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 · 2018
Chemistry Fourth Award
Cancer remains a pervasive and ominous threat as the second leading cause of death in the United States, accounting for one in four fatalities. The survival and proliferation of tumors in ca…
ISEF · 2018
Plant Sciences Third Award
With increasing populations and rising global temperatures, the need for a new agricultural revolution is imperative. The objective of this project was to find a sustainable and economical a…
CSEF · 2018
Mathematical Sciences
Objectives/Goals The objective was to create a program, called Cybian, to detect cyberbullying in social media content based on a set of algorithms to (i) classify the sender, (ii) evaluate…
ISEF · 2018
Translational Medical Science
Rambutan fruit is a local fruit that can be found abundantly in Malaysia. The skin of rambutan has been reported to possess few phyto-constituents that has anti-cancer properties. Hence, the…
ISEF · 2018
Translational Medical Science
Lung cancer is the second most common cancer and accounts for 1 in 4 cancer deaths. Sulindac is an FDA approved anti-inflammatory drug. Metformin is an anti-diabetes drug which is also FDA a…
CSEF · 2018
Zoology
Objectives/Goals The Danaus plexippus (Monarch butterfly) is on the verge of gaining protection from the Endangered Species Act. In this investigation I wanted to learn if people could make…
ISEF · 2018
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
I used Big Data (> 2.3 million records) to identify predictors of peripheral neuropathy (PN). PN costs the U.S. over 10 billion annually, so predicting factors may lead to large cost savings…
CSEF · 2018
Computational Systems & Analysis
Objectives/Goals In recent years, drone technology has had large advancements. Now that drones have gone from expensive to less expensive and more available to the public, this technology ca…
CSEF · 2018
Environmental Engineering
Objectives/Goals Bee populations are declining rapidly. In the last year we had a bee loss of over 32%! Because bees pollinate every 1 in 3 bites we eat, I set out to find a method of effici…
ISEF · 2018
Mathematics
This project demonstrated the problem of deconstructing graphical models is polynomial time solvable, with an O(mn^r+3 + nr) algorithm. The execution was split into two parts: one involving…
CSEF · 2018
Microbiology (General) Third Award
Objectives/Goals Previous studies of microbiome metagenomic datasets have relied on linear models (PCA, SVM, and RF, etc) and known species and biomarkers in reference databases and ignored…
CSEF · 2018
Mathematical Sciences Fourth Award
Objectives/Goals The goal of this project was to create an algorithm that could effectively maneuver an autonomous robot by analyzing the video stream from a camera. The camera, mounted on a…
ISEF · 2018
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Autism spectrum disorder is a heritable, developmental disorder affecting 1 in 68 children in the United States. Development of a more definitive diagnostic method is especially critical for…
ISEF · 2018
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Breast cancer is currently the second leading cause of death among American women even though breast cancer mortality rates have decreased by 36% since 1989-2012. This decline has often been…
ISEF · 2018
Systems Software
The objective of our BerriVest device is to accurately do object detection by alerting the user of frontal obstacles and uneven surfaces and image processing, by specifically naming the obst…
CSEF · 2018
Computational Systems & Analysis
Objectives/Goals The objective of our BerriVest device is to accurately do object detection by alerting the user of frontal obstacles and uneven surfaces and image processing, by specificall…
ISEF · 2018
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Estimating the future course of cancer is invaluable to physicians; however, current clinical methods fail to effectively use the vast amount of multimodal data available. To tackle this pro…
CSEF · 2018
Computational Systems & Analysis
Objectives/Goals The multiple sleep latency test (MSLT) is the current gold standard for diagnosing primary central nervous system hypersomnias. While existing thresholds for defining a posi…
AJAS · 2018
Microbiology (inferred)
Acquired antibiotic resistance is making human diseases that were once easy to treat very dangerous and deadly. We were interested in whether bacteria exposed to low levels of an antibiotic…
ISEF · 2018
Materials Science
Localized surface plasmon resonances in metal nanoparticles generate intense localized heat, which can be used to catalyze reactions. This study aims to use plasmonic silver nanoparticles to…
ISEF · 2018
Plant Sciences Fourth Award
Creeping woodsorrel or Oxalis corniculata is the perennial plant with a slender primary root. The leaf is composed of 3 leaflets. The fruit itself consists of green cylindrical capsules whic…
ISEF · 2018
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Alzheimer's affects about 70-80% of all dementia patients around the world. This neuroimaging study is aimed to examine the various numerical and quantifiable differences in volumetric measu…
ISEF · 2018
Robotics and Intelligent Machines Third Award
Convolutional neural networks (CNN) are traditionally used in computer vision, but have recently gained traction as sequential models. In this paper two improvements to temporal convolutiona…
CSEF · 2018
Physics & Astronomy
Objectives/Goals This experiment is to test how temperature affects the density of various liquids through a measure of buoyancy. We predict that while most liquids have a predictable rate o…
ISEF · 2018
Environmental Engineering
There is an acute shortage of accessible freshwater. Desalination can create freshwater from seawater, but current techniques are expensive and require energy and maintenance. This research,…
ISEF · 2018
Energy: Physical Second Award
The leading sources of energy globally are oil, coal, and natural gas - fossil fuels that can be depleted, and whose access and use greatly impact the environment. Hence, much study has been…
AJAS · 2018
Biomedical Engineering (inferred)
Strain sensors undergo a piezoresistive effect in which mechanical deformations result in a change in electrical resistance. Recent advances in stretchable strain sensors using deposits of n…
ISEF · 2018
Biomedical Engineering Fourth Award
The study’s first objective is to analyze and improve movement range of a new hip prosthesis design using a gimbal or universal joint. A second objective is to determine load-carrying capaci…
CSEF · 2018
Applied Mechanics & Structures Third Award
Objectives/Goals Conventional ball-and-socket hip prostheses suffer from challenges that include painful dislocation requiring surgical revision, material wear, and bio-contamination from we…
ISEF · 2018
Physics and Astronomy
The gravitational behavior of antimatter has never been conclusively determined through experimentation and thereby has long remained elusive to the field of physics. Various experiments hav…