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 · 2012
Behavioral & Social Sciences Fourth Award
Objectives/Goals The objective is to see if children can perceive the difference between Duchenne (real) smiles and fake smiles in other children. Additional goals were to determine if there…
CSEF · 2012
Environmental Engineering (Junior Division Only) Fourth Award
Objectives/Goals The purpose of this project is to build an environmental friendly carbon dioxide filter that is safe and economical for home use, as well as to determine its efficacy with d…
CSEF · 2012
Chemistry Fourth Award
Objectives/Goals American families lose an estimated $2,000 a year to food spoilage. Complex chemical reactions result in loss of taste and nutrients such as essential Vitamin C (Ascorbic Ac…
CSEF · 2012
Environmental Science Fourth Award
Objectives/Goals My objective was to test the quality of drinking water in Fresno and Clovis. Water is essential to the human body. all living organisms need it to survive. Furthermore the q…
CSEF · 2012
Earth & Planetary Sciences Fourth Award
Objectives/Goals This experiment examined whether the local variables of temperature, humidity and barometric pressure influence the frequency of muon strikes at sea level. Methods/Materials…
CSEF · 2012
Mathematics & Software Fourth Award
Objectives/Goals The goal was to develop a novel test for accurately identifying duplicated content in a large text corpus and build an efficient program to detect duplicate content based on…
CSEF · 2012
Microbiology (General) Fourth Award
Objectives/Goals My objectives are to determine if oral bacteria will develop cross resistance to other mouthwashes and to antibiotics with repeated use of mouthwash and whether the resistan…
CSEF · 2012
Biochemistry/ Molecular Biology Fourth Award
Objectives/Goals The objective is to increase efficiency of a microbial fuel cell. It is predicted that increased temperature and surface area will increase the voltage the microbial fuel ce…
CSEF · 2012
Plant Biology Fourth Award
Objectives/Goals The experiment was to measure the effects of eggshell on plant growth. My hypothesis was that the more eggshell added to the soil, the faster the plant would grow. Methods/M…
CSEF · 2012
Mammalian Biology Fourth Award
Objectives/Goals To interrogate whether ERK-related protein defects specific to synapses of the hippocampus are consistent across multiple mouse models of autism. Methods/Materials Hippocamp…
CSEF · 2012
Mammalian Biology Fourth Award
Objectives/Goals The objective of this research was exploring the correlation among toeprints and fingerprints. The first aspect was to explore the relationship between pairs of correspondin…
CSEF · 2012
Electronics & Electromagnetics Fourth Award
Objectives/Goals My objective is to identify the best way to build an indoor navigation system that can help Alzheimer's patients find their locations at home and receive cues for accomplish…
CSEF · 2012
Pharmacology/ Toxicology Fourth Award
Objectives/Goals The main purpose of this research is to obtain a better understanding of optimal radiotherapy that can be used to treat cancer patients. Dedifferentiation is a relatively re…
CSEF · 2012
Chemistry Fourth Award
Objectives/Goals We compared playing classical music to rock music during the freezing process of water to see if it affects the size, shape, count of the crystals formed. Methods/Materials…
CSEF · 2012
Environmental Science Fourth Award
Objectives/Goals My goal is to create a complete system of Carbon Dioxide Gas capture and conversion into usable substance, and the recycling of waste CO2. By capturing atmospheric Carbon Di…
CSEF · 2012
Behavioral & Social Sciences Fourth Award
Objectives/Goals This study investigated differences in mood, fatigue, sleep, and mental health measures among middle-aged and older adults who participated in community-based classes - eith…
CSEF · 2012
Alternative Energy (Junior Division Only) Fourth Award
Objectives/Goals Renewable energies such as solar, wind, hydroelectric and geothermal could potentially help to reduce our dependence on fossil fuels, but are expensive and not always availa…
CSEF · 2012
Microbiology (General) Fourth Award
Objectives/Goals The objective of this project is to determine whether UV sterilization can pasteurize milk. Methods/Materials To test my hypothesis I used 8 different UV exposure durations:…
CSEF · 2012
Earth & Planetary Sciences Fourth Award
Objectives/Goals In this experiment, three forms of management practices where tested. The goal of the experiment was to discover the most effective way to slow down soil erosion by water in…
CSEF · 2012
Aerodynamics/ Hydrodynamics (Junior Division Only) Fourth Award
Objectives/Goals The purpose of this research project was to investigate whether the Leidenfrost effect can be used to reduce the drag on a metal object traveling through a liquid. Methods/M…
CSEF · 2012
Applied Mechanics & Structures Fourth Award
Objectives/Goals The objective of my project was to find how the amount of force put on the human knee and quadriceps muscle is affected by the knee#s angle. The results of this experiment c…
CSEF · 2012
Microbiology (Medical) (Junior Division Only) Fourth Award
Objectives/Goals The objective is to determine which form of a natural, Ayurvedic cure, amongst cinnamon, garlic, pomegranate, and wasabi, is most effective against E. coli bacteria. Methods…
CSEF · 2012
Electronics & Electromagnetics Fourth Award
Objectives/Goals The objective of this project is to address the question: what is the effect of distance between a transmitter and a receiver on the propagation loss of signal power? Unlike…
CSEF · 2012
Biochemistry/ Molecular Biology Fourth Award
Objectives/Goals Agrobacterium tumefaciens is a bacteria that injects its own DNA into plant cells causing cancerous tumors to grow. The objective of my experiment was to see if antioxidants…
CSEF · 2012
Product Science (Physical) (Junior Division Only) Fourth Award
Objectives/Goals Objective: The purpose of my science fair project was to investigate which age of paint, casein paint, tempera paint, Renaissance paint, or modern oil paint, would sustain i…
CSEF · 2012
Plant Biology Fourth Award
Objectives/Goals Mycorrhizae is a natural fungus that increases the surface area of the roots. This makes hard-to-capture nutrients available to plants, allowing them to be bigger, and healt…
CSEF · 2012
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only) Fourth Award
Objectives/Goals How accurate is eye witness testimony. The hypothesis for this experiment is that eyewitness testimony will not be accurate because memory is not an exact science. Methods/M…
CSEF · 2012
Product Science (Biological) (Junior Division Only) Fourth Award
Objectives/Goals The goal of this project is to determine which type of reading platform is better: Back-lit (LCD) eReader, Non- Back- lit (eInk)eReader, and a book. Methods/Materials There…
CSEF · 2012
Zoology Fourth Award
Objectives/Goals The purpose of my experiment is to determine if the Anopheles gambia mosquito larvae#s ocelli have the capability to detect color by measuring its affinity to certain colors…
CSEF · 2012
Physics & Astronomy Fourth Award
Objectives/Goals The goal was to determine whether or not the temperature dependence of the speed of sound in air with harmful concentrations of volatile organic compounds (VOC's) would devi…