Great work everyone!! Our winners for this year: 

College Science Fair

1^st Socheata Hour

2^nd Alexis Frias

3^rd Tie – Anthony Raymond Sanchez and Stephen Schertz

High School Science Fair

1^st Yahir Badillo

2^nd Liam Newsam

Kahoot Winners

1st Ethan Hewitt

2^nd Mike Martinez

3^rd Daniel Uvina

Runners up: Alisson Ross Salazar and Delilah Medina

Here are the College Science Fair entries:

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Socheata Hour, Merced College: A beginning to Cyber Security Code

This project is my exploration of the security world in the computer science field by doing research and applying the beginning security knowledge to keep the company employee password secure from cyber threat. Originally, I used a Java Method to encrypt and decrypt passwords by incrementing and decrementing each char by 5 then I developed to a stronger algorithm called Data Encryption Standard (DES). Moreover, I built this project to help the company figure out which employees have the weakest password. So that later the company can go back to the employee to strengthen their password. The Algorithms that I used were: DES, Collection sort, Binary Search, String matches() Method, and Incrementing Char Type.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PCktxegFsjc 

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Stephen Schertz, Merced College: Computer Build

My submission is an overview on a computer system I built

https://www.highqualityarts.com/sciencefair

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Aidan Castillo, Merced College: Java number Generator

Using Java coding to create a number generator, and showing multiple uses for this feature.

https://drive.google.com/u/0/open?id=132Wq6W1xrGicqy_q4f9R7-Avz06DRjcn&usp=forms_web

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Anthony Raymound Sanchez, Merced College:

Vroom-Screech is an electronic game that is a variation of Vroom-Skeet that is a part of a drinking game for Kings’ Cup. In Vroom-Skeet players will put their elbows on a table with their thumbs up. The player that picked the poker card will point their thumbs in a random direction and say vroom. Then other players may keep the imaginary vehicle moving forward by also saying vroom or send the vehicle back by saying skeet; until someone mistakenly says the wrong sound for the direction they point to with their thumbs or the player takes too long to answer. In Vroom-Screech two yellow LED lights represent the thumbs. The computer will start the game and randomly choose an objective for the player either “Stay Clockwise” or “Stay Counterclockwise” is displayed on the LCD screen. Concurrently, the computer will randomly select a direction either clockwise or counterclockwise to send the blue LED. A yellow LED changes to a red (to signify brake lights) when the player or computer sends the traveling blue LED (to symbolize headlights) back; in the opposite direction, it came. A yellow LED will change to green ( to express pressing the gas pedal and forward momentum) when the computer or the player keeps the traveling blue LED going in the same direction. Mistakes deduct 50 points, and correct split decisions earn 50 points. There are five rounds. The speed of the traveling blue LED increases at each level, and the time frame to make split decisions decreases at each level. At the end of these five levels, the player’s points are displayed along with a comment like “Percect Score” or “Work on split decisions.”

https://drive.google.com/u/0/open?id=1zvjjlMh3_23IVzlnv-Bvw-PzXqzYv738&usp=forms_web

Alexis Frias, Merced College: Omnidirectional Car

Ray Aguilar, Merced College: Guessing Game

A word guessing game using C++. The computer will give the user a random word from a string list of 15 words and the user has 6 attempts to guess each letter correct. The program will also ask the user if they want to guess the entire word, and if guessed correctly they win the game. Otherwise, if they guess the word wrong they lose even though they may have attempts remaining. The other way to lose is if you run out of attempts in guessing the letters for the word.

Link to video