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
Earth Science (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals The purpose of my project was to determine if adding different materials to soil will have an effect on liquefaction during an earthquake. I was curious about soil liquefact…
CSEF · 2010
Earth Science (Junior Division Only) Second Award
Objectives/Goals After seeing pictures and articles referring to stalactites and stalagmites, I wondered how they formed. Because stalactites and stalagmites usually grow in hard to reach ca…
CSEF · 2010
Earth & Environment (Senior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals Water for drinking and irrigation is important for any community to flourish, making it necessary to protect underground water aquifers from surface pollutants such as chlor…
CSEF · 2010
Earth & Environment (Senior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals The purpose of this research is to develop a new approach of soil modification that takes advantage of intrinsic soil characteristics and the abundance of eco-friendly mater…
CSEF · 2010
Earth Science (Junior Division Only) Fourth Award
Objectives/Goals This project is about which type of soil would be the best to build a building on and would withstand shaking in an earthquake. My hypothesis was that if clay soil was bette…
CSEF · 2010
Earth & Environment (Senior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals The goal of this project is to increase the process of microbial degradation of an oil spill. It has been proven that bacteria, Pseudomonas Aeruginosa, have the capability t…
CSEF · 2010
Earth & Environment (Senior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals The purpose of this experiment was to find which common household material could absorb the most phosphate. This experiment measured the amount of phosphate remaining before…
CSEF · 2010
Earth & Environment (Senior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals This project is a microbiology experiment on the effects of light frequency and intensity on growing Winogradsky columns. A Winogradsky column is essentially a self-containe…
CSEF · 2010
Earth Science (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals My goal is to determine what effects soil moisture has on the percolation of volatile fluids. This is because there are people spilling loads of volatile fluids around the w…
CSEF · 2010
Earth & Environment (Senior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals The purpose of this project was to find out at what depth of a focus of an earthquake would it have the greatest magnitude and area of affect (or destruction). Methods/Mater…
CSEF · 2010
Earth & Environment (Senior Division Only) Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals Do anthropogenic biomes, or man-made environments, affect our perception of ground shaking? I hypothesize that: 1.Ground shaking reports, or Modified Mercalli Intensity (MMI…
CSEF · 2010
Earth & Environment (Senior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals My objective was to see how rainfall affects creek water. The project also tests how soil impacted these changes. Methods/Materials Water testing supplies that test pH, wate…
CSEF · 2010
Earth & Environment (Senior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals The objective is to determine which of the three soil bases, sand, silt, and clay, lends itself the greatest stability with vast water intrusion and lack of proper drainage.…
CSEF · 2010
Earth & Environment (Senior Division Only) Fourth Award
Objectives/Goals When Fullerene-based Nanoparticles (FNPs) undergo photoexcitation from the sun they produce toxic reactive oxygen species (ROS). The objective of this study was to investiga…
CSEF · 2010
Earth & Environment (Senior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals The purpose of my science fair project was to determine the driving causes of fires in the state of California, focusing on two issues: humans and climate. I wanted to know…
CSEF · 2010
Earth & Environment (Senior Division Only) Second Award
Objectives/Goals This research investigates the potential for tree based oils as a substitute for diesel fuel. Firstly for an oil to be a viable substitute for diesel, it must provide compar…
CSEF · 2010
Earth & Environment (Senior Division Only) First Award
Objectives/Goals To utilize the isotopic signature of macroalgae to identify the sources of nitrogen pollution in streams and rivers and to evaluate the usefulness of stable isotope analysis…
CSEF · 2010
Earth Science (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals My goals are to determen how slow low energy waves verses the high energy waves could affect the beach. Methods/Materials Methods:Step1: cover the shallow end of the paint r…
CSEF · 2010
Earth Science (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals The purpose of my project is to determine which type of sedimentary rock makes the best storage rock for petroleum oil. The reason I am doing this project is because oil res…
CSEF · 2010
Earth & Environment (Senior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals The objective is to isolate sources of pollution in the Santa Ana watershed using Nitrogen Isotope Fingerprinting, and develop a better understanding of the Nitrogen Cycle b…
CSEF · 2010
Earth & Environment (Senior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals The 2007 Southern California Wildfires induced high levels of air pollutants, causing asthmatics to be particularly at risk. To determine the specific effect wildfire air po…
CSEF · 2010
Earth & Environment (Senior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals My project was to determine the effects of Sodium Lauryl Sulfate on the phytoremediation process of Brassica Juncea. Methods/Materials 10 plants separated into five categori…
CSEF · 2009
Earth & Environment (Senior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals The purpose of this experiment was to find a solution to two questions: how does acid rain affect soil and does Tums, Alka-Seltzer, or Zantac 75 absorb the most acid? Method…
CSEF · 2009
Earth & Environment (Senior Division Only) Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals To use various soil treatments with Humates as the key component in treating soil for maximum crop production - the main purpose being to reduce the amount of CO2 generated…
CSEF · 2009
Earth & Environment (Senior Division Only) Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals Aerogel is simply a low density porous solid formed when the liquid in a gel is replaced with a gas; this is done by a process of supercritical drying. Aerogels can be used…
CSEF · 2009
Earth & Environment (Senior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals Carbon Dioxide and Methane are green house gases that have the greatest impact because of the amount of heat that it can retain. These gases are produced from bacterial deca…
CSEF · 2009
Earth & Environment (Senior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals The major objectives were to determine: I. Exactly how much activated CaSiO(3) (and thus HCl) and how much NaOH [electrolytic components] would be needed to neutralize multi…
CSEF · 2009
Earth & Environment (Senior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals The goal of this project was to determine how water circulates through the Santa Monica beach and how rain effects this circulation. The radium levels are a marker for coast…
CSEF · 2009
Earth & Environment (Senior Division Only) Third Award
Objectives/Goals The main objectives of this project was to: a) clarify the existing definition of a "free face" in the currently vague and ambiguous lateral spread criteria and b) to provid…
CSEF · 2009
Earth & Environment (Senior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals Many kinds of pollutants enter lakes, ponds,streams because of our industry and agriculture, even chemicals that we use around the house.What happens when these substances e…