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 · 2023
Cognitive Science Honorable_mention Award
This project analyzes how chess improves cognitive test scores. To answer this question, we had subjects take a cognitive test, learn chess, and then take the test again. The results conclud…
ISEF · 2023
Animal Sciences
Light pollution or artificial light at night (ALAN) can disrupt insect circadian rhythms and development, since photoperiod is a dominant cue for timing seasonal events in animal life cycles…
JSHS · 2023
Heavy metal pollution in water sources has detrimental effects on aquatic life. Everything from the amount of dissolved organic carbon (DOC) in the water to the pH of the water can affect ho…
ISEF · 2023
Physics and Astronomy
In our quest of whether there is life outside of our solar system, the focus has been on finding planets known as Super-Earths with Earth-like qualities suitable for life, but large enough f…
ISEF · 2023
Biomedical and Health Sciences
In the last year, five student-athletes participating in high school basketball tore their ACLs. This project aimed to determine if a correlation exists between the Q-angle of an athlete’s k…
ISEF · 2023
Behavioral and Social Sciences
While driving, mere seconds are the difference between life and death. These seconds are your reaction time. Teenage drivers are too relaxed at the wheel. They believe they are driving safel…
CSEF · 2023
Materials Science Honorable_mention Award
Americans alone put more than 45 billion plastic water bottles into landfills every year. Edible water bottles could help reduce that number, but they are not very durable. So I wanted to fi…
ISEF · 2023
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Hi-C, a chromosome conformation capture-based method, allows researchers to interrogate chromatin interactions between any two genomic loci in a bulk of cells and study the spatial arrangeme…
CSEF · 2023
Applied Mechanics & Structures Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals: The success of Ingenuity, the Mars helicopter, opens up new possibilities for drones in space. Our goal is to demonstrate “proof of concept” for braiding with drones, expan…
JSHS · 2023
Photometry is an area of astronomy that involves measuring the magnitude of stars and other celestial objects. Traditional photometry observations require thousands of dollars of equipment a…
ISEF · 2023
Physics and Astronomy
Photometry is an area of astronomy that involves measuring the magnitude of stars and other celestial objects. Traditional photometry observations require thousands of dollars of equipment a…
ISEF · 2023
Behavioral and Social Sciences
For seven decades, the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) has been psychiatrists’ diagnostic textbook-of-choice, but do its pages belong in 2023? The DSM’s problems…
ISEF · 2023
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Learning disorders (LDs) are neurodevelopmental disabilities with a worldwide prevalence of 5-15%. Lack of awareness paired with heterogeneity in testing methods results in non-identificatio…
JSHS · 2023
Acromegaly occurs when the pituitary gland produces too much somatropin, causing the liver to release excessive amounts of IGF-1, leading to the abnormal growth of the hands, feet, and face.…
ISEF · 2023
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics Third Award
Microbial DNA is a novel analyte for early cancer detection. Although recent studies have found distinct communities of bacteria and fungi between tumor types, they have not investigated mic…
ISEF · 2023
Environmental Engineering
After Corona 19, plastic food packaging materials are emerging as the main culprit leading to the deepening of environmental pollution and climate change. It accounts for about 70% of the to…
ISEF · 2023
Earth and Environmental Sciences
According to an UN survey on the environment, one million animal and plant species are threatened with extinction in the coming years due to the degradation of their natural habitat. In addi…
ISEF · 2023
Engineering Technology: Statics & Dynamics
Eco-Navigator, novel software, designs routes for ships to navigate to favorable wind and minimize fuel consumption. Wind-assisted shipping has the potential to reduce greenhouse gas emissio…
ISEF · 2023
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Factories in Egypt use wood as a packaging material. This has high cost relative to the product (pipes), which break due to their rigidity, and consequently affects the Egyptian industrial e…
ISEF · 2023
Environmental Engineering
The goal of our project is to develop both an automatic and a manually operated device for cleaning small water bodies from domestic waste. It is known that the disposal of household waste s…
ISEF · 2023
Environmental Engineering
Nowadays over 80% of the volume of international trade in goods is carried by sea. The majority of the ships still run on fossil fuels, causing high levels of pollutant exhaust emissions. De…
ISEF · 2023
Systems Software
Student failure and dropout in universities are detrimental in many ways, costing $1700 on average in tuition fees, risking future financial aid, and prompting issues in mental health and mo…
ISEF · 2023
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
To reduce car accidents due to brain dysfunctions and attention defects, specifically epileptic seizures and drowsy driving. This study proposes a new technology for a car emergency system t…
ISEF · 2023
Cellular and Molecular Biology
Idiopathic Pulmonary fibrosis (IPF) is a chronic, progressive, fibrotic lung disease with high morbidity and mortality with limited treatments currently available. A key feature of IPF is ai…
ISEF · 2023
Translational Medical Science
Melanoma is a dangerous form of skin cancer (Rodriguez, 2022). The purpose of this research is to contribute to develop new technologies to limit growth and proliferation of skin melanoma se…
ISEF · 2023
Biomedical and Health Sciences
The purpose of my project is to determine whether there is a significant daily variability regarding sleep efficiency, heart rate variability, and percentage of time in deep non-REM sleep du…
ISEF · 2023
Physics and Astronomy
On the moon, rovers and humans disturb the surrounding lunar dust by moving, creating plumes of dust. When two objects collide, they may become tribocharged and carry a level of voltage due…
ISEF · 2023
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Grassland bird species are among the most vulnerable organisms in North America due to the reduction of available grassland habitat. Freshkills Park in Staten Island, NY, is an urban reclaim…
ISEF · 2023
Plant Sciences
With the increased necessity for sustainable agriculture comes the need to understand the complex systems plants use for growth. One of these systems is the GS/GOGAT cycle, a mechanism used…
ISEF · 2023
Animal Sciences Fourth Award
Every day, tons of expanded polystyrene (Styrofoam) end up in landfills and waterways all over the world, doing incalculable harm to the environment. Previous studies have found that the Zop…