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 · 2015
Third Award
The disease Chytridiomycosis (caused by the fungus Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis) has been detrimentally affecting amphibian populations for the past two decades. To make matters worse, the…
ISEF · 2015
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design Third Award
It is known that copper plates are heated in the air to form copper(I) oxide on their surfaces and give various colors due to optical interference of thin film. Heating copper foil was found…
ISEF · 2015
Third Award
Industrial wastewater engenders significant environmental concern primarily due to the environmental contamination caused by the presence of toxic heavy metals dissolved in water. This inves…
ISEF · 2015
Third Award
Heart allograft rejection occurs when transplanted cardiac tissue is rejected by the recipient’s immune system, which destroys the transplanted tissue. The effect of its treatment heavily de…
ISEF · 2015
Third Award
Mapping and orientation in 3-D space is one of the fundamental challenges of robotics. However, it still poses a problem because of its high computational difficulty. In my work I present a…
CSEF · 2015
Applied Mechanics & Structures Third Award
Objectives/Goals To design a simple solar tracking mechanism, and test whether it improves energy output for a solar panel. Methods/Materials The heart of the system is a balancing fluid tha…
ISEF · 2015
Third Award
The World Health Organization estimates that over two million deaths worldwide can be attributed to unsanitary water. High levels of fecal indicator bacteria (FIB) in freshwater environments…
ISEF · 2015
Systems Software Third Award
This research project details the development and implementation of a novel biosensor utilizing gold nanorods for the early stage detection of HER2-mediated breast cancer. Aspect ratio depen…
ISEF · 2015
Third Award
The present study is intended to investigate how the ethanol extract from the leaves of Heliotropium arborescens L., influences the growth of bacteria that cause respiratory tract infections…
ISEF · 2015
Third Award
Minerva is a cutting-edge telescope array focused on the detection of exoplanets in the habitable zone of their stars. The first objective in the fledgling stages of this array is to perform…
ISEF · 2015
Third Award
In epidemiology, Contact Tracing, the process of identifying and isolating contacts of infected individuals through manual interviewing, is the primary technique used to control the spread o…
ISEF · 2015
Third Award
Angiogenesis, the development of new vasculature, is a critical process in the growth of new tumors. Driven by a goal to understand this aspect of cancer proliferation, I developed a discret…
ISEF · 2015
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design Third Award
Dye-sensitized Solar Cells (DSSCs) employ expensive Ru-sensitizers, toxic organic solvents and rare Pt catalyst in converting solar energy to electricity. In order to solve these disadvantag…
ISEF · 2015
Translational Medical Science Third Award
The notion that antioxidants can help fight cancer is popular. However, the mechanism(s) for the effect of antioxidants in cancer is unclear. The goal of this project is to study the effect…
ISEF · 2015
Third Award
Located along the lengthwise middle of a bird's wing are the covert feathers. During flight, some of these feathers vibrate and lift up from the wing. Scientists speculate that putting synth…
CSEF · 2015
Behavioral & Social Sciences Third Award
Objectives/Goals The purpose was to investigate correlations between presence, immersion, perceptual modality, stress and kinetosis in vision-dominated virtual reality (VR) compared to limit…
CSEF · 2015
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only) Third Award
Objectives/Goals My objective was to learn if memory performance is affected by inaudible sounds with different frequencies. One study found that high frequency sounds audible to non-human a…
ISEF · 2015
Third Award
At present, dry-cell batteries contain carbon electrodes as a major component. The efficiency of carbon electrodes is based on the high surface area and the porosity of the carbon for better…
CSEF · 2015
Biochemistry/ Molecular Biology Third Award
Objectives/Goals The current design of gene expression studies makes data sets susceptible to bias and hinders cross-platform comparison. To address these issues, an unprecedented global-sca…
CSEF · 2015
Toxicology Third Award
Objectives/Goals The objective of this project is to determine if adding wood ash to top soil will adversely affect pesticide by making it more toxic or allowing it to last longer in the soi…
ISEF · 2015
Third Award
A Grätzel solar cell (nano-crystalline dye sensitized or “DSSC”) is a photo electrochemical cell that use photons to excite electrons in organic fruit dyes to create electricity. The Grätzel…
CSEF · 2015
Biochemistry/ Molecular Biology Third Award
Objectives/Goals Just about everything has potential energy stored in it. The problem is releasing that energy to be able to do some work. A tiny almond contains stored chemical energy. When…
ISEF · 2015
Biomedical Engineering Third Award
Skin cancer is the most commonly diagnosed cancer in the United States. In this project, gold and silver nanoparticles were tested for skin cancer chemoprevention and therapy. Results indica…
CSEF · 2015
Microbiology (General) Third Award
Objectives/Goals Euglena gracilis is a very important part of the marine environment, providing food for many organisms in a similar way phytoplankton does. The organism also has many additi…
ISEF · 2015
Third Award
Four hundred tons of sulfamethazine are fed to livestock annually in North America to prevent disease and promote growth, but most of the drug is excreted unmetabolized into the environment.…
CSEF · 2015
Zoology Third Award
Objectives/Goals The globally distributed Ediacara biota is comprised of the oldest macroscopic organisms on Earth. They lived on shallow sandy sea bottoms between 575 and 543 million years…
ISEF · 2015
Translational Medical Science Third Award
Due to the increasing prevalence of Alzheimer’s Disease (AD) and currently the absence of effective disease modifying drugs, there is a need for improved drug screens to identify plausible A…
ISEF · 2015
Third Award
Marine biota living in and below the Mesopelagic Zone (>200 m depth) are rarely studied due to the challenges of conducting observational studies in deep water. Since 2009, several projects…
CSEF · 2015
Mammalian Biology Third Award
Objectives/Goals The goal of my project was to try to find at least one homeopathic remedy that had the strength to slow down the growth of cancer or even kill cancer cells. Methods/Material…
CSEF · 2015
Zoology Third Award
Objectives/Goals My objective is to determine if honey production is effected when certain pollen is stored in hives prior to the honey production period. Methods/Materials During the course…