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 · 2014
Materials Science Fourth Award
A major global concern pertains to the availability of potable water due to continuous growth in water demand which is not balanced by adequate restoration. Common technologies for water dis…
ISEF · 2014
Materials Science
Pesticides help to ensure crop productivity, but they contaminate the surrounding environment with toxic substances that can directly affect a local ecosystem’s organisms. Microbial degradat…
ISEF · 2014
Materials Science
This project was a continuation from 2012 when testing was performed on West Texas lakes, which revealed estrogenic endocrine disruptors. This year the most widely used pesticide in the worl…
CSEF · 2014
Materials Science (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals The purpose of our science project was to determine if relying on radiant barriers instead of the standard insulation used in home construction can result in homes that are…
CSEF · 2014
Materials Science (Junior Division Only) Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals This projects goal was finding the perfect ratio of sand to cement in order to make strong concrete. Because the world has been experiencing major natural disasters such as…
ISEF · 2014
Materials Science
The goal of this project was to form a mathematical model of genetic amplification. Unlike previous attempts this equation was based off of actual data, thereby greatly reducing the percent…
ISEF · 2014
Materials Science
The purpose of this project is to investigate whether it is more accurate to predict an unknown amount of items in a container using the mean, median, or individual guess, and to analyze how…
ISEF · 2014
Materials Science
Recent study showed that peppermint oil is capable to repel rats. The main purpose is to reduce the spread of contagious disease caused by rats. It is eco-friendly because it was made from n…
ISEF · 2014
Materials Science
Ponds and streams are being impacted daily in complex ways. Teems of organisms that inhabit these waters are excreting nitrogenous waste products. Fisherman and farmers may also be adding sm…
ISEF · 2014
Materials Science
In the agriculture industry and other fields dealing with significant crop management, mathematical functions can be utilized as a tool to aid users and to streamline the growing process. By…
ISEF · 2014
Materials Science
According to the biodiversity theory, the decrease in piscivore population will result in direct, shrot-term increase in planktivore biomass, reductions in crustacean herbivore biomass, and…
ISEF · 2014
Materials Science
A critical issue in the world today is providing clean drinking water for people throughout the world. Nearly 780 million people are unable to access clean drinking water today. Despite the…
ISEF · 2014
Materials Science Third Award
Fibre-reinforced polymeric composites have received widespread attention for the past decades because of their high specific strength and modulus.Pineapple leaf fibre is rich in cellulose,re…
ISEF · 2014
Materials Science
This project proposes an alternative approach to proof that a regular n-gon has the maximum area when compare to other irregular n-gons with perimeters of the same length using mathematical…
CSEF · 2014
Materials Science (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals The goal of my project was to find the best wood to use when building in a flood zone. My hypothesis was that the wood that absorbed the least amount of water would be the b…
ISEF · 2014
Materials Science First Award
Heavy metals pose a huge threat to society by diffusing through water supplies. Many technologies have been developed for removing heavy metals from industrial wastewater and drinking water,…
ISEF · 2014
Materials Science First Award
Symmetric functions appear in many areas of mathematics and physics, including enumerative combinatorics, the representation theory of symmetric groups, statistical mechanics, and the quantu…
ISEF · 2014
Materials Science
The purpose of this project is to see what the Olympic Medal results would look like if they were based on Gender and to see if Gender Equality is being promoted throughout the Olympic Games…
ISEF · 2014
Materials Science Second Award
This project is inspired by a recent breakthrough in the study of the lower central series filtration of unitary associative Lie algebras. We consider the successive quotients of elements (a…
ISEF · 2014
Materials Science
In this project, we provide a new notion of a topological homeomorphism by defining such in terms of a dynamical system. That is, we want to construct a time-dependent quasi-attractor and a…
ISEF · 2014
Materials Science
This work employed an information theoretic approach in order to understand how information is stored and manipulated in mammalian neocortical circuits. Through massive in silico simulations…
ISEF · 2014
Materials Science
Pancreatic cancer is a deadly disease that is very difficult to diagnose early and to treat effectively. It has a 95% mortality rate, the highest of all cancers, and only a 3-6% 5-year survi…
ISEF · 2014
Materials Science Second Award
Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) are ubiquitous non point source aquatic contaminants derived from various combustive and fossil fuel sources, causing sublethal cardiotoxic effects in…
ISEF · 2014
Materials Science
The aim of this project is to explore a new statistical method to detect non-randomness in outputs obtained by a random number generator. The test detects convergence of a particular sequenc…
ISEF · 2014
Materials Science
Bright and motivated high school students often choose to take the most rigorous classes possible in high school. The question then becomes why should a motivated, high achieving student sub…
CSEF · 2014
Materials Science (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals The purpose of this project was to test the plastic deformation of polymers made from different amounts of borax, glue, and water. My hypothesis was that the more glue added…
CSEF · 2014
Materials Science (Junior Division Only) Third Award
Objectives/Goals The objective of my project is to discover a fire retardant/smoke barrier material that is nonflammable, nontoxic, easy to use, and long lasting using household products. My…
ISEF · 2014
Materials Science
Purpose: A series of biomonitoring techniques were used to assess the surface water quality of Weeks Bayou subwatershed using chemical, macroinvertebrate, and bacterial analyses. The aquatic…
ISEF · 2014
Materials Science Third Award
Endocrine Disrupting Compounds (EDCs) have a profound impact on aquatic reproductive processes. Current municipal waste water treatment plants (MWTP) do not eliminate highly persistent EDC’s…
ISEF · 2014
Materials Science
The effects of acid rain on plants and soil have been carefully studied. By using sacrificial metals, like magnesium, these negative effects of acid rain can be offset. Both mortality rate a…