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
Chemistry First Award
Objectives/Goals This project explored how temperature, surfactant, and salt would influence the surface tension of water, in order to find the best method of cleaning. I hypothesized that t…
CSEF · 2016
Zoology Third Award
Objectives/Goals Sugar addiction has become an epidemic problem causing many adverse effects on human health as well as financial and economic burdens for the families and society. The objec…
ISEF · 2016
Biomedical Engineering
Past studies indicated that Drosophila (fruit flies) share 75% of the genes that cause diseases with humans. Thus by studying fruit fly genetics, one can learn about human genetics and possi…
ISEF · 2016
During the course of my project, I conducted 11 Main Procedures: Gather All the Soils, Sterilize the Soils Using Auto-Clave, Water Retention Test Using Auto-Clave, Cultivate Pathogen, Grow T…
CSEF · 2016
Plant Biology First Award
Objectives/Goals The Goal of my research is to study each factor that may contribute to Fusarium Oxysporum Lycopersici Race 3 growth/decline and learn whether my hypothesis is true or false.…
CSEF · 2016
Environmental Engineering
Objectives/Goals With an increasing worldwide population, rapid industrial growth, and exponential commercial growth, water is becoming a scarce commodity. Climate change is causing unpredic…
ISEF · 2016
Drought is a severe dilemma in both the developed and the developing world. Water scarcity causes desiccation and makes it difficult to cultivate vital plants. This study investigated the po…
CSEF · 2016
Plant Biology Second Award
Objectives/Goals California undergoes cycles of severe drought followed by El Niño for several years. The objective of this study was to determine which soil amendments, or combinations of b…
ISEF · 2016
Hsp90 “Heat Shock Protein 90” is a chaperone protein that helps client oncoproteins fold into their functional conformations. Since Hsp90 is upregulated in cancerous cells to possibly serve…
ISEF · 2016
Second Award
The purpose of this project was to build muffler that serves two purposes; attenuating exhaust noise and increasing performance. Computational fluid dynamics software was used to create mode…
CSEF · 2016
Environmental Engineering
Objectives/Goals The object of this study was to determine which mulch, black plastic, hay, bark nuggets or plain soil retained more water over a six day period. Methods/Materials 4 ceramic…
ISEF · 2016
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
Waterless dyeing is the new approach in textile dyeing in order to reduce or eliminate effluents and supercritical carbon dioxide (scCO2) is an alternative solvent being considered. Since it…
ISEF · 2016
In today’s world scientists are constantly trying to discover new sources of green energy, and solar energy is a great example of this. Currently, solar cells are silicon-based. These silico…
ISEF · 2016
Pembina County, North Dakota has several examples of dikes protecting farmsteads and agricultural lands. What effect does the grade of the natural watercourse have on the dike's ability to r…
ISEF · 2016
Fourth Award
The aim of this engineering project was to design and construct a 3D printer that combats the current expensive price of many consumer grade 3D printers. I accomplished this by reducing the…
ISEF · 2016
Capacity to control outbreaks and manage patient care for debilitating mosquito-borne flaviviral diseases hinges critically on early, rapid and accurate diagnosis. However, RT-PCR and MAC-EL…
CSEF · 2016
Biochemistry/ Molecular Biology Second Award
Objectives/Goals It has recently been discovered that B7-H4 is a protein in only low amounts in normal tissues but highly concentrated in over 90% of cases. Utilizing the monoclonal antibody…
ISEF · 2016
The purpose of this experiment was to see if convolutional neural networks can accurately predict whether a macroscopic image has skin cancer in it or not. Steps taken for the completion of…
ISEF · 2016
During the summer months, Alaska is an international crossroad for millions of migratory birds from around the world. To investigate the possibility of various avian influenza viruses carrie…
ISEF · 2016
Third Award
The Amazon region faces challenges in providing its population with drinking and treated water. In Brazil as a whole, piped water only supplies 36.1% of households. The Amazon is the region…
ISEF · 2016
Around the town of Starobin wildfires are frequent – peat bogs burn. That is why making an available and eco-friendly fire retardant allied to peat bogs from local raw materials is so urgent…
ISEF · 2016
This project is the combination of three different technologies, merged together to implant in any diesel based cars/vehicle to make it ecofriendly. In the first place biodiesel was prepared…
CSEF · 2016
Microbiology (General)
Objectives/Goals Shingle Mill Creek is a non-point source of fecal coliform pollution into the San Lorenzo River. Last year, we determined that the coliform originates from an upstream locat…
ISEF · 2016
A method was described for the inhibition of lung cancer tumor growth based on the findings of a 2012 study which shows that mutations in ciz1 found in 98% of SCLC were responsible for cance…
ISEF · 2016
Biomedical and Health Sciences
The present project searched to verify if it was possible to utilize virtual reality technology to benefit students and teachers of elementary school, on behalf of learning and new education…
CSEF · 2016
Environmental Engineering Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals The objective of this experiment is to design an insect mesh that increases the amount of water that can be harvested from fog to inexpensively and effectively water home ga…
CSEF · 2016
Product Science (Biological) (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals The objective of this study is to test the effectiveness of turmeric in relieving arthritis pain. Methods/Materials *In this study, the materials used were 20 arthritic peop…
ISEF · 2016
The accumulation of microplastics, defined as plastic particles with a diameter < 5 mm, in freshwater and marine ecosystems is a growing concern. Fauna across a range of feeding guilds can i…
CSEF · 2016
Applied Mechanics & Structures
Objectives/Goals The objective of my project is to support individuals with leg prosthetics by designing a mechanism which allows the foot on the prosthesis to extend and fit appropriately i…
ISEF · 2016
Second Award
Biohydrogen generated from algal cultures can be an effective solution as cleaner alternative fuel to reducing greenhouse gas emissions. Most of the related research is focused on limited st…