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Examples
of Past Bronze Projects
- To raise the awareness of how high fat diets
and no physical
exercise contributes towards heart disease and to make recommendations
for everyone to adopt policies that will reduce the risk of heart
disease later in life.
- To find out which area around my house will
produce mould the
fastest, so I can see whether cool or warm temperatures affect the
growth rate of mould on bread.
- To see if coloured light affects the growth of
seedlings. I will
use 3 different cellophane colours and plastic food wrap on a control
container.
- To observe the uptake of dye in plants and to
test the effects of different strengths of dye in plants.
- To find out whether the core in expensive golf
balls is more balanced than the core in the cheaper golf balls.
- To see which solution gives rise to the best
growth in hydroponic lettuces.
- To find out the effect fitness has on heart
rate. I will do this by
getting volunteers to run the beep test with heart rate monitors on.
- To make an alarm clock that zaps you to wake
you up (because I can’t get up in the mornings).
- To find out which sunscreen works best to
protect our skin from the sun’s UV rays.
- To find out if cement will still set using
different ingredients
instead of water. I will try milk, coke, and water with baking soda.
- To see how different colours covering a solar
panel affect the amount of power created.
- To find out whether music affects relaxation
for the 14-18 age
group by testing their heart rate and lung capacity, and whether it
changes during different genres of music.
- To create a ball that is visible at twilight.
- To make an infrared device to help people park
in their garages.
- To find out what type of food is best to eat
before a long period of exercise.
- To make a pillow offering neck support to see
if it helps a person sleep better.
- To create a low-powered vacuum cleaner for use
in a birdcage.
- To make a device to tell you when you can drink
your hot drink without burning your tongue.
- To build a mousetrap using electronics that
will trap a mouse without hurting it.
- To find out if the amount of salt in ice
affects how long the ice takes to melt.
- To test whether fruit ripens more quickly when
combined with other
fruit. Then I will investigate which fruit produces more ethylene gas
than others. I will also test to see if sugar (as brix levels)
increases as fruit ripens.
Examples of
Past Silver Projects
- To create a flood warning device for NZ
farmers. Do research to see
what products are already on the market. Look at different circuits
that I could adapt – create my circuit and test it.
- To measure the ammonia content in the Manawatu
River above and
below the Palmerston North sewage outfall and to compare the results
against resource consent levels.
- To see if different types of garlic affects its
antiseptic
properties (I am growing 4 different types in my home garden) and
compare it to tablet form.
- The problem is that an area of my house is too
cold and the heating
bills are too high to heat it with gas or electricity. The Aim of my
project is to design an extension which will be heated by the sun,
lower the bills and increase the comfort of the area.
- To design and construct a small collection of
garments for a
specific purpose under the guidance of local established expertise and
my materials technology teacher.
- To design and produce a quality outfit for
Melissa Custed, label
Realm, which is on the cutting edge of fashion for the winter of 2004.
It must be able to be reproduced in different sizes.
- To design a five-garment spring capsule
collection under Realm label by Melissa Custed.
- To research antibacterial agents which are not
poisonous and
experiment with making lip gloss and balk and incorporating these
agents into it. I will modify the appearance and flavour of the final
product.
- To build a projectile launcher and investigate
the relationship
between range and angle of launch, mass of object and initial speed.
- To design and construct a machine capable of
throwing and spinning
disks so that they skip across a body of water. I will investigate the
variables and their affects.
- To determine whether there is a link between
nutrition and mental
performance – if so, what is itHow can this link be used to improve the
mental performance of students
- To design an alarm clock that can record a
voice command and play it back when the alarm goes off.
- To investigate the effect on Phytochrome red
and far red light on Manuka seeds planted at different depths.
- To investigate the effect of IAA on root
formation from germination in mustard seedlings.
- To investigate the effect of Lytokinin on
lateral bud growth in rocket when the shoot is decapitated.
- To determine whether blind people can hear
higher frequency sounds than sighted people.
- Find out if a variety of plants have similarity
in the amount of water they transpire when under the same light source.
- Study the physics in the game of pool.
- Find out the level of heavy metals in silver
beet and to find
whether the content is different in home-grown silver beet compared to
commercially-grown.
- To find out if the colour of seed has an effect
on whether the birds outside eat it or are repelled by it.
- To come up with a substance for young children
to blow bubbles with
that will make the bubbles big and they will take a long time to pop.
- To find out which sprays are used for plants in
botanical gardens
and test the water to see how much of the chemicals leak into the ponds
and what effect they have.
- To design and build a remote controlled
lawnmower by modifying an existing one.
- To create a solar-powered water purifier. It
will be able to transfer materials from water and then purify the
water.
- To develop a salad that appeals to adolescents
for Country Greens Salads Ltd to produce.
- To make a device that detects when someone
isn't wearing their
seatbelt and emits an ongoing annoying noise to make them put their
seatbelt on.
- To create a cost-effective charger that can
charge commercially
available NickelMetal Hydride batteries in approximately one hour. Also
to have a discharger and a graphing system to show the charge of the
batteries at any given time.
- From the end of Albert Street you can see that
in places the cliffs
on the opposite side of the Manawatu River have fullen away recently If
the cliffs are slipping into the river can I work out the rate the
cliffs are cutting backShould we be building houses on these hillsIf so
how close to the edge are they safe to be built
- To produce a device that can stir food in the
microwave without stopping the microwave to stir it.
- To design and create an eating aid to help
people with arthritis dine with dignity.
- Our aim is to create/design a method for
testing if your drink has
been spiked with alcohol or drugs in the form of a tablet which is easy
to slip into your drink.
- I want to design and test some defogging
solution that could be applied to our windscreen to prevent fogging up
in winter.
- To run a petrol engine on tap water.
- To prevent sediment from entering storm water
ponds using a variety of barriers both natural and unnatural.
- My aim is to create an interactive, educational
and entertaining
maths game. It will be a modified version of Tetris that will introduce
mathematical equations to the game. Whenever the player completes a
line, they will be asked a maths question and have to answer it to
clear the line.
- To write a computer program that educates the
player on simple
aspects of organic chemistry, for use in high school science classes.
This game will involve the linking of atoms into molecules and the
corresponding chemical equations
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