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 · 2017
Materials Science Fourth Award
This project explores how wastes of glass, rubber and plastic polymers can be combined together to obtain a composite material that is resistant to squeezing, tearing or fragility. Wastes, s…
ISEF · 2017
Systems Software
Every year, NBA draft picks are wasted on seemingly generational talent. Front office executives enamor the raw talent that some players exhibit and inaccurately evaluate their draft stock -…
ISEF · 2017
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Unlike homogeneous cellular bodies, cancer is best understood as a diverse community of heterogeneous cells that interacts through complex ecological interactions. Intratumor interactions, s…
ISEF · 2017
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Safe, effective, and reliable gene therapy has been heralded as the future of medicine in the 21st century. Technologies for editing and regulating genes based on the CRISPR/Cas9 system have…
ISEF · 2017
Materials Science
How to obtain an organic additive with an endemic and abundant material in the region? The use of organic compounds as an alternative to decrease the application of chemical compounds which…
AJAS · 2017
Environmental Engineering (inferred)
Impoverished countries are being negatively affected by the harmful contents of exported waste, specifically electronic waste, from wealthy countries. Printed circuit boards are a major cont…
CSEF · 2017
Mathematical Sciences
Objectives/Goals The goal of this study was to find a better way to determine all Pythagorean Triples, and test them using computer code written using these equations. Current methods to det…
ISEF · 2017
Embedded Systems
The water wasting is a worldwide problem and, specifically in Brazil, it reachs 166,3 liters a person per day, while recommendation of the United Nations Organization is about 110 liters a p…
CSEF · 2017
Physics & Astronomy
Objectives/Goals The objective of this project is to determine the efficacy of four methods of preliminary orbit determination (those of Olbers, Gauss, Herget and Laplace) under differing ob…
ISEF · 2017
Environmental Engineering Fourth Award
This project explores the air purification properties of various indoor landscaping plants (Sansevieria trifasciata, Spathiphyllum wallisii and Epipremnum aureum), to remove pollutants such…
CSEF · 2017
Alternative Energy (Junior Division Only) First Award
Objectives/Goals The objective of this experiment is to determine whether a solar panel which follows the sun using a passive mechanism can compare favorably to a solar panel with active sun…
ISEF · 2017
Biomedical and Health Sciences
The focus of the study was to examine possible effects of genetics and external factors on teenagers’ tendency to choose one sport over another. Trainability of athletes, familial influence,…
CSEF · 2017
Environmental Engineering
Objectives/Goals Are light weight, or absorbent materials more effective to prevent flood rain water damage than traditional heavy sandbags? Methods/Materials Hurricane tape, Sponges, Pipe i…
ISEF · 2017
Systems Software
Purpose: To investigate more efficient school bus routing techniques and the possibility of dynamically generating school bus routes using a genetic algorithm and other metaheuristics. Proce…
ISEF · 2017
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
This work proposes a generative architecture that incorporates a natural approach to data synthesis. The Adaptive Variational Memory Encoding (AVME) model learns to represent data in an iter…
ISEF · 2017
Systems Software First Award
Python's list.sort() is uses an extremely sophisticated and highly tuned algorithm, designed to minimize the number of comparisons necessary to sort lists with real-world structure. However,…
CSEF · 2017
Environmental Engineering
Objectives/Goals The objective of this study is to understand which super absorbent polymer worked best in adding structure to water. The idea is that a wall of water would be a better appli…
ISEF · 2017
Environmental Engineering Second Award
With over a billion people affected by lack of access to freshwater, desalination is an important avenue to ameliorate this crisis. Prior research by the author demonstrated the feasibility…
CSEF · 2017
Mathematical Sciences
Objectives/Goals The goal of this project was to use a deep learning based fully convolutional neural network (FCN) for pixel level gland segmentation of cancer images, and test the ability…
AJAS · 2017
Almost every year a disastrous oil spill occurs detrimentally affecting both the environment and consumers who purchase oil for many years, even decades afterward. So far, the estimated reco…
CSEF · 2017
Materials Science (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals The objective is testing the effects of different dielectric materials on capacitance by building capacitors with different materials and physical dimensions. Tests were don…
CSEF · 2017
Materials Science (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals The purpose of this experiment is to determine how drivers are exposed to UV light, and whether any characteristics of the vehicles can predict how much UV light they will b…
ISEF · 2017
Energy: Chemical
The goal of this research was to develop an efficient, portable and cheap MFC that utilizes untreated bacteria, found in natural resources, as an energy source. The electrode and carbon spon…
ISEF · 2017
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Observing and analyzing a microbial population change is very important in many biological and medical experiments. Mostly, people count the number of microbes with their own eyes by observi…
ISEF · 2017
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Microarray technologies are used to understand the driving forces in genomics and proteomics through high-throughput measurements of interactions among DNA, RNA, peptides, and proteins. Univ…
ISEF · 2017
Environmental Engineering
The purpose of experimentation was to determine the inhibitory effects of the cis form of 1,2-Dichloroethene (cis-DCE), a widespread toxic chlorinated solvent contaminant, on the growth of t…
CSEF · 2017
Mathematical Sciences
Objectives/Goals In a real world situation, members of different organizations often need to travel to multiple destinations without passing through the same place twice. However, identifyin…
ISEF · 2017
Mathematics
The purpose of this paper is to introduce the reader several unusual areas of mathematics that not many people are aware of. The principles of Latin squares, projective and affine planes can…
ISEF · 2017
Biomedical Engineering Third Award
RNA-based infectious diseases have been sources of large-scale epidemics and pandemics resulting in millions of casualties worldwide. Detection of these biological agents normally involves m…
CSEF · 2017
Biochemistry/ Molecular Biology First Award
Objectives/Goals RNA analysis requires multiple lab processes and manual handling that is tedious, expensive, and susceptible to cross-contamination. The goal of this project is to develop a…