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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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Mammalian Biology
Second Award
Objectives/Goals The purpose of this project is to see what effects age and exercise have on lung capacity. Methods/Materials My apparatus was made with a 1 gallon water bottle, plastic tubi…
Mammalian Biology
Objectives/Goals The purpose of our project is to study and test the affect of body symmetry on athletic ability. Methods/Materials We measured 7th and 8th grade participants using a digital…
Mammalian Biology
Objectives/Goals I have been raising rabbits for 2 years as a part of my 4-H breeding project. I raise Californian and Polish rabbits. This Science Fair project was a result of my interest i…
Mammalian Biology
Objectives/Goals The goal of the experiment was to be able to determine what certain body types or characters set an individual up for rowing ergometer success. Methods/Materials A consent f…
Zoology
Objectives/Goals The effect of temperature and feeding on the growth rate of Anthropluera elegantissima was examined. Variation in polyp growth at several temperatures and feeding regimens w…
Mammalian Biology
Objectives/Goals The purpose of this research was to compare the difference in heart rate change between an eyes open and an eyes closed period for Transcendental Meditators and non-meditato…
Zoology
Objectives/Goals The purpose of this experiment was to determine how environmental nitrite levels impact the reproductive success of purple sea urchins. The hypothesis of this experiment was…
Zoology
Objectives/Goals My objective was to determine if laying hen chickens would lay more eggs if artificial light was added each day as compared to laying hen chickens that only had natural ligh…
Mammalian Biology
Objectives/Goals The purpose of this experiment was to discover if an IPL laser treatment could be used to increase the rate of maturation of a scar. Because of its uses in decreasing hyperp…
Zoology
Fourth Award
Objectives/Goals The objective was to use a y-maze to provide evidence that male Iris oratoria produce pheromones to signal their presence to female Iris oratoria. If all factors that could…
Mammalian Biology
Objectives/Goals My objective was to find out how kinetic energy affects the quality of a front handspring vault#a move in gymnastics where you run, punch a springboard, flip to a handstand…
Mammalian Biology
Objectives/Goals By using different tones to cause differing effects in people I found whether or not people#s heart rates are changed by the tones I can find which tones soothe and calm peo…
Mammalian Biology
Objectives/Goals The goal of my project is to determine how American students score on Japanese physical fitness exam. Methods/Materials I am testing 42 American subjects, ages 11-12, on hei…
Mammalian Biology
Objectives/Goals The main objective of the experiment was to see which type of music (blues, classical, hip-hop, rap, and rock) would increase and decrease heart rate. Hypothesis: If you wer…
Mammalian Biology
First Award
Objectives/Goals This study investigated whether the time saved by reducing the number of breaths in a 100 yard freestyle sprint is offset by the physiological effects of the reduced oxygen…
Zoology
Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals The objective of my experiment was to find out how temperature affects the development time of Drosophila melanogaster. My hypothesis was that as the temperature increased,…
Zoology
Second Award
Objectives/Goals Two separate populations of Haminoea vesicula (Gould, 1855) are assessed based on complete specimens and shells collected primarily in British Columbia, Canada and Southern…
Mammalian Biology
Objectives/Goals How does music affect the pulse an blood pressure of Alzheimer's patients? I predict that the classical music of Mozart will lower the blood pressure and pulse rate of older…
Zoology
Objectives/Goals We would like to discover why our local sea anemones have small rocks, shells, and sand on their stalks. We believe that it could be for either for protection from u.v. ray…
Zoology
Objectives/Goals The objective of my project is to determine if the parasitoid wasps, released by the University of California, Berkeley in 2000, are controlling the red gum lerp psyllid pop…
Mammalian Biology
Objectives/Goals Our objective was to learn if lack of sleep affects performance. Methods/Materials We tested our subjects with their normal sleep and without sleep for one night in math, ha…
Mammalian Biology
Objectives/Goals I wanted to know how my dog reacted to all the different types of music. He seemed like kind of an old soul dog and I wanted to know if he really was. Methods/Materials Firs…
Mammalian Biology
Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals In this project, I wanted to determine what causes harbor seals to haul out in different places at different times. My hypotheses were that more harbor seals would haul out:…
Zoology
Third Award
Objectives/Goals The objective is to determine the color, fragrance, and flavor that are most attractive to bees. Then to determine which of these three characteristics plays the most import…
Zoology
Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals Hummingbirds will prefer sucrose more than other sugars because scientific research has shown that flowers visited by hummingbirds mainly have sucrose in their nectar. My ob…
Mammalian Biology
Objectives/Goals The objective is that if cat paw prints are unique, then I will be able to identify a cat from its paw prints. Methods/Materials In my procedure, I used six cats in this exp…