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 · 2014
Earth & Planetary Sciences Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals My project was to determine if soil density affects water evaporation rates in soil. I believed that soils with greater densities will have lower water evaporation rates tha…
CSEF · 2014
Earth & Planetary Sciences Fourth Award
Objectives/Goals The Moon and the Sun have the largest gravitational effects on the Earth of all the celestial bodies. The resulting land tides may have the capability to trigger earthquakes…
ISEF · 2014
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Robots and other machines typically need to be pre-programmed with instructions to perform and are not actually provided with what their end goal is. This project aims to change that and giv…
ISEF · 2014
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Software environment for probabilistic comparison of protein sequences has been developed. It contains algorithms and tools for finding matrix of alignment probability for aminoacid pairs as…
ISEF · 2014
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Enzymes play a vital role in the human body. One most notably, in the digestive system, where they digest any starch you had previously consumed. Which lends itself to the problem, what woul…
ISEF · 2014
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Water evaporation by direct heating is a method to generate water from salt water. on the other hand, it was observe that bubbling air through a body of water would cause water evaporation w…
ISEF · 2014
Earth and Environmental Sciences
This design investigation in its present form was to engineer a quantum gomoku game in C# that could successfully simulate the concepts of quantum mechanics with an Artificial Intelligence p…
CSEF · 2014
Earth & Planetary Sciences
Objectives/Goals The purpose of this project is to identify two species of Ordovician Gastropods and then determine if either of these species survived the End-Ordovician Extinction and due…
ISEF · 2014
Earth and Environmental Sciences
The purpose of this project was to expedite the process of apprehending known criminals and terrorists . There are an estimated 30 million surveillance cameras deployed in the United States…
ISEF · 2014
Earth and Environmental Sciences Third Award
Although several models have been proposed to account for the varying stabilities of alkanes, the ability of these models to fit experimental data remains controversial. The work presented h…
ISEF · 2014
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Flax is an agricultural commodity produced in the Northwestern United States, including Montana and Minnesota. Because of high omega 3 fatty acid concentrations, flax seed oil is valuable in…
CSEF · 2014
Earth & Planetary Sciences First Award
Objectives/Goals The primary objective was to determine the relationship between altitude and the cosmic ray count. The secondary objectives were to make measurements of temperature, pressur…
CSEF · 2014
Earth & Planetary Sciences Third Award
Objectives/Goals We wanted to find out why animals make subnivean (meaning in the snow) homes in the freezing cold snow during winter. Methods/Materials We conducted our experiment in Januar…
ISEF · 2014
Earth and Environmental Sciences
The protein chemokine ligand-5 (CCL5) is naturally produced in the human body and plays a major role in induced chemotaxis (movement of responsive cells to certain environments) of white blo…
ISEF · 2014
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Enantioselective drug synthesis is a critical research problem as evidenced by the billions of funding the field gets. In this research, a novel method of enantioselectively synthesizing dru…
ISEF · 2014
Earth and Environmental Sciences
The 1,2,3-triazole is a stable and biologically active organic compound that can be used in a variety of applications, including pharmaceutical chemistry. The purpose of this study was to sy…
ISEF · 2014
Earth and Environmental Sciences Third Award
The objective of this project was to develop a method for identifying faces in situations where the face is angled away from the camera or partially obscured. Current state-of-the-art face r…
ISEF · 2014
Earth and Environmental Sciences
The purpose of this experiment is to determine how different factors affect the accuracy of artificial neural network, specifically for cancer detection. Every factor tested did lead to a ch…
CSEF · 2014
Earth & Planetary Sciences
Objectives/Goals My project studied how temperature affects the intensity of fluorescence in fluorescent mineral samples. I studied four different rock samples (Argonite, Flourite, Scapolite…
CSEF · 2014
Earth & Planetary Sciences
Objectives/Goals To learn how much soil can be carried away by water from a hillside Methods/Materials 1 large sheet of wood; 2 long pieces of wood; miter box; Saw; Power Drill; Hot Glue Gun…
ISEF · 2014
Earth and Environmental Sciences
This project was to create a program that would analyze digital images of pollen cells and quickly identify them. A digital library of images was created of the pollen grains then each image…
CSEF · 2014
Earth & Planetary Sciences
Objectives/Goals Does the circumference or the mass of an impactor cause a larger impact crater as measured by the crater diameter, depth, and/or longest ejecta ray? Methods/Materials 6 impa…
ISEF · 2014
Earth and Environmental Sciences First Award
In medicine today, treatments for patients are based on the diagnosis, not the patient individually. It has been shown that this is only effective for about 60% of people. To help treat more…
CSEF · 2014
Earth & Planetary Sciences
Objectives/Goals Storm surges, created by high winds of storms, and tsunamis, generated by large disturbances in water, result in damage and flooding to coastlines if left unchecked. Current…
ISEF · 2014
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Pest infestation is a major problem for greenhouse growers worldwide. In the United States it is estimated that insect pests damage between 4% and 21% of all crops. In greenhouse settings, y…
CSEF · 2014
Earth & Planetary Sciences
Objectives/Goals The purpose of this project is to determine what additives could potentially make saturated soil stronger. Methods/Materials We filled PVC pipes with different mixtures of p…
ISEF · 2014
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Electrolytes – specifically sodium, chloride, magnesium, potassium, and other minerals – are vital to the body’s functions. They speed the nervous system’s rate of function, re-hydrate the b…
CSEF · 2014
Earth & Planetary Sciences Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals Objective: The objective of the experiment is to test whether micrometeorites fall in greater quantities in locations where earth#s magnetic forces increase. Methods/Materia…
ISEF · 2014
Earth and Environmental Sciences
“In the modern world it is necessary to establish a self-sustainable and ecological approach to allow the technological and productive development of developing countries, to achieve it, it´…
ISEF · 2014
Earth and Environmental Sciences First Award
"Chinese Silver Staining Diagnosis" is a traditional Chinese Medicine procedure. Despite its popularity and long history in southern China, its mechanism remains unclear. In this research, a…