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
Electronics & Electromagnetics
Objectives/Goals When people lie, their skin resistance can increase due to the release of sweat. This response can be used to build a lie detector. My science project titled, #An Accurate L…
CSEF · 2013
Aerodynamics/ Hydrodynamics (Junior Division Only) First Award
Objectives/Goals The first objective of this study was to build a home-made wind tunnel and to perform meaningful quantitative analysis of the lift and drag performance of airfoils. Also, to…
CSEF · 2013
Environmental Science Fourth Award
Objectives/Goals Salt marshes are an important ecosystem, providing services to many species, but are declining due to factors such as global warming and pollution. This investigation attemp…
CSEF · 2013
Biochemistry/ Molecular Biology
Objectives/Goals My objective was to find if peaks of divergence between the two subspecies of Swainson's Thrush were randomly distributed in the genome. Then, I could determine if certain r…
CSEF · 2013
Environmental Science
Objectives/Goals The objective is to analyze if CO2 or solar activity has more influence on the Earth's increasing surface temperatures. I conducted an experiment to determine the effect of…
CSEF · 2013
Environmental Science
Objectives/Goals This experiment was conducted to determine the effects of urban runoff on the water quality of Sycamore Canyon Creek. If the tests of various water quality components indica…
CSEF · 2013
Zoology Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals My objective is to discover if Siamese Fighting Fish (Betta splendens) have the spatial cognitive ability to learn a multiple T-maze. Methods/Materials A multiple T-maze was…
CSEF · 2013
Environmental Engineering (Junior Division Only) First Award
Objectives/Goals The experiment was to determine and measure the effect of banana peels on water containing copper ions. My hypothesis was that the banana peels would decrease the amount of…
CSEF · 2013
Earth & Planetary Sciences First Award
Objectives/Goals The Ediacara Biota are the Earth's oldest macroscopic organisms. They lived 575-545 million years ago and are globally distributed. Scientists excavate fossil beds in order…
CSEF · 2013
Biochemistry/ Molecular Biology
Objectives/Goals The purpose of this project was to develop a new cheaper, efficient, and effective way of introducing recombinant DNA into viral cells. In this project, Cowpea Chloric Mottl…
CSEF · 2013
Biochemistry/ Molecular Biology Second Award
Objectives/Goals Biosensors employing fluorescence resonance energy transfer (FRET) between fluorescent proteins (FPs) are powerful tools for non-invasively monitoring intracellular processe…
CSEF · 2013
Electronics & Electromagnetics
Objectives/Goals This project investigates the effect of antenna height, receive antenna on human body, and path distance on the loss of wireless signal power in order to systematically deve…
CSEF · 2013
Earth & Planetary Sciences
Objectives/Goals The objective is to determine if air movements across the surface of a body of water have a greater influence on the development of water currents that form "trash islands"…
CSEF · 2013
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals According to Nobel laureate Daniel Kahneman, there are two methods of thinking: System 1 (intuitive) and System 2 (rational). When an individual is stressed, they are less a…
CSEF · 2013
Mathematics & Software
Objectives/Goals This research seeks to examine the characteristics and traits of shapes of unvarying heights regardless the orientation. Through simple proofs using geometric/trigonometric…
CSEF · 2013
Electronics & Electromagnetics Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals Our goal is to build a multi-touch computer interface that combines both the powerful processing power of a modern day computer and effective interface of a touch screen dev…
CSEF · 2013
Product Science (Biological) (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals The objective is to determine the various Vitamin C levels in differing orange juice samples (bottled orange juice, frozen orange juice, and freshly squeezed orange juice),…
CSEF · 2013
Applied Mechanics & Structures
Objectives/Goals 1.) To design a method to "print" vortices, on physical permanent medium, like the Richter Scale recording earthquake activities, could facilitate comparison and historical…
CSEF · 2013
Mathematics & Software Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals The objective of this project is to derive a mathematical model for describing multi-substrate enzyme kinetics, particularly focusing on the harmful degradation of the tumor…
CSEF · 2013
Alternative Energy (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals The objective of this experiment is to determine if home solar panel electric output can be increased without using any extra energy. This is tested by using a unique method…
CSEF · 2013
Electronics & Electromagnetics
Objectives/Goals The Voice Coil Motor is a miniature autofocus component widely used in cellular phones and tablets, with yearly shipment close to 1 billion units. However, the VCM has two m…
CSEF · 2013
Microbiology (General) Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals The first objective of this project is to determine the exact structure of the protein complex that comprises the T4 bacteriophage's molecular motor. The second objective is…
CSEF · 2013
Mammalian Biology Fourth Award
Objectives/Goals Rhabdomyosarcoma (RMS) is the most common soft tissue sarcoma, and 5-year survival rates for children have remained at 20% despite efforts to uncover chemotherapeutic agents…
CSEF · 2013
Microbiology (General) Third Award
Objectives/Goals Biofilms are strong bacterial communities that adhere to surfaces due to certain gene expressions in reaction to the environment. They are 1000 fold more resistant to antibi…
CSEF · 2013
Pharmacology/ Toxicology Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals $200 million. That is the annual costs pests like the Screwworm fly gifts to the US agricultural industry, by infecting cattle, destroying crops, and proliferating, producin…
CSEF · 2013
Microbiology (Medical) (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals Our project is about the antibiotic properties of a bacterium carried by the Black Desert Harvester Ant (Messor pergandei). In a previous test, we determined that this speci…
CSEF · 2013
Applied Mechanics & Structures
Objectives/Goals The objective was to find an easier, more effective way to form a stable antibubble. Methods/Materials Room temperature carbonated water, distilled water, beer, and corn oil…
CSEF · 2013
Microbiology (Medical) (Junior Division Only) First Award
Objectives/Goals The objective is to determine if a Cownose rays epidermal mucus will inhibit three types of bacteria: Micrococcus luteus, Staphylococci epidermidis, and Escherichia coli. If…
CSEF · 2013
Microbiology (Medical) (Junior Division Only) Third Award
Objectives/Goals In this project, the antimicrobial effectiveness of cinnamon oil and the antimicrobial effectiveness of clove oil were tested against the Gram-negative Escherichia coli. The…
CSEF · 2013
Plant Biology
Objectives/Goals This is a two year research project that is focused on the antibacterial properties in plants.This time, we are trying to identify the specific compound Oxalis pes-caprae pr…