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.
2023 ESRP Teams:
- Bolingbrook High School - Study of Crystalline and Non-Crystalline Structures Using Diffraction
- Glenbard East High School - Effects of Hydrogen Termination on Resistivity in Nanodiamond Electronics
- Glenbrook South High School - Cycling Effects on Lithium Vanadium Oxide Phosphate Rechargeable Battery Cathodes
- Harold L. Richards High School - X-Ray Analysis of Airborne Particulate Matter Collected by Passive Samplers in the Chicago Area
- Lakes Community High School - Heterogeneous Mixture of Amino Acids and Self-assembly on Metal Surfaces
- Lemont High School - Root Uptake of Chromium in Common Plants and Vegetables
- Lincoln-Way East High School - Role of Hydrogen Bonds in Electron Transfer Processes of Type I Copper Proteins
- Lyons Township High School - What’s in those socks? A synchrotron outreach study to analyze the properties of zinc in textiles under environmental pressure
- Metea Valley High School - Root Uptake of Cobalt in Common Vegetables
- Naperville Central High School - Using Chelators to Enhance the Phytoremediation Utility of Broccoli, Mustard, and Thale Cress Plants
- Oak Lawn Community High School - The Effects of Piperine on Rodent Sarcomere Muscle Contraction Using Synchrotron X-Ray Diffraction
- Romeoville High School - Study of Perovskites as a Possible Solar Cell Material, Focusing on Advantages and Disadvantages
- University of Chicago Laboratory High School - Accumulator Analysis: A Comparison of Storage Capacity and Long Term Consistency Between Lithium and Sodium Anodes within Tungsten Vanadium/Niobium Batteries
- Waubonsie Valley High School - Testing a New Material for New Hope for Clean Energy for the Future
- West Aurora High School - Bioremediation of Polyurethane in Soil using P. Microspora
- Whitney M. Young Magnet High School - EXAFS Studies of Wadsley-Roth Phase (W0.2V0.8)3O7 as a Battery Anode
- Woodlands Academy of the Sacred Heart - Determination of the Effect of Temperature on Potassium Aluminum Sulfate