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 · 2008
Environmental Engineering
Objectives/Goals My project was to determine how quickly different pollutants would travel through different soils Methods/Materials I Collected Clay Loam, Sand, and backyard Soil (a mixture…
CSEF · 2008
Environmental Engineering Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals The purpose of my science project is to determine if adding super absorbent polymers to topsoil will help prolong the effects of pesticide. Methods/Materials For my experime…
CSEF · 2008
Environmental Engineering
Objectives/Goals Renewable, alternative energy sources such as photovoltaic and crop biomass (ethanol and biodiesel) are essentially solar energy conversion. If the efficacy of insolation co…
CSEF · 2008
Environmental Engineering Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals Can I collect and store solar energy for our future needs? I hypothesized that if I create a vertical salinity gradient layer in a body of water in a solar-pond like environ…
CSEF · 2008
Environmental Engineering
Objectives/Goals A key issue regarding water quality is an excess of nutrients. Fruit processing wastewater poses a unique problem due to the high level of nutrients and the lack of prior em…
CSEF · 2008
Environmental Engineering
Objectives/Goals My experiment was to find out which everyday products biodegrade the most and the quickest. I was very interested in discovering which products were harmful to the environme…
CSEF · 2008
Environmental Engineering
Objectives/Goals I want to make the planet a better place to live in and keep it healthy. As well I want future generations to be safe and have the same habitat as the generation before them…
CSEF · 2008
Environmental Engineering
Objectives/Goals My question was, "How can we help our school's biodegradable plates decompose faster using environmental assistance?" I chose my topic because my sister studied biodegradabl…
CSEF · 2008
Environmental Engineering
Objectives/Goals The objective of my project is to determine if solar-heaters work efficiently for household use, eliminating the consumption of natural gas and reducing the green-house gase…
CSEF · 2008
Environmental Engineering
Objectives/Goals Our objective is to monitor the water quality of the San Lorenzo River in Felton specifically levels of nitrate, turbidity and dissolved oxygen in addition to water velocity…
CSEF · 2008
Environmental Engineering Second Award
Objectives/Goals The objective of this experiment was to determine the contribution of water hyacinths in nutrient purification and to find the rate at which they reduced ammonium hydroxide…
CSEF · 2008
Environmental Engineering
Objectives/Goals This project was designed to identify the concentration of sodium phosphate tribasic at which oil-degrading bacteria would most effectively remediate oil-contaminated water.…
CSEF · 2008
Environmental Engineering
Objectives/Goals My project was to determine what kind of mirrored parabola produces the most heat. Methods/Materials Three solar ovens were constructed each using a different parabola. One…
CSEF · 2008
Environmental Engineering Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals The objective of my experiment was to determine an economical and efficient method of MTBE, DIPE, ETBE, and TAME removal in an acute situation of fuel oxygenate contaminatio…
CSEF · 2008
Environmental Engineering First Award
Objectives/Goals Soil contaminants form negative impacts on our ecosystem: ruining groundwater supplies, killing organisms, and posing a threat to our health. Certain plants can decontaminat…
CSEF · 2008
Environmental Engineering
Objectives/Goals The project objective was to determine if pine needles or oak leaves in forest floor leaf litter have diferent a caloric content when burned. Methods/Materials Three forest…
CSEF · 2008
Environmental Engineering
Objectives/Goals The objective of my project is to see if it is possible to find a simple and inexpensive way to purify water. I feel this would best be achieved with a solar still that has…
CSEF · 2008
Environmental Engineering
Objectives/Goals The objective of this experiment is to determine the most cost-effective, least polluting fertilizer and soil combination for the backyard gardener to save money and minimiz…
CSEF · 2008
Environmental Engineering
Objectives/Goals My objective was to find out if it is possible to cook frozen veggies in a homemade solar oven in Humboldt County where the temp never gets very high. My hypothesis was that…
CSEF · 2008
Environmental Engineering
Objectives/Goals The objective of my project is to determine if I can extract distilled water from muddy water or salt water; also, how much distilled water I will be able to extract in one…
CSEF · 2008
Environmental Engineering Third Award
Objectives/Goals The purpose of my study is to create a biodegradable packaging material using starch, glycerin, vinegar, and baking soda solution. The quality of the biodegradable packaging…
CSEF · 2008
Environmental Engineering First Award
Objectives/Goals The objective of this experiment is to identify which, if any, inorganic nutrient can be added to the environment of naturally occurring petrophilic (oil-degrading) microbes…
CSEF · 2008
Environmental Engineering Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals The objective is to determine which of three different plant based oils would produce the greatest quantity of biodiesel fuel. I used new (unused), slightly used and heavily…
CSEF · 2008
Environmental Engineering
Objectives/Goals The purpose of my project was to determine the efficiency of carbon, ceramic, reverse osmosis, and ultraviolet purification systems of water. Their performances were determi…
CSEF · 2008
Environmental Engineering Second Award
Objectives/Goals This research explores the potential for vegetable oil based fuels as substitutes for diesel. Increased oil prices and environmental concerns have focussed attention on alte…
CSEF · 2008
Environmental Engineering
Objectives/Goals The purpose of this experiment was to analyze the effects of nitrate as a cause of eutrophication, specifically in the wetlands of Hidden Valley Wildlife Preserve, and to co…
CSEF · 2008
Environmental Engineering
Objectives/Goals Fossil fuels are burning out at a rapid rate. An alternative, abundant resource needs to be found for human usage. Heating homes is a large energy consumer. Recently solar p…
CSEF · 2008
Environmental Engineering
Objectives/Goals The purpose of my project was to improve the efficiency of my solar still from 2007 by testing modifications to improve evaporation and condensation. The 2007 solar still wa…
CSEF · 2008
Environmental Engineering
Objectives/Goals Upper Newport Bay is an important natural reserve but unfortunately the Bay is threatened by numerous sources of pollutant loading by tributaries of its watershed. Santa Ana…
CSEF · 2008
Environmental Engineering
Objectives/Goals To determine the levels of lead, chlorine, copper, nitrate, nitrites, hardness, alkalinity and pH present in selected water samples and to quantitatively measure whether the…