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 · 2011
Electronics & Electromagnetics
Objectives/Goals I always wondered if there was a better way to charge a mobile device than by plugging it into a wall socket, and if there was any way to harvest stray radio waves that woul…
CSEF · 2011
Physics & Astronomy
Objectives/Goals If I increase the volume of air, then a candle would burn out more slowly. Adding carbon dioxide and oxygen will cause a candle to burn longer. Methods/Materials My first ex…
CSEF · 2011
Electronics & Electromagnetics Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals My objective is to test my hypothesis that FM radio waves are blocked by terrain along the line of sight. Methods/Materials Materials: Car Maps Computer Google Earth Java Pr…
CSEF · 2011
Aerodynamics/ Hydrodynamics (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals The objective of my project was to try and find out which material, between plastic, newspaper and silk, resisted gravity the most therefore making the best parachute. Metho…
CSEF · 2011
Physics & Astronomy Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals The main objective of the Chladni plates is to map out a series of nodes (places on the Chladni plate were there is no vibration) and modes (places on the Chladni plate in w…
CSEF · 2011
Physics & Astronomy
Objectives/Goals Objective The purpose of this experiment was to find which wavelengths of light provide the strongest photovoltaic effect in a solar-powered vehicle. Methods/Materials Mater…
CSEF · 2011
Electronics & Electromagnetics
Objectives/Goals This project attempts to probabilistically determine the likelihood of a particular malfunction in a computer chip. Basically, if too many transistors in a computer chip are…
CSEF · 2011
Aerodynamics/ Hydrodynamics (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals My project is to determine if the number of fins on a rocket affect its altitude. I believe a rocket with three fins will gain the most altitude. Methods/Materials Six rocke…
CSEF · 2011
Electronics & Electromagnetics
Objectives/Goals My goal was to find which type of wire would work best in an alternating current generator. Methods/Materials I used 3 different types of wire at 3 different lengths with 5…
CSEF · 2011
Physics & Astronomy
Objectives/Goals The objective of my project was to assess whether the distance of the Sun was an important variable in the light received by the Earth. My hypothesis was that the distance o…
CSEF · 2011
Physics & Astronomy
Objectives/Goals Project was a continuation of a previous project that I had done. It concentrated its results on the variables of reflectivity rather than the variables of a stealth vehicle…
CSEF · 2011
Physics & Astronomy
Objectives/Goals My experiment involves measuring how a yttrium-based ceramic (YBCO) superconductor is affected by an external magnetic field. To do this, I measured the temperature at which…
CSEF · 2011
Physics & Astronomy Third Award
Objectives/Goals Glass-Ceramics are a commonly used material, found in for example mugs and stove tops. A new machining method is the Direct-Write method: a stationary pulsed UV laser and a…
CSEF · 2011
Physics & Astronomy Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals Objective: The purpose of my project is to find out whether or not an electric discharge will disrupt an electrostatic field. Also, I wanted to find the correlation between…
CSEF · 2011
Physics & Astronomy
Objectives/Goals Question: What fruit or vegetable is the best conductor of electricity? The avocado will be the best conductor of electricity because of the high amount of iron. Methods/Mat…
CSEF · 2011
Physics & Astronomy
Objectives/Goals I chose to do a project on viscosity. My question was #Does temperature affect the viscosity of a liquid?# My hypothesis was that a hot fluid would be less viscous than a co…
CSEF · 2011
Electronics & Electromagnetics
Objectives/Goals Our objective was to explore micro-size, hydro-electric reaction turbines by experimenting with turbine sizes, materials, baffles, and blade-shapes to discover which combina…
CSEF · 2011
Physics & Astronomy
Objectives/Goals What is the fastest way to bring a soda from room temperature to a drinkable temperature? Methods/Materials 1.Prepare an ice-only bath by adding enough ice to a Styrofoam co…
CSEF · 2011
Physics & Astronomy
Objectives/Goals To find which surface area to volume ratio wether it be big or small has the fastest cooling rate. Methods/Materials 2 sets of 1 square, 1 rectangle, and 1 triangle are cut…
CSEF · 2011
Physics & Astronomy Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals Electroluminescent tubes ionized at a high frequency demonstrate a distinct beading pattern characterized by bright, equally spaced plasma beads or oscillations. The purpose…
CSEF · 2011
Electronics & Electromagnetics
Objectives/Goals This project was designed to test if you can measure how far away something is by using sound and light. The idea is that if a light and sound were emitted from the exact sa…
CSEF · 2011
Physics & Astronomy
Objectives/Goals The objective of the project was to determine what method of limiting friction was both most efficient and cost effective. My hypothesis was that the electromagnetic repulsi…
CSEF · 2011
Electronics & Electromagnetics
Objectives/Goals The objective of my investigation was to find how much power the major parts and programs of a computer consume and how you can configure your PC so that it conserves power.…
CSEF · 2011
Electronics & Electromagnetics
Objectives/Goals The objective of this project is to create an easily manufactured solenoid generator system in order to generate clean-renewable energy with the propagation of ocean waves w…
CSEF · 2011
Physics & Astronomy
Objectives/Goals The objective is to test if a photovoltaic cell can still absorb light through a glass panel from different angles. Methods/Materials A box was constructed to hold a photovo…
CSEF · 2011
Electronics & Electromagnetics
Objectives/Goals My objective is to build a communications device that is inexpensive, reliable and easy to deploy during a natural disaster or terrorist attack. This device should also be a…
CSEF · 2011
Electronics & Electromagnetics Third Award
Objectives/Goals Design, build, and test a DC-DC switch-mode converter that could replace conventional iron core high voltage distribution transformers and provide more efficient DC power tr…
CSEF · 2011
Electronics & Electromagnetics
Objectives/Goals About a year ago, I became fascinated with the idea of a Tesla coil. In September I built a Tesla coil. I observed that the sparks farther away from the Tesla coil seemed to…
CSEF · 2011
Electronics & Electromagnetics
Objectives/Goals I wanted to learn how computer memory works, and to build basic computer memory myself. Specifically, I wanted to find a way to make the binary logic to remember a single di…
CSEF · 2011
Aerodynamics/ Hydrodynamics (Junior Division Only) Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals The goal of this project is to find the fastest arrow out of the four different arrows being tested. The fastest arrow will be the most accurate. Anyone who is involved in t…