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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,
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Mathematical Sciences
Objectives/Goals The goal of this study was to find a better way to determine all Pythagorean Triples, and test them using computer code written using these equations. Current methods to det…
Mathematical Sciences
Objectives/Goals The goal of this project was to use a deep learning based fully convolutional neural network (FCN) for pixel level gland segmentation of cancer images, and test the ability…
Mathematical Sciences
Objectives/Goals In a real world situation, members of different organizations often need to travel to multiple destinations without passing through the same place twice. However, identifyin…
Mathematical Sciences
Objectives/Goals The objective is to automate the scoring process for Fast Fourier Transform plots, which represent a radio signal as observed by a telescope. The algorithm calculates a scor…
Mathematical Sciences
Objectives/Goals Lesion segmentation plays an important role in the early identification and treatment of melanoma, a deadly skin cancer. Our objective was to develop an end-to-end methodolo…
Mathematical Sciences
Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals Find the most efficient maze-solving algorithm among three different algorithms: the #right-hand rule#, #dead reckoning#, and #dead end remembering#. Methods/Materials The p…
Mathematical Sciences
Objectives/Goals To (1) compress the existing VGG-16 Convolutional Neural Network into a smaller neural network specifically tailored to a reduced number of categories of images to decrease…
Mathematical Sciences
Fourth Award
Objectives/Goals The formation of a hairpin core structure by the HIV-1 virus transmembrane glycoprotein gp41 is the critical event that triggers viral fusion to the host cell. Fusion inhibi…
Mathematical Sciences
Objectives/Goals Epilepsy is a neurological disorder affecting more than 65 million people world wide. A seizure prediction system can greatly help epileptic patients to avoid potentially da…
Mathematical Sciences
Objectives/Goals Artificial neural networks suffer from a phenomenon known as "catastrophic forgetting", which prevents artificial intelligence agents from learning multiple tasks. This proj…
Mathematical Sciences
Objectives/Goals The purpose of this project was to determine if a state-of-the-art convolutional neural network image recognition algorithm could be developed to detect diabetic retinopathy…
Mathematical Sciences
Objectives/Goals The survival rate of children with Rhabdomyosarcoma (RMS) cancer is under 30%. Among other challenges, existing research does not accurately classify between the subtypes of…
Mathematical Sciences
Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals Antibody therapeutics is a growing field of drugs, involving antibodies that specifically target a pathogen inside the body. Designing such high-affinity antibodies mimics o…
Mathematical Sciences
Objectives/Goals The purpose of my science experiment is to find out what type of password is the strongest. The reason why I am doing this project is because these days you use passwords on…
Mathematical Sciences
Objectives/Goals Annually, 7 million patients suffer surgical complications, many of which are linked to inadequate surgical training and a lack of individualized feedback on how to improve…
Mathematical Sciences
Objectives/Goals On-Campus crime is a leading issue in US Colleges, a serious concern for parents and a difficult challenge for the college authorities. US Department of Education captures d…
Mathematical Sciences
First Award
Objectives/Goals In this project, we prove certain properties about the Rado Graph. In order to do that, we first consider a simpler case of the graph, a modified version, and prove that it'…
Mathematical Sciences
Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals The goal of this research is to develop an algorithm that can analyze and accurately recognize the speaker's emotion from human speech using machine learning. This is not on…
Mathematical Sciences
Second Award
Objectives/Goals Determine if processes of natural selection can be applied to non-biological or simulated entities to produce nearly optimal solutions to a variety of computationally hard p…
Mathematical Sciences
Second Award
Objectives/Goals The combinatorial solution to the recurrence relation a_{n} =a_{n-1} +a_{n-3} +a_{n-4} leads to the trend, a_{2n} =f_{n}^2 , where f_{n} is the n-th term in the Fibonacci se…
Mathematical Sciences
Objectives/Goals Malnutrition is prevalent issue in this world: it accounts for 58 percent of all mortality. As a result, my project aims to solve the problem of malnutrition using the metho…
Mathematical Sciences
Objectives/Goals Air pollution is a concerning global issue with increasing public awareness and serious health consequences. As air quality and smog levels fluctuate throughout a city withi…
Mathematical Sciences
First Award
Objectives/Goals The objective of this project was to study the statistical properties of the iterations of tan(x). Methods/Materials Laptop computer with Fortran compiler and Grace. Ran pro…
Mathematical Sciences
Objectives/Goals This project uses mathematical concepts, specifically theoretical probability, to create an optimal search model for a target. Computer programs in C++ are also used to perf…
Mathematical Sciences
Third Award
Objectives/Goals The objective is to create 2 things: 1) a low-cost lens that attaches to the back of a smartphone and allows laypeople to take a picture of the back of the eye and 2) an alg…
Mathematical Sciences
Objectives/Goals Our goal is to build an algorithm that can detect an orange disease with an accuracy of more than 90% and have a processing time of less than 10 seconds per tree. The soluti…
Mathematical Sciences
Objectives/Goals The objective of this experiment was to apply artificial neural networks (ANN) to the prediction of river gauge height two days in the future at a specific station in order…
Mathematical Sciences
Objectives/Goals Teaching a computer to learn to classify handwritten letters requires a complex computing model capable of learning the structure of letters rather than simply following a s…
Mathematical Sciences
Objectives/Goals Traditional node-link diagrams for visualizing networks do not scale as networks become larger and are nicknamed "hairballs". To address the need for the visualization of la…
Mathematical Sciences
Objectives/Goals The objective of this experiment was to test what effect popularity would have on the results of real-world games, as popularity is an indirect factor in an opening's succes…