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 · 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…
CSEF · 2011
Environmental Engineering (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals What type of green roof building would insulate the best, one with grass on top or a clover ground cover? I think the grass will keep the inside of a green roof building the…
CSEF · 2011
Environmental Engineering (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals If I drop 32 ounces of water against sandbags containing different materials, then the mixture of sand and fine gravel will divert the largest amount of water. I chose to do…
CSEF · 2011
Environmental Engineering (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals The objective of this investigation was to determine which natural material absorbed the most oil. My hypothesis was that human hair would absorb the most oil and 100% cotto…
CSEF · 2010
Environmental Engineering (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals I came across an article about people in India who are throwing copper and silver coins into their rivers. They believe copper and silver coins will be able to disinfect the…
CSEF · 2010
Environmental Engineering (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals The objective is to determine if natural products are as effective in cleaning oil spills as commercial products. My goal is to reduce needless pollution at an oil spill by…
CSEF · 2010
Environmental Engineering (Junior Division Only) Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals My goal is to see if by using cross linked polymers, I could reduce the amount of water usage to sustain the life of a plant which could help save California's water if it w…
CSEF · 2010
Environmental Engineering (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals This experiment investigates Dr. Field's ICE911 idea to slow the warming of the Arctic glaciers by studying the effect of 0.7-3mm silicon spheres floating on the surface of…
CSEF · 2010
Environmental Engineering (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals To determine if changes in temperature and environment (purified, lake and sea water), affect the amount of oil and water absorbed by 3 different sorbents. I hypothesize fir…
CSEF · 2010
Environmental Engineering (Junior Division Only) Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals The objective of this experiment was to determine whether the antique/western method boiling polluted water, African method of adding moringa olefeira seeds, German techniqu…
CSEF · 2010
Environmental Engineering (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals The purpose of this project was to determine if crumb rubber (ground up used tires) could be substituted for sand in the making of concrete as a solution to the great enviro…
CSEF · 2010
Environmental Engineering (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals I originally wanted to find out if it is possible to desalinate ocean water at home for drinking. From there, I created my hypothesis, which states that if the concentration…
CSEF · 2010
Environmental Engineering (Junior Division Only) Second Award
Objectives/Goals The objective was to generate a direct current using solar cells to power an apparatus that desalinates enough water for an average person's use. Methods/Materials Four diff…
CSEF · 2010
Environmental Engineering (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals The hypothesis for this project was: If water is circulated through a heat exchanger coil embedded in a compost pile, then the temperature of the water exiting the coil will…
CSEF · 2010
Environmental Engineering (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals The objective of this project was to determine the most efficient clean energy source to desalinate water. Methods/Materials Procedure 1. Run the battery down until the alar…
CSEF · 2010
Environmental Engineering (Junior Division Only) Fourth Award
Objectives/Goals - Is it possible to build a Tesla coil at home using readily available materials? Can the ozone gas created by the Tesla coil be used to purify water? How efficient and effe…
CSEF · 2010
Environmental Engineering (Junior Division Only) Third Award
Objectives/Goals In July of 2009, Dr. Steven Chu, the current US Secretary of Energy and a Nobel prize-winning scientist, proposed something very simple to reduce energy cost and greenhouse…
CSEF · 2010
Environmental Engineering (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals Each type of paper: newspaper, copy paper and magazine paper was shredded into 2 cm. pieces and blended into paper pulp and then tested them for strength and quality. I did…
CSEF · 2010
Environmental Engineering (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals The goal of my project was to see what common gray water can be used safely on plants so people can reduce the amount of water wasted. Methods/Materials I did this by wateri…
CSEF · 2010
Environmental Engineering (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals The past two years I created several different solar powered apparatuses that purified and desalinized water through distillation. In continuing my interest in clean water,…
CSEF · 2010
Environmental Engineering (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals About 55% of our residential water is used for landscaping. San Diego residents will have to make an 8% cut on their use of water beginning July 1st under a drought emergenc…