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.
CSEF · 2018
Computational Systems & Analysis Third Award
Objectives/Goals Archery coaches use verbal communication and visual demonstrations to provide feedback to archers. This needs to be available to them in real-time and as an exact science in…
ISEF · 2018
Biomedical Engineering Third Award
Cancer is one of the most common diseases that has difficulties in diagnosis and treatment field. The number of cancer patients and their mortality rates are increasing day by day. Metastasi…
ISEF · 2018
Earth and Environmental Sciences Third Award
Microplastics are an increasingly problematic aspect of plastic pollution with an estimated 83% presence in tap water worldwide. Microplastics are under 5 mm in size and circulate oceans, ha…
ISEF · 2018
Chemistry Third Award
Biosensors are of quintessential importance in optimizing industrial production of biomolecules such as antibiotics. Optical biosensors have therefore received considerable attention due to…
ISEF · 2018
Earth and Environmental Sciences Third Award
The cost of damage caused by hurricanes in 2017 is estimated to be over 200 billion dollars. Quick and accurate prediction of the path of a hurricane and its strength would be very valuable…
ISEF · 2018
Physics and Astronomy Third Award
Generations of stable nanobubbles (NBs) in aqueous solutions have been demonstrated to be feasible. Their physical characters and applications, however, remain to be discovered. In this proj…
ISEF · 2018
Biomedical and Health Sciences Third Award
Alzheimer’s Disease affects an estimated 5.4 million people, making it the sixth leading cause of death in the United States. Seeking to increase therapeutic gains, near infrared light (NIR)…
ISEF · 2018
Biomedical Engineering Third Award
Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary disease (COPD) is expected to become the third largest killer worldwide by 2030. Current diagnosis mechanisms are time-consuming and costly, highlighting the ne…
ISEF · 2018
Biochemistry Third Award
Staphylococcus aureus is a leading cause of bacteremia and endocarditis with high mortality rate. Recent studies demonstrated that S. aureus quickly responds to each new antibiotic, even to…
ISEF · 2018
Biochemistry Third Award
Replication stress is one of the major sources of genomic instability in tumor cells. DNA replication is threatened by various obstacles which impede its progression and can lead to nascent…
ISEF · 2018
Physics and Astronomy Third Award
Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD), or the theory of the strong interaction, states that at the high temperatures and densities produced in relativistic heavy-ion collisions, nucleons de- confine…
ISEF · 2018
Engineering Mechanics Third Award
For every sighted person it is easy to use public transport. But there are challenges for blind and visually impaired people like finding the entrance into the public transport as a vital pr…
CSEF · 2018
Product Science (Biological) (Junior Division Only) Third Award
Objectives/Goals After noticing differences in my glucose meter readings I was worried about their accuracy, so I chose to test blood glucose meter accuracy. My hypothesis was that blood glu…
CSEF · 2018
Aerodynamics/ Hydrodynamics (Junior Division Only) Third Award
Objectives/Goals The objective of this project is to explore how the viscosity of slime (a non-Newtonian Fluid that happens to be fun) changes as the pH of the cross-linking solution (sodium…
CSEF · 2018
Mathematical Sciences Third Award
Objectives/Goals Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the most common neurodegenerative disease in older people. Despite considerable efforts to find a cure for AD, there is a 99.6% failure rate of c…
ISEF · 2018
Chemistry Third Award
Thousands of chemical substances are synthesized and introduced to the science field every day. The hazardous properties for these chemicals need to be established before they are used. The…
CSEF · 2018
Physics & Astronomy Third Award
Objectives/Goals My objective is to confirm or refute equations I have derived predicting the interference pattern from double and triple slit experiments. Methods/Materials I wrote a progra…
ISEF · 2018
Biomedical Engineering Third Award
Prostate cancer (PCa) is the second most common cancer found in men globally and has the highest mortality rate in men when compared to other cancers. However, early diagnosis of PCa has led…
ISEF · 2018
Mathematics Third Award
This project, which is in number theory, explores the connections between quaternions and primitive Pythagorean quintuples. It is known that the square of a Gaussian integer (a complex numbe…
ISEF · 2018
Cellular and Molecular Biology Third Award
At first glance, diabetic kidney disease and cancer may seem to have little in common besides sharing high mortality rates. Diabetic kidney disease is a condition in which increased glucose…
CSEF · 2018
Environmental Engineering Third Award
Objectives/Goals The objective of this engineering project was to increase the water resistance to less than 35% mass loss and test the biodegradability of the protein-based films created in…
ISEF · 2018
Systems Software Third Award
The research project aims to reveal slight changes along specific user defined temporal frequencies in live videos. Video images are captured by a commercial video camera and rendered into R…
ISEF · 2018
Biomedical Engineering Third Award
Every year many people die from blood loss. There are some modern medical devices (coagulators) allowing to prevent extra bleeding. However, each of them has disadvantages. My goal is to exp…
ISEF · 2018
Environmental Engineering Third Award
Microbial fuel cells (MFC) are a more renewable, cost efficient, and a more effortless form of energy production. MFC take advantage of specific ion producing exoelectrogenic bacteria (G.sul…
ISEF · 2018
Earth and Environmental Sciences Third Award
Currently, the only sinkhole detection technique is by interferometric synthetic aperture radar (InSAR), which is both costly and inefficient. This project aims to provide more efficient sin…
CSEF · 2018
Electronics & Electromagnetics Third Award
Objectives/Goals A phoropter is a large, expensive device that has sets of precisely machined lenses that are used to subjectively determine which eyeglass prescription provides the clearest…
ISEF · 2018
Environmental Engineering Third Award
With clean water being a requirement for human life, it’s appalling 660 million people lack access to it. Those without access must travel an average of 3.7 miles carrying 20 L of water on t…
ISEF · 2018
Cellular and Molecular Biology Third Award
Metastatic breast cancer affects more than 250,000 people every year. Interactions of SOX transcription factors (TFs) and MALAT1 lncRNA may induce breast cancer metastasis. This study’s purp…
ISEF · 2018
Physics and Astronomy Third Award
In this enterprise, a formalism for describing the outcome of binary-binary chaotic interactions has been developed from computer simulations and mathematical models. In 1899, Henri Poincaré…
ISEF · 2018
Chemistry Third Award
Positron emission tomography (PET) is a promising technology that utilizes radiotracers for producing detailed, 3D images of the body. The radiotracer studied in this project targets the SV2…