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 · 2013
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals The objective of this project is to find out whether a person who speaks more than one language can learn another language more easily than someone who only speaks one langu…
CSEF · 2013
Pharmacology/ Toxicology First Award
Objectives/Goals Alzheimer's disease is a neurological degenerative disease projected to affect 13.2 million people by 2050. The many observed causes of Alzheimer's, varying from tau aggrega…
CSEF · 2013
Applied Mechanics & Structures
Objectives/Goals The purpose of this project is to see if pulleys or multiple pulleys can actually make an object feel lighter than it really is. Methods/Materials A pulley system was constr…
CSEF · 2013
Mammalian Biology
Objectives/Goals Hidradenitis Suppurativa (HS) is a debilitating chronic skin disease marked by large, painful cysts. There is very little research being conducted on HS (1% prevalence yet n…
CSEF · 2013
Microbiology (General) Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals Arsenic, a poison found in water, exists in environment in mainly two states: arsenite (carcinogenic and water-soluble) and arsenate (easily removed from water), with arseni…
CSEF · 2013
Chemistry
Objectives/Goals This project was to determine if photoelectrochemical etching ("photoetching") would successfully increase surface area of thin films by increasing nanoporosity. Methods/Mat…
CSEF · 2013
Biochemistry/ Molecular Biology
Objectives/Goals In the US, there are over 12 million people that live with cancer, but in about 90% of these cases, most patients die from the metastasis of the primary tumor. Detecting a m…
CSEF · 2013
Pharmacology/ Toxicology
Objectives/Goals The problem of our experiment is to test and find out if there is an effective way to kill ordinary insects without harming the environment like DDT. Since DDT has been used…
CSEF · 2013
Pharmacology/ Toxicology
Objectives/Goals The goal of my project is to show that even though we live in an age where most ways of treating harmful organisms are chemical, such as bleach or pesticides, there are stil…
CSEF · 2013
Product Science (Biological) (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals My objective was to determine if ginger would be a good natural preservative for home baked bread and its optimal storage condition. Methods/Materials Method: I baked 5 diff…
CSEF · 2013
Microbiology (General) Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals Physarum polycephalum is a simple slime mold that crawls over agar and sends out pseudopodia, long projections, searching for food. Physarum can also navigate by leaving beh…
CSEF · 2013
Mathematics & Software
Objectives/Goals Although there are many well-known sets of intransitive dice, there are very few published methods for generating these sets, and very little published work that explains wh…
CSEF · 2013
Microbiology (General) Third Award
Objectives/Goals The main objective of this project is to investigate the effects of nitrate on aquatic microorganisms, such as plankton. Methods/Materials We built plankton net to collect p…
CSEF · 2013
Zoology
Objectives/Goals My objective was to assess whether or not seagull behavior would be modified as a result of the presence of a falcon. My goal was to determine if the presence of a 'bird of…
CSEF · 2013
Mathematics & Software
Objectives/Goals Travel time is a crucial factor for the California high speed rail (HSR) project to be successful. It must be significantly faster than car, and comparable to air travel tim…
CSEF · 2013
Physics & Astronomy
Objectives/Goals The objective of my experiment was to determine which direction a house faces will absorb the most heat from the sun and record the highest temperature. Methods/Materials Fo…
CSEF · 2013
Physics & Astronomy
Objectives/Goals To see if expensive sunscreens with high SPFS are better than inexpensive sunscreens with low SPFs. Methods/Materials Materials: Different brands of sunscreen, Saran wrap, 2…
CSEF · 2013
Chemistry
Objectives/Goals Goal: To produce metal nanoparticles using plant material and test viability of the nanoparticles for Surface Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy (SERS). Challenge: Nanotechnology i…
CSEF · 2013
Biochemistry/ Molecular Biology Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals In the perpetual fight against disease, it is vital for immunologists and computational biologists to retrieve and process information quickly and efficiently. While the gro…
CSEF · 2013
Pharmacology/ Toxicology
Objectives/Goals My project was to determine the effect of a minor source of radiation(thorium containing lantern mantles) on plant growth. I hypothesized that the plants exposed to radiatio…
CSEF · 2013
Environmental Science
Objectives/Goals Stakeholders interested in preserving native plant communities do much to restore degraded habitats. They encourage us to employ native plants in our gardens because every s…
CSEF · 2013
Environmental Science
Objectives/Goals My objective was to determine whether or not mussels shells are affected by relative acidification of their environment in order to collect more information about effects of…
CSEF · 2013
Environmental Science
Objectives/Goals Ocean acidification is the process of CO2 in the atmosphere reacting to ocean water to create carbonic acid, which then lower the pH of the water and results in the dissolut…
CSEF · 2013
Aerodynamics/ Hydrodynamics (Junior Division Only) Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals The objective of my experiment was to determine the optimal blade angle for an ocean current turbine in different current speeds. I suspected that a 45° blade angle would pr…
CSEF · 2013
Earth & Planetary Sciences
Objectives/Goals Problem Statement: To test and discover where objects end up when there is a change in wind and direction of an ocean current. Hypothesis: I believe that the closest islands…
CSEF · 2013
Alternative Energy (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals My project was to determine if I could generate enough energy in my backyard, equivalent to my part of the electricity bill, using a solar panel, a wind generator and a biog…
CSEF · 2013
Physics & Astronomy
Objectives/Goals My project was to see which would evaporate water faster, wind or radiant heat. I believe that the wind will evaporate water faster because the wind blows the water molecule…
CSEF · 2013
Pharmacology/ Toxicology
Objectives/Goals The purpose of this project was to observe how motor oil effected aquatic plant life. It was originally hypothesized that the higher viscosity, as well as a 25 milliliter am…
CSEF · 2013
Mathematics & Software
Objectives/Goals The objective of my project is to apply modern programming paradigms to in-depth operating system design and development. Methods/Materials ~ A target architecture. The ARM…
CSEF · 2013
Product Science (Biological) (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals Antibacterial solutions, such as alcohol and the chemical triclosan, are found in hand sanitizers and antibacterial hand soaps. These chemicals are potentially dangerous to…