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 · 2012
Electronics & Electromagnetics
Objectives/Goals The amount of energy that industrial nations are using continues to increase. Making electric motors more efficient would help reduce the use of energy and help the environm…
CSEF · 2012
Physics & Astronomy
Objectives/Goals To Find Out if a metior hit water at what angle would cause the biggist wave. Methods/Materials The materials in the experiment used were a 3" by 3' tube, 1 lacrosse ball, 1…
CSEF · 2012
Aerodynamics/ Hydrodynamics (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals How do you make the highest splash? My project looks at the physics and variables involved in making a splash. I have focused on measuring the "jet", or vertical splash, of…
CSEF · 2012
Electronics & Electromagnetics Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals In my project, I wanted to know if the core used in a solenoid will affect the strength of the magnetic field. Methods/Materials A solenoid was constructed, allowing differe…
CSEF · 2012
Physics & Astronomy
Objectives/Goals If I supercool water and then interrupt the process by shaking it, then snap freezing will occur. Methods/Materials Procedure for Supercooling Water 1. Cut a circle from the…
CSEF · 2012
Physics & Astronomy Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals My objective was to find the speed of sound in different materials and how that speed changes with temperature. In my experiment, I measured the speed of sound in 12 materia…
CSEF · 2012
Electronics & Electromagnetics
Objectives/Goals The project involved creating a teleoperational robotic hand using servos. The hand includes a Microcontroller board that sends digital signals to the motors and is linked t…
CSEF · 2012
Physics & Astronomy
Objectives/Goals My goal was to find whether surface tension and temperature effect each other. Methods/Materials I used a simple scale and a dropper to measure the surface tension of variou…
CSEF · 2012
Physics & Astronomy
Objectives/Goals The goal of this project is to modify and make use of a diffraction grating Belly Band with the original purpose of mounting and calibrating diffraction gratings, which focu…
CSEF · 2012
Electronics & Electromagnetics
Objectives/Goals The objective of this science fair project is to build a simple crystal radio from scratch. Then experiment to see if it works without external power. If it does work, to th…
CSEF · 2012
Physics & Astronomy
Objectives/Goals My objective in this experiment was to develope an equation for the amount of magnetic pulling force that would travel through a steel bar if a magnet is placed on one end.…
CSEF · 2012
Electronics & Electromagnetics
Objectives/Goals My objective was to determine how the length of wire or coils affect how much weight an electromagnet can lift. I believe that if I change the amount of wire wrapped around…
CSEF · 2012
Physics & Astronomy
Objectives/Goals The purpose of this project was to measure the degree to which a magnet deflects the plasma arc generated by a Tesla Coil (if any deflection occured at all). It was hypothes…
CSEF · 2012
Electronics & Electromagnetics
Objectives/Goals My experiment's objective is to determine if a step down DC- DC converter can extend the useful time power can be extracted from supercapacitors. First, I established a base…
CSEF · 2012
Electronics & Electromagnetics
Objectives/Goals The purpose of this experiment was to find whether it is more energy efficient to run a CPU at a high frequency (running a task quickly, then having the CPU sleep for the re…
CSEF · 2012
Physics & Astronomy
Objectives/Goals To find efficiency of different kinds of cup holders depending on their volume of air pockets Methods/Materials Part I: Preparation for the experiment Gather materials: Pape…
CSEF · 2012
Electronics & Electromagnetics
Objectives/Goals The objective was to determine if a type of solar concentrator, known as a Fresnel lens, could optimize the energy produced by a solar cell and it's energy application on an…
CSEF · 2012
Aerodynamics/ Hydrodynamics (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals The goal of this project was to determine the shape of a ships hull that would provide the least drag for a given unit of the ship's volume. Methods/Materials 4 single hulle…
CSEF · 2012
Aerodynamics/ Hydrodynamics (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals My objective was to determine if changing the size of a hole in a flying disc affects the distance it flies. I hypothesized that the larger the circle cut from the center of…
CSEF · 2012
Electronics & Electromagnetics Fourth Award
Objectives/Goals The objective of this project is to address the question: what is the effect of distance between a transmitter and a receiver on the propagation loss of signal power? Unlike…
CSEF · 2012
Physics & Astronomy
Objectives/Goals This experiment tests the effect of varying concentrations of titanium dioxide (TiO2) on the efficiency of photovoltaic solar cells. Though this chemical has shown to improv…
CSEF · 2012
Physics & Astronomy
Objectives/Goals The objective is to find out the effect of weight and shape on buoyancy. Methods/Materials Modeling clay was shaped into three different weights and four different shapes (s…
CSEF · 2012
Physics & Astronomy
Objectives/Goals This experiment is designed to test whether changing the gases inside of the heating box will affect the amount of the time needed to heat the water to a given temperature.…
CSEF · 2012
Electronics & Electromagnetics
Objectives/Goals The objective is to determine if altering the input voltage to a standard electrolyzing fuel cell alters the efficiency of that cell. Methods/Materials The cell was hooked u…
CSEF · 2012
Physics & Astronomy
Objectives/Goals Our objective was to discover how the varying radius of a softball pitcher#s arm affects the angular momentum of that particular pitch. Methods/Materials We conducted our ex…
CSEF · 2012
Physics & Astronomy
Objectives/Goals I wanted to determine what type of metal would be the best thermal conductor, distributing heat the furthest and fastest from a heat source. Methods/Materials I tested three…
CSEF · 2012
Physics & Astronomy First Award
Objectives/Goals In this project, we asked the question "How do the light curves of different types of variable stars differ and is it possible to identify a variable star type by its light…
CSEF · 2012
Aerodynamics/ Hydrodynamics (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals The objective of our experiment was to determine which of six different fin configurations was most aerodynamically efficient by observing which one achieved the highest per…
CSEF · 2012
Physics & Astronomy
Objectives/Goals The purpose of this experiment is to observe weight changes that occur while riding on an elevator. Methods/Materials I gathered three objects (an empty 2 liter soda bottle,…
CSEF · 2012
Physics & Astronomy
Objectives/Goals The purpose of my science fair project was to see how the position of the sound post affects the tone quality of the violin#s note. My hypothesis for the project was that wh…