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 · 2016
Environmental Engineering
Objectives/Goals Global warming is one of the world#s greatest challenges and it is clear that reducing emissions will not stop the global warming process. Removing CO2 from the atmosphere i…
CSEF · 2016
Environmental Engineering Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals The objective is to determine whether different geometric shapes will reduce evaporation better than shade balls (sphere) while at the same time reducing cost. Methods/Mater…
CSEF · 2016
Environmental Engineering Fourth Award
Objectives/Goals Build a Smart Flood Sensor device that can be used in a network of flow sensors in a city's drainage system to collect, analyze, and predict rain and storm water flow data.…
CSEF · 2016
Environmental Engineering
Objectives/Goals With the water crisis in California and other places in the world, I started this project with a goal to develop a low cost smart irrigation controller able to significantly…
CSEF · 2016
Environmental Engineering
Objectives/Goals Fresh water is a limited but important source that we depend on to live. However, 50% of outdoor water usage is wasted due to inefficient watering systems. Due to these alar…
CSEF · 2016
Environmental Engineering
Objectives/Goals The objective is to determine if salt water can be turned into fresh water using only the power of the sun and if certain surface materials are more effective than others. M…
CSEF · 2016
Environmental Engineering
Objectives/Goals The objective of this experiment is to determine how the color of the bottom of a solar powered desalination device affects its efficiency. Methods/Materials Tested and comp…
CSEF · 2016
Environmental Engineering
Objectives/Goals The goal of this experiment was to determine if recycled water grew squash fruit in higher quantities and in higher quality than tap water. Methods/Materials Materials 1.18…
CSEF · 2016
Environmental Engineering Second Award
Objectives/Goals The objective of these tests were to determine if a particular type of bioremediation agent (enzyme additive) at the right concentration could effectively reduce toxins in s…
CSEF · 2016
Environmental Engineering
Objectives/Goals This project explores the role of cereal grain crops in riparian restoration design as part of a four year examination of nitrate runoff resulting from fertilizer use. Last…
CSEF · 2016
Environmental Engineering
Objectives/Goals The purpose of this experiment was to determine the effect of the addition of acetic and nitric acid to two natural dyes, raspberry and azalea, on the electrical output of a…
CSEF · 2016
Environmental Engineering Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals The purpose of my science fair project is to determine at which level of vertical gardening the water run-off becomes the most contaminated and is recycle the water an affec…
CSEF · 2016
Environmental Engineering
Objectives/Goals Crystal violet is an organic dye that is a serious, yet untreated pollutant in wastewater. Photocatalysis, the acceleration of a reaction involving light through a catalyst,…
CSEF · 2016
Environmental Engineering
Objectives/Goals The objective of this project was to determine what additives could potentially make saturated soil stronger. Methods/Materials We cut 3-inch diameter PVC pipes into 2-foot…
CSEF · 2016
Environmental Engineering
Objectives/Goals Every year, over two trillion pounds of CO2 are emitted from cars and trucks globally. The goal of our innovation is to reduce CO2 by half through air filtration of the exha…
CSEF · 2016
Environmental Engineering
Objectives/Goals This project's main goal ways to help deal with California's drought by finding ways for homeowners and farmers to use water for growing plants more efficiently. Methods/Mat…
CSEF · 2016
Environmental Engineering Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals To explore methods to reduce/remove the presence of hexavalent chromium in drinking water through use of steel wool filtration and chemical precipitation using ferrous sulfa…
CSEF · 2016
Environmental Engineering Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals The objective of this experiment was to isolate the best detachable dual mode toilet tank apparatus design (out of the two constructed apparatuses) based on its efficiency,…
CSEF · 2016
Environmental Engineering Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals Biogas represents a promising alternative fuel to combat our increasing dependency on fossil fuels and rising greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. For my project, I sought to des…
CSEF · 2016
Environmental Engineering
Objectives/Goals The object of this study was to determine whether environmentally friendly hydrogel mixed with soil would retain water, decrease water usage and reduce drought stress on Lim…
CSEF · 2016
Environmental Engineering
Objectives/Goals In 2015, California experienced the worst drought in history and reservoirs have been highly affected by it. Water levels in reservoirs slowly decreased, but there is a solu…
CSEF · 2016
Environmental Engineering
Objectives/Goals Less water will be required to grow plants in a healthy environment using an aquaponics farming method compared to a traditional soil farming method. If I grow tomato and le…
CSEF · 2016
Environmental Engineering Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals I wanted to find out if Bioplastic could be used in food preservation as an alternative to petroleum based packaging (polyethylene terephthalate). I tested for the biodegrad…
CSEF · 2016
Environmental Engineering
Objectives/Goals The objective of this experiment is to determine which layer is the most effective in helping prevent evaporation in large bodies of water, like reservoirs. Methods/Material…
CSEF · 2016
Environmental Engineering
Objectives/Goals The objective of the project is to see if the scientist can create an inexpensive, homemade water filter using all natural materials that is equally or more effective than c…
CSEF · 2015
Environmental Engineering First Award
Objectives/Goals The present day world faces an extremely serious threat. Nearly 750 million people worldwide lack access to clean drinking water, and 82% of these live in rural areas. Diarr…
CSEF · 2015
Environmental Engineering
Objectives/Goals Increased use of edible biomass in the production of first generation bio-fuel has been a leading cause of increase in food price index and world hunger. The alternate fuel…
CSEF · 2015
Environmental Engineering Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals Missions has always been a big part of my life. I am passionate about loving people and helping them in any way I can. I am interning in South Africa over the summer doing m…
CSEF · 2015
Environmental Engineering
Objectives/Goals Cow manure has Obligate Anaerobes present which decomposes and converts cow manure to gas with the right environment. What is added to the cow manure can cause a variation i…
CSEF · 2015
Environmental Engineering
Objectives/Goals The purpose of this project is to build an efficient Internet of Things (IoT) application for aquaponics in order to create an autonomous, self-regulating system that can be…