38,465 real projects from ISEF, the Canada-Wide Science Fair, JSHS, AJAS, the Calgary Youth Science Fair and the California Science & Engineering Fair — searchable by meaning, and filterable by fair, year, category and award.
CSEF · 2017
Environmental Engineering First Award
Objectives/Goals Heavy metal pollution is a pressing global environmental threat and public health concern, responsible for several hundred thousand deaths annually. However, current methods…
CSEF · 2017
Zoology First Award
Objectives/Goals Vespula pensylvanica (V. pensylvanica), or western yellowjackets, are the most common species of yellowjackets in California and the western United States. Outdoor summertim…
CSEF · 2017
Behavioral & Social Sciences First Award
Objectives/Goals The objective was to come up with a generic methodology to study bias in social media content. Specifically, the goal was to study the occurrence of gender stereotypes in la…
CSEF · 2017
Product Science (Physical) (Junior Division Only) First Award
Objectives/Goals My project identified substances that removed ballpoint, gel, and highlighter ink stains, and tested the impact of immediate treatment, wash time delay, and multiple washes.…
CSEF · 2017
Mammalian Biology First Award
Objectives/Goals The objective of this experiment is to conclude whether hypertension is occurring in adolescents, if so specifically which ethnicity has the greater reported incidence cases…
CSEF · 2017
Physics & Astronomy First Award
Objectives/Goals Through the fusion of nucleons to produce elements heavier than hydrogen and helium, stellar nucleosynthesis produces many of the elements in the universe. However, nearly a…
CSEF · 2017
Electronics & Electromagnetics First Award
Objectives/Goals This experiment was conducted to investigate the feasibility of utilizing a phased array that is able to focus its signal strength on a specific location. In the 21st centur…
CSEF · 2017
Environmental Science First Award
Objectives/Goals My objective was to determine if there was a positive or negative correlation between relative humidity and particulate matter (PM-10) and flammable/combustible gasses. Meth…
CSEF · 2017
Mathematical Sciences First Award
Objectives/Goals The objective of this project was to study the statistical properties of the iterations of tan(x). Methods/Materials Laptop computer with Fortran compiler and Grace. Ran pro…
CSEF · 2017
Electronics & Electromagnetics First Award
Objectives/Goals The goal of the project is to generate an ultrasonic force field to levitate and manipulate small objects. Methods/Materials I developed a computer simulation algorithms usi…
CSEF · 2017
Computational Systems & Analysis First Award
Objectives/Goals There is a need for a microcontroller-based, proactive, intelligent healthcare activity monitoring system for seniors and other people that monitors healthcare activities, r…
CSEF · 2017
Chemistry First Award
Objectives/Goals Today, drugs are administered orally or injected. Such methods distribute drugs systemically, resulting in low drug efficacy and side effects. To solve this, scientists have…
CSEF · 2017
Chemistry First Award
Objectives/Goals The goal of this experiment was to produce bioplastics from vegetable wastes like banana peels, potato peels, and avocado pits. It's been estimated that 200,000 barrels of o…
CSEF · 2017
Product Science (Biological) (Junior Division Only) First Award
Objectives/Goals My goal was to find the best environment to keep produce that usually goes bad quickly edible for long periods of time to save money, stop food waste, and help families use…
CSEF · 2017
Environmental Engineering First Award
Objectives/Goals In my experiement, my objective was to reduce the health risks caused by volatile organic compounds by testing to see the most effective method of reduction. Methods/Materia…
CSEF · 2017
Mammalian Biology First Award
Objectives/Goals Traumatic brain injury (TBI) damages cerebral cells leading to debilitating neurological symptoms. A concussion is mild TBI affecting over 2.5 million people/year. The annua…
CSEF · 2017
Microbiology (General) First Award
Objectives/Goals The overall goal of these experiments were to determine if Photorhabdus sp are present in the Santa Monica Mountains and compare them with other known strains. Methods/Mater…
CSEF · 2017
Plant Biology First Award
Objectives/Goals To test a possible solution through bioremediation to the uptake of chemicals during seed imbibition of produced water intended for agriculture. Methods/Materials Sorted/wei…
CSEF · 2017
Behavioral & Social Sciences First Award
Objectives/Goals The goal of my project was to test the adoptability of animals based on their assigned name. Methods/Materials I have talked to many shelter officials to see what kinds of n…
CSEF · 2017
Biochemistry/ Molecular Biology First Award
Objectives/Goals To study the molecular mechanisms of cartilage regeneration. Specifically, I am interested to model a medical treatment called prolotherapy, in which a physician injects a p…
CSEF · 2017
Behavioral & Social Sciences First Award
Objectives/Goals The objective of this study was to determine if the impact of praise and criticism on performance change with age, specifically on adults and sixth graders. Methods/Material…
CSEF · 2017
Computational Systems & Analysis First Award
Objectives/Goals In 1926, a trunk filled with 2600 intricately folded and sealed letters from the 17th century was discovered in the Netherlands. Opening the letters risks losing the folding…
CSEF · 2017
Applied Mechanics & Structures First Award
Objectives/Goals Curiosity is the name of the rover that landed on Mars on August of 2012. Early on in the mission Curiositys two front wheels began to accumulate damage. Further on into the…
CSEF · 2016
Environmental Science First Award
Objectives/Goals The objective of this study is to confirm the correlation between CO2 concentration and average global temperature and to create a simple climate model that can accurately p…
CSEF · 2016
Applied Mechanics & Structures First Award
Objectives/Goals Normal RNA analysis requires multiple lab processes and manual handling that is tedious and prone to human error. The goal of this project is to develop an integrated lab-on…
CSEF · 2016
Environmental Engineering First Award
Objectives/Goals My Project Goal is to save water wasted during general purpose landscape irrigation of an entire neighborhood by building a moisture sensor based smart sprinkler system that…
CSEF · 2016
Environmental Science First Award
Objectives/Goals The purpose of this experiment was to determine the sound level variation between time periods and between zoning in a rural and urban interface in Northern Coastal Californ…
CSEF · 2016
Behavioral & Social Sciences First Award
Objectives/Goals As the United States is falling behind in STEM education and struggling with the achievement gap, there have been many practical obstacles concerning teachers and existing m…
CSEF · 2016
Microbiology (General) First Award
Objectives/Goals As strains of bacteria have evolved to acquire resistance against antibiotics, they have also developed mechanisms to evade the immune system. High dosages of antibiotics ha…
CSEF · 2016
Physics & Astronomy First Award
Objectives/Goals I wanted to find out how much of the cosmic rays are coming from the Sun and how much are coming from outside of the solar system. My hypothesis is that the cosmic ray count…