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.
ISEF · 2018
Embedded Systems First Award
The project is inspired by my late grandfather, who had limited manual dexterity caused by a stroke. He was unable to shave independently, thus requiring continuous care. Consequently, I set…
CSEF · 2018
Microbiology (General) First Award
Objectives/Goals The identification of new antibiotics and new methods for antibiotic testing can fight the antibiotic resistance crisis. The goals of this project are to (1) find antibacter…
ISEF · 2018
Biomedical and Health Sciences First Award
The student researcher previously concluded that East Indian Sandalwood Oil (EISO) inhibits AGS gastric cancer cells by inhibiting a TRPM7-like ion channel recorded via automated patch clamp…
CSEF · 2018
Environmental Science First Award
Objectives/Goals Fire return intervals (FRIs) are a key environmental factor in chaparral ecosystems. With increasing drought and anthropogenic fire ignition particularly in the past decades…
CSEF · 2018
Zoology First Award
Objectives/Goals The purpose of this project is to test the effects on learning/memory and locomotion of a mutation of the gene D-Alpha 7 (Da7) (specifically the P-Delta-EY6 allele - PDEY6),…
CSEF · 2018
Environmental Engineering First Award
Objectives/Goals An explosion occurred in the Gulf of Mexico in 2010 due to sinking polluted soil. The use of chemicals and human industrial activity contributes greatly to soil contaminatio…
ISEF · 2018
Cellular and Molecular Biology First Award
Though cell cycle regulation plays a key role in numerous developmental processes, including morphogenesis and differentiation, the regulatory systems that control the cell cycle remain poor…
ISEF · 2018
Embedded Systems First Award
The goal of this engineering project was to investigate and design an affordable system capable of controlling an electric wheelchair with ocular tracking. Based on electrooculographic (EOG)…
ISEF · 2018
Behavioral and Social Sciences First Award
A novel diagnostic tool was developed that identified and digitized facial changes that differentiate Essential Tremor (ET) and Parkinson’s disease (PD) patients with 99.9% accuracy as compa…
ISEF · 2018
Physics and Astronomy First Award
Barnes’ and Raymond’s Packed Planetary System (PPS) hypothesis postulates that planetary formation is efficient and creates dynamically packed planetary systems that cannot contain additiona…
CSEF · 2018
Behavioral & Social Sciences First Award
Objectives/Goals Basic color terms can be defined as words representing a wide set of hues, like "red" or "blue". Color terms differ from language to language. The goal of this project was t…
ISEF · 2018
Chemistry First Award
We heavily depend on petroleum for energy production, petroleum-based polymer synthesis and the manufacturing of multiple important chemicals. More than 95% of the energy in the United State…
ISEF · 2018
Microbiology First Award
Plant Microbial fuel cells have the potential as a sustainable, renewable energy source using Florida’s wetlands and indigenous plants. Plant-MFC’s use bacteria to convert solar energy into…
ISEF · 2018
Translational Medical Science First Award
Heart disease is the leading cause of death worldwide (WHO), and experts estimate that half of all heart attacks and strokes occur in people who have not been flagged as ‘at risk'. There is…
CSEF · 2018
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only) First Award
Objectives/Goals The objective of this study was to determine if six hours of sleep a night for a week made a difference in memory compared to sleeping for eight hours a night for a week. Me…
CSEF · 2018
Biochemistry/ Molecular Biology First Award
Objectives/Goals Our goal was to determine whether there is a significant difference in element composition between metastatic and non-metastatic breast cancer cells through the use of X-Ray…
CSEF · 2018
Toxicology First Award
Objectives/Goals (1)Determine whether Gen and MEHP, alone or mixed, directly target macrophages and affect their pro-inflammatory responses in-vitro. (2)Determine whether Gen and MEHP, alone…
CSEF · 2018
Electronics & Electromagnetics First Award
Objectives/Goals The goal of this project is to develop and demonstrate an electric cello utilizing novel optical sensors directly monitoring the vibrations of each of the cello strings inde…
ISEF · 2018
Environmental Engineering First Award
Arsenic, a highly toxic metal contaminant commonly found in our drinking water, is responsible for many accidental deaths. Currently, the only visual arsenic-in-water detection system is ted…
ISEF · 2018
Animal Sciences First Award
Methylmercury has become a prevalent issue in our environment as a result of chemical runoff. People around the world, primarily in developing coastal regions, are exposed to mercury by eati…
CSEF · 2018
Mathematical Sciences First Award
Objectives/Goals Research on bar visibility graphs was originally motivated by problems about constructing VLSI (Very Large Scale Integration) circuits, and were adopted in the 1980s as a ge…
ISEF · 2018
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics First Award
Chronic disease is the leading cause of death in the world. Next generation therapeutics are needed to combat the growing global health crisis of chronic diseases, such as cancers and heart…
CSEF · 2018
Physics & Astronomy First Award
Objectives/Goals Infrared observations are some of the most important observations, allowing rare AGNs, deeply embedded stars, globular clusters, low luminosity stars, and much more to be di…
CSEF · 2018
Mammalian Biology First Award
Objectives/Goals With the pressing issue of antibiotic resistant bacteria, anti-virulence therapies have emerged as a non-antibiotic strategy for bacterial elimination through removal of bac…
ISEF · 2018
Microbiology First Award
Epstein-Barr virus is an oncogenic herpesvirus which causes over 150,000 fatalities annually and has no FDA-approved treatment. Latent EBV is characterized by limited gene expression, which…
CSEF · 2018
Biochemistry/ Molecular Biology First Award
Objectives/Goals My objective is to find the type of rice with the lowest amount of starch for people who have diabetes. Methods/Materials Materials- Pressure cooker, jasmine rice, basmati r…
ISEF · 2018
Earth and Environmental Sciences First Award
Developing countries often have poor monitoring and reporting of weather and crop health, leading to slow responses to droughts and food shortages. Here, new satellite data analysis tools we…
CSEF · 2018
Environmental Science First Award
Objectives/Goals The objective of this study is to determine the correlation between distance from preschools to major highways and levels of ultrafine particulate matter in the surrounding…
ISEF · 2018
Biomedical and Health Sciences First Award
Coronary Artery Disease (CAD), an aging related detriment, is the most common cause of mortality in the world. In addition, chemotherapy jeopardizes cardiovascular integrity and was shown to…
ISEF · 2018
Energy: Physical First Award
In this integrative research, two tunable plasmonic nanostructures were used to significantly increase the short circuit current output (Jsc), total current produced (A), maximum optical gen…