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.
ISEF · 2017
Environmental Engineering
With 780 million people without access to a potable water source, the development of a simple, self-powered, and point-of-use water system is desirable to remove waterborne bacteria, and che…
CSEF · 2017
Aerodynamics/ Hydrodynamics (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals In my project, I focused on developing a microfluidic device, which manipulates microfluidic generated vortexes in order to separate and isolate CTC from a blood sample base…
ISEF · 2017
Environmental Engineering
Access to clean water is a pressing issue worldwide. Large-scale, solar-powered water recovery systems, for desalination of ocean or brackish water, minimize climate change but are prohibiti…
CSEF · 2017
Environmental Engineering Fourth Award
Objectives/Goals Access to clean water is a pressing issue worldwide. Large-scale, solar-powered desalination systems are viable but the investment is too costly for developing countries or…
ISEF · 2017
Engineering Mechanics Second Award
Engineering Goals: The project is attempting to create a hybrid direct ink write 3D printer that utilizes a novel dual-gantry system which combines three extrusion methods; inkjet deposition…
ISEF · 2017
Environmental Engineering Fourth Award
The project consists in the elaboration of a measurer of radon gas through the conditioning of a Geiger-Müller counter, with the purpose of making a portable, less expensive and more precise…
ISEF · 2017
Engineering Mechanics
3D printers are becoming more accessible, but are still expensive to achieve high precision in a large build volume. As an alternative to traditional Cartesian 3D printers, which have a larg…
ISEF · 2017
Biomedical Engineering
Access to health care in low income communities and developing countries is limited. The purpose of this project was to develop a prototype of a string-based microfluidic device to detect an…
ISEF · 2017
Chemistry Second Award
Given the importance of protein Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) spectroscopy, the goal was to develop an algorithm to filter and assign signals to accelerate drug discovery. From the 4D NOE…
ISEF · 2017
Cellular and Molecular Biology
Lyme disease, the most prevalent tick-borne illness in the United States, is transmitted through the bite of ticks carrying the bacterium, Borrelia burgdorferi (B. b.). Current serological d…
ISEF · 2017
Embedded Systems
Over 318,000 stroke patients require rehabilitation to regain motor control, but many people around the world cannot afford or do not have access to proper medical care. Furthermore, due to…
ISEF · 2017
Energy: Physical Third Award
The main issue associated with solar power is its high costs, caused by the expensive tracking systems required for solar energy systems to remain efficient. Furthermore, current solar conce…
CSEF · 2017
Environmental Engineering Third Award
Objectives/Goals The main issue associated with solar power is its high costs, caused by the expensive tracking systems required for solar energy systems to remain efficient. Furthermore, cu…
ISEF · 2017
Biomedical Engineering
Propofol is the most common anesthetic agent used in the United States, but 60% of the time patients feel pain on injection (Jalota et al. 2011). This pain is hypothesized to be from the fre…
ISEF · 2017
Environmental Engineering Fourth Award
Plastics are responsible for several damages to the environment. They, annually, cause more than one million birds’ deaths and other 100 thousand marine mammals’ deaths. On the other hand, p…
ISEF · 2017
Energy: Chemical Fourth Award
The goal of this project is to address two main issues, climate change and the growing demand for energy. As we all know, the biggest reason why we have increased levels of CO2 emissions in…
AJAS · 2017
Biomedical and Health Sciences (inferred)
Ulcerative colitis (UC) is a severe autoimmune disease that affects the colon and impacts nearly 700,000 Americans annually. Current treatments including approved pharmaceuticals and colecto…
ISEF · 2017
Translational Medical Science Third Award
The Zika Virus (ZIKV) has recently been a major cause of concern in many parts of the world. ZIKV infections are linked to fetal and newborn microcephaly, a spectrum of abnormalities in the…
ISEF · 2017
Chemistry
Toxic heavy metal contamination has become an impending global threat due to rapidly increasing diffusion by water from mining settlements and industrial factories. Current sensing methods a…
AJAS · 2017
Methyltransferase-like 3 (METTL3) is an enzyme associated with mRNA stability and regulation of translation through N⁶-methyladenosine (m⁶A) modification. METTL3 has been implicated in cance…
ISEF · 2017
Biochemistry
Site-specific mutagenesis, also known as site-directed mutagenesis, is the specific and intentional introduction of mutations into a DNA sequence. This technique has many applications in res…
ISEF · 2017
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Life of all organisms is largely regulated by protein-protein interactions. In particular, immune system reactions are provided by those interactions. When our immune system fails, scientist…
CSEF · 2017
Environmental Engineering
Objectives/Goals The purpose of my project is to develop a simple low cost technique to reduce evaporation loss of water by blocking with a disc or hemispherical cover. Evaporation loss is e…
ISEF · 2017
Biomedical and Health Sciences
This investigation was based on inducing a major hallmark of Type II Diabetes (T2D), insulin resistance (IR), in Drosophila melanogaster (DM) through high Sucrose diets (HSD) and characteriz…
ISEF · 2017
Materials Science
Lithium-ion batteries are one of the most popular secondary batteries in modern society. Therefore, electrode materials are actively developed to increase the efficiency and stability of lit…
ISEF · 2017
Embedded Systems
Most computation in electronic devices is performed using transistor based logic gates. However, due to physical limitations on transistor’s size, it will be impossible to develop the transi…
ISEF · 2017
Biomedical and Health Sciences
The goal of the research is to develop “live” food products with high biological value, which will be used in the diet therapy of people diagnosed with metabolic syndromes. In order to creat…
ISEF · 2017
Energy: Chemical
In this project, sustainable dye sensitized solar cells were optimized by fabrication of a novel organic dye composition which improved the stability and efficiency of the cell. A dye materi…
ISEF · 2017
Translational Medical Science
Mutation detection contributes great significance in the early diagnosis, prognosis and monitoring of cancer. Therefore, the emergence of a highly efficient assay for detecting mutation is g…
ISEF · 2017
Materials Science
China is famous for cooking, but a lot of waste oil is generated in China per year. Traditional separating method cannot isolate oil and water completely, spending much energy and money on i…