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 · 2015
Systems Software
Bacterial infection of the human blood is a very common cause of illness and death. Rapid and accurate identification of the infectious agents is critical for proper antibiotic selection. Th…
CSEF · 2015
Electronics & Electromagnetics
Objectives/Goals The purpose of this project was to create an engineering prototype obstacle alert system using Mindstorm NXT parts to aid the elderly and vision impaired by calculating the…
CSEF · 2015
Plant Biology
Objectives/Goals The objective of the project was to find out if a plant needs to photosynthesize if they are given the materials produced in photosynthesis, or if they have the capability t…
CSEF · 2015
Alternative Energy (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals The goal of this project was to find out which can run a fan for the most amount of time, hydrogen and oxygen that is stored in a small reservoir, versus hydrogen and oxygen…
ISEF · 2015
The purpose of this experiment was to test and to examine how the design of a natural aquifer can be effective in filtering run off from roads in order to make it less harmful to the ecosyst…
CSEF · 2015
Environmental Science
Objectives/Goals The world famous Arcata Marsh and Wildlife Sanctuary is an important part of Arcata#s Wastewater Treatment Plant and is temporary refuge to over 270 species birds year round…
CSEF · 2015
Microbiology (Medical) (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals My goal was to see if I could disinfect water using the SODIS method. SODIS is a type of water disinfection process using sunlight. You put the contaminated water in a PET (…
CSEF · 2015
Mammalian Biology Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals About 347 million people worldwide have diabetes. More than 80% of diabetes deaths in the world occur in low income countries because of lack of awareness. Current testing m…
CSEF · 2015
Chemistry
Objectives/Goals The goal of my project was to stop or slow the rate of corrosion in a saltwater electrolyte using either magnets or petroleum jelly. Methods/Materials AC/DC transformer mult…
CSEF · 2015
Mathematics & Software
Objectives/Goals The sound of wind chimes can be used as a seed to generate truly random numbers. Methods/Materials A wind chime for recording sound, a fan to control wind speed, a recording…
CSEF · 2015
Mathematics & Software
Objectives/Goals My objective was to create a trading strategy to achieve a higher rate of return than the overall stock market. I predicted that it is possible to outperform the buy-and-hol…
CSEF · 2015
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals The goal of my project is to see if people could learn by playing a video game. Methods/Materials I created a video game using RPG Maker 2003. In this game, I had informatio…
CSEF · 2015
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals To find out if adults with different levels of education could pass an 8th grade science quiz with a score of 70% or better. Methods/Materials I used a basic 8th grade scien…
CSEF · 2015
Mammalian Biology
Objectives/Goals The objective of this project is to determine if peripheral vision changes in adolescence. I hypothesize that around the age of ten, due to growth of the lens, a change will…
ISEF · 2015
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Media multitasking is increasingly prevalent in our society, especially among the young. Processing multiple streams of information simultaneously, however, is cognitively challenging, there…
CSEF · 2015
Aerodynamics/ Hydrodynamics (Junior Division Only) First Award
Objectives/Goals Objective: To understand how to build the most efficient windmill. The focus will be to change the windmill blade angles and measure the change in the number of rotations pe…
CSEF · 2015
Materials Science (Junior Division Only) First Award
Objectives/Goals My goal is to prove that infusing carbon black particles and graphene into common elastic natural rubber bands can create flexible, high sensitivity strain sensors useful fo…
ISEF · 2015
This project was designed to recycle the by-product produced when filtering the carbon output of exhaust of fossil fueled cars to decrease carbon footprint. Filtration occurred when carbon d…
ISEF · 2015
Biomedical Engineering
Background: Strain and Left ventricular mass (LVM) determination are essential for the evaluation of the progress and function of hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM). Free of geometric assumpt…
CSEF · 2015
Environmental Science
Objectives/Goals Heavy metal contaminants and coliforms may sometimes pose threats to humans at our local beaches. I wanted to find out if these contaminants might be present in the lagoon o…
ISEF · 2015
Ischemia-reperfusion (I/R) injury during heart attack may result in significant heart damage, and new therapies are needed. The goal of this study was to determine if the flavonoid quercetin…
ISEF · 2015
Third Award
Automobile industry has always been one of the most significant indicators of the current technological development. In recent years regular cars were equipped with electronic and computing…
ISEF · 2015
Motivated by a question proposed in combinatorial geometry, we attempt to categorize finite point sets that do not have a 5-hole (empty pentagon). We look at a finite set of points, P, and c…
ISEF · 2015
Biomedical Engineering
HIV-1 affects the immune system by destroying CD4 cells and thus weakening the immune system. Our main aim was to prepare to prepare pardaxin and it assess its effect on HIV virus? an antimi…
CSEF · 2015
Mammalian Biology
Objectives/Goals This project tests four cat foods to see which is best for your cat: Meow Mix, Friskies, Iams, and Natural Balance. My hypothesis was that Natural Balance would be the best…
CSEF · 2015
Mammalian Biology Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals This experiment was conducted to determine which type of cat, cats in shelters or indoor house cats, have a greater prevalence of Toxacara Cati (Roundworms), Ancylostoma (Ho…
ISEF · 2015
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design First Award
This project in its present form is the result of electrochemical production, analysis with new optical methods and application of aluminumoxide for a new electroluminescent device. The init…
ISEF · 2015
Cholera toxin causes a diarrheal response in patients by inducing chloride efflux from intestinal epithelial cells, but it does not kill the intoxicated epithelial cells. Cholera toxin also…
ISEF · 2015
Biomedical Engineering
Cell immortality sounds good but is root cause of most cancers. This happens when certain functional tags attach to DNA periphery, suppressing apoptosis (self-dead), allowing uncontrollable…
ISEF · 2015
Translational Medical Science
Correct function of mitochondria is essential for many cellular processes. In animal cells, imbalance between the amounts of proteins encoded by the mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) and nuclear DNA…