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 · 2014
Applied Mechanics & Structures
Objectives/Goals The goal of this experiment was to determine the optimum wind farm configuration for each axial configuration and determine the overall most efficient turbine at different w…
ISEF · 2014
Engineering Mechanics Fourth Award
This study was conducted to determine if utilizing a shroud around a small-scale horizontal-axis wind turbine can increase its electrical power output. Three shrouds were constructed out of…
CSEF · 2014
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals Do various test anxiety self-regulation methods affect math fact test scores? Methods/Materials Consent was obtained from fifteen elementary school individuals. Students com…
ISEF · 2014
Embedded Systems Fourth Award
This study investigated the prevalence of relationships between equid body size and climate by comparing the El Golfo and Rancho La Brea horse second phalanges. Bergmann's rule, which states…
ISEF · 2014
Earth and Environmental Sciences
The purpose of this project is to test the randomness of various pseudorandom linear congruential number generators. It is hypothesized that these four LCGs are not random, but that they wil…
ISEF · 2014
Embedded Systems
The purpose of this experiment is to compare the evaporation rates of aquifer tapped mine lakes to the evapotranspiration rates of plant life. The expectations of this project is to observe…
ISEF · 2014
Engineering Mechanics First Award
According to a recent study, 1/3 of the world population has little or no power and is not connected to the world power grid. However, enough solar energy hits the earth in 1.5 hours to powe…
ISEF · 2014
Plant Sciences
The purpose of this experiment was to examine the different foraging habits of Anolis sagrei and Anolis carolinensis juveniles to observe how an invasive species could affect the foraging ha…
CSEF · 2014
Mathematics & Software
Objectives/Goals The objective is to construct a virtual image display system that incorporates head-tracking, stereoscopy, and other depth cues, as well as 360 degrees of viewing to create…
ISEF · 2014
Materials Science
In this paper we will introduce a new study of a new family of polynomials and geometric shapes that are related. An extension of completing the square (second order) to nth order polynomial…
CSEF · 2014
Mammalian Biology
Objectives/Goals The goal of this study was to determine differences in chemical composition in milk from cows treated with rBST and cows not treated with rBST after the pasteurization proce…
CSEF · 2014
Environmental Science
Objectives/Goals Compostable utensils were made to reduce the ever-growing amount of landfill. However, it is not entirely clear about the compostability of compostable utensils and factors…
ISEF · 2014
Physics and Astronomy Fourth Award
Halyomorpha halys, or the Brown Marmorated Stink Bug, is an exotic pest in the United States that causes widespread damage to crops and fruits. The purpose of this experiment was to find a u…
ISEF · 2014
Energy: Chemical
Multiple renewable energy sources are intermittent in availability. This leads to fluctuations in electrical energy generation. Energy storage is used to provide ancillary energy to a system…
ISEF · 2014
Chemistry
An important area of pharmaceutical research is the formulation of a stabilized antibiotic that does not require cold storage, which holds promise of reducing costs and providing much needed…
ISEF · 2014
Energy: Physical
The focus of this research was to computationally elucidate the change in dynamics in single-chain FV fragments (scFV) of the anti-lymphotoxin-ß receptor antibody upon various amino acid mut…
ISEF · 2014
Chemistry
Today, several tens of millions of people suffer from Alzheimer’s disease, nicotine addiction and epilepsy. These conditions not only directly cause deterioration of quality of life, but the…
ISEF · 2014
Chemistry
XAGE-1b is highly and strongly expressed in lung adenocarcinoma and immunogenic in patients, regarded as one of the most immunogenic antigens. In this in silico study, I worked on predicting…
ISEF · 2014
Embedded Systems
Blood Oxygen Level Dependent Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging (BOLD-fMRI) is a type of MRI scanning technique that makes use of the change in magnetization between oxygen-rich blood and…
ISEF · 2014
Mathematics
Due to the high prevalence of immunohistochemistry (IHC) in medicine and biology, the need of fast and accurate semi-quantitative analysis of such IHC images arises. Nowadays such analysis i…
CSEF · 2014
Mathematics & Software
Objectives/Goals My objective is to determine if automatically manipulating bipartite rules is an effective way to perform deductive logic. Methods/Materials A self-modifying system of rules…
ISEF · 2014
Energy: Chemical
There are areas of the world where energy is scarce, and access to clean drinking water is limited. After successfully manufacturing a single parabola concentrated solar system last year, de…
CSEF · 2014
Applied Mechanics & Structures
Objectives/Goals I tested a Riddell Attack helmet and see how it would hold up when I dropped a weight on it. The weight simulated the defensive player giving the hit and the helmet was the…
ISEF · 2014
Engineering Mechanics Fourth Award
This project sought to investigate if, curvature forms of Cones, Chutes, and Coils could be better options than Winglets as wingtip devices that minimized wingtip vortices. Attempts also mad…
CSEF · 2014
Applied Mechanics & Structures First Award
Objectives/Goals To investigate if, curvature forms of Cones, Chutes, and Coils could be better options than Winglets as wingtip devices that minimized wingtip vortices. Methods/Materials Te…
ISEF · 2014
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Due to the importance of being sustainable, recovering and recycling Amberlyst-15 beads was evaluated. The goal of this project was to analyze how many times in the organic lab the Amberlyst…
CSEF · 2014
Applied Mechanics & Structures
Objectives/Goals This project is to demonstrate what alternate materials can be used as a substitution for the traditional snow chains in snow or ice in the event of an absence of proper tra…
CSEF · 2014
Mathematics & Software
Objectives/Goals A major challenge in programming is building a program that is adaptive and can make decisions that can mimic human behavior. Many programs are written on pure conditions an…
ISEF · 2014
Energy: Physical
This research study designed and tested an alternative prototype helmet based upon the sliding-layers concepts presented in MIPS technology. Instead of simple sliding layers, this prototype…
ISEF · 2014
Microbiology
Hepatitis B virus (HBV), a small partially double-stranded DNA hepadnavirus, is the causative agent of B-type hepatitis. A replication-competent HBV vector bearing a reporter gene (reporter…