Science Project Ecybermission Team Caffeine Team members: missquinn misstrauss SergeantSarcasm Team Advisor: Farkas

1. BUZZED:
A CAFFEINATED
EXPERIMENT
Team Caffeine
Aleena Jackson
Daniela Lin
Kristin Baker

2. PURPOSE (WHY?)
 To test how caffeine affects consumers
by having them ingest energy drinks.
Basically, we want to see if
the energy drinks live up to
the expectations promised to
the consumers.

3. BACKGROUND INFO
 Caffeine is one of the
most popular drugs in the world.
 The average American ingests 4
gallons of energy drinks a year.
 Over eighty-five percent of Americans
overuse doses of caffeine every day.

4. BACKGROUND INFO
 Caffeine can be both
helpful and harmful
to the human body,
depending on how
much is ingested.

5. BACKROUND INFORMATION
 Most energy drinks contain between
70 and 200 milligrams of caffeine.
Common drinks, such as Monster
Energy, RockStar Energy, and
Red Bull, have around 160
milligrams.

6. QUESTION
 Do major energy drinks
actually increase overall
performance and, if so,
which drink is the most
effective?

7. HYPOTHESIS
 If the effects of Red Bull,
Monster, and Rockstar energy drinks on
the performance of thirteen-year-old students are
compared to students without the beverages, then…

8. HYPOTHESIS
 …students consuming the energy drinks, especially
Red Bull, will have a significantly greater
performance than students without the drinks, and
students drinking Monster or Rockstar.

9. MATERIALS
 (1) Focus Test
 (1) Laptop or computer with Internet
 (1) Performance Test: 30-Meter Run
 (5) 16 oz cans of Red Bull Energy Drink
 (5) 16 oz cans of Monster Energy Drink
 (5) 16 oz cans of Rockstar Energy Drink

10. MATERIALS
 - (10) Test Subjects
[5 male, 5 female, age 13]
 - (40) 8 oz foam cups
 - (1) Stopwatch

11. PROCEDURES
 Have each of the test subjects
take the Focus Test. Record their
percentage of the 6 Distraction
rating.

12. PROCEDURES
 Have each of the test subjects
run 30 meters. Record the time
(in seconds) it takes for each
of them to complete the run.

13. PROCEDURES
 Pour 8 oz of Red Bull
Energy Drink into each
of ten foam cups. Have
each test subject drink
one full cup.

14. PROCEDURES
 Repeat Steps 1-3. Wait
24 hours before moving
on to step 5.

15. PROCEDURES
 Pour 8 oz of Monster Energy
Drink into each of ten foam
cups. Have each test subject
drink one full cup.

16. PROCEDURES
 Repeat Steps 1-3. Wait
24 hours before moving
on to step 7.

17. PROCEDURES
 Pour 8 oz of Rockstar
Energy Drink into each
of ten foam cups. Have
each test subject drink
one full cup. Repeat steps
1-3.

18. OBSERVATIONS
- At the beginning of the testing,
the test subjects seemed tired
and unenthusiastic.
- Students seemed more excited
by having the drinks than by
actually drinking them.

19. OBSERVATIONS
-A few test subjects claimed to
have been nauseous with bad vision
after drinking their energy drink.
-The student’s results for the
second test were extremely close
to one another.

20. OBSERVATIONS
 The students drinking Rockstar had
higher scores on the focus test.
 Students drinking energy drinks
did better on the focus test
than those without.

21. DATA

22. DATA

23. CONCLUSION
The caffeine in the energy drinks
only affected the mental performance
of the test participants, and did
impact their physical performance.
The hypothesis was not supported by
the data.

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