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 · 2014
Physics & Astronomy
Objectives/Goals I wanted to test my following hypothesis: Sound does travel fast through air, but it can travel as fast through the string. The length will not change the velocity, but the…
CSEF · 2014
Electronics & Electromagnetics First Award
Objectives/Goals 90% of the visually impaired are unemployed, 82% are aged 50+, and the number of diabetic and elderly who are visually disabled is growing annually [WHO October 2013]. Most…
CSEF · 2014
Electronics & Electromagnetics
Objectives/Goals My goal was to determine which light bulb emitted the the most dirty electricity, so I could possibly help people who might suffer from the effects of it. Methods/Materials…
CSEF · 2014
Electronics & Electromagnetics Second Award
Objectives/Goals The objective of my project is to develop an electronics prototyping platform designed specifically to run a paradigmatic operating system that I have written in an attempt…
CSEF · 2014
Electronics & Electromagnetics Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals The object of this study is to determine the ideal arrangement of balls and magnets for the highest ejecting velocity. I will then analyze what effect the different arrangem…
CSEF · 2014
Electronics & Electromagnetics Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals Portable and wearable devices are becoming more and more of a part of human lifestyle. Unfortunately, these devices are limited by their battery life. As non-renewable energ…
CSEF · 2014
Electronics & Electromagnetics
Objectives/Goals The purpose of this project is to design an energy harvesting piezo electric solution to power an internal retinal prosthesis system using the natural eye movement. The best…
CSEF · 2014
Electronics & Electromagnetics
Objectives/Goals My intention in performing this experiment was to see if it is relatively possible, and of course to examine and demonstrate the Biefeld-Brown Effect first hand. From this I…
CSEF · 2014
Electronics & Electromagnetics Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals My objective was to design and build an electronic prosthetic device to handle delicate objects, like eggs, and be size and shape independent. It uses sensors to provide inp…
CSEF · 2014
Electronics & Electromagnetics Fourth Award
Objectives/Goals Over the course of this project, I developed and tested a novel method for a device which finds a sound source. Methods/Materials With components collected from local and in…
CSEF · 2014
Electronics & Electromagnetics Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals This project studies how ferromagnetic and diamagnetic forces affect magnetic levitation distance and its stability, respectively in diamagnetic levitation. Methods/Material…
CSEF · 2014
Physics & Astronomy
Objectives/Goals Solar events known as Coronal Mass Ejections (CMEs) regularly cause serious problems for electrical systems on our home planet, where the fluctuations of the solar magnetosp…
CSEF · 2014
Electronics & Electromagnetics
Objectives/Goals To chart was to see how different shapes and angles could be sensed more accurately than others. Three different shapes (cylinder, cube and rectangular prism), and two diffe…
CSEF · 2014
Electronics & Electromagnetics Fourth Award
Objectives/Goals The purpose of this project is to build a belt that could be used by anyone who wants to correct their posture. Since reminders from parents are not always available, the be…
CSEF · 2014
Physics & Astronomy Third Award
Objectives/Goals My objective was to find out why balloons make a loud noise when they pop. I wanted to get enough data to choose between two main conflicting ideas for what creates the nois…
CSEF · 2014
Electronics & Electromagnetics
Objectives/Goals The purpose of this project was to study how processors affect the speed of a robot following a track and to study how steering design affects the speed of a robot following…
CSEF · 2014
Electronics & Electromagnetics
Objectives/Goals In this project we determined which berry juice would absorb the most light and convert it into potential energy in a dye-sensitized solar cell. We hypothesized that if anth…
CSEF · 2014
Electronics & Electromagnetics
Objectives/Goals Night vision while driving can be impaired by bright lights from on coming car headlights causing a period of blindness until the eye recovers. We wanted to build photo-prot…
CSEF · 2014
Physics & Astronomy
Objectives/Goals The objective of my project was to determine if the recoil forces of different firearms could generate enough acceleration of the head to cause subconcussive brain injury. M…
CSEF · 2014
Electronics & Electromagnetics Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals The goal of this experiment was to find and redesign a standard audio amplifier to fit a homemade band pass filter. The band pass filter was designed to detect the specific…
CSEF · 2014
Aerodynamics/ Hydrodynamics (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals My goal is to find how the shape and the edges of a car affect top speed, gas mileage, handling and acceleration. Methods/Materials I used hobby boards, fans and acrylic to…
CSEF · 2014
Electronics & Electromagnetics
Objectives/Goals Modern fiber optic companies use wavelength-division multiplexers (WDM's) to send multiple streams of information at the same time on a single device This technique maximize…
CSEF · 2014
Physics & Astronomy
Objectives/Goals My project's objective was to figure out how inertia can be controlled, how it can be eventually used as a mechanism for balancing robots. This project looked for how much i…
CSEF · 2014
Electronics & Electromagnetics
Objectives/Goals In this project, computer processing speeds were tested while changing memory size and CPU variables to see which had a greater impact on the computer's processing speed. Me…
CSEF · 2014
Physics & Astronomy
Objectives/Goals To experimentally determine the dependence of refractive index (n) and thickness on easily varied synthesis parameters both in isolation and interaction with each other. Met…
CSEF · 2014
Electronics & Electromagnetics Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals With the ever increasing influence of technology on our lives and the use of devices to augment our everyday actions, the integration of man and machine has already begun. O…
CSEF · 2014
Physics & Astronomy Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals My research project was aimed at finding the effect of levitating mass and external magnetic field on the levitation height of a diamagnetic sample, and estimating the magni…
CSEF · 2014
Physics & Astronomy
Objectives/Goals My project was to determine the effects of resistance on the trajectories of marbles and the difference between the ideal motion and motion with resistance. Methods/Material…
CSEF · 2014
Aerodynamics/ Hydrodynamics (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals The objective was to find evidence that proved that a car that was dimpled like a golf ball would accelerate faster than a car that is smooth. The acceleration of the car wa…
CSEF · 2014
Physics & Astronomy
Objectives/Goals Objective: to use Jupiter and asteroids data in relation to asteroids to find theoretical occurrences of asteroids in the solar system assuming Jupiter did not exist, theref…