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 · 2018
Environmental Engineering Second Award
Indoor air pollution is the world’s biggest environmental killer; every year over four million people die prematurely from poor indoor air quality (IAQ). Exposure to poor IAQ can result in m…
CSEF · 2018
Environmental Engineering
Objectives/Goals The purpose of my science project is to determine if there is a beneficial way to use hydrophobic soil to increase water storage. This is important because farmers need wate…
CSEF · 2018
Environmental Engineering
Objectives/Goals Biofuel producers have begun to use carbon sources as a method of stimulating continuous growth of algae through a combination of heterotrophic and photoautotrophic growth.…
CSEF · 2018
Environmental Engineering Third Award
Objectives/Goals The purpose of this experiment is to create a low-cost device that effectively filters contaminated water to produce purified drinking water using solar energy. Methods/Mate…
ISEF · 2018
Environmental Engineering
Heavy metal water pollution is a growing concern worldwide due to the ongoing operations of battery manufacturing, paint/pigment production, glass industries, etc. Current methods of heavy m…
ISEF · 2018
Environmental Engineering
The purpose of this experiment is to determine the feasibility of creating a polyethylene-degrading bacterial gel. The larva of Galleria mellonella, also known as wax worms, was discovered r…
AJAS · 2018
Environmental Engineering (inferred)
It is predicted that by the year 2050, drug resistant bacteria will cause the deaths of 10 million lives a year, and the loss of over 100 trillion dollars in the worlds GDP. With this statis…
CSEF · 2018
Environmental Engineering
Objectives/Goals The objective of my study was to determine the optimal soil stabilizing biopolymer to reduce shear induced erosion and improve soil productivity. I compared 3 vegetable base…
ISEF · 2018
Environmental Engineering
The increased use of wind turbines will inevitably lead to a large number of worn out rotor blades within about twenty years. Up to now, there is no solution yet to recycle or to re-use the…
CSEF · 2018
Environmental Engineering Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals Create inexpensive filters from materials in your home to effectively filter out microplastics found in Ocean water. Methods/Materials Constructed a screen from a hardware s…
ISEF · 2018
Environmental Engineering Third Award
Clean water is vital for human consumption and medical treatment, as well as equipment sterilization. 80% of illnesses in developing countries relate to poor water quality and 3.4 million pe…
CSEF · 2018
Environmental Engineering
Objectives/Goals The purpose of this experiment was to create a water system that cleans greywater, transfers the water to a fish pond, and extracts the fertilized water from the pond to sat…
ISEF · 2018
Environmental Engineering
Women in India and Africa ultimately do not have the necessary resources for women hygienic routines. Also, the forming problem of TSS in the environment is affecting the lives of many peopl…
ISEF · 2018
Environmental Engineering First Award
By 2050, global population is projected to reach 9 billion people. Farmers need to implement innovative methods like Precision Agriculture to produce 70% more food to feed everyone on existi…
CSEF · 2018
Environmental Engineering
Objectives/Goals Growing scarcity of high-quality drinking water supplies across the globe heightens the need for innovative and sustainable technologies for drinking water decontamination a…
CSEF · 2018
Environmental Engineering
Objectives/Goals The purpose of this experiment is to economically engineer and test 3-D printed Microbial Fuel Cells (MFC) in a series connection for use in large scale application like a d…
ISEF · 2018
Environmental Engineering
Today, billions of plastic particles have entered the aquatic biomes of our planet. They will infiltrate, pollute, and slowly destroy our world for generations to come. As these plastics are…
ISEF · 2018
Environmental Engineering Fourth Award
Gold (Au) mining has detrimental environmental impacts on land and water (surface and groundwater) contamination. Tailing Storage Facilities (TSF), or mine dumps, may contain multiple contam…
ISEF · 2018
Environmental Engineering
Due to anthropic actions, greenhouse gases, especially CO2, are released into the atmosphere, causing air pollution and increasing Earth’s temperature. Despite being a developing country sig…
CSEF · 2018
Environmental Engineering
Objectives/Goals The purpose of this study was to determine whether earth-friendly biodegradable Coconut Coir, Straw and Raffia each rolled onto jute fiber matting and made into berm covers…
ISEF · 2018
Environmental Engineering
Many people in rural, poverty-stricken areas of the globe lack reliable access to clean water and though treatment techniques exist, building the infrastructure required for a treatment plan…
ISEF · 2018
Environmental Engineering
Harmful Algae Blooms (HABs), which are fatal to aquatic ecosystems, human health, and water-reliant industries, largely occur because of an unnatural increase of Nitrate and Phosphate and ar…
ISEF · 2018
Environmental Engineering
Carbon dioxide (CO2 ) is a major contributor towards the advancement of global warming as per scientific community consensus. Atmospheric levels of CO2 hit an all time high in 2015 as per a…
AJAS · 2018
Environmental Engineering (inferred)
In the world today only .007% of the water is potable leaving 780 million people around the world without clean water. Therefore, the purpose of the project was to develop a water filtration…
CSEF · 2018
Environmental Engineering
Objectives/Goals The objective of my study is to accurately measure and monitor the amount of moisture in soil by setting up a wireless system and utilizing this data to conserve water. Meth…
CSEF · 2018
Environmental Engineering
Objectives/Goals How do different types of weeds affect soil erosion by water? Which holds more dirt in place: soap root, milk thistle, or narrowleaf plantain? Methods/Materials For each tri…
CSEF · 2018
Environmental Engineering Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals The purpose of this experiment was to determine which type of worm - Z. morio, T. molitor, T. obscurus or G. mellonella - is most effective at degrading polystyrene (PS) and…
AJAS · 2017
Environmental Engineering (inferred)
Impoverished countries are being negatively affected by the harmful contents of exported waste, specifically electronic waste, from wealthy countries. Printed circuit boards are a major cont…
ISEF · 2017
Environmental Engineering Fourth Award
This project explores the air purification properties of various indoor landscaping plants (Sansevieria trifasciata, Spathiphyllum wallisii and Epipremnum aureum), to remove pollutants such…
CSEF · 2017
Environmental Engineering
Objectives/Goals Are light weight, or absorbent materials more effective to prevent flood rain water damage than traditional heavy sandbags? Methods/Materials Hurricane tape, Sponges, Pipe i…