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 · 2018
Electronics & Electromagnetics Fourth Award
Objectives/Goals The purpose of this project is to create a precise control system for applications in microscopy, microsurgery, and robotics. Currently in this area (field), cost and precis…
CSEF · 2018
Physics & Astronomy Fourth Award
Objectives/Goals The objective of this project studies the effects of introducing photons into polarization sets. Specifically, this project applies and extends Malus' Law, which states that…
CSEF · 2018
Mathematical Sciences Fourth Award
Objectives/Goals Develop an open-source software application to simulate circle inversion and prove Pappus' theorem. Methods/Materials MacBook Pro to develop a web page in HTML5 and JavaScri…
ISEF · 2018
Biomedical and Health Sciences Fourth Award
Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is one of the most common forms of dementia. The progression of AD occurs in the brain as well as in the eye. The retinal pigment epithelial (RPE) cells were recentl…
ISEF · 2018
Embedded Systems Fourth Award
Read4me is a device that enables blind, illiterate and dyslexic people to read paper books. It uses Optical Character Recognition to detect the text in the pictures taken by a camera attache…
ISEF · 2018
Behavioral and Social Sciences Fourth Award
Test-Taking Anxiety is an issue that impacts students worldwide, it occurs through the stress-response system, the hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal axis. If Test Anxiety is untreated it can le…
ISEF · 2018
Environmental Engineering Fourth Award
Industrial pollution has been a major environmental concern globally. A significant type of these industrial pollutants is organic dyes, which have been found to negatively affect human heal…
ISEF · 2018
Earth and Environmental Sciences Fourth Award
Wildfires have become increasingly frequent and severe due to global climatic change, demanding improved methodologies for wildfire modeling. Traditionally, wildfires are assessed through po…
ISEF · 2018
Microbiology Fourth Award
Yeast species in floral nectar, especially Saccharomyces cerevisiae, show high alcohol fermentation properties, with nectar-dwelling non-Saccharomyces yeast Metschnikowia pulcherrima additio…
ISEF · 2018
Biomedical Engineering Fourth Award
Myocardial Infraction Events (Heart Attacks) are cardiac emergencies that restrict blood flow through coronary arteries to major cardiac muscle tissue. Prolonged blood demand deficiency to t…
ISEF · 2018
Biomedical Engineering Fourth Award
Preventing death from Sudden Cardiac Arrest (SCA) holds great importance for the medical and public community worldwide. 326,000 people each year in the U.S. alone are afflicted and 90% do n…
ISEF · 2018
Embedded Systems Fourth Award
“Golden i” helps a blind person to identify the obstacles. If there is an obstacle in front of him within 3ft, the handle starts to vibrate. So he can walk carefully through the path. There…
ISEF · 2018
Engineering Mechanics Fourth Award
BACKGROUND World energy consumption will increase 28% by 2040 with renewables being the fastest growing energy source. Furthermore, renewables will increasingly replace coal. Solar updraft t…
CSEF · 2018
Microbiology (Medical) (Junior Division Only) Fourth Award
Objectives/Goals The objective of this experiment was to find easily accessible solutions to kill bacteria and yeast found in the infected ears of dogs. The hypothesis is, if bacteria grown…
CSEF · 2018
Environmental Science Fourth Award
Objectives/Goals My objective was to determine the effect of sediment on water quality in lakes and the marine organisms that inhabit it. Methods/Materials Sediment was collected from three…
ISEF · 2018
Physics and Astronomy Fourth Award
Surveillance devices using laser beams to detect sound are a security threat. The goal of this research was to quantify the ability of irregular transparent treatments to mask reflected modu…
ISEF · 2018
Earth and Environmental Sciences Fourth Award
Pesticide runoff is a major challenge facing the agricultural and landscape industries today. The vast majority of sprayed pesticides end up in an environment other than their intended desti…
CSEF · 2018
Alternative Energy (Junior Division Only) Fourth Award
Objectives/Goals The goal is to develop a vertical-axis wind turbine that will work for regions below 30m or the turbulent area in suburbs/residential areas. Methods/Materials The design cri…
ISEF · 2018
Plant Sciences Fourth Award
One theory of how plants detect a change in gravity is the starch-statolith hypothesis. The hypothesis states during a change in gravity, statoliths, starch-containing organelles, settle to…
ISEF · 2018
Plant Sciences Fourth Award
Two critical factors are involved in blooming of the morning glory, Pharbitis nil, a popular summer-flowering plant in Japan: (i) light/dark stimulus the evening before the day of flowering,…
CSEF · 2018
Materials Science (Junior Division Only) Fourth Award
Objectives/Goals The purpose of my project is to find how the addition of waste materials effects the superiority of concrete. Methods/Materials Part 1: Collect waste materials, coffee groun…
ISEF · 2018
Chemistry Fourth Award
Electrochemical reduction of carbon dioxide (CO2) produces useful fuels and chemicals for various commercial industries while combating climate change. The purpose of this experiment is to s…
CSEF · 2018
Chemistry Fourth Award
Objectives/Goals Metabolic reprogramming is a hallmark of cancer, and tumor cells with defective mitochondria use alternative, efficient metabolic pathways to produce ATP energy when the ele…
ISEF · 2018
Cellular and Molecular Biology Fourth Award
Abscission is the final stage of cytokinesis, the division of the cytoplasm between daughter cells, in which cells are physically separated by severing the intercellular bridge on either sid…
CSEF · 2018
Earth & Atmospheric Sciences (Junior Division Only) Fourth Award
Objectives/Goals The purpose of this project is to show how acidity level is currently affecting plankton in the Monterey Bay. What I am hoping to accomplish is to spread a higher level of a…
ISEF · 2018
Physics and Astronomy Fourth Award
The task of the project is to create a cluster of 4 portable scintillation counters for recording extensive air showers (EAS) of elementary particles, suitable for placement in open areas, i…
ISEF · 2018
Robotics and Intelligent Machines Fourth Award
The sign language dexterous hand is an integrate interaction system, which realizes the conversion between text, action and voice. The purpose of the study is facilitating the communication…
ISEF · 2018
Behavioral and Social Sciences Fourth Award
It has become well established that the gut and the brain communicate with each other in a bidirectional manner. The objective of this experiment was to determine if altering the gut microbi…
CSEF · 2018
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only) Fourth Award
Objectives/Goals The objective is to determine how gender affects short-term memory recall of pictures, numbers, and words in 11-13 year olds. We predicted that girls would have a higher rec…
CSEF · 2018
Toxicology Fourth Award
Objectives/Goals The objective of this project was to find out if nanosilver found in consumer products is harmful to Daphnia Magna, and if the temperature of the water affects the way nanos…