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 · 2022
Environmental Engineering
This project aims to reduce environmental pollution and consolidate a proposal that generates short-term income, justified by the current health situation and the ease of obtaining the raw m…
ISEF · 2022
Environmental Engineering
The excessive production of cow manure in New Mexico is an environmental concern. Simultaneously, cement, the main ingredient in concrete, leads the world as one of the biggest producers of…
ISEF · 2022
Environmental Engineering
95% of the giant kelp forests along California coastlines have been devoured by the overpopulated purple urchins, and the current solution of relying on divers to reduce urchin numbers is la…
ISEF · 2022
Environmental Engineering
This study was done to determine if mealworm gut bacteria could again be quantified, isolated using differential media, identified, and then further used to biodegrade polystyrene (PS). The…
ISEF · 2022
Environmental Engineering
In a world where water pollution extends well into the domestic world, accessible treatment solutions are more important than ever. Three years of prior research have proven enzyme-assisted…
ISEF · 2022
Environmental Engineering
Several countries rely mostly on agriculture. Extensive agriculture using pesticides and herbicides pollutes water. These countries face several problems, such as water pollution, scarcity o…
ISEF · 2021
Environmental Engineering
The purpose of this experiment was to derive a textile out of a symbiotic culture of bacteria (acetobacter xylinum) and yeast (SCOBY), and chlorella algae. Engineering goals for this textile…
ISEF · 2021
Environmental Engineering
A major source of microplastic pollution is in the form of synthetic fabrics that emit fibers through the laundering process and enter Earth’s waterways through wastewater. Existing research…
ISEF · 2021
Environmental Engineering
Textile waste is currently the second-largest global pollution source—as staggering amounts of waste are incinerated and buried in landfills, the process of decomposition leaches toxic chemi…
ISEF · 2021
Environmental Engineering Fourth Award
Since the development of Nuclear Power Plants in 1951, there have been recent challenges with the efficiency of cooling systems. Today’s sea-level rise and global warming have impacted power…
ISEF · 2021
Environmental Engineering Fourth Award
Purpose Nowadays, people's dependence on plastics has become more serious. Also, during COVID-19, the number of plastic packaging has led to overuse and waste. Its slow decomposition increas…
ISEF · 2021
Environmental Engineering
The textile industry is one of the most polluting industries in the world, with a fifth of water pollution originating from just the dyeing and finishing steps of the textile manufacturing p…
ISEF · 2021
Environmental Engineering
Rapid industrial development has led to severe environmental damage and negative impact on human health due to the release of unwanted massive microplastics (diameter < 5 mm), water-soluble…
ISEF · 2021
Environmental Engineering
Climate change is an area of growing concern that threatens the earth as a whole. Due to an excess production of carbon dioxide released into the atmosphere, the difference in pressure encou…
ISEF · 2021
Environmental Engineering
There is a growing need for a cost-effective arsenic treatment. Historical and current industrial use of arsenic have resulted in soil and groundwater contamination, leading to polluted well…
ISEF · 2021
Environmental Engineering Fourth Award
The problem of heavy metal pollution has escalated to that of a serious social-environmental crisis. Calcium alginate, a natural polymer in brown algae, was investigated regarding its absorp…
ISEF · 2021
Environmental Engineering
A pesticide is a chemical or biological agent such as a virus or bacterium that deters or kills pests. Farmers use pesticides to protect crops from harmful insects and pests that use up thei…
ISEF · 2021
Environmental Engineering
Harmful algal blooms (HABs) have been recognized as an increasingly severe threat to many communities with far-ranging consequences for environmental conditions, economic prosperity, and hum…
ISEF · 2021
Environmental Engineering
This study began after contemplating the low recycling rate, which is the biggest problem of plastic, and focused on plastic cups that cannot be recycled due to the ink printed on the outsid…
ISEF · 2021
Environmental Engineering Third Award
Contaminated water is responsible for causing millions of deaths and various effects in people’s health worldwide. Many countries spend billions of dollars to fix this problem. Therefore, th…
ISEF · 2021
Environmental Engineering
Polythene plastic grocery bags made from petroleum by-products are everywhere. If these bags are not recycled, they pollute our environment. By recycling hundreds of these grocery bags, we c…
ISEF · 2021
Environmental Engineering
Agriculture is one of the main sources of economy in Peru, the secondary effects that can cause the use of different fertilizers in agriculture gave rise to this research. The research seeks…
ISEF · 2021
Environmental Engineering
Water crisis is widely observed specially in the field of agriculture regarding the environmental impacts followed by its neglection, so why not to start the manipulation to find how water c…
ISEF · 2021
Environmental Engineering
The research pursues to find a solution for the excessive amount of organic waste obtained from the coffee harvest, reusing the coffee pulp for the preparation of eco-boards that are used in…
ISEF · 2021
Environmental Engineering
Scientist Henry Grover at the Northern Arizona University School of Forestry defines fire-moss colonization as the growth of the common moss species Bryum argenteum, Ceratodon purpureus, and…
ISEF · 2021
Environmental Engineering
Paper is arguably one of the most important items that human society had ever invented. In the process of papermaking Trees are the most critical raw materials furthermore it contributes to…
ISEF · 2021
Environmental Engineering
This project aims to produce and test a prototype aid in water conservation within a domestic, consumer context. A specialized recirculating faucet system was built using direct filtration t…
CSEF · 2021
Environmental Engineering First Award
ISEF · 2021
Environmental Engineering
Deer related accidents are a major cause of crashes and deaths in the U.S. Humans are being severely impacted by these accidents, physically and financially. This system aims to decrease the…
ISEF · 2021
Environmental Engineering
Plant starch products that are compostable often take six months to decompose but end up in landfills before this process is complete. These artificial environments do not allow for further…