20,037 real projects from ISEF, the Canada-Wide Science Fair, JSHS and the Calgary Youth Science Fair — searchable by meaning, and filterable by fair, year, category and award.
ISEF · 2023
Translational Medical Science
Congestive Heart Failure (CHF) is a chronic, progressive condition that limits the heart’s ability to pump adequate volumes of blood to the vital organs, accounting for 1 in 4 deaths in the…
ISEF · 2023
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Purpose: This research explored if soil saturation contributes to the formation of sinkholes. This research also investigated if Khutsong households are at risks of new sinkholes. Method: Th…
ISEF · 2023
Engineering Technology: Statics & Dynamics
Purpose: As a specialty in the Northeast of China, breeding forest frog has high medicinal and economic value. However, the extensive storage method for overwintering has much reduced its bo…
ISEF · 2023
Chemistry
The purpose of my experiment is to explore environmentally friendly solutions to solve one of the global environmental problems: OCEAN ACIDIFICATION. Water bodies including oceans are consta…
ISEF · 2023
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Background: Chronic kidney disease is a progressive and irreversible loss of kidney function. Panama, according to CSS statistics, there are more than 2,200 patients for the year 2020 in dia…
ISEF · 2023
Behavioral and Social Sciences
According to a UNICEF study in 2022, Brazil has around 2 million teenagers who have dropped High School before graduating. Shocked by these numbers, I started to think about what I could do…
ISEF · 2023
Microbiology
Every year, nearly ? of America’s food is wasted and thrown away. Out of the 500+ metric tons of food wasted each year, a growing majority is due to bacteria growth or the produce spoiling.…
ISEF · 2023
Embedded Systems
Due to the rising cost of fabrication in the semiconductor industry, leading-edge integrated circuit design firms outsource fabrication to offshore foundries. However, third-party foundries…
ISEF · 2023
Microbiology
Surgical Site Infections are infections that occur after a patient underwent a major surgical procedure. Those who contract them experience a decreased quality of life and an increased econo…
ISEF · 2023
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Pedestrian and vehicle trespassing is a significant problem in the railroad industry. According to the Federal Railroad Administration, 94% of rail-related deaths occur at railway crossings…
ISEF · 2023
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Antimicrobial Peptide(AMP) MicrocinJ25 (MccJ25) is naturally secreted by E.coli & is efficient anti-bacterial. MccJ25 reduces intestinal inflammation & promotes healthy gut-bacteria. Unlike…
ISEF · 2023
Engineering Technology: Statics & Dynamics
With over seven billion pounds of plastic trash globally, the material is abundant, and recycling is vital (UNEP, 2022). A large portion of this waste consists of single-use plastic bottles,…
ISEF · 2023
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design Fourth Award
Solar energy is a promising power source with potential to play a critical role in decarbonizing the electric grid. It is essential that solar cells efficiently convert sunlight energy to el…
ISEF · 2023
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Congenital cataracts are present in 20,000-40,000 births each year and are among the leading causes of childhood blindness. Surgery is currently the only available treatment due to a poor un…
ISEF · 2023
Materials Science
Millions of application-specific materials are currently in circulation, each with unique extraction, refinement, and synthesis requirements incurring severe environmental and economic costs…
ISEF · 2023
Embedded Systems
Maintaining optimal soil moisture is an ongoing issue in agriculture. Over-irrigation can lead to waterlogged soil and disease while insufficient water limits crop yield. Irrigation systems…
ISEF · 2023
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Chemotherapy is the primary form of treatment for the majority of cancer patients, using cytotoxic drugs to suppress tumor growth. However, cancer cells, by evolving through rapid generation…
ISEF · 2023
Mathematics Third Award
Ever since the deferred acceptance algorithm was first proposed by Gale and Shapley (1962), there has been much research about mechanisms that optimally match high school seniors to colleges…
ISEF · 2023
Mathematics
Dummit, Granville and Kisilevsky have recently shown that the proportion of semiprimes (products of two primes) not exceeding a given x, whose factors are congruent to 3 modulo 4, is more th…
ISEF · 2023
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics Fourth Award
Cancer's molecular heterogeneity and complexity pose significant treatment challenges. Drug combinations have recently been employed to enhance cancer therapy due to their synergistic effect…
ISEF · 2023
Plant Sciences
Plants have evolved diverse and complex defense systems in response to insect herbivory. Insect herbivory initiates signal transduction pathways in plants, leading to the creation of defense…
ISEF · 2023
Animal Sciences Fourth Award
The ESG (Environmental, Social & Governance) indicators emphasize reducing product-induced pollution. Nitrogen fertilizers harm the environment and human health. This study used tardigrade M…
ISEF · 2023
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Cancer cell migration is an important part of the growth of secondary tumors as they invade local tissue, thus finding safe interventions to cancer cell migration can be an important tool to…
ISEF · 2023
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Throughout the country, school shootings have disrupted harmony and injected fear into the lives of students and the community. The trait Psychopathy has been clearly linked to gun violence…
ISEF · 2023
Cellular and Molecular Biology
Proper cellular morphology and plasma membrane structure during interphase are integral for proper mitosis and homeostasis. Tumor suppressor PTEN (Phosphatase and TENsin homologue deleted on…
ISEF · 2023
Engineering Technology: Statics & Dynamics
My project explores a novel tri-copter design that uses a combination of a tilt-rotor mechanism, airfoil-shaped drone arms, and the yaw motion of the drone to generate a more energy-efficien…
ISEF · 2023
Cellular and Molecular Biology Third Award
Current research is focused on identifying drugs that can mitigate chemotherapy-induced injury to normal tissues, while being cytotoxic to cancer cells. This study was designed to evaluate t…
ISEF · 2023
Behavioral and Social Sciences
The purpose of this experiment is to see how a pupil reacts to emotional stimulation. I hypothesized that a pupil reacts by dilation to nonverbal emotional stimuli. The participants sat in f…
ISEF · 2023
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design Third Award
Air pollution, especially PM 2.5, affects the health of millions of people globally, causing premature death. Outdoor air pollutants can leak indoors, leading to pollution concentrations 2-5…
ISEF · 2023
Environmental Engineering
Ambient air pollution contributes to a 7-million annual mortality rate, with gas-powered vehicles among the leading contributors. The current technology being used within gas-powered vehicle…