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 · 2015
Microbiology (General) Fourth Award
Objectives/Goals The goal of my project was to determine if altering the circadian rhythm of Pyrocystis fusiformis affected its bioluminescent behavior. Methods/Materials Each night, for 3 n…
CSEF · 2015
Zoology Fourth Award
Objectives/Goals Microsatellites are two to six base pair length sequences repeated up to hundreds of times within a genome. This project analyzes twelve different fly genomes to find a rela…
ISEF · 2015
Fourth Award
In the city of Bangor, six streams are defined as impaired by the Department of Environmental Protection. The intent of this study was to identify the types and sources of pollution causing…
ISEF · 2015
Fourth Award
The landing is the most difficult and important stage of the flight. It requires a suitable length of the runway and pilot's skill. The main idea of our project is to decrease the landing sp…
CSEF · 2015
Materials Science (Junior Division Only) Fourth Award
Objectives/Goals My Project was to determine how electromagnetic waves were attenuated through various materials and figure out how to make the WiFi in our house faster. Methods/Materials A…
ISEF · 2015
Fourth Award
Ras proteins are a family of small GTPases activated by numerous upstream signaling molecules. Mutations in RAS genes (KRAS, NRAS, HRAS) can cause the corresponding Ras protein to be locked…
ISEF · 2015
Fourth Award
The highly invasive species of algae, Gracilaria salicornia, has harmful detriments to Hawaii's vulnerable reef life. As a red algae, Gracilaria salicornia has the potential have agar extrac…
CSEF · 2015
Microbiology (Medical) (Junior Division Only) Fourth Award
Objectives/Goals Antibiotic resistance is becoming an increasingly serious threat to public health in nearly every region of the world, as resistant strains of bacteria force patients to res…
CSEF · 2015
Zoology Fourth Award
Objectives/Goals The purpose of my project is to determine what color insects are most attracted to: white, red, orange, yellow, green, or blue. The reason I am doing this investigation is t…
ISEF · 2015
Systems Software Fourth Award
Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer related deaths in the world, yet many deaths can be avoided if malignant solitary pulmonary nodules (SPNs) are detected at an early stage of develo…
CSEF · 2015
Electronics & Electromagnetics Fourth Award
Objectives/Goals The purpose of this project was to build a device that generated power from a soccer ball. I researched existing products, build and designed a prototype and then analyzed i…
ISEF · 2015
Systems Software Fourth Award
PURPOSE: To investigate the effect of Leptomycin-B (LMB) on the subcellular distribution of a histone deacetylase protein (HDAC4) in HEK-293 cancer cells and how this response affects kidney…
CSEF · 2015
Earth & Atmospheric Sciences (Junior Division Only) Fourth Award
Objectives/Goals My objective was to learn how the porosity of a porous medium impacts flowrate. My hypothesis was that the larger the porosity the faster the flowrate would be. Methods/Mate…
ISEF · 2015
Fourth Award
The smartphone has become our communication device, our wallet, and our personal assistant. It has updated many old technologies, but one that has not benefitted from it is the personal lock…
ISEF · 2015
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design Fourth Award
Radon222 is a chemically inert gas with an atomic number of 86. It forms from the natural decay of Uranium238. It is the second leading cause of lung cancer in Ireland. This is due to the em…
ISEF · 2015
Fourth Award
Recent research efforts in ambient RF energy harvesting are being focused on designing ultra-low power battery free products and maximizing the efficiency of RF harvesting circuits. But the…
ISEF · 2015
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design Fourth Award
Hydrogels can be injected into localized surface tumors for the consistent release of anti-cancer drugs over a specific period of time. This project used metal-free “click” chemistry to deve…
CSEF · 2015
Toxicology Fourth Award
Objectives/Goals The objective is to determine the effects of microwave radiation on the seed germination and growth of a bean plant. Methods/Materials Forty-two bean seeds were placed into…
ISEF · 2015
Systems Software Fourth Award
Type 2 diabetes (T2D) is a chronic disease brought about by metabolic events such as insulin resistance and the progressive dysfunction of insulin-secreting beta cells. Recently, both inflam…
ISEF · 2015
Translational Medical Science Fourth Award
Mitochondria are the "energy factories" of the cell. Their main function is ATP production, and they are normally thumb-shaped with lamellar cristae. Mitochondrial morphology regulates apopt…
ISEF · 2015
Fourth Award
In this research, we have introduced and analyzed a new method of creating a large-scale network for monitoring the radiation background in big cities. The project is based on integration of…
ISEF · 2015
Fourth Award
Extreme losses in summer Arctic sea ice pack, a leading indicator of climate change, have led to the need for significant revisions of global climate models. Part of the efforts to improve t…
CSEF · 2015
Product Science (Biological) (Junior Division Only) Fourth Award
Objectives/Goals To determine if a pre-rinse or scrub step will help the ability of a dishwasher to clean dishes. Glo Germ(TM) was used as a bacterial surrogate to represent a biofilm that c…
ISEF · 2015
Fourth Award
Antibiotics have become a vital element of modern medicine with many people calling them “miracle drugs.” Nonetheless, the misuse and overuse of these medical messiahs has led to an increase…
ISEF · 2015
Fourth Award
My project is built around the idea to use the graphics card as a method of accelerating the simulation of physical systems in the form of N-body systems. This vastly reduces the high amount…
ISEF · 2015
Fourth Award
A new approach to UAV control, combining computer vision and control techniques, is introduced. Objects are detected using a UAV camera. The distance between the object center of mass, in th…
ISEF · 2015
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design Fourth Award
Transplantation is a process that consists in replace a diseased organ or tissue for a healthy exemplar of it. In many times this is the only effective treatment to cure the disease. However…
ISEF · 2015
Fourth Award
Our experiment seeks to prove the existence of elastic collision reactions occurring between ions emitted from a plasma beam and the target chamber wall. In order to prove this phenomenon, w…
ISEF · 2015
Fourth Award
The N-th Degree Truncated Polynomial Ring (NTRU) cryptosystem is a promising alternative to current cryptosystems, such as RSA, because of its superior security characteristics. Convolution…
ISEF · 2015
Fourth Award
Experimentation with artificial patination can improve the accuracy of visually identifying prehistoric stone tool source material. Little work exists on identifying patina formation on spec…