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 · 2015
Electronics & Electromagnetics
Objectives/Goals Even a few decades, the possibility of frictionless vehicles seemed impossible, but today the new invention of floating maglev trains is more common all around the world. By…
CSEF · 2015
Aerodynamics/ Hydrodynamics (Junior Division Only) Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals The purpose of this project was to determine the effects of camber on airfoil lift. The upper surface of a cambered airfoil is longer than the lower surface. As air moves ov…
CSEF · 2015
Physics & Astronomy
Objectives/Goals To find the most fuel efficient combination of plate charge and plate distance in a gridded ion engine. Methods/Materials Materials: A computer old enough to run Java plugin…
CSEF · 2015
Physics & Astronomy
Objectives/Goals My objective was to try and make graphite a pressure sensitive resistance, and then to study the parameters influencing it's resistance (width of the graphite, elasticity...…
CSEF · 2015
Electronics & Electromagnetics Fourth Award
Objectives/Goals The purpose of this project was to build a device that generated power from a soccer ball. I researched existing products, build and designed a prototype and then analyzed i…
CSEF · 2015
Electronics & Electromagnetics First Award
Objectives/Goals The LittleDog project was part of the DARPA Learning Locomotion program, which involved using a quadruped robot, LittleDog (constructed by Boston Dynamics), to walk through…
CSEF · 2015
Physics & Astronomy
Objectives/Goals The purpose of this science project is to build a simple and inexpensive spectrophotometer using a cellphone that will work as well as commercial spectrophotometers, and tes…
CSEF · 2015
Physics & Astronomy
Objectives/Goals My objective was to measure the acceleration constant and mass of the earth to within 10% accuracy using a non-automated system. Methods/Materials I manually timed how long…
CSEF · 2015
Physics & Astronomy
Objectives/Goals We can all see that some foods change color when they cook. I wanted to understand what aspect of reflectivity changes in food as it cooks. The human eye has difficulty quan…
CSEF · 2015
Aerodynamics/ Hydrodynamics (Junior Division Only) Second Award
Objectives/Goals The objective of my project was to create a new design of wind turbine blade and test its efficiency at varying wind speeds against two previously designed blades, the stand…
CSEF · 2015
Physics & Astronomy
Objectives/Goals The objective of this project was to see how the morphology of galaxies who host Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) are different from those that do not. Methods/Materials -If the…
CSEF · 2015
Aerodynamics/ Hydrodynamics (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals The objective is to construct a small scale wind tunnel to observe the aerodynamics of various car designs. Methods/Materials A small scale wind tunnel was constructed from…
CSEF · 2015
Electronics & Electromagnetics
Objectives/Goals The purpose of my project was to show if energy can be transferred without using wires. My project used an air-core transformer that stepped up low DC voltage to a very high…
CSEF · 2015
Aerodynamics/ Hydrodynamics (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals The objective of this project is to determine how the pitch, length, and number of blades affect propeller efficiency. Methods/Materials The following materials were used to…
CSEF · 2015
Aerodynamics/ Hydrodynamics (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals My objective for this project was to determine if changing the amount of blades on a wind turbine, or in this case a pinwheel, would affect how sensitive it was to wind. Met…
CSEF · 2015
Aerodynamics/ Hydrodynamics (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals The objective is to determine if planes will save fuel when flying in a "V" shape formation. My hypothesis is "If planes fly in a "V" shape like birds, then they will save f…
CSEF · 2015
Physics & Astronomy
Objectives/Goals My objective was to predict and measure Coronal Mass Ejections (CMEs). I plan to develop and implement an algorithm generated from an Excel graph, that spans an entire solar…
CSEF · 2015
Electronics & Electromagnetics
Objectives/Goals The purpose of this project was to create a wildfire detection system to reduce chances of a large blaze. PyroVisions detects the temperature and wirelessly sends it to the…
CSEF · 2015
Physics & Astronomy Fourth Award
Objectives/Goals Despite the incredible amount of automated flight capability in both manned and unmanned aircraft, human oversight is still required, especially during the landing process.…
CSEF · 2015
Physics & Astronomy
Objectives/Goals This project was developed on the speculation that water could be refracted through a plastic bottle to provide light inside of a home. Furthered it dwelled upon the underst…
CSEF · 2015
Electronics & Electromagnetics
Objectives/Goals Radiation. We are exposed to it every day from cell phones and electronic devices. This is why the objective of my project is to find out if it is possible to reduce our exp…
CSEF · 2015
Physics & Astronomy
Objectives/Goals The purpose of my project is to find out how fast light travels through different mediums. Methods/Materials Materials 5 Sheets of Paper; Pen; Ruler; Printer; Printable Radi…
CSEF · 2015
Electronics & Electromagnetics
Objectives/Goals The objective is to investigate the effect of the separation distance between the transmitting and receiving coils on the efficiency of resonance wireless energy transfer. M…
CSEF · 2015
Electronics & Electromagnetics
Objectives/Goals The goal for my project was to create a device/musical minstrument that is able to play any instrumental sound and can be played without any physical contact through the use…
CSEF · 2015
Aerodynamics/ Hydrodynamics (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals Our purpose of making the project was to make a hovercraft and test different weights on different surfaces. We wanted to know how to build a hovercraft and how they work. W…
CSEF · 2015
Aerodynamics/ Hydrodynamics (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals The object of my project was to determine what surface a hovercraft would ride over the fastest. The surfaces chosen for the experiment were cement, grass, asphalt, rough di…
CSEF · 2015
Physics & Astronomy Third Award
Objectives/Goals The purpose of this project was to see from what height a ball must be released in order for it to complete a loop without falling. After carefully considering gravitational…
CSEF · 2015
Electronics & Electromagnetics Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals One big worry for elderly and for their loved ones is falling. One third of the population above 65 is injured by falling, and falling can cause serious injuries and even de…
CSEF · 2015
Electronics & Electromagnetics
Objectives/Goals This project is about building a robot that can efficiently and safely help recover humans or any other life forms from a disater Methods/Materials We used tape to make the…
CSEF · 2015
Physics & Astronomy
Objectives/Goals The purpose of my project was to determine if common household supplies could be used in building an effective way to measure wavelengths of a spectrum. Methods/Materials Fo…