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 · 2005
Microbiology
Objectives/Goals To determine if dehydrating the fruits stops or inhibits spoilage rate. Methods/Materials I pick two citrus, two stone, and two other commonly eaten fruits. Then I dehydrate…
CSEF · 2005
Earth Sciences/ Planetary Sciences/ Physical Environments
Objectives/Goals From my project I learned how the weather affects various soils and for how long. I also learned which soils will cultivate better in different temperatures. I found a lot o…
CSEF · 2005
Pharmacology/ Toxicology
Objectives/Goals My project was to determine which common household aromatic substance is the most toxic. Methods/Materials I tested ten different common household products that have a stron…
CSEF · 2005
Physics & Astronomy
Objectives/Goals The purpose of the project was to correlate the type of particles in a sample by analyzing their laser light scattering properties. The hypothesis was that it will be possib…
CSEF · 2005
Zoology
Objectives/Goals The purpose of this project is to determine whether oriental fire bellied toads' dominant sense for locating food is sight or smell. An attempt will also be made to figure o…
CSEF · 2005
Microbiology
Objectives/Goals I wanted to find out if a local playplace (a fast food restaurant's)had bacteria present on the play apparatus. I know that the playplace appears to be clean, but I've never…
CSEF · 2005
Plant Biology
Objectives/Goals The purpose of this project is to determine whether varying percentages of nitrate in fertilizer will affect the height of Vigna unguiculata. Methods/Materials The percentag…
CSEF · 2005
Mathematics & Software
Objectives/Goals The goal of this project was to build a 3D search engine that indexed and retrieved various geometric shapes, industrial models, and auxiliary industry parts by minimizing t…
CSEF · 2005
Pharmacology/ Toxicology
Objectives/Goals Second hand smoking studies have revealed that the wound healing process is negatively affected by toxins in the smoke. The goal of this study is to examine the wound healin…
CSEF · 2005
Behavioral Sciences
Objectives/Goals The purpose of this experiment was to determine if there was a significant difference in measures of ambition, perseverance, self-esteem, and power motive between non-athlet…
CSEF · 2005
Biochemistry/ Molecular Biology
Objectives/Goals I recreated the digestive system and enzymes. My project is a continuation of last year which I have done 288 more tests. I wanted to see if starch would combine with glucos…
CSEF · 2005
Chemistry
Objectives/Goals Thin-layer chromatography (TLC) is a widely used method for qualitative analysis to determine the number of components in a mixture, to determine the identity of two substan…
CSEF · 2005
Electricity & Electronics
Objectives/Goals The purpose of the project was to construct a prototype of a digital tomographic telescope that could capture images of targets as far as one hundred feet away as an inexpen…
CSEF · 2005
Earth Sciences/ Planetary Sciences/ Physical Environments
Objectives/Goals The objective was to determine the dominant soil type in Anderson Valley. Methods/Materials Our method was that we took soil samples from conveniently located mile markers f…
CSEF · 2005
Pharmacology/ Toxicology
Objectives/Goals The purpose of this project is to determine whether Histone Deacytelayse (HD) inhibitors, 51 novel compounds, are effective compounds against MDA-MB-435 breast cancer cells.…
CSEF · 2005
Environmental Engineering
Objectives/Goals My objective was to prove two things: the effects of the filtering and screening processes standard in sewage disinfection plants, and the best disinfecting agents used in t…
CSEF · 2005
Zoology
Objectives/Goals My goal was to see which kind of ant would finish the maze in the shortest amount of time: an intact ant, an ant missing its right antenna, or an ant missing its left antenn…
CSEF · 2005
Environmental Science (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals To determine if contaminates, such as perchlorate, and other properties found in drinking water would transfer to broccoli when raw broccoli was washed or cooked in the wate…
CSEF · 2005
Zoology
Objectives/Goals The objective of this project is to test whether crickets communicate information about their environment through chirping. Methods/Materials To conduct these experiments tw…
CSEF · 2005
Applied Mechanics/ Structures & Mechanisms/ Manufacturing
Objectives/Goals The purpose of this experiment was to see if there was a measurable difference between the rebound heights of drumsticks on a snare drum according to how the mass distributi…
CSEF · 2005
Plant Biology
Objectives/Goals To determine the effect magnetic fields have on the growth of plants. Methods/Materials Start with 30 Styrofoam cups and place five holes in the bottom of each cup for water…
CSEF · 2005
Mammalian Biology
Objectives/Goals The purpose of this project is to find out if mice rely more on spatial memory or sight; also to learn the affect of reflective objects on mice performance in a maze. Method…
CSEF · 2005
Plant Biology
Objectives/Goals The objective of this experiment was to find out if the mass of a bean would have any effect on the height of its plant. For this experiment three different beans masses wou…
CSEF · 2005
Pharmacology/ Toxicology
Objectives/Goals Our project tests the gas production of certain vegetables and tests to see if the food enzyme dietary supplement Beano#, reduces the level of gas. We hypothesized that if B…
CSEF · 2005
Plant Biology
Objectives/Goals The objective of this experiment is to determine if beta carotene is effective in preventing tumors (galls) in plants. Agrobacterium tumefaciens is a bacterium known to caus…
CSEF · 2005
Mammalian Biology
Objectives/Goals The objective of my project was to see if there will be a relationship between blood pressure and heart rate. Methods/Materials I measured blood pressure and heart rate in e…
CSEF · 2005
Materials Science (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals To discover if the density of a wood affects its combustion rate in a measurable way. Methods/Materials Materials: 1 hot plate, 1 stopwatch, 6 plastic cups, metric ruler, pe…
CSEF · 2005
Plant Biology
Objectives/Goals I wanted to find out if transpiration rate of rose geranium is changed by the increased diameter in leaves. I think it is interesting how plants transpire, the way this actu…
CSEF · 2005
Chemistry
Objectives/Goals To determine if heat affects crystal growth. Methods/Materials Pottasium Fericyande Cupric Sulfate 4 petri dishes 4 crystal growing papers 1 cup of water Results My results…
CSEF · 2005
Behavioral Sciences
Objectives/Goals This project was done to see if G.P.A is really affected by the time students spend on the internet. If it results to have negative affects on students,maybe students will s…