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 · 2023
Behavioral & Social Sciences Honorable_mention Award
Users with visual impairments should be able to access the internet without getting blocked by CAPTCHA. CAPTCHA is a technology that helps differentiate humans from SPAM Bots. For users with…
ISEF · 2023
Chemistry
Purpose of the project: The purpose was to find a powdered chemical compound that was a respectable electrical insulator to replace other more traditional insulators. The powders are to be n…
ISEF · 2023
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
The use of renewable energy sources is growing globally, but the storage of this energy remains a major challenge. Traditional Methods rely on non-renewable energy. To address this issue, a…
CSEF · 2023
Environmental Engineering Honorable_mention Award
Being a drought-impacted California resident, I wanted to do something about water conservation. I have observed that there is a lot of reusable water while we take showers that can be used…
ISEF · 2023
Systems Software Fourth Award
The unnecessary use of wood is a problem everywhere in the world. It’s caused by the carelessness of people or bad inventory in warehouses. Because of that, we think that a thorough registry…
JSHS · 2023
Glioblastoma is a malignant brain tumor distinguished by intra-tumoral heterogeneity and inevitable recurrence. Residual tumor-initiating cells in the infiltrated normal brain parenchyma, te…
ISEF · 2023
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Fertilizer runoff is a biohazard that impacts many freshwater ecosystems and has become increasingly detrimental in recent years. Lakes have experienced high rates of eutrophication resultin…
ISEF · 2023
Animal Sciences
Fall armyworms(FAW) cause around 500 million dollars in economic damage each year in the U.S., and pesticidal treatments are becoming increasingly ineffective. Meanwhile, management solution…
JSHS · 2023
Obesity and diabetes are life-debilitating health conditions that may lead to life-long health complications. Energy homeostasis is tightly regulated, helping maintain food satiation and sat…
JSHS · 2023
In an increasingly tumultuous and tense political and racial climate, there is new information in the concept of racial trauma. Racial trauma is a direct effect of personal experience or exp…
ISEF · 2023
Plant Sciences
This project’s purpose was to measure how much the addition of compost in soil would affect the growth of Capsicum annuum. Compost boosts plant growth by adding vital nutrients to soil. Comp…
ISEF · 2023
Translational Medical Science
Aging is a process involving dynamic changes to the living body over time. From a biological standpoint, it relies on various molecular and cellular factors typically dependent on the enviro…
ISEF · 2023
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Confirmation bias is a subconscious bias in which people selectively search for, interpret, and remember information in a way that confirms their pre-existing beliefs. The purpose of my rese…
ISEF · 2023
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Cord blood (CB) hematopoietic stem cells (HSC) are the most promising source for therapy purposes. Such cells are highly proliferative, have low immune reactivity and a lower risk of graft-v…
ISEF · 2023
Biochemistry
Enzymes, known informally as the workhorses of the cell, are proteins that quicken chemical reactions. Traditional research on improving enzyme efficiency focuses on the active site or bindi…
ISEF · 2023
Earth and Environmental Sciences First Award
Sedimentary rock layers found in eastern Pennsylvania, including Berks County, are known to have uranium deposits. Radon-222 is a naturally occurring radioactive gas that is a daughter eleme…
ISEF · 2023
Physics and Astronomy Fourth Award
Despite their discovery now dating over 50 years ago, and the great deal of observations we have collected in that time, there is still little we understand about the causes of a pulsar’s gr…
JSHS · 2023
With the rapid rise of antibiotic resistance in bacteria, the fundamental need for new antimicrobial therapeutics is a pressing concern. In order to have an adequate arsenal to target antibi…
CSEF · 2023
Behavioral & Social Sciences First Award
Chat GPT is a groundbreaking Artificial Intelligence (AI) application that can write essays in under a minute. Since its release in November 2022, it has sparked a worldwide debate about its…
ISEF · 2023
Mathematics
Collatz Conjecture was created in the 1930s by Lothar Collatz and has perplexed mathematicians for almost a century. The Collatz problem is an iteration of n/2, when n is even, and 3x+1, whe…
ISEF · 2023
Engineering Technology: Statics & Dynamics First Award
In the diverse landscape of robotic applications, there has been limited research on robots capable of navigating under stick structures, despite their critical importance in high-risk envir…
ISEF · 2023
Plant Sciences
Peanuts are an important oil and food crop. The calcium essential to pod growth and peanut productivity is obtained mainly via roots, so root growth is of key importance. Research has shown…
ISEF · 2023
Biomedical Engineering
The growing demand for patient organs has revealed 3D bio-printing as a potential solution for the global organ shortage. However, a deeper fundamental understanding of vascularization is re…
ISEF · 2023
Physics and Astronomy
Trans Neptunian Objects (TNOs) are objects at least 30 astronomical units (AU) away from the Sun. The distance and primitivity of TNOs allow them to preserve data from the infant solar syste…
ISEF · 2023
Mathematics
Systems of polynomial equations are of fundamental importance to mathematics, and have been applied to numerous areas, including physical problems, chemical reactions, robotics, communicatio…
ISEF · 2023
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Violence in academic institutions has been notably increasing in the United States. School shootings and violence are at an all-time high, and so are suicide rates. The purpose of this exper…
ISEF · 2023
Plant Sciences
There is growing interest in the Cannabacaea family for therapeutic and clinical use. Best known for hemp and marijuana (Cannabis sativa), this family also includes the Humulus lupulus (comm…
ISEF · 2023
Mathematics
Distance-based indices on graphs are of interest to chemical graph theorists for their connections to the chemical properties of molecules. In this paper, I study several extremal properties…
ISEF · 2023
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Eye diseases can potentially cause blindness in patients. Cataracts are the leading cause of blindness, accounting for over 51% of blindness worldwide. Glaucoma and diabetic retinopathy foll…
ISEF · 2023
Systems Software Third Award
Glaucoma is a collection of progressive optic neuropathies impacting the optic nerve head. As the world's leading cause of irreversible blindness, timely diagnosis of this asymptomatic disea…