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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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Mathematics
Western music is based on two concepts – Harmony, which is the simultaneous sounding of multiple notes (chords), and Voice Leading, which is the temporal motion of these notes (voices). The…
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…
Mathematics
A Method for Analyzing Basketball Teams started as an attempt to use statistics to analyze our team's offense. Eventually it grew into a data collection and analysis software. There are thre…
Mathematics
The problem of points is a historical problem confronted by many mathematicians throughout history. It presents an interrupted series of games and asks the question of how the probabilities…
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…
Mathematics (inferred)
The purpose of this study was to develop an origami spider web pattern. Spider webs have a wide variety of shapes and sizes. This study focused on developing a design for a simplified spider…
Mathematics
The internet’s expansion has increased the data available to researchers, allowing analysis to make insights into human behavior. This project statistically analyzes trends in computer scien…
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…
Mathematics
The Collatz conjecture is an unproven conjecture in mathematics; any initial input to the Collatz sequence will give an eventual output of one. The importance of proving the conjecture is du…
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…
Mathematics
This project aims at challenging the underlying conjectures in many modern encryption systems. The problem of integer factorization, and its associated difficulty is solving, is essential to…
Mathematics
In the futuristic dystopia, The Minority Report starring Tom Cruise, the police would be at the crime scene before it occurred. Is this really possible? My project uses data science and mach…
Mathematics
Patients with end-stage renal disease may receive a kidney transplant from a deceased or living donor. However, kidney transplants are time-sensitive and not all kidneys have the same expect…
Mathematics
The method exposes an approximation of the zeros of any differentiable function. The functions in which the method is fulfilled are the logarithmic, exponential, algebraic, and trigonometric…
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…
Mathematics
This project investigates the phenomena modeled by Benford’s law. Our experimentation aims to observe the credibility of Benford’s law at multiple sample sizes, by testing the use of it with…
Mathematics
North Dakota has experienced population changes in the past decades from oil production as well as Red Fiver floods of 1997 and 2011, Minot flood of 2009 and a small oil boom in the early 19…
Mathematics
In the current research, we consider tilings with T-tetromino and stepwise n^2-omino (figures, constructed by unit squares) and their connection to chain graphs. Also, we examine tilings wit…
Mathematics
Second Award
The concept of metric dimension has applications in a variety of fields, such as chemistry, robotic navigation, and combinatorial optimization. Three bounds on the metric dimensions for diff…
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…
Mathematics
Problems involving arithmetic progressions are of interest in number theory, combinatorics, and computer science, from both theoretical and applied points of view. In 2004, Ben Green and Ter…
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…
Mathematics
The study depicts the mapping of the triangle on the cylindrical surface, i.e. the cylindrical deformation of the triangle. The described mapping is characterized by a curious geometric prop…
Mathematics
Egyptian Fractions can be defined as the series of distinct unit fractions that can be summed to equal a proper fraction. Any fraction can be expressed in this way, and the Egyptians had a m…
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…
Mathematics
Objective: To create a mathematical model which, when applied to a Major League Baseball hitter’s pitch-by-pitch data and a pitcher’s pitch selection, returns the optimal pitch selection giv…