20,037 real projects from ISEF, the Canada-Wide Science Fair, JSHS and the Calgary Youth Science Fair — searchable by meaning, and filterable by fair, year, category and award.
ISEF · 2022
Engineering Technology: Statics & Dynamics
The main goal of every rocket engine is to generate a lot of heat and pressure and then convert that into workable thrust. The problem is most rockets don’t solve pressure discrepancies at v…
ISEF · 2022
Environmental Engineering Third Award
Pollutant removal efficiency and electricity production from kitchen wastewater are investigated with the design of an up-flow plant-microbial fuel cell (P-MFC) by coupling Canna indica L. a…
ISEF · 2022
Materials Science
This study explores the intersection between unsupervised machine learning with bio-inspired material design. The goal of this project was to design a new procedure to simply and intuitively…
ISEF · 2022
Translational Medical Science Fourth Award
Breast cancer is the most diagnosed cancer among women and the 5th leading cause of cancer-related mortality. Women in developing countries, especially sub-Saharan Africa, suffer from the hi…
ISEF · 2022
Robotics and Intelligent Machines Fourth Award
The WHO reports 2.2 billion people internationally have a form of visual impairment, with Perkins School of Blind adding that 4 to 8 percent (8.8 - 17.6 million people) solely rely on a whit…
ISEF · 2022
Microbiology
Toxoplasma gondii is a parasite that causes an infection, Toxoplasmosis in humans. Pregnant women can get this infection if the eggs of the parasite, which are found in the cat’s feces, are…
ISEF · 2022
Embedded Systems
In this project, a fully functional location-tag based point-to-point wayfinder system was created to help the visually impaired navigate large public facilities like airports and shopping c…
ISEF · 2022
Biomedical Engineering
Human error is inevitable and has consequences. In the medical field, medical malpractice accounts for almost 251,000 deaths per year. The purpose is to solve the ongoing problem by building…
ISEF · 2022
Engineering Technology: Statics & Dynamics Second Award
On average, 51% of a rocket engine’s weight is in the cooling system, so finding an engine design that would drastically reduce the engine's weight, complexity, and production cost would be…
ISEF · 2022
Engineering Technology: Statics & Dynamics Second Award
Magnetically deflected ballistic mass (MBDM) describes a system in which a metal rotor, the mass in the system, is suspended inside an evacuated sheath like a maglev train. The metal rotor c…
ISEF · 2022
Engineering Technology: Statics & Dynamics
Humanity’s carbon emissions have started to affect the global climate. In order to reduce this impact, we must dramatically reduce carbon emissions in all sectors. In aviation, increasing th…
ISEF · 2022
Physics and Astronomy
Quantum teleportation has the potential to revolutionize cybersecurity and digital communications by enabling completely secure communication. This phenomenon relies on entanglement, one of…
ISEF · 2022
Robotics and Intelligent Machines Second Award
Current prosthetic arm technology often lacks intelligent dexterity, haptic feedback, and are lucratively expensive ranging from 20,000 to 100,000 dollars. The engineering goal of this proje…
ISEF · 2022
Earth and Environmental Sciences Second Award
With the increase in population at large and meeting the demands in various sectors, management of industrial waste is a growing issue. Typically dye industries are excreting large quantitie…
ISEF · 2022
Biomedical Engineering Fourth Award
During Phase 1 (2020-2021), a 3D printed ventilator was created with a modular design that could use multiple power sources to mitigate the shortage of ventilators during the COVID-19 pandem…
ISEF · 2022
Environmental Engineering
Objective: to develop an innovative way of cleaning the Tasotkel reservoir from fishing nets. Hypothesis: the developed cleaning method will allow cleaning the Tastkel reservoir from fishing…
ISEF · 2022
Engineering Technology: Statics & Dynamics
Small-scale establishments of passion fruit processing have a high demand for automatic machines. However, current passion fruit juice separators on the market do not match the requirements…
ISEF · 2022
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
As the use of solar energy expands, there is a rising demand for Photovoltaic modeling programs which can track, monitor, and predict the energy output of solar arrays. However, the high cos…
ISEF · 2022
Biomedical and Health Sciences First Award
Stroke is the second leading cause of death worldwide, with 15 million people suffering from its debilitating effects each year. 87% of strokes are ischemic, where an artery narrows or becom…
ISEF · 2022
Biomedical Engineering
Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) affects over 16 million people, and is a leading cause of mortality in the United States. Pulmonary rehabilitation (PR) and oxygen therapy are co…
ISEF · 2022
Physics and Astronomy
For the purpose of detecting cosmic ray flux and analyzing its behavior in relationship with latitude, altitude, solar cycle and meteorological conditions I built my own detector. It consist…
ISEF · 2022
Robotics and Intelligent Machines Second Award
Current concrete structure inspection methods can cost on average $7500US per day. Cracks in concrete caused by forces can lead to long-term instability and serious structural problems. Nowa…
ISEF · 2022
Behavioral and Social Sciences Fourth Award
The practice of redlining, which gave rise to the racial segregation of American cities, has significantly contributed to the structural, institutional, and systemic racism apparent in today…
ISEF · 2022
Systems Software Fourth Award
The purpose of my project is to provide a cost-effective, portable, and accurate solution to diagnosing glaucoma. Glaucoma is a major health issue in less developed countries (LDCs), where t…
ISEF · 2022
Robotics and Intelligent Machines Fourth Award
Lung cancer is the second most diagnosed form of cancer in both women and men and is the leading cause of cancer death as it accounts for 1 in 4 cancer deaths. Radiologists have to examine a…
ISEF · 2022
Translational Medical Science
Acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) is one of the most common types of cancer in children. This study investigates a natural product that can be used as a possible agent for the treatment of…
ISEF · 2022
Biochemistry
Amylase and protease are digestive enzymes, or molecules, that speed up chemical reactions. Without enzymes, reactions essential to life would take years to occur. This project's objective i…
ISEF · 2022
Microbiology Fourth Award
Bats, like bees, are a keystone species benefiting the environment and saving farmers billions of dollars in chemicals. However, since 2006, millions of bats in North America have died of a…
ISEF · 2022
Translational Medical Science
More than 70 countries approve the consumption of artificial sweeteners (Ogungbemi et al., 2019). People, including pregnant women, regularly consume artificial sweeteners to substitute suga…
ISEF · 2022
Biomedical and Health Sciences Fourth Award
Alzheimers, a degenerative brain disorder, affected 6.1 million Americans in 2021. This debilitating disease is affecting more individuals each year. It disrupts an individual's cognitive ab…