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 · 2019
Microbiology
Twelve multistate foodborne outbreaks recently occurred in the United States involving leafy greens. Salad vegetables are a potential threat to public health since they are consumed raw. Bac…
ISEF · 2019
Plant Sciences Fourth Award
Mutagenesis induces artificial genetic variation which allows breeders to discover the functions of genes previously unavailable. This project looked for yield and disease resistance-related…
ISEF · 2019
Earth and Environmental Sciences Third Award
PM2.5, particulate matter with an aerodynamic diameter less than 2.5 µm, contributes greatly to current cardiorespiratory complications. Hence, the importance of modeling and predicting PM2.…
ISEF · 2019
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Computational modeling offers a powerful method for studying cause-effect relationships in biology. This is immensely valuable for creating synthetic biomimicry structures. Mimosa pudica is…
ISEF · 2019
Environmental Engineering Third Award
This research was to design an artificial structure to house a calcite media that dissolves over an extended period of time and would have significant effects on (1) increasing the average o…
ISEF · 2019
Engineering Mechanics Third Award
Over 1.5 million people live in refugee camps around the world. Wind storms of over 80 miles per hour rip current refugee tents apart, destroying what little refugees have left. Regarding ou…
CSEF · 2019
Electronics & Electromagnetics First Award
Objectives The goal for the project was to create an inexpensive prosthetic hand for transradial amputees capable of performing daily tasks. The team wanted the prosthetic hand to be user-fr…
ISEF · 2019
Materials Science
With resistant strains of pathogenic microbes becoming more common, reducing bacterial contamination during surgery and in daily activity is a necessity. Bonding antimicrobial groups to UV c…
ISEF · 2019
Environmental Engineering Fourth Award
An activated carbon foam surfaced carbon dioxide scrubber with an environmentally sustainable gas purification system using bicarbonate ions removes carbon dioxide from the atmosphere at low…
ISEF · 2019
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Mitochondria are the primary source of energy within the cell, producing over 90% of ATP and performing essential functions, ranging from maintenance of Ca2+ homeostasis and the regulation o…
ISEF · 2019
Engineering Mechanics
Worldwide, close to 15% of the population (more than 1 billion people) have some sort of disability, where close to 70 million of them need a wheelchair to move around. However, when they ne…
ISEF · 2019
Animal Sciences
Shrimps (Crustacea: Decapoda) are aquatic animals which are normally incapable of moving on land. Recently, Thai locals discovered a unique mass migration of freshwater shrimp in which the s…
ISEF · 2019
Animal Sciences
The sex of Hymenopteran insects is determined by allele combination of sex-determination locus. This is called complementary sex determination (CSD), where diploid males develop from fertili…
ISEF · 2019
Behavioral and Social Sciences Third Award
Even in the 21st century, poverty is a global epidemic. Although U.S. charities receive over 400 billion dollars annually, the allocation of these resources is catastrophically inefficient.…
ISEF · 2019
Physics and Astronomy
This paper discusses some implications of attributing spectral redshifts of astronomical objects to the dynamics of matter in the path of light propagation. Unlike Hubble’s law where the rel…
CSEF · 2019
Computational Systems & Analysis (Senior Division Only)
Objectives E. coli ravaged the US in 2018, with the first outbreak tracked back to Yuma, Arizona infecting 210 and the second, tracked back to central California infecting 62. Outbreaks of t…
ISEF · 2019
Systems Software Third Award
Drowning detection in dynamic swimming environments is a challenging problem in computer vision, for which no satisfiable solutions have been found. Currently known methods primarily rely on…
ISEF · 2019
Translational Medical Science
This study aimed to detect Alzheimer’s Disease in order to potentially diagnose it at an earlier stage by detecting amyloid plaques through the iris. Amyloid plaques are formed from amyloid…
AJAS · 2019
Energy and Transport (inferred)
When a bicycle is connected to the back of a car with a bike rack, the bicycle’s wheels spin while the car is in motion due to the wind coming over and around the car. This accessible mechan…
ISEF · 2019
Plant Sciences
Aquatic weeds are classified as an economic, ecological and health problem due to their invasive behavior on aquatic ecosystems. In this work, the vegetal biomass of Eichhornia crassipes, P.…
ISEF · 2019
Biomedical Engineering
There is an accelerated advancement in Biotechnology or biological sciences in developed communities as evidenced by the emergence of exponential technology fields like synthetic biology. Ho…
ISEF · 2019
Engineering Mechanics
The bicycle has progressively lost practicality due to the increasing pace of commuting, however, the bicycle follows a desirable concept for modern and future commuting. Bicycles are less d…
ISEF · 2019
Engineering Mechanics
Aeronautics is a scientific understanding or the basic design structure of airplanes and their designs and future improvements .Aeronautics is also the science of art involved with the study…
ISEF · 2019
Translational Medical Science Third Award
I developed and implemented a Computer Aided Diagnosis (CAD) system that is fully autonomous, non-invasive, cheap, and effectively instantaneous, all while outperforming radiologists and oth…
ISEF · 2019
Plant Sciences
The purpose of this project is to test if Glycine max, Zea mays, and Pisum sativum can withstand a flood for a longer duration with the addition of Oscillatoria in a field test experiment. I…
ISEF · 2019
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
In many applications, there is a high risk of wireless links getting jammed, leading to potentially disastrous outcomes. Although cognitive radios (CR) are envisioned to be an effective solu…
ISEF · 2019
Earth and Environmental Sciences
An inquiry worthy of primary investigation in this project concerns the formation of an alteration halo around the alkaline magmatic center of Cripple Creek and Victor as a result of Oligoce…
ISEF · 2019
Energy: Physical Fourth Award
Vanadium dioxide is a "functional material" that has gained notoriety in fundamental research and smart-window applications. It responds to environmental temperatures, making reversible stru…
ISEF · 2019
Engineering Mechanics
Being a 5th- generation farmer, it is understood that soil health is vital for crop production. Soil analysis helps to manage the soil resource but is currently a timely process. In addition…
ISEF · 2019
Environmental Engineering
There are millions of people in foreign regions that are suffering from famine while the U.S. contains over 40% of food waste. Atop of this, there is an anticipated burgeoning population tha…