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 · 2019
Biomedical and Health Sciences Third Award
Cancer has two halves: malignant cells that initiate oncogenesis, and cancer stromal cells that form the tumor microenvironment. Isocitrate dehydrogenases (IDHs) are enzymes in normal cellul…
ISEF · 2019
Plant Sciences Third Award
12% of the global population is impacted by undernutrition, the number one risk to health worldwide, affecting one in three children in developing countries. Fresh produce has large nutritio…
ISEF · 2019
Microbiology Third Award
The Chikungunya and Dengue viruses are arboviruses transmitted by the mosquitoes Aedes aegypti and Aedes albopictus. Co-circulation of Dengue and the Chikungunya virus (CHIKV) make it diffic…
ISEF · 2019
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics Third Award
Studying B cell receptor (BCR) binding is crucial for understanding how the human adaptive immune system attacks cancer cells – information that can translate into targeted and more efficaci…
ISEF · 2019
Engineering Mechanics Third Award
Our engineering study aims to develop and create a transmission which alleviates all the current issues of the modern CVT, making it viable for usage on a majority of light duty vehicles, by…
ISEF · 2019
Embedded Systems Third Award
Blindness affects nearly 40 million people worldwide—a value expected to double before 2050. The modern world is incredibly dense with visual information, and incidentally, a Blind Visually…
ISEF · 2019
Cellular and Molecular Biology Third Award
Pancreatic adenocarcinoma(PDA) is one of the most malignant tumors, with an estimated 50,000 diagnoses and deaths per year. Current therapies have little effect on PDA due to the tumor’s lar…
ISEF · 2019
Systems Software Third Award
Nowadays, Virtual Prototyping and therefore simulation technology is an indispensable part of most product development cycles. The steadily increasing demand for better, cheaper and more rel…
ISEF · 2019
Embedded Systems Third Award
According to a World Health Organization report, every year natural disasters kill around 90,000 people and affect close to 160 million people worldwide. Natural disasters include earthquake…
ISEF · 2019
Physics and Astronomy Third Award
Rubber can store an amazing amount of energy. Therefore, hobbyists have used rubber strands to power model airplanes for more than one hundred years. The main goal of modelers is to achieve…
ISEF · 2019
Energy: Physical Third Award
Novel hybrid wind turbines are proposed in the present project. The turbines utilize coupling permanent magnet disks and additional motor/generator to widen the range of operable wind speed…
ISEF · 2019
Cellular and Molecular Biology Third Award
The challenge of finding the HIV cure lies in latent HIV-infected cells, which are inert to current HIV treatment. Since CD32a has been identified as a potential biomarker of latent HIV-infe…
ISEF · 2019
Energy: Chemical Third Award
The world’s unsustainable reliance on fossil fuels prompts the intense search for innovation to enable paradigm shift to renewable energy. A promising solution is to harness abundant solar e…
ISEF · 2019
Plant Sciences Third Award
Brazil is the biggest orange producer in the world and the state of Paraná is the third biggest producer in Brazil. Because this fruit has low shelf life, agrochemicals are widely used to co…
ISEF · 2019
Physics and Astronomy Third Award
Three-dimensional topological Dirac semimetals (3D-TDSMs) have unusually high mobility at room temperature due to their unique linear electronic band dispersion and nontrivial band topology.…
ISEF · 2019
Microbiology Third Award
Periodontitis is one of the most prevalent inflammatory diseases, with an annual expense of 14 billion dollars on the disease therapy. It is the leading cause of tooth loss among adults and…
ISEF · 2019
Biomedical and Health Sciences Third Award
Retinopathy of prematurity (ROP) is a retinal angiogenic disorder that results from rapid microvascular proliferation after exposure to oxygen supplementation in preterm infants. It is curre…
ISEF · 2019
Biomedical and Health Sciences Third Award
Background: Peanut allergies are an epidemic with no cure. Microbiome alterations favoring Bacteroides fragilis can dampen a peanut allergy. To clinically translate prior findings, a complex…
ISEF · 2019
Embedded Systems Third Award
Approximately 90% of the world’s 40 million blind live in developing nations. Less than 10% of blind children in the developing world go to school due to lack of accessible materials, and li…
ISEF · 2019
Cellular and Molecular Biology Third Award
The enzyme Fidgetin-like 2 (FL2) suppresses cell migration by severing intracellular filaments called microtubules (MTs). Mouse studies showed that depleting FL2 using small interfering RNA…
ISEF · 2019
Plant Sciences Third Award
Melientha suavis Pierre (MSP) an indigenous wild plant grown from seeds with slow growth rate and high mortality, but high consumption demand leading to relative high price. In general, plas…
ISEF · 2019
Cellular and Molecular Biology Third Award
Gefitinib, which is a small molecule tyrosine kinase inhibitor (TKI) of epithelial growth factor receptor (EGFR), is currently under investigation for colon cancer treatment. However, some p…
ISEF · 2019
Engineering Mechanics Third Award
According to the World Health Organization, over 285 million people are visually impaired, and high rates of illiteracy among them are mainly a result of an unaffordable technology for readi…
ISEF · 2019
Biochemistry Third Award
During circulation, red blood cells (RBCs) experience shear stress. While RBCs are mechanically robust, extreme flows may compromise the spectrin network and lipid bilayer, leading to hydrop…
ISEF · 2019
Systems Software Third Award
The intensity and length of wildfire seasons around the world is increasing, exacerbated by climate-change-related factors such as drought and insect infestation. Fire fighting cost Montana…
ISEF · 2019
Robotics and Intelligent Machines Third Award
Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) is used extensively across the world to get detailed physiological images that are unattainable with other imaging modalities. Although it has widespread app…
ISEF · 2019
Robotics and Intelligent Machines Third Award
This project is intended for helping Parkinson patients have meals more easily by using a feeding robot that applies image processing and voice recognition technology in its control method.…
ISEF · 2019
Mathematics Third Award
This project is motivated by studying Chebyshev polynomials such as cos?(mx) is a polynomial of cos?(x). It is interesting to know if there are other non-constant continuous functions f havi…
ISEF · 2019
Environmental Engineering Third Award
In the place that we live, an extremely rare and beautiful plant is on the verge of extinction. It is being threatened by the fungus known as Rapid Ohia Death (R.O.D). Rapid Ohia Death can b…
ISEF · 2019
Systems Software Third Award
Combinatorial constraint satisfaction problems can be solved through the generalizable algorithm of recursive search with backtracking, which runs in nondeterministic polynomial time. In ord…