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 · 2017
Environmental Engineering
According to the United States Statistics Division, the production of hazardous wastes around the world has increased drastically by a rate of 40,000% in just one generation. Hazardous indus…
ISEF · 2017
Environmental Engineering Second Award
Countless fertilizers and plant-conditioning products utilize nitrates, which when presented into an ecosystem with surrounding bodies of water, catalyze the dangerous process of eutrophicat…
ISEF · 2017
Environmental Engineering
Purpose: Some microorganisms can degrade toxic hydrocarbons in crude oils and petroleum based products by bioremediation. In this process, microbial strains with unusual metabolic pathways w…
CSEF · 2017
Environmental Engineering
Objectives/Goals The goal of our research was to develop a sustainable and economically viable device for water purification. Our innovative methodology integrates filtration with an enhance…
ISEF · 2017
Environmental Engineering
This science fair project worked to develop a solution to the problem of infeasible and inaccurate deployable pH sensors not suited for the marine environment reduce the quantity of accurate…
ISEF · 2017
Environmental Engineering
With 780 million people without access to a potable water source, the development of a simple, self-powered, and point-of-use water system is desirable to remove waterborne bacteria, and che…
ISEF · 2017
Environmental Engineering
Access to clean water is a pressing issue worldwide. Large-scale, solar-powered water recovery systems, for desalination of ocean or brackish water, minimize climate change but are prohibiti…
CSEF · 2017
Environmental Engineering Fourth Award
Objectives/Goals Access to clean water is a pressing issue worldwide. Large-scale, solar-powered desalination systems are viable but the investment is too costly for developing countries or…
ISEF · 2017
Environmental Engineering Fourth Award
The project consists in the elaboration of a measurer of radon gas through the conditioning of a Geiger-Müller counter, with the purpose of making a portable, less expensive and more precise…
CSEF · 2017
Environmental Engineering Third Award
Objectives/Goals The main issue associated with solar power is its high costs, caused by the expensive tracking systems required for solar energy systems to remain efficient. Furthermore, cu…
ISEF · 2017
Environmental Engineering Fourth Award
Plastics are responsible for several damages to the environment. They, annually, cause more than one million birds’ deaths and other 100 thousand marine mammals’ deaths. On the other hand, p…
CSEF · 2017
Environmental Engineering
Objectives/Goals The purpose of my project is to develop a simple low cost technique to reduce evaporation loss of water by blocking with a disc or hemispherical cover. Evaporation loss is e…
CSEF · 2017
Environmental Engineering
Objectives/Goals The objective of my science fair project was to determine whether recycled or non recycled paper would biodegrade faster and how moisture will affect the process. Methods/Ma…
ISEF · 2017
Environmental Engineering Fourth Award
The objective of this research was to determine if Eastern Oysters and Hard Shell Clams filtration ability to naturally filter and improve the overall water quality would be affected if the…
ISEF · 2017
Environmental Engineering Fourth Award
The Bio-Photovoltaic Fuel Cell (BPFC) is a promising new technology that generates clean electrochemical energy using the photosynthetic activity of organisms. However, existing BPFCs use ex…
CSEF · 2017
Environmental Engineering
Objectives/Goals More and more people are vermicomposting rather than just composting because vermicomposting creates more fertile soil and is a significantly faster process. The goal of my…
CSEF · 2017
Environmental Engineering
Objectives/Goals The purpose of this study was to see if YO12N can be used in reducing impacts from eutrophication.Eutrophication is the process by which a body of water becomes rich in diss…
ISEF · 2017
Environmental Engineering
Purpose Claus Process is renowned for treating hydrogen sulfide, a toxic substance that is very dangerous to human causing bronchial, heart diseases, or even death when exposed to a high con…
CSEF · 2017
Environmental Engineering First Award
Objectives/Goals Heavy metal pollution is a pressing global environmental threat and public health concern, responsible for several hundred thousand deaths annually. However, current methods…
ISEF · 2017
Environmental Engineering
Heavy metal pollution is a pressing global environmental threat and public health concern. In this study, sustainable nanofiber coagulants were synthesized to remove heavy metals lead, cadmi…
ISEF · 2017
Environmental Engineering Third Award
Fertilizers containing nitrogen continue to be an integral aspect of the farming economy in the Midwest. Excess run-off of nitrates has become an environmental hazard. When the growth of alg…
ISEF · 2017
Environmental Engineering
Thousands of wells are drilled in shale reservoirs annually. The most common type of fluid used to drill horizontal wells in shale reservoirs is oil-based mud, using diesel and other compone…
CSEF · 2017
Environmental Engineering
Objectives/Goals With 1.2 to 1.3 billion McDonald's Happy Meals being sold worldwide, a Happy Meal produces a lot of material waste. My objective is to reduce at least one-third of the mater…
ISEF · 2017
Environmental Engineering
This research began over four years ago. During the summer of 2012 numerous bare patches were noticed in the hills in the Greybull area that were mined before reclamation was mandatory. The…
ISEF · 2017
Environmental Engineering
The inhalable particulate matter (PM10) is one of the major atmospheric pollutants, which is harmful to human health because it can cause several respiratory diseases. In Brazil, the state o…
ISEF · 2017
Environmental Engineering
In many developing countries, average citizens do not have access to clean drinking water. By building types of cheap, easily built filters, these citizens may have access to water that is l…
ISEF · 2017
Environmental Engineering Fourth Award
Industrialization and urban stressors have accelerated the increasing levels of the most dangerous contaminants in our water bodies, heavy metals, because of their non-biodegradability, thei…
CSEF · 2017
Environmental Engineering
Objectives/Goals The objective was to find out which material, out of 3, collected the most amount of water tested by our interpretation of fog catchers. Methods/Materials 6 Wood Planks(45 c…
CSEF · 2017
Environmental Engineering Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals This project sought to answer the question of whether or not plastic pollution could be reduced by integrating polystyrene into bricks while maintaining structural stability…
ISEF · 2017
Environmental Engineering
Our project is about used the Garbages and sewages water to generate electric and methane gas and treatment the sewages water to use in watering the plant and produce fertilizers to the plan…