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 · 2020
Environmental Engineering
With a goal of reducing sand usage and providing a use for waste plastic, the research conducted studied the impact of adding varying percentages of HDPE plastic by mass into concrete blocks…
JSHS · 2020
ARL Fellow Marshall A. Schroeder, Ph.D. Project Advisor Electrochemistry Branch, U.S. Army Research Laboratory Highly concentrated electrolytes have gained attention for their unusual behavi…
AJAS · 2020
Recently, a novel eubacterial ABC-F protein, energy-dependent translation throttle A (EttA) has been identified as a regulator of the elongation cycle of protein synthesis, depending on ATP…
ISEF · 2020
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Colon cancer is a leading cause of death worldwide. Sea cucumbers are a potential source of medicinal compounds and have been consumed in traditional Chinese medicine. Thus, it was hypothesi…
ISEF · 2020
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
Due to the high contribution of methane gas to the greenhouse effect by anthropogenic events, mainly agriculture and livestock, it arose to propose a homemade alternative method to reduce th…
AJAS · 2020
Despite advancements in helmet technology, traumatic brain injury is still a grave threat to health and safety. Polymer foams, including expanded polystyrene (EPS), are today’s common energy…
ISEF · 2020
Plant Sciences
Water Caltrop (Trapa bicornis), also known as devil pod or bat nut, is an aquatic flora with a unique horn-liked shape rhizome. We were interested in its special structure which appears to a…
ISEF · 2020
Biomedical Engineering
Hippotherapy uses the movements of horses to treat people with disabilities. Each hippotherapy patient has different needs, highlighting the importance of researching to understand every asp…
AJAS · 2020
Energy and Transport (inferred)
Hybrid organic–inorganic lead halide perovskite solar cells, PVSCs, have emerged in the past decade as a promising, low cost, thin film photovoltaic device with the power conversion efficien…
ISEF · 2020
Engineering Mechanics
We have worked in this year’s continuation project on the development of a magnetically levitating vehicle (MLV) that can hover in an actively controlled manner over a diamagnetic aluminum p…
AJAS · 2020
In order to determine what kind of artificial sweetener had the largest affect on human health, I tested it on lab mice. I tested five different types of additives, sucralose, acesulfame pot…
ISEF · 2020
Translational Medical Science
The purpose of this experiment is to identify the effects of different 2 Deoxy-D-glucose (2DG) concentrations on the proliferation of cancer cells. It was hypothesized that if a 2DG concentr…
ISEF · 2020
Biochemistry
The purpose of this experiment was to determine which comestibles, increased a daphnid’s heart rate the most. The independent variables were chosen to have equal numbers of stimulants and de…
ISEF · 2020
Plant Sciences
The purpose of this experiment was to explore the effect that ambient humidity has on the ability of Pisum Sativum var. Marcrocarpons (sugar peas) to Perform Photosynthesis. The Hypothesis t…
ISEF · 2020
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Planarian, more specifically Brown planarian have an extremely high concentration of neoblast stem cells and causes the planarian to have some of the most reliable regeneration powers. This…
AJAS · 2020
Prenatal depression affects up to 23% of pregnant women in the US. Depression has been shown to be associated with birth defects, premature birth, and stillbirth. Fluoxetine is one of the on…
ISEF · 2020
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Polystyrene takes up to 30% of landfill space by volume, and takes over 500 years to decompose. This makes finding a solution to disposing of plastics and Styrofoam imperative. Mealworms, Te…
ISEF · 2020
Microbiology
I did research last year for my school science class testing out how well different cleaners you bought from the store, actually killed E.coli bacteria as advertised. I found the one that wo…
ISEF · 2020
Systems Software
Channel State Information (CSI) describes the properties of a channel (i.e., the instantaneous amplitude and phase of a signal) in a wireless communications link. Transmitted Wi-Fi signals c…
ISEF · 2020
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Obesity has reached epidemic proportions, becoming a preventable leading cause of death worldwide. A multitude of approaches and animal models have been employed to investigate the pathophys…
ISEF · 2020
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Surgical fires pose a major threat in the operating room (OR) to patients, personal, and to facility. Surgical Drapes served fuel for 85% of fires and 81% of fires involve electrocautery, wi…
ISEF · 2020
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
This study presents a triboelectric (TENG) and electromagnetic (EMG) hybrid floor-tile nanogenerator to harvest the already expended energy of human footsteps for electrical energy conversio…
ISEF · 2020
Engineering Mechanics
Water is a vital source for humanity, such important compound should not be wasted but finding a way to purify used water within our homes could helped preventing water shortage a much more…
ISEF · 2020
Animal Sciences
Alcohol consumption, which leads to complex disorders involving neurological deficits, is one of the main contributors in chronic diseases around the world with overall global death reaching…
ISEF · 2020
Engineering Mechanics
The purpose of this project is to attempt to combine the hyperloop with other techniques to make it cost-effective while being just as efficient. With the idea of Elon Musk’s hyperloop, comb…
JSHS · 2020
Less than 10% of the 1.3 million people who are blind in the United States are literate in Braille. Approximately 50,000 of these people are part of the deaf-blind community. More than 70% o…
ISEF · 2020
Behavioral and Social Sciences
In this qualitative research work we perform an iconographic interpretation of the rock manifestations of the Quilcay de Singa complex, based on the iconographic characteristics represented…
ISEF · 2020
Microbiology
Antibiotic-resistant bacteria is a rising global health concern. The emergence of antibiotic-resistant strains of Staphylococcus aureus such as methicillin-resistant S. aureus (MRSA) is of m…
ISEF · 2020
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a neurodegenerative disorder that affects the nervous system, affecting millions worldwide. However, the early diagnosis of ALS is difficult since symp…
AJAS · 2020
Biomedical and Health Sciences (inferred)
Glioblastomas (GBM) are the most common primary malignant brain tumor in adults and are recognized as one of the deadliest forms of cancer. Despite aggressive therapy consisting of maximal s…