20,037 real projects from ISEF, the Canada-Wide Science Fair, JSHS and the Calgary Youth Science Fair — searchable by meaning, and filterable by fair, year, category and award.
ISEF · 2022
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
According to NASA Transition Authorization Act of 2017, the first human will be sent to Mars by 2033. Oxygen generation will be a vital part of any human expedition to Mars, however, current…
ISEF · 2022
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics Second Award
Tauopathies are a group of progressive disorders that are characterized when a protein, called tau, builds up significantly in an individual's brain. New breakthrough research has demonstrat…
ISEF · 2022
Microbiology Second Award
Antibiotic resistance is one of the leading challenges to public health today, and a primary contributor to the rapid rise of resistance is plasmids, which facilitate the spread of multi-dru…
ISEF · 2022
Physics and Astronomy
Dynamical systems are mathematical models that are used to describe the laws of a natural system. One example of such is the Duncan’s Map which models the Three-Body Problem that entails thr…
ISEF · 2022
Systems Software
This project presents a novel explore-and-fuse approach to solving difficult problems that cannot be solved by traditional divide-and-conquer. This approach is inspired by Physarum, a unicel…
ISEF · 2022
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Proteins are critical for lives. They not only build 10%-35% of our body tissues, but also can be used to understand the structures of different viruses, and then help us to explore effectiv…
ISEF · 2022
Environmental Engineering
Approximately 80 percent of wastewater worldwide returns to the ecosystem without treatment, meaning 1.8 billion people use a contaminated source of drinking water. The purpose of this exper…
ISEF · 2022
Animal Sciences
Vaping has become one of the most popular substitutes for smoking. Often touted as an healthier alternative to cigarettes, its increase in popularity has led to an alarming increase in addic…
ISEF · 2022
Biochemistry
This study was conducted to explore bioactive compounds found in the lower part of Korean enoki mushrooms, which is typically discarded, and suggests a method for utilization by extracting w…
ISEF · 2022
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Alcohol addiction is a significant societal problem negatively impacting millions of people. Understanding the underlying mechanisms of addiction will aid efforts to provide care and a cure…
ISEF · 2022
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
With the application of machine learning techniques to various fields (for example, computer vision and healthcare), the problem of interpretability is gaining importance. Building transpare…
ISEF · 2022
Animal Sciences
Sex differences in the brain can be seen in the behavior of rodent species in approaches towards mating, acts of aggression, and parenting, which are regulated by gonadal sex hormones. Devel…
ISEF · 2022
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics Third Award
Despite being one of the most common diseases in the world, Alzheimer’s disease is misdiagnosed at a high rate of 12% to 23% [1]. Current state-of-the-art machine learning models for Alzheim…
ISEF · 2022
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Though masks have now become an essential item the application of the now-widespread use of masks is greater than just in the context of protection from COVID-19. Throughout the day, mask-we…
ISEF · 2022
Chemistry
Salinization has slowly developed behind the scenes of each agricultural advancement. The accumulation of water soluble salts in soil is a problem that has come about due to farming practice…
ISEF · 2022
Translational Medical Science
An estimated 93 million adults in the United States are at high risk for serious vision loss, but only half visited an eye doctor in the past year. Prices for eye examinations are drasticall…
ISEF · 2022
Environmental Engineering
The aim of this work is to measure the parameters of sea water quality, their wireless transmission as well as their posting on the internet. The quantities that are measured are the tempera…
ISEF · 2022
Translational Medical Science
Early detection is the key to preventing arrhythmia-related complications. However, developing countries do not have the infrastructure, educated personnel, or devices to screen for arrhythm…
ISEF · 2022
Chemistry
Every year air pollution causes many chronic diseases. Particulate matter (PM) is a mixture of various chemical compounds and there is strong evidence of its adverse health effects, however,…
ISEF · 2022
Systems Software
Every year there’s a lot of food waste in China, the goal of this project was to decrease the food waste in my school canteen by creating a device. The project involved the design and distri…
ISEF · 2022
Behavioral and Social Sciences
This experiment examined facial recognition when changeable features (hair color, hairstyle, facial hair, and eyeglasses) are altered from a person's original appearance. The hypothesis is:…
ISEF · 2022
Mathematics Fourth Award
The question of the existence and uniqueness of integers is one of the oldest and most fundamental questions in mathematics. Studied by mathematicians such as Euler, Fermat, and Dedekind sin…
ISEF · 2022
Animal Sciences
Hoverflies (Diptera: Syrphidae) are widely considered to be among the most agile and swift modern winged insects. As implied by their name, hoverflies can hover as well as perform rapid and…
ISEF · 2022
Mathematics
Farey sequence F_n of order n is the sequence of all irreducible fractions between 0 and 1 with denominators no greater than n arranged in increasing order. Farey sequence has a geometric in…
ISEF · 2022
Mathematics
Matrix multiplication is the fundamental building block of machine learning. All neural networks, when being trained, use matrix multiplication. However, multiplying a significantly large nu…
ISEF · 2022
Physics and Astronomy
The US Energy Information Administration reports that 5% of all energy generated by national power stations is lost to grid infrastructure. Resistance in transmission wires is responsible fo…
ISEF · 2022
Engineering Technology: Statics & Dynamics
Since the earliest alchemists claimed to turn lead into gold, there have been inventors that have discovered free energy or a system to harvest energy for seemingly nothing. The “Blackbird”…
JSHS · 2022
Many water sources currently contain hazardous microplastics and oils, for which efficient removal methods do not yet exist. I have performed extended research over several years developing…
ISEF · 2022
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
We built a machine, a semi-automatic filament extruder used as a resource for 3D printing in the FDM technology - so popular and widely available today for almost every production method. We…
ISEF · 2022
Environmental Engineering
This project analyzes the different effects nature has on a slopes stability. It focuses on the effects of rain, water, vegetation, and suction stress. The purpose of the experiment is to de…