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
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only) First Award
Objectives/Goals As cognitive training has been used as a primary treatment of several disabilities as well as memory diminishing diseases, my main objective of this project was to prove tha…
CSEF · 2017
Computational Systems & Analysis Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals There exist no single, reliable methods of diagnosis for Parkinson's Disease, which motivates a machine learning approach. The purpose of this experiment is to perform a com…
CSEF · 2017
Computational Systems & Analysis Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals About 80% of all cancer incidences are sporadic and largely caused by environmental factors. This implies that cancer incidence varies widely based on geography, and my prel…
CSEF · 2017
Mathematical Sciences
Objectives/Goals Lesion segmentation plays an important role in the early identification and treatment of melanoma, a deadly skin cancer. Our objective was to develop an end-to-end methodolo…
CSEF · 2017
Zoology Second Award
Objectives/Goals The objective of this study is to create a 2ft high-density surfboard that repels leopard sharks using rare earth neodymium magnets. Methods/Materials 14 Neodymium magnets o…
CSEF · 2017
Physics & Astronomy
Objectives/Goals The goal of this study was to understand and develop a mathematical and computational model of a typical cosmic radiation particle as it travels through time changing magnet…
CSEF · 2017
Environmental Engineering Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals This engineering project reverses desertification by constructing a lattice composed of biochar, basalt rock dust, and coconut coir. By reducing wind erosion, maintaining so…
CSEF · 2017
Electronics & Electromagnetics
Objectives/Goals The objective of this project is to create a smart air filter controller that can control any standard air filter based on the level of particulate matter air pollution. The…
CSEF · 2017
Electronics & Electromagnetics Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals The US Department of Transportation states, in one of its reports, rear-end collisions contribute to more than 33% of all car accidents. The objective of this engineering pr…
CSEF · 2017
Applied Mechanics & Structures
Objectives/Goals The primary objective of this project is to design, build, and test an altitude control system for high altitude, long duration weather balloon flights. Ordinarily, weather…
CSEF · 2017
Mathematical Sciences Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals Find the most efficient maze-solving algorithm among three different algorithms: the #right-hand rule#, #dead reckoning#, and #dead end remembering#. Methods/Materials The p…
CSEF · 2017
Chemistry
Objectives/Goals The objective is to find an appropriate delivery system to create oral protein therapeutics. Methods/Materials Carboxymethyl chitosan and sodium alginate were used to coat h…
CSEF · 2017
Environmental Science
Objectives/Goals Energy making-related emissions from power plants and other traditional fuels cause major respiratory and cardiovascular health risks. Producing reusable, environment-friend…
CSEF · 2017
Behavioral & Social Sciences Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals To be able to understand how society will progress in the future, the biases that certain generations hold must be identified. The goal of this project is to assess bias lev…
CSEF · 2017
Biochemistry/ Molecular Biology
Objectives/Goals Cancer has been a pervasive and deadly problem for many years. So far, no treatments have been developed that specifically destroy cancer cells while sparing healthy cells.…
CSEF · 2017
Product Science (Biological) (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals The objective of this study is to determine if sulfate free shampoos versus sulfate containing shampoos affect hair tensile strength in different ways. Methods/Materials I w…
CSEF · 2017
Toxicology
Objectives/Goals The objective of this study is to analyze the effect that Imidacloprid has on brine shrimp hatching rate and survival. Methods/Materials Brine shrimp eggs and Imidacloprid w…
CSEF · 2017
Environmental Science
Objectives/Goals The objective of this study is to indicate if various Central Valley sources contain a safe level of nitrate and phosphate. Methods/Materials Water monitoring kit, 3 differe…
CSEF · 2017
Product Science (Physical) (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals The goal of this project is to determine the most effective moisturizer by measuring the amount of water loss in each moisturizer. The less water loss in the emollient the m…
CSEF · 2017
Microbiology (General) Fourth Award
Objectives/Goals The objective of this study is to investigate the impact of different nitrogen sources on the degradation of crude oil by a common soil microorganism, Pseudomonas putida. Me…
CSEF · 2017
Aerodynamics/ Hydrodynamics (Junior Division Only) First Award
Objectives/Goals The objective of my project is to observe the flight characteristics of thrust, mass & speed of 2-Wing & 4-Wing Penaud ornithopters & to measure the effect of wing battens o…
CSEF · 2017
Environmental Engineering Second Award
Objectives/Goals Over the past 3 years, I have conducted 3 experiments to improve the efficiency of photovoltaic cells, and I realized that they have 3 major flaws: they do not generate elec…
CSEF · 2017
Zoology
Objectives/Goals This project was designed to determine if magnetism has an effect on the rate/speed of regeneration of planarians, and whether or not magnetism does have an effect on the re…
CSEF · 2017
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only) Third Award
Objectives/Goals The objective of this study is to observe how an animation played at different frame rates affects how test subjects remember what happens within it. Methods/Materials Tv pa…
CSEF · 2017
Microbiology (Medical) (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals At which concentrations is antibiotic resistance developed in Escherichia Coli and is Coliphage T4 a viable treatment for the developed resistance? Methods/Materials Colipha…
CSEF · 2017
Mathematical Sciences
Objectives/Goals To (1) compress the existing VGG-16 Convolutional Neural Network into a smaller neural network specifically tailored to a reduced number of categories of images to decrease…
CSEF · 2017
Mathematical Sciences Fourth Award
Objectives/Goals The formation of a hairpin core structure by the HIV-1 virus transmembrane glycoprotein gp41 is the critical event that triggers viral fusion to the host cell. Fusion inhibi…
CSEF · 2017
Mathematical Sciences
Objectives/Goals Epilepsy is a neurological disorder affecting more than 65 million people world wide. A seizure prediction system can greatly help epileptic patients to avoid potentially da…
CSEF · 2017
Behavioral & Social Sciences Second Award
Objectives/Goals There is an increasing need for assistive devices as expressed by patients in critical care, with speech and language difficulties, as well as those with disabilities. As a…
CSEF · 2017
Electronics & Electromagnetics Second Award
Objectives/Goals Currently, there are not many options to heat or cool the body without adding or dropping layers. Additionally, there is no way to intelligently increase and decrease one#s…