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
Environmental Engineering (Junior Division Only) Third Award
Objectives/Goals The purpose is to find the infiltration rates of 3 pervious substances (asphalt, concrete, pavers)at Riverside Co. Flood Control & Water Conservation District as part of the…
CSEF · 2012
Microbiology (Medical) (Junior Division Only) Third Award
Objectives/Goals My project was to determine how the sterility of the economical medical grade exam gloves including latex, nitrile, and PVC vinyl compare to the six times more costly steril…
CSEF · 2012
Mammalian Biology Third Award
Objectives/Goals I live on a busy intersection, Brookhurst and Hazard, in Garden Grove, California. There is a lot of traffic passing by all the time. I did an experiment for my school scien…
CSEF · 2012
Applied Mechanics & Structures Third Award
Objectives/Goals Car window buffeting is the rhythmic pressurization and depressurization of a cars cabin caused by Helmholtz oscillation. The purpose of this experiment was to optimize a de…
CSEF · 2012
Zoology Third Award
Objectives/Goals The Light-footed Clapper Rail is an endangered bird that inhabits Western coastal marshes. Light-footed Clapper Rails are shy animals and difficult to monitor for behavior a…
CSEF · 2012
Product Science (Physical) (Junior Division Only) Third Award
Objectives/Goals The objective was to determine which fabrics will best protect the wearer from ultraviolet rays. Does color matter? Does darkness of color or tightness of weave affect perfo…
CSEF · 2012
Physics & Astronomy Third Award
Objectives/Goals The objective of this project is to examine the feasibility of the production of non-electric refrigerators based on radiative cooling by constructing a prototype non-electr…
CSEF · 2012
Earth & Planetary Sciences Third Award
Objectives/Goals I visited Astro Camp for several days on a field trip and it inspired me to do a science fair project about space, our sun, and our solar system, so I searched for ideas on…
CSEF · 2012
Physics & Astronomy Third Award
Objectives/Goals The loss of organs due to disease or injury is a major medical problem, and often this problem can be corrected using organ transplantations. Since there is a chronic shorta…
CSEF · 2012
Microbiology (General) Third Award
Objectives/Goals The demand for oil resources has grown astronomically in recent years. Several models predict that oil production will start to decline after 2020, leading to a shortage of…
CSEF · 2012
Biochemistry/ Molecular Biology Third Award
Objectives/Goals The Objective of this experiment is to study the optimum conditions under which the enzyme cellobiase cleaves the control substrate p-Nitrophenyl Glucopyranoside and the mos…
CSEF · 2012
Electronics & Electromagnetics Third Award
Objectives/Goals The goal of this project is to design and develop a robot that can teach a child to write basic letters and numbers. The machine can assess the child's writing and give feed…
CSEF · 2012
Mammalian Biology Third Award
Objectives/Goals The objective of this project was to determine the role of neurons in the basal forebrain in a learning-dependent behavioral task and the influence of spatial probability di…
CSEF · 2012
Environmental Science Third Award
Objectives/Goals To compare the health of a location on the Kinabatangan River to a tributary that runs through a region of deforestation by measuring water quality. Methods/Materials Sample…
CSEF · 2012
Alternative Energy (Junior Division Only) Third Award
Objectives/Goals The goal is the test the affect of the haze layer and temperature at altitude on the efficiency of solar panels. Methods/Materials I used a weather ballon with various measu…
CSEF · 2012
Microbiology (General) Third Award
Objectives/Goals Bacteria of the genus Shewanella can respire a wide variety of solid-state electron acceptors; they can serve as biocatalysts in microbial fuel cells (MFCs) and as agents fo…
CSEF · 2012
Pharmacology/ Toxicology Third Award
Objectives/Goals For cancer, diabetes, and other diseases, myosin inhibitors offer potential prevention and treatment by blocking cell migration and stopping diseased cells from spreading. T…
CSEF · 2012
Applied Mechanics & Structures Third Award
Objectives/Goals The goal of this project was to develop and validate the effectiveness and performance of a novel hybrid floating foundation during liquefaction through model testing on a s…
CSEF · 2012
Behavioral & Social Sciences Third Award
Objectives/Goals The objective is to determine how the gender of a subject affects the way he or she responds to human-like androids that can be categorized as belonging to the Uncanny Valle…
CSEF · 2012
Biochemistry/ Molecular Biology Third Award
Objectives/Goals The objective of this study was to discover whether or not hepatocyte apoptosis due to non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) is mitochondria-dependent, and thus follows…
CSEF · 2012
Chemistry Third Award
Objectives/Goals The goal of my project is to synthesize quantum dots and apply them to solar cells to make them more efficient. Methods/Materials ZnSe quantum dots, composed of Zinc Acetate…
CSEF · 2012
Plant Biology Third Award
Objectives/Goals The objective of this experiment is to more precisely define the location of the gene for triforine sensitivity (Tr) based on the segregation of alleles in the F4 filial of…
CSEF · 2012
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only) Third Award
Objectives/Goals The objective to my project is to determine if students exposed to positive subliminal messages in their instruction will show a higher growth in scores on timed multiplicat…
CSEF · 2012
Earth & Planetary Sciences Third Award
Objectives/Goals The purpose of my project was to determine if saturating hydrophobic soil with an alkaline or acidic solution will help with water percolation. My goal is to find a way to r…
CSEF · 2011
Aerodynamics/ Hydrodynamics (Junior Division Only) Third Award
Objectives/Goals What changes, if any, to the shape of a pickup truck, will change the aerodynamics? I hypothesized that even a small change would affect the aerodynamics, therefore drag, of…
CSEF · 2011
Microbiology (General) Third Award
Objectives/Goals The objective of this experiment was to identify (a) how Neutrogena, Clean & Clear, baking soda, toothpaste, apple cider vinegar, salt water, and Neosporin would affect the…
CSEF · 2011
Plant Biology Third Award
Objectives/Goals The purpose for my experiment was to find out if there is a way to get rid of/preventing aphids on lettuce plants by using organic substances which are readily available in…
CSEF · 2011
Biochemistry/ Molecular Biology Third Award
Objectives/Goals The project was to determine whether lowering the power and extending the microwave cooking time has an effect on vitamin C remaining in cooked red yams. It was thought that…
CSEF · 2011
Zoology Third Award
Objectives/Goals Today, certain marine animals cannot be kept for research due to their specialized diet on micro-organisms known as copepods. This is caused by the copepod#s unusually long…
CSEF · 2011
Pharmacology/ Toxicology Third Award
Objectives/Goals Rheumatoid arthritis has a worldwide estimated prevalence of 2%, according to the Johns Hopkins Arthritis Center. The current methods to treat this disease involve targeting…