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 · 2008
Mathematics & Software Second Award
Objectives/Goals With the astounding number of digital images available, there is an increasing need to search image collections. Many systems such as Google and Flickr use text-based search…
CSEF · 2008
Microbiology Second Award
Objectives/Goals The objective of this experiment is first, to determine species of dermatophytes most likely to colonize the canine claw, and second, to explore how the percentage of dermat…
CSEF · 2008
Product Science (Biological) (Junior Division Only) Second Award
Objectives/Goals The objective of my project is to discover if different amounts of coats of a mixture of mosquito repellent and paint repel different amounts of mosquitoes. I would like to…
CSEF · 2008
Product Science (Physical) (Junior Division Only) Second Award
Objectives/Goals The objective of this project is to find out what solution is most effective in removing hard water deposits on glass. Methods/Materials Hard water deposits are mostly calci…
CSEF · 2008
Plant Biology Second Award
Objectives/Goals This project focuses on discovering natural ways to best preserve Pinus ponderosa from attacks by Dendroctonus brevicomis and Dendroctonus ponderosae, the bark beetles affec…
CSEF · 2008
Applied Mechanics & Structures Second Award
Objectives/Goals The goal of this project is to determine how much the material of a skateboard#s bushings effect its turning performance. Methods/Materials Eight bushing pairs made from dif…
CSEF · 2008
Zoology Second Award
Objectives/Goals The objective of our project was to determine if hummingbirds preferred colored nectar from the warm end of the color spectrum (red, yellow) versus the cool end (blue, viole…
CSEF · 2008
Pharmacology/ Toxicology Second Award
Objectives/Goals Although air purifiers are advertised to improve breathing, some air purifiers emit harmful ozone. This study examines the hypothesis that ozone-generating air purifiers and…
CSEF · 2008
Behavioral & Social Sciences Second Award
Objectives/Goals The goal of this experiment was to figure out if students would pick up new vocabulary in a foreign language faster when the vocabulary was associated with a picture, or wit…
CSEF · 2008
Electronics & Electromagnetics Second Award
Objectives/Goals The objective of this experiment is to produce a flying machine capable of sustained flight without wings or a visible propulsion system. The lifter will levitate using only…
CSEF · 2008
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only) Second Award
Objectives/Goals This project was performed to determine which types of sensory perception (visual, aural, or tactile) resulted in stronger short-term and long-term memory for humans. Method…
CSEF · 2008
Environmental Engineering Second Award
Objectives/Goals The objective of this experiment was to determine the contribution of water hyacinths in nutrient purification and to find the rate at which they reduced ammonium hydroxide…
CSEF · 2008
Physics & Astronomy Second Award
Objectives/Goals Liquid marbles,first created in 2001, are formed when a liquid such as water, is encapsulated within a skin of super-hydrophobic powder; this protective skin results in the…
CSEF · 2008
Chemistry Second Award
Objectives/Goals The purpose of this project is to demonstrate a practical method of creating super-hydrophobic surface coatings and then to characterize the movement of water droplets on th…
CSEF · 2008
Environmental Science (Junior Division Only) Second Award
Objectives/Goals We tested as a continuation of previous years in which we found that beach sand could be a possible contaminant of oceanwater and groundwater. We tested to see if sand could…
CSEF · 2008
Electronics & Electromagnetics Second Award
Objectives/Goals The goal of this project is to determine whether electrical energy can be generated at a reasonable efficiency by combining non-imaging optics with the Seebeck effect, to di…
CSEF · 2008
Chemistry Second Award
Objectives/Goals Every morning I take polyethylene glycol (Miralax) mixed in cold apple juice. Since dissolving Miralax is a slow process, I researched how to speed it up. My hypothesis was…
CSEF · 2008
Mammalian Biology Second Award
Objectives/Goals The purpose of this project is to see what effects age and exercise have on lung capacity. Methods/Materials My apparatus was made with a 1 gallon water bottle, plastic tubi…
CSEF · 2008
Pharmacology/ Toxicology Second Award
Objectives/Goals Objective: The objective of my project is to determine the toxicity level of different residues produced by various aquatic environments. My hypotheses were the residue from…
CSEF · 2008
Environmental Engineering Second Award
Objectives/Goals This research explores the potential for vegetable oil based fuels as substitutes for diesel. Increased oil prices and environmental concerns have focussed attention on alte…
CSEF · 2008
Earth & Planetary Sciences Second Award
Objectives/Goals The objective of this project was to examine the properties of soils around the UC Davis area and to create methods and materials which will aid in the prevention of forest…
CSEF · 2008
Biochemistry/ Molecular Biology Second Award
Objectives/Goals In patients with Huntington's Disease (HD), the transcription of several genes is altered. One emerging notion is that the down-regulation of genes may be due to the formati…
CSEF · 2008
Materials Science (Junior Division Only) Second Award
Objectives/Goals When sulfur is mixed with sand, heated to melting, and cooled it forms sulfur concrete. Sulfur concrete is becoming widely used industrially because of its attractive charac…
CSEF · 2008
Zoology Second Award
Objectives/Goals Two separate populations of Haminoea vesicula (Gould, 1855) are assessed based on complete specimens and shells collected primarily in British Columbia, Canada and Southern…
CSEF · 2008
Aerodynamics/ Hydrodynamics (Junior Division Only) Second Award
Objectives/Goals The object of this project is to see if the density of a liquid exerts the same resistance to flow as the liquid's viscosity. Because viscosity is a fluid's resistance to fl…
CSEF · 2008
Behavioral & Social Sciences Second Award
Objectives/Goals To study whether or not people in a small town would be more likely to help a stranger by mailing an envelope than people in a large city. To study whether or not people wou…
CSEF · 2008
Mathematics & Software Second Award
Objectives/Goals I enjoy solving the Rubik's cube, and I have developed my own method for solving it. I am interested in mathematics and have written programs to solve Sudoku puzzles and mag…
CSEF · 2007
Aerodynamics/ Hydrodynamics (Junior Division Only) Second Award
Objectives/Goals Viscosity is a fundamental property of fluids. The goals were to determine alt classifications of viscosity for representative fluids and to experimentally measure the visco…
CSEF · 2007
Chemistry Second Award
Objectives/Goals To determine (a)if tea (green and black) contains the polyphenol type of antioxidants, namely, epicatechin, epigallocatechin, epicatechin gallate, and epigallocatechin galla…
CSEF · 2007
Behavioral & Social Sciences Second Award
Objectives/Goals The purpose of this study is to verify if women#s hair color makes a noticeable difference in social perception of women#s intelligence. Methods/Materials Using Adobe Photos…