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
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…
ISEF · 2017
Chemistry Fourth Award
Typical graphene is grown through chemical vapor deposition (CVD) which requires high temperatures (1,100-1,600 °C) and complicated transfer processes that frequently result in the loss and…
ISEF · 2017
Animal Sciences Fourth Award
To maintain the nuclear integrity of somatic cells that provide the beneficial traits for cloning, tissue culture techniques are used to culture cells in vitro using a growth medium suppleme…
ISEF · 2017
Systems Software Fourth Award
One of the most pressing issues in modern computing is computational speed. In supercomputers, hundreds of thousands of processors, or nodes, are connected in configurations called topologie…
ISEF · 2017
Biochemistry Fourth Award
The yeast Candida parapsilosis is a so-called opportunistic pathogen. It is harmless for healthy people, however, it is a serious threat to immunocompromised individuals, e.g organ transplan…
CSEF · 2017
Mammalian Biology Fourth Award
Objectives/Goals My objectives and goals for this experiment were to find if dogs have a dominant paw or prefer a paw. Methods/Materials I used: 30 dogs, paper, pencil, dog treats, sticky ta…
ISEF · 2017
Environmental Engineering Fourth Award
Forward Osmosis (FO) is an alternative method of desalination that uses a hypertonic “draw" solution to leach water molecules from a hypotonic "feed" solution such as seawater across a semip…
CSEF · 2017
Computational Systems & Analysis Fourth Award
Objectives/Goals My project goal was to create a program that could automatically classify a given text document with >80% accuracy into three levels of Formality: Formal, Casual and Semi-Fo…
ISEF · 2017
Translational Medical Science Fourth Award
Lung cancer claims 150,000 Americans yearly, yet only 15.7% are diagnosed pre-metastasis. Current computer diagnostics focus on Bayesian networks using rule-based prediction. In this project…
ISEF · 2017
Biomedical Engineering Fourth Award
The world is plagued with dangerous situations including everything from accidents to wars that often result in people losing a hand, arm, or leg. Industrial accidents, as a result of danger…
ISEF · 2017
Microbiology Fourth Award
Increased antibiotic resistance in bacteria has rendered many antibiotics useless; thus, the objective of the project was to develop a novel antimicrobial compound of pyrimidine derivatives…
ISEF · 2017
Engineering Mechanics Fourth Award
Recently, the popularity of Additive Manufacturing (AM) processes such as Fused Filament Fabrication (FFF) has increased exponentially, due to their potential to construct complex objects mu…
ISEF · 2017
Translational Medical Science Fourth Award
The project “Repelling What Bugs You” is an extension of a project started in 2015. In that project, an all natural and antiseptic mosquito repellent base was composed by researching and tes…
ISEF · 2017
Behavioral and Social Sciences Fourth Award
Deaf and hard of hearing children across many parts of the world recount severe problems with their education because of the lack of access to the curriculum via a sign language on the one h…
ISEF · 2017
Mathematics Fourth Award
In an era of rapid growth in information technology, a significant danger threatens digital security: cyber-attacks. Public-key cryptosystems are used to overcome virtual vulnerabilities. Th…
CSEF · 2017
Physics & Astronomy Fourth Award
Objectives/Goals My project aims to use household items to build a device that effectively measures the salt content and buoyant force in a body of water. Using this device, I want to prove…
ISEF · 2017
Biomedical and Health Sciences Fourth Award
Chemotherapy, although it remains the best treatment option for metastatic cancer patients, it is still plagued with many side effects. Herein I tested if folate-conjugated nanoparticles con…
ISEF · 2017
Robotics and Intelligent Machines Fourth Award
As we know, technologies evolve, and making software for every different device gets harder and harder. We wanted to create a system which could help us make machines work, without having to…
ISEF · 2017
Chemistry Fourth Award
Textile manufacturing is one of major industries in developing countries feeding the society with jobs and legitimate income. However, the release of improperly treated waste water, contamin…
ISEF · 2017
Animal Sciences Fourth Award
The subterranean brahminy blindsnake (Ramphotyphlops braminus) is among the smallest vertebrate animals on Earth. Snakes in general have small eyes, but the fossorial R. braminus has extreme…
CSEF · 2017
Electronics & Electromagnetics Fourth Award
Objectives/Goals This project aims to provide 3D spatial orientation in an unknown space through the establishment of thermal patterns (beacons) on objects within the environment. Utilizing…
CSEF · 2017
Behavioral & Social Sciences Fourth Award
Objectives/Goals The objective of this study was to characterize the correlation, if any, between GDP rate and Average Yearly Music Tempo. Methods/Materials Laptop computer with Microsoft Ex…
ISEF · 2017
Energy: Physical Fourth Award
In this second phase research the problem was: Will the design and construction of a real-scale smart lighting system be functional when used under the actual conditions of highways and tunn…