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 · 2007
Mammalian Biology
Objectives/Goals In this experiment mice were tested to see if it is true that they prefer to stay next to walls rather than be in an open uncharted area. Research shows that mice are noctur…
CSEF · 2007
Materials Science (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals The problem trying to be solved is whether or not antibacterial affects the rust on iron nails. I think the nails with the different amounts of antibacterial will rust slowe…
CSEF · 2007
Plant Biology
Objectives/Goals My objective is to demonstrate the benefit of the presence of earthworms to plants. I believe that plants exposed to earthworms will grow better than plants without earthwor…
CSEF · 2007
Plant Biology
Objectives/Goals My objective was to determine if adding mycorrhizal fungi to the soil at the time of planting alfalfa seed would cause a young seedling alfalfa plant to grow more root mass…
CSEF · 2007
Product Science (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals I chose the science project that I did because I have always been interested in building with wood and using it. I figured that if I started doing tests on wood that I might…
CSEF · 2007
Product Science (Junior Division Only) First Award
Objectives/Goals I conducted this experiment to determine whether natural or pharmaceutical antibiotics would be better at preventing antibiotic resistance from occurring within E. coli stra…
CSEF · 2007
Aerodynamics/ Hydrodynamics (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals The objective of this project was to determine what speed a car gets the best gas mileage. The second objective was to determine if a cargo rack on top of the car as well as…
CSEF · 2007
Electronics & Electromagnetics
Objectives/Goals How does the construction of a magnetic clock affect its efficiency in comparison to a battery operated clock? Methods/Materials I used a mechanical pendulum clock, 2 bar ma…
CSEF · 2007
Environmental Science (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals My objective was to see if the pH is different for different beaches along the Pacific Coast. Methods/Materials I went to different beaches along the Pacific Coast. There I…
CSEF · 2007
Electronics & Electromagnetics
Objectives/Goals Ocean waves have huge amounts of energy that can be converted to electrical energy. We wanted to find the best method of converting this energy to electricity and determine…
CSEF · 2007
Environmental Engineering
Objectives/Goals The objective of my project was to see how much oil soil samples absorbed, and if the absorption rate differed over a course of five days. I also wanted to investigate if th…
CSEF · 2007
Chemistry
Objectives/Goals The objective of this project was to see which soda reacts the highest and quickest shen two cinnamon mentos are added. our hypothesis is that Mountain Dew would react the h…
CSEF · 2007
Biochemistry/ Molecular Biology
Objectives/Goals For my science fair project I want to test the affect of which foods raise your blood sugar the fastest. I found this interesting because my dad was recently diagnosed as a…
CSEF · 2007
Physics & Astronomy First Award
Objectives/Goals The Leidenfrost phenomenon occurs when a liquid in contact with a sufficiently hot mass produces an insulating vapor layer which supports the liquid itself. However the pres…
CSEF · 2007
Physics & Astronomy Second Award
Objectives/Goals Astronomical observations suggest that there is an immense amount of matter in the universe that is invisible and seemingly undetectable. This invisible matter is known as d…
CSEF · 2007
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only) Fourth Award
Objectives/Goals The objective was to determine if age and gender would make a difference in decoding hidden images in optical illusions. This is important because if perception is affected…
CSEF · 2007
Biochemistry/ Molecular Biology
Objectives/Goals The purpose of this study was to test the pH of orange juice and to determine if it is more acidic than my other favorite beverages. My goal is to learn about the stomach an…
CSEF · 2007
Zoology Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals The objective of the project was to see if there is a substantial difference on the fruit fly (Drosophila melanogaster) reproduction when they eat only organic or non-organi…
CSEF · 2007
Physics & Astronomy Second Award
Objectives/Goals The scientific problem is "Can sunspots be used to track and measure the sun's rotation rate and how accurately can they do so?" In this experimental project sunspots were e…
CSEF · 2007
Plant Biology Second Award
Objectives/Goals This experiment explored the effects of increased intensities of UV radiation on two primary groups of chromophores in a plant. Methods/Materials After the plants were grown…
CSEF · 2007
Product Science (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals My objective is to determine which marker possesses the strongest bonding ink, a characteristic measured by paper chromatography (strength indicated by the retention factor)…
CSEF · 2007
Materials Science (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals Our project was designed to determine which type of grocery bag was better for the environment, more cost effective, stronger, and requested the most, paper or plastic. Meth…
CSEF · 2007
Mathematics & Software
Objectives/Goals The initial idea was to determine if Pascal's Triangle could be created in 3- dimensions, & if so, to discover the underlying formula, any specific patterns for the 3-D vers…
CSEF · 2007
Behavioral & Social Sciences First Award
Objectives/Goals This study evaluated whether pharmacy patient medication information (PMI) sheets effectively communicate pharmaceutical safety information. Pharmacies rely on PMI sheets to…
CSEF · 2007
Electronics & Electromagnetics
Objectives/Goals Our two goals for this project were to: (1) figure out a new idea for creating power and (2) to make power from just a battery, an alternator and a bicycle. We wanted to see…
CSEF · 2007
Behavioral & Social Sciences Fourth Award
Objectives/Goals Due to pressure from peers and images from the media, youths and adolescents are striving for thinness beyond the normal limits. Correct perceptions of body weight for middl…
CSEF · 2007
Earth & Planetary Sciences Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals The Sunda megathrust fault off the west coast of Sumatra, Indonesia has experienced big earthquakes in recent history. The section of the megathrust south of these ruptures,…
CSEF · 2007
Environmental Engineering Third Award
Objectives/Goals The objective of my experiment was to determine an economical and efficient method of EDB/DBCP removal in an acute situation of EDB/DBCP contamination by analyzing the chemi…
CSEF · 2007
Materials Science (Junior Division Only) Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals Which light source will cause dyes to fade the most? This information can be used to determine how to display and preserve important documents, historic artifacts, priceless…
CSEF · 2007
Plant Biology
Objectives/Goals My objective was to find out whether or not the rate of phtosynthesis changed as light intensity was increased or decreased. Methods/Materials I used a jar, for the airtight…