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 · 2019
Materials Science (Junior Division Only)
Objectives Petroleum based plastics, the ones most commonly used today, pose a huge threat to the environment, filling up nearly all of the world's landfills. This form of pollution can enda…
AJAS · 2019
Microbiology (inferred)
The increasing global threat of antibiotic resistance and the exhaustion of terrestrial sources of microorganisms with antimicrobial properties necessitates efforts to augment the current ar…
CSEF · 2019
Toxicology Honorable_mention Award
Objectives WGLS has become and increasingly prevalent pest, especially in organic vineyards and backyard wines because of limited availability of pesticides for these situations. The main ob…
CSEF · 2019
Environmental Engineering Honorable_mention Award
Objectives Compare the rates of decomposition in a standard landfill environment to those of a system in which leachate is cycled through. Determine if the recirculation increases the rate o…
ISEF · 2019
Cellular and Molecular Biology
Arsenite contamination of source water presents a threat to dozens of developing countries that cannot afford remediatory solutions. The conversion of arsenite to arsenate via oxidation pres…
ISEF · 2019
Earth and Environmental Sciences Third Award
Antibiotic pollution in soils and groundwater is one of the world’s most pressing problems. There are 1.4 micrograms of antibiotics per liter of freshwater and 125,000 tons of antibiotics po…
ISEF · 2019
Earth and Environmental Sciences
The progressive adoption of urban, industrial lifestyle deteriorated the quality of freshwater reservoirs and caused a huge challenge in the world in maintaining the demand and quality of wa…
AJAS · 2019
Earth and Environmental Sciences (inferred)
Severe weather, especially frequent and heavy precipitation exacerbated by climate change, adds uncertainty to the health of urban environments. A critical concern is the combined sewage ove…
CSEF · 2019
Plant Biology
Objectives The purpose of my science fair project was to determine if the application of genetically modified soybean meal fertilizer would result in negative growth outcomes and environment…
ISEF · 2019
Materials Science
This study examined a new kind of water treatment material derived from bio-TiO2 nanoparticle-impregnated bacterial cellulose (TiO2-BC) synthesized by an environmentally friendly method. The…
ISEF · 2019
Animal Sciences
Investigations based on environmental DNA (eDNA) have attracted considerable attention in recent years. For example, eDNA from water samples is a powerful tool for examining habitats of fish…
ISEF · 2019
Chemistry
Bisphenol A, a synthetic organic compound used in the production of polycarbonate plastics, has been determined to be harmful to humans. Due to controversy, most food companies discontinued…
CSEF · 2019
Aerodynamics/ Hydrodynamics (Junior Division Only)
Objectives The objective for the Blade Power experiment was to design four different shapes of wind turbine blades: Blade A-rectangular, Blade B-paddle, Blade C-curved, and Blade D-triangula…
ISEF · 2019
Systems Software
There are some problems such as duplicated storage and verification in current blockchain, which results in low operation efficiency. This model proposes a way to solve these problems based…
CSEF · 2019
Physics & Astronomy Honorable_mention Award
Objectives The objective is to determine if blood is dropped from a higher height would the diameter size of the blood spatter increase. In addition will the surface make a difference in the…
CSEF · 2019
Aerodynamics/ Hydrodynamics (Junior Division Only) Honorable_mention Award
Objectives My objective was to find out if the camber of a wing affects turbulence with a crosswind during takeoff. My hypothesis was that the wing with the greatest camber would have the mo…
CSEF · 2019
Electronics & Electromagnetics
Objectives Our objective was to find out which mobile device produced the most blue light. We used a few makes and models of cell phones and tablets for this projects. There is evidence that…
CSEF · 2019
Electronics & Electromagnetics Honorable_mention Award
Objectives The purpose of our project was to create a driver-free car that is GPS navigated, road following, and avoids obstacles when equipped with an Arduino Uno microcontroller. In additi…
ISEF · 2019
Embedded Systems
Current state-of-the-art prostheses require invasive surgical procedures which can pose risks to the patient, while on the other hand, non-invasive prosthetic technology lacks accurate patte…
ISEF · 2019
Biomedical Engineering
Many worldwide citizens go through medical attention and face improper diagnoses and treatment, which can lead to life-threatening circumstances. In the U.S. alone, 12 million patients are m…
CSEF · 2019
Chemistry
Objectives The objective of this project is to determine if the boiling point of water can be lowered by lowering the surrounding pressure. Methods Filtration flask, hand vacuum pump, rubber…
ISEF · 2019
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Neural networks are utilized for machine learning. This project attempted to recreate the sound of stringed instruments similar to the violin using neural networks. Current computer generati…
ISEF · 2019
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
According with the World Health Organization (2014), there are 285 millions of people with a visual disability all around the world. At least 39 million are totally blind. The main problem t…
CSEF · 2019
Electronics & Electromagnetics Third Award
Objectives Human iPSC-derived brain organoids are human "mini-brains," consisting primarily of the cortex area of the brain and are similar to those of premature babies. As the organoids cur…
ISEF · 2019
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
In brain research, an important step after staining and imaging the different brain cells is their phenotyping. In this research, we work with patches of images, taken with CLARITY and aim t…
ISEF · 2019
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Major Depressive Disorder is a severe, chronic disorder affecting over 350 million people per year, and one out of every six people will be affected in their lifetime. Not only is this debil…
ISEF · 2019
Embedded Systems Fourth Award
On many pattern recognition and inference tasks the human brain, which consumes just 20W and occupies only 1.5L, can outperform AI running on large von Neumann (vN) systems. Closure of this…
CSEF · 2019
Electronics & Electromagnetics First Award
Objectives On tasks such as pattern recognition, the human brain, which consumes 20W of power and takes up 1.5L of space, substantially outperforms artificial intelligence (AI) algorithms ru…
ISEF · 2019
Earth and Environmental Sciences
In just one hour, more than 600,000 g are released into the Puget Sound area of Washington State; this is caused by a multitude of vehicles braking tens of thousands of times an hour, releas…
ISEF · 2019
Engineering Mechanics
This project aims to compare four types of truss bridges currently in use and seeks to determine which is the most stable, feasible, and cost-effective design. The bridge must meet certain s…