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 · 2013
Electronics & Electromagnetics Fourth Award
Objectives/Goals Computers are expensive. It would be good to have computers that are affordable for everyone. Two methods to make them more affordable are to use less expensive, non-compute…
CSEF · 2013
Aerodynamics/ Hydrodynamics (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals I'm testing whether changing the angle of an airfoil/wing affects the lift (or downward force) generated by air flowing over and under the airfoil/wing. Methods/Materials My…
CSEF · 2013
Aerodynamics/ Hydrodynamics (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals Problem - Safebottles.co.nz has reported that more than 100 million plastic water bottles end up in landfills and waterways worldwide each day # that is approximately 1500 e…
CSEF · 2013
Physics & Astronomy
Objectives/Goals My project was designed to determine how a modulated voltage supply at a constant low current would affect the rate of deflection of charged particles by an electromagnet. T…
CSEF · 2013
Physics & Astronomy
Objectives/Goals My question, as stated above, was chosen because I had seen my dad pop balloons with lasers before, and I thought it would be a great base for a science fair project. I wond…
CSEF · 2013
Aerodynamics/ Hydrodynamics (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals The purpose of my project was to find out if and how elevation affects the break of a curveball. I predict that a curveball thrown at higher elevation will travel farther an…
CSEF · 2013
Aerodynamics/ Hydrodynamics (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals How do the sail angle, sail width, and the wind speed affect the force on a sail? Our hypothesis is that the largest sail at the highest wind speed will produce the greatest…
CSEF · 2013
Physics & Astronomy
Objectives/Goals Objective is to determine correlations between the index of refraction (IOR) and density and chemistry. The initial hypothesis was that denser liquids will have higher IORs…
CSEF · 2013
Electronics & Electromagnetics First Award
Objectives/Goals This study examined the effect of insulating and conductive cylindrical tubes on induced eddy currents caused by movements of magnets. Methods/Materials The experiment compa…
CSEF · 2013
Physics & Astronomy
Objectives/Goals The objective of this experiment was to investigate the new and developing studies of UVA radiation protection. The goal for this experiment is to promote educational study…
CSEF · 2013
Physics & Astronomy Fourth Award
Objectives/Goals My objective was to determine scientifically if percussing a watermelon predicts how sweet or ripe it is. I hypothesized that ripe watermelons transmitted a different sound…
CSEF · 2013
Physics & Astronomy
Objectives/Goals To determine the effect of air temperature on the flight distance of a fueled film canister. Methods/Materials Two blocks of wood were screwed together with one cut at a 45…
CSEF · 2013
Aerodynamics/ Hydrodynamics (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals The goal for this project was to find out if golf ball dimpling on the top surface of delta wing glider can increase its aerodynamics efficiency to a point which affects mea…
CSEF · 2013
Physics & Astronomy First Award
Objectives/Goals Under applied electric current, interconnects in integrated circuits are known to fail when lack of resistance to electromigration causes directional diffusion and the forma…
CSEF · 2013
Physics & Astronomy
Objectives/Goals The purpose of this project was to figure out whether lasers might be used to transfer energy efficiently. Specifically, to measure the efficiency when power is converted in…
CSEF · 2013
Electronics & Electromagnetics
Objectives/Goals My project was to prove or disprove if the material a levitating train is built with affect its rate of speed. I believe the material a levitating train is built with affect…
CSEF · 2013
Physics & Astronomy
Objectives/Goals How does adding mass change the period of a spring? My hypothesis was the more weight added to a mass-spring system will increase the length of the period of the spring#s ha…
CSEF · 2013
Physics & Astronomy
Objectives/Goals To create a rapid inference classification system by correlating transit curvature to mass and orbital radius of exoplanets. The rapid inference classification system provid…
CSEF · 2013
Electronics & Electromagnetics Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals The objective is to determine if a maximum efficiency exists in an magnetic air conditioning apparatus that utilizes the magnetocaloric effect to produce a temperature chang…
CSEF · 2013
Physics & Astronomy Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals Today four stroke gasoline engines control our transportation. These engines are polluting the environment and run on a limited fuel. I've proved before that HHO added to th…
CSEF · 2013
Physics & Astronomy Third Award
Objectives/Goals The Fitzhugh Nagumo Model is widely used to understand the behavior of neurons and other excitable systems, which are nonlinear oscillators with a distinct threshold and dyn…
CSEF · 2013
Physics & Astronomy
Objectives/Goals The objective of my experiment was to determine which direction a house faces will absorb the most heat from the sun and record the highest temperature. Methods/Materials Fo…
CSEF · 2013
Physics & Astronomy
Objectives/Goals To see if expensive sunscreens with high SPFS are better than inexpensive sunscreens with low SPFs. Methods/Materials Materials: Different brands of sunscreen, Saran wrap, 2…
CSEF · 2013
Aerodynamics/ Hydrodynamics (Junior Division Only) Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals The objective of my experiment was to determine the optimal blade angle for an ocean current turbine in different current speeds. I suspected that a 45° blade angle would pr…
CSEF · 2013
Physics & Astronomy
Objectives/Goals My project was to see which would evaporate water faster, wind or radiant heat. I believe that the wind will evaporate water faster because the wind blows the water molecule…
CSEF · 2013
Aerodynamics/ Hydrodynamics (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals A paper airplane is a simple, yet fun and creative toy. After reading my brother's paper airplane book, I learned that there are a wide variety of paper airplane designs. Wh…
CSEF · 2013
Electronics & Electromagnetics
Objectives/Goals The objective of this project was to determine if a homemade parabolic antenna, incorporated into an iPad case, could improve the performance of an iPad. Additionally, varyi…
CSEF · 2013
Aerodynamics/ Hydrodynamics (Junior Division Only) Third Award
Objectives/Goals 1. To construct a simple yet accurate force balance which can measure the static thrust of different types of small model aircraft propellers as a function of RPM and power.…
CSEF · 2013
Aerodynamics/ Hydrodynamics (Junior Division Only) Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals The purpose of my experiment is to understand how doctors use blood pressure waves to diagnose the patient's sickness. Methods/Materials In my experimental setup, I have two…
CSEF · 2013
Physics & Astronomy
Objectives/Goals The objective of our experiment was to figure out how long it takes for a neodymium magnet to seize levitating over a Yttrium Barium Copper Oxide compound cooled with liquid…