29th Annual
Greater Vancouver Regional Science Fair

University of British Columbia

April 7-9, 2011

The following projects are registered for the 2011 Greater Vancouver Regional Science Fair. Project summaries were submitted at time of registration. If updates are required to your project summary, please email gvrsf@shaw.ca.

Junior Engineering and Computing Sciences (19 projects)
J9E Which Bridge Type is Stronger
J29E Household Insulators: Which will prevail?
J78E The History and Evolution of the IC
J121E Invisible Magnetic Forcefield
J122E R-U-RLLY-S8F?
J123E Super Ionic Power
J124E Truss the Bridge
J128E Electrifying
J130E Rocket Mania
J132E The maximum weight a bridge can hold
J133E Paint Your Dream...Which Paint then?
J134E Weather Harvester
J135E ROPC - refroidisseur d'ordinateur portable à convection
J136E Temperature+ Batteries= ?
J137E Affordable Green Homes: Have a healthy home and help the earth without breaking the bank
J139E Digital Voice Analysis
J141E Ceiling Fan Wind Turbine
J142E Is It Better To Be Suspended?
J143E Electric Ink

Intermediate Engineering and Computing Sciences (13 projects)
M162E Remove It To Improve It
M163E Trapping Sound
M165E Dimming the Way to a Brighter Future
M166E Lift is Such a Drag!
M176E The Wing Redesigned
M177E Beating the House
M186E OXIDATION INVESTIGATION: Do solutions containing different ferric chloride to sodium chloride ratios affect aluminum corrosion?
M187E Mind Over Matter
M188E Wooden Warriors
M189E Wireless Energy Transfer
M190E Carbon Dioxide Scrubber
M217E 9 by 9
M218E More from Less

Senior Engineering and Computing Sciences (1 project)
S221E Golf Play Analysis System

Junior Earth and Environmental Sciences (27 projects)
J1V Green Detergents or Not?
J2V Materials VS Oil
J3V Oxidation and Corrosion of building metals in our modern world
J4V Effects of Water Temperatures on the Arabian Coffee Plant
J25V To Drink or Not to Drink?
J26V Farmed Salmon or Wild Salmon?
J27V What About Sloths
J28V Superplant
J30V How Trees Affect Water Flow
J31V The Effects of Acidic And Basic Substances On Earthworms In Their Natural Habitiat
J32V Which Shampoo Brand Best Removes Oil off Feathers?
J34V Bubbles in Bermuda. Can Gas Bubbles Sink a Ship?
J50V Snails On The Go.
J51V Le meilleur sol pour faire pousser les plantes
J52V Terra Ferma
J54V Does Music Affect Plant Growth?
J68V Gone With the Wind
J69V Natural Sorbents: Enough to Clean Up an Oil Spill?
J70V Does the temperature of water affect the size of a tornado?
J71V Algae Farming
J109V Is Grey Really Green ?
J125V Ripe Old Age
J126V Liquids Versus Oxidization
J127V Todays World Crisis: Will An Increase In The Carbon Dioxide Content In The Air Make Air Temperatures Warmer?
J129V carbon capture
J131V Power From Light: Solar Electricity in the Kitchen
J138V Artemia Aquarium

Intermediate Earth and Environmental Sciences (20 projects)
M43V Recycling Styrofoam using new eco-friendly methods (Limonene)
M44V Deicer Dilemma
M45V Landfills Rule and They Make... Fuel?!
M46V Mining For E-Waste
M47V Is Recommended Tire PSI Just a Bunch of Hot Air?
M48V Still Blue
M49V Help! My Wood Is On Fire!
M53V Snazzy Sugar Crystals
M55V H2Nooo! Is There Something Wrong With Your Water?
M67V A BACKACHE FREE ASSAULT ON THE ENGLISH IVY INVASION
M167V Bioplastiques
M168V Dead In The Water
M169V 1-800-Got Methane?
M181V How Rainfall's pH level Affects Bacteria Growth in the Soil
M182V Bioethanol - The Future of Alternative Fuels
M183V Carbon Dioxide: The New Frontier
M184V The Chameleon Roof
M185V What's in that Water?
M210V Taxis and Kenesis
M211V Differential Toxicity of the Three Lower Mainland’s Treated Effluent on Water flea (D. magna)

Senior Earth and Environmental Sciences (2 projects)
S213V Marvelous Mites, the effects of different food combinations on Carpoglyphus lactis reproduction rate
S216V Maximize the efficiency of your water heater

Junior Health Sciences (24 projects)
J5H Bye-Bye Bactéries
J6H Natural Antibiotics: Do They Really Work?
J7H Peinture-Nature
J8H Haricots-Cristaux
J21H Bain Bombe
J22H Les Vers Verts
J23H The Best Barrier to Evaporation
J24H Baume à Lèvres
J65H Immune Peptides vs. Antibiotics
J80H Mind Over Matter: The Placebo Effect
J81H Are Vitamin C Tablets Really Accurate?
J82H Bacteria on Top
J83H A Sweet Way to Tooth Decay
J84H The Dissolution Rate of Ibuprofen Pills
J85H Bacteria : Does diet affect the amount of bacteria on your tongue?
J86H Dress Up in the Sun!
J87H Do We Really Need Bisphenol-A In Our Cans?
J88H Is Your Baby Getting Enough Vitamin D?
J102H Cola Wars
J103H Pennies In Pop
J104H Heartfelt Emotions
J105H Dirty Doorknobs
J106H JuiCy Fruits
J108H Reusing Vinyl Examination Gloves during Phlebotomy

Intermediate Health Sciences (15 projects)
M35H Helping Yourself by Helping Others
M36H Does A Garlic Clove A Day Keep The Doctor Away?
M37H Acid ReliepH
M38H Witnesses: Reliable or Not?
M39H Crazy for Colour
M40H Fluoride for Dinner
M64H Thawing Meat Safely
M66H Behind Your Mind...
M107H Is the Five-Second Rule Truth or Myth?
M164H Listen Up!
M192H Lights During the Night
M206H Supergrass II: The Cytotoxicity of Lemongrass Essential Oils on Colorectal Cancer Cells
M207H VanCity Aqua Venture
M208H Naturceutical? Pharmaceutical Antibiotics VS. Natural Antibiotics’ Effectiveness Over E.Coli
M209H Say No to Chopsticks

Senior Health Sciences (6 projects)
S193H Zinc! Zinc! Zinc!
S194H Trinovopan: Pre-Clinical Development of a Novel Anti-Cancer Combinational Therapy
S195H Diagnosis of HIV using Automated Analysis of B-cell Flow Cytometry Assays
S220H Mycelium Magic
S222H An Unexpected Antidote
S224H Got Soup?

Junior Life Sciences (18 projects)
J33L The Effect of Cellular Devices on Reaction Time
J89L Bacteria and Gender
J90L Restoration of Burned Documents
J91L The Great Rat Maze
J92L Startled By Sounds
J93L Gender Science
J94L Colour Your Mind
J95L Element: Unnatural
J96L It's Music To My Memory
J97L Kimchi Fermentation
J98L Mealworm Meals
J99L The Life and Times of a Cut Flower
J100L Psychology of Embarrassment
J101L Nomnomnom - I Remember!
J110L One Small Breath: The Evolution of Tetrapods
J111L will you cry?
J146L Which Gender Has The Sharper Mind?
J147L Working Memory

Intermediate Life Sciences (20 projects)
M41L Speeding up Microbial Biodegradation
M42L Questions of Deception
M56L Osmosis
M57L Is Google Making Us Stupid?
M58L Musical Multitasking
M59L What Can Eye See?
M60L Can You Taste the Rainbow?
M61L Bread Storage
M62L Can You Remember? Battle of the Cerebral Hemispheres
M63L The Wonders of Music
M170L Hair Reveals Your Secret!
M171L The Skid Lid Helmet Helper
M172L The Truth About Lying
M173L Effects of capsaicin on differentiating pre-adipocytes by clonal analysis
M174L The Effects of Air Pollutants on Plants
M175L Magnetotropic Cultivation
M178L Battling Bacteria
M179L Do Changes in Temperature Affect Memory?
M180L Training Goldfish with Operant Conditioning
M205L Microexpressions

Senior Life Sciences (2 projects)
S196L The Psidium Theorem
S197L The Great Wall of Heat

Junior Physical and Mathematical Sciences (25 projects)
J10P Color And Its Effect On Advertisement
J11P Flying Tires!
J12P Evaporation of different liquids
J13P Colourful Confusion (The Stroop Effect)
J14P Preventing Apple Oxidation
J15P When You're Hot You're Hot, When You're Not You're Not
J16P Traffic Light Performance
J17P sonic sound ultra
J18P Basketball Efficiency and Gym Floors-What is the Best Medium?
J19P Bounce: Hot or Cold
J72P We've Got the Power
J73P Strands vs. Solutions
J79P Marvelous Motor Oil: The Viscosity of Motor Oil
J112P A Sticky Situation
J113P Golf Ball Composition Price Vs. Prefromance
J114P Quelle huile brule le plus longtemps
J115P Quel type de balle tombent la plus vite?
J116P La meilleure facon de garder une glace de ne fondre pas
J117P Curie Point
J118P Rise Up
J119P Table Tennis Mystery Unlocked
J120P Angle of Attack
J144P Wattage to voltage on Solar Panels
J145P Soaked

Intermediate Physical and Mathematical Sciences (12 projects)
M74P Predict the Stock Market
M75P Electro-Motion
M76P Beat The Heat: Which Translucent Material Best Blocks Radiant Energy?
M77P Let There Be Light!
M160P Apple + Acid Does Not Equal Oxidation
M161P Stringed
M191P Do Salt And Sugar Make It Cooler?
M199P Emergency Electricity
M202P Forensic Science: Burning the Evidence
M203P A Head-turning Revelation!
M214P Fire Retardant in Paint
M215P Brush Busters

Senior Physical and Mathematical Sciences (5 projects)
S198P Efficiency of electric power consuming caused by different voltages
S200P Ink Problems?
S201P Geometry and Applications of Simultaneous Modular Congruencies
S204P Automatic Entropy-based Classification of Cellular Automata
S223P Photocatalytic Degradation of Formaldehyde