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
Systems Software Third Award
While computers play an increasingly important role in every aspect of our lives, their inability to understand what tasks users are physically performing makes a wide range of applications,…
ISEF · 2021
Robotics and Intelligent Machines Third Award
Over 1.7 million people in the United States alone are currently living with limb loss. Estimates show that 185,000 amputations are performed each year, with that number expected to double i…
ISEF · 2021
Animal Sciences Third Award
Green crabs (Carcinus maenas) are an invasive species in Maine that have severely impacted marine environments and decimated commercially-significant bivalve populations, including the blue…
ISEF · 2021
Microbiology Third Award
For decades, food wastes have been a global concern with 1.3 billion tons of food wasted annually costing 2.6 trillion USD. Besides, the outbreak of pathogenic bacteria causes almost 9 milli…
ISEF · 2021
Chemistry Third Award
Background: Elevated serum uric acid (UA) is associated with obesity, hypertension, and metabolic syndrome. The goal of this research was to determine if a low-cost chemosensor-strip fabrica…
ISEF · 2021
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics Third Award
Computationally determining protein structure and function is promising, but researchers currently lack a complete end-to-end open-source tool capable of sequence alignment, de novo protein…
ISEF · 2021
Behavioral and Social Sciences Third Award
Performing arts organizations have been tremendously affected by this pandemic; many have shut down, with revenue loss for NYC dance organizations alone estimated at $24 million. As a dancer…
ISEF · 2021
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design Third Award
Portable electronics, such as mobile phones and biomedical devices, have been integrated into the lifestyle of many people and are growing rapidly. These technologies rely heavily on batteri…
ISEF · 2021
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics Third Award
Myopathies are skeletal muscle disorders characterized by chronic muscle weakness, which are frequently diagnosed using electromyography (EMG) studies. Automating the diagnosis of myopathies…
ISEF · 2021
Behavioral and Social Sciences Third Award
Dementia cases are rapidly increasing with a projection of over 150 million people globally by the year 2050, a 300% increase from the current 50 million cases. Despite the prevalence of Dem…
ISEF · 2021
Systems Software Third Award
Quantum computing is an emerging technology that, with its exponential computational speedup, will allow us to solve a new level of hard problems. From rapid vaccine development, efficient d…
ISEF · 2021
Cellular and Molecular Biology Third Award
Down syndrome (DS) is the most common genetic disorder in humans. It is known that trisomy of chromosome 21 causes DS, but how this chromosomal gain produces the complex DS phenotype, includ…
ISEF · 2021
Engineering Mechanics Third Award
To improve the aerodynamic efficiency of a Formula One (F1) in Schools race car, the original model of the car is evaluated and compared with a new design. The ideas behind the new design ar…
ISEF · 2021
Translational Medical Science Third Award
Parkinson’s Disease (PD), the second most common neurodegenerative disease, is caused by the depletion of dopamine as a result of toxic aggregates formed by a protein called alpha-synuclein…
ISEF · 2021
Systems Software Third Award
The process of registering intra-procedural prostate magnetic resonance images (MRI) with corresponding pre-procedural images improves the accuracy of certain surgeries, such as a prostate b…
ISEF · 2021
Mathematics Third Award
Topdrops, a mapping of permutations first introduced by John Horton Conway, is examined. Topdrops has so far been under-researched compared to the similar topswops variant. A proof that the…
ISEF · 2021
Biomedical Engineering Third Award
Parkinson’s Disease is a neurodegenerative disease manifested through tremors, which start with a limb and then gradually spreads across entire body. While this disease has no permanent cure…
ISEF · 2021
Translational Medical Science Third Award
Kawasaki disease (KD) is the leading cause of acquired heart disease in children, and its early diagnosis is crucial for effective intravenous immunoglobulin treatment within ten days, signi…
ISEF · 2021
Environmental Engineering Third Award
Paper industry is hugely contaminating, releasing 55 trillion tons of CO2 and cutting down 15 billion trees annually. We aim to solve this problem by using Kombucha as a sustainable alternat…
ISEF · 2021
Mathematics Third Award
Real world mathematical models are often built to incorporate dynamical features like Lebesgue measure preservation, but the algebraic, group theoretical properties of dynamical systems have…
ISEF · 2021
Robotics and Intelligent Machines Third Award
Deep Neural Networks (DNN) are widely used to carry out segmentation tasks in biomedical images. Most DNNs developed for this purpose are based on some variation of the encoder- decoder U-Ne…
ISEF · 2021
Biomedical Engineering Third Award
The coronavirus pandemic has highlighted the need for remote health monitoring for chronic diseases. To help patients manage their conditions, a user-friendly smartphone application (with a…
ISEF · 2021
Plant Sciences Third Award
More than 72 billion pounds of food goes to waste globally while 50 million people struggled with hunger in 2020. To combat this, packinghouses coat produce with a fruit wax that must be hea…
ISEF · 2021
Environmental Engineering Third Award
Microplastics are a rapidly emerging contaminant in water sources. California is in the process of adopting a standardized testing method to monitor microplastics in drinking water (Bill SB1…
ISEF · 2021
Physics and Astronomy Third Award
Leidenfrost drops are extremely mobile and thus display unusual properties. To better understand the complex dynamics of Leidenfrost drops confined by a spherical surface and its mechanism a…
ISEF · 2021
Animal Sciences Third Award
Parkinson’s disease (PD) is a movement disorder with classical motor impairments in PD patients including akinesia, resting tremor, and muscle rigidity. The pathological hallmark of PD is th…
ISEF · 2021
Mathematics Third Award
Image and shape classification have been studied extensively with the growing popularity of convolutional neural networks (CNNs). However, CNNs operate on rasterized images rather than geome…
ISEF · 2021
Behavioral and Social Sciences Third Award
Parkinson's disease (PD) is a neurodegenerative disorder that affects 10 million people worldwide. Current diagnostic measures consist of ambiguous surveys or are extremely invasive, and inc…
ISEF · 2021
Physics and Astronomy Third Award
Binary supermassive black holes are expected to be common at the centers of galaxies. No observational technique has the resolution to directly image them. One indirect way to confirm their…
ISEF · 2021
Chemistry Third Award
The recent characterization of a new class of prenylated acylphloroglucinol heterodimers (Lindbergins) with leishmanicidal activity by Socolsky et al. presents a promising alternative to tra…