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 · 2014
Environmental Engineering Second Award
Adsorption of bivalent heavy metal ions from polluted water was studied using dried powdered banana peels and banana peel pyrolyzed at 500°C and 600°C. The results were compared with adsorpt…
ISEF · 2014
Materials Science
HER2-positive breast cancer is characterized by an overexpression of HER2, a growth receptor protein, on the surface of the cancer cell, which increases the rate of cell growth and replicati…
ISEF · 2014
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Transcribing music is a difficult and time consuming task. Currently, no commercial software has been released to transcribe music automatically. The goal of this continuation project was to…
ISEF · 2014
Microbiology Second Award
Biofilms infections show increased antibiotic resistance thus necessitating the search for novel therapeutics. Bordetella pertussis biofilm infections, or whooping cough, have resurged globa…
CSEF · 2014
Plant Biology
Objectives/Goals The objective of the project is to develop conditions that can be used to identify C. reinhardtii individuals that are unable to export fatty acids from the plastid to the e…
CSEF · 2014
Chemistry
Objectives/Goals In an effort to fight vitamin A deficiency, a leading cause of morbidity and mortality in Africa, South America, and Southeast Asia, HarvestPlus and BioCassavaPlus have biof…
CSEF · 2014
Electronics & Electromagnetics Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals With the ever increasing influence of technology on our lives and the use of devices to augment our everyday actions, the integration of man and machine has already begun. O…
ISEF · 2014
Systems Software
Agrobacterium tumefaciens causes the neoplastic ‘Crown Gall Tumor’ disease on most plants. The bacterium infects plants at a wound site and transfers a piece of DNA to a plant cell. The tran…
ISEF · 2014
Biomedical and Health Sciences
This experiment aimed to determine the effects of artificial night lighting on the life cycle of butterflies. Painted lady butterflies, Vanessa cardui, were exposed to various light sources…
ISEF · 2014
Materials Science
Breast cancer is the second only to lung cancer as a cause of cancer deaths in American women and causes around 400,000 deaths per year worldwide. The primary screening tool for breast cance…
ISEF · 2014
Energy: Physical
The research deals with a problem of an increasing lability of regulatory mechanism of brain, which is solved by opening an indirect access link by means of automated detection of REM sleep…
ISEF · 2014
Energy: Chemical Fourth Award
Solution mining at the I&W Brine Well Site in Carlsbad, New Mexico has produced a large underground cavity that could result in a catastrophic sinkhole-inducing collapse. A church, feed stor…
ISEF · 2014
Plant Sciences
Several studies have attempted to model territory establishment by small animals. However, verification of these models is often difficult by insufficient data. The small crab, Uca lactea, w…
ISEF · 2014
Mathematics
This project consisted of the design and creation of a system for prescribers to provide medication instructions to patients via translation, visual representation, and audio in order to rep…
ISEF · 2014
Energy: Chemical Fourth Award
Parkinson’s disease is a chronic progressive degenerative neuro-disease. About 90% of patients with Parkinson’s disease die within 15 years. Since its symptoms become worse as time passes an…
ISEF · 2014
Mathematics Third Award
The effect of concussions on brain wave patterns was studied with a novel prototype device, incorporating a simple electroencephalography (EEG) headset, to assess its potential for concussio…
ISEF · 2014
Mathematics
Infections due to polymers in implants (catheters, prosthetics, etc.) remain a constant threat to public health, as implant-derived infections make up 50% of all nosocomial infections and co…
ISEF · 2014
Mathematics Third Award
Lymphosarcoma (LSA) is the most common malignant neoplasia in dogs. BIN1 is a 20 exon, ubiquitous membrane-associated protein that, in cancer cells, is alternatively transcribed to include e…
CSEF · 2014
Pharmacology/ Toxicology First Award
Objectives/Goals Drug discovery requires approximately 13 years of research and $1 billion to introduce a new treatment for patients. Combination therapy is promising, but current trial-and-…
ISEF · 2014
Earth and Environmental Sciences First Award
A pencil doppler is the primary tool used in detection of devastating vascular tissue transfer-related ailments through analysis of vascular flow. However, the doppler is ineffective because…
CSEF · 2014
Environmental Science
Objectives/Goals Over 100,000 wildfires burn between 4 to 5 million acres across the United States every year. Wildfires cause over $800 million worth of damage in California every year. Wha…
ISEF · 2014
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
To separate and identify metallic ions, precipitation and filtration should be repeated. Furthermore, many kinds of reagents should be used and operations are complicated. A new method for s…
ISEF · 2014
Energy: Chemical Third Award
Thousands of humans have lost their lives while trying to protect others in settings such as nuclear waste disposal, biohazard control, and natural disaster reconnaissance. The purpose of th…
ISEF · 2014
Plant Sciences Fourth Award
Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is a disease destroying humanity. Researches suggest that the aggregation of misfolded beta-amyloid is responsible for Alzheimer’s disease. pi-Stacking, the key forc…
ISEF · 2014
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
New emergency power sources are continually being sought, particularly for use during natural disasters when power supplies are interrupted. Luminescent bacteria are currently widely used fo…
ISEF · 2014
Energy: Chemical
The reason for choosing the research topic: The fact that normal electricity generators use much fuel and cause great pollution. The importance of the research: Producing low cost electricit…
ISEF · 2014
Engineering Mechanics Second Award
Three years have passed since the Great East Japan Earthquake. In light of the nuclear power plant accident that occurred in its aftermath, the importance of developing environmentally benig…
ISEF · 2014
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
The purpose of this study was to develop an in vitro multispecies biofilm that had more resemblance to the human oral biofilm than the models that were previously in use. It was hypothesized…
ISEF · 2014
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
MicroRNAs, an abundant class of small non-coding RNAs (ncRNAs) that regulate gene expression at the post-transcriptional level, have emerged as integral components of the oncogenic and tumor…
ISEF · 2014
Mathematics
Pollen allergy has remained an important cause of severe allergy worldwide. While skin prick test is a gold standard for investigating allergies, however it is not practical in some patients…