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 · 2016
Mammalian Biology Fourth Award
Objectives/Goals The objective of this study was to see if age affects the conception rate in bovine. Methods/Materials Dairy Herd Improvement Association records (computerized recording sys…
CSEF · 2016
Zoology Fourth Award
Objectives/Goals Using "off the shelf" 3D & flight simulation software, I attempted to discover how weight effected the flight distance of Quetzalcoatlus Northropi. Methods/Materials Laptop…
ISEF · 2016
Fourth Award
Parkinson’s disease (PD) is a progressive neurodegenerative disease that affects an estimated seven to ten million people worldwide. During the past ten years, Genome-Wide Association Studie…
ISEF · 2016
Fourth Award
Global warming due to the release of man-made greenhouse gases in our atmosphere continues to be a major challenge for scientists today. An accurate and efficient measurement strategy to est…
ISEF · 2016
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design Fourth Award
Biochemical methods that enable rapid and early diagnosis are critical to disease and patient management. Of unequivocal importance to addressing these issues is the study of interactions be…
CSEF · 2016
Environmental Science Fourth Award
Objectives/Goals I wanted to find out how well plants grew back after a fire. The reason I did this project was to investigate how the aftermath of a fire should be handled and how people ca…
ISEF · 2016
Fourth Award
Diabetes mellitus currently affects over 346 million people worldwide and is one of the leading causes of death. Current treatment requires frequent blood-glucose tests followed by necessary…
ISEF · 2016
Fourth Award
Bacterial cells can have DNA damage due to transcriptional error, or through the effect of an antibiotic. The SOS response is a bacterial cell program for coping with DNA damage, in which th…
CSEF · 2016
Environmental Science Fourth Award
Objectives/Goals The implications of ocean acidification on marine organisms, specifically intertidal relationships, are vast. As the acidity of ocean waters increases, we find severe impact…
ISEF · 2016
Fourth Award
Bacteriophages have been known to be capable of eliminating deadly bacterial infections, but their use on biofilms in medical settings has been very limited. In this proof-of-principle inves…
ISEF · 2016
Fourth Award
Melanoma is the most dangerous type of skin cancer and its incidence has significantly increased in the past decade. Inherited mutations in CDKN2A, which encodes the p16 tumor suppressor, pr…
ISEF · 2016
Fourth Award
The purpose of this experiment was to create and test a computer model to accurately and automatically classify cardiac arrhythmias. Such a model, in the absence of trained cardiac professio…
ISEF · 2016
Fourth Award
Our objective is to offer internal communication everywhere the organization needs it, with the possibility to grow to external communications, taking advantages of pre-existing infrastructu…
CSEF · 2016
Chemistry Fourth Award
Objectives/Goals The objective of this study was to determine whether electricity could be generated from waste water. Methods/Materials To create electricity, I had to const…
ISEF · 2016
Fourth Award
The bacterium Enterococcus faecalis is a common source of hospital acquired infections due to its intrinsic resistance to cephalosporins. As antibiotics become less effective at preventing a…
ISEF · 2016
Fourth Award
Osteoarthritis (OA) is a debilitating disorder affecting over 27 million adults in the United States; with the knee being the most commonly affected joint. During OA progression the articula…
ISEF · 2016
Fourth Award
Eutrophication is a severe type of water pollution from excess nutrient inputs (NO3 and PO4). Many nations cannot maintain its expensive chemical treatments. Lemniodeae, a macrophyte known a…
ISEF · 2016
Biomedical Engineering Fourth Award
Autosomal-dominant Retinitis Pigmentosa (adRP) is caused by diverse gain-of-function mutations in rhodopsin (RHO). The purpose of this study is to aid in the development of a mutation-indepe…
ISEF · 2016
Fourth Award
Surgical site infections, SSI’s, are the leading type of infection in countries with limited resources, affecting up to 2/3 of operated patients with a frequency up to nine times higher than…
ISEF · 2016
Fourth Award
Schizophrenia is a mental disorder that affects the essence of what makes people human. It drastically alters a person's perception and actions until the patient becomes harmful to oneself o…
ISEF · 2016
Fourth Award
Recently a new emphasis has been placed on protection headgear in hockey and other sports as the importance concussion and sub-concussive brain Injury has been better understood, A Summation…
ISEF · 2016
Fourth Award
The purpose of my project was to attempt to create a device which would make invasive surgery less intrusive by removing the need for much of the physical dissection. I planned to accomplish…
ISEF · 2016
Translational Medical Science Fourth Award
Nuclear actin, while still poorly understood, plays a role in DNA replication, chromatin organization, and gene expression. This research uses Drosophila oogenesis as a model to study in viv…
ISEF · 2016
Translational Medical Science Fourth Award
Piezo proteins have been identified as key components of mechanosensitive ion channels in humans and other mammals. These channels are in the early stages of characterization; their mechanis…
ISEF · 2016
Fourth Award
Everybody knows that cleaning the oral cavity is good for oral hygiene. However, not everyone knows that during the night sleep, when our mouth doesn’t do saliva flushing, bacteria grows a l…
ISEF · 2016
Fourth Award
The age of robotics is upon us as we blast through the 21st century, our technology continues to increase exponentially. Rapid advancements in 3D printing is revolutionizing the world of eng…
ISEF · 2016
Fourth Award
Parkinson’s disease (PD) is a chronic central nervous system degenerative disease associated with resting tremor, bradykinesia, rigidity, and progressive degeneration of dopaminergic neurons…
CSEF · 2016
Zoology Fourth Award
Objectives/Goals The objective of this study was to see if the regeneration of planarian flatworms were affected by the use of reclaimed water rather than spring water. The regeneration abil…
ISEF · 2016
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design Fourth Award
Improper signaling of the nuclear factor-?B (NF-?B) pathway plays a critical role in many inflammatory disease states, including cancer, stroke, and viral infections. Although a majority of…
ISEF · 2016
Translational Medical Science Fourth Award
Atherosclerosis, a form of cardiovascular disease, accounts for 17.3 million deaths/year(Mozaffarian,2014). Characterized by plaque formation in arteries, it leads to myocardial infarctions…