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 · 2016
Plant Biology
Objectives/Goals The purpose of this project is to see which method of plant growth will make plants grow more vigorously and healthy. My hypothesis is that hydroponically grown plants will…
CSEF · 2016
Applied Mechanics & Structures
Objectives/Goals Objective: The objective is to determine what amount of water between one and seven cups will allow a bottle rocket to reach its maximum height if all other conditions remai…
CSEF · 2016
Applied Mechanics & Structures
Objectives/Goals This project was executed in the hope of making a knee brace for a grade two medial collateral ligament tear. The goal was to make the brace adjustable so that it can be wor…
ISEF · 2016
First Award
Over 6 million individuals in the US alone who lack leg muscle function due to illnesses like multiple sclerosis, spinal injury or poliomyelitis require Knee-Ankle-Foot-Orthoses (KAFOs), dev…
ISEF · 2016
Third Award
A Single Electron Transistor (SET) is a device which conducts electrical current through a specified pathway and into a particle in order to study its quantum properties. Initial fabrication…
ISEF · 2016
Network flow optimality on directed graphs is a central topic in graph theory and combinatorics. Given a complete graph G, we investigate the relationship between the score vectors of specia…
CSEF · 2016
Applied Mechanics & Structures
Objectives/Goals The purpose of this experiment was to determine how lower temperatures would affect the strength of plastics, specifically Acrylic and SAN (Styrene-Acrylonitrile Resin). Met…
ISEF · 2016
In this project, we intented to find how many triangles that have integer edges we can form by seperating an integer lentgh into three parts. First, we studied for lengths 12,13 and 14 and w…
CSEF · 2016
Earth & Atmospheric Sciences (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals My hypothesis was that as sea ice begins to melt, the salt water density will increase. As the sea ice melts, the exothermic energy will create a thermocline. The thermoclin…
ISEF · 2016
This research was intended to mitigate the energy poverty crisis through the development of a novel, economically feasible, and easily transportable current energy probe prototype. BEACON co…
ISEF · 2016
Arising from discussions in school that strawberries grow on trees, I discovered that the Arbutus unedo (Strawberry Tree) grew natively in Ireland and mainland Europe but not in the United K…
CSEF · 2016
Product Science (Biological) (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals The objective of this study was to determine the best way to wash your toothbrush using commonly used methods and the American Dental Association's recommendation. Methods/M…
CSEF · 2016
Environmental Engineering
Objectives/Goals This project sought to determine the bioremediation ability of Bromelain enzyme to reduce nitrogen, potassium, and phosphates from chicken manure. Methods/Materials The test…
ISEF · 2016
Systems Software
Siamese fighting fish or Betta species is a splendidly colored fish commercially indigenous to Thailand. There are many betta species around the world, which results in great examples of bio…
ISEF · 2016
To improve the molecular spectral resolution, the gas of interest must be cooled to reduce thermal noise. A method of buffer gas cooling is used, where a noble gas (buffer gas) cooled by a c…
CSEF · 2016
Electronics & Electromagnetics
Objectives/Goals The goal of the project is to create a device that will help baseball players optimize bat motion. Two key components of a good swing are bat speed and followthrough. Bat sp…
CSEF · 2016
Applied Mechanics & Structures
Objectives/Goals People don#t want to be bothered by opening and closing the blinds all the time to conserve energy. To resolve this problem I am going to engineer a computer controlled blin…
CSEF · 2016
Applied Mechanics & Structures
Objectives/Goals My objective in conducting this experiment was to test the effect of varied structural improvements on a building's performance during a simulated earthquake. My goal was to…
ISEF · 2016
Cardiovascular diseases are leading cause of morbidity worldwide and a better understanding of their nature is crucially needed. Modelling disease with human blood vessel-like structures wou…
CSEF · 2016
Applied Mechanics & Structures
Objectives/Goals A dynamic buoyancy device should expand/compress to counteract the lost/added buoyancy in the water from heat or salinity. I built a sub with a swim bladder that works like…
CSEF · 2016
Chemistry
Objectives/Goals The goal of this project was to determine if the energy in renewable fuel is equivalent to the energy in the same amount of non-renewable fuel. Methods/Materials Measure the…
ISEF · 2016
Cyber Security is a matter that influences both big companies and individuals. Current services and software products do provide the user security to a certain extent with the help of encryp…
ISEF · 2016
Third Award
Alzheimer’s Disease (AD) is a global epidemic, affecting approximately 47 million people worldwide, increasing to an estimated 76 million by 2030. AD is the most common form of dementia and…
ISEF · 2016
Biomedical Engineering
Last year, my partner and I experimented with the effect of caffeine on athletic performance. We designed three specific athletic tests to see if it did help. After we finished, we concluded…
ISEF · 2016
Caffeine is a white, crystalline, bitter alkaloid. Caffeine is used as a stimulant to the central nervous system and also acts as a diuretic. This stimulant can be man-made or found in veget…
CSEF · 2016
Zoology Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals Based on last year#s research, light at 630 nm and a power density of 3.42 J/sec cm2 slowed down an action potential along the giant axon in the earthworm.. The hypothesis f…
ISEF · 2016
The aim of the project is to calculate the area of any polygon which has n convex or concave sides and whose corner coordinates are given. Additionally, it aims to calculate the approximate…
ISEF · 2016
Air pollution must be measured so that its sources can be remediated. The AtmoSniffer provides measurements during pollution events. Its sensors are sensitive to five of the EPA primary poll…
CSEF · 2016
Physics & Astronomy
Objectives/Goals The Camera Obscura, also known as the pinhole camera, uses a simple hole which mimics the iris of an eye. The goal was to build a Camera Obscura that successfully captured t…
ISEF · 2016
Phytophthora capsici and Fusarium oxysporum f.sp. lycopersici are plant pathogens that causes blight/fruit rot in important economically essential plants, such as eggplant, watermelon, and p…