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 · 2016
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals The purpose of this project was to obtain a general idea of how people felt about their personal safety based on being attacked and terrorist attacks/shootings, and collecte…
CSEF · 2016
Chemistry
Objectives/Goals The amount of acetaminophen and aspirin that is retained by plastics placed in saturated solutions was measured to determine if plastics treated with either of these molecul…
CSEF · 2016
Applied Mechanics & Structures Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals Develop a procedure based on novel hardware and software for a compact, low cost multi-sensor system to enable safe remote landings for autonomous multicopter operation. The…
CSEF · 2016
Electronics & Electromagnetics
Objectives/Goals The project's primary objective is to find what threshold values at which the Schmitt trigger, a decision-making circuit, which turns on at a high threshold and stays locked…
CSEF · 2016
Biochemistry/ Molecular Biology
Objectives/Goals The goal of this study is to see how different amounts of yeast affect the rising of bread dough. Methods/Materials Flour, salt, yeast and warm water,mixing bowl with units…
CSEF · 2016
Environmental Engineering
Objectives/Goals This project's main goal ways to help deal with California's drought by finding ways for homeowners and farmers to use water for growing plants more efficiently. Methods/Mat…
CSEF · 2016
Microbiology (Medical) (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals Powdery Mildew is regarded as a pathogen that attacks plant leaf regions, potentially leading to its mortality. The purpose of this experiment was to test the effect of a tu…
CSEF · 2016
Mammalian Biology
Objectives/Goals The objective of this project is to observe how smell is involved in the ability to taste and which flavors are easier to identify with an impaired sense of smell. I believe…
CSEF · 2016
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals To show that different genres of music will affect the boys' heart rate and blood pressures differently than the girls'. Methods/Materials Study materials include: headphone…
CSEF · 2016
Plant Biology
Objectives/Goals My experiment was conducted to test whether plants need all elements of photosynthesis to survive and if plants can be revived after being deprived of one element. The goal…
CSEF · 2016
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals The objective of my experiment is to determine whether a test subject given a placebo energy drink will have a similar rate of improvement (in running and reflex tests) to a…
CSEF · 2016
Microbiology (General)
Objectives/Goals Improve Artemia (brine shrimp) survival by coincubation with common strain of Lactobacillus to solve dilemma of bacterial disease and antibiotic resistance in aquaculture. M…
CSEF · 2016
Environmental Engineering Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals To explore methods to reduce/remove the presence of hexavalent chromium in drinking water through use of steel wool filtration and chemical precipitation using ferrous sulfa…
CSEF · 2016
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals The purpose of this project was to examine the association between academic exam stressors and executive functioning and negative eating behaviors. Methods/Materials Field E…
CSEF · 2016
Zoology
Objectives/Goals To compare the effects of El Niño conditions on two different ecosystems in Henry Cowell State Park, determining if increased soil moisture as a result of additional rainfal…
CSEF · 2016
Physics & Astronomy
Objectives/Goals The purpose of this project is to discover a definite relationship between the trajectories of a projectile fired at the same angle and velocity both with and without gravit…
CSEF · 2016
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals The purpose of this project is to compare the level of depression or symptoms of depression between nurses working nights and nurses working days, as measured by the PHQ-8 s…
CSEF · 2016
Materials Science (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals To observe two different thermite reactions and determine whether copper oxide or iron oxide thermite would cause more observable damage (melting) to the test subject (made…
CSEF · 2016
Physics & Astronomy
Objectives/Goals Based on my research on thermoelectricity, I believed that I would be able to convert heat into electricity by utilizing the process called the Seebeck Effect. The Seebeck E…
CSEF · 2016
Electronics & Electromagnetics
Objectives/Goals In this project, I want to make an Artificial Pancreas that can be used for any patient with Type 1 Diabetes. Instead of using actual insulin and glucose I will test the art…
CSEF · 2016
Product Science (Physical) (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals Millions of people today, perhaps also you, are being tricked and put into danger when using commercial grease-cleaning products such as Formula 409, Goo Gone, and many othe…
CSEF · 2016
Mathematics & Computer Science
Objectives/Goals The object of my project is to test which method works the best to predict run production. Methods/Materials computer, taking baseball statistics from the last 10 years and…
CSEF · 2016
Microbiology (Medical) (Junior Division Only) Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals The objective of this study is to determine if toothbrushes have harmful bacteria in their bristles and which one of my cleaning techniques would clean the toothbrush the mo…
CSEF · 2016
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals The purpose of our experiment was to find out which teaching method would be most useful in teaching a new skill. Methods/Materials Our method was to give each student a pre…
CSEF · 2016
Mammalian Biology
Objectives/Goals Fingerprints develop while a person is within the womb. It is not known whether fingerprint patterns are due solely to environmental factors in the womb, or if there is a ge…
CSEF · 2016
Biochemistry/ Molecular Biology Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals Sepsis is a severe inflammatory immune-based response to an overwhelming infection, which can lead to shock, organ failure, and death. Each year, over one million people in…
CSEF · 2016
Mathematics & Computer Science Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals The objective of our project is to save the lives of the nearly 300,000 people that die of cardiac arrest in the United States alone, every year. These peoples deaths are pr…
CSEF · 2016
Environmental Engineering Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals The objective of this experiment was to isolate the best detachable dual mode toilet tank apparatus design (out of the two constructed apparatuses) based on its efficiency,…
CSEF · 2016
Physics & Astronomy
Objectives/Goals I compared the speed of the fastest penalty kick with the time it takes the goalie to reach the goal post. I also tested how a player can kick it the fastest and how a goali…
CSEF · 2016
Alternative Energy (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals The light emitted by lamps in the backward direction is not useful. The purpose of my project is to make an efficient device to collect the wasted light by studying optimal…