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 · 2022
Animal Sciences
The rapid decline of hermit crabs can compromise a marine ecosystem that relies on crabs to fertilize soil, disperse seeds and eat detritus (Lavers, 2019). These scavengers have a vital role…
ISEF · 2022
Engineering Technology: Statics & Dynamics
There are over one hundred million pieces of space debris in low Earth orbit (LEO) at least one millimeter in diameter. Absent a mechanism to remove this debris, a phenomenon known as Kessle…
ISEF · 2022
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
While treating Glioblastoma multiforme, a rapidly-progressive brain cancer with an average survival of less than a year, doctors traditionally conduct biopsies of the patient’s tumor to asse…
ISEF · 2022
Embedded Systems
Irrefutable environmental changes have been recorded in recent years evidenced by increased cyclonic activity and changes in ocean temperatures. This causes the need for improved and efficie…
ISEF · 2022
Chemistry
Infinitely many metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) can be made by combining nodes and organic linkers. As of now, 90,000 MOFs have been successfully synthesized and over 500,000 predicted.The p…
ISEF · 2022
Physics and Astronomy
A geomagnetic storm is a disturbance of Earth’s magnetic fields caused by solar wind plasma and interplanetary magnetic field (IMF). Even a moderate storm can lead to satellite loss, such as…
AJAS · 2022
Computer Science
The world population is expected to increase by 2 billion by 2050. A person dies of hunger every 3.6 seconds. The UN has come up with a list of 17 goals to make the world a better place and…
AJAS · 2022
Microbiology
The Nora virus, a virus that infects fruit flies, was known to infect the species, Drosophila melanogaster. My research showed the virus to infect two other Drosophila species from different…
ISEF · 2022
Microbiology
This study was performed to determine the cross-species transmission of the Drosophila melanogaster Nora virus in other species of insects and the prevalence of Nora virus in native insect p…
ISEF · 2022
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
CRISPR/Cas9 is a revolutionary gene-editing technology that has been widely utilized in biology, biotechnology, and medicine. CRISPR/Cas9 editing outcomes depend on local DNA sequences at th…
AJAS · 2022
Medicine
The human gut harbors a dynamic population of microorganisms, including bacteria and viruses. The dominant gut microbial phyla are Firmicutes, Bacteroidetes, Actinobacteria, Proteobacteria,…
ISEF · 2022
Engineering Technology: Statics & Dynamics
Cubesats are very small spacecraft in low Earth orbit. If a cubesat has propulsion on board it probably uses non-renewable fuel sources. I have designed and am developing a more efficient pr…
JSHS · 2022
Type 2 diabetes (T2D) female patients have a higher risk of being diagnosed and have worse survival for breast cancer compared to non-diabetic females. Although the relationship between thes…
ISEF · 2022
Biomedical and Health Sciences Second Award
Hormonal breast cancer has a good prognosis compared to other breast cancer subtypes, however, ER-/PR+/HER2-, a hormonal breast cancer type, does not receive the benefits of hormonal therapy…
ISEF · 2022
Embedded Systems
First of all, a sensor captures your palm vein and logs your information. Second, a contactless thermometer measures your body temperature. Finally, the pump lifts the hand sanitizer and spr…
JSHS · 2022
Antibiotic resistance renders antimicrobial drugs - which had hitherto rescued innumerable lives from fatal bacterial infections - futile. It is imperative to prevent further evolution of mu…
ISEF · 2022
Cellular and Molecular Biology
Ovarian Cancer is the deadliest cancer among all of the gynecological malignancies, largely due to chemoresistance. Carboplatin is a widely accepted Platinum-based chemotherapy agent used fo…
ISEF · 2022
Materials Science
The objective was developing a biosorbent of heavy metals by upcycling Oreochromis niloticus fish scale waste (FSW) to mitigate the toxic, synergistic interactions of heavy metals and microp…
JSHS · 2022
The COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated plastic pollution with the rise in PPE and single-use plastic consumption amplifying our plastic dependence and adding more plastic to our oversaturated…
ISEF · 2022
Cellular and Molecular Biology
Lead nanoparticles (PbNPs) in industrial areas pose a potential risk to organisms, therefore it is necessary to study the effects of their chronic inhalation. This project aimed to analyze t…
ISEF · 2022
Earth and Environmental Sciences
The purpose of this project was to determine if surface runoffs are harmful to Daphnia Magna by measuring the heart rates of Daphnia before and after exposure to the surface runoffs. Five di…
ISEF · 2022
Earth and Environmental Sciences
The investigation was centred around a field study conducted at the Mindil Beach Mangrove ecosystem. A transect line and quadrat surveying along the line were utilized to analyze the abiotic…
ISEF · 2022
Materials Science
Supercapacitors are gaining importance in energy storage applications due to their portability, long cycle lifetime, high energy density, and power density. The purpose of this project is to…
ISEF · 2022
Engineering Technology: Statics & Dynamics Third Award
According to the World Health Organization, over 1.3 million people are killed each year in road traffic crashes worldwide. Autonomous vehicles have the potential to solve these issues and a…
AJAS · 2022
Environmental Science
Species inhabiting urban waterways face numerous threats including water pollution, invasive species, and habitat alteration. While virtually all water bodies are at risk of significant huma…
ISEF · 2022
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics Fourth Award
Aging studies can sustain longer lives with reduced periods of disability, and genetics is a powerful tool for understanding the underlying mechanisms of aging. As part of the complicated ag…
ISEF · 2022
Behavioral and Social Sciences Second Award
Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is a prevalent form of acquired injury that can lead to permanent disabilities and increased mortality. 90% of all TBI patients suffer visual impairment resultin…
ISEF · 2022
Microbiology Second Award
Soil MPs pollution intensifies rapidly, posing large negative impact on agriculture. Previously used MPs decomposing strains such as Citrobacter sp. were identified as low in efficiency. Thi…
ISEF · 2022
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Deepfakes are a new machine learning technology that allow users to place the face of one person in an image onto the head of a person in another. They pose a large cybersecurity risk becaus…
ISEF · 2022
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Autoimmune blistering diseases (AIBDs) are rare, chronic disorders of the skin and mucous membranes, with a broad set of clinical manifestations. Considering that 1) diagnosis of AIBDs is a…