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 Third Award
With clean water being a requirement for human life, it’s appalling 660 million people lack access to it. Those without access must travel an average of 3.7 miles carrying 20 L of water on t…
CSEF · 2018
Environmental Engineering First Award
Objectives/Goals In 2017, Devastating fires burned throughout the Napa Valley and Southern California, resulting in immense destruction, financial loss, and even casualties. In most present…
ISEF · 2018
Environmental Engineering
The recent revolution of unconventional shale gas resources has flipped the coin to a new era in the oil and gas industry and the world. The primary motivation of this research is to utilize…
CSEF · 2018
Environmental Engineering
Objectives/Goals It was hypothesized that bacteria collected from plastic incubated with ocean water, collected from Scripps pier, are capable of biodegrading plastic. Methods/Materials A sa…
ISEF · 2018
Environmental Engineering
Soil acidification due to imprudent use of chemical soil fertilizers has become a serious problem these days. Limestone is widely used as a solution to this problem, however it causes second…
ISEF · 2018
Environmental Engineering
The use of photovoltaic solar energy for the generation of electric energy has been increasingly considered in several countries as a great alternative to reduce the environmental impacts ca…
ISEF · 2018
Environmental Engineering
The structural health monitoring (SHM) is extremely important because Taiwan is located on the pacific seismic belt where earthquake hazards occur frequently. Maintenance management is requi…
ISEF · 2018
Environmental Engineering
Background: Water pollution by water-soluble dyes which by the textile industry is a major environmental problem leading to health hazards. Green chemistry proposes the use of hydrogen perox…
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…