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 · 2015
The purpose of this project is to engineer E.coli to design an optimum biosensor for the detection of lead, cadmium, and zinc in heavy-metal contaminated water. This experiment works towards…
ISEF · 2015
Biomedical Engineering
Environmental DNA (eDNA) is a highly promising field of survey science that hasn't been fully explored on mammalian species. The river otter species (Lontra canadensis), is a prime candidate…
ISEF · 2015
Each year in America, an average of 38 children die as a result of heatstroke from being left in a hot car. Often times this is a result of the adult being distracted and forgetting about th…
ISEF · 2015
The growing industrialization in the last decade, has increased, on the one side, the acoustic pollution or noise that considerably affects human beings in their bio-phsyco-social aspect and…
CSEF · 2015
Physics & Astronomy
Objectives/Goals Detecting diabetes is performed using various methods: blood tests, urine test strips, lasers, and even contact lenses. Unfortunately, each method hold their own fault; unco…
ISEF · 2015
Systems Software Third Award
This research project details the development and implementation of a novel biosensor utilizing gold nanorods for the early stage detection of HER2-mediated breast cancer. Aspect ratio depen…
ISEF · 2015
The rapid evolution of viral species complicates the management of chronic infections and the control of emerging infectious agents. Especially for pathogens that are highly fatal upon infec…
ISEF · 2015
This experiment sought to discover whether a certain set of software techniques, including "string comparison", "bag of words", and "fingerprinting", were more effective than one another. Th…
CSEF · 2015
Chemistry
Objectives/Goals The objective of this research was to detect and quantify three heavy metals (cadmium, lead, and chromium) in dry dog foods in order to investigate if a heavy metal was pres…
ISEF · 2015
The association of Helicobacter pylori and gastric cancer has been scientifically established. IARC classified H. pylori as a Group 1 carcinogen in 1994, and reconfirmed it in 2009 (IARC 201…
CSEF · 2015
Mammalian Biology
Objectives/Goals Lung cancer is one of the leading causes of death in the US and worldwide. Despite multimillion-dollar research, the mortality rate continues to remain high. Most patients h…
ISEF · 2015
Biomedical Engineering
Candidatus Neoehrlichia mikurensis - This name was given to a bacterium first described in Japan in 2004. Five years later scientists in Zurich, Switzerland discovered its human pathogenicit…
ISEF · 2015
The nanometer scale researches turned out beyond satisfactory and became part of our life. Some of the difficulties that the researchers faced in nanotechnology are quantized resistance and…
ISEF · 2015
Inspired by the experiment which allowed Mr Hess, an Austrian physicist to discover the cosmic origin of what he called cosmic radiations, we sent an helium balloon equiped with a Geiger cou…
CSEF · 2015
Electronics & Electromagnetics
Objectives/Goals I take a lot of medications because of a health condition I have. Whenever I eat, I take capsules containing enzymes. Sometimes I used to drop them on the floor without real…
ISEF · 2015
Third Award
The present study is intended to investigate how the ethanol extract from the leaves of Heliotropium arborescens L., influences the growth of bacteria that cause respiratory tract infections…
CSEF · 2015
Microbiology (General) Fourth Award
Objectives/Goals This project's goal was to find the genes that contribute to Streptococcus Pyogenes' susceptibility to retinoic acid, the active form of Vitamin A. Methods/Materials A genet…
ISEF · 2015
The purpose of this experiment is to determine the maximum carpool potential for the upper school student body at Trinity School in Midland. Carpool potential could be defined as the maximum…
ISEF · 2015
Our purpose was to determine if falling numbers had any impact on germination rate in spring wheat and Kamut samples. Falling number is the internationally recognized standard for determinin…
ISEF · 2015
Emergence of antibiotic resistant bacteria is a major concern for human health. Identities of the resistant bacteria as well as mechanisms by which they become resistant to antibiotics are l…
CSEF · 2015
Physics & Astronomy
Objectives/Goals My project was to determine the color of light that has the most visibility in fog. I believed that yellow light would have the most visibility in fog. Methods/Materials I t…
CSEF · 2015
Mammalian Biology
Objectives/Goals Finger Dexterity is the skill of performing tasks, especially with your hands. Higher level of finger dexterity can be beneficial in areas such as music performance, dentist…
CSEF · 2015
Mammalian Biology
Objectives/Goals After playing sports or exercising, people slowly become exhausted and dehydrated, depending on the amount of water consumption pre-exercise. The purpose of our project is t…
CSEF · 2015
Product Science (Biological) (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals The objective of this project is to determine the best way to wash a pacifier to prevent babies from placing bacteria in their mouth. If parents are going to give a child a…
ISEF · 2015
For decades scientists have used an array of organic materials to produce environmentally friendly biofuel. But only recently has algae been introduced as a possible candidate for biofuel pr…
ISEF · 2015
Gramine, hordenine, and tannic acid are secondary metabolites found in animal fodder, such as reed canarygrass and sorghum, that can be toxic or detrimental to animals. However, these plant…
ISEF · 2015
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Speech is produced by a set of neurological and motor processes, known as speech motor programming. When regions of the brain controlling speech are damaged, speakers are not able to properl…
ISEF · 2015
Motor neuron degenerative diseases such as amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) currently have no cures and mostly unknown causes. For motor neurons to function properly, axon extension is ne…
ISEF · 2015
The goal of this research project is to analyze and to classify the Electrocardiograms (EKGs) of healthy and unhealthy patients through two novel methods. The first method consists of viewin…
ISEF · 2015
With the advent of Google’s automated cars, newer technology is being incorporated into the actual driving of vehicles. They possess the sensors and processing power necessary to perform the…