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 · 2016
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design Fourth Award
Heavy metals are increasingly found in drinking water worldwide from road, mining, agriculture and factory runoff. The heavy metals arsenic, cadmium, copper and lead are carcinogenic and cau…
ISEF · 2016
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
Although the great porosity of metal organic frameworks (MOF) has been used to achieve excellent gas adsorptive properties, MOFs still largely remain unexplored for electrochemical energy st…
CSEF · 2016
Alternative Energy (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals The goal of my project was to determine what wood-based waste material produces the most British Thermal Units (BTUs). Methods/Materials Douglas fir, coast redwood, and a mi…
ISEF · 2016
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
As climate change and pollution are on the rise, any way to eliminate greenhouse gases and harmful chemicals from our atmosphere would be beneficial. Large contributors to these emissions ar…
ISEF · 2016
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
Through the use of Forensics Science, I developed a procedure that would allow me to test the hemoglobin in beef blood for possible false positives and false negatives. Using peroxidases and…
CSEF · 2016
Alternative Energy (Junior Division Only) Second Award
Objectives/Goals Converting solar energy into electricity has become very common. Modern buildings have many windows, which receive a lot of sun light. Is it possible to engineer an energy c…
CSEF · 2016
Alternative Energy (Junior Division Only) Fourth Award
Objectives/Goals My goal was to determine whether or not you can increase the power generated by a solar panel by using concentrated lenses and tracking the sun with a helio-tracker (Sun-tra…
CSEF · 2016
Alternative Energy (Junior Division Only) Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals The objective of this experiment is to determine which angle of incidence and which reflective material would generate the highest energy output from the solar panel. The se…
ISEF · 2016
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
Inhaling carbon monoxide can be fatal. Therefore, the invention of SPIXHAUST, a filter that can absorb carbon monoxide efficiently in the exhaust system can overcome this problem. Based on N…
CSEF · 2016
Alternative Energy (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals The objective of this project was to build a working prototype of an energy floor. An energy floor is a type of pressure plate that generates energy when stepped on. Methods…
ISEF · 2016
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design Third Award
Superparamagnetic iron(II,III) oxide silver cysteine complex nanoparticles (SISCCN) is an innovative, economical and highly reusable invention. 1 g of SISCCN can adsorb 281.13 mg mercury(II)…
ISEF · 2016
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
Coffee and tea are the two most common beverages in the world. Generally coffee is made from beans, while tea is from leaves. Every year, the tremendous amount of used coffee grounds and tea…
ISEF · 2016
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
The purpose of the project is to create strips that can detect chemicals released in the human breath by breast, colorectal, and prostate cancer cells, to be placed in a breathalyzer, creati…
ISEF · 2016
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
Optical Brighteners are frequently used as an additive in manufactured goods to enhance the appearance of said goods. Concerns regarding their toxicity in freshwater supplies led to an exper…
ISEF · 2016
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
The purpose of this project was to test the effect of Calcium Lactate concentrations on the process of frozen reverse spherification. The hypothesis of this experiment was that higher concen…
ISEF · 2016
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design First Award
Textile azo dyes are a significant pollution source worldwide. Azo dyes can be toxic and carcinogenic, and their contamination adversely impacts human and aquatic ecosystem health. Metal nan…
CSEF · 2016
Alternative Energy (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals The objective of this project is to find how different types of organic dyes affect the efficiency of dye-sensitized solar cells in both natural (sunlight) and artificial li…
CSEF · 2016
Alternative Energy (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals One of the ways to use less fossil fuels is by energy harvesting. Piezoelectric crystals can be used to transform the pressure applied on them into electrical energy, which…
ISEF · 2016
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
This project tests how Gatorade reacts when exposed to UV light, which will be simulated by a UV lamp designed to replicate the effects of sunlight. The independent variable in this project…
ISEF · 2016
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
The purpose of this scientific study is to determine the levels of Antimony present in bottles containing different beverages after changing the temperature of the liquid. Bottles are often…
ISEF · 2016
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
Flexible polyurethane foams have wide and prominent applications across US and global markets. This, along with the dangers and costs of vehicle and household fires, makes the incorporation…
ISEF · 2016
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
The Mpemba Effect is a rare phenomenon that results in the freezing of hot water faster as opposed to cold water temperatures. The foundation of this finding were the studies done by the Tan…
ISEF · 2016
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
This study involved the fabrication and characterization of copper substrates treated with six different self-assembling monolayers following electroless galvanic deposition of silver. The s…
ISEF · 2016
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
Carbohydrates with (1-6)-linkage between monosaccharide units either in pyranoside or furanoside form are common in the structures of polysaccharides isolated from pathogenic bacteria and fu…
CSEF · 2016
Alternative Energy (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals The light emitted by lamps in the backward direction is not useful. The purpose of my project is to make an efficient device to collect the wasted light by studying optimal…
ISEF · 2016
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design Third Award
In this report, two ultraviolet (UV)-light absorption molecules (D2, A2) were synthesized. Organic solar cell (OSC) based on these two molecules were fabricated and studied. The electron-don…
ISEF · 2016
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design Second Award
Functional polymers are currently attracting tremendous attention because of their use in diverse polymer applications, such as fuel cell membranes, gas separation, biomaterials, and polymer…
CSEF · 2016
Alternative Energy (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals The objective of this study is to find a way to capture heat energy produced from electrical appliances and recycle it into usable electrical energy. Methods/Materials 40 wa…
CSEF · 2016
Alternative Energy (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals The purpose of my project was to determine what type of waste would generate the most energy. I used beef, apples, and dried grass clippings as my fuel source. I believed th…
ISEF · 2016
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
The purpose of this project was to investigate the effect of different elements (Tantalum or Niobium) on the Al site on the reactivity on Dion-Jacobson perovskites. This information could po…