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.
ISEF · 2014
Earth and Environmental Sciences Second Award
The goal of this work is a development of efficient approach to the chemical synthesis of low-molecular-weight fragments of alginate-like bacterial polysaccharides. These fragments are promi…
ISEF · 2014
Earth and Environmental Sciences Fourth Award
With an increased desire to access medically important compounds, chemists are pursuing many alternative synthetic methodologies. The purpose of this research was to investigate the potentia…
ISEF · 2014
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Over 285 million people in the world today are visually impaired (World Health Organization). With enhancements in sensor technology and computer aided vision, tools to make the lives of the…
ISEF · 2014
Earth and Environmental Sciences
The explosive growth of verbose content on the internet in recent years, especially of news articles and blogs, coupled with a shift towards mobile internet access, has created a case for in…
ISEF · 2014
Earth and Environmental Sciences
The purpose of the first part of this research is to determine the fastest algorithm to sort a random list of numbers into sequential order. I predicted that bubble sort would be the fastest…
ISEF · 2014
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Research presented here addresses the potential to use the principles of evolutionary robotics to design a controller able to learn within the lifetime of the robot. Test groups of robots ar…
ISEF · 2014
Earth and Environmental Sciences Fourth Award
The future of personalized cancer treatment relies on the existence of computational models that can accurately predict how a patient will respond to a cancer drug, given the genetic makeup…
ISEF · 2014
Earth and Environmental Sciences
The objective of this project was to develop an artificial intelligence for an original strategy game that adapted and learned from its past successes and failures and applied its new knowle…
ISEF · 2014
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Education in Vietnam is among the top priorities to everyone. Studies show that spending towards education in Vietnam is larger than other countries, being 10% in 1999 in 1 household as oppo…
ISEF · 2014
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Introduction: One of the reasons for doing this research is to obtain ethanol from sugar remnants that lead to the spread of some harmful insects and how to take advantage of these materials…
ISEF · 2014
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Today's vast reserves of genetic data necessitates a computational tool which is capable of automatically predicting boundaries of protein-coding regions in the genome. In eukaryotic sequenc…
ISEF · 2014
Earth and Environmental Sciences Third Award
Every drug that is introduced into an organism has an effect in up or down regulating the genes within that organism. A better understanding of the differentially expressed genes within that…
CSEF · 2014
Earth & Planetary Sciences Fourth Award
Objectives/Goals To determine the affect of atmospheric inversions on ground particulate matter 2.5 (PM 2.5) levels. To compare San Lorenzo Valley's particulate matter 2.5 levels to neighbor…
ISEF · 2014
Earth and Environmental Sciences Second Award
We present Semantic Multilayer Support Vector Machine (SMLSVM), a novel prototype for artificial intelligence that uses a multilayer network of Support Vector Machines (SVM) to perform data…
ISEF · 2014
Earth and Environmental Sciences Third Award
There has been an explosion in the amount of genetic data available to biologists in the past two decades. To analyze this vast information, computer algorithms (e.g. BLAST) have been develo…
CSEF · 2014
Earth & Planetary Sciences
Objectives/Goals My goal was to find out whether soil, gravel, or sand took the most moisture to compact. Methods/Materials Soil Sand Gravel Rammer Cylinders/Molds Straight Edge Balances Sie…
ISEF · 2014
Earth and Environmental Sciences Third Award
Fluorescence detection has had a broad application in the area of tumor diagnostics for many years. The new approach described in this work involves the intense illumination of tumor tissue…
ISEF · 2014
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Aspirin is a widely used pain killer to relieve minor aches and pains, and the drug’s main component, acetylsalicylic acid, can be synthesized somewhat easily in a high school or college che…
ISEF · 2014
Earth and Environmental Sciences
The purpose of this project is to synthesize magnetically separable nanosupports which can then be applied to transportation fuels productions. Transportation fuels are necessary for the wor…
ISEF · 2014
Earth and Environmental Sciences Fourth Award
The purpose of this experiment is to synthesize a compound that will inhibit the dimerization of the Signal Transducer and Activation of Transcription-3 (STAT3) protein, by altering its acti…
CSEF · 2014
Earth & Planetary Sciences Second Award
Objectives/Goals Abstract I was led to this project because I have always loved heliophysics, and I have always loved researching the sun in general: I have always wondered about the solar w…
ISEF · 2014
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Clathrate hydrates, such as methane hydrates, have been known to cause problems in the petroleum industry by forming inside gas transmission lines. This plugs the pipeline, prevents flow, an…
CSEF · 2014
Earth & Planetary Sciences Second Award
Objectives/Goals The objective of this project is to find a potential correlation between hurricane and tropical storm occurrence and the prevention of the formation of the Gulf of Mexico's…
CSEF · 2014
Earth & Planetary Sciences
Objectives/Goals My objective was to learn if the pH of the water affected the soil permeability. Methods/Materials Materials used: potting soil, plastic cups, a funnel, a pitcher, measuring…
CSEF · 2014
Earth & Planetary Sciences
Objectives/Goals The purpose was to investigate effective liquefaction mitigation methods. The hypotheses were: 1. If it is possible to increase bulk density and decrease porosity of the liq…
ISEF · 2014
Earth and Environmental Sciences Fourth Award
Electrochromism is a reversible change which can be observed through oxidation or degradation by electrochromical method. Electrochromic devices are rechargeable batteries. In this system, t…
ISEF · 2014
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Drimentines are a novel family of nine alkaloids that exhibit antibiotic, antifungal, anticancer, and anthelmintic activities. Nine forms of drimentines (forms A-H and 3,25-dihydrodrimentine…
ISEF · 2014
Earth and Environmental Sciences Second Award
The early and accurate diagnosis of Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is often challenging, yet critical to the matter of a patient’s life or death and the quality of remaining life. The purpose of t…
ISEF · 2014
Earth and Environmental Sciences Fourth Award
The growing popularity of social media has made it possible for computers to easily analyze human communication to identify trends and sentiment; however, limited work has been done to analy…
CSEF · 2014
Earth & Planetary Sciences
Objectives/Goals The objective of this project is to build actual reservoir models using earth materials, then use Darcy's Law to calculate permeability and study the other factors affecting…