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 · 2010
Toxicology (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals The objective of my project is to see how three different liquid pollutants: motor oil, paint, and laundry detergent, affect a radish seeds germination, growth, and appearan…
CSEF · 2010
Pharmacology (Senior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals The study seeks to investigate how effective glutathione is in preventing the over production of melanin thereby lightening the color of the skin. It also tried to determine…
CSEF · 2010
Pharmacology (Senior Division Only) Second Award
Objectives/Goals The objective is to determine the effectiveness of natural pesticides in controlling leaf gall aphid development. Methods/Materials 250 leaves with galls from poplar cottonw…
CSEF · 2010
Toxicology (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals I wanted to determine which automotive fluids are the most and least harmful to our environment. Methods/Materials Three African Dwarf frog eggs were placed into each compar…
CSEF · 2010
Pharmacology (Senior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals This study seeks to investigate the effects of consuming large amounts of carbonated drinks in terms of muscle-related problems like hypokalaemia, a condition in which the c…
CSEF · 2010
Toxicology (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals The goal is to find out the result of household cleaners infecting radish plants and see what can be changed to help the environment Methods/Materials Radish plants were use…
CSEF · 2010
Pharmacology (Senior Division Only) Third Award
Objectives/Goals Test the effects of caloric restriction and dietary supplementation of Resveratrol and Rapamycin on the lifespans of Drosophila Melanogaster. Methods/Materials 1 Live Drosop…
CSEF · 2010
Pharmacology (Senior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals The purpose of this experiment is to determine how magnesium chloride plays a role in the bone remodeling process, osteogenesis, and how its role differs from the effects of…
CSEF · 2010
Pharmacology (Senior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals The purpose of this study is to investigate the pathway(s) of orlistat induced cellular death in ovarian cancer cells by comparing the effects of Orlistat on drug resistant…
CSEF · 2010
Toxicology (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals The objective of my project was to determine which food items repel ants best. I hypothesized that if I introduced horseradish, blue cheese, black pepper, and cinnamon to an…
CSEF · 2010
Human Biology (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals The objective of this project was to determine if eye color affects peripheral vision. Methods/Materials I built a one foot radius protractor out of foam board. I cut out di…
CSEF · 2010
Human Biology (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals The purpose of my project was to test how eye color affects peripheral vision. Through research on peripheral vision prior to experimentation, I learned that the pupils of b…
CSEF · 2010
Human Biology (Junior Division Only) Second Award
Objectives/Goals To evaluate how various sounds, i.e. music, affect a human's resistance to becoming dizzy when spun around, and what sounds result in the quickest and longest recoveries fro…
CSEF · 2010
Human Biology (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals My project was an attempt to determine whether one eye or two are more accurate when aiming a paintball gun. My hypothesis was that one eye would be more accurate than two,…
CSEF · 2010
Pharmacology (Senior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals The objective was to determine how different levels of pollution affected the growth of corn plants. Methods/Materials I used clear sheets of plastic to make three separate…
CSEF · 2010
Human Biology (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals My objective was to determine whether the lung capacity of middle school students who live continuously at high elevation differed from that of the same aged students who li…
CSEF · 2010
Pharmacology (Senior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals The purpose of my experiment was to see how common chemicals that end up as runoff in our waterways effects pond organisms. The pond organisms I used were daphnia, and the c…
CSEF · 2010
Pharmacology (Senior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals Although there are multiple reasons for the lack of response to cancer therapy, the emergence of cancer stem cell populations, subsets of cancer cells with self-renewable pr…
CSEF · 2010
Pharmacology (Senior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals This project is to determine if isoflavone phytoestrogens found in either hormone replacement therapy or infant nutritional formula may cause a change in the luteinizing hor…
CSEF · 2010
Human Biology (Junior Division Only) Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals Our objective was to find out if Speed Stacking was an effective way to raise a participant's heart rate, as it is now being used in many physical education classes for chil…
CSEF · 2010
Human Biology (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals I wanted to see if there is a correlation between decline in oxygen saturation during breath holding as measured by pulse oximetry, and an individual's level of physical fit…
CSEF · 2010
Human Biology (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals I predict that heart rate (HR) and systolic blood pressure (BP) will show a greater increase while diastolic blood pressure (BP) and oxygen saturation level (O2sat.) will sh…
CSEF · 2010
Human Biology (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals Our science fair experiment is about swimming. We chose to do a project on how, and if a swimmer's arm span affects their speed in the pool, since we are both swimmers and i…
CSEF · 2010
Toxicology (Junior Division Only) Second Award
Objectives/Goals The objective is to determine if an extract of the Dove weed could be used as an insecticide and be comparable to an over the counter insecticide, Acetamiprid, in the contro…
CSEF · 2010
Human Biology (Junior Division Only) Third Award
Objectives/Goals My project was to determine at what frequency range people lose their ability to hear high frequency sounds. Methods/Materials An IPod Touch was downloaded with the 'Dog Whi…
CSEF · 2010
Pharmacology (Senior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals The purpose of my project is to observe the effects of cell phone radiation on plants, looking for any abnormalities that could possibly occur in their growth patterns or ap…
CSEF · 2010
Human Biology (Junior Division Only) Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals Can Brewer's Yeast be an effective mosquito repellent? The objective is to determine if the consumption of Brewer's Yeast for five days will reduce the number of mosquito la…
CSEF · 2010
Pharmacology (Senior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals The objective of this project was to test the effect of ingestion of deuterium oxide on the lifespan of Drosophila melanogaster. My initial idea was that with the use of the…
CSEF · 2010
Human Biology (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals The question that my project hoped to answer was if eye color had an effect on peripheral vision. I tested the peripheral vision of people with brown, blue, and green eyes,…
CSEF · 2010
Toxicology (Junior Division Only) First Award
Objectives/Goals The objective of our project was to see if aluminum had a biological affect on the life cycle and reproduction of Vanessa cardui, also known as the Painted Lady Butterfly. T…