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
Environmental Science
Objectives/Goals The objective of the project was to determine which water source, between L.A River, Eaton Canyon, or Peanut Lake, was the least contaminated with bacteria, nitrate, and nit…
ISEF · 2014
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
The purpose of this project consists in constructing of finite continued fractions theory in arbitrary unique factorization domains and applying this theory to optimization of the Euclidean…
ISEF · 2014
Materials Science Second Award
Continued fractions have a long history behind them - their origin may be placed to the age of Euclid's algorithm for the greatest common divisor or even earlier. However, they experience a…
CSEF · 2014
Physics & Astronomy
Objectives/Goals My project's objective was to figure out how inertia can be controlled, how it can be eventually used as a mechanism for balancing robots. This project looked for how much i…
ISEF · 2014
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics First Award
Induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) could revolutionize patient-specific regenerative medicine, but their premature aging symptoms, currently misunderstood, limit their clinical applicabi…
ISEF · 2014
Earth and Environmental Sciences
This project investigates an obvious similarity between the labyrinth-like patterns produced by the fully asynchronous version of John H. Conway's Game of Life on the one hand, and those for…
ISEF · 2014
Embedded Systems
This study proposes a novel algorithm inspired by CCD which varies each pair of backbone dihedral angles in each amino acid simultaneously; essentially performing 2-dimensional CCD. Upon tes…
ISEF · 2014
Plant Sciences
About 600,000 people die of heart disease in the United States every year. Atherosclerosis (the deposition of fatty plaques in the arteries) is the underlying cause of heart disease, and cop…
CSEF · 2014
Chemistry
Objectives/Goals The purpose of the experiment was to determine effects of orthophosphate, polyphosphate, and blends of the two on copper levels in first-draw tap water. The hypothesis was t…
ISEF · 2014
Materials Science
The purpose of this experiment was to discover if copper paint on boat hulls, used to repel sea life adherence from the bottom of boats, can change the pH of ocean water. To determine if cop…
ISEF · 2014
Energy: Physical
Castillo de San Marcos Fort in St. Augustine, FL has endured many wars and hurricanes for over 330 years. The fort was constructed from a native rock called coquina, which consists of compac…
ISEF · 2014
Energy: Chemical
This project presents the development of a system that monitors the position of an employee while the worker is performing sitting activities. The biggest cause of the work abstention in Bra…
ISEF · 2014
Mathematics
Starting from the relation between articular hypermobility and injuries in artistic gymnastics whose occurrences are among the highest indexes within the sports activities, my objective was…
CSEF · 2014
Biochemistry/ Molecular Biology
Objectives/Goals The objective is to determine if there is a correlation between the amino acid sequence of the tumor suppressor protein p53 in twelve species and the species' susceptibiliti…
CSEF · 2014
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals This project was inspired by the Stanford Marshmallow Experiment, which tested children#s ability to delay gratification by not eating a marshmallow treat for a while, and e…
CSEF · 2014
Chemistry
Objectives/Goals The purpose of this project was to determine the effect of anions on the corrosion of steel nails and galvanized nails. I hypothesized that nails in the sodium chloride solu…
ISEF · 2014
Embedded Systems
This project presents a cost-effective interactive augmented reality device that relies on a user localization device and a finger tracking device. The user localization method consists of a…
CSEF · 2014
Plant Biology
Objectives/Goals My objective was to determine which type of soil would best promote growing cotton. Methods/Materials I used four very different types of soil (dirt from a dormant cotton fi…
CSEF · 2014
Plant Biology
Objectives/Goals For this year's science project I chose to investigate: Could Algal Blooms be Expelled from Water Sources Using Colored Light Filters? I am interested in this topic because…
ISEF · 2014
Robotics and Intelligent Machines Third Award
The topic of this project is influenced by a classical combinatorial geometry open problem, which recently sparked new interest - square covering. It is one of the fields, known to have appl…
ISEF · 2014
Cellular and Molecular Biology
Since 2002, the total retail price of United States beef has risen to over 25 billion dollars per year. The average feedyard cost to raise beef cattle has also increased to $494 per head. Wi…
CSEF · 2014
Applied Mechanics & Structures
Objectives/Goals Head injuries are a serious issue in professional sports, especially in baseball. The pitcher is the most vulnerable position for injury, and Major League Baseball does not…
ISEF · 2014
Energy: Chemical
Physiologic monitoring is a valuable tool for maintaining and monitoring the health of patients. The purpose of this project was to create a noninvasive, photoplethysmographic device that co…
CSEF · 2014
Mathematics & Software Third Award
Objectives/Goals I wrote a real-time, 3D, interactive space flight simulator program. The biggest challenge was predicting the trajectory of a spacecraft. An existing simulator, Kerbal Space…
ISEF · 2014
Engineering Mechanics
Looking to create an electric current through the use of hot water and a natural draft, and with the use of compost, this would be a possible source of electricity. By using a hot water heat…
ISEF · 2014
Materials Science
I studied the relationship between abstract algebra and young tableaux along with representation theory. I found sequences and patterns in tables which represented multiplied permutations an…
ISEF · 2014
Microbiology Fourth Award
Introduction: Bacteria develop resistance to ß-lactam antibiotics by synthesizing a ß-lactamase to counteract this. It is vital to examine the genetic elements within the ß-lactamases that c…
CSEF · 2014
Mathematics & Software
Objectives/Goals The purpose of this project is to create a digital voice assistant application for Android which can learn from the people using it. If a user tells the application somethin…
ISEF · 2014
Chemistry
Abstract- A new method of identifying relationships between taxonomic groups by comparing amino acid residues across well-conserved proteins has been discovered, and has potential applicatio…
ISEF · 2014
Engineering Mechanics
Energy storage in liquid air. According to statistical research, based on an open data analysis, the average Thermal Power Electrical Station loses up to 40 per cent of generated energy, bec…