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 · 2022
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Over the past few decades, urban areas have been experiencing expedited rates of vegetation growth, a phenomenon known as “urban greening.” The increased vegetation growth and greening trend…
ISEF · 2022
Behavioral and Social Sciences Fourth Award
Linguistic polarization is a change in frequency of policy references in a representative’s lexicon. When incumbent representatives face challengers, they may change their speech patterns to…
ISEF · 2022
Physics and Astronomy
Space is becoming more accessible for industrialization, and it is becoming increasingly clear that the modern world must be environmentally vigilant. The global approach towards the inevita…
ISEF · 2022
Biomedical and Health Sciences Third Award
Millions of people in the USA alone suffer from celiac disease or gluten intolerance. In previous work, I identified three fruit-derived enzymes that when combined have an efficient effect i…
ISEF · 2022
Systems Software
Quantum computers promise to revolutionize several scientific fields by solving and simulating certain problems significantly faster than their classical counterparts. However, very few peop…
ISEF · 2022
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics Third Award
Around 3.8 million women in the US are diagnosed with breast cancer. In terms of the survival rate, late or misclassified diagnosis decreases an individual’s chance of survival from 90% to j…
ISEF · 2022
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Earthquakes are a major global risk, causing the most fatalities among all natural disasters and billions of dollars in damages. Current earthquake early warning (EEW) systems face significa…
ISEF · 2022
Mathematics
With over 400 million annual infections ranging over the Americas, Asia, and Africa, dengue fever is classified as the disease most frequently transmitted by mosquitoes. Proper medication fo…
ISEF · 2022
Materials Science
The purpose of this project is to develop a bio-conjugated nanomaterial to rapidly detect COVID-19 and to block the binding of the spike protein from SARS-CoV-2 to the ACE-2 receptor on the…
ISEF · 2022
Cellular and Molecular Biology
The SARS-CoV-2 virus, responsible for the COVID-19 pandemic, has resulted in millions of deaths. Rare immune cells are minor cell types with reduced frequency, and their function in COVID-19…
ISEF · 2022
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics Third Award
Features with rare states, such as rare genetic variants and low frequency amino acid mismatches, pose a surrounding their role in predicting outcomes such as disease phenotype. Bins of rare…
ISEF · 2022
Engineering Technology: Statics & Dynamics
Recently, as drone weapons are emerging as new weapons, anti-drone lasers are drawing attention. An anti-drone laser is a laser weapon that tracks and shoots drones. It is known that many re…
ISEF · 2022
Environmental Engineering
The world suffers from a great shortage of water sources suitable for domestic consumption, and the water problem in Palestine is one of the most important challenges facing the community, a…
ISEF · 2022
Environmental Engineering Third Award
Dye effluent from the fast fashion and textile industry contributes to 17-20% of global industrial pollution. Azo dyes, the largest class of textile dyes, possess great threats to the enviro…
ISEF · 2022
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
People with hearing and speech impairments use sign language as their main form of communication, but it possesses the disadvantage where they cannot communicate with people without sign lan…
ISEF · 2022
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
There are over 1 million ASL speakers in North America and it is claimed to be the third most studied language in the United States. The language barrier between people with impaired or no h…
ISEF · 2022
Microbiology
The purpose of this research was to observe the antimicrobial properties of bromelain from fresh pineapple on E. coli growth using dynamic real-time imaging. Due to bromelain’s ability to in…
ISEF · 2022
Animal Sciences
Tetherless motion tracking is an essential technique for studying insect behavior, allowing for precise recreation and analysis of insect pathing trajectories. One potential application of t…
ISEF · 2022
Physics and Astronomy Third Award
Solar phenomena, specifically solar flares and coronal mass ejections (CMEs), have plagued the Earth since its creation. In 1859, the Earth was struck with the most devastating CME it’s ever…
ISEF · 2022
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
This project focused on the development of a model that maximizes accessibility by accurately and efficiently recognizing American Sign Language in real-time, converting it to text without a…
ISEF · 2022
Animal Sciences Third Award
As the world’s population continuously increases, there is a limitation of the food supply that does not meet the consumers’ demands. With this issue, insects have been introduced by the Foo…
ISEF · 2022
Chemistry
N-Aryl hydroxamic acids (NAHAs) represent a group of valuable synthetic intermediates. Their N OH modification, by appending good leaving group (LG), triggers intramolecular rearrangement le…
ISEF · 2022
Materials Science
With gas prices rising and the need for environmentally friendly transportation growing ever prevalent, efficient airships are an untapped resource to transport people and goods. However, si…
ISEF · 2022
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
For more than two centuries, deaf communities in the U.S. have benefited from American Sign Language (ASL) as their main mode of communication. However, in the past decade, with the rapidly…
ISEF · 2022
Earth and Environmental Sciences First Award
As the Basin and Range province is one of the most biodiverse regions, advancements in reconstruction modeling of geologic-climate changes are necessary to investigate potential associations…
ISEF · 2022
Embedded Systems
A variety of exploratory methods have been utilized, with one of the goals to regulate and maintain the aquatic ecosystems such as coral reefs and fish populations through monitoring. Up to…
ISEF · 2022
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics First Award
Replication errors represent two-thirds of cancer mutations. A novel replication error subset, recurrent repeat contractions (rRCs), lack systematic examination in cancers due to complex amp…
ISEF · 2022
Biomedical Engineering
Carbon monoxide (CO) detectors are not fit for all labor conditions. Depending on a worker's condition (ex. if they are outdoors, if they have asthma), the person may be more sensitive to CO…
ISEF · 2022
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design Second Award
In a standard silicon solar cell, the photovoltaic effect generates excited electrons which are transported to the surface of the cell. The problem of collecting these excited charges from t…
ISEF · 2022
Environmental Engineering Third Award
One of the biggest problems of modern society is the over pollution of single-use plastics. Thus, the goal of this project is to chemically break down polyethylene terephthalate (PET) plasti…