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.
JSHS · 2022
The importance of studying glacial melting to understand the impact of climate change is amplified by number of glaciers in the world and complicated by the feasibility of monitoring them in…
ISEF · 2022
Biochemistry Fourth Award
Himalayan Balsam (Impatiens glandulifera R.) is an invasive neophyte. I noticed that the leaves of Himalayan Balsam were spotless, while insects had massively damaged the neighboring vegetat…
ISEF · 2022
Biomedical Engineering
Patients with progressive motor neuron diseases like ALS that impair motor function and speech become dependent on caregivers. My device, a Brain-Computer Interface (BCI), detects electrical…
ISEF · 2022
Chemistry
Activation of C-H bonds is at the center of chemical transformations of hydrocarbons, which are primary products of the petroleum industry. However, efficient C-H bond activation remains an…
JSHS · 2022
Millions of websites depend on Google’s reCAPTCHA v2 security software for protection from high-scale digital attacks like credential stuffing and data mining. However, as reCAPTCHA v2, whic…
ISEF · 2022
Animal Sciences
Honey bee (Apis mellifera) pollination is responsible for approximately 80% of all cultivated crops. Unfortunately, reports suggest losses of 30-50% of all honey bee colonies in the US. The…
ISEF · 2022
Translational Medical Science
According to the US Breast Cancer Statistics, Breast Cancer has become the most common cancer in women in the United States. About 1 in 8 US women will develop invasive breast cancer over th…
ISEF · 2022
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Native Hawaiian students are over-represented in nearly every negative student indicator; lowest proficiency scores, highest suspension rates, lowest matriculation into college. With these i…
ISEF · 2022
Environmental Engineering
The purpose of this project is to develop remediation techniques to restore salt contaminated soils back to productive farmland. The ultimate goal of this study is to develop an inexpensive…
ISEF · 2022
Behavioral and Social Sciences
In this project, I seek to understand what happens to fake stories after a credible fact-checking source has confirmed that the story is false. Although prior research shows that the number…
ISEF · 2022
Plant Sciences
Sulforaphane, a component of the cabbage family, fights inflammatory and infectious processes, shrinks the manifestation of lncRNAs in cancer cells and reduces their ability to form colonies…
ISEF · 2022
Animal Sciences
Sharks are a keystone species in ocean ecosystems and vital to keeping our oceans in balance. For this project, we conducted multiple experiments to test the effect of increasing acidity lev…
JSHS · 2022
The purpose of this experiment was to build, code, and test a non-invasive ventilator that could be monitored and controlled from a remote location via a mobile device. During this pandemic,…
ISEF · 2022
Engineering Technology: Statics & Dynamics
In my 2022 SUCCESS Science Fair Project, I am building a Prosthetic Hand using Microcomputers and Sensors. The goal of building this prosthetic hand is to make a prosthetic hand that can com…
ISEF · 2022
Systems Software
The 911 system that we know today is reliable and suitable for most emergencies. However, it may not be usable in situations where it is not safe to talk to authorities on the phone. These s…
ISEF · 2022
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Public transportation such as buses often plays music at high decibel levels. Knowing this, I tested my hypothesis that bus music volume is above the safe decibel levels for human hearing, u…
ISEF · 2022
Biomedical and Health Sciences Fourth Award
Mitochondrial membrane protein associated neurodegeneration (MPAN) is a subtype of a group of rare neurological disorders termed Neurodegeneration with Brain Iron Accumulation (NBIA). MPAN i…
AJAS · 2022
Computer Science
About 1 in 8 U.S. women will develop breast cancer in their lifetime. Breast density is a strong indicator of breast cancer. Women with extremely dense breasts have a sixfold greater risk of…
ISEF · 2022
Physics and Astronomy
Existing quantum computing algorithms for measuring and preparing quantum systems are able to prepare a system in a single given energy eigenstate or measure the energy of said eigenstate. W…
JSHS · 2022
There is a growing need for sustainable forms of renewable energy sources that are efficient and cost-beneficial. Finding such energy sources is one of the critical challenges of the 21st ce…
JSHS · 2022
University of California Dendritic spines are small, membranous protrusions from a neuron’s dendrite which are the hub for receiving signal inputs from axons at areas called synapses. The sy…
ISEF · 2022
Translational Medical Science Third Award
Developing clinical Nuclear-factor-kappa-B ( NF-?B) inhibitors persists as an unresolved challenge due to the duality of NF-?B. NF-?B activity in T-cells exerts a protective effect by stimul…
ISEF · 2022
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics First Award
Cancer is a major public health problem that has caused over 10 million deaths worldwide in 2020. Precision oncology, which employs a patient's genetic profile of tumors to identify the most…
ISEF · 2022
Mathematics
If arm velocity, bat exit velocity, running speed, height, and weight of the high school baseball player is tested, the likelihood of success at different types of college baseball programs…
ISEF · 2022
Animal Sciences
It is believed that jellyfish are opportunistic feeders, meaning they do not actively seek prey, but capture and ingest food they encounter locally. A recent pulse behavioral study has shown…
AJAS · 2022
Medicine
Depression is a leading cause of death and disability with more than 264 million people of all ages suffering from the disorder worldwide. Understanding how brain function is altered in depr…
AJAS · 2022
Biochemistry
Theoretical calculations suggest that a 1000-acre canola field is able to produce 5,000 L of biofuel. However, pretreatment of canola stalks is necessary for biofuel production to allow enzy…
ISEF · 2022
Environmental Engineering
Membrane capacitive deionization (MCDI) is a low-cost and energy efficient desalination technology used for remediating brackish water. MCDI is an electro-sorption technique that removes sal…
ISEF · 2022
Materials Science
Over the past decade, climate change has become an increasing problem with one of the major contributing factors being carbon dioxide (CO2) emission—almost 51% of total US carbon emissions a…
CSEF · 2022
First Award