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 · 2022
Biomedical Engineering Third Award
Excessive hemorrhage is a leading cause of mortality for civilians and military personnel under 50 years of age. The current treatment of donor derived platelet transfusion, is riddled with…
ISEF · 2022
Mathematics Third Award
My research deepens connections between the two seemingly very different mathematical fields of algebraic combinatorics and algebraic geometry. In particular, I focus on the Bruhat order, a…
ISEF · 2022
Robotics and Intelligent Machines Third Award
Deaf and hard-of-hearing people often use American Sign Language (ASL) to communicate. Since ASL interpreters are frequently inaccessible, affordable robotic interpreters are a promising alt…
ISEF · 2022
Biomedical and Health Sciences Third Award
Millions of people in the USA alone suffer from celiac disease or gluten intolerance. In previous work, I identified three fruit-derived enzymes that when combined have an efficient effect i…
ISEF · 2022
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics Third Award
Around 3.8 million women in the US are diagnosed with breast cancer. In terms of the survival rate, late or misclassified diagnosis decreases an individual’s chance of survival from 90% to j…
ISEF · 2022
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics Third Award
Features with rare states, such as rare genetic variants and low frequency amino acid mismatches, pose a surrounding their role in predicting outcomes such as disease phenotype. Bins of rare…
ISEF · 2022
Environmental Engineering Third Award
Dye effluent from the fast fashion and textile industry contributes to 17-20% of global industrial pollution. Azo dyes, the largest class of textile dyes, possess great threats to the enviro…
ISEF · 2022
Physics and Astronomy Third Award
Solar phenomena, specifically solar flares and coronal mass ejections (CMEs), have plagued the Earth since its creation. In 1859, the Earth was struck with the most devastating CME it’s ever…
ISEF · 2022
Animal Sciences Third Award
As the world’s population continuously increases, there is a limitation of the food supply that does not meet the consumers’ demands. With this issue, insects have been introduced by the Foo…
ISEF · 2022
Environmental Engineering Third Award
One of the biggest problems of modern society is the over pollution of single-use plastics. Thus, the goal of this project is to chemically break down polyethylene terephthalate (PET) plasti…
ISEF · 2022
Environmental Engineering Third Award
Access to clean water has been a global challenge since long-term exposure to pollutants such as metalloid, arsenic (As(II) and heavy metal, chromium (Cr(VI)) have detrimental health effects…
ISEF · 2022
Biomedical and Health Sciences Third Award
Despite advancements in modern medicine, malaria continues to have high morbidity and mortality, particularly in Sub-Saharan Africa where it is most prevalent. With an incidence of over 250…
ISEF · 2022
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics Third Award
The speed of ribosome movement along an mRNA transcript is a critical determinant of protein synthesis. Ribosome pause sites, or regions along an mRNA transcript where translating ribosomes…
ISEF · 2022
Animal Sciences Third Award
The goal of this project was to assist malaria research by expediting the process of producing transgenic mosquitoes. In this project, I developed and tested a novel automated instrument for…
ISEF · 2022
Mathematics Third Award
Dynamical optimal transport is a field in mathematics and computer science involving interpolation between two probability measures. While dynamical optimal transport on continuous domains i…
ISEF · 2022
Animal Sciences Third Award
Honey bees are an essential part of global food production and revenue. However, pollinators around the world are declining at a rate faster than ever recorded due to pesticides, diseases an…
ISEF · 2022
Engineering Technology: Statics & Dynamics Third Award
Cubesats are small, lightweight satellites that allow researchers to conduct experiments and collect data from Low Earth Orbit (LEO); however, the costs to launch these satellites oftentimes…
ISEF · 2022
Behavioral and Social Sciences Third Award
During the pandemic period, there has been over a 30% increase in people reporting symptoms of anxiety and depression (Pachal, et al, 2021). Mental health issues have an average delay of 11…
ISEF · 2022
Plant Sciences Third Award
Recent Innovations in Precision Agriculture (PA) are driven by Computer Vision and Data Processing systems to quantify plant parameters. Quantitative analysis of Plant Phenotyping in PA and…
ISEF · 2022
Environmental Engineering Third Award
Photochemical smog is a global problem. The concentration of tropospheric ozone continues to increase worldwide. Ozone is air pollutant threatening the health, harmful to all types of cells…
ISEF · 2022
Biomedical Engineering Third Award
According to the World Health Organization, there are 240 million cases of preventable blindness globally. Many eye diseases are “silent-killers” of vision and current testing methods are of…
ISEF · 2022
Biomedical and Health Sciences Third Award
Background: Substantial research suggests that therapeutic hypothermia could ameliorate the impact of Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI). Our goals were: 1) Study the effects of concussion in a va…
ISEF · 2022
Plant Sciences Third Award
Striga species, particularly S. hermonthica, is a serious parasite and one of the major threats to food security, especially in third-world countries. They are causing significant loss to ce…
ISEF · 2022
Robotics and Intelligent Machines Third Award
Parkinson’s disease (PD) is a neurodegenerative disorder primarily prominent in individuals 65 years and older (the elderly population). Despite advances in the medical field, the diagnosis…
ISEF · 2022
Earth and Environmental Sciences Third Award
The use of citizen science has become prominent in studying large-scale environmental issues. Among these issues is urban sprawl, a rapidly growing global trend that is deteriorating drinkin…
ISEF · 2022
Behavioral and Social Sciences Third Award
Executive functions (EFs) are key skills linked to academic and life-long success, helping individuals respond appropriately to different situations. They include paying attention, maintaini…
ISEF · 2022
Environmental Engineering Third Award
Due to the inefficiencies of silicon solar cells, scientists developed perovskite solar cells that are 50% more effective. However, they are environmentally harmful, containing lead iodide t…
ISEF · 2022
Microbiology Third Award
Bacterial mutagenic adaptations contribute to antibiotic resistance, which has emerged as a global threat to public health, threatening the ability to treat bacterial infections and diseases…
ISEF · 2022
Biomedical Engineering Third Award
Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) is a belligerent, often lethal, form of cancer, with a 5-year survival rate limited to 7%. PDAC is hardly detected in its premalignant stages (when su…
ISEF · 2022
Chemistry Third Award
Solar energy has been viewed as a potential clean energy source, but to become widely accepted, solar cells must overcome toxicity and inefficiency - issues that dye-sensitized solar cells (…