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 · 2014
Environmental Engineering Third Award
Water use has been growing more than twice the population rate in the last century. Considering the sources of seawater account for as high as 97% of all water on the Earth, seawater desalin…
ISEF · 2014
Engineering Mechanics Third Award
This is a solar module positioning and concentration system that optimizes alignment and photon manipulation. Although commonly dismissed as economically inefficient, green energy's shortcom…
ISEF · 2014
Plant Sciences Third Award
The L-Asparaginase enzyme is largely used in the treatment of the people who have the acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL). It transforms the energy source of the cancer cells, the L-Asparagin…
ISEF · 2014
Mathematics Third Award
Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) is a lethal neurodegenerative disease that affects both the upper and lower motor neurons of the CNS. Mutations in TDP-43, a putative RNA binding protein,…
ISEF · 2014
Energy: Chemical Third Award
People usually do not recognize the seriousness of indoor air pollution including particulate matter or toxic gases generated by cooking, etc. This study examined that these kinds of situati…
ISEF · 2014
Energy: Chemical Third Award
The purpose of this project was to make a vest that a visually impaired or blind person could use to have an easier time moving around in their environment. The project was chosen due to int…
ISEF · 2014
Microbiology Third Award
The treatment of tuberculosis requires a minimum of 6 months of multidrug therapy. Antibiotic efficacy is complicated by a bacterial subpopulation of “persisters”. The persisters are genotyp…
ISEF · 2014
Materials Science Third Award
Fibre-reinforced polymeric composites have received widespread attention for the past decades because of their high specific strength and modulus.Pineapple leaf fibre is rich in cellulose,re…
ISEF · 2014
Engineering Mechanics Third Award
The supercapacitors are getting considerable attention in recent years because they have quick charge/discharge capabilities, long cycle lives and are also environmentally friendly. Supercap…
ISEF · 2014
Environmental Engineering Third Award
Condensation plays an important role in thermal desalination, environmental control, and power generation processes with a combined global market of $300 billion per year. Hydrophobic surfac…
ISEF · 2014
Energy: Physical Third Award
Paralytic Shellfish Poisoning (PSP) has been a pressing problem in Alaska for some time, especially recently. Numerous people residing in villages and coastal communities throughout Alaska l…
ISEF · 2014
Microbiology Third Award
The purpose of the project was to detect solar g-modes which would consequently confirm existing theories of solar magnetic fields. Viable sunspots were selected based on set criteria, and d…
ISEF · 2014
Plant Sciences Third Award
Our project analyzes the utility of amorphous silica produced from rice husk biowastes in producing higher quality, thermostable pigments. Heating the husks produces rice husk ash (RHA) cont…
ISEF · 2014
Energy: Physical Third Award
The recently developed Lithium-Sulfur (Li-S) primary battery technology possess a theoretical energy capacity of 1600 mAh/g, which is significantly higher than any other battery on the marke…
ISEF · 2014
Physics and Astronomy Third Award
The purpose of the experiment was optimizing the process of coupling single photons into single-mode fibers. The reason I chose polarization-entangled photons was that they are widely used i…
ISEF · 2014
Embedded Systems Third Award
The adoption of distributed computing systems has grown massively in the past few years. In particular, Apache Hadoop, which allows developers to create applications that run on a cluster of…
ISEF · 2014
Energy: Physical Third Award
Over the past decade, photovoltaic solar cells have been increasing in popularity exponentially despite their high cost. Photovoltaics are clean, robust, and flexible energy sources that can…
ISEF · 2014
Materials Science Third Award
Endocrine Disrupting Compounds (EDCs) have a profound impact on aquatic reproductive processes. Current municipal waste water treatment plants (MWTP) do not eliminate highly persistent EDC’s…
ISEF · 2014
Physics and Astronomy Third Award
Over the past decade, there has been an explosion of interest in PT-symmetric structures in quantum systems, when reversed in parity (P) and time (T), remain invariant. The purpose of this w…
ISEF · 2014
Mathematics Third Award
Multidrug resistance (MDR) is a major obstacle to successful chemotherapy. The main cause of MDR is the increased drug efflux by ABC transporters. AC220 is a potent and selective inhibitor o…
ISEF · 2014
Mathematics Third Award
Although the failure of single-targeted chemotherapy agents is inevitable, recent studies demonstrate that combinatorial dual therapy can effectively treat most cancers. However, two major o…
ISEF · 2014
Energy: Physical Third Award
Over 25 million Americans alone live with some form of renal complication, resulting in hundreds of thousands of deaths every year. Increased development in the kidney research field could r…
ISEF · 2014
Energy: Chemical Third Award
People with severe visual impairment have difficulties navigating their way through buildings. Due to this, we created a renovated cane that combines a Cintech Pin-pointer metal detector, to…
ISEF · 2014
Environmental Engineering Third Award
Disposable diapers are one of the top contributors to waste in landfills. In the US alone, nearly 25 billion diapers are deposited into landfills each year. This project aims to reduce the t…
ISEF · 2014
Engineering Mechanics Third Award
The purpose of this project was to design, construct and test a device that could utilize the motion of waves to generate electricity. Subsequently, a system was developed that allowed for t…
ISEF · 2014
Earth and Environmental Sciences Third Award
Every drug that is introduced into an organism has an effect in up or down regulating the genes within that organism. A better understanding of the differentially expressed genes within that…
ISEF · 2014
Mathematics Third Award
Despite high responses to current therapeutic methods, about 90% of ovarian cancer patients develop recurrence. The inability to efficiently combat metastasis makes ovarian cancer lethal as…
ISEF · 2014
Energy: Physical Third Award
As the demand for more efficient and cheaper solar cells increased, the integration of carbon nanotubes and solar cells has become the center of discussion. The purpose of this research was…
ISEF · 2014
Earth and Environmental Sciences Third Award
There has been an explosion in the amount of genetic data available to biologists in the past two decades. To analyze this vast information, computer algorithms (e.g. BLAST) have been develo…
ISEF · 2014
Physics and Astronomy Third Award
Spectrophotometers are optical instruments which analyze substance samples using electromagnetic spectra. Traditional professional spectrophotometers have extensive applicability in physics,…