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 · 2018
Environmental Engineering Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals The primary objective of my experiment is to discover more efficient desalination methods by desalinating water samples with varying salinity percentages and conductivity le…
ISEF · 2018
Environmental Engineering
My project is to see what electrode produces the most hydrogen in the process of hydro-electrolysis. I chose to test for the amount of hydrogen produced rather than the amount oxygen produce…
ISEF · 2018
Environmental Engineering
Bangladesh has a serious problem: 20 million in the country drink water well above the arsenic contamination standard. Phytoremediation can be effective in removing heavy metals from water,…
ISEF · 2018
Environmental Engineering Third Award
One of the biggest problems in both developing and developed nations is the lack of clean water, which induces disease and poverty in communities globally. Mobile applications carry immense…
ISEF · 2018
Environmental Engineering
Landfilling of biowaste instead of composting or recycling it is a major problem for many countries around the world. Even in regions where recycling is common it is not available to everybo…
ISEF · 2018
Environmental Engineering
The main purpose of this project is to increase productivity of conventional wind turbines economically and decrease the negative ramifications those should be contemplated on our environmen…
ISEF · 2018
Environmental Engineering
Plastic and styrofoam, which occupy a large proportion in marine wastes, are not degraded with ease, resulting fatal problems in aquatic ecosystem; they are frequently ingested by aquatic or…
CSEF · 2018
Environmental Engineering
Objectives/Goals Approximately 50% of the plastic we use goes to waste after one use. The average American throws away 185 pounds of plastic each year. The solution: mealworms! The purpose o…
ISEF · 2018
Environmental Engineering Fourth Award
This project’s goals were to determine the failure point of carbon-coated oyster shells when filtering lead (Pb) from water, and to investigate which components of carbon-coated shells lend…
CSEF · 2018
Environmental Engineering
Objectives/Goals The objective of this experiment is to determine whether or not a specific type of biodegradable plastic eating utensil can begin to biodegrade within a limited amount of ti…
ISEF · 2018
Environmental Engineering Fourth Award
The purpose of this research is to develop a quick, accurate, affordable, and quantitative test for lead in water. Lead contamination in drinking water is a public health concern. The EPA’s…
ISEF · 2018
Environmental Engineering
The purpose of this experiment is to test if Saccharomyces cerevisiae, Escherichia coli, and Candida albicans can biosorp lead, which is currently one of the most problematic heavy metals th…
ISEF · 2018
Environmental Engineering
Current consumption culture is a producer-polluting framework which harms the environment. Consumers cannot determine raw materials, production process and disposal of goods. Moreover, they…
ISEF · 2018
Environmental Engineering
Seventy percent of world's water is used for agricultural purposes which makes up most of our surface water and is needed to feed the world. We live in a desert which makes water even scarce…
ISEF · 2018
Environmental Engineering
The problem of desert irrigation is challenging task for modern science with great potential benefits for humans. Therefore, the project's objective was to develop a desert irrigation method…
CSEF · 2018
Environmental Engineering
Objectives/Goals At dairies in California and around the world, bovine sewage is discharged to the ground or to percolation ponds resulting in nitrate contamination in groundwater. I investi…
ISEF · 2018
Environmental Engineering First Award
Arsenic, a highly toxic metal contaminant commonly found in our drinking water, is responsible for many accidental deaths. Currently, the only visual arsenic-in-water detection system is ted…
CSEF · 2018
Environmental Engineering
Objectives/Goals In 2017, California faced one of the most devastating fire outbreaks in the history of the state, destroying 1.3 million acres of land and stripping thousands of people from…
CSEF · 2018
Environmental Engineering Second Award
Objectives/Goals Microplastics are an increasingly problematic aspect of plastic pollution with an estimated 83% presence in tap water worldwide. Currently, there are no feasible water treat…
CSEF · 2018
Environmental Engineering
Objectives/Goals The objective is to discover how well storm drains keep out plastic of varying sizes and then design a more effective storm drain without causing an overflow. Methods/Materi…
AJAS · 2018
Environmental Engineering (inferred)
Responses to oil spills include; leaving spills undisturbed, removing with skimmers/ sorbents, breaking-up spills with dispersants or introducing biological agents to enhance oil degradation…
ISEF · 2018
Environmental Engineering
After trying to naturally reduce nitrate levels in an aquarium, we began to wonder if there were natural ways to remove nitrate levels in streams. We collected stream water from the New Prag…
ISEF · 2018
Environmental Engineering
Exposure to organic environmental contaminants in water supplies can lead to adverse health effects. Non-thermal plasmas have been proposed for waste-water treatment as a means to degrade or…
ISEF · 2018
Environmental Engineering
After harvesting, rice stubble left in the fields become agriculture waste which is hard to removed. However, most farmers prefer the convenient way of burning the rice stubbles which eventu…
CSEF · 2018
Environmental Engineering
Objectives/Goals My project's purpose was to determine the effectiveness of cleaning up an oil spill with ferrofluid and a neodymium magnet. Methods/Materials Materials: 6 identical Petri di…
CSEF · 2018
Environmental Engineering
Objectives/Goals This year we continue our endeavor to find a more sustainable way to collect atmospheric inversion data. The previous methods using a radiosonde and sounding system are very…
ISEF · 2018
Environmental Engineering
The intelligent disinfection cabinet for textbooks is sterilized with ozone, with an automatic page turning device used to make textbook pages contact with the ozone fully and enable a thoro…
CSEF · 2018
Environmental Engineering
Objectives/Goals Among the scientific community, there is growing agreement that microalgal photobioreactors are among the most effective systems for biomass generation and carbon capture to…
ISEF · 2018
Environmental Engineering
In the last few decades, biodiesel has attracted considerable attention as a renewable energy source. However, more than 3 billion liters of waste glycerol from annual biodiesel production c…
ISEF · 2018
Environmental Engineering
Chemical Dispersant is primarily used to reduce the size of oil droplets, effectively preventing oil spills from causing environmental havoc at water-surface level. While standard chemical d…