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 · 2014
Chemistry Fourth Award
Objectives/Goals In recent years fluorine has become increasingly important to the pharmaceutical industry. Coupled with already-potent drugs, fluorine has allowed common therapies to become…
ISEF · 2014
Robotics and Intelligent Machines Fourth Award
One of the most famous mathematical problems is that of constructing figures with the aid of an unmarked straightedge and compass. A subset of this field concerns the regular polygons that c…
ISEF · 2014
Embedded Systems Fourth Award
Despite the recent growth of software-based technologies, educating students in computer science (CS) remains a challenge. In the next decade, there is expected to be 1 million more tech job…
ISEF · 2014
Mathematics Fourth Award
Electricity is a proposed treatment for biofilms. I compared three electrical approaches to treat bacterial biofilms: passage of current through/across biofilms, an electric field, and direc…
ISEF · 2014
Engineering Mechanics Fourth Award
This study was conducted to determine if utilizing a shroud around a small-scale horizontal-axis wind turbine can increase its electrical power output. Three shrouds were constructed out of…
ISEF · 2014
Embedded Systems Fourth Award
This study investigated the prevalence of relationships between equid body size and climate by comparing the El Golfo and Rancho La Brea horse second phalanges. Bergmann's rule, which states…
ISEF · 2014
Physics and Astronomy Fourth Award
Halyomorpha halys, or the Brown Marmorated Stink Bug, is an exotic pest in the United States that causes widespread damage to crops and fruits. The purpose of this experiment was to find a u…
ISEF · 2014
Engineering Mechanics Fourth Award
This project sought to investigate if, curvature forms of Cones, Chutes, and Coils could be better options than Winglets as wingtip devices that minimized wingtip vortices. Attempts also mad…
ISEF · 2014
Microbiology Fourth Award
Introduction: Bacteria develop resistance to ß-lactam antibiotics by synthesizing a ß-lactamase to counteract this. It is vital to examine the genetic elements within the ß-lactamases that c…
ISEF · 2014
Energy: Chemical Fourth Award
Miniature satellites are revolutionary to the space industry. Most do not function more than a year or even four months, but they are inexpensive, light weight, and quickly produced. This en…
ISEF · 2014
Mathematics Fourth Award
Most cultured glioma cells die under temozolomide (TMZ) treatment. However, a U251 glioma strain that proliferates under 500uM TMZ, termed "UTMZ", has been derived from U251 cells by resista…
ISEF · 2014
Energy: Physical Fourth Award
High refractive index (n) thin film coatings are widely used in the field of optics, which touches many aspects of our lives. One application of thin film coatings is in optical biosensors,…
ISEF · 2014
Embedded Systems Fourth Award
This project proposes new dynamic optimization algorithms that provide significant cache management enhancements over the known three basic algorithms for signature verifications to improve…
ISEF · 2014
Energy: Chemical Fourth Award
Solution mining at the I&W Brine Well Site in Carlsbad, New Mexico has produced a large underground cavity that could result in a catastrophic sinkhole-inducing collapse. A church, feed stor…
ISEF · 2014
Energy: Chemical Fourth Award
Parkinson’s disease is a chronic progressive degenerative neuro-disease. About 90% of patients with Parkinson’s disease die within 15 years. Since its symptoms become worse as time passes an…
ISEF · 2014
Plant Sciences Fourth Award
Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is a disease destroying humanity. Researches suggest that the aggregation of misfolded beta-amyloid is responsible for Alzheimer’s disease. pi-Stacking, the key forc…
CSEF · 2014
Behavioral & Social Sciences Fourth Award
Objectives/Goals Type-2 Diabetes is a prevalent issue in today#s society. Recent estimates have placed 25.8 million people -- in the U.S. alone with this condition, and a further 70.9 millio…
ISEF · 2014
Environmental Engineering Fourth Award
A number of epidemiological studies and animal experiments have shown that individuals with preexisting diseases, such as asthma, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), diabetes melli…
ISEF · 2014
Environmental Engineering Fourth Award
Oil slicks, resulting from oil spills, are often sprayed with chemical dispersants. Ideally, the sub-millimeter scale dispersant droplets will gently land on the oil slick and gradually mix…
ISEF · 2014
Mathematics Fourth Award
Acetylation and methylation are garnering increasing attention for their respective roles in metabolic regulation through altering both gene expression and cytoplasmic enzyme activity. Howev…
CSEF · 2014
Earth & Planetary Sciences Fourth Award
Objectives/Goals The Moon and the Sun have the largest gravitational effects on the Earth of all the celestial bodies. The resulting land tides may have the capability to trigger earthquakes…
ISEF · 2014
Engineering Mechanics Fourth Award
Although fossil fuels have the capacity to power the Earth for decades, solar energy is an essential, environmentally friendly form of renewable energy that can supplement fossil fuel energy…
ISEF · 2014
Mathematics Fourth Award
In spite of chemotherapeutic and surgical advances, pancreatic cancer continues to have a dismal prognosis. Metastasis due to tumor cell migration remains the most critical challenge in trea…
ISEF · 2014
Robotics and Intelligent Machines Fourth Award
A major problem in today’s society, specifically in developing countries, is accessing sanitary drinking water. Over 780 million people are without safe drinking water. One main cause of thi…
CSEF · 2014
Plant Biology Fourth Award
Objectives/Goals It is known that priming seeds with water can enhance the tolerance to saline growth conditions compared to seeds that are not primed. My objective was to examine the effect…
ISEF · 2014
Environmental Engineering Fourth Award
The intent of this experiment was to discover which method of irrigating plants grew the plants in the most efficient manner. I tried a new irrigation system that consisted of injecting the…
ISEF · 2014
Energy: Chemical Fourth Award
The authors aim to create an affordable electronic Braille display that can be widely assembled in most of the countries and well-equipped with essential functions. Feedbacks are collected f…
ISEF · 2014
Mathematics Fourth Award
In recent years, the ketogenic diet, a high-fat, low-carbohydrate and low-protein diet, has been shown to have potential as an effective adjuvant therapy for patients with malignant glioma.…
ISEF · 2014
Environmental Engineering Fourth Award
The purpose of this project was to reduce the emissions from an engine using activated carbon (AC) as a supplemental filter while a catalytic converter is warming up. This experiment measure…
ISEF · 2014
Energy: Physical Fourth Award
Substantial challenges of drug delivery to treat various diseases exist in our modern world. The acidic environment of the stomach, combined with an array of intestinal digestive enzymes, po…