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
Microbiology
Sharks are one of the ocean’s most charismatic apex predators. According to statistics provided by Shark Attack Data (www.sharkattackdata.com), there were a total of 116 reported shark attac…
ISEF · 2018
Systems Software
Wide use of internet by kids increase the risk of getting exposed to obscenity and darknet. The project innovates a childsafe webbrowser which will automatically block the inappropriate webs…
ISEF · 2018
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Today, people in some countries eat little fruits and berries because of their short shelf lives and transportation technology imperfections. Natural polymers are known to be used as "edible…
ISEF · 2018
Plant Sciences
A medical condition due to excess accumulation of fats in human body leading to a BMI =30 kg/m2 is termed as Obesity. According to WHO, obesity has nearly tripled since 1975 worldwide. While…
ISEF · 2018
Environmental Engineering
Eutrophication is the result of an increment of nutrients in bodies of water. This produces an explosive growth of natural organic matter (NOM). As a result, the concentration of oxygen dimi…
ISEF · 2018
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
The bacterial species of Burkholderia are renown by scientists to be extremely difficult to distinguish. As a result, melioidosis, which is one of the many diseases caused by Burkholderia, h…
ISEF · 2018
Environmental Engineering
The inspiration for this 3-year study comes from a desire to find a better way to prevent barnacle growth on marine vessels and to determine if the type of hull material used in the manufact…
ISEF · 2018
Animal Sciences
The goal of my project was to determine the if preference of red in poultry is instinctual and, therefore, present from the time chicks hatch or if it is learned. I researched many experimen…
ISEF · 2018
Earth and Environmental Sciences Third Award
The aim of this investigation is to determine the inhibitory effects of sodium bicarbonate and potassium bicarbonate on Aspergillus flavus and its hepatocarcinogenic metabolite Aflatoxin B1…
ISEF · 2018
Behavioral and Social Sciences Fourth Award
Endoplasmic reticulum calcium dysregulation caused by mutations in the presenilin has been implicated in neuronal death and in Familial Alzheimer’s Disease (FAD) pathology. The purpose of th…
ISEF · 2018
Mathematics Third Award
My work is devoted to studying the combinatorics of 216 maximal C3 circular codes - a special sets of words. Circularity means, that every new word, formed from the elements of this set and…
ISEF · 2018
Mathematics
Graph connectivity is a critical concept for a variety of applications in both pure and applied math. Identifying the connectivity of the graphs underlying neural networks, for example, woul…
ISEF · 2018
Environmental Engineering
Due to the general opinion that carrier plastic bags represent ecological burden to the environment, the number of measures aimed to reduce their consumption has increased recently. Conseque…
ISEF · 2018
Animal Sciences
After major nature disturbances such as hurricanes, flora is damaged, as a consequence honey bees too. The objective of this research was to identify which wild plants are preferred by honey…
ISEF · 2018
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Lichen species cover nearly 8% of the earth’s surface and are overlooked in genetic studies. Because lichen are composed of bacteria, fungi, and algae, separating and sequencing a three-part…
ISEF · 2018
Earth and Environmental Sciences
The amount of native forests left on Moloka‘i is only 15% (Sarhangi, 2017). On a field trip, we observed that non-native forest seemed to have a lack of variety in plants. However, the nativ…
ISEF · 2018
Environmental Engineering
Heavy metal contamination in soil negatively impacts the environment and human health. It has been linked to multiple disorders and symptoms such as bone fractures, kidney damage, neurologic…
ISEF · 2018
Chemistry
The objective of my project was to test the differences in types of bottled and tap water and develop conclusions on what type of water is best. My hypothesis was that there is not distinct…
ISEF · 2018
Systems Software
Neural networks are widely used to either determine what group an item belongs in or what value a certain set of data would output using two basic types of derivative-based optimization algo…
ISEF · 2018
Earth and Environmental Sciences
In this study, the things that can be done to reduce the pollution that comes from the detergents in household waste that cause hydrophilic and terrestrial pollution were researched. Ecologi…
ISEF · 2018
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
NFKBIA deletions are extremely prevalent in cases of both Breast Cancer and Glioblastoma, and this study aims at identifying genes disproportionately affected by these deletions. First, gene…
ISEF · 2018
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Derivatives of cobalamin (Vitamin B-12) are important to the function of enzymes required for metabolism. Failure to convert cobalamin into its derivative forms leads to build up of methylma…
ISEF · 2018
Chemistry Fourth Award
Affinity-mediated drug delivery utilizes electrostatic, hydrophobic, or other non-covalent interactions between pharmaceuticals and a delivery system to extend medication release and improve…
ISEF · 2018
Chemistry
Mitochondrial respiration produces an influx of reactive oxygen species (ROS), which are highly reactive molecules that attack other cell components. An excess of ROS leads to oxidative stre…
ISEF · 2018
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
The American people and worldwide citizens face the daily consistent threat of those with concealed weapons. Each day, human lives are lost due to concealed weapons. Recent and memorable exa…
ISEF · 2018
Systems Software
A hivemind for healthcare: Medical Error is the third leading cause of death after Heart Disease and Cancer. Delayed discovery of these misdiagnoses and preventive overdiagnosis only make th…
ISEF · 2018
Animal Sciences
As a students from Celebes (Indonesia), we are interested about an endemic bird which are called Maleo. Maleo senkawor (Macrocephalon maleo S. muller, 1846) is an endemic animal from Celebes…
ISEF · 2018
Environmental Engineering
The goal of my project was to improve elements of the supercapacitor constructed in Phase I to achieve a desired voltage, capacitance, resistance, and discharge rate. The procedure from Phas…
ISEF · 2018
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
In recent years, the classical computer vision problem of super-resolution has been approached with deep learning technologies, e.g., convolutional neural networks (CNNs). These new techniqu…
ISEF · 2018
Systems Software
The purpose of this experiment is to analyze teen driver crashes in the state of Louisiana by using statistical tests and creating a dashboard to illustrate the following purposes: purpose A…