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 · 2016
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals The purpose of my project was to determine whether different genres of music affected cognitive performance. Methods/Materials Materials Quantity Description electronic devi…
CSEF · 2016
Biochemistry/ Molecular Biology
Objectives/Goals The objective of this project was to find out if boiling broccoli in lemon water would change the vitamin C, and make a healthier option for eating. Methods/Materials Brocco…
CSEF · 2016
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals The objective of this project, is to find out whether or not college helps basketball players perform better in the NBA. Methods/Materials Computer. Tested 140 NBA players.…
CSEF · 2016
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals The object of this project was to test the effect of positive (cheering) and negative (booing) affirmations on a person's skill in sports. Methods/Materials The participant…
CSEF · 2016
Chemistry
Objectives/Goals This project was designed to find out if freezing carbonated water affected CO2 coming out of solution. The hypothesis was that if carbonated water was frozen, more CO2 woul…
CSEF · 2016
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals This experiment aims to determine whether giving children the opportunity to recycle will increase their waste output. This was tested by measuring paper towel usage at a mi…
ISEF · 2016
Third Award
Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) is the most common form of neuromuscular disease that has no known cure. Many scientists believe that ALS disease results from a defective gene of a chemi…
CSEF · 2016
Mammalian Biology Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals About 347 million people worldwide have diabetes. More than 80% of diabetes deaths in the world occur in low income countries because of lack of awareness. Current testing m…
CSEF · 2016
Behavioral & Social Sciences Third Award
Objectives/Goals The objective of this study is to determine if people's passwords get more complex with age. Methods/Materials Gathered 3 passwords from each of the 127 different people thr…
CSEF · 2016
Toxicology
Objectives/Goals The purpose of my science project was to see if plastic in the ocean affects the ability of mussels to filter a fungicide containing copper from the water. My hypothesis for…
CSEF · 2016
Plant Biology Third Award
Objectives/Goals The objective of this study is to determine what happens to germinating seeds when salt enters the soil in their environment. Methods/Materials Six 3x3 plastic plant cell co…
CSEF · 2016
Microbiology (General)
Objectives/Goals Since 1991 the Monterey Bay has experienced eight algal blooms, one of the largest occurring during the summer of 2015. Many of the phytoplankton in these blooms produce dom…
ISEF · 2016
Since 1991 the Monterey Bay has experienced eight algal blooms, one of the largest occurring during the summer of 2015. Many of the phytoplankton in these blooms produce domoic acid, which g…
CSEF · 2016
Mammalian Biology
Objectives/Goals To test if the shoulder angle of a horse affects its stride. It was expected that the larger the shoulder angle, the longer the stride. Similar to humans with longer legs ty…
CSEF · 2016
Physics & Astronomy
Objectives/Goals In what ways does the temperature affect a magnet? How could you measure the strength of a magnet? Methods/Materials One large ceramic magnet(size should be 4 ½) Plastic ton…
CSEF · 2016
Physics & Astronomy
Objectives/Goals My project is to find out if different solutions have different surface tensions. The purpose of this project is to see if affecting the surface tension of an ecosystem can…
ISEF · 2016
Biochemistry
The purpose of this experiment was to determine if the addition of peanut flour or oil to the diet of meat chickens affects the quality of meat and to determine if the meat would test positi…
ISEF · 2016
The purpose of this project was to determine if the use of a) pyrolytic graphite heat sinking and of b) phase change material affects the performance of a Stirling engine. Rotational speed a…
CSEF · 2016
Applied Mechanics & Structures Third Award
Objectives/Goals 8-31% of people in the world have Bruxism (Teeth Grinding) as a clinical disorder. 92% of people have had bruxism at least once in their life. Even though bruxism is not dea…
CSEF · 2016
Applied Mechanics & Structures
Objectives/Goals The objective of this project is to see the strength of an egg compared to its shape. Methods/Materials 1 Caliber 1 Digital Scale 5 Jumbo Size Eggs 5 Extra Large Egg 5 Mediu…
CSEF · 2016
Mammalian Biology
Objectives/Goals My objective was to discover what would stain teeth the darkest: cola, black tea, or coffee. Methods/Materials I placed 3 molars in small plastic cups. I filled one with col…
CSEF · 2016
Aerodynamics/ Hydrodynamics (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals The objective of this project is to determine advantages of different sails in different scenarios. Methods/Materials Pool, Boat, 3 Triangular Sails, 3 Rectangular Sails, La…
CSEF · 2016
Environmental Science
Objectives/Goals The goal of my project was to determine how the presence of a sea lion carcass on the beach affected the number of bacteria in the soil below. I predicted there would be mor…
ISEF · 2016
Analysis of protein chains has shifted into a computational biology realm in recent years because of insufficient experimental imaging. Proteins are modeled using molecular dynamics (MD) and…
ISEF · 2016
Appearance of a wave pattern staying around a stationary object in water current is a same phenomenon as a wake advancing with a moving object in still water such as Kelvin wave following a…
ISEF · 2016
Second Award
Increases in world population have required improved agricultural yields. Cellulose binding domain IV (CBD), the non-catalytic domain of a novel family of carbohydrate-binding hydrolases, ha…
CSEF · 2016
Chemistry Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals The object of my project is to determine the effect of hydrogen generation on the amount of desalination produced by a microbial electrolysis desalination cell (MEDC). An ME…
CSEF · 2016
Biochemistry/ Molecular Biology
Objectives/Goals The purpose of my experiment was to determine which type of ice cream would melt the slowest by measuring time to first drip. Methods/Materials I made 1 control ice cream--h…
ISEF · 2016
A large number of accidents are caused by the lack of driver's attention. Among them we can mention: Despite the fact that during the night the traffic is 15% lower, 40 % of all fatal accide…
ISEF · 2016
A LiDAR laser measurement sensor and a survey grade GPS (dual units with yaw, pitch and roll gyroscope) were connected to an on board computer with mapping software and mounted on a drone to…