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.
ISEF · 2018
Physics and Astronomy
There is a special class of objects in our Galaxy - cataclysmic variable stars. These are binary systems consisting of a white dwarf and a red dwarf on the compact orbit smaller than the Moo…
CSEF · 2018
Physics & Astronomy Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals My engineering goal was to classify stars as binary or non-binary stars using machine learning. When the classifier is given a feature, it should accurately label the star,…
CSEF · 2018
Physics & Astronomy
Objectives/Goals The volume of a violin is an important quality that affects the way music is perceived by the audience. This experiment aimed to find how the tension of the violin bow affec…
CSEF · 2018
Electronics & Electromagnetics
Objectives/Goals The purpose of this project was to find out whether the number of turns within a coil per inch affects the speed of an electric train traveling through the coil. My hypothes…
CSEF · 2018
Aerodynamics/ Hydrodynamics (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals My experiment is addressing the following question: Does the Type of Wind Turbine Affect Energy Produced? Methods/Materials Construct the four turbines (Savonius VAWT, Girom…
CSEF · 2018
Electronics & Electromagnetics
Objectives/Goals The objective of this project is to create a key accessory that will hopefully reduce the incidents of drunk driving by preventing the key to be inserted into the ignition o…
ISEF · 2018
Physics and Astronomy
The vortex-ring is known as a unique flow keeping ring shape and moving on by itself .We focus on a fascinating exception of this, bubble-ring. Bubble-ring’s specialty is so simple: the cent…
ISEF · 2018
Physics and Astronomy
Hydrodynamics combines mathematical modelling and everyday life in a beautiful way --- everyone has drunk a beverage using a straw and seen a water flowing from the hose to water the garden.…
ISEF · 2018
Physics and Astronomy
The purpose of this project is to find out how the geometry and spacing of the anode and cathode and the voltage input can affect the thrust output of a small scale ion engine. If I increase…
CSEF · 2018
Electronics & Electromagnetics Second Award
Objectives/Goals Many people have bad posture, and bad posture can lead to health problems later in life. Our group's goal was to create a light, easy to use, effective and inexpensive postu…
ISEF · 2018
Physics and Astronomy
The purpose of this project was to determine the maximum weight that could be suspended by three different electromagnet configurations, each having six (6) coils and having lengths of six (…
CSEF · 2018
Electronics & Electromagnetics
Objectives/Goals The objective of this project was to design a prototype of a heat-reflecting energy efficient window that does not block cell phone signal (radio waves). In every energy eff…
CSEF · 2018
Aerodynamics/ Hydrodynamics (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals The goal of my project was to find how the difference of height, tube diameter, and viscosity has affects flow rate of a siphon. I hypothesized that thinner tubes and higher…
ISEF · 2018
Physics and Astronomy
The Moon is cratered with thousands of well-preserved impact basins. Shared geologic history with Earth makes lunar basins a good proxy for the processes affecting early Earth. Porosity, the…
ISEF · 2018
Physics and Astronomy
The Faraday’s Bicycle apparatus an engineering project based upon Faraday’s Law of electromagnetic induction which states that an rotating magnetic field generates an electric charge within…
ISEF · 2018
Physics and Astronomy
The goal of this project is to utilize the public database of NASA's Kepler Space Telescope and analyze the data of single-star-single-planet systems to potentially discover additional exopl…
ISEF · 2018
Physics and Astronomy
The neutron has opened a great sum of doors into the world of technological development by providing new forms of clean power and spectroscopy. In order to supply the required neutrons for t…
ISEF · 2018
Physics and Astronomy First Award
Barnes’ and Raymond’s Packed Planetary System (PPS) hypothesis postulates that planetary formation is efficient and creates dynamically packed planetary systems that cannot contain additiona…
ISEF · 2018
Physics and Astronomy
New discoveries are constantly being made about the origin, components, and future of our universe. To discover traces of undetected stellar and sub-stellar companions around more than 1,100…
CSEF · 2018
Electronics & Electromagnetics
Objectives/Goals Our project goal is to design a flexible capacitive touch panel for traditional displays by taking the advantages of graphene properties. Methods/Materials The graphene cond…
ISEF · 2018
Physics and Astronomy
GaAs photovoltaics are the most efficient but also the most expensive. If GaAs photovoltaics can be made on inexpensive metal substrates (cost $8/m^2) instead of GaAs wafers (cost $11,000/m^…
CSEF · 2018
Electronics & Electromagnetics
Objectives/Goals A flashlight is essential tool that is critical whenever a natural disaster occurs. However, what happens if the flashlight runs out of battery or there is no battery charge…
ISEF · 2018
Physics and Astronomy
Surfing, one of the most thrill-seeking sports around the globe, is daily faced with a major issue. The surfing community unanimously agree that the transportation of bulky surfboards is pro…
ISEF · 2018
Physics and Astronomy Second Award
Have you ever wondered if there are things that fall faster than gravity? We definitely want to reply with a "yes" to this question and we are providing the answer with our project. If you d…
CSEF · 2018
Electronics & Electromagnetics
Objectives/Goals Demonstrate the relationship between the number of magnet stages in a Gaussian accelerator and the distance and speed a steel ball travels. Methods/Materials Build a Gaussia…
CSEF · 2018
Electronics & Electromagnetics
Objectives/Goals The objective of this experiment is to find a cleaner source of energy which would have no harmful by-products and an efficiency rating of approximately 98.9%. Methods/Mater…
CSEF · 2018
Physics & Astronomy
Objectives/Goals Space cooling and heating represents a significant use of energy in buildings. My experiments were aimed at proving that reflectance and thermal emittance are two properties…
CSEF · 2018
Physics & Astronomy
Objectives/Goals I became interested in learning about conduction, convection, and radiation in order to reduce the amount of energy to keep my house a comfortable temperature. If I reduce t…
ISEF · 2018
Physics and Astronomy
Current requirements for jet engines normally involve obtaining a great, maximum power while using the small mass of fuel and oxidizer. However, the task of creating effective low power rock…
ISEF · 2018
Physics and Astronomy Third Award
Scattering-type scanning near-field optical microscopy (s-SNOM) is a state-of-the-art optical technique to probe the dielectric properties of materials in the nano-scale. Only requiring mini…