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
The purpose of this project was to determine whether the sun is a major source of cosmic rays. The question at hand was how does a solar eclipse effect muon counts? It was hypothesized that…
CSEF · 2018
Aerodynamics/ Hydrodynamics (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals I am determining which golf ball dimple pattern travels the fastest through a fluid. Methods/Materials I took 5 different patterned golf balls and dropped them in a 1.8 mete…
ISEF · 2018
Physics and Astronomy
Many devices use GPS and depend on the accuracy and reliability of the signal, but how accurate really is it, and what affects the change? This project tests WAAS signals, a GPS correcting s…
ISEF · 2018
Physics and Astronomy
The timbre, or tone color, of a sound possesses unique characteristics which enable us to differentiate one musical instrument from another, even when the tones are of the same pitch. Violin…
CSEF · 2018
Physics & Astronomy
Objectives/Goals The objective of this experiment is to determine how the physical properties of a reed relate to the timbre (or quality of sound) produced by a musical instrument. Notes fro…
CSEF · 2018
Electronics & Electromagnetics
Objectives/Goals This experiment served to implement the various satellite-tracking techniques acquired through the Irvine CubeSat Program and to verify the claims by several ham-radio opera…
ISEF · 2018
Physics and Astronomy
The purpose of this experiment was to determine whether surface gravity affects the luminosity of the gravitational waves produced by a binary system of Black Holes. It was hypothesized that…
CSEF · 2018
Aerodynamics/ Hydrodynamics (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals This project was an investigation of how different wing configurations affect the pressure measured on aircraft. Methods/Materials Using an engineering application called Si…
CSEF · 2018
Electronics & Electromagnetics Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals Our objective was to create a battery that would harvest radio frequencies in order to continually charge a crystal battery so that it could possibly last forever. Methods/M…
CSEF · 2018
Electronics & Electromagnetics
Objectives/Goals My project's goal is to study the following question: Does the number of neodymium magnet stages affect the projectile distance and velocity of the steel plated ball bearing…
ISEF · 2018
Physics and Astronomy
The Hofstadter Butterfly is a distinct fractal pattern in quantum physics that describes the energy eigenvalues of electrons subject to a magnetic field in a two-dimensional (2D) lattice. As…
ISEF · 2018
Physics and Astronomy First Award
Collective motion has attracted increasing interest in recent years as it is observed in a wide variety of applications such as the flocking behavior of birds or self-assembling nanoparticle…
CSEF · 2018
Physics & Astronomy
Objectives/Goals To build a working particle detector and test for baseline particle count flux based on elevation and protected locations such as caves and overpasses with sufficient densit…
ISEF · 2018
Physics and Astronomy
Astronomers who measure light levels of stars have noticed that not all stars emit light at a constant rate. By the 20th century, a star called “RR Lyrae” was discovered to be a variable sta…
ISEF · 2018
Physics and Astronomy
There is a well known gadget in field of electronics where a Junction Field Effect Transistor (JFET) moderates the flow of current to an LED by responding to an external electric field. The…
ISEF · 2018
Physics and Astronomy
In our project we present new method for increasing oil production by changing physical-chemical properties of oil with external electromagnetic field. As a result of the implementation of t…
ISEF · 2018
Physics and Astronomy
Bok Globules are dense clouds of molecular hydrogen gas that are generally associated with emission nebulae and young star clusters. It has been hypothesized that these clouds represent the…
CSEF · 2018
Aerodynamics/ Hydrodynamics (Junior Division Only) First Award
Objectives/Goals Determine which sugar among Sucrose, Glucose, and Fructose makes the best choice of sugar fuel for sugar-based solid propellant motors. Gain experience with materials, equip…
ISEF · 2018
Physics and Astronomy Fourth Award
Meteors are the visible tracks of small grains that enter Earth’s atmosphere from space. They collide with air molecules and create streaks of light in the upper atmosphere. The purpose of t…
ISEF · 2018
Physics and Astronomy Third Award
Gravitational waves offer promising new ways to detect astronomical phenomena such as binary black hole systems, supernovae, and background gravitational waves from the Big Bang. We focused…
ISEF · 2018
Physics and Astronomy Third Award
The study of topological systems is a very active field. In 2016, the Nobel prize in physics was awarded to the pioneers who studied topological systems such as topological insulators and th…
CSEF · 2018
Aerodynamics/ Hydrodynamics (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals In our daily life, electricity is the most common usage in our entire world. With wind energy, life is a lot cleaner, faster, healthier, and more efficient than any other en…
ISEF · 2018
Physics and Astronomy
The goal of project is creating portative multifunction device for simultaneously registration a, ß, ? radiation and low intensities neutrons. Novelty of the device is in combining the windo…
CSEF · 2018
Electronics & Electromagnetics
Objectives/Goals The objective of this experiment was to determine the order of energy efficient conditions for hover engines by varying the type of substrate (surface below them), substrate…
ISEF · 2018
Physics and Astronomy
Can a computer program be applied to a small electromagnet so that when it is raised above a large electromagnet at different heights, the force will stay the same? The purpose of this exper…
ISEF · 2018
Physics and Astronomy
In the search for Earth-like exoplanets that may harbor life, the most important factor is the elemental composition of the region of development. Exoplanets often form in planetary nebulae,…
ISEF · 2018
Physics and Astronomy Fourth Award
The purpose of this project is to determine whether two-mode squeezing (TMS) can be used for photon-number-resolving detectors (PNRDs) to generate an accurate photon count. We envisioned the…
ISEF · 2018
Physics and Astronomy
Despite much progress, several important discrepancies between state-of-the-art models and observational studies in extragalactic astronomy subsist, particularly for star-forming galaxies. T…
CSEF · 2018
Physics & Astronomy First Award
Objectives/Goals This experiment is based on the fact that Water Cut measurement continues to be a challenge in the oil industry. The purpose of this project is to determine what type of cor…
ISEF · 2018
Physics and Astronomy
The problem of viscous fluid mixing is important for chemical technology and food industry. Molecular mixing – diffusion- takes too long, placing paddles of other bodies to the mixing area c…