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
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the sixth leading cause of death in the nation. Although AD research is bustling, a concrete and effective treatment has yet to be found. The purpose of this proj…
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…
CSEF · 2016
Environmental Science Third Award
Objectives/Goals During times of drought the water table drops due to excessive groundwater pumping; this leads to an increase in water salinity. This study is to determine what level of sal…
CSEF · 2016
Electronics & Electromagnetics Third Award
Objectives/Goals My project goal is to measure the angle of the user#s feet, to determine if their gait was proper, display the collected data or allow for real time correction of the feet,…
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…
CSEF · 2016
Plant Biology Third Award
Objectives/Goals Bemisia tabaci is responsible for transmitting plant viruses causing the ongoing and devastating East African pandemics of cassava mosaic disease (CMD) and cassava brown str…
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…
CSEF · 2016
Materials Science (Junior Division Only) Third Award
Objectives/Goals To determine how different biomass-based components in the manufacture of biobased polymers (bioplastics) affect tensile strength. Methods/Materials A variety of biomass-bas…
CSEF · 2016
Product Science (Physical) (Junior Division Only) Third Award
Objectives/Goals In my project I am testing to see which bearing company can withstand the most oxidation while sitting in water for three days. I will be using salt water, fresh water, and…
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…
CSEF · 2016
Mathematics & Computer Science Third Award
Objectives/Goals The goal of my research was to study the quasi-2-categorical analogues of 1) abelian groups and spectra, which would generalize the notion of addition, and 2) operads and qu…
CSEF · 2016
Electronics & Electromagnetics Third Award
Objectives/Goals The objective of this study was to design a swarm of tiny robots modeled off of ants that were able to accomplish complex tasks, despite each individual being limited in its…
CSEF · 2016
Chemistry Third Award
Objectives/Goals A lower scale faster model of copper pitting was created with a copper pipe loop to measure whether or not ascorbic acid and phosphate inhibited copper corrosion. Methods/Ma…
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…