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 · 2004
Environmental Engineering
Objectives/Goals Perchlorate contamination in the Colorado River is a pollution problem that has been recently identified. The objective of this project was to evaluate whether perchlorate s…
CSEF · 2004
Environmental Engineering
Objectives/Goals The goal is to find out which material is the most efective in preventing flooding. Methods/Materials Sandbags and a variety of materials were used in tis experiment. Result…
CSEF · 2004
Environmental Engineering
Objectives/Goals Purpose: Does watering with recycled water affect the safety of school lawns? Hypothesis: I think that watering with recycled water does not affect the safety of school lawn…
CSEF · 2004
Environmental Engineering
Objectives/Goals My objective is to determine the best method of purifying water. I believe that the distillation method will work the best to remove both chemical and biological contaminant…
CSEF · 2004
Environmental Engineering
Objectives/Goals We wanted to determine how healthy the creeks in Anderson Valley are and which feeder creek contributes the most pollution into Anderson Creek. We thought that Con Creek wou…
CSEF · 2004
Environmental Engineering
Objectives/Goals My objective was to prove that the energy crisis in California could be solved by use of energy efficient lighting in each household. Methods/Materials I've created a survey…
CSEF · 2004
Environmental Engineering
Objectives/Goals I am trying to produce hydrogen as a clean energy source. The two current methods to obtain hydrogen are either expensive or pollute. Can I get hydrogen from anaerobic bacte…
CSEF · 2004
Environmental Engineering
Objectives/Goals Study if hydroponically grown plants (plants grwn in liquid media) can help recycle ammonia generated in fish-farming (aquaculture) operations. Methods/Materials The experim…
CSEF · 2004
Environmental Engineering
Objectives/Goals Is it practical to build a solar water heater that would contribute energy to a home at lower cost than buying energy from the power grid? Methods/Materials I built a solar…
CSEF · 2004
Environmental Engineering
Objectives/Goals The first objective was to quantify soil uranium concentrations at school in the Palos Verdes Peninsula Unified School District (PVPUSD) for comparison with classroom radon…
CSEF · 2004
Environmental Engineering
Objectives/Goals Current dairy waste lagoon design often consists of flushing manure through solids settling ponds and then partial bacterial digestion in large, open-air lagoons. The high a…
CSEF · 2004
Environmental Engineering
Objectives/Goals The purpose of this project is to evaluate the coagulating properties both Moringa Oliefera seed kernel powder and Moringa Oliefera De-oiled seed powder and compare their ef…
CSEF · 2004
Environmental Engineering
Objectives/Goals The objective of this experiment was to find out if straw with mushroom mycelium growing in it will be a better erosion control by retaining road sediment runoff better than…
CSEF · 2004
Environmental Engineering
Objectives/Goals Does adding oil to the top layer of soil reduce water loss from the soil? In arid regions such as southern California, water conservation is a vital issue. Applying the conc…
CSEF · 2004
Environmental Engineering
Objectives/Goals The purpose of this project is to explore methods of cleaning oil spills other than the major methods used (burning, biotechnology, and the use of biological agents). After…
CSEF · 2004
Environmental Engineering
Objectives/Goals Pollution is the greatest threat to our environment and health. The goal of this project is to find a good and an efficient way as an alternative of using fossil and nuclear…
CSEF · 2004
Environmental Engineering
Objectives/Goals My statement of the problem is, Which material (sand, charcoal, or gravel) will best filter waste from creek water? My hypothesis was that the charcoal would work best at fi…
CSEF · 2004
Environmental Engineering
Objectives/Goals Some plants (called hyperaccumulators) have been shown to accumulate heavy metals from soil. The purpose of this experiment was to find out if lead in soil could be phytorem…
CSEF · 2004
Environmental Engineering
Objectives/Goals Phytoremediation has provided a safe and inexpensive mean of removing toxic chemicals from soil through the use of plants. A research on this topic done by Dr. Lena Ma of th…
CSEF · 2004
Environmental Engineering
Objectives/Goals Many peaple live without clean water. Governments recommend that people boil water, but they do not do that for the following reasons: 1)people don't believe in the germ the…
CSEF · 2004
Environmental Engineering
Objectives/Goals Our project's objective was to determine the effect of stream restoration on the aquatic macroinvertebrate community of Cummings Creek, Humboldt Co. CA. We predicted that th…
CSEF · 2004
Environmental Engineering
Objectives/Goals The purpose of this project is to find out which rip-rap material is best at preventing water erosion. The three barriers tested were wood rip-rap, rock rip-rap, and a plant…
CSEF · 2004
Environmental Engineering
Objectives/Goals The goals to this water recycling project is reduce the amount of impurities from water,& find the most efficient water recycling process. Methods/Materials Build a cylinder…
CSEF · 2004
Environmental Engineering
Objectives/Goals My project was to determine whether or not there would be fewer bacterial colonies in contaminated water after being exposed to sunlight. I wanted to find and easy and inexp…
CSEF · 2004
Environmental Engineering
Objectives/Goals My project is to determine if the solar energy can be trapped for our future needs. Based on my research, it was hypothesized that if a vertical salinity gradient layer is c…
CSEF · 2004
Environmental Engineering
Objectives/Goals To find out whether the level of Carbon Monoxide emitted from car warm-up is hazardous to health. Methods/Materials MATERIALS: Safety Gas Mask; Carbon Monoxide Detector; Gar…
CSEF · 2004
Environmental Engineering
Objectives/Goals Crude oil is found in natural deposits and seeps all around the world. Crude oils are toxic and will affect the nervous system of animals that come in contact with it. I wan…
CSEF · 2004
Environmental Engineering
Objectives/Goals The objective is to determine the effects of ridgetop fuelbreaks (created by altering vegetation on the ridgetop) on the spread of wildfires, in a forested stand, on moderat…
CSEF · 2004
Environmental Engineering
Objectives/Goals The objective of my experiment is to determine if the oil degrading activity of Pseudomonas bacteria can be enhanced by the introduction of ammoniated bagasse in an acquatic…
CSEF · 2004
Environmental Engineering
Methods/Materials I tested to see if growing Zinc absorbent plants is effective at reducing the large quantities of Zinc in the soil. My two treatment plants were Thlaspi and spinach and I h…