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
Aerodynamics/ Hydrodynamics (Junior Division Only) Fourth Award
Objectives/Goals The objective of this project is to find the optimal number of blades on a pinwheel style wind turbine to produce maximum energy measured in volts. Methods/Materials I am us…
ISEF · 2017
Engineering Mechanics Fourth Award
Umpires in the MLB have only an 84% call accuracy which requires an average of 2:30 minutes of video review each game. An electronic baseball umpire was first created using a minimum of thre…
ISEF · 2017
Chemistry Fourth Award
Being a sesquisterpene isolated from essential oil of Zingiber zerumbet Smith (bitter ginger), a widespread plant in Vietnam, zerumbone (1) is currently considered as a potential candidate f…
ISEF · 2016
Fourth Award
Diabetes is a serious worldwide epidemic that affects a growing portion of the population. While the most common method for testing blood glucose involves finger pricking, it is painful and…
CSEF · 2016
Mathematics & Computer Science Fourth Award
Objectives/Goals As of 2013, 126.6 million people around the world have developed the eye disease diabetic retinopathy, and this number continues to grow every day. In many areas where peopl…
ISEF · 2016
Fourth Award
Zeolitic Tuff is a natural volcanic mineral that is mined in Jordan. It has a chemical structure of hydrated aluminum-silicates of sodium, three dimensional crystalline framework of tetrahed…
ISEF · 2016
Fourth Award
What if type-1 diabetes could be cheaply and non-invasively detected? Untreated type-1 diabetics produce large amounts of ketones, which are not otherwise typically produced in the body. Tes…
ISEF · 2016
Fourth Award
Plastics form an integral part of daily life and are used in a plethora of ways. However, the primary raw material used in conventional plastic production is petroleum, which is harmful for…
ISEF · 2016
Fourth Award
Intrinsically disordered proteins (IDPs) are unique proteins that lack rigidly defined three-dimensional structures. Due to their conformational flexibility, IDPs serve diverse protein funct…
ISEF · 2016
Fourth Award
Chemical vapor deposition (CVD) diamond detectors are being investigated as alternatives to scintillators for neutron detection in fusion environments. Data were obtained for four CVD detect…
ISEF · 2016
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design Fourth Award
The colligative properties of solutions, including the boiling point elevation, are said to be dependent only on the concentration of particles dissolved, not the identity of the particles.…
ISEF · 2016
Fourth Award
ABSTRACT: The key to the foundation of an environmentally sustainable and economically stable world is the domination of the renewable energy resources over the fossil fuel and nuclear reser…
ISEF · 2016
Fourth Award
There is a need to develop and improve high throughput automated methods to screen potential cancer drugs. This study used innovative patch clamp technology and the AGS gastric cancer cell l…
ISEF · 2016
Fourth Award
Due to lack of oxygen, the Hypoxia Inducible Factor pathway triggers the overexpression of the human Carbonic Anhydrase (CA) IX isozyme in many hypoxic tumors such as colon, brain, cervix, b…
ISEF · 2016
Fourth Award
Heavy metal contamination of water is a problem that greatly affects millions of people around the world. Although heavy metal contamination is more prevalent in developing areas and Souther…
ISEF · 2016
Fourth Award
PCSK9 inhibitors are a new class of cholesterol-lowering drugs that are complicated to take: patients have to inject themselves every 2 weeks and store the medicine in the refrigerator betwe…
CSEF · 2016
Environmental Engineering Fourth Award
Objectives/Goals The objective of this project was to engineer a product that helps relieve the drought by reducing water consumption of agricultural plants. It focuses on the stage of germi…
ISEF · 2016
Fourth Award
The ability to predict protein structure is a major challenge in computational biology, with wide-ranging applications from understanding disease mechanisms to designing targeted therapies f…
ISEF · 2016
Fourth Award
Multiple sclerosis (MS) is the most common auto immune disorder of the central nervous system with a wide range of signs and symptoms. Demyelination of myelin sheath over the axon occurs, wh…
ISEF · 2016
Fourth Award
Prostheses are currently inhibited by the utilizing of costly apparatuses and inefficient technology. The design of this prosthetic hand looks to integrate cost-efficient devices to create a…
ISEF · 2016
Fourth Award
Candida glabrata is a fungus that causes life threatening infection in humans. Recently, some strains have become resistant to current antifungal drugs such as caspofungin, and new drugs are…
ISEF · 2016
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design Fourth Award
This experiment investigates the synthesis, purification, and stability of encapsulated quantum dots. Quantum dots, specific types of nanoparticles ranging from 2-10 nm in diameter, emit spe…
ISEF · 2016
Fourth Award
Sixteen percent of all deaths every year are caused by infectious diseases. Currently, many models over or under-predict the long term progression of diseases, and provide little information…
CSEF · 2016
Product Science (Biological) (Junior Division Only) Fourth Award
Objectives/Goals The purpose of this experiment was to test the effectiveness of 9 common store bought antimicrobial, a 30% and 50% dilution of ethanol, and a 5% dilution of bleach on 5 type…
ISEF · 2016
Fourth Award
Wolf Rayet (WR stars), which are poorly studied in the field of astronomy, are massive stars with luminosities a million times bigger than the Sun’s and temperatures about 8 times higher. It…
ISEF · 2016
Fourth Award
In agriculture, soil microbial communities can have a significant impact on plant growth and strongly influence the characteristics and health of the soil itself. Turning the top layer of so…
ISEF · 2016
Fourth Award
According to NASA, 2015 is the warmest year since modern record keeping began. The majority of assessment models designed to mitigate global temperature rise above 2 degrees Celsius indicate…
ISEF · 2016
Fourth Award
Aircraft are convenient and fast, but not very fuel efficient. Being a significant mode of transportation means large volumes of fuel are consumed and huge emissions result. In 2015, US airl…
CSEF · 2016
Applied Mechanics & Structures Fourth Award
Objectives/Goals Our goal was to build a working submarine out of materials that we could get easily and that could be built at home. It needed to be able to submerge and rise, propel forwar…
CSEF · 2016
Biochemistry/ Molecular Biology Fourth Award
Objectives/Goals There is a constant production of trash in the world and there isn#t enough space to accommodate the amount. The objective was to find which type of organic waste produces t…