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 · 2016
Third Award
Phosphorus is a limiting factor for algae blooms and often a problematic non-point pollutant. Stormwater basins are designed to collect urban and agricultural runoff, retain it, and remove p…
ISEF · 2016
Third Award
Many outdoor extremists encounter loss of power for lighting, navigation, and communication devices in times of demand. Small problems soon escalate to major issues in absence of these techn…
ISEF · 2016
Third Award
Silicate weathering processes have immobilized CO2, contributing to the regulation of greenhouse gas effects. Due to the similarity between composition of silicate and phytolith (an amorphou…
ISEF · 2016
Third Award
Multicopters have a wide range of applications from surveillance to package delivery and medical support. Although growing in popularity, they are not yet used on an industrial scale for saf…
ISEF · 2016
Translational Medical Science Third Award
Antinuclear Antibody (ANA) in Systemic Erythematosus Autoimmune Disease patients was assumed to be capable of binding and killing cancer cells. This project has been carried out to experimen…
ISEF · 2016
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design Third Award
Superparamagnetic iron(II,III) oxide silver cysteine complex nanoparticles (SISCCN) is an innovative, economical and highly reusable invention. 1 g of SISCCN can adsorb 281.13 mg mercury(II)…
ISEF · 2016
Third Award
A growing body of evidence suggests that failures in aminoacyl-tRNA editing lead to perturbation of protein homeostasis, damaging the cellular environment. Studies in human cells lines have…
ISEF · 2016
Biomedical Engineering Third Award
Tissues were obtained from a previous study in which rats were exposed to NM (.125 mg) or PBS (which was used as a control) through an intratracheal injection; after 30 minutes rats received…
ISEF · 2016
Third Award
Colorectal cancer affects more than 130,000 people per year. Currently, the available methods of treatment target cancer cells by eliminating all rapidly proliferating cells, including norma…
ISEF · 2016
Third Award
Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is a fatal neurological disease that affects millions of people worldwide. Spermidine, a soybean extract and a polyamine compound found in ribosomes and many natural…
ISEF · 2016
Third Award
Modern society has become dependent on electronics. With rapidly advancing technology, devices quickly become obsolete and are often improperly disposed in landfills. These electronics conta…
ISEF · 2016
Third Award
Understanding the physiology of the malaria parasite is critical to developing new drugs to fight malaria. This study used Tetrahymena thermophila as a model organism to investigate a potent…
ISEF · 2016
Third Award
Today 70 million people in the EU suffer from traffic noise pollution. On a global basis, this is much worse. Known effects on the wellbeing are sleep interference, deafness and irritation.…
ISEF · 2016
Third Award
The World Health Organization reports that globally over a billion people have some form of disability and between 110 and 190 million have significant limitations in functioning. Worldwide,…
ISEF · 2016
Third Award
This paper consists in an irrigation control system that aims to rationalize the use of water in crops, reaching the area of biggest water demand in the world, the agriculture. To this end,…
ISEF · 2016
Third Award
Boron Neutron Capture Therapy is an emerging cancer radiation therapy employing the use of high energy alpha particles produced in the reaction between thermalized neutrons and Boron-10 to s…
ISEF · 2016
Third Award
The human immunodeficiency virus, or HIV, is responsible for causing the AIDS pandemic and killing millions of people around the world. This project seeks to shed light on the evolutionary r…
ISEF · 2016
Third Award
Potato late blight, spread by Phytopthora infestans, caused the Irish Potato Famine and still causes about $7 billion of annual crop damage. Tracking and predicting its spread remains proble…
ISEF · 2016
Third Award
The goal of the TCD3 project is to identify anomalous and dangerous driving patterns from traffic camera feeds. Successful execution can improve road safety by assisting law enforcement catc…
ISEF · 2016
Third Award
In the modern world, fossil fuels have ignited an overwhelming concern for pollutants emitted through the burning of gasoline and other non-renewable resources in vehicles, industry, and oth…
ISEF · 2016
Third Award
This project examined how cyanobacteria/algae might exist under Martian simulated conditions, helping convert Mars’ most abundant gas CO2 into oxygen; thus paving the way for possible settle…
ISEF · 2016
Biomedical Engineering Third Award
Trichotillomania is a psychological condition that has no known causes or cures. While this condition, which causes people to compulsively pull out their hair, is believed to be multifactori…
ISEF · 2016
Third Award
Today’s compression braces try to support and constantly compress joints or injuries which can cause pain after long use. They also restrict blood flow thus slowing or affecting healing time…
ISEF · 2016
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design Third Award
In this report, two ultraviolet (UV)-light absorption molecules (D2, A2) were synthesized. Organic solar cell (OSC) based on these two molecules were fabricated and studied. The electron-don…
ISEF · 2016
Third Award
Speech and hearing impaired people use hand gestures as their primary mode of communication. There are many different forms of hand gesture languages, the most popular being ASL (American Si…
ISEF · 2016
Third Award
Frameworks facilitate development of complex software, but there is no framework for developing 3D applications for browsers at the moment. The purpose of the project is to simplify the deve…
ISEF · 2015
Systems Software Third Award
Blood analysis is a primary test for disease diagnostics. Most conventional blood analyzers are expensive and bulky, limiting their use in clinical central laboratories. In this project, I d…
ISEF · 2015
Third Award
The purpose of this project is to create an inexpensive, simple, and effective airplane wing gust suppression system that has the capability to reduce the accelerations associated with unsta…
ISEF · 2015
Third Award
Electronics is being widely used in cars. Applications include – lane departure warning systems, collision avoidance systems, antilock braking systems, and adaptive cruise control. Electric…
ISEF · 2015
Third Award
A lightweight atmospheric visibility measurement system, the mobile visual range measurement(M-Vsi), is established on the smartphone platform. The smartphone’s camera is used to take the ph…