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
Microbiology Third Award
The decomposition of plant-litter, aided by the metabolic activity of plant-litter microbial communities, is a vital process in nutrient cycling. Taxa such as Curtobacterium are involved in…
ISEF · 2021
Earth and Environmental Sciences Third Award
In 2020, more than 250,000 Vietnam households were inundated, and over 70% of the population is exposed to risks from flood-related hazards. While Southeast Asia has experienced an unprecede…
ISEF · 2021
Embedded Systems Third Award
Every summer, children and pets suffer needless deaths because they are unintentionally left in hot cars. Young children are placed in the back seat and are easily forgotten. My project prov…
ISEF · 2021
Biochemistry Third Award
Protein secondary structure is defined by the local interactions between amino acid residues and it is widely used in protein structure and function analysis. Secondary structure information…
ISEF · 2021
Physics and Astronomy Third Award
Simulations run on quantum computers are efficient tools to capture the quantum properties of fundamental particles more effectively than classical computers in high energy physics (HEP) sim…
ISEF · 2021
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design Third Award
With the increase in the use of lithium-ion batteries, there is also increase in the waste of dead batteries which causes environmental problems. The recycling of lithium-ion batteries carri…
ISEF · 2021
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics Third Award
Paternal exposure to environmental toxicants, malnutrition, and stress is associated with increased disease incidence in their children, grandchildren, and great-grandchildren. Recent resear…
ISEF · 2021
Earth and Environmental Sciences Third Award
Access to clean water is a major challenge in many developing counties partly due to municipal and industrial pollution. Thus, developing low-cost technologies to provide clean water is vita…
ISEF · 2021
Environmental Engineering Third Award
Oil spills pose significant threat to all environmental, political, economic aspects in global settings. However, current oil absorbents that are most commonly used are made of polypropylene…
ISEF · 2021
Robotics and Intelligent Machines Third Award
RoboBall aims to respond to the lack of high quality training facilities and coaching that regional soccer players have access to; the impact of these inequities between regional and metro p…
ISEF · 2021
Engineering Mechanics Third Award
I. REASONS TO CHOOSE THE TOPIC + There are many disabled people in the world. + There are a number of technological products for people with disabilities such as robotic arms that use brain…
ISEF · 2021
Engineering Mechanics Third Award
The purpose of the Rotating Weekly Pill Dispenser is to assist with medication compliance among older people and allow a caregiver to lock medication into organized compartments that automat…
ISEF · 2021
Cellular and Molecular Biology Third Award
Intragenomic conflict occurs when selfish genes attempt to increase their own prospects of replication at the expense of the organism. It has clinical and ecological significance–the genes a…
ISEF · 2021
Biomedical and Health Sciences Third Award
Peripheral nervous system (PNS) demyelinating diseases, such as Guillain-Barré syndrome, are characterized by nerve impulse conduction anomalies. These anomalies can be caused by demyelinati…
ISEF · 2021
Environmental Engineering Third Award
Microplastics pose an increasing risk to beach ecosystems around the world. The abundance of microplastics negatively impacts natural processes such as evaporation, water flow, and heat tran…
ISEF · 2021
Microbiology Third Award
Antibiotic-resistant bacteria is a rising global health concern in both medical and agricultural industries, contributing to 700,000 deaths annually. By 2050, antibiotic-resistant bacteria,…
ISEF · 2021
Engineering Mechanics Third Award
NASA’s InSight probe was used to hammer into the surface of Mars in hopes of studying the planet’s internal temperature. Unfortunately the mission ended early, due to the probe penetrating a…
ISEF · 2021
Biomedical Engineering Third Award
More than 1 billion people worldwide suffer from lung diseases. The magnitude of this public health burden has been further escalated by the COVID-19 pandemic. Conventionally, lung disorders…
ISEF · 2021
Biomedical Engineering Third Award
Stroke was among the top causes of adult disability globally. Stroke patients required early rehabilitation for better recovery. However, they faced various problems to follow through instit…
ISEF · 2021
Translational Medical Science Third Award
Annually, about 15,000 people in the US are diagnosed with sarcoma. Rhabdomyosarcoma (RMS) and osteosarcoma (OS) are the most common sarcomas in children and adolescent young adults. Surviva…
ISEF · 2021
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design Third Award
Cellulosic ethanol is a renewable, alternative fuel that could reduce the reliance on fossil fuels. However, cellulose is resistant to breaking down into glucose because its crystalline stru…
ISEF · 2021
Engineering Mechanics Third Award
Cycling has come to be one of the most popular sports in the world due to the convenience of travel, fitness and reduced carbon emissions. With it comes the danger of cycling with road vehic…
ISEF · 2021
Environmental Engineering Third Award
Micron-sized aerosols which are the dominant mechanism of spread for influenza and tuberculosis are implicated as the likely mode of transmission for COVID-19. This study examines whether ae…
ISEF · 2021
Biomedical and Health Sciences Third Award
Investigations indicate that diabetic patients with myocardial infarctions (MI) have an increased risk of acute kidney injury (AKI) post-MI. In diabetic MI, blood hemoglobin (Hb) rises, whic…
ISEF · 2021
Cellular and Molecular Biology Third Award
lnterleukin-22 (IL-22) is a regulatory cytokine in the IL-10 family. Numerous intestinal cell types including absorptive and secretory cells express IL-22RA1, the IL-22 receptor. Intestinal…
ISEF · 2021
Behavioral and Social Sciences Third Award
Acute brain injury may lead to memory loss and cognitive dysfunction. There are many factors that could cause these injuries, including mechanical trauma and strokes. For the successful rest…
ISEF · 2021
Plant Sciences Third Award
Acidic soil severely inhibits legume nodulation and devastates crop yields worldwide. Among the many phytohormones that regulate nodulation, indole-3-acetic acid is known to improve the nodu…
ISEF · 2021
Biomedical and Health Sciences Third Award
Alzheimer’s Disease (AD) is a neurodegenerative disorder with no current effective therapies. Synaptojanin 1 (synj1) is a novel target as lowering its expression can be beneficial for AD. Ni…
ISEF · 2021
Plant Sciences Third Award
Light is an essential factor for plants – it provides plants with energy and reliable information about current conditions of their habitat. Under fluctuating light environments, plants dyna…
ISEF · 2021
Environmental Engineering Third Award
Acid mine drainage poses a major risk to the nearby ecosystems as the accompanying low pH and high metal content kill plants. Sulfate-reducing bacteria have the potential to remediate this d…