Educational Programs and Outreach
ESRP Projects Archive - 2021
Educational Programs and Outreach has led the Exemplary Student Research Program (ESRP) for over 10 years, and many bright and inventive high school teams have shared their in-depth scientific research with Argonne National Laboratory.
We have collected the abstracts of past teams’ research in this archive, so that you may look back at all the many discoveries that high school students have made here at the Lab. Every ESRP project makes a significant difference both for Argonne as a whole and in the STEM pathways of all students and faculty involved.
2021 ESRP Teams:
- Bolingbrook High School - Study of the Absorption Edge of Carbon Using X-ray Raman Scattering
- Glenbrook South High School - Environmental Impact of Heavy Metal Composition and Iron Speciation in Soils
- Hoffman Estates High School - Using X-Ray Scattering to Determine the Correlation Between Battery Elemental Ratio and Performance
- Lakes Community High School - X-Ray Diffraction & Recyclable Materials: Relationship Between Polymer Crystallinity and Supported Weight
- Lemont High School - Root Uptake of Cobalt in Common Plants and Vegetables
- Lincoln-Way East High School - Analyzing the Nanoscale Properties of Gold Nanoparticles Using UV-VIS Spectroscopy and Transmission Electron Microscopy
- Lockport Township High School - Comparative Chemical Analysis of Soil Contamination Using Hyperaccumulators
- Maine South High School - Structure Property Relationships and Antimicrobial Properties of Silver Nanoparticles
- Metea Valley High School - Effect of Titin on Lattice Spacing in Sarcomere Structure
- Naperville Central High School - Studying Next Generation Solar Cells
- Neuqua Valley High School - Using Spectroscopy to Measure Heavy Metal Absorption in Lichens
- Oak Forest High School / Tinley Park High School - Imaging Perovskite Materials at the Atomic Scale Using Synchrotron X-ray Scanning Tunneling Microscopy