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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,
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Energy: Physical
Third Award
Cardiac arrhythmias are the leading cause of death in the U.S. and the developed world but remain poorly understood. Mathematical models of the heart have proven essential to their study, bu…
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Third Award
Fluorescence detection has had a broad application in the area of tumor diagnostics for many years. The new approach described in this work involves the intense illumination of tumor tissue…
Energy: Physical
Third Award
This work presents the concept of solar heat driven membrane water desalinator and its experimental validation. In the present research, the desalinator is designed, built, and experimentall…
Physics and Astronomy
Third Award
Tunable UV lasers have the potential to change the world in medicine and atmospherics. An ultra-broadband UV laser would make possible early detection and treatment of Alzheimer’s disease wh…
Plant Sciences
Third Award
Due to increasing use of fossil fuels, carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere are expected to exceed 700 ppm by the year 2050. This initiated innovative scientific research into carbon capt…
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Third Award
Carrageenans are linear sulfated polysaccharides derived from red seaweeds that are popularly used in the food industry to gel, thicken and stabilize properties in certain foods, but their u…
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Third Award
This study examines the classic traffic-flow problem: how should networks be designed in order to minimize commuters’ travel time? Besides transportation, this question also has important im…
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Third Award
Mycobacterium smegmatis mc2155 is a commonly used model organism for Mycobacterium tuberculosis, which is one of the most serious bacterial infections in the world and has become increasingl…
Materials Science
Third Award
In 2001, second generation neonicotinoids were introduced into the insecticide market. Thiamethoxam is the most used of these. It has a unique chemical structure that makes it highly water s…
Mathematics
Third Award
With world-wide rates of obesity increasing, understanding the biochemical changes associated with the progression of obesity has become increasingly important. Osteopontin (OPN) levels have…
Embedded Systems
Third Award
Recent developments concerning indoor mapping and navigation have relied primarily on preexisting or manually developed floor plans, a condition precluding such improvement to locations wher…
Physics and Astronomy
Third Award
Recently, there has been a world-wide supply problem with rare-earths and so, there is a great incentive to develop strong magnets with reduced amount of rare-earths. Superconductors are one…
Mathematics
Third Award
Glioblastoma (GBM) is the most common malignancy of the central nervous system in adults. Despite medical advancements, long-term patient survival (>5 years) remains bleak (<15%). GBMs conta…
Plant Sciences
Third Award
Cancer is one of the leading causes of death in the United States, and currently treatment requires patients to receive chemotherapeutic drugs intravenously, which is both inconvenient and e…
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Third Award
With over 34 million people living with HIV today, a prophylactic vaccine is urgently needed.Due to a history of vaccine failure, a novel vaccine modality is necessary. Researchers studying…
Physics and Astronomy
Third Award
Monilia (Moniliophtora roreri) is a fungus that causes cocoa plant death. It first appeared in the Southern and Pacific regions of Costa Rica. It is considered as one of the most important l…
Engineering Mechanics
Third Award
This project was done to test which piezo element most efficiently converted the energy from a vibrational source. It was hypothesized that the V22B piezo element, with its superior design s…
Physics and Astronomy
Third Award
This project explores themes of an organically friendly, globally accessible product of milk to increase grain yields. The supreme concepts behind the idea to use milk are to apply carbohydr…
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Third Award
Hospital-acquired infections are becoming increasingly numerous and difficult to manage. There are strict regulations in most hospitals regarding infection control however these are scarce r…
Environmental Engineering
Third Award
The world is heading towards an energy crisis due to the huge consumption of energy in many fields including, but not restricted to, distillation techniques. Thermal distillation technique,…
Energy: Chemical
Third Award
The objective of this project is to create a remotely operated rescue robot that can navigate dangerous situations such as a natural disaster or a fire, locate a person in need of rescue, pr…
Environmental Engineering
Third Award
Current ethanol production methods offer impractical and expensive long-term solutions that would cause dramatic increases in food prices and require extensive areas of land. This research o…
Engineering Mechanics
Third Award
The lack of drinking water in the near future is one of the key problems that appeared before humanity in 21st century. Therefore, the best way to obtain fresh drinking water is desalination…
Materials Science
Third Award
Many newly identified organic contaminants and disinfection by-products have been found in natural water sources and treated drinking water. Current water filtration membranes do not always…