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 · 2010
Environmental Engineering (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals My project was to determine if native plants could be used to alter the pH of rainwater. My ultimate goal is to set up a rainwater collection system using native plants as f…
CSEF · 2010
Environmental Engineering (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals The objective of this project was to determine if water temperature affects how much oil a sorbent can absorb in an oil spill and to find out what temperature of water the s…
CSEF · 2010
Environmental Engineering (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals As our population continues to grow, so does our demand for food. Farmers have relied upon manufactured fertilizers to increase crop yields. These fertilizers have many harm…
CSEF · 2010
Environmental Engineering (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals According to the EPA, the nation's number one water quality problem is stormwater runoff. Runoff water is contaminating nearly half of our rivers and lakes, leaving them una…
CSEF · 2010
Environmental Engineering (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals Which vegetation planted on the roof, works best to cool down the temperature of a miniature house? Methods/Materials Dirt, Succulent plant, Chocolate Mint herb, Blue fescue…
CSEF · 2010
Environmental Engineering (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals The purpose of this project was to test the effects of recycling water on three different kinds of plants. For that purpose I used three different kinds of water: white wate…
CSEF · 2010
Environmental Engineering (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals My objective is to determine which type of water purification system is most effective; carbon filtration or UV purification. Methods/Materials Experimental Procedures 1. Ge…
CSEF · 2010
Environmental Engineering (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals The objective is to determine if plants can be safely watered with greywater-water created in a household containing soap, detergent, or other impure material residue. Metho…
CSEF · 2010
Environmental Engineering (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals Cover crops affect soil pH and the ranch soils we chose as our control variable had a variety of cover crops planted, so we tested our hypothesis by sampling soil to see how…
CSEF · 2010
Environmental Engineering (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals What type of energy source: natural gas, propane, electricity, and solar power are feasible to purify ocean water. The independent variables are; natural gas, propane, elect…
CSEF · 2010
Environmental Engineering (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals My objective was to see how different types of water filters (sediment and carbon) affect the pH level, total alkalinity, total chlorine, total hardness, iron level, copper…
CSEF · 2010
Environmental Engineering (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals My objective was to learn which type of water produced the fastest growing bean plant. I initially hypothesized that spring water would work best because it was the purest,…
CSEF · 2010
Environmental Engineering (Junior Division Only) First Award
Objectives/Goals The objective is to use carbon dioxide measurements (an end product of bacterial degradation), to determine if the new Bioreactor landfill design could be a better option fo…
CSEF · 2010
Environmental Engineering (Junior Division Only) Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals The purpose of my science project is to determine if the addition of polyacrylamide (PAM) will help water percolate through a hydrophobic layer of soil. This is a water repe…
CSEF · 2009
Environmental Engineering (Junior Division Only) Second Award
Objectives/Goals Using chlorine to disinfect water can contribute to health hazards. I read an article this summer about a new method of water treatment through water electrolysis. The objec…
CSEF · 2009
Environmental Engineering (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals My project is the study of the biodegradability of disposable spoons. I selected 5 different types of disposable spoons and placed them in 4 environments. I observed the spo…
CSEF · 2009
Environmental Engineering (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals When cement manufacturers make one ton of cement, heating and a chemical reaction release 0.87 tons of carbon dioxide into the air. If concrete manufacturers could substitut…
CSEF · 2009
Environmental Engineering (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals Do catalytic converters eliminate harmful pollutants enough in larger engines? I will test the hypothesis that catalytic converters will do their job quite well in small eng…
CSEF · 2009
Environmental Engineering (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals If you fill a bottle with bad water and use the sun to heat it up, you can kill the bacteria that can make us sick. This can also be a tool for those who don't have good dri…
CSEF · 2009
Environmental Engineering (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals There is an urgent need for clean water in areas which lack basic sanitary conditions. Solar disinfection (SODIS) is a cheap and effective way to purify water in only six ho…
CSEF · 2009
Environmental Engineering (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals To help the water crisis in the Central Valley. Methods/Materials Created a basic frame out of PVC pipe. Used sun screen shade material to cover frame. Attach the screen to…
CSEF · 2009
Environmental Engineering (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals The purpose of my experiment was to find out whether Archimedes# screw could or could not lift fish over a barrier safely. The fish ladder used in american rivers has many p…
CSEF · 2009
Environmental Engineering (Junior Division Only) Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals My project was to determine if I could desalinate ocean water using a contained environment to duplicate the water cycle, and in addition determine if using solar power woul…
CSEF · 2009
Environmental Engineering (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals In the US, we cannot control the gas economy since most of the gas comes from the Middle East. Thus, we have to find other sources of fuel such as biodegradable fuel. Our ob…
CSEF · 2009
Environmental Engineering (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals My objective was to discover which common household waste most efficiently ferments into ethanol to be used as an alternative fuel source. Methods/Materials I started my exp…
CSEF · 2009
Environmental Engineering (Junior Division Only) Fourth Award
Objectives/Goals My goal is to motivate people to recycle food waste by finding the best way to compost by differing amounts of aeration and noting the effects by examining its nutrient leve…
CSEF · 2009
Environmental Engineering (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals The purpose of this experiment was to determine the most effective technique in water purification between coagulation, disinfection, and filtration. The hypothesis was that…
CSEF · 2009
Environmental Engineering (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals How can different types of polymers be identified without looking at the Plastic Identification Code? The purpose of this science experiment is to identify different polymer…
CSEF · 2009
Environmental Engineering (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals The purpose of this project is to investigate the relationship between landscaping and energy conservation. Methods/Materials I constructed a cardboard house and a tree made…
CSEF · 2009
Environmental Engineering (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals This project was used to find if there is an environmentally friendly way to melt ice. Methods/Materials Snow freezes over road and forms very slippery ice. the ice is melte…