cacao
J87H Hot vs. Cold - Investigating the Mpemba Effect
J88H Caffeine Conspiracy
J91H The Placebo Effect
J92H Caffeine and the Human Pulse
J93H How Strong Is Your Tooth
J94H Do Microwaves Kill Vitamin C?
J95H How Colours Affect Our Mood
J96H Tea-zing Out Caffeine
J97H Can playing video games affect your reaction time?

Intermediate Health Sciences
M89H Do chili peppers block and kill fat-forming cells and help prevent obesity?
M90H Berriers Against Cancer
M118H Invisible Gorillas! A study on Inattentional Blindness
M119H Drink and Damage
M120H Evolving Superbugs!
M121H Heartbeats -Analyzing Heart Rates
M133H As Smooth as a Baby's Bottom
M134H The Antimicrobial Effects and Antioxidant Levels of Lemongrass
M135H Got HAIR to SPARE?
M136H Spices VS Food Poisoning: The Effect of HCl Treatment on the Antibacterial Properties of Spices
M146H Sta-in on Your Clothes
M147H iHeart Music
M148H Nitrates, Nitrites
M149H Improving Mobility for the Visually Impaired
M165H Bottled vs. Tap: the Never-ending Battle
M167H The Essence of Antiseptics
M168H Dia"beta"s: The Effect of Age on Beta-Cell Mass
M169H Train the Brain
M170H Detect the Unexpected
M171H Do Herbal Remedies Work?
M172H Convinced!
M173H Green Tea against Huntington's Disease
M174H The Anti-Tumor Triad
M205H No Fear, Acetic Acid is Here

Senior Health Sciences
S175H Orange Juice, Anyone?
S183H Do NMDA receptors affect early brain development?
S184H Tylenol and Echinacea Don't Rhyme!
S185H Turmeric: The Root of Beauty
S193H Effect of transplanting fat from two different embryological origins on type II diabetes in lipodystrophic mice
S194H Sweet Poison:An evaluation of aspartame peptide bond stability and novel analogues for PKU patients
S195H Investigation into the novel proteins SGO_0707 and SGO_1487 in Streptococcus gordonii
S196H Which Juice Raises the Blood Sugar Level the Highest
S197H Do teenagers of different race have a different exhalation?
S198H Investigation into the Effects of Phytochemicals from Dandelion Plants on Melanoma Cells

Junior Life Sciences
J34L Which Beverages Do Mung Beans Prefer?
J35L What Can Eye See?
J36L On The Rise
J37L Apple Browning
J38L Our Friends of the Sea
J39L Can everyday lights mutate DNA?
J56L Give Me Proof It's Waterproof
J57L Don't Cry
J58L Mark My Words
J59L The A*MAZE*ing Fishes
J61L When You don't know something, what do you do?
J74L How does your personal diet effect the enviroment
J75L Using an Electroscope to Detect Electrical Charge
J98L THE TASTE OF COLOUR. How Does What We See Affect What We Taste?
J99L L'adaptions de l'oeil a la lumière
J100L How Does the Manipulations of the Words Influence the Stroop Effect?
J101L Music Power
J102L Does colour affect memory?
J103L Can Scents Affect You Physically?
J105L Could green tea prevent oral cancer caused by Areca nut chewing?

Intermediate Life Sciences
M72L The Effect of Different Speeds of Music on Memory
M73L Blind Prejudice
M113L RedBull - It's Worth It
M114L Music's affects on the brain
M115L Memory's Gender
M116L The Scoop on Stroop
M117L Cell Phones Kill?
M137L Fruit fly preferences
M160L The Effect of Colicin Activity on Escherichia Coli K-12 and Critical Endotoxic Membrane
M161L Nice Cream
M162L Cone Cells, Afterimages, and Glasses
M163L Hand-Eye Dominance
M164L Losing Sight: Other Senses Heighten
M166L Gender Differences in Face Recognition

Senior Life Sciences
S177L Investigating Simulative Designs to Increase the Efficiency of Microfluidic Chips

Junior Physical and Mathematical Sciences
J31P What's Up With Wings?
J32P Paper Airplanes: How to Achieve the Longest Flight Distance
J33P Laundry In Flames
J41P Ship Shape Ship Design
J42P Accumulation of Rust on Nails in differenty Substances
J43P "Ice the Puck"
J44P "POWER" "HEAT" Dissimilar Metals
J45P Controlling Smoke Through Substance Combination via Smoke Bomb
J46P Pendulum Swings
J47P Why does it matter?
J48P Order in Chaos
J49P Astronomical Objects
J50P Achieving Greater Efficiency in Harnessing Heat by Exploring Properties of Good Insulators
J51P Fantastic Elastic!
J52P Possible effects on the human body from sound freaquencies.
J53P Triangles Vs. Squares
J54P Great Golf ball Delima
J55P Speed Swimming
J60P The Effects of Impurities on Water- A Method of Analysis of Water Content
J62P IS THERE A TIGER IN THE HOUSE?
J63P Inner-Residential Audio Meteorologist (I.R.A.M)
J64P Hazards of H2O Electrolysis Battery
J65P Testing Fabric For Heat Retainability
J66P Direction and Collision
J67P The Most Capable Candle

Intermediate Physical and Mathematical Sciences
M109P Volleyball Bounce
M110P Breaking The Tension
M112P Mesuré la vitesse de la lumiere dans les matieres
M138P Burn Baby Burn
M139P Fire Fight - Fire Extinguisher Efficiency
M155P Denaturation of Eggs
M156P Skipping Clay
M157P Winging It
M158P A Statistical Approach to the Applications of Fractal Geometry
M159P Electro-Kinetic Propellers
M176P Does Washing Shrink Your Socks?

Senior Physical and Mathematical Sciences
S178P Constructing Inverse Limits With Upper Semi-continuous Functions
S179P The Correlation between Video Games and Academic Performance
S180P Effects of Localized Gravity on the Evolution of the Universe
S181P Can You Handle the Heat? The Effects of Laundering on the Flame Retardancy of Childrens' Pajamas
S182P Power Generated from a Wind Turbine