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 · 2007
Pharmacology/ Toxicology
Objectives/Goals My objective was to learn if beta-carotene had any substantial effect on plant cancer. Methods/Materials I used sunflower and pea seeds, synthetic beta-carotene, water, grow…
CSEF · 2007
Applied Mechanics & Structures
Objectives/Goals Our project was designed to determine how the barrel length of a blowgun affects the energy of the projectile. Methods/Materials To conduct our experiment we first used a 61…
CSEF · 2007
Applied Mechanics & Structures
Objectives/Goals The purpose of the experiment was to determine if the shape of a building affected its ability to resist hurricane velocity winds by utilizing a wind tunnel to test differen…
CSEF · 2007
Applied Mechanics & Structures
Objectives/Goals My objective is to determine if adding a centrifugation step to a standard fecal floatation procedure will result in an increase in the number of parasitic ova recovered fro…
CSEF · 2007
Plant Biology
Objectives/Goals The objective of this investigation was to learn if colored light effects the growth of Italian Bush Beans. The operational hypothesis was that if Italian Bush Bean seeds ar…
CSEF · 2007
Physics & Astronomy
Objectives/Goals The purpose of the experiment was to discover the relationship between the viscosity of a pure substance and the viscosity of a mixture containing that substance. Methods/Ma…
CSEF · 2007
Earth & Planetary Sciences Second Award
Objectives/Goals The objective of my project was to examine the effect of compression on granular media. Specifically, I was interested in the phenomenon of the compression of wet sand, comp…
CSEF · 2007
Pharmacology/ Toxicology
Objectives/Goals The objective of my project is to see if different concentrations of CO2 will help or kill the bacteria. This is important when seeing if the cyanobacteria will help absorb…
CSEF · 2007
Plant Biology
Objectives/Goals Plants need light to perform photosynthesis and to grow. Do different colors of light lead to different rates of plant growth? Methods/Materials I made a greenhouse with fou…
CSEF · 2007
Physics & Astronomy
Objectives/Goals The purpose of this study was to manipulate angle and distance in digital flash photography to prevent or reduce red eye. I hypothesized that angle and distance would both a…
CSEF · 2007
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals This study examines the effect of driving distractions on the driving performance of adolescents within the Southern Californian region. Methods/Materials Prac: The subject…
CSEF · 2007
Pharmacology/ Toxicology
Objectives/Goals This experiment attempted to determine the effect of electromagnetic fields on plant growth. Methods/Materials The initial subjects of this experiment were twenty spearmint…
CSEF · 2007
Environmental Science (Junior Division Only) Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals The objective of my project was to observe fire#s effect on the germination of plant seeds from chaparral and riparian habitats. I hypothesized that burned chaparral seeds g…
CSEF · 2007
Aerodynamics/ Hydrodynamics (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals My objective was to determine the affect humidity has on how far a baseball travels. Methods/Materials I used a glove my hand could go into and stick through the fish tank s…
CSEF · 2007
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals Abstract Time is killed, crunched, beaten, made, or wasted. Incentive is likewise as fundamental as time. Incentives and temporal perception influence human behavior tremend…
CSEF · 2007
Physics & Astronomy Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals Since film boiling generally follows the exponential relationship of decreasing node to node distances for increasing angles of elevation, the effect of increasing the angle…
CSEF · 2007
Chemistry
Objectives/Goals This project determined if lacquer, clear fingernail polish, prevents corrosion or reduces the rate of corrosion on copper, iron, aluminum, and steel. Methods/Materials Four…
CSEF · 2007
Plant Biology
Objectives/Goals Query: Research has been conducted on the effect of magnetic influence on increasing vigor and germination of seeds. If this effect is observed on seeds, does it also occur…
CSEF · 2007
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only) Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals Experiments were conducted to determine the differences between the sounds made by instruments constructed from different materials. Attempts were made to discover what effe…
CSEF · 2007
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals In the present experiment, effect of the Mozart¡#s Sonata and music chosen by individual subjects on short-term word memory is investigated. I hypothesize that more words wi…
CSEF · 2007
Pharmacology/ Toxicology
Objectives/Goals When humans and livestocks excrete drugs, it enters the sewers and into our streams, affecting the creatures living underwater. The objective of this project is to determine…
CSEF · 2007
Earth & Planetary Sciences
Objectives/Goals The objective of the experiment was to investigate the effect of particle size and gradation on the erodibility of soil. Methods/Materials The experiment called for approxim…
CSEF · 2007
Physics & Astronomy
Objectives/Goals The objective of this experiment was to learn how playing C,E, and B notes affects the duration of the sympathetic vibrations on the C2 string of a piano. Methods/Materials…
CSEF · 2007
Biochemistry/ Molecular Biology
Objectives/Goals The goal of this experiment was to determine what common foods contain a substantial amount of protein. I hypothesized that tofu would be the most protein-rich food because…
CSEF · 2007
Environmental Science (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals To prove that black roads and buldings have an effect on the rise in temperature of our planet. However, the clouds in our atmosphere may cause a cooling effect. Methods/Mat…
CSEF · 2007
Chemistry
Objectives/Goals My objective is to determine if at higher elevations the difference between the temperature of the boiling point of distilled water and salt water changes. Methods/Materials…
CSEF · 2007
Plant Biology
Objectives/Goals This experiment will determine what happens to Oakleaf lettuce (luctuca sativa) when sodium chloride is added into the plants water. It is my hypothesis that the two plant g…
CSEF · 2007
Microbiology
Objectives/Goals This project was designed to test whether or not genetic transformation of the pGLO gene was possible in species of Monera after they were mutated by radiation exposure. By…
CSEF · 2007
Biochemistry/ Molecular Biology
Objectives/Goals The objective of this experiment was to gain a greater understanding of how amylase breaks down starch. I wanted to learn how our body uses saliva and pancreatic juice to br…
CSEF · 2007
Physics & Astronomy
Objectives/Goals Exposure to temperature change is known to affect the size of many materials, this test studied whether temperature change had an affect on the tuning of a guitar. The exper…