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 · 2017
Cellular and Molecular Biology Fourth Award
The T-box transcription factor TBX3 is highly expressed within the lung endothelium, yet the effect of its expression is unknown. This study aimed to overcome present limitations by determin…
ISEF · 2017
Translational Medical Science Fourth Award
Using of addictive substances is one of humankind's oldest problems. They are considered an important disease of the brain. Substance abuse is not only the problem of health sciences, but al…
ISEF · 2017
Biomedical and Health Sciences Fourth Award
Prescription of chemotherapeutic anti-folate drugs is the frontline treatment for breast cancer patients to induce folate-deficit cancer cytotoxicity. Alongside, folate supplements are used…
ISEF · 2017
Earth and Environmental Sciences Fourth Award
Particulate Matter (PM) is a liquid or solid suspended in air that can be directly emitted into the atmosphere. High concentrations of PM smaller than 2.5 µm in diameter (aka PM2.5) are know…
ISEF · 2017
Earth and Environmental Sciences Fourth Award
Drylands make up 41% of the biosphere and support 38% of the world’s population. The intensity and frequency of rainfall events controls processes that drive dryland soil nutrient cycling. C…
ISEF · 2017
Chemistry Fourth Award
Cytochrome P450 monooxygenases are highly selective in substrate oxidation and have the promising potential as biocatalysts for industrial processes. A unique P450 enzyme known as TxtE catal…
ISEF · 2017
Materials Science Fourth Award
Memory devices are developing at a slow rate, hindering the computational industry’s growth. The hysteresis shown in perovskites has been utilized to create the two resistive states necessar…
ISEF · 2017
Earth and Environmental Sciences Fourth Award
The objective of this project is to determine how effective changing the shape of a spherical shade ball to a tessellational dodecahedron is at decreasing evaporation and algal growth. Shade…
ISEF · 2017
Energy: Physical Fourth Award
The purpose of this project is to determine if pumping is a useful method of increasing tidal barrage energy output and how to implement pumping most effectively. Pumping is the process of u…
ISEF · 2017
Biomedical and Health Sciences Fourth Award
According to WHO’s Global Database on Child Growth and Malnutrition nearly one third of children under 5 suffer irreversible damage to their physical and cognitive development due to severe…
ISEF · 2017
Behavioral and Social Sciences Fourth Award
Sundowners syndrome is a clinical diagnosis given to dementia patients. People who suffer from this experience heightened neuropsychiatric symptoms (depression, anxiety, agitation, confusion…
ISEF · 2017
Translational Medical Science Fourth Award
Early diagnosis is of unequivocal importance to survive debilitating multiple organ failure (MOF), the leading cause of death in the intensive care unit (ICU). However, current lab-based met…
ISEF · 2017
Cellular and Molecular Biology Fourth Award
Squamous cell carcinoma (SCC) is an invasive type of skin cancer that lacks expression of lecithin-retinol acyl transferase (LRAT), a protein implicated in wound healing and cancer progressi…
ISEF · 2017
Mathematics Fourth Award
This project takes a different approach to meteorological forecasting by investigating underlying patterns in local weather fluctuations and attempting to find a connection between these phe…
ISEF · 2017
Environmental Engineering Fourth Award
Arsenic contamination of water sources is a global problem, affecting numerous countries across the world. Natural weathering and anthropogenic sources, such as mining and use of coal-fired…
ISEF · 2017
Systems Software Fourth Award
Glaucoma is the leading irreversible cause of blindness worldwide. And in its early stages, it's shows no symptoms. So most of the affected patients don't know they have it until it causes m…
ISEF · 2017
Translational Medical Science Fourth Award
Small cell lung cancer (SCLC), the most fatal subtype of lung cancer, has a five-year survival rate of 2%. Currently, patients must get expensive computerized tomography and positron emissio…
ISEF · 2017
Robotics and Intelligent Machines Fourth Award
The space industry plans to put humans on Mars by 2025, In order to make this a reality, they will require housing to protect them from the atmospheric conditions of the planet. Due to the a…
ISEF · 2017
Earth and Environmental Sciences Fourth Award
Hexavalent Chromium (CrVI) is a priority pollutant, released by the tannery processes to the environment. The objective of this study was to assess the potential of novel materials magnetize…
ISEF · 2017
Biomedical Engineering Fourth Award
Realizing that the rehabilitation monitoring and correction devices for patients going under orthopedic surgeries of the lower limb are quiet trivial, we decided to tackle the subject and tr…
ISEF · 2017
Systems Software Fourth Award
285 million people worldwide live with a visual impairment that prevents them from basic access to written or virtual materials. Current braille code standards such as Unified English Braill…
ISEF · 2017
Plant Sciences Fourth Award
Cyperus esculentus and C. rotundus, or yellow and purple nutsedge, are widespread throughout many areas of the United States and have been classified as two of the world’s most invasive weed…
ISEF · 2017
Embedded Systems Fourth Award
The EPA’s Safe Drinking Water Act, governs the legal threshold of contaminants allowable in public water systems. The Maximum Contaminant Level (MCL) for arsenic, the #1 ranked toxin, was re…
ISEF · 2017
Systems Software Fourth Award
The integration of deaf-mute people in our everyday life has been always a challenge for our society. Our educational application Mutasd! opens the door to anybody to easily learn to communi…
ISEF · 2017
Microbiology Fourth Award
Although conventional antibiotics have become a staple of modern medicine, resistance is becoming a daunting threat. Essentially, misuse and overuse has allowed bacterial strains to evolve a…
ISEF · 2017
Behavioral and Social Sciences Fourth Award
This is research on public attitudes toward children with HIV AIDS (ADHA). This study aims to determine: 1). What is the societies’ attitudes towards ADHA in Surakarta; 2). What are factors…
ISEF · 2017
Physics and Astronomy Fourth Award
Our project is a computer program generating images and data based on a description of a scene – its objects (planes, spheres, triangles) and geometry – the curved spacetime. We have used Ei…
ISEF · 2017
Biomedical and Health Sciences Fourth Award
Glioblastoma multiforme (GBM), a grade IV astrocytoma, has an elevated level of hTERT. Ad-TERT, a promising oncolytic adenovirus type 5 variant where E1A regulating components have been repl…
ISEF · 2017
Mathematics Fourth Award
We study the distortion of an optimal embedding of a perfect binary tree into a Euclidean space with a fixed number of dimensions. The distortion is a characteristic of the embedding, descri…
ISEF · 2017
Physics and Astronomy Fourth Award
The stability of Bachall-Wolf cusps of dark matter (DM) particles orbiting a supermassive black hole (SMBH) binary system was studied as the SMBHs lost energy through gravitational radiation…