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 · 2017
Computational Systems & Analysis
Objectives/Goals The purpose of this project concerns the security of medical devices and preventing them from various malware attacks. While the field of technology and medicine revolutioni…
CSEF · 2017
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals Our objective questions if students with experience as a musician possess stronger memory capabilities than those students who are not musicians. Our goal was to test a grou…
CSEF · 2017
Zoology
Objectives/Goals The metabolism of brine shrimp was studied to determine if it was a valid organism for ginsenoside study. If brine shrimp are capable of metabolizing ginsenosides, they coul…
CSEF · 2017
Biochemistry/ Molecular Biology Third Award
Objectives/Goals The goal of this project is to take a novel approach to breast cancer metabolomics in order to reveal biomarkers with the potential to be used in a breast cancer diagnosis t…
CSEF · 2017
Microbiology (Medical) (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals The objective of this project was to determine the most effective method of inhibiting the growth of the acne causing bacteria Propionibacterium acnes. Methods/Materials Pro…
CSEF · 2017
Environmental Engineering
Objectives/Goals The objective of my project was to investigate the ability of Pseudomonas aeruginosa to biodegrade used motor oil on concrete surfaces. Methods/Materials Used motor oil was…
CSEF · 2017
Alternative Energy (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals The objective of this study is to determine which kind of mud sample will produce the greatest amount of voltage from using a microbial fuel cell. Methods/Materials Three pa…
CSEF · 2017
Computational Systems & Analysis First Award
Objectives/Goals There is a need for a microcontroller-based, proactive, intelligent healthcare activity monitoring system for seniors and other people that monitors healthcare activities, r…
CSEF · 2017
Microbiology (General)
Objectives/Goals The objective of this project was to observe and compare the different microorganisms in the Santa Clara River. Methods/Materials Observed Winogradsky columns made from one-…
CSEF · 2017
Environmental Science Third Award
Objectives/Goals The Torrey Pine tree is well known for its ability to efficiently condense moisture and water itself to survive under drought conditions. However, the mechanism of Torrey pi…
CSEF · 2017
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals The purpose of this study was to determine whether mindset or aptitude was better indicator of learning ability of high school students. Methods/Materials My AP Bio class pa…
CSEF · 2017
Mathematical Sciences
Objectives/Goals The objective of this experiment was to apply artificial neural networks (ANN) to the prediction of river gauge height two days in the future at a specific station in order…
CSEF · 2017
Earth & Atmospheric Sciences (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals My goal is to find the best way to alleviate liquefaction. Liquefaction is a property of soil where when it's saturated with water and it comes under stress, such as an eart…
CSEF · 2017
Electronics & Electromagnetics
Objectives/Goals In disaster situations, communication is vital for minimizing time wasted and lives lost. However, the failure of traditional communication infrastructure in these situation…
CSEF · 2017
Electronics & Electromagnetics
Objectives/Goals The purpose of my Science Fair Project is to model the performance of thermoelectric elements, which uses Seebeck and Peltier effects to generate electricity and temperature…
CSEF · 2017
Behavioral & Social Sciences Third Award
Objectives/Goals The objective of this study is to determine if visual cues help the interaction between humans and machines. Methods/Materials Solar cell, headlamp, microcontroller (Arduino…
CSEF · 2017
Microbiology (General)
Objectives/Goals The objective of this experiment was to determine if different household conditions affect the rate of mold growth on stored bread. Methods/Materials Bread, gallon size zip-…
CSEF · 2017
Biochemistry/ Molecular Biology Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals Aging-delaying interventions often prevent multiple aging-related diseases (ARDs). My recent studies have characterized EZH2-mediated H3K27me3 as the first evolutionarily co…
CSEF · 2017
Toxicology
Objectives/Goals The purpose for this project is to see which test subjects, Watered Oyster Mushrooms, or Unwatered Oyster Mushrooms, will kill or fend Varroa mites the most, without killing…
CSEF · 2017
Microbiology (Medical) (Junior Division Only) Third Award
Objectives/Goals 795 million people, or one out of nine people suffer from chronic undernourishment. Food, such as meat can spoil as quickly as a couple hours at room temperature. The object…
CSEF · 2017
Biochemistry/ Molecular Biology
Objectives/Goals The objective is to determine which natural and nano-antioxidant are the most efficacious in Saccharomyces cerevisiae against oxidative stress. The natural antioxidants stud…
CSEF · 2017
Materials Science (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals The goal of this project is to find out which natural material is best insulator(best at resisting heat). Methods/Materials Cooler, natrual materials, microcontroler, contro…
CSEF · 2017
Computational Systems & Analysis
Objectives/Goals To determine if two neural networks, a Provider and a Receiver, can successfully encrypt and decrypt an image while preventing an intercepting neural network from decipherin…
CSEF · 2017
Mathematical Sciences
Objectives/Goals Teaching a computer to learn to classify handwritten letters requires a complex computing model capable of learning the structure of letters rather than simply following a s…
CSEF · 2017
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals The objective of this project is to see if males or females, whom are both more inclined and not as inclined to posthypnotic amnesia, will be affected by neurolingistic prog…
CSEF · 2017
Mathematical Sciences
Objectives/Goals Traditional node-link diagrams for visualizing networks do not scale as networks become larger and are nicknamed "hairballs". To address the need for the visualization of la…
CSEF · 2017
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals The purpose of this project is to determine if preschool is a predictor of future success, as measured by a survey the researcher handed out, asking for success factors, suc…
CSEF · 2017
Applied Mechanics & Structures
Objectives/Goals The purpose of my project was to determine if the RPMs would differ when more fuel is added to a nitromethane engine. Methods/Materials I used a household drill with an adap…
CSEF · 2017
Biochemistry/ Molecular Biology
Objectives/Goals The objective of this study was to identify a soluble growth factor secreted by endothelial cells, expression of which is normally suppressed by the presence of vascular end…
CSEF · 2017
Behavioral & Social Sciences Third Award
Objectives/Goals The objective of the project was to find out if cabbage butterflies demonstrate social learning and, if so, whether cabbage butterflies learn association tasks faster when o…