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 · 2018
Embedded Systems
This project set about to build a radio astronomy station capable of receiving radio signals reflected from ionized meteor trails to measure two important characteristics affecting their use…
ISEF · 2018
Microbiology
Endophytic fungi are a harmless symbiont of plants and provide environment-stress tolerance to their host plants. We collected leaf samples of 4 conifer species Abies koreana, Juniperus rigi…
AJAS · 2018
Biomedical and Health Sciences (inferred)
Background: Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) is an X-linked recessive neuromuscular disease resulting from mutations in the dystrophin gene and it affects 1 in 5,000 males. In 2017, DMD-ass…
ISEF · 2018
Plant Sciences
The Florida Ridges, ecosystems that have been undisturbed for the past millions of years, are home to many unique and rare flora. There is an expressed need to preserve these special ecosyst…
CSEF · 2018
Environmental Science Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals The Carlsbad desalination plant began operating in December of 2015. I wondered if the desalination process might have impacts on the water quality at the Agua Hedionda Lago…
CSEF · 2018
Plant Biology
Objectives/Goals Many gardeners dissolve Aspirin in the water they use to water their plants and are convinced it helps them grow. The reasoning is that plant produce small amounts of salicy…
CSEF · 2018
Plant Biology
Objectives/Goals The objective of this study is to determine the effect of coffee on the growth of spinach. Methods/Materials Spinach seeds, planter pots, potting soil, plastic cover, graph…
CSEF · 2018
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals The objective of this study was to determine which text color has the greatest positive impact on comprehension. I hypothesized that red will have the most considerable impa…
ISEF · 2018
Embedded Systems
The purpose of my project was to see if mental practice was better than physical practice. My hypothesis was, if I had three people watching a video of a pianist playing a specific song and…
CSEF · 2018
Toxicology
Objectives/Goals Everyone says radiation is bad for you. Therefore, we wanted to study its effect on different types of organisms in our project. We predicted that exposing both unicellular…
CSEF · 2018
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals The objective of this study is to determine the effects of drinking Red Bull on the test subjects' performance of cognitive tasks. Methods/Materials Stopwatch, "Perfection"…
CSEF · 2018
Mammalian Biology Second Award
Objectives/Goals The objective of this project is to see if the use of electronic devices before bed affects the quality of your sleep. I also hope to find an amount of time you can use elec…
CSEF · 2018
Physics & Astronomy
Objectives/Goals The volume of a violin is an important quality that affects the way music is perceived by the audience. This experiment aimed to find how the tension of the violin bow affec…
CSEF · 2018
Microbiology (Medical) (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals The objective of this study is to determine if common antibiotics have the same effect in different temperatures and beyond their expiration date on Bacillus subtilis. Metho…
CSEF · 2018
Electronics & Electromagnetics
Objectives/Goals The purpose of this project was to find out whether the number of turns within a coil per inch affects the speed of an electric train traveling through the coil. My hypothes…
CSEF · 2018
Aerodynamics/ Hydrodynamics (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals My experiment is addressing the following question: Does the Type of Wind Turbine Affect Energy Produced? Methods/Materials Construct the four turbines (Savonius VAWT, Girom…
CSEF · 2018
Mammalian Biology
Objectives/Goals The objective of this project was to determine whether the experiences and prior knowledge was superior to the better physical attributes of younger dogs at a series of test…
CSEF · 2018
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals Previous research regarding the relationship between motivation and performance has found that extrinsic motivation (incentives supplied by sources external from oneself, su…
ISEF · 2018
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Plastic pollution is extremely bad for the environment. It kills thousands of organisms yearly and that number will only grow. Being able to cut back that plastic or get rid of it all togeth…
CSEF · 2018
Biochemistry/ Molecular Biology
Objectives/Goals The objective of this study was to determine if dominant traits are more commonly expressed than recessive,and if so by how much. Methods/Materials I started this project by…
CSEF · 2018
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals This project aimed to determine if exposure to blue light through screen time had any impact on the rapid eye movement (REM) sleep or the mood of a human sleeper. Methods/Ma…
CSEF · 2018
Materials Science (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals During this experiment the goal was to find out what common countertop was most stain resistant and durable. My hypothesis was that granite would be the most stain resistant…
ISEF · 2018
Embedded Systems
A Doppler Radar System is presented that is suitable for observing sudden changes of streamflow. Features of the system include a commercially available Doppler radar transceiver and Digital…
ISEF · 2018
Systems Software
The purpose of this project was to create a feasible human-machine interface which could effectively transcribe speech onto a wrist-mounted display for those with hearing impairments. My hyp…
CSEF · 2018
Mammalian Biology
Objectives/Goals The objective of the experiment was to use red and green filters to improve red and green shade distinction in red/green color deficient individuals. The hypothesis was that…
ISEF · 2018
Biomedical and Health Sciences
When diagnosing intraductal lesions in breast tissue, pathologists evaluate architectural, morphologic and at times immunohistochemical features to classify the disease. However, in the medi…
ISEF · 2018
Behavioral and Social Sciences Third Award
Discovering children psychological issues has been hindered by the lack of children ability to express their feelings and needs using words, in addition to the shortage of an efficient and s…
ISEF · 2018
Embedded Systems Third Award
The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) predicts the world's population will increase from 7.3 billion to 9.7 billion people by 2050 – which will require global crop yields to increase b…
ISEF · 2018
Plant Sciences Fourth Award
Genetic diversity is crucial to the survival of species. To preserve plants threatened by natural and human causes, ex situ conservation has been implemented with seed banking and cryopreser…
ISEF · 2018
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM) is a common heart disease that causes sudden cardiac arrest in people of all ages. In this research, we tested six chemotherapy drugs that reinforced separa…