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 · 2012
Microbiology (General) First Award
Objectives/Goals Huanglongbing (HLB) is a devastating disease that has endangered the citrus industries around the world including Florida since 2005. It is associated with an unculturable b…
CSEF · 2012
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals The goal of this project is to single out the main reason why people are less tolerant of bilingual people with foreign accents. When this reason is found, people will be mo…
CSEF · 2012
Materials Science (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals The objective of this experiment is to see if the structures of different wood samples cause them to burn differently. And mainly to see which wood produces or gives off the…
CSEF · 2012
Mathematics & Software
Objectives/Goals I got the idea for my project from the movie Moneyball. I chose it because I wanted to learn a little more about baseball and have fun doing it. Scouting is where they look…
CSEF · 2012
Zoology
Objectives/Goals My goal was to find which surface the giant sea cucumber would rather be on or move to. I wanted to see if it would rather be on a plastic, sand, or rock surface. Methods/Ma…
CSEF · 2012
Mathematics & Software Second Award
Objectives/Goals The goal of this project is to determine (a) how much color variation in a digital image is noticeable by average human eyes, (b) how can digital images hold covert informat…
CSEF · 2012
Biochemistry/ Molecular Biology
Objectives/Goals The objective of this experiment was to learn the effect of preservation technique on the amount of vitamin C in orange juice. Methods/Materials Orange juice samples were pr…
CSEF · 2012
Plant Biology
Objectives/Goals The objective of this experiment is to determine if the complete starter fertilizer grows the best rye grass seedlings compared to the incomplete starter fertilizers or with…
CSEF · 2012
Plant Biology Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals For this project, I used a geranium plant and took cuttings from three different parts; the roots, stems, and the leaves. I regenerated these different parts and tracked the…
CSEF · 2012
Electronics & Electromagnetics Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals While investigating how a crank flashlight gets energy to power a bulb without batteries, I learned about electromagnetic induction. Based on this idea a simple flashlight c…
CSEF · 2012
Mathematics & Software
Objectives/Goals As the number of security breaches and fraud are on the rise, the need for highly secure authentication and personal verification technologies are vital. This project studie…
CSEF · 2012
Product Science (Physical) (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals The objective of this experiment was to test the accuracy of the Nutritional Value Labels, by comparing the actual sugar content of Coca-Cola, Pepsi, 7 Up, and Dr Pepper to…
CSEF · 2012
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals The objective is to examine binge sleeping # the practice of sleeping shorter durations on week nights and longer durations on weekends, in pre-dental and dental students. I…
CSEF · 2012
Pharmacology/ Toxicology
Objectives/Goals It has been known that tumor hypoxia is a major setback in standard cancer treatment of radiation therapy and chemotherapy. This project is focused on turning this setback i…
CSEF · 2012
Applied Mechanics & Structures Second Award
Objectives/Goals The focus of my project is to develop an armor that reduces blunt-force trauma [Goal 1] and supports flexibility [Goal 2] for the wearer without compromising safety. Methods…
CSEF · 2012
Product Science (Physical) (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals How does snowboard wax vs. candle wax vs. no wax effect the sliding friction of a snowboard? My hypothesis is that snowboard wax will have the least amount of sliding fricti…
CSEF · 2012
Product Science (Biological) (Junior Division Only) First Award
Objectives/Goals Scientists have recently discovered that your washing machine contains many harmful bacteria and are currently evaluating the risk that these bacteria pose to humans. Bleach…
CSEF · 2012
Electronics & Electromagnetics
Objectives/Goals It is common knowledge that an electro-magnet attracts ferromagnetic metals and can attract or repel a permanent magnet. How do you get a magnetic coil to levitate over meta…
CSEF · 2012
Environmental Science First Award
Objectives/Goals Excessive nitrogen runoff from fertilizers results in an overabundance of algae blooms in water systems and also pollutes drinking water supplies. The goal of my project was…
CSEF · 2012
Plant Biology
Objectives/Goals Soil may look like a bunch of dirt, but good quality soil is actually a complex mixture of dirt, nutrients, microorganisms, insects and worms. What type of benefit do these…
CSEF · 2012
Alternative Energy (Junior Division Only) Third Award
Objectives/Goals The goal is the test the affect of the haze layer and temperature at altitude on the efficiency of solar panels. Methods/Materials I used a weather ballon with various measu…
CSEF · 2012
Environmental Engineering (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals My project was about desalination to remove the salt from water to make it drinkable. The current methods of desalination are very expensive, and are not safe to the environ…
CSEF · 2012
Alternative Energy (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals My Objective was to built a solar oven in a form of a lunchbox that I can carry to school with my lunch inside of it and use it to cook my lunch without the use of electrici…
CSEF · 2012
Mathematics & Software
Objectives/Goals The purpose of my experiment was to create a computer program that uses various processes for solving the roots of first through fifth order polynomials. The results are lim…
CSEF · 2012
Plant Biology
Objectives/Goals I have always been upset that so many people in the world have hardly anything to eat. If food were more common, that wouldn#t be a problem. My experiment, #Solving World Hu…
CSEF · 2012
Behavioral & Social Sciences Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals As technology flourishes, the production of copious amounts of multidimensional data has revealed limitations in visual forms of data representation. Due to these limitation…
CSEF · 2012
Microbiology (Medical) (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals The objective of this project was to find a possible safer treatment for Parkinson's Disease. My hypothesis was that soybean polyamines will delay the breakdown and destruct…
CSEF · 2012
Aerodynamics/ Hydrodynamics (Junior Division Only) Second Award
Objectives/Goals The experiment was to measure the effect of the size and the angle placement of a rear spoiler on the amount of drag and lift/downforce on a SUV-type automobile. It was hypo…
CSEF · 2012
Plant Biology
Objectives/Goals The purpose of our project is to see if treating the seed coat speeds up germination of pea seeds. Methods/Materials In our experiment we were measuring the speed of germina…
CSEF · 2012
Mammalian Biology
Objectives/Goals The objective of this experiment is to determine whether dogs bark differently in response to different stimuli. Methods/Materials Barks were recorded various times in respo…