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 · 2010
Behavioral & Social Sciences Third Award
Objectives/Goals Paper towels are a very wasteful use of natural resources. Even though more paper is used to make newspapers and magazines than paper towels, paper towels cause more landfil…
CSEF · 2010
Environmental Science (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals My science project was designed to determine if swimming in Little River, Moonstone Beach, poses a health risk due to bacterial contents. Methods/Materials Using sterile sam…
CSEF · 2010
Environmental Engineering (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals The objective is to determine if plants can be safely watered with greywater-water created in a household containing soap, detergent, or other impure material residue. Metho…
CSEF · 2010
Energy & Power (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals The goal of this project was to determine the best tilt angle for a solar panel to generate electrical power. Methods/Materials I aligned the solar panel at true south or th…
CSEF · 2010
Materials Science (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals My project was to find out what materials could block Wi-Fi waves the best. Methods/Materials Using a transmitter (an Apple Time Capsule) and a receiver (an Apple MacBook Pr…
CSEF · 2010
Energy & Power (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals The goal of my project was to find out if a buoy could be 'tuned' to a wave in order to maximize energy output. If this was possible, wave energy devices could be altered in…
CSEF · 2010
Chemistry
Objectives/Goals This experiment will document the way in which the starting temperature affects an exothermic reaction. The reaction to be tested is an instantaneous reaction between Calciu…
CSEF · 2010
Aerodynamics/ Hydrodynamics (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals Can a functional wind tunnel be constructed that allows the aerodynamic testing of automotive models? Will this testing match known aerodynamic values for modern vehicles? C…
CSEF · 2010
Applied Mechanics & Structures
Objectives/Goals I mainly want to find out if the floating speed of an object depend only on the object volume or also on some other factors when the object is floating across a certain dept…
CSEF · 2010
Microbiology
Objectives/Goals When people get a case of the "munchies," they go foraging in their refrigerator for last night's (or last week's!) leftovers. Although much research has been done on the lo…
CSEF · 2010
Physics & Astronomy
Objectives/Goals Can a car equipped with quicker illuminating LED brake lights, as opposed to incandescent brake lights, attract the attention of a following driver quicker thus reducing the…
CSEF · 2010
Human Biology (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals To find out how much damage iPods can cause if listened frequently with a high volume. Methods/Materials To conduct this experiment an iPod, headphones, and 50 8th graders,…
CSEF · 2010
Biochemistry/ Molecular Biology
Objectives/Goals My objective was to see how temperature, salt, and sugar affect the speed of fermentation in kimchi. I hypothesized that warmer temperatures and increased amounts of salt an…
CSEF · 2010
Toxicology (Junior Division Only) Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals My project was about the effect of pH on aquatic snail reproduction. I wanted to study a project in the zoology category because I like studying the life of animals and what…
CSEF · 2010
Toxicology (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals Our objective was to learn what happens to tomato plants when they are exposed to different levels of acid rain and if the effects can be neutralized through simple chemistr…
CSEF · 2010
Product Science (Biological) (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals My goal was to learn what method cleaned stuffed animals of dirt and bacteria the best. Methods/Materials I used 15 stuffed animals (5 for the control group and 10 for testi…
CSEF · 2010
Human Biology (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals My experiment is the effect food has on vocal range. Methods/Materials I tested this with peanut butter, soda, and chocolate. I measured a person's voice by using the piano…
CSEF · 2010
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals The purpose of this experiment was to investigate how different age groups would react to an authoritative presenter versus a non-authoritative presenter. When given a speec…
CSEF · 2010
Environmental Engineering (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals Cover crops affect soil pH and the ranch soils we chose as our control variable had a variety of cover crops planted, so we tested our hypothesis by sampling soil to see how…
CSEF · 2010
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals 1) Identify the effects of sugar on memory 2) Identify all the effects of sugar Methods/Materials MATERIALS pens, 2 different laminated pictures, 2 different tests regarding…
CSEF · 2010
Mammalian Biology (Senior Division Only) Third Award
Objectives/Goals Chronic abdominal pain occurs in 30% of children (ref. 1). A symptom of fructose malabsorption is abdominal pain (AP). Fructose is commonly used as a sweetener. Initial stud…
CSEF · 2010
Zoology
Objectives/Goals I and doing an experiment in which texture ladybugs are most attracted to. I am doing this project because I want to know which types of terrain have a texture that ladybugs…
CSEF · 2010
Microbiology
Objectives/Goals Abstract In my project I am testing the amount of bacteria that can collect and grow on commercial ice machines. The four locations on the machine that I picked were the tub…
CSEF · 2010
Zoology
Objectives/Goals The objective of this project was to determine the best alternate solution (instead of surgery) that would decrease the size of an enterolith to the greatest degree. An ente…
CSEF · 2010
Microbiology
Objectives/Goals The purpose of my project is to compare different types of substances to see what works the best to kill Candida Albican, a type of thrush bacteria, on horse hooves in winte…
CSEF · 2010
Materials Science (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals This experiment determined which type of roofing material had the highest emissivity and albedo properties. It was hypothesized that the lighter roof color will cause the te…
CSEF · 2010
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals My project looked at how humor in cartoons changes with age for children in 3rd through 8th grades. The goal of this project was to try to understand why kids laugh and what…
CSEF · 2010
Microbiology
Objectives/Goals The problem I am trying to solve with my project is to find out how to make really creamy yogurt. I learned from my research about different ingredients that could be used t…
CSEF · 2010
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals My objective was to find out if colored paper, as a background, affects the speed of kindergartners' identification of pictures on the paper. Methods/Materials I drew pictur…
CSEF · 2010
Pharmacology (Senior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals The purpose of this project is to study the effect of ethanol and nicotine on Daphnia magna. Observations were made on the heart rate of D. magna as the concentration of eac…