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
Physics & Astronomy Fourth Award
Objectives/Goals The world needs a clean, renewable source of energy that will fuel our existing four stroke engines. Ive proved before that HHO can safely run an engine without gasoline. Pr…
ISEF · 2014
Environmental Engineering Fourth Award
Although there are some stove types in our life like gas stove and wood stove, all of these types can be harmful for humans and our environment. For example, the gas stove could burn the are…
ISEF · 2014
Chemistry Fourth Award
This research is a comparative study between varying pretreatment methods employed in the cellulosic bioethanol production process. The first pretreatment is a process known as biological pr…
ISEF · 2014
Robotics and Intelligent Machines Fourth Award
Triclosan™ is a widely utilized chemical antimicrobial used to combat a wide range of pathogenic microbes; however, it’s use may cause environmental issues including the creation of dioxins…
ISEF · 2014
Mathematics Fourth Award
An alternative treatment using natural plant extracts was investigated for the opportunistic fungal pathogen, Candida albicans. Infections with this pathogen are frequently seen in immunocom…
ISEF · 2014
Physics and Astronomy Fourth Award
Granular segregation is a counterintuitive phenomenon in nonlinear physics where granular particles in binary granular mixtures sort by size under excitation. Although segregation is a very…
ISEF · 2014
Robotics and Intelligent Machines Fourth Award
Given a number x, we consider the dynamic system x goes to x(g^x) mod (p^n), also known as the Discrete Lambert. In this equation, all variables are known other than x. The Discrete Lambert…
ISEF · 2014
Mathematics Fourth Award
Acute Myeloid Leukemia (AML) is estimated to affect over 18,000 people in the United States this year. It occurs when there’s a blockage in differentiation. AML type 3 doesn’t have a chemoth…
ISEF · 2014
Energy: Chemical Fourth Award
A great deal of time is wasted trying to locate misplaced keys. This can ruin your day, leave you late for work or school, stretch relationships, increase the blood pressure and can result i…
CSEF · 2014
Pharmacology/ Toxicology Fourth Award
Objectives/Goals The goal of my project is to expand my experiment from last year when I observed the effects of GMO versus organic papaya diet on the longevity and fertility of fruit flies.…
ISEF · 2014
Microbiology Fourth Award
Since the discovery of penicillin, bacteria have developed mechanisms to avoid its effects and, therefore, survive. Furthermore, during the last decades and because of the overuse of antibio…
CSEF · 2014
Mathematics & Software Fourth Award
Objectives/Goals The objective was to design a computer program to model the game of Connect Four and to sometimes win against average human beings using defensive, offensive, and look ahead…
CSEF · 2014
Mammalian Biology Fourth Award
Objectives/Goals Roughly 20 percent of the autism spectrum disorder population suffers from co-morbid diseases (co-occurring conditions that affect the individual in addition to ASD). While…
ISEF · 2014
Energy: Physical Fourth Award
Tetraplegia is a state of paralysis involving the loss of muscle functions of all four limbs in the human body. There is currently no cure for such severe forms of paralysis, though neural p…
ISEF · 2014
Energy: Physical Fourth Award
Gold nanoparticles have recently come to prominence due to increased demand for nanoscale technologies. Nanoparticles of different shapes have unique capabilities. Current methods for synthe…
ISEF · 2014
Energy: Physical Fourth Award
As technology evolves, weapons evolve, and the need for an armor that can protect against modern weapons grows. The purpose of this project is to determine the viability of developing a body…
ISEF · 2014
Mathematics Fourth Award
End stage liver diseases can only be cured by whole liver transplantation. Because of limited supply of donor livers the supply will never meet the demand. Stem cells have shown to provide a…
CSEF · 2014
Aerodynamics/ Hydrodynamics (Junior Division Only) Fourth Award
Objectives/Goals After designing and creating two types of toroidal vortex cannons, I used four different aperture sizes to test for distance and velocity of the created toroidal rings. Meth…
CSEF · 2014
Microbiology (General) Fourth Award
Objectives/Goals My project was done to determine if a rise in the salinity of the environment that Paramecia Aurelius lives in would impact the number of original Paramecia in a major way.…
CSEF · 2014
Applied Mechanics & Structures Fourth Award
Objectives/Goals The objective of my project is to show the comparison between robots and humans in the real world. One of my major goals during my science project was to prove that robots c…
ISEF · 2014
Engineering Mechanics Fourth Award
Hydraulic fracturing, pumping fluids at high pressures underground to fracture shale, releases natural gas (Wiseman, 2010). Fracturing fluids resurface as flowback water. Generally disposed…
ISEF · 2014
Embedded Systems Fourth Award
The optical mouse has replaced the mechanical mouse as the major pointing device for desktop and laptop computers due to its ability to work on a wider variety of surfaces. Although vision-b…
ISEF · 2014
Mathematics Fourth Award
Clostridium difficile and Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) have been the main source of nosocomial infections in North America since 2003. There is currently no effective a…
ISEF · 2014
Materials Science Fourth Award
In the United States, obesity is estimated to cause 111,909 to 365,000 deaths per year, while 1 million deaths are linked to obesity in Europe. On average, obesity reduces life expectancy by…
ISEF · 2014
Materials Science Fourth Award
Bioindicators are a widespread and effective tool for evaluating ecosystem condition. Weight-length models are essential to using fish as bioindicators, providing estimates of expected weigh…
CSEF · 2014
Product Science (Biological) (Junior Division Only) Fourth Award
Objectives/Goals Many people who are suffering from osteoarthritis, rheumatoid arthritis, and osteoporosis use gelatin to help with their conditions. It also can be used to strengthen bones,…
CSEF · 2014
Mathematics & Software Fourth Award
Objectives/Goals In medicine today, treatments for patients are based on the diagnosis, not the patient individually. It has been shown that this is only effective for about 60% of people. T…
ISEF · 2014
Microbiology Fourth Award
This research investigated if and why specific proteins in H1N1 are able to inhibit the acidification of endosomes/lysosomes in order to mediate a host cell response favorable to viral repli…
ISEF · 2014
Energy: Physical Fourth Award
Historically, production of graphene has been done through the Chemical Vapor Deposition (CVD) process, which depends on expensive and large-sized machinery, and on different types of carbon…
ISEF · 2014
Energy: Chemical Fourth Award
Traffic accidents are one of the leading causes of violent deaths in Costa Rica. Faulty road signaling and the country’s weather conditions are factors that directly influence the incidence…