1. PACE Magazine, Period 5

2. Speedy Music Every minute there are about 2 people who die in car crashes (“Association for Safe International Road Travel”). When I saw these numbers, I thought back to when my family had gotten into an accident. I, fortunately, wasn’t in the car at the time, but they were lucky to all still be alive! I began to wonder if there was a way to avoid car crashes. While searching for a way to avoid car crashes I found that music improves reaction time. I wondered if by improving reaction time, car crashes could be reduced. I tested this by having people do this experiment. I took a reaction stick and placed the bottom of the stick against a wall level with the top of their shoulder. I then had them place their hand next to it leveling their palm with the bottom of the stick. I dropped the stick at an unpredictable time and had the test subject catch the stick between the palm of their hand and the wall. I did this twice for each of the four categories: No Music, Country, Classical, and Electrical. I found that Classical Music was the fastest. This is because Classical Music is predictable and prediction calms the nerves. Isaac Mooney

3. Does Projectile Shape Affect Flying Distance? BY: Emanuel N. In my experiment I was able to use a slingshot to identify which object would fly better in aerodynamics. So in my data I found out that the squishy would fly the best with the slingshot we used the same person and then we also used about the same length in how far back we brought the slingshot which sometimes would make a very big difference in the circumstance of the amount of power we put in to make the objects to fly through the air. Then we were able to make our graph which allowed us to find out which object would be able to fly the best.

4. Paper Airplanes To make this experiment more accurate I could do more trials. The next question I could ask would be what is the best model of paper air plane to fly? An unexpected result is I thought construction paper would get 25 feet. In everyday life this would be useful is the air force. They need to get to place fast and they can use paper air planes as models for the real planes. By: Hyett Tennies

5. Does the surface of the ground affect the distance of rolling a toy car on it? By Peter Andrew In my experiment I discovered that my hypothesis was incorrect. I thought that if it had water on it then it would make it more slippery for it to ride on, therefore sending it further. But I was wrong. The water only slowed it down and added more friction. Even though the wet counter wasn’t the surface to be travelled on the furthest, it still was rolled on further than carpet and concrete surface. In the end, tile was the surface to be rolled on the furthest which I would have guessed if I didn’t know that water slowed it down. Objects moving through fluids such as air or water also encounter frictional forces which reduce their motion. This is known as drag. www.passmyexams.co.ukwww.passmyexams.co.uk Surface

6. Food and Electricity? By: Luke Chapman In my experiment I tested which of the foods I tested had the most electricity. My question was, which food will produce the most electricity out of a mango, banana, potato, or a lemon. I thought that the lemon would produce the most electricity, but the potato produce the most because it had the most starch and the starch is used as an electrolyte to power the battery.

7. Does Color Affect Memory? Color:Color: The test with colored text proved to be more effective in helping people memorize numbers because color increases physical arousal, which allows the brain to access different areas of the brain so you can link things you already know to the things you’re trying to memorize. Black and White The test with black and white text proved to be less effective than the colored test because black and white does not grab your attention so you don’t recognize the information quickly and be able to start making connections inside your brain that help you memorize things faster. ResultsResults Overview: In my experiment, I researched and examined whether color affects memory. To test this question, I had twenty subjects from my class read two series of numbers in black and white and color. I then tested them on how many of the numbers they could memorize in ten seconds for both trials and recorded their results. Hypothesis: I hypothesized that the colored text would be more effective in helping the subjects memorize the numbers. The results proved that in most cases color did turn out to be more effective in helping people memorize the series of numbers. Possible explanations are explored. By: Zach Bowden

8. Can color confuse your taste buds?? To figure this out, we took three cups and filled them up with sprite, added food dye and had kids from every grade in our school try them and see what they thought it was. We did that for multiple trials. After we added up the total from all the grades. We got a total of 30 and we put them into grades and 6 th grade got convinced more the 7 th and 7 th got more convinced then 8 th and I think the reason is because the 8 th graders have a better brain and better taste buds then 6 th and 7 th graders. Nate Resler

9. Can music affect your concentration? I tested music to see if it would help concentration. I noticed that most people got distracted with music. Without the music, people could concentrate better because it was quiet. The mad minutes that had the better grades were the ones without music. From what I researched, you only concentrate better if you are listening to music you actually like. Created by: Lilia Hansen

10. How can we achieve the best long jump? By: Jack Simmons In my experiment, I wanted to test the effects sprinting and weights had on jumping. The Greeks used to use weights to increase jump momentum so I wanted to test if that was true. I always knew sprinting would increase jump distance but I wanted to see by how much. I was actually surprised to see weights decreased momentum. We achieved the most distance by sprinting without weights. We achieved the least by jumping standing still with weights.

11. How does color affect taste? By Daniel Abel In my experiment, I tested if the color of the food your eating will affect the taste. If someone asked you to try 4 different colors of Jell-O. But just because they are different colors doesn’t mean they are different flavors. All of them are lemon but just different colors to trick the person trying the Jell-O. that’s what my pace project is on.

12. How Does Color Affect Taste? By: Jennifer Caulfield First, I got the three different colored cookies (pale green, black/brown, and uncolored). Then I divide the subjects into groups, with only five or six kids in each group. I grabbed one group and put them in the hall. I had each subject try one of each colored cookies. Then, I asked each subject which cookie was the best. After I recorded their answer and thanked them, I excused them. I repeated those steps with each group, until every group had been tested. Then I compared my data. The experiment proved my hypothesis to be right, because more people liked the uncolored cookies. According to my data, 48 people were tested. 9 liked black/brown (19%), 9 liked pale green (19%), 19 liked the uncolored (40%), and 11 said they tasted the same (23%). In conclusion, the uncolored cookies were the most liked. I got these results because when our brain sees a color that looks unappetizing, we immediately think that the cookie tastes as gross as the color is ugly. Therefore, we will hate that cookie, and the regular cookie color is the most tasteful.

13. TESTING PARACHUTE MATERIALS BY: CONNOR NEW The experiment I did was testing parachutes. In conclusion I think we got the results we did because we got the trials we needed and we got the right height on it. One unexpected result was that nylon was really fast. Another unexpected result was that wax paper was the fastest material. I think putting it in a higher place would make more accurate. The question I would ask next is what would be the slowest type of plastic bag. This concept would be important for sky diving.

15. Warmer Houses, Less Money Colton Cunningham This graph shows that cloth material was the best for retaining heat. Now we probably wont want to put cloth in our walls, but if we could get some sort of cloth material to put in multiple layers inside our walls we could keep our houses warmer at a smaller cost. Have you ever wondered why your house is still cold even with your fireplace on and thermostat all the way up? Maybe if you had better insulation, you could fix that problem and save a lot of money. With bad insulation, a lot of that heat is just going right out of your house, along with all the money you are spending. On average, people in the United States spend about $3100 a month on heating and cooling their homes. In my experiment, I tested 4 different types of insulation along with no insulation as the control. We did two trials for each material then recorded the average. Cloth did the best at retaining heat while fur did the worst.

16. Pantry Power The electrifying battle between Lemons, Potatoes, Mangos, and Bananas By Derek Tommasini Many of us know that air pollution is a major world wide problem. While I was doing some research I found that some foods can produce clean power because they have substances called electrolytes. Electrolytes act like the objects in batteries when they push electrons through a wire generating energy. After finding this information, me and my team decided to test four common foods (lemons, potatoes, mangos, and bananas) to see which would produce the most energy. To do this we made each food into a “battery” by putting a copper penny in one side of the food and a zinc nail on the exact other side of the penny, thus making an exit and entrance points for electrons to travel through. Then we clipped a multimeter (electric measure) to the battery using alligator clips completing the circuit and allowing us to take measurements. After recording our result, we found that the potato produced the most, then followed the lemon, mango, and finally the banana. These results happened because of electrolytes. Since the potato had the largest amount of electrolytes, it produced more energy. The Banana had the least amount, so it produced less energy than the other foods. This information could possibly change the way we make energy and can help keep our air clean around the world.

17. Color and Taste I put food color in drinks and do some test than do a graph to show the effects about the people think about the drink is. I find awesome results because the people was tasting like a new flavor or other drink. A person with a strong sense of synesthesia senses stimuli different from a normal person.

18. Color and Preference By Riley Robarge Why do we pick certain colors so often? Have you ever wondered why your choice of things in life is always involving the color and why you pick colors like or the same as your favorite color? Well in this experiment I tested, does your favorite color affect quick choices? To test this I got 25 volunteers to pick 10 M&M’s in 12 seconds. It showed that the majority of people choose there favorite color because when making quick choices since your motor memory and preference parts of your brain work so close together it affects they decisions you make especially quick ones. They work closely together because of how close they are in the brain.

19. T his statistic made us want to research which color is the most noticeable color to the human eye. To test this, We made a paper with all of the rainbow colors on it, and flashed it to the subjects for a split second to see which they saw first with only a short glimpse. The results- Orange is the most noticeable color to the human eye. We agree with the results of the experiment because orange is a unique combination of red and yellow. It has yellow, which is the brightest and most irritating color to the eye, and red, which is an alert and eye-catching color. This combo gives orange an intense, alert and a bright, vibrant look. Most Noticeable Color To The Human Eye By Tanner Hayhurst According to eMarketer, worldwide retail and online sales will gross over $22 trillion this year, but how do companies sucker you into buying their products? A study showed that when someone is buying a product, 93% of buyers focus on the color and visual appearance (Small Business Trends). -----------------------------------------------------------

20. Gum & Math Savannah Howell Which flavor of gum improves math-minute scores the most? To test our question, we had test subjects take math minutes, each with a different flavor of gum. We then looked at which flavor helped them get the highest number of questions answered. We found that most people scored the highest with cinnamon, and had the highest average number of problems completed. The next best flavor was mint, then bubble, and lastly fruit. This happened because mint and cinnamon are strong, sharp flavors. Cinnamon was a little better than mint because not many people chew it, so it had a stronger effect. If you want to do well in school, chew cinnamon or mint gum.

21. Does gender affect lung capacity? Boys are generally bigger and stronger than women, but do they also have higher lung capacities? In our experiment we tested this question. We tested 12 females and 12 males of approximately the same height. We had them blow into a balloon and tie it off. We then measured the volume of that balloon and recorded the data. We repeated this three times for more accurate results. In our results we found that men do have higher lung capacities. The reasons behind this is that because men are generally bigger than females and the larger the person the larger the lungs and the larger the lungs the more air they can hold. Another reason why men have higher lung capacitates is because men have wider airway diameters and can inhales and exhale larger amounts of air easier than women can.

22. For our experiment we tested to see which color of paper increases a persons appetite the most. To do this we got four different colors of paper, and put 4 identical doughnuts on each one and asked subjects which one looked the most appetizing. In the end white got the most votes because white makes you want to eat more because the color white tends to make you forget how much you have already eaten and that that food has calories in it because we associate white with being pure and innocent. Aimee Peery

23. Gum Flavors and Mad Minutes In this experiment, we tested to see what flavor of gum helps academic performance the most. In our experiment we tested students ability to take a Mad Minute with four separate flavors of gum (bubble, fruit, cinnamon, and spearmint). In our hypothesis we thought that spearmint would be the most successful, since it makes you awake and alert. However, after thirty trails with thirty separate students, we found cinnamon to be the most successful, with spearmint just.5 less. The reason cinnamon was the most successful was because it has a strong, sharp taste, making you alert and conscious of what it going on. After doing this experiment we found multiple websites that did the same experiment and got the same results. By Avery LaBau

24. TASTING COLORS?! IN THIS EXPERIMENT WE TESTED TO SEE WHAT FLAVORS CERTAIN COLORS EVOKED BECCA EARL When we conducted this experiment, we colored 4 different cups of sprite red, blue, purple, and orange. We wanted to see if the different colors brought to mind specific flavors. We had subjects taste each color of sprite and record the flavor they tasted. We found that over half the subjects tasted a flavor other than sprite. This is because our brain associates certain colors with certain flavors. For example: red is associated with cherry or strawberry.

25. Eyes Taste Too Article By Grayson Glivar The Effect of Vison on Foods Early 2016, fourteen students of Eagle Middle School were tested to see if color effects taste. Later, we found that red is the most deceiving color and that orange is the least that will trick the human mind. The true science behind this experiment is that when you eat or drink a beverage, your brain stores the information in your neuro transmitters. These transmitters recall memories of when you drank or ate that food. The brain and your vision work together to tell your tongue, that color means this flavor.

26. We tested three different types of materials for a paper airplane, computer, construction, and notebook paper. The results of the test flights showed which material flew the farthest, notebook paper. The lighter the paper, the farther it carried through the air.

27. The Effects of Color on Memory By Andrew Turner In my experiment we tested the effects of color on a person’s memory performance by having them memorize numbers in color and in black and white. We found that color numbers are easier for most people to remember This is because color is closely linked to the memory part of your brain

28. Best packing materials by: veronica Regin Have you ever moved and your favorite item and it broke. This experiment was made to test what the best packing materials are. We used bubble wrap, card board, foam, packing peanuts, and a container we put the egg inside and dropped it from 9ft down. Then we took out the egg and measured the cracks. The card board protects the egg from cracking the most because when you drop the egg the card board is hard and thick so it gives the egg some protection so it wont break

29. Music Vs Concentration By: Ashley Anderson Does music truly help with studding. This experiment was conducted to learn if music helps with studying. Our group decided to test 15 students with mad minute multiplication papers, music, and a timer. The average of students that did better with music was 13% and the average of subject that did better without music was 87%. We know this because, when we hear a song, our frontal lobe and temporal lobe begin processing the sound with different brain cells working to decipher things like rhythm, pitch and melody.

30. GUM AND CONCENTRATION BY: MAKENNA SPENCE we tested to see if mint gum or bubble gum. we noticed that the mint gum helped with concentration more than mint gum did. It made it easier to do the mad minute math tests.

31. Artificial vs. Natural We experimented the question, if people smell artificial and natural scents, can they tell them apart and witch one do they prefer? I noticed that people prefer artificial scents rather than natural ones. I also observed that Cinnamon is the closest to being the same number for both natural and artificial. Apple is the lowest natural preference. And lemon is the highest preferred scent. Gavin cooper