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 · 2004
Microbiology
Objectives/Goals Phylogenetic taxonomies of different organisms derived from DNA sequence comparison of conserved genomic regions can be used to establish sensitive, quantitative relationshi…
CSEF · 2004
Environmental Engineering
Objectives/Goals Some plants (called hyperaccumulators) have been shown to accumulate heavy metals from soil. The purpose of this experiment was to find out if lead in soil could be phytorem…
CSEF · 2004
Environmental Engineering
Objectives/Goals Phytoremediation has provided a safe and inexpensive mean of removing toxic chemicals from soil through the use of plants. A research on this topic done by Dr. Lena Ma of th…
CSEF · 2004
Applied Mechanics/ Structures & Mechanisms/ Manufacturing
Objectives/Goals Guitar players frequently use different thickness picks for different styles of music. During a song or performance, changing different picks or going from finger picking to…
CSEF · 2004
Social Sciences (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals Is a certain color of car more likely to be driven unsafely? The reason I chose speed and stopping patterns was because it could be most objectively measured and it was the…
CSEF · 2004
Microbiology
Objectives/Goals To examine the bacteria and fungus growing on leaves and test whether or not bacteria can protect them. My hypothesis is that if there are bacteria that protect humans from…
CSEF · 2004
Pharmacology/ Toxicology
Objectives/Goals I was testing to see if marigolds grew faster with north side up magnets (repels the north of a compass), south side up magnets, or no magnets in their cups. My hypothesis w…
CSEF · 2004
Electricity & Electronics
Objectives/Goals The hypothesis of this project was if different types of salts were added to water, then there will be an increase in the efficiency of generating electricity using the Kelv…
CSEF · 2004
Social Sciences (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals To determine: (1) PERCEPTIONS -- (a) if people think OTHERS take longer to leave parking spots when they wait, and (b) if they think THEY themselves take longer to leave whe…
CSEF · 2004
Electricity & Electronics
Objectives/Goals I hope to develop a solar cell consisting of inexpensive, easily found and commonly available materials useful in powering radios, cell phones, lights, small motors, and oth…
CSEF · 2004
Mathematics & Software
Objectives/Goals The purpose of this experiment is to find the most efficient number of frames to capture key elements of a motion, and if the theoretical sampling rate works for the motion…
CSEF · 2004
Social Sciences (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals My objective was to find out what promotes the cooperation of four-year-olds in completing a task, praise or a prize. My hypothesis was that praise would be more effective.…
CSEF · 2004
Zoology
Objectives/Goals The objective of my experiment is to predict where grunion will lay their eggs based on the coarseness of the sand and to determine whether sand grain size has an affect on…
CSEF · 2004
Mathematics & Software
Objectives/Goals I designed and programmed a video game using the language Scheme. The object of the game is to move the AUP (Anti-UFO Platform, a blue rectangle at the bottom of the screen)…
CSEF · 2004
Materials Science (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals My goal from this project is to determine if there are differences between 3M tapes and to understand the affect of temperature on adhesives. The purpose for undertaking thi…
CSEF · 2004
Behavioral Sciences
Objectives/Goals My goal was to discover which age group, Children, Teenagers or Adults would be most effected by propaganda. Methods/Materials I wrote a survey with nine questions pertainin…
CSEF · 2004
Electricity & Electronics
Objectives/Goals To test and observe the behavior of radio waves (propagation) when passed through wire mesh obstacles of varying weaves and distances from the transmitting station. Methods/…
CSEF · 2004
Biochemistry/ Molecular Biology
Objectives/Goals Determine if evolutionary trees for turtles, based on morphological characteristics, are as accurate as evolutionary trees made using DNA. Research the DNA similarities of s…
CSEF · 2004
Pharmacology/ Toxicology
Objectives/Goals The objective is to determine whether high doses of nonylphenol will affect the sexes of the offspring of guppies. Methods/Materials Nonylphenol was extracted from saran wra…
CSEF · 2004
Applied Mechanics/ Structures & Mechanisms/ Manufacturing
Objectives/Goals The objective was to test the overall strength of four types of suture anchors. The hypothesis was that the Fastin RC anchor would be the strongest, followed by the super an…
CSEF · 2004
Environmental Engineering
Objectives/Goals Many peaple live without clean water. Governments recommend that people boil water, but they do not do that for the following reasons: 1)people don't believe in the germ the…
CSEF · 2004
Biochemistry/ Molecular Biology
Objectives/Goals Oxygen naturally creates free radicals in our bodies and in water. Oxygen free radicals damage DNA and cause disease, cancer and aging. I tested such free radical DNA damage…
CSEF · 2004
Biochemistry/ Molecular Biology
Objectives/Goals By recreating the salt conditions, pH, and temperature of the original environment of the organism, Pyrodictium abyssi, the canA encoded polymerizing protein, will produce t…
CSEF · 2004
Materials Science (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals My objective was to study, test and determine the quality of packing materials to best protect fragile merchandise when shipping. My hypothesis was that the plactic bubble w…
CSEF · 2004
Physics & Astronomy
Objectives/Goals Skyglow caused by excess light from urban centers obscures the visibility of stars and is an increasing problem for astronomical observations. This experiment determines whe…
CSEF · 2004
Physics & Astronomy
Objectives/Goals Low-pressure sodium vapor (LPS) is efficient and astronomer-friendly lighting, but its narrow band of emissions results in poor color rendering of illuminated objects. This…
CSEF · 2004
Chemistry
Objectives/Goals To determine the singlet oxygen quantum yields and quenching rates of several square planar Platinum(II) complexes and their trigonal-bipyrimidial Iridium(III)analogues. Met…
CSEF · 2004
Zoology
Objectives/Goals I started this project because I wanted to do a project on an animal that cannot sting, bite, or harm me in any way. So I chose the harmless mussels. I was very fascinated b…
CSEF · 2004
Behavioral Sciences
Objectives/Goals I tested the effects of video games on an elemetary student's ability to concentrate. My hypothesis was that of five different categories of video games, the "action" catego…
CSEF · 2004
Materials Science (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals My objective is to determine which material will block the most x-rays. Methods/Materials Sixteen different materials were collected: lead sheeting, which was used as a cont…