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 · 2023
Plant Biology Third Award
The Artemis mission has sparked curiosity about a self-sustaining lunar colony. This experiment’s purpose was to emulate earth soil fertility in a lunar simulant using two essential nutrient…
CSEF · 2023
Plant Biology Second Award
Fertilizer accessibility is decreasing rapidly. Africa is already lacking 2 million metric tons of fertilizer. In India, 55 percent of the country’s soil is deficient in nitrogen. Though fer…
ISEF · 2023
Plant Sciences
Show caves with artificial lighting can be colonized by algae that would not normally be native to the environment. Onondaga Cave algae has no exposure to natural light and minimal exposure…
ISEF · 2023
Plant Sciences Fourth Award
Currently available chemical insecticides are causing soil contamination. Exploring the potential of utilizing crop starches combined with capsaicinoids and glucosinolates extracted from Cap…
ISEF · 2023
Plant Sciences
Crown gall causes great financial loss in plant nurseries, as up to 80% of plants have been lost. Crown gall is a disease that consists of tumor-like galls found in roots and trunks with a p…
ISEF · 2023
Plant Sciences
Purpose: Over the last century, the global population has quadrupled. To combat future food demand, farmers worldwide will need to increase crop production, either by increasing the amount o…
ISEF · 2023
Plant Sciences
Purpose: To optimize the effectiveness of fertilizers. Maximizing the productivity of the fertilizer leads to preventing overfertilization. Overfertilization negatively affects the environme…
CSEF · 2023
Plant Biology Honorable_mention Award
Global warming has been an issue on the rise for decades. Methane is a major gas contributing to global warming because it traps heat in the Earth’s atmosphere. Using recyclable materials as…
ISEF · 2023
Plant Sciences
The purpose of this study was to test different hydrogels made by the researcher and compare how much moisture they held in soil. The researcher wanted to find an alternative to polyacrylate…
ISEF · 2023
Plant Sciences
Cabbage is a vegetable commonly eaten by insects, but lettuce is not. The difference between these two vegetables is whether or not they contain latex. Figs, mulberries, and sun spurge—like…