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 · 2012
Environmental Engineering (Junior Division Only) Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals It is important to remove metal contaminants such as copper from soil. Environment scientists are promoting phytoremediation of soil due to its low cost and environmental fr…
CSEF · 2012
Environmental Engineering (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals In this project, The Effect of Magnetism on Mineral Deposition, it was hoped that a family-friendly, environmentally conscientious alternative form of water treatment would…
CSEF · 2012
Environmental Engineering (Junior Division Only) Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals Throughout my research on coral reefs, I discovered that there are many factors that are threatening their existence. Some examples are, over fishing, coral bleaching, human…
CSEF · 2012
Environmental Engineering (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals The objective of my project was to determine if red wiggler worms (Eisenia foetida) would compost food and paper waste into humus faster than commercially available compost…
CSEF · 2011
Environmental Engineering (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals Through this chemical engineering project I plan to experiment the effect of the Electrolysis Mediated Fenton Reaction on water borne microbial organisms. The research I con…
CSEF · 2011
Environmental Engineering (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals The goal of this project is to see if light can be manipulated and utilized to make the desalination process faster and more efficient. By varying levels of light penetratio…
CSEF · 2011
Environmental Engineering (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals It is very important in poor countries for people to have an efficient way to cook because of the scarcity of fire wood. One way to save fire wood is to invent new kinds of…
CSEF · 2011
Environmental Engineering (Junior Division Only) Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals The objective was to study the effectiveness of 3 common algae - Chlorella, Scenedesmus and Ulothrix - in bioremediation of motor oil in pond water. Methods/Materials There…
CSEF · 2011
Environmental Engineering (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals Objective: My engineering project goal was to create an organic, environmentally friendly sorbent containment boom, which could serve as a realistic alternative to chemical…
CSEF · 2011
Environmental Engineering (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals Water treatment is important for developing countries where clean water is of shortage. In this experiment, my goal is to develop a new wheel-based dissolved ozone-making me…
CSEF · 2011
Environmental Engineering (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals The purpose of this project is to purify water with home based materials,having Haiti in mind.I think home base purifying system can be achieved by using these materials:big…
CSEF · 2011
Environmental Engineering (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals In my experiment I wanted to see if booms made of hair and other materials could do as well or better than normal oil absorbing booms to clean up oil spills. I believe that…
CSEF · 2011
Environmental Engineering (Junior Division Only) Fourth Award
Objectives/Goals I chose to investigate carbon sequestration in farming. I specifically wanted to look at the effect by varying the planting densities of cover crops and to calculate how muc…
CSEF · 2011
Environmental Engineering (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals The purpose of this science project was to see which eco-friendly method would have a stronger and more efficient effect in taking the motor oil out of seawater. These metho…
CSEF · 2011
Environmental Engineering (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals I#m into architecture and therefore I find living roofs intriguing. Green roofs have many advantages including managing water runoff, keeping a building cool, filtering wate…
CSEF · 2011
Environmental Engineering (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals The objective was to find the most effective oil collecting material. Methods/Materials The material used were cell-u-sorb, hair booms, hay booms, the process of bioremediat…
CSEF · 2011
Environmental Engineering (Junior Division Only) Third Award
Objectives/Goals My question is: Can I build a working model of a geothermal unit and find the levels of airflow and heat generation that allow the experiment to work the most effectively? I…
CSEF · 2011
Environmental Engineering (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals Our goal with the experiment was to figure out how some common inexpensive material can help cleanup oil spills. Also, we wanted to find out if some shapes are more efficien…
CSEF · 2011
Environmental Engineering (Junior Division Only) Second Award
Objectives/Goals The purpose of my project is to reduce carbon dioxide emissions from gasoline cars by capturing and consuming it, using my apparatus. Methods/Materials My apparatus makes us…
CSEF · 2011
Environmental Engineering (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals If we can create a water purification system for individual houses so that it recycles "used" water, then lots of water and money would be conserved. This purification syste…
CSEF · 2011
Environmental Engineering (Junior Division Only) First Award
Objectives/Goals Last summer, I visited a landfill to explore ideas that I could address through an experiment. I was told that if I found a way to help get rid of the plastic coming into th…
CSEF · 2011
Environmental Engineering (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals My objective was to find out if the bacteria Vibrio fischeri could efficiently degrade oil. I hypothesized that Vibrio fischeri would efficiently degrade oil. Methods/Materi…
CSEF · 2011
Environmental Engineering (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals The purpose of my project was to compare various household cleaning agents used as dispersants to break up an artificial oil slick on seawater to find the most effective and…
CSEF · 2011
Environmental Engineering (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals The purpose of this project was to find an alternative to plastic and Styrofoam that does not pollute the Earth and does not harm the people and animals on it. My hypothesis…
CSEF · 2011
Environmental Engineering (Junior Division Only) Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals My project's goal is to get the clog from the drain without using any chemicals. And preventing tens of thousands tons of chemicals flowing to the ocean and rivers. Methods/…
CSEF · 2011
Environmental Engineering (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals My project was to determine at which heat level I could collect the most freshwater by desalinating saltwater with a homemade model. Methods/Materials Saltwater similar to s…
CSEF · 2011
Environmental Engineering (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals The purpose of my project was to discover how several different materials remove oil from salt water in a small scale oil spill. I hypothesized that hair would prove to be t…
CSEF · 2011
Environmental Engineering (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals Certain Sun Chip bags have been advertised as being 100% compostable. I wondered if this was really true. I decided to put a compostable Sun Chip bag into our garden compost…
CSEF · 2011
Environmental Engineering (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals The objective is to determine what type of human hair absorbs crude oil from salt and or fresh water the most. Methods/Materials Nylon stockings, crude oil, iodized salt, wa…
CSEF · 2011
Environmental Engineering (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals The objective is to determine if food crops can be irrigated using gray water and to observe the effect of the water on the crop's development and growth. Methods/Materials…