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 · 2011
Mathematics & Software
Objectives/Goals Truly random numbers are integral to various fields, ranging from cryptography to statistics. Many modern true random number generators (TRNGs), which extract random values…
CSEF · 2011
Mathematics & Software
Objectives/Goals Many challenges are faced when forecasting the abundance of salmon for the ocean-fishing harvest. I compared two methods to estimate the abundance of Sacramento River Fall-r…
CSEF · 2011
Mathematics & Software First Award
Objectives/Goals The main goal is to try to create a cost-effective way to find information about a vehicle present in the blind spot. Our three calculation goals are the object's position,…
CSEF · 2011
Mathematics & Software First Award
Objectives/Goals Blokus is a new strategy board game that has won 26 worldwide awards since its launch in 2000. My objective was to investigate which strategy was more effective in winning t…
CSEF · 2011
Mathematics & Software Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals The purpose of the project was to design a fast and accurate automated system for recognizing objects in satellite images. By locating tents, this automated system would the…
CSEF · 2011
Mathematics & Software
Objectives/Goals Conventional ground robot navigation and path finding is often inefficient and time-consuming, especially in a maze-like environment. Aerial monocular vision, however, provi…
CSEF · 2011
Mathematics & Software
Objectives/Goals My purpose with Set Phasors to Analyze Circuits was to create an electrical circuit analyzer, which is a computer program that can find the current and voltage of an electri…
CSEF · 2011
Mathematics & Software
Objectives/Goals The objective was to determine how accurite my fluid simulator was. Methods/Materials The simulation method was a staggered grid finite difference approximation of the two d…
CSEF · 2011
Mathematics & Software
Objectives/Goals I have a very strong motivation for my project. Five months ago, VistaPrint stole my parent#s identity and made many fraudulent charges to the card weeks after the initial p…
CSEF · 2011
Mathematics & Software
Objectives/Goals To create a software application written in Java to measure any software program code#s complexity, that allows Software Developers and Software Managers to ensure that soft…
CSEF · 2011
Mathematics & Software
Objectives/Goals The objective of this experiment is to find which sorting algorithm is the fastest from five common algorithms. Our hypothesis was that mergesort would be the fastest as it…
CSEF · 2011
Mathematics & Software
Objectives/Goals To find a mathematical relationship between the angles of different numbered spidron nests. Methods/Materials Methods: 1.Three spidron nests were constructed. 2.The valley f…
CSEF · 2011
Mathematics & Software Second Award
Objectives/Goals How do epidemics spread on the US transportation network? What is the role of air travel vs. long distance auto travel? Is the nature of epidemic propagation on the network…
CSEF · 2011
Mathematics & Software
Objectives/Goals When a new medical procedure gets tested, a large population may get tested against a small trial population. Since the null hypothesis states that there should be is no dif…
CSEF · 2011
Mathematics & Software
Objectives/Goals Computers that can process the large amounts of data statistics requires have made available unprecedented means of understanding the word, resulting in radical advancements…
CSEF · 2011
Mathematics & Software
Objectives/Goals The interactions between cars in traffic are not just attributed to parameters such as the distance to the car in front; they are affected by the behavior of the drivers. So…
CSEF · 2011
Mathematics & Software Fourth Award
Objectives/Goals My purpose was to discover how classic Prisoner#s Dilemma changes or stays the same when expanded to three players, in terms of winning strategy and defection versus coopera…
CSEF · 2011
Mathematics & Software
Objectives/Goals My investigative question is which small sample surveying sampling method has the best representation of a larger whole population to manage the growth of trees; transect su…
CSEF · 2011
Mathematics & Software
Objectives/Goals Since the dawn of the industrial revolution machines have worked side by side with humans, but they have not always been able to reason out and overcome human inconsistencie…
CSEF · 2011
Mathematics & Software
Objectives/Goals Dungeons and Dragons is a fantasy role-playing game in which players create fictional characters and have them go on adventures. It is often played on a board with miniature…
CSEF · 2010
Mathematics & Software
Objectives/Goals Sympatric speciation faces much controversy in evolutionary biology, whereas allopatric speciation is widely accepted. We demonstrate that sympatric speciation based only on…
CSEF · 2010
Mathematics & Software Third Award
Objectives/Goals I am using the game Connect-Four to study artificial intelligence. I wanted to determine the effects of ply depth (the number of plies, which are turns by a single player, t…
CSEF · 2010
Mathematics & Software
Objectives/Goals The objective of this project is to make progress toward the proof of the Primitive Cycles Existence Conjecture. Also, the project intends to present an analysis of total st…
CSEF · 2010
Mathematics & Software
Objectives/Goals This project investigated a novel approach to text compression using principles of natural language. After observing traditional algorithms compress small text files and yie…
CSEF · 2010
Mathematics & Software
Objectives/Goals Cellular Automata are arrays of bits that evolve according to a rule. Some automata exhibit chaotic and random behavior which indicates that they have potential for encrypti…
CSEF · 2010
Mathematics & Software
Objectives/Goals The main goal of this project is to create an effective algorithm for finding the best move in a given chess position. This algorithm will consist of a series of step-by-ste…
CSEF · 2010
Mathematics & Software
Objectives/Goals My project's goal is to find out in which way files on computers can be most effectively compressed while retaining all the data inside them. I hypothesized that either the…
CSEF · 2010
Mathematics & Software
Objectives/Goals The purpose of this project was to develop a program in Java to investigate altruistic punishment and its effect on the fitness of cooperative behavior, where altruistic pun…
CSEF · 2010
Mathematics & Software Third Award
Objectives/Goals Advances in automatic speech understanding bring a new paradigm of natural interaction with computers. The Web-Accessible Multi-Modal Interface (WAMI) system developed by MI…
CSEF · 2010
Mathematics & Software Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals The model of the Iterated Prisoner's Dilemma has been studied closely by many researchers in how it applies to the development of cooperation. In sociology this has been ext…