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.
2018 ESRP Teams:
- Aqsa School - How Modern Batteries Work: The Effect of Particle Size on Battery Performance
- Downers Grove South High School - Connection Between Chlorosis in Illinois Birch Trees and Bioavailability of Iron in Adjacent Soil
- Glenbard East High School - The Characterization of Metal Concentration and Distribution in Lichens with Varying Tolerance to Air Pollution
- Glenbard South High School - X-Ray Study of the Elemental Compositions of the Digestive Tracts of Wastewater Microbes
- Glenbrook South High School - Fingerprinting Chemistry and Magnetism at the Nanoscale using SX-STM
- Hoffman Estates High School - Characterizing the Structure of Self-Assembled Lead (II) Sulfide Nanoparticle Superlattices Based on Variable Ligand Surface Coverage
- Lemont High School - Continued Observations from X-ray Elemental Analysis of Ash Tree species related to the Growth of Emerald Ash Borer Populations
- Lincoln-Way East High School - Uncovering Flaws and Failures in Catalytic Converters Using XANES
- Lockport Township High School - Calibration of Beamline 17 ID-BM using Bovine Insulin
- Maine East High School - X-Ray Study of the Behavior of a Commercial Ferrofluid
- Naperville Central High School - Analysis of Nanomagnetism on Cobalt Through SX-STM - “High School Goes Nano”
- Neuqua Valley High School - Study of Manganese in Soils Collected From Chicago Residential Areas
- Romeoville High School - Atomic-Scale Imaging of Phenylalanine Self-Assembly on a Copper Surface
- Tinley Park High School - An Examination Of The Heavy Metal Concentration In Primary and Permanent Molars From Pre-Industrial Societies