20,037 real projects from ISEF, the Canada-Wide Science Fair, JSHS and the Calgary Youth Science Fair — searchable by meaning, and filterable by fair, year, category and award.
ISEF · 2023
Animal Sciences
Despite 80% of India’s population incorporating Ayurveda to maintain their health, Ayurvedic herbs consumed to treat depressive moods, impaired memory, and infertility lack evidence to suppo…
ISEF · 2023
Biomedical Engineering
A recent CDC study showed that 3 in 5 teenage girls are depressed, a rise from last year. What’s also on the rise? Iron Deficiency Anemia. Teenage girls are 2 times more likely to be depress…
ISEF · 2023
Translational Medical Science
Fetal monitoring based on cardiotocography (CTG) is a non-invasive option for assessing fetal health. However, current methodologies of interpreting CTG consist of human eye inspection, resu…
ISEF · 2023
Biomedical and Health Sciences
This proposal is made of 4 separate parts, each with their own functions, the first one is “the Headset”, it’s a small squishy box which contains the temperature sensor, and will be tied up…
ISEF · 2023
Microbiology
The development and spread of antibiotic resistance in wastewater poses a significant threat to both the environment and human health. Biofilm is a key factor that promotes antibiotic resist…
ISEF · 2023
Systems Software Third Award
Concolic execution is a popular automatic vulnerability detection method that relies on dynamically enumerating all possible paths using an SMT solver. However, the most popular programming…
ISEF · 2023
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Have you ever wondered where your fingerprints come from? The purpose of this project was to determine if fingerprints are genetically inherited through biological factors or relations and o…
ISEF · 2023
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
To ascertain complex relationships between inputs and outputs and achieve high accuracies on specialized tasks, Machine Learning algorithms require vast amounts of high-quality data, compute…
ISEF · 2023
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Floods kills 6,000 people annually and is especially dangerous for the region of Southeast Asia, where 1.24 billion people are at risk of flooding. Flood mapping often uses ground measures,…
ISEF · 2023
Mathematics Second Award
Environmental damage is an ever-present issue for our generation, especially in the supply chain, which has suffered heavily since the beginning of 2020. Large amounts of packaging materials…
ISEF · 2023
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Background: Dementia is highly prevalent neuropsychiatric condition characterized by impairments in memory, reasoning, mood, and behavior; yet it has no effective treatment. This project uti…
ISEF · 2023
Earth and Environmental Sciences Fourth Award
Yield forecasting is critical for ensuring food security, especially given the rise of extreme weather events. However, the USDA NASS only provides state-level forecasts by conducting costly…
ISEF · 2023
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Aleš Janderka Gymnasium Masaryk Square 8, Šumperk, Czech Republic The thesis focuses on Cretaceous macrofossil, microfossil, and ichnofossil specimens from the Štíty Graben. The research cov…
ISEF · 2023
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
Growing global demand and utilization of fossil fuels has accelerated growth in wealth, but also higher levels of pollution and the consequent degeneration of public health. Moreover, misman…
ISEF · 2023
Mathematics
This research proposes to approach forecasting using classes defined by a fractal scheme. In time series analysis, forecasting is understood as generating a prediction based on known previou…
ISEF · 2023
Embedded Systems
To help blind individuals navigate independently, I have created a plan for a wearable device which uses RADAR to warn navigators of objects in their path. The concept of this device was pro…
ISEF · 2023
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Alternative splicing is a process that occurs during gene expression, in which a gene codes for multiple proteins by including or excluding segments (exons) from the mRNA transcript. The spl…
ISEF · 2023
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
The aim of this work is to create a program capable of simulating the evolution of organisms together with geological processes. For simplicity, I have focused on the evolution of prokaryote…
ISEF · 2023
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
Solar Energy is one of the most promising methods of renewable energy in the world, however this method of production of energy has a certain flaw, which is that if the panel that produces s…
ISEF · 2023
Systems Software
In 2021, the National Highway Traffic and Safety Administration recorded 43,000 fatalities from automotive crashes, an 11% increase from 2020. Automotive accidents (94%) are caused by human…
ISEF · 2023
Behavioral and Social Sciences
One major impact of the COVID-19 pandemic has been the transition between in-person and remote working environments. Studies show that working from home leads to social isolation, which caus…
JSHS · 2023
Congressional districts are often perceived as being biased towards specific parties or groups. Recently, due to major court cases the problem of gerrymandering has received much attention f…
ISEF · 2023
Behavioral and Social Sciences
In the past, there have been more males in fictional literature. Now, the ratio of female to male authors is closer to half and half, but studies have shown that there is still a significant…
ISEF · 2023
Environmental Engineering
As of 2022, less than 3% of electric power generation in Puerto Rico came from renewable sources like wind and sun. Puerto Rico’s high dependence on fossil fuels presents significant economi…
ISEF · 2023
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
Petroleum-based engines use carbon-based non-renewable energy sources, and electric options have low range and slow refuel speeds. A oxyhydrogen (HHO) gas wet cell system was designed, engin…
ISEF · 2023
Biomedical Engineering Second Award
Commonly used cancer treatments are nonspecific and cytotoxic to healthy cells. As an alternative, bacteria can be exploited for the targeted delivery of therapeutics as some can associate t…
ISEF · 2023
Biomedical Engineering
Recent studies have found that estrogen receptor positive (ER+) breast cancer cells exhibit enhanced proliferation and drug resistance when grown in a 3D environment when compared to 2D cell…
ISEF · 2023
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
There are ethnic differences in c-reactive protein and another on how the gene APOL1 can affect millions of African Americans. Genetic ancestry and socioeconomic conditions are factors to wh…
ISEF · 2023
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
This project looks at the aerodynamics of different semi fairing designs and their drag coefficients. This study looked into reducing diesel consumption by increasing the aerodynamic efficie…
ISEF · 2023
Earth and Environmental Sciences
As the energy demand is increasing every day, the environmental pollution has been a main concern. To reduce environmental pollution while satisfying the energy demand, we can start using re…