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.
ISEF · 2014
Plant Sciences
This research and experiment will prove rather or not switch grass is a viable source for ethanol production that will not affect the price of human or domestic animal feed. Information will…
ISEF · 2014
Engineering Mechanics
Question/Purpose: Which Organic Substrate will Produce the Most Biomethane Through the Process of Anaerobic Digestion? Hypothesis: If Twelve Different Organic Substrates are Prepared, then G…
ISEF · 2014
Engineering Mechanics
Bioremediation is an emerging technology for treatment of soil and water contaminations. This study aims to demonstrate bioremediation of diesel oil contaminated mangrove soil using bacteria…
ISEF · 2014
Environmental Engineering Fourth Award
Bioaugmentation is a developing method of remediating the disastrous effects of oil spills. If the existing species of hydrocarbonoclastic bacteria can be augmented through the addition of n…
ISEF · 2014
Engineering Mechanics
Oil spills drastically affect mammalian and marine environments because they damage fragile ecosystems and leave areas unsuitable for wildlife habitats. According to a 2010 report conducted…
CSEF · 2014
Environmental Engineering (Junior Division Only) Third Award
Objectives/Goals My objective was to determine if a top bioremediation agent, (OSEII -the only 1st response EPA listed bioremediation agent) used for cleaning oil spills could be applied to…
ISEF · 2014
Environmental Engineering First Award
Due to the increasing awareness of conserving environment through reducing pollutants, the aim of finding natural colorants and mordants to substitute synthetic dyes and chemical mordants is…
CSEF · 2014
Zoology
Objectives/Goals In this project, I monitored the biodiversity and abundance of birds in four different habitats (meadow, river-meadow, river-redwood, and redwood) in Henry Cowell Redwoods S…
CSEF · 2014
Electronics & Electromagnetics
Objectives/Goals Night vision while driving can be impaired by bright lights from on coming car headlights causing a period of blindness until the eye recovers. We wanted to build photo-prot…
CSEF · 2014
Zoology
Objectives/Goals Questions: When do flashlight fish light up the most and what may cause it? Hypothesis: I believe the flashlight fish will light up the most during a feed as flashlight fish…
ISEF · 2014
Cellular and Molecular Biology
Insects are known to be able to warm their bodies endogenously and to regulate their body temperatures by themselves. However precise mechanisms of their body temperature regulations are not…
CSEF · 2014
Pharmacology/ Toxicology Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals I set out in this experiment to determine if exposure to bisphenol A (BPA) from canned food has long-term effects on the spatial memory of mice. I hypothesized that the mice…
ISEF · 2014
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Considering beads as corners of n-gons, we made 3D models, i.e. real bracelets. When we work on them on paper, we used digits {0,1,2} for each color. With the help of our models, considering…
ISEF · 2014
Mathematics
This project is an analytic experiment on the effects of brainwave entrainment on cognitive ability. Hypothesis: Human participants will demonstrate the best cognitive performance when their…
CSEF · 2014
Product Science (Biological) (Junior Division Only) Second Award
Objectives/Goals This project compares the efficacy of NEOSPORIN# Original Ointment with generics Good Neighbor Pharmacy and CVS Pharmacy antibiotic ointments on Bacillus cereus (gram positi…
ISEF · 2014
Physics and Astronomy Fourth Award
The quantity and quality of the apple crop mostly depends on the pollination in apple orchards during March-April, for that apple grower’s use many techniques to pollinate. They use polliniz…
ISEF · 2014
Energy: Chemical Fourth Award
Buildings need strong wood beams to hold them up and support them. Can a composite laminated wood beam made out of the strongest woods under tensile and compression forces hold up and suppor…
CSEF · 2014
Biochemistry/ Molecular Biology First Award
Objectives/Goals Advanced Glycation End-products (AGEs) have been identified as the root cause of atherosclerosis, cancer, Alzheimer's and diabetic neuropathy, retinopathy and nephropathy. A…
CSEF · 2014
Zoology
Objectives/Goals The question to be answered is what is the breeding season of the Cephaloscyllium ventriosum. The main objective was to record a definite breeding season of the California s…
ISEF · 2014
Embedded Systems
With the advent of modern computing capabilities, the need for large quantities of high quality random numbers has increased dramatically. These numbers can be used in cryptography for the p…
ISEF · 2014
Systems Software
Mendocino motor is an effective, reliable, and environmentally-friendly converter of solar energy into mechanical energy, working almost without friction. Such engine’s considered to have lo…
CSEF · 2014
Microbiology (Medical) (Junior Division Only) Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals The objective was to determine if a charcoal based dentifrice that could be made in a rural area of a developing country would be effective in controlling bacterial growth.…
ISEF · 2014
Energy: Chemical
Batteries are a major part of everyday life. However, most common batteries are slow at recharging and can be dangerous to the environment when improperly disposed of. Our goal was to combin…
ISEF · 2014
Plant Sciences Fourth Award
In recent years fluorine has become increasingly important to the pharmaceutical industry. Coupled with already-potent drugs, fluorine has allowed common therapies to become even more effect…
CSEF · 2014
Chemistry Fourth Award
Objectives/Goals In recent years fluorine has become increasingly important to the pharmaceutical industry. Coupled with already-potent drugs, fluorine has allowed common therapies to become…
CSEF · 2014
Applied Mechanics & Structures
Objectives/Goals The goal of my project is to create a shock absorber that will be cheaper and as efficient as a store-brand shock absorber. Methods/Materials An acrylic sheet, two acrylic t…
CSEF · 2014
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals The reason we did this experiment is to figure out why people bully. Methods/Materials The materials we needed for this experiment is; paper, pencil and 60 middle-school stu…
ISEF · 2014
Engineering Mechanics
We often cast the energy from wave coming parallel with monotonous coasts or the small wave from many apparatuses because of the low wave height. However, this study designed an energy gener…
CSEF · 2014
Product Science (Physical) (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals My project was to determine whether Beeswax, Paraffin Wax, or Soy Wax would burn longer as a votive candle. I believed that Soy Wax would burn longer as a votive candle beca…
ISEF · 2014
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Have you ever wondered how nutritionists know how many calories a certain food contains? In this project, I used a more homemade method for measuring how much chemical energy is available in…