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 · 2021
Behavioral and Social Sciences Third Award
The number of youths affected with mental health disorders has increased throughout the years. 41% of adolescents with anxiety do not have access to mental health services, so it is importan…
ISEF · 2021
Biomedical Engineering Third Award
Current upper limb prostheses lack effective and intuitive control systems and are often exorbitantly expensive. As a result, while prosthesis use can significantly increase quality of life,…
ISEF · 2021
Chemistry Third Award
The photo-responsive fluorescence behaviors (Photomechanofluorochromism and the Photomechanical effect) of a pentiptycene-anthracene hybrid system substituted with a semifluorinated alkoxy c…
ISEF · 2021
Physics and Astronomy Third Award
The effects of wide binary star systems on the formation and evolution of exoplanets are relatively unknown. A large portion of exoplanets reside in wide binary systems, so fully understandi…
ISEF · 2021
Biochemistry Third Award
Proton nuclear magnetic resonance (1H-NMR) spectroscopy is commonly used in metabolomics studies involving the quantitation of complex bio-fluids and mixtures to correlate metabolic changes…
ISEF · 2021
Earth and Environmental Sciences Third Award
Antibiotic pollution in soils and groundwater is one of the world’s most pressing problems. There are 1.4µg of antibiotics per-liter of freshwater and 125,000 tons of antibiotics polluted ev…
ISEF · 2021
Environmental Engineering Third Award
Contaminated water is responsible for causing millions of deaths and various effects in people’s health worldwide. Many countries spend billions of dollars to fix this problem. Therefore, th…
ISEF · 2021
Robotics and Intelligent Machines Third Award
Breast cancer is the leading cause of cancer deaths among women worldwide, but early detection and diagnosis can significantly improve a patient’s prognosis. Conventionally, biopsy breast ti…
ISEF · 2021
Biomedical Engineering Third Award
Designing synthetic genes for heterologous expression is a keystone of biotechnology. In protein sequences—as there are 61 sense codons but only 20 standard amino acids—most amino acids are…
ISEF · 2021
Microbiology Third Award
Helicobacter pylori is a gram-negative bacterium responsible for multiple gastrointestinal diseases, including gastritis, peptic ulcer, gastric carcinoma and lymphoma. About 2/3 of the world…
ISEF · 2021
Robotics and Intelligent Machines Third Award
Collectively, around 4.1 million tons of pesticides are applied to crops annually, but less than 0.1% is absorbed by target plants, with residue transmitted well out of intended areas into d…
ISEF · 2021
Microbiology Third Award
Currently, more than 800 million are food insecure. While chemical growth promoters are widely used to enhance crop production, they have caused serious environmental pollution and adverse h…
ISEF · 2021
Biomedical and Health Sciences Third Award
Neuroblastoma is one of the most common malignant pediatric tumors, accounting for 10% of all childhood cancer deaths. However, current treatment methods often involve chemotherapeutic agent…
ISEF · 2021
Physics and Astronomy Third Award
Observations of the rotation of pulsars, highly magnetized rotating neutron stars, have revealed a mysterious type of rotation anomaly: glitches, discontinuous events where the pulsar sudden…
ISEF · 2021
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics Third Award
Despite major advances in immunosuppression, thousands of transplanted organs are still rejected, endangering the lives of many patients. Traditional approaches to understanding transplant r…
ISEF · 2021
Earth and Environmental Sciences Third Award
The protection zones or capture zones of springs in a desert environment can be hard to identify, but they are critically important for spring protection. Most springs fed by regional aquife…
ISEF · 2021
Earth and Environmental Sciences Third Award
The purpose of this experiment was to determine efficacy of lab-engineered pesticide resistant D. pulex as environmental buffers against the effects of malathion on H. littoralis. Pesticide…
ISEF · 2021
Embedded Systems Third Award
Today’s world of 5G and IOT devices means increasingly crowded frequency spectrums with multiple devices talking on the same frequency at the same time. To gain an advantage, it is becoming…
ISEF · 2021
Chemistry Third Award
Nowadays, the air transportation market and air transport infrastructure are experiencing another cycle of transformations and modernizations. The global trend in air travel is aimed at subs…
ISEF · 2021
Earth and Environmental Sciences Third Award
Abstract The improper disposal of plastic waste has led to an abundance of plastics in the oceans, introducing a wide range of toxins along with a potential global health crisis. However, th…
ISEF · 2021
Engineering Mechanics Third Award
The goal of my paper was to manufacture a rotor for DJI’s Mavic Pro quadcopter. Using the laws of the Propeller Theory by Betz and Schmitz, I examined the aerodynamic characteristics of exis…
ISEF · 2021
Earth and Environmental Sciences Third Award
Perfluorinated alkyl substances (PFAS) are carcinogenic chemicals found in heat, stain, and water-resistant consumer products, including Teflon. Like pharmaceuticals (PPCPs), these “forever…
ISEF · 2021
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design Third Award
The current mainstream idea for oxygen production on Mars is an electrolysis system, which produces a dangerous byproduct of hydrogen and relies on water which is scarce in space. Alternativ…
ISEF · 2021
Biomedical Engineering Third Award
Asthma is the most prevalent respiratory condition in the world, affecting over 340 million people, and remains one of the common underlying causes of death. Yet, one in three patients are m…
ISEF · 2021
Translational Medical Science Third Award
With rapidly increasing COVID-19 cases, patients with mild and moderate symptoms are being asked to home-isolate themselves to save hospital resources for more severe patients. Such patients…
ISEF · 2021
Chemistry Third Award
The purpose of this experiment was to determine the diffusion coefficient of Pu+3 through MX-80 clay, alongside the interference of the SR-270-PW brine solution of sedimentary rock formation…
ISEF · 2021
Mathematics Third Award
In Alzer, Horst and Luca’s paper it is shown that the Diophantine equation (k!)^n+k^n= (n!)^k+n^k only has the trivial solution n=k, and (k!)^n- k^n= (n!)^k- n^k only has the solutions n=k,…
ISEF · 2021
Physics and Astronomy Third Award
Superhydrophobicity, a high degree of water repellency, is characterized by a large static contact angle between a liquid bead and a surface. Last year's project successfully treated fabrics…
ISEF · 2021
Earth and Environmental Sciences Third Award
Due to increased urbanization and climate change, there has been an increase in bank erosion and destruction of riparian zones. Riparian zones are vegetative areas of land bordering streams…
ISEF · 2021
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design Third Award
Finding new and more efficient forms of clean energy is necessary for humanity to survive the coming centuries, and although current methods of nuclear fusion are promising, they also produc…