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.
ISEF · 2014
Mathematics Fourth Award
Cell screening has revolutionized the field of medicine, with hundreds of cancer drugs owing their discovery these techniques. However, current methods involve analyzing population of cells…
ISEF · 2014
Physics and Astronomy Fourth Award
Apple snail (Pomacea canaliculata), pulmonate snail (Cryptozona siamensis), and giant African snail (Achatina fulica) are important agricultural pests that cause cultivation problems in Thai…
ISEF · 2014
Engineering Mechanics Fourth Award
The purpose of this project is to develop and evaluate combinations of technologies which will ultimately lead the design of a system tuned to collision avoidance. The goal is to observe and…
ISEF · 2014
Embedded Systems Fourth Award
Around 7% of the world's population is color-blind. The aim is to determine the most effective algorithm to optimize digital content for color-blind viewers and to develop an application tha…
ISEF · 2014
Energy: Chemical Fourth Award
The scale of a parking lot is huge in urban areas nowadays, so it’s getting harder to find a vacant parking place and to get back to your car after parking. The current intelligent parking s…
ISEF · 2014
Mathematics Fourth Award
A novel nanoparticle (NP) targeted cancer therapy with personalized medicine applications is described. A NP concept, applying biologically compatible quantum dots (QDs), was created for can…
ISEF · 2014
Earth and Environmental Sciences Fourth Award
The future of personalized cancer treatment relies on the existence of computational models that can accurately predict how a patient will respond to a cancer drug, given the genetic makeup…
ISEF · 2014
Mathematics Fourth Award
Short non-coding RNAs, microRNAs (miRNAs) regulate gene expression by silencing their target mRNAs through degradation. Because miRNA dysregulation is linked with tumorigenesis, expression s…
ISEF · 2014
Physics and Astronomy Fourth Award
The accuracy of two fundamental techniques of orbital determination, Gaussian and Laplacian, was compared for three near-Earth asteroids (NEAs): 2010 TN54, 1998 QE2, and 1989 FC, chosen for…
ISEF · 2014
Engineering Mechanics Fourth Award
Wastewater effluent from local wastewater treatment center contained relatively high concentrations of carboxylic derivatives, proteins, grease, oil, phosphate, and humic acids causing and f…
ISEF · 2014
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics Fourth Award
Damage to the heart muscle has long been considered irreparable and an indicator of future heart failure. When damaged, the heart forms a scar-like tissue that develops over regions of damag…
ISEF · 2014
Robotics and Intelligent Machines Fourth Award
Resveratrol is a natural plant product that has anti-tumor, anti-cancer, and life-span increasing properties in humans. However, extracting resveratrol from plants such as grapes and peanuts…
ISEF · 2014
Systems Software Fourth Award
The world today faces an increasing shortage of food production due to the exponential growth in the human population. The root of this predicament lies in limitations to further improve cap…
ISEF · 2014
Microbiology Fourth Award
Asteroid taxonomy is the classification of asteroids on the basis of the shape of their emission spectrum and their color. These properties are believed to correspond with the surface compos…
CSEF · 2014
Earth & Planetary Sciences Fourth Award
Objectives/Goals To determine the affect of atmospheric inversions on ground particulate matter 2.5 (PM 2.5) levels. To compare San Lorenzo Valley's particulate matter 2.5 levels to neighbor…
CSEF · 2014
Zoology Fourth Award
Objectives/Goals This experiment tested a method of differentiating male and female Market Squids based on the squids' mantle to arm length ratio. Methods/Materials One hundred and fifty thr…
ISEF · 2014
Environmental Engineering Fourth Award
The water situation in the Atacama region is entering a critical stage, especially in the north of Chile, which is supplied by groundwater. "In the fourth sector of the watershed, where the…
CSEF · 2014
Chemistry Fourth Award
Objectives/Goals To determine which soda, if any, will clean the tarnish and corrosion off of a penny after a week of soaking in the beverage. If the sodas can remove corrosion, I will infer…
ISEF · 2014
Energy: Chemical Fourth Award
A solid state fan is an air propulsion device with no moving parts. This is often achieved using an electrohydrodynamic system that uses corona discharge to ionize air and an electric field…
CSEF · 2014
Biochemistry/ Molecular Biology Fourth Award
Objectives/Goals The goal was to determine which growth factors, NGF and cAMP, stimulate the neurons to grow the longest axons, and the largest area of the growth cones. Methods/Materials PC…
ISEF · 2014
Chemistry Fourth Award
The use of transition state analogs to inhibit protein and enzyme activity has an extremely powerful application to medical and biochemical disciplines. Kluyveromyces lactis, along with many…
ISEF · 2014
Materials Science Fourth Award
There are nearly a billion people worldwide who do not have access to clean water and this lack of access has led to nearly 3.4 million deaths annually. This project attempted to determine a…
ISEF · 2014
Plant Sciences Fourth Award
Environmental protection, food availability and energy production are the most important issues in the 21st century. In comparison with traditional liquid base catalysts, solid acid catalyst…
ISEF · 2014
Earth and Environmental Sciences Fourth Award
The purpose of this experiment is to synthesize a compound that will inhibit the dimerization of the Signal Transducer and Activation of Transcription-3 (STAT3) protein, by altering its acti…
ISEF · 2014
Energy: Chemical Fourth Award
The purpose of our Project is to track a remotely designated target. It can be assumed as a basic simulation for the seeker part of a laser guided missile. Our Project consists of three comp…
CSEF · 2014
Physics & Astronomy Fourth Award
Objectives/Goals The project objective was to determine out if there are any Exo-planets that could potentially support life. Methods/Materials Three criteria tested the planet#s habitabilit…
CSEF · 2014
Pharmacology/ Toxicology Fourth Award
Objectives/Goals This project was created in order to further understand the specific compounds in eucaplytus globulus extract that cause its insect repellent properties, how those component…
CSEF · 2014
Plant Biology Fourth Award
Objectives/Goals Conventional fertilizers may cause issues from low nitrogen uptake from plants. The increase of available, yet unused, nitrogen in the soil may also cause adverse effects to…
ISEF · 2014
Energy: Physical Fourth Award
While previous studies have investigated the incidence of injuries among high school cross country runners, there has yet to be a study conducted to compare barefoot and shod running in this…
ISEF · 2014
Physics and Astronomy Fourth Award
The purpose of my experiment is to investigate a method to increase the growth rate and yield of Moringa oleifera to help alleviate malnourishment and related diseases worldwide. I continued…