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 · 2017
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, in 2014, 4,821 workers had fatal injuries while performing their jobs. While some companies have started using robots to replace workers in dange…
ISEF · 2017
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
To make sure that a game is interesting, easy to play and balanced, game developers need to test it thoroughly and adjust its rules. This is challenging for individual developers due to the…
ISEF · 2017
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
The purpose of this project was to determine if artificial neural networks could be effectively utilized in a data analysis problem such as predicting stock prices. In order to answer the re…
ISEF · 2017
Robotics and Intelligent Machines Fourth Award
Skin cancer is the most common form of cancer. When diagnosed early, there is a 98% survival rate. However, once the cancer metastasizes, the survival rate decreases dramatically to 18%. The…
ISEF · 2017
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Robots prevalence in industry and homes has continued to develop over time. But there is still much to do before autonomy can be achieved in a cost-effective manner. One step to reaching thi…
ISEF · 2014
Robotics and Intelligent Machines Second Award
I developed a fast kinetic Monte Carlo (kMC) simulator and applied it to a study of the geometrical scaling and statistical properties of resistive random access memories (ReRAMs). These dev…
ISEF · 2014
Robotics and Intelligent Machines Third Award
Every year, three million people across the world are killed due to mosquito-transmitted diseases. Carbohydrate structures found on plasma membranes of cells can act as receptors for viruses…
ISEF · 2014
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Pythagorean triples are derived from the Pythagorean Theorem, which states that three positive integer numbers a, b, c, representing the lengths of the sides and hypotenuse of a right triang…
ISEF · 2014
Robotics and Intelligent Machines Second Award
Theoretical base 1.5 was modeled through the concept of Exploding Dots, which allows place values larger than the standard one less than the base. The ability to use larger place values avoi…
ISEF · 2014
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Considering beads as corners of n-gons, we made 3D models, i.e. real bracelets. When we work on them on paper, we used digits {0,1,2} for each color. With the help of our models, considering…
ISEF · 2014
Robotics and Intelligent Machines Fourth Award
One of the most famous mathematical problems is that of constructing figures with the aid of an unmarked straightedge and compass. A subset of this field concerns the regular polygons that c…
ISEF · 2014
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Pseudomonas aeruginosa can cause nosocomial infections in immunocompromised patients’ tracts or organs that other bacteria would not normally inhabit. P. aeruginosa’s twitching motility and…
ISEF · 2014
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
This project has the purpose of finding the amount of average steps that will solve a 3D labyrinth, with multiple floors, using the stochastic method (random process). The initial idea was t…
ISEF · 2014
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
The purpose of this project consists in constructing of finite continued fractions theory in arbitrary unique factorization domains and applying this theory to optimization of the Euclidean…
ISEF · 2014
Robotics and Intelligent Machines Third Award
The topic of this project is influenced by a classical combinatorial geometry open problem, which recently sparked new interest - square covering. It is one of the fields, known to have appl…
ISEF · 2014
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Annually, 5000 kidney disease patients die while waiting for a kidney transplant match. The purpose of this experiment is to decrease this number by determining the efficiency of the optimiz…
ISEF · 2014
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
New emergency power sources are continually being sought, particularly for use during natural disasters when power supplies are interrupted. Luminescent bacteria are currently widely used fo…
ISEF · 2014
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
The purpose of this study was to develop an in vitro multispecies biofilm that had more resemblance to the human oral biofilm than the models that were previously in use. It was hypothesized…
ISEF · 2014
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
MicroRNAs, an abundant class of small non-coding RNAs (ncRNAs) that regulate gene expression at the post-transcriptional level, have emerged as integral components of the oncogenic and tumor…
ISEF · 2014
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Mycobacteriophages are viruses that kill bacteria. Nanoparticles can be used to increase the rate at which phages infect bacteria. This quality can be affected by the temperature at which th…
ISEF · 2014
Robotics and Intelligent Machines Fourth Award
A major problem in today’s society, specifically in developing countries, is accessing sanitary drinking water. Over 780 million people are without safe drinking water. One main cause of thi…
ISEF · 2014
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Major components of the brain Renin-Angiotensin System (RAS) may provide new modes of therapy for impaired neurons. AngiotensinII via its receptors, AT1 and AT2, induces proliferation and di…
ISEF · 2014
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Nobel Prize winner Ilia Mechnikof said that the dependence of the intestinal microbes on the food makes it possible to adopt measures to modify the flora in our bodies and to replace the har…
ISEF · 2014
Robotics and Intelligent Machines Fourth Award
Triclosan™ is a widely utilized chemical antimicrobial used to combat a wide range of pathogenic microbes; however, it’s use may cause environmental issues including the creation of dioxins…
ISEF · 2014
Robotics and Intelligent Machines Third Award
Iridium-based oxides have become a fertile ground for novel physics driven by strong spin-orbit coupling. Among them, honeycomb lattices Na2IrO3 and Li2IrO3 have drawn a great deal of attent…
ISEF · 2014
Robotics and Intelligent Machines Fourth Award
Given a number x, we consider the dynamic system x goes to x(g^x) mod (p^n), also known as the Discrete Lambert. In this equation, all variables are known other than x. The Discrete Lambert…
ISEF · 2014
Robotics and Intelligent Machines First Award
Similar to describing any particular color in the visible spectrum in terms of three primary colors, in a recently published medical article, scientists argued that any particular smell is c…
ISEF · 2014
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
In my work I present a research conducted with the purpose of improving the platinum based catalysts for hydrogen fuel cell. In my research, I performed series of measurements to determine t…
ISEF · 2014
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Transparent conductors are widely needed for products such as smart phones and computer mouse pads. The material currently used, Indium Tin Oxide, is expensive, brittle, and potentially shor…
ISEF · 2014
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Black mold can grow in houses and is extremely dangerous to humans. The purpose of my project was to find the best household remedies to remove black mold. I tested 8 different solutions to…