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 · 2005
Pharmacology/ Toxicology
Objectives/Goals The purpose of this study is to discover if Lipitor, a cholesterol-lowering drug, causes muscular degeneration and/or rhabdomyalysis in Mus musculus and, therefore, human be…
CSEF · 2005
Environmental Engineering
Objectives/Goals This experiment was conducted in order to find the effects of different concentrations of two anionic Polyacrylamides, Amber 1200 and Stockopam, on water infiltration and fl…
CSEF · 2005
Plant Biology
Objectives/Goals I wanted to find out how temperature affects a plant's ability to transport nutrients. From my research, I learned that transpiration and respiration increase as temperature…
CSEF · 2005
Physics & Astronomy
Objectives/Goals This experiment was designed to see the change in the height of a floating body above water, as the level of salinity of water was changed. On the basis of Archimedes princi…
CSEF · 2005
Plant Biology
Objectives/Goals The objective was to test how the intensity of artificial light affected the growth of sunflower plants. My hypothesis was that the plants closest to the light will grow the…
CSEF · 2005
Earth Sciences/ Planetary Sciences/ Physical Environments
Objectives/Goals Can we predict future temperatures using the number of sunspots from 1856-2002, and the temperatures in the Northern Hemisphere during the same period? Methods/Materials com…
CSEF · 2005
Microbiology
Objectives/Goals My objective was to find out if there were resistant bacteria on common places we touch(ie. hand railing, door handle, key board, faucet handle, and light switch). Methods/M…
CSEF · 2005
Chemistry
Objectives/Goals To what extent does the surface tension of water decrease as the amount of detergent is increased? If adding detergent to distilled water affects its surface tension, then c…
CSEF · 2005
Mammalian Biology
Objectives/Goals I INVESTIGATED THREE MAIN HYPOTHESES IN MY EXPERIMENT: HYPOTHESIS (1): A 90 DEG FULL BODY INVERSION WITH HEAD DOWN TILT WILL GIVE A SIMILAR DIASTOLIC (DBP) AND HEART RATE (H…
CSEF · 2005
Earth Sciences/ Planetary Sciences/ Physical Environments
Objectives/Goals Before you can build or plant anything you should have properly graded piece of land. Determining the boundaries or elevations of a piece of land is called surveying. Profes…
CSEF · 2005
Applied Mechanics/ Structures & Mechanisms/ Manufacturing
Objectives/Goals Is the #harmonic# motion of a pendulum affected by friction? If so, does weight help resist the friction? Can a mathematical formula be developed to determine the damping fa…
CSEF · 2005
Microbiology
Objectives/Goals The purpose of this project is to find out the interaction the plant hormones gibberellic acid and indoleacetic acid on the algae Ulothrix subtilissima. Methods/Materials Th…
CSEF · 2005
Chemistry
Objectives/Goals The objective of this project was to find the optimal potential range and finest set of conditions for the synthesis of Bismuth Telluride nanowires. Methods/Materials The fa…
CSEF · 2005
Physics & Astronomy
Objectives/Goals The objective of this study is to explore microwave heating and to examine the factors that impact post-superheating nucleation, in which a sudden violent boiling event occu…
CSEF · 2005
Chemistry
Objectives/Goals Organic peroxides are dangerous, explosive chemicals that can form in organic lab solvents, such as diethyl ether tetrahydrofuran (THF), when exposed to light, heat, or air.…
CSEF · 2005
Physics & Astronomy
Objectives/Goals Origanally my objective was to discover the difference in how electricity flows in open air and in a vacuum. However, I have expanded my objective after the Mendocino County…
CSEF · 2005
Electricity & Electronics
Objectives/Goals In this project the goal was to determine if dust in our atmosphere could reduce a solar panels effectiveness. The experiment was designed to demonstrate that dust could adv…
CSEF · 2005
Earth Sciences/ Planetary Sciences/ Physical Environments
Objectives/Goals For our project we decided to test turbidity where the vegetation along the banks is different. We tested turbidity where the banks were sandy, rocky, and grassy. We used a…
CSEF · 2005
Social Sciences (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals I started this project with the question, "Does birth order affect someone's personality. I hypothesized that our persoanlity is affected by our birth position in the family…
CSEF · 2005
Microbiology
Objectives/Goals My objective is to see if certain three different genera of bacteria will react in a different manner to different types of vinegars.A few of them are Red Wine vinegar, Dist…
CSEF · 2005
Microbiology
Objectives/Goals I am trying to produce hydrogen as a clean alternate energy source, by using hydrogen-producing anaerobic bacteria (of the Clostridium genus). From prior exterimentation, I…
CSEF · 2005
Social Sciences (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals I did this project because I think people are stereotyped for reasons such as one gender drives faster than the other, their parents do, or one gender has a different person…
CSEF · 2005
Applied Mechanics/ Structures & Mechanisms/ Manufacturing
Objectives/Goals Several accounts of the Roman siege of Syracuse in 213 BC, including those of Zonaras and Tzetzes, describe a weapon of immense power, one capable of setting entire fleets o…
CSEF · 2005
Structural Capability & Strength of Materials (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals In my project I started by asking if the diameter of a dome changed, would it affect the stability of that dome. For my testing I used balsa wood and bent it into an arch wi…
CSEF · 2005
Environmental Engineering
Objectives/Goals The objective of my experiment is to identify and contras adapted chemical components of the same species of algae in environmentally different areas. The algae samples were…
CSEF · 2005
Physics & Astronomy
Objectives/Goals To prove that altering a typical magnet's temperature will affect its magnetic strength. Methods/Materials Using two refrigerator magnets, I will test to see if changing the…
CSEF · 2005
Materials Science (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals The purpose of this project was to investigate which cereal really stayed crispy longer. I became interested in this project when I often observed how quickly my cereal turn…
CSEF · 2005
Behavioral Sciences
Objectives/Goals The objective of my experiment was to determine if a person's genetic tasting abilities affect their decision to smoke tobacco. Methods/Materials Forty-three human subjects…
CSEF · 2005
Earth Sciences/ Planetary Sciences/ Physical Environments
Objectives/Goals Much has been done to determine the effects of shock metamorphism on the mineralogical structure of target material, but little has been done to document the effects of shoc…
CSEF · 2005
Materials Science (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals The objective was to determine which headlight, the standard sealed beam headlight or the halogen headlight, would enable the driver of an automobile to see further distance…