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 · 2017
Animal Sciences
An assessment is made of the effect of biological control using the entomopathogenic fungus Metarhizium anisopliae, on the Taeniopoda reticulata, Fabricius (1978) locust plague when introduc…
ISEF · 2017
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Seaweed has been used for a long time as a source of food, animal fodder, medicine, in cosmetic products, and textile etc. As the demand for organic products is increasing every day, this pr…
ISEF · 2017
Environmental Engineering
Chlorpyrifos(CPFS) is a pesticide extensively used by farmers. It is extremely dangerous to human and animal health, even at levels of 0.1 ppm. Pre-natal exposure to CPFS results in neurolog…
ISEF · 2017
Biochemistry
Gastric cancers are the leading cause of cancer related deaths worldwide. Most cases of gastric cancers are diagnosed late stage. Carcinogens in food, N-nitrosamines being one major group, i…
ISEF · 2017
Environmental Engineering
The countryside El Tobal of Carcasi presents an environmental problem caused by dairy cheese whey, a by-product of the cheese industry, which generates contamination in the waters present in…
ISEF · 2017
Biochemistry Second Award
Transplantation of isolated human pancreatic islet cells secrete insulin and cures diabetes in patients. Native islets in the pancreas have a rich blood supply and they provide efficient del…
ISEF · 2017
Biomedical Engineering Fourth Award
Lung disease, which includes asthma, emphysema, cancer and cystic fibrosis, is one of the leading causes of death in the world, with more than 3 million deaths annually. Transplantation is u…
CSEF · 2017
Environmental Engineering Fourth Award
Objectives/Goals Food wastage is a massive problem globally, with one-third of all the food produced getting wasted. Roughly one trillion dollars worth of food ends up in landfills every yea…
ISEF · 2017
Materials Science
With an aging population, war, and sports-related injuries, there is an ever-increasing demand for hard tissue replacements, such as bone. In fact, there has been a fourfold increase in the…
ISEF · 2017
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) is the fourth most common psychiatric disorder. Mitochondria are organelles that exert key functions in the nervous system. This research project investig…
ISEF · 2017
Plant Sciences Fourth Award
Biological contamination is the second largest cause of biodiversity loss on Earth. The genus Pinus is the most problematic invasive specie on the globe. Brazil has 1.59 million hectares of…
ISEF · 2017
Biomedical Engineering
Oral hygiene is linked with several systemic diseases. The dental biofilm/plaque, responsible for these pathologies, is often resistant to brushing, leaving a pressing need for innovative so…
AJAS · 2017
AbstractPlastic is a material that is used to great extent. Most plastics that are commercially used today are petroleum based, meaning that they can take more than a century to degrade. Not…
CSEF · 2017
Environmental Engineering
Objectives/Goals The objective of this study is to create an alternative for plastic that holds the same properties such as flexibility and tensile strength, but is much better for the susta…
CSEF · 2017
Materials Science (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals To determine how different types of potato starches affect the tensile strength of bioplastic. Methods/Materials A variety of 5 different potato starches, corn syrup, water,…
ISEF · 2017
Materials Science
This project came up with two methods to improve the sustainability and growing concern with the increasing use of plastics. One was to come up with an entirely bio-based material (construct…
ISEF · 2017
Chemistry
Nanoparticles are quickly emerging as an area of intense scientific research due to their various applications. Although there are already methods for the synthesis of nanoparticles, the det…
ISEF · 2017
Microbiology
Bacteriophages pierce the outer coats of the bacteria and inject them with phage DNA. The DNA take over the inner machinery of the bacterial cells and force them to make copies of the phage.…
ISEF · 2017
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Black carbon (BC) aerosol particles originate from the combustion process and absorb wavelengths within the visible light spectrum which in turn warms the atmosphere and may contribute to an…
CSEF · 2017
Zoology
Objectives/Goals The purpose of my experiment was to see if worm castings could be an effective non-chemical fertilizer that is safe to use around children and pets. I wanted to compare diff…
ISEF · 2017
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Free-space broadband frequency modulated near infrared (NIR) photon transmission mode technique has been used in this paper as an optical bio-sensor method to extract optical properties of d…
ISEF · 2017
Engineering Mechanics
Propeller shrouds can increase propeller efficiency. The purpose of the experiment was to determine if a propeller shroud modeled after the propeller’s natural slipstream could increase prop…
CSEF · 2017
Environmental Engineering
Objectives/Goals In modern times, the demand for more environmentally-friendly and clean energy is booming around the world. Besides wind, solar, and nuclear power, there is a developing sou…
ISEF · 2017
Animal Sciences Fourth Award
Blue light is emitted from all electronic devices. Connections between multiple health problems such as circadian rhythm disorders, eye strain, and even macular degeneration correlated with…
ISEF · 2017
Biomedical Engineering Fourth Award
Popular balance ability monitoring methods such as scale scoring and posturography testing have many drawbacks, e.g. subjective judgments, complicated instruments, defined lab scenarios othe…
ISEF · 2017
Mathematics Second Award
The concept of metric dimension has applications in a variety of fields, such as chemistry, robotic navigation, and combinatorial optimization. Three bounds on the metric dimensions for diff…
ISEF · 2017
Embedded Systems
This project aims to help blind people live their lives easily and reduce the problems of address recognition and help them to locate their particular addresses easily just with the help of…
ISEF · 2017
Systems Software
Recently, commercial Braille printer are too expensive and making Braille document without using a Braille printer is too difficult and has some mistakes. Our new Dot matrix Braille printer…
ISEF · 2017
Robotics and Intelligent Machines Fourth Award
Braille books are extremely hard to find as well as very bulky and heavy to carry around. The purpose of my project was to design and construct a refreshable single cell braille device, alon…
CSEF · 2017
Mammalian Biology
Objectives/Goals All animals within the Vertebrata subphylum develop a skeleton that is essential to life. Unfortunately, bones can fracture under heavy pressure or forceful hits. This proje…