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 · 2015
Second Award
Serious injuries and fatalities among cyclists are a problem of global concern. Nationwide studies on cyclist fatality have demonstrated that 92% of cycling fatalities involve a collision wi…
ISEF · 2015
Translational Medical Science Second Award
There is currently no cure for neurological disorders such as schizophrenia and Alzheimer’s disease. These disorders have been linked to impairments in critical cellular pathways including N…
CSEF · 2015
Environmental Science Second Award
Objectives/Goals In the fall of 2015, Hyperion Treatment Plant (HTP) will divert its effluent from the 5-Mile Outfall to the 1-Mile Outfall, leading to an increase in bacterial levels at loc…
ISEF · 2015
Second Award
Acrolein exposure decreased NF-E2 expression in human proximal renal tubular (HK-11) cells and induced renal cell apoptosis and increased expression of pro-fibrotic proteins. Interestingly,…
CSEF · 2015
Physics & Astronomy Second Award
Objectives/Goals The purpose of my experiment was to find a solution to the Tarzan problem: what is the best angle that Tarzan should jump off the vine to go the maximum distance. Methods/Ma…
ISEF · 2015
Second Award
The Double Droplet System (DDS) provides a unique type of adaptive lens, one that rapidly oscillates to scan a large range of focal lengths faster than other lenses can. In this project, a D…
ISEF · 2015
Second Award
Corneal scarring is the leading cause of blindness worldwide. Since current therapies are expensive and functionally inefficient, the scarring process (known as the fibroblast-to-myofibrobla…
CSEF · 2015
Microbiology (General) Second Award
Objectives/Goals With the increasing problem of antibiotic resistance in bacteria, there is a need for a different approach to combat bacterial infections without the continual abuse of anti…
ISEF · 2015
Second Award
This project was developed from an institutional program that looks to link curriculum content with specific problems of the community to which our school belongs. It is intended to transfer…
CSEF · 2015
Biochemistry/ Molecular Biology Second Award
Objectives/Goals Heart Disease is the top killer in the United States, causing 600,000 deaths annually. Current methods of prevention for this disease cause discomfort to 30% of the populati…
ISEF · 2015
Second Award
This experiment pioneered a technique to locate the descent velocity at which an unmanned aeronautical vehicle (UAV) is susceptible to vortex ring state (VRS). VRS forms when a rotorcraft de…
CSEF · 2015
Product Science (Biological) (Junior Division Only) Second Award
Objectives/Goals Aquarists perform bothersome and time-consuming biweekly 20% water changes to remove nitrates, keeping their fish tanks clean and healthy. Unfortunately, colonies of benefic…
ISEF · 2015
Biomedical Engineering Second Award
Meiotic recombination is essential to create novel allele combinations and ensure proper segregation during gametogenesis. Descriptions of detailed mechanisms of recombination are of interes…
ISEF · 2014
Physics and Astronomy Second Award
This project investigates the formation and lifecycle of classical novae and determines how parameters such as: white dwarf mass, star mass and separation affect the evolution of the rotatin…
CSEF · 2014
Electronics & Electromagnetics Second Award
Objectives/Goals The goal of this project was to investigate the use of ultrasonics on a mobile device to help prevent collisions that involve pedestrians distracted by cellphone use. The ob…
ISEF · 2014
Chemistry Second Award
Indolethylamine N-Methyl Transferase (INMT), an enzyme known for its production of N,N-dimethyltryptamine (DMT) via endogenous substrates tryptamine and S-Adenosyl L-Methionine (SAM), coloca…
CSEF · 2014
Applied Mechanics & Structures Second Award
Objectives/Goals The concept of an adaptive unmanned aerial vehicle with variable camber morphing wings has been proposed to evaluate its flight characteristics and to investigate the feasib…
ISEF · 2014
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics Second Award
My research develops a tool to enable the first ever genome-wide analysis of genetic variants, specifically single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs), in transcription factor binding sites. The…
ISEF · 2014
Robotics and Intelligent Machines Second Award
I developed a fast kinetic Monte Carlo (kMC) simulator and applied it to a study of the geometrical scaling and statistical properties of resistive random access memories (ReRAMs). These dev…
CSEF · 2014
Mathematics & Software Second Award
Objectives/Goals I started my project in order to create a method to count the number of leaves on a tree. I believe that by combining Leonardo da Vinci tree rule with Fibonacci numbers into…
CSEF · 2014
Electronics & Electromagnetics Second Award
Objectives/Goals The objective of my project is to develop an electronics prototyping platform designed specifically to run a paradigmatic operating system that I have written in an attempt…
CSEF · 2014
Microbiology (General) Second Award
Objectives/Goals The purpose of this project is to identify and characterize communication signals in polymicrobial communities using mass spectrometry as a novel tool. Understanding the int…
ISEF · 2014
Physics and Astronomy Second Award
Although simple at macro meter scales, the separation of particles inside of fluids has long been a difficult task at sizes under 200 micrometers. Various methods for such separation have be…
ISEF · 2014
Energy: Physical Second Award
Anastomosis Robot Tool (ART) is a surgical instrument. It may be used in surgery for bowel resection (i.e. cutting out a segment of large bowel that is affected by cancer) to reconnect the t…
ISEF · 2014
Systems Software Second Award
The goal of the project was to develop an RNA interference (RNAi)-based, highly specific, bio-pesticide for the control of the psyllid vector of citrus greening disease. Citrus greening dise…
ISEF · 2014
Embedded Systems Second Award
In order to overcome the limitations of standard digital cameras, high-dynamic-range (HDR) imaging is used by fusing a “stack” of multiple pictures with different exposure times. This projec…
CSEF · 2014
Mathematics & Software Second Award
Objectives/Goals Existing steady-state models have failed to accurately describe the cancerous mechanism known as overzealous p53 ubiquitination because they rely on the quasi-steady-state a…
ISEF · 2014
Embedded Systems Second Award
Although tuberculosis (TB) is the second leading cause of death from an infectious disease, affecting approximately one-third of the world’s population in some way, little is known about TB…
ISEF · 2014
Embedded Systems Second Award
One of the key challenges of wearable computing is to increase the efficiency and usability of human–computer communication, without burdening people with keyboards. This project proposed a…
ISEF · 2014
Plant Sciences Second Award
Axons form communication highways in the body that control fundamental neurological functions as movement. However, injury to matured axons results in devastating consequences to victims, su…