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 · 2010
Chemistry First Award
Objectives/Goals The objective of this experiment was to find which voltage would provide Impressed Current Cathodic Protection. Methods/Materials I designed and conducted a 134 sample corro…
CSEF · 2010
Physics & Astronomy First Award
Objectives/Goals Determine if one can find his/her location on the earth using a Foucault's pendulum, a compass and a sundial to triangulate their position. Methods/Materials I used the shor…
CSEF · 2010
Environmental Engineering (Junior Division Only) First Award
Objectives/Goals The objective is to use carbon dioxide measurements (an end product of bacterial degradation), to determine if the new Bioreactor landfill design could be a better option fo…
CSEF · 2009
Physics & Astronomy First Award
Objectives/Goals This study was conducted with the primary objective of determining which Solar System object(s) would be most viable during various stages of stellar evolution. Another goal…
CSEF · 2009
Electronics & Electromagnetics First Award
Objectives/Goals A robotic chemical detector, moving and responding to dangerous chemicals without human presence or control, could help save lives. My objective was to create an autonomous…
CSEF · 2009
Earth Science (Junior Division Only) First Award
Objectives/Goals I chose to study rock fracture because the San Francisco Bay Area is a major earthquake center. An experiment on the strength of rocks would help us understand earthquakes a…
CSEF · 2009
Product Science (Biological) (Junior Division Only) First Award
Objectives/Goals The objective of this project is to determine how consistent blood glucose meters are when testing a range of blood glucose levels. Methods/Materials I tested my blood gluco…
CSEF · 2009
Applied Mechanics & Structures First Award
Objectives/Goals Seasickness affects many people on water vessels. Some people are particularly vulnerable to motion sickness and feel seasick simply by setting foot on a boat. The goal of t…
CSEF · 2009
Zoology First Award
Objectives/Goals Populations of Spurilla neapolitana and S. sargassicola in the tropical Eastern Pacific and Western Atlantic are assessed through genetic and morphological analyses of speci…
CSEF · 2009
Materials Science (Junior Division Only) First Award
Objectives/Goals Adsorption is the process by which activated carbon removes substances from water. Activated carbon is carbon processed to be extremely porous to increase its surface area.…
CSEF · 2009
Applied Mechanics & Structures First Award
Objectives/Goals Circulation control is a way of changing the flow over a wing using a jet of air. By ducting air through a slot at the trailing edge of an airfoil it is possible to transfor…
CSEF · 2009
Zoology First Award
Objectives/Goals During the summer, I read an article in a magazine regarding our plant community, the most compromised plant community in the nation, coastal sage scrub. The article stated…
CSEF · 2009
Chemistry First Award
Objectives/Goals While working on traditional super-hydrophobic surfaces, a method to create self-assembling membranes on the surface of water from hydrophobic fumed silica nano-particles wa…
CSEF · 2009
Biochemistry/ Molecular Biology First Award
Objectives/Goals Last year, I tried to develop a nontoxic, visual selection method for identifying transgenic organisms using a reporter gene assay. I was able to accomplish this with modera…
CSEF · 2009
Chemistry First Award
Objectives/Goals This project analyzes chemical reactions of decontamination using spectroscopy to determine kinetic parameters. Synthetic organic dyes are the model contaminants, as they ar…
CSEF · 2009
Mammalian Biology First Award
Objectives/Goals After researching a medication based on herbal components called osteophase, I have decided to conduct an experiment concerning the impact of osteophase and its herbal compo…
CSEF · 2009
Pharmacology (Senior Division Only) First Award
Objectives/Goals To study the effect of caffeine and dexamethasone on osteoblast cell line MC3T3-E1, and determine the toxicity level of caffeine in these cells in vitro, so as to better und…
CSEF · 2009
Microbiology First Award
Objectives/Goals With the world facing an enormous energy crisis, it is necessary to develop renewable energy sources. Chlamydomonas reinhardtii is a potential source of renewable hydrogen e…
CSEF · 2009
Biochemistry/ Molecular Biology First Award
Objectives/Goals Experimentally influencing the chemotaxis of Schmidtea mediterranea, a planarian oft chosen for biomedical research because its genome (which is currently being sequenced) s…
CSEF · 2009
Environmental Science (Junior Division Only) First Award
Objectives/Goals Part 1: To determine how much copper is in the wells and tap water in the Santa Cruz Mountain homes and research factors and treatment systems that affect it. Part 2: Analyz…
CSEF · 2009
Mammalian Biology First Award
Objectives/Goals The objective of this project is to determine if lead from a hunter's bullet is absorbed in condor, bear, and human digestive fluids. Methods/Materials To represent typical…
CSEF · 2009
Aerodynamics/ Hydrodynamics (Junior Division Only) First Award
Objectives/Goals The scientific exploration of unconventional flight is exciting and full of surprises. This science project explorers the relationship between thrust and voltage of an asymm…
CSEF · 2009
Behavioral & Social Sciences First Award
Objectives/Goals Little quantitative work has been published on electronic-mediated communication and electronic literacy. This paper hopes to identify the textual richness of representative…
CSEF · 2009
Behavioral & Social Sciences First Award
Objectives/Goals To establish whether irrationality in financial decision making is innate or develops over time; specifically, to determine whether children follow the four fold pattern(FFP…
CSEF · 2009
Human Biology (Junior Division Only) First Award
Objectives/Goals The objective of my experiment was to determine which Fast Acting Insulin, Novolog or Humalog, affect's a Type 1 Juvenile Diabetic's blood sugar the best. Methods/Materials…
CSEF · 2009
Plant Biology First Award
Objectives/Goals A field experiment on 12 four year old Minneola citrus trees was conducted using a completely randomized experimental design. The experiment compared the farmer's practice o…
CSEF · 2009
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only) First Award
Objectives/Goals The purpose of this experiment was to test if chewing gum helps improve memory. Methods/Materials To test this, approximately 70 to 80 middle-school students (6th, 7th, or 8…
CSEF · 2009
Mathematics & Software First Award
Objectives/Goals While the over-crowdedness of the radio frequency spectrum has become an increasingly noted problem, potential solutions lie in the fact that up to 70% of the licensed spect…
CSEF · 2009
Mathematics & Software First Award
Objectives/Goals The main goal of this project was to identify patterns in solved 9x9 Sudoku puzzles and then to use these patterns to create a new method to solve any standard 9x9 puzzle. T…
CSEF · 2009
Toxicology (Junior Division Only) First Award
Objectives/Goals In 2005, Rancho Palos Verdes suffered a 200 acre wildfire. This project investigates the effect of residual ashes to the viability of seeds indigenous to the area, expressed…