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 · 2018
Biochemistry
Alteration of the metabolism of chlorella in a productive direction. As you know, proteins,carbohydrates,lipids are one of the main factors of the existence of life on Earth. People use diff…
ISEF · 2018
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Mood and anxiety disorders, such as Major Depressive Disorder (MDD), affect one out of every six people in their lifetime and over 350 million people per year. Postmortem human brain studies…
ISEF · 2018
Materials Science
The goal of this project was to expand the usefulness of construction 3D printing through exploring and testing alternative materials. By expanding upon construction 3D printing, this projec…
ISEF · 2018
Environmental Engineering
Air pollution levels in Medellin, the second largest city of Colombia, is a serious problem of public health. During last year, the city experienced the highest levels of pollution ever reco…
ISEF · 2018
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Alzheimer’s Disease (AD) significantly reduces memory, communication, focus, and reasoning skills in elderly individuals. There is no known cure with progressive deterioration. Early identif…
ISEF · 2018
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics Fourth Award
Type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) affects the lives of millions of people through its life-altering complications. Worldwide, 3.4 million people die of diabetes annually. It is known that T2DM…
ISEF · 2018
Energy: Chemical
Biodigesters are America’s next generation of green energy. The purpose of this project was to test how much energy is produced from different biogases created from different biomasses. The…
ISEF · 2018
Animal Sciences Second Award
The loss of biodiversity is a serious environmental problem, and factors such as global warming and deforestation due to human activities are considered to be primarily responsible for the m…
ISEF · 2018
Biomedical and Health Sciences Second Award
Galactosemia is a life-threatening genetic disease in which patients cannot metabolize galactose, a sugar found abundantly in milk, fruits, and vegetables. As a result, galactose builds up t…
ISEF · 2018
Environmental Engineering Third Award
Given the considerable threats pollution outbreaks pose to reservoir freshwater supply, we aim to develop a deep water monitoring robot that can conduct constant and comprehensive data colle…
ISEF · 2018
Biomedical and Health Sciences Second Award
This project targets Schistosomiasis, a parasitic disease second to Malaria in economic effect in developing countries. Doctors diagnose Schistosomiasis by using microscopes to count the num…
ISEF · 2018
Systems Software
Organ transplantation and efficient ways to allocate organs to recipients with the greatest need has been highly debated. Optimizing the system of organ allocation could mean shorter wait-ti…
ISEF · 2018
Physics and Astronomy
The spectral type of a star indicates the star temperature and is associated with other important physical characteristics of a star such as mass, diameter and color. Current methods used to…
ISEF · 2018
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Periodontitis, also referred to as periodontal disease, affects 42.7% (64 million) of the population in the United States. Periodontitis is a gingival infection resulting in damage to the so…
ISEF · 2018
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Protein folding and computational origami are gradually becoming revolutionary fields. With our ability to computationally analyze minuscule biological structures, we are making significant…
ISEF · 2018
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
There are a wide variety of Beta-globin related disorders including sickle cell disease and Beta-thalassemia. There are five main genes in the Beta-globin locus: epsilon, gamma two, gamma on…
ISEF · 2018
Animal Sciences
The neonicotinoids pesticides is the best according to its efficiency in the elimination of pests. These pesticides cause the reduction of up to 40% of the sperm production of the Apis melli…
ISEF · 2018
Physics and Astronomy
The purpose of this research is to test various researcher-designed two/three dimensional wing models with varying surface areas using an oscillating air column apparatus for determination o…
ISEF · 2018
Mathematics
The exploration of Egyptian Fractions is part of the field of pure mathematics, Number Theory. First used by the Egyptians to express fractions with 2 in the numerator or 10 in the denominat…
ISEF · 2018
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Convolutional neural networks (ConvNets) are currently the state-of-the-art model for image classification; however, training them is computationally expensive. In addition, there are no gen…
ISEF · 2018
Plant Sciences First Award
The purpose of the project was to determine an alternative to synthetic pesticides. It was hypothesized that Armadillidium would not survive in the presence of T. harzianum. Phase I included…
ISEF · 2018
Animal Sciences
Due to much controversy in the past, there is currently much uncertainty as to whether or not current herbicides are safe. The purpose of this project is to study the effects of herbicides a…
ISEF · 2018
Animal Sciences Fourth Award
Local anesthetics are widely used in a variety of medical procedures. Although they are safe and efficient in managing pain, complications can arise in what is known as local anesthetic syst…
ISEF · 2018
Earth and Environmental Sciences Fourth Award
In the past decade, Cookeville’s population has grown by 11%. This rate of urbanization will prove to be harmful to local infrastructure and watersheds. Thus, I wanted to investigate its imp…
ISEF · 2018
Engineering Mechanics
This research project endeavors to create an amphibious, teleoperated robotic vehicle capable of navigating aquatic and terrestrial environments that are potentially hazardous to humans, and…
ISEF · 2018
Plant Sciences
RNA editing acts as a critical component of plant biology because of its ability to generate RNA and protein diversity in eukaryotes, resulting in specific amino acid substitutions, insertio…
ISEF · 2018
Microbiology
PURPOSE: To determine which countertop disinfectant works best against different microorganisms. PROCEDURE: (Kirby Bauer) 1. Sectioned desired agar plates into plates into four sections 2. A…
ISEF · 2018
Biomedical Engineering
Medical bracelets can save lives, but often lack the information for appropriate medical care. Will a dynamic QR code medical bracelet connected to a Bluetooth medical technology carrying ca…
ISEF · 2018
Environmental Engineering
Contamination in water poses a serious and mostly undetected threat. It is necessary for people to have an economical option to test the water they drink in their own homes. The goal of this…
ISEF · 2018
Microbiology Fourth Award
No effective vaccine against Zika, a positive, single-stranded RNA virus, has been developed. A major obstacle in the design of an antiviral peptide vaccine is the cross-reactivity between t…