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
Behavioral Sciences
Objectives/Goals To see if people can tell the difference between a soy based food product and an animal based food product. Methods/Materials Materials 1. Alta-Dena 1% Cow's Milk 2. Horizon…
CSEF · 2005
Applied Mechanics/ Structures & Mechanisms/ Manufacturing
Objectives/Goals My objective was to find out how different barrel lengths will effect the accuracy of different types of paintballs. Methods/Materials Materials: 1 paintball marker 3 barrel…
CSEF · 2005
Environmental Science (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals My objective is to determine the drift of two types of aerosol sprays, to model a pesticide, under different conditions. Methods/Materials I used oil and water-based substan…
CSEF · 2005
Materials Science (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals The objective of my project is to determine which stain remover works best on white cloth. Methods/Materials The stain removers I chose were Soilove, Oxiclean, and Spray #n…
CSEF · 2005
Mathematics & Software
Objectives/Goals I am trying to determine how large a survey sample must be to get an accurate representation of a whole population. Methods/Materials I rolled a dice 600 times and recorded…
CSEF · 2005
Mathematics & Software
Objectives/Goals The goal was to determine whether a particular area surveyed statiscally represents the slightly larger area surrounding it (given the variability of the living data in the…
CSEF · 2005
Applied Mechanics/ Structures & Mechanisms/ Manufacturing
Objectives/Goals My objective was to determine whether or not the 16 pound bowling ball was better than the lighter bowling balls and to determine whether or not a hook is better than a ball…
CSEF · 2005
Chemistry
Objectives/Goals The purpose of this experiment was to determine the effects of different substances on the freezing point of water (melting point). The freezing point of water is the temper…
CSEF · 2005
Environmental Science (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals During the summer, many people enjoy a trip down to the beach on a hot day. Sometimes, they find what they think to be a stream that#s perfect for their younger children to…
CSEF · 2005
Chemistry
Objectives/Goals I will test the hypothesis that nature prefers strands and helices in building biomolecules. I will also test if strands and helices are more stable structures than extended…
CSEF · 2005
Structural Capability & Strength of Materials (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals The goal of my project is to determine which structure; a dome, 3-Sided pyramid, 4-Sided pyramid, or standard square structure; is strongest in an earthquake simulation. Met…
CSEF · 2005
Biochemistry/ Molecular Biology
Objectives/Goals The NAP1 protein is the protein that assembles nucleosomes and organizes DNA inside the nucleus of cells. The aim of this experiment is to determine whether the GST-Y10 prot…
CSEF · 2005
Pharmacology/ Toxicology
Objectives/Goals The purpose of this study is to discover if Lipitor, a cholesterol-lowering drug, causes muscular degeneration and/or rhabdomyalysis in Mus musculus and, therefore, human be…
CSEF · 2005
Environmental Engineering
Objectives/Goals This experiment was conducted in order to find the effects of different concentrations of two anionic Polyacrylamides, Amber 1200 and Stockopam, on water infiltration and fl…
CSEF · 2005
Plant Biology
Objectives/Goals I wanted to find out how temperature affects a plant's ability to transport nutrients. From my research, I learned that transpiration and respiration increase as temperature…
CSEF · 2005
Physics & Astronomy
Objectives/Goals This experiment was designed to see the change in the height of a floating body above water, as the level of salinity of water was changed. On the basis of Archimedes princi…
CSEF · 2005
Plant Biology
Objectives/Goals The objective was to test how the intensity of artificial light affected the growth of sunflower plants. My hypothesis was that the plants closest to the light will grow the…
CSEF · 2005
Earth Sciences/ Planetary Sciences/ Physical Environments
Objectives/Goals Can we predict future temperatures using the number of sunspots from 1856-2002, and the temperatures in the Northern Hemisphere during the same period? Methods/Materials com…
CSEF · 2005
Microbiology
Objectives/Goals My objective was to find out if there were resistant bacteria on common places we touch(ie. hand railing, door handle, key board, faucet handle, and light switch). Methods/M…
CSEF · 2005
Chemistry
Objectives/Goals To what extent does the surface tension of water decrease as the amount of detergent is increased? If adding detergent to distilled water affects its surface tension, then c…
CSEF · 2005
Mammalian Biology
Objectives/Goals I INVESTIGATED THREE MAIN HYPOTHESES IN MY EXPERIMENT: HYPOTHESIS (1): A 90 DEG FULL BODY INVERSION WITH HEAD DOWN TILT WILL GIVE A SIMILAR DIASTOLIC (DBP) AND HEART RATE (H…
CSEF · 2005
Earth Sciences/ Planetary Sciences/ Physical Environments
Objectives/Goals Before you can build or plant anything you should have properly graded piece of land. Determining the boundaries or elevations of a piece of land is called surveying. Profes…
CSEF · 2005
Applied Mechanics/ Structures & Mechanisms/ Manufacturing
Objectives/Goals Is the #harmonic# motion of a pendulum affected by friction? If so, does weight help resist the friction? Can a mathematical formula be developed to determine the damping fa…
CSEF · 2005
Microbiology
Objectives/Goals The purpose of this project is to find out the interaction the plant hormones gibberellic acid and indoleacetic acid on the algae Ulothrix subtilissima. Methods/Materials Th…
CSEF · 2005
Chemistry
Objectives/Goals The objective of this project was to find the optimal potential range and finest set of conditions for the synthesis of Bismuth Telluride nanowires. Methods/Materials The fa…
CSEF · 2005
Physics & Astronomy
Objectives/Goals The objective of this study is to explore microwave heating and to examine the factors that impact post-superheating nucleation, in which a sudden violent boiling event occu…
CSEF · 2005
Chemistry
Objectives/Goals Organic peroxides are dangerous, explosive chemicals that can form in organic lab solvents, such as diethyl ether tetrahydrofuran (THF), when exposed to light, heat, or air.…
CSEF · 2005
Physics & Astronomy
Objectives/Goals Origanally my objective was to discover the difference in how electricity flows in open air and in a vacuum. However, I have expanded my objective after the Mendocino County…
CSEF · 2005
Electricity & Electronics
Objectives/Goals In this project the goal was to determine if dust in our atmosphere could reduce a solar panels effectiveness. The experiment was designed to demonstrate that dust could adv…
CSEF · 2005
Earth Sciences/ Planetary Sciences/ Physical Environments
Objectives/Goals For our project we decided to test turbidity where the vegetation along the banks is different. We tested turbidity where the banks were sandy, rocky, and grassy. We used a…