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 · 2017
Plant Biology Fourth Award
Objectives/Goals Bemisia tabaci is responsible for transmitting East African pandemics of cassava mosaic disease (CMD) and cassava brown streak disease (CBSD). Since the 1990s, there has bee…
ISEF · 2017
Chemistry Fourth Award
Often times, those clean walls in your house will become stained with household chemicals. Increasing the stain resistance of the water-based latex paints has become increasing difficult due…
ISEF · 2017
Engineering Mechanics Fourth Award
During brick wall construction, lots of material are wasted and there can be flaws due to human errors. These flaws make brick walls weak. Further, prevailing method of building a wall is la…
CSEF · 2017
Product Science (Biological) (Junior Division Only) Fourth Award
Objectives/Goals I started doing research on the bark beetle when I found out about the blue stain fungus. Then my father asked me what stops the blue stain fungus? The answer was terpenes.…
CSEF · 2017
Physics & Astronomy Fourth Award
Objectives/Goals The objective is to determine how the density of an object (in this case, a 3D Printed "heat shield") affects the rate at which heat travels through it. Methods/Materials 24…
ISEF · 2017
Energy: Physical Fourth Award
Mechanical oscillation is one of the most frequent phenomena; it is a considerable source of energy. In this project, a novel design of the autonomous and reliable converter of 3D mechanical…
CSEF · 2017
Product Science (Physical) (Junior Division Only) Fourth Award
Objectives/Goals We want to know the effectiveness of a concussion band to protect a player from a concussion while playing soccer. We think the results of this experiment will help our comm…
ISEF · 2017
Behavioral and Social Sciences Fourth Award
In essentially all organisms, aggression is a behavior that provides not only benefits, such as access to resources and mates, but also risks such as injury. While research has identified ne…
CSEF · 2017
Microbiology (Medical) (Junior Division Only) Fourth Award
Objectives/Goals In this study, cytotoxicity induced by Heteractis magnifica venom was investigated using a hemocytometer and a trypan blue solution to determine malignant canine lymphoid CL…
CSEF · 2017
Mammalian Biology Fourth Award
Objectives/Goals The incidence of allergies across the U.S. is increasing at an alarming rate. Recent research has suggested the existence of an important connection between allergies and th…
CSEF · 2017
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only) Fourth Award
Objectives/Goals The objective of this study was to determine whether memory is better if people are multitasking or not. Methods/Materials Materials: Recording of article on phone, notebook…
ISEF · 2017
Microbiology Fourth Award
Ionic silver is known to be an effective antimicrobial that is commonly used in cleaning products and to treat pathogenic infections in medicine; however, through evolution, certain strains…
ISEF · 2017
Energy: Chemical Fourth Award
The creation of corn-based ethanol fuels is an expensive process, which in some cases produces twice the emissions of a petroleum alternative -such as gasoline- over the entire life cycle of…
ISEF · 2017
Embedded Systems Fourth Award
On average, 37 children die each year from heatstroke when left unattended in a closed vehicle. Although there are many products available on the market to prevent heatstroke, they are mostl…
ISEF · 2017
Biomedical Engineering Fourth Award
Human dental pulp stem cells (DPSCs) can differentiate into multiple specialized cell types, showing potential for regenerative medicine. Advances in tissue engineering depend on designing a…
ISEF · 2017
Physics and Astronomy Fourth Award
Current exoplanet discovery methods are limited by our capacity to observe planet-star interactions. I developed a method of discovering exoplanets using planet-planet interactions by progra…
CSEF · 2017
Mathematical Sciences Fourth Award
Objectives/Goals My goal is to understand where the Julia and Mandelbrot sets come from and answer many intriguing questions: How many different types of Julia sets are there? Do Julia sets…
ISEF · 2017
Biomedical and Health Sciences Fourth Award
Commonly consumed and sought after artificial sweeteners may have more detriments than benefits when it comes to weight control. Most people receive at least 15% of their total food intake f…
ISEF · 2017
Plant Sciences Fourth Award
Food scarcity is a prevalent problem facing our world today, and in fact the UN Food and Agricultural Organization finds that 795 million people are suffering from hunger. In addition, one o…
CSEF · 2017
Materials Science (Junior Division Only) Fourth Award
Objectives/Goals To create an energy efficient roof which gives the benefits of a white roof during the hot summer months without compromising the benefits of a dark roof during the cold mon…
ISEF · 2017
Materials Science Fourth Award
This research project is a study into measures to reduce the transmission of bacteria from person-to-person. This has become an important policy goal due to the rise in bacteria that are res…
ISEF · 2017
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics Fourth Award
The goal of this research was to improve cancer diagnostics, specifically copy number detection methods. Accurately determining the abundance of oncogenes and tumor suppressors is necessary…
ISEF · 2017
Embedded Systems Fourth Award
For a long time, the desire to integrate into the community has yet to be feasible for the deaf-mute due to the language barrier. “Translating Glove for the deaf–mute” targets the Vietnamese…
ISEF · 2017
Energy: Chemical Fourth Award
Supercapacitors are important because of their increasing role in powering many mobile, wearable and medical devices that help and improve peoples’ lives. Supercapacitors can store energy wi…
CSEF · 2017
Applied Mechanics & Structures Fourth Award
Objectives/Goals The objective of this project is to derive the vertical air currents in hurricanes using a physics-based model to describe the dropsonde fall speed in still air. Methods/Mat…
ISEF · 2017
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics Fourth Award
People with Type 1 Diabetes must compute an insulin dose for every meal. Dosing errors can cause both acute and chronic complications. The current dosing method (i.e., "carb counting") consi…
ISEF · 2017
Materials Science Fourth Award
OBJECTIVE: To engineer a high heat conduction thermal evacuation suit that also addresses superheated gas. Suit will allow a person to escape a fire of 980°C & convection heat of 32kph for 5…
ISEF · 2017
Robotics and Intelligent Machines Fourth Award
Skin cancer is the most common form of cancer. When diagnosed early, there is a 98% survival rate. However, once the cancer metastasizes, the survival rate decreases dramatically to 18%. The…
ISEF · 2017
Environmental Engineering Fourth Award
My research this year aimed to design a novel process to utilize landfill leachate and wastewater centrate, two highly prevalent forms of waste around the world, to recover valuable nutrient…
ISEF · 2017
Energy: Physical Fourth Award
Spark-ignition (SI) internal combustion engines are typically 20% thermally efficient. Some lost energy actually exits as unburned hydrocarbons, which in automobiles pass through a catalytic…