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
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only) Second Award
Objectives/Goals Recently, I have been researching whether music or foreign language proficiency impacts the ability to distinguish the four primary Mandarin tones. As a Chinese adoptee, I w…
ISEF · 2015
Second Award
In several instances, industrialization has led to increased contamination of agricultural fields with cytotoxic level of heavy metals. In seeded plants, the ZIP (ZRT- IRT-like Protein) fami…
ISEF · 2015
Second Award
The purpose of this research was to determine if flap arrangement on a hydropower turbine would change the efficiency of the turbine. The reason this experiment is important to the public is…
CSEF · 2015
Chemistry Second Award
Objectives/Goals Our goal was to use polarimetry to measure the activation energy of the inversion of sucrose in the presence of a catalyst. Sucrose inversion occurs when it is dissolved in…
CSEF · 2015
Mathematics & Software Second Award
Objectives/Goals Understanding elements and their atomic structure is a very interesting and important study. But, the logic involved is not straightforward. My goal is to come up with a sol…
ISEF · 2015
Second Award
The purpose of this research was to determine whether magnetised Magnetotactic Bacteria can be used to generate electricity. Magnetotactic bacteria (MTB) biomineralize intracellular nanopart…
CSEF · 2015
Zoology Second Award
Objectives/Goals The goal and objective of the experiment is to figure out the duration of memory for natural memetics (e.g. learned information) in three species of captive Tetras, includin…
CSEF · 2015
Alternative Energy (Junior Division Only) Second Award
Objectives/Goals A microbial fuel cell is a renewable means of generating electricity using anaerobic bacteria that decompose organic matter. The goal of my project is to find out how the pH…
ISEF · 2015
Biomedical Engineering Second Award
Background: Myocardial infarction (MI) remains a leading cause of morbidity and mortality worldwide. Current management of MI does not replace lost cardiomyocytes (CMs) with new CMs. Induced…
CSEF · 2015
Mammalian Biology Second Award
Objectives/Goals The number of people using visual aids is rapidly increasing. However, it is still not completely clear what is causing this. This epidemiological study uses a sample of the…
CSEF · 2015
Aerodynamics/ Hydrodynamics (Junior Division Only) Second Award
Objectives/Goals The objective of my project was to create a new design of wind turbine blade and test its efficiency at varying wind speeds against two previously designed blades, the stand…
CSEF · 2015
Behavioral & Social Sciences Second Award
Objectives/Goals To investigates English phonological change (California Vowel Shift) in the Bay Area in the past twenty years, and attempts to explain the causes of the sound change and pos…
ISEF · 2015
Second Award
Large-scale adoption of solar power is limited by high cost compared to fossil fuel-based power generation. Multijunction quantum dot solar cells offer a potential high-efficiency, low-cost…
ISEF · 2015
Systems Software Second Award
Tumor-shed cells from an epithelial lining lesion, or circulating tumor cells (CTCs), have been of significant concern with its highly characteristic identification and origin in metastatic…
ISEF · 2015
Second Award
Water is an indispensable resource essential for the survival of all species; however, 780 million people in the world lack access to clean water. Due to rising population, industrial develo…
ISEF · 2015
Biomedical Engineering Second Award
Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia (CLL), a cancer of B1 cells, is the most widespread leukemia in the world. Current chemotherapies fail to effectively target the malignant B1 cell subset in CLL,…
CSEF · 2015
Biochemistry/ Molecular Biology Second Award
Objectives/Goals My objective is to conduct a pilot study investigating if organic chicken has higher quality protein than conventional chicken. Food science research indicates that some org…
ISEF · 2015
Second Award
Nowadays, 3-D printers are considered as one of the most innovative technical developments. Until now, numerous processes, constructions as well as many possibilities of application have bee…
CSEF · 2015
Plant Biology Second Award
Objectives/Goals This study examined the effect of trigger hair stimulation on the generation of action potentials and their relationship to trap closure in a B52 Venus Flytrap (Dionea Musci…
ISEF · 2015
Second Award
This project seeks to solve two prevalent issues in our society, inefficient waste management and harmful nonrenewable energy sources, by means of micro-scale anaerobic digestion. The overal…
CSEF · 2015
Materials Science (Junior Division Only) Second Award
Objectives/Goals The objective of my project is to develop a shelter that will address both the radiant and convection heat that is generated in wildfires. My goal is that this improved fire…
CSEF · 2015
Earth & Atmospheric Sciences (Junior Division Only) Second Award
Objectives/Goals The objective was to determine whether sound waves could detect secret tunnels and sinkholes in the ground. Watermelons were used as a model of the ground, and holes represe…
ISEF · 2015
Second Award
Gray codes are sequences of binary codewords with numerous applications in telecommunications, robotics, error correction, and graph theory. Single-track Gray codes are a subclass of Gray co…
CSEF · 2015
Product Science (Physical) (Junior Division Only) Second Award
Objectives/Goals My objective was to determine if there was another dishwashing soap that can clean oiled birds as well as Dawn. I hypothesized that another brand of dishwashing soap will cl…
CSEF · 2015
Environmental Engineering Second Award
Objectives/Goals The objective is to determine if solar desalination of ocean water can be used to help end California#s water issues. Methods/Materials A solar panel was used to capture ene…
ISEF · 2015
Second Award
The atmospheric release of CO2 is strongly correlated with climate change. Metal organic frameworks (MOFs), porous, uniform, and crystalline structures, have demonstrated high promises for C…
ISEF · 2015
Second Award
Biofouling is a major problem in membrane-based desalination and wastewater reclamation processes. It greatly compromises the performance of membranes and increases operating costs. In this…
ISEF · 2015
Second Award
Though patient sex influences response to cancer treatments, time-consuming trial-and error screening currently hinders prediction of sex-disparate drug effects. We developed a novel framewo…
ISEF · 2015
Biomedical Engineering Second Award
Purpose: a) Design and implement a gravity spatial model for the ongoing epidemic of Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) in West Africa; and b) use this model, to evaluate the relative effectiveness o…
ISEF · 2015
Second Award
There is a fundamental limitation inherent in standard hearing aid devices- due to the fact that they amplify all ambient noise, use in noisy environments is both irritating and isolating. T…