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
Environmental Science Second Award
Objectives/Goals The purpose of this experiment is to determine if milk provided by schools to students should be served in plastic bags or paper cartons. Methods/Materials Many schools have…
CSEF · 2014
Physics & Astronomy Second Award
Objectives/Goals We wanted to build a simple and inexpensive cellphone spectrophotometer that would allow us to measure the absorption of visible light through different colored solutions an…
ISEF · 2014
Earth and Environmental Sciences Second Award
We present Semantic Multilayer Support Vector Machine (SMLSVM), a novel prototype for artificial intelligence that uses a multilayer network of Support Vector Machines (SVM) to perform data…
CSEF · 2014
Physics & Astronomy Second Award
Objectives/Goals Elements heavier than iron are formed via two neutron capture processes: the rapid r-process that occurs in supernovae and the slower s-process that occurs in less massive s…
ISEF · 2014
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics Second Award
The fabrication of laser grade ceramics must be improved to achieve better reproducibility of high quality yields, requiring a control of the bulk stoichiometry beyond that of current analyt…
CSEF · 2014
Mammalian Biology Second Award
Objectives/Goals Mathematical models of the heart have proven essential to the study of cardiac arrhythmias, which are poorly understood yet the leading cause of death in the industrialized…
ISEF · 2014
Robotics and Intelligent Machines Second Award
The effort to understand the microscopic mechanism of melting has intrigued scientists for more than 100 years, but many questions about melting mechanisms remain to be answered. The aim of…
ISEF · 2014
Engineering Mechanics Second Award
The Bornean orangutan is endangered, threatened by illegal poaching and habitat loss, largely caused by land conversion to palm oil plantations. In December 2013, the world's largest palm oi…
ISEF · 2014
Plant Sciences Second Award
This project aimed to synthesize periodic mesoporous organosilica (PMO) nanoparticles with a wrinkle pore structure to use as a delivery system for chemotherapeutic and radiotherapeutic agen…
ISEF · 2014
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics Second Award
Glioblastoma Multiforme is the most frequent and devastating malignant brain tumor among adults with an average life expectancy of one year after diagnosis. This is partly due to its multi-d…
CSEF · 2014
Earth & Planetary Sciences Second Award
Objectives/Goals Abstract I was led to this project because I have always loved heliophysics, and I have always loved researching the sun in general: I have always wondered about the solar w…
ISEF · 2014
Engineering Mechanics Second Award
Solar panels consist of solar cells that use light energy from the sun to generate electricity. When the solar panel increases in temperature, the power output decreases. The purpose of this…
CSEF · 2014
Earth & Planetary Sciences Second Award
Objectives/Goals The objective of this project is to find a potential correlation between hurricane and tropical storm occurrence and the prevention of the formation of the Gulf of Mexico's…
CSEF · 2014
Environmental Science Second Award
Objectives/Goals The purpose of this study was to determine the effects of common Californian soil treatments in restoration plots on the development and activity of arbuscular mycorrhizal f…
CSEF · 2014
Alternative Energy (Junior Division Only) Second Award
Objectives/Goals The purpose of this project is to develop a cost effective method for increasing biofuel yields from algae by investigating how different extraction methods of the antioxida…
ISEF · 2014
Energy: Physical Second Award
Despite extensive development of power generation and delivery infrastructure during the past century, over 1.4 billion people around the world still do not have access to or cannot afford e…
CSEF · 2014
Materials Science (Junior Division Only) Second Award
Objectives/Goals This project aimed to develop a thermosensitive injectable hydrogel that will form gel at body temperature. When loaded with antibiotics, the hydrogel can locally release th…
ISEF · 2014
Mathematics Second Award
Purpose : To improve the vision, lifestyle, safety and recovery of the vision impaired and stroke recovery patients suffering from hemianopia and vision induced hemiplegia with the use of an…
ISEF · 2014
Mathematics Second Award
Lung cancer is the deadliest cancer claiming 159,480 deaths in 2013 (American Cancer Society). Lung cancer may also become chemotherapy and radiotherapy resistant. Manganese Superoxide Dismu…
ISEF · 2014
Earth and Environmental Sciences Second Award
The early and accurate diagnosis of Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is often challenging, yet critical to the matter of a patient’s life or death and the quality of remaining life. The purpose of t…
CSEF · 2014
Applied Mechanics & Structures Second Award
Objectives/Goals The objective of this project is to reduce rollover accidents involving large truck by engineering an Electronic Stability Control system called Active Tilt Compensation (AT…
ISEF · 2014
Energy: Chemical Second Award
Many accessories and machinery have introduced for various agriculture based activities, yet nobody has introduced a Machine for bund reforming with ability to plough in Paddy field. Up to n…
CSEF · 2014
Plant Biology Second Award
Objectives/Goals In the Coachella Valley, the golf industry consumes an enormous amount of water; they frequently use aquifer water to achieve this. However, this resource is limited. The ot…
CSEF · 2014
Mammalian Biology Second Award
Objectives/Goals We want to know if we need to protect our ears from NIHL, to become aware on how we could prevent acquiring hearing loss and to stop or avoid wearing hearing aids. To prove…
ISEF · 2014
Robotics and Intelligent Machines Second Award
Alcanivorax borkumensis has an important biotechnological application: these bacteria are able to degrade hydrocarbon contaminants during oil spills. To effectively use the bacteria, it is i…
ISEF · 2014
Engineering Mechanics Second Award
Enhancing the efficiency of single-celled microbial fuel cells (SCMFC) provides the opportunity for wastewater treatment plants to invest in biotechnology that will allow these facilities to…
CSEF · 2013
Mammalian Biology Second Award
Objectives/Goals The goals are: 1) to develop a cookie-baking like method to fabricate micro-devices (with feature size of 10 µm) at home; 2) design, fabricate, and test a homemade micro-dev…
CSEF · 2013
Chemistry Second Award
Objectives/Goals About 130 neutral and about a dozen positively-charged molecules have been discovered in space (the most abundant of which include H3+, CO+, N2H+, CH5+, etc). However, only…
CSEF · 2013
Product Science (Physical) (Junior Division Only) Second Award
Objectives/Goals My project was designed to determine whether commercially available bio-based lubricants offer viable alternatives to petroleum-based lubricants when all relevant factors (t…
CSEF · 2013
Mammalian Biology Second Award
Objectives/Goals The purpose of this research was to determine if there was a co-occurrence among allergies and asthma, if there was a certain age when people develop and outgrow allergies,…