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 · 2019
Environmental Engineering Fourth Award
Inorganic substances and heavy metals in the environment pose a chronic threat to the safety of humans and wildlife. Current wastewater treatment processes are costly, complex, and cause sec…
ISEF · 2019
Environmental Engineering Fourth Award
Soil Conductivity [soil EC], the measure of soil salinity, offers farmers invaluable information to predict crop yields, manage field sustainability, and create a decision support system [DS…
ISEF · 2019
Biomedical Engineering Fourth Award
Urinary catheter is a commonly used medical device employed to drain urine from the bladder into a collection bag to relieve urinary obstruction. It has some inherent problems, the most sign…
CSEF · 2019
Physics & Astronomy Fourth Award
Objectives The objective of this study was to develop an autonomous, functional, and low instrumentally biased optical polarimeter for Standard Model Extension studies. Methods The optical p…
CSEF · 2019
Chemistry Fourth Award
Objectives Develop a method to effectively replace Indium Tin Oxide (ITO) anodes with inexpensive Silver (Ag) anodes in thin film solar cells. Methods Used spin-coater to deposit polymer fil…
ISEF · 2019
Microbiology Fourth Award
Saccharibacteria is an extremely small (~200nm) uncultivable microbe that lives an unique parasitic lifestyle on various host bacteria, including P. propionicum. Saccharibacteria was recentl…
ISEF · 2019
Physics and Astronomy Fourth Award
The popularity of proton beam therapy in treating cancer is increasing, and further development of beam detectors is necessary to monitor the beam profile and perform quality assurance. The…
CSEF · 2019
Mathematical Sciences Fourth Award
Objectives In his monograph "Solutio facilis problematum quorumdam geometricorum difficillimorum," the Swiss mathematician Leonhard Euler first publicized the concept of the Euler Line, whic…
ISEF · 2019
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics Fourth Award
Acute cardiac arrhythmias are the No. 1 killer in industrialized countries; the mechanisms behind the onset and electrical dynamics are poorly understood, and mathematical modeling is limite…
CSEF · 2019
Behavioral & Social Sciences Fourth Award
Objectives The purpose of this project is to determine whether or not parental limits affect middle school students smartphone addiction. My hypothesis is that the more limits parents give,…
ISEF · 2019
Translational Medical Science Fourth Award
Cancer research is a priority for medicine and modern society. Melanoma is considered one of the most aggressive forms of cancer, since this tumor has aggressive behavior and it is metastati…
ISEF · 2019
Robotics and Intelligent Machines Fourth Award
Lygodium Microphyllum is an invasive species relatively new to Central Florida. It out-competes and destroys varieties of plants in multiple ecosystems. Currently, detection in Central Flori…
ISEF · 2019
Mathematics Fourth Award
I developed a new method to analyze expanding maps with indifferent fixed points. I applied this method to specifically analyze the iterations of the tangent map, proving both measure-theore…
CSEF · 2019
Microbiology (General) Fourth Award
Objectives The objective of this research is to further investigation of the possibilities of sustainable life on Mars. This research investigates the efficacy of glycerol as a cryoprotectiv…
ISEF · 2019
Microbiology Fourth Award
i-Motifs and G-quadruplexes are unusual DNA secondary structures that have been implicated as regulatory elements for eukaryotic gene expression. i-Motifs are intercalated ladder formations…
CSEF · 2019
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only) Fourth Award
Objectives School environments are noticed to be stressful. We recalled times we became distracted by the stress given by teachers rather than paying attention to the lesson. We began to won…
CSEF · 2019
Microbiology (Medical) (Junior Division Only) Fourth Award
Objectives The objective of this project is to study the effect of different acne agents on E. coli bacteria and to find an effective agent in eliminating E. coli bacteria. Methods For this…
ISEF · 2019
Cellular and Molecular Biology Fourth Award
Therapeutic targets for Ankylosing Spondylitis (AS) pathology are non-specific, and the cellular mechanisms that drive tissue proliferation in AS are poorly understood. This study investigat…
ISEF · 2019
Earth and Environmental Sciences Fourth Award
The purpose of this experiment was to better understand the impact of coal ash pollution in the environment through studying its impact on the model organism C. elegans. Coal ash, a pollutan…
ISEF · 2019
Physics and Astronomy Fourth Award
Current methods of bacterial disinfection are unsuitable due to high cost and inability to kill microbes without altering the product composition. Pulsed magnetic field technology offers pot…
ISEF · 2019
Robotics and Intelligent Machines Fourth Award
For bloggers, video editors and composers, choice of music to video and video to music, which harmoniously combines and successfully share author's idea, is a complex and lengthy process. Be…
ISEF · 2019
Energy: Chemical Fourth Award
Earth absorbs approximately 3850 zeta joules of solar energy year-1, which is more than enough to power the entire planet. Solar cell technologies have the potential to harvest this energy;…
ISEF · 2019
Physics and Astronomy Fourth Award
Heaping behavior of granular materials under vertical vibration has attracted increasing interest in recent years as it is a beautiful example of gas-granular interaction and granular hydrod…
ISEF · 2019
Physics and Astronomy Fourth Award
Collective motion is a phenomenon of ordered motion that attracts much scientific interest because of its presence in a wide variety of applications such as the flocking behavior of birds or…
ISEF · 2019
Embedded Systems Fourth Award
Temperature sensitive vaccines such as polio and measles must be maintained at a 2-8 degrees Celsius temperature range to avoid spoilage and insure potency. Vaccine Cold Boxes (VCBs) carry m…
ISEF · 2019
Robotics and Intelligent Machines Fourth Award
Unmanned aerial vehicles (drones) represent an innovative technology with potential applications in warehouses, factories, buildings, and ships. Current approaches to stabilize drones using…
ISEF · 2019
Physics and Astronomy Fourth Award
Visible streaks produced by air density variations, caused by temperature changes, any gas leakage or object’s moving (e.g. with supersonic speed), are an example of the Schlieren effect. In…
CSEF · 2019
Electronics & Electromagnetics Fourth Award
Objectives The objective of this project is to build and program a Health Band to be worn like a watch to help predict and prevent heart attack, cardiac arrest, and strokes. This band is des…
CSEF · 2019
Product Science (Physical) (Junior Division Only) Fourth Award
Objectives My purpose for this experiment was to examine how and why the heat conductivity in different baking sheets affects the outcome of baking. Methods I made biscuits and two different…
CSEF · 2019
Earth & Environmental Sciences Fourth Award
Objectives The purpose of this project was to determine differences in bird use between salt marsh dominated by the invasive cordgrass Spartina densiflora, and marshes which have undergone d…