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 · 2014
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
NG2-glia are a class of glial cells in the brain that play a critical role in synaptic regulation and myelination through their structural support of axons and oligodendrocytes. In the insta…
ISEF · 2014
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Robots and other machines typically need to be pre-programmed with instructions to perform and are not actually provided with what their end goal is. This project aims to change that and giv…
CSEF · 2014
Electronics & Electromagnetics First Award
Objectives/Goals According to the American Foundation for the Blind, there are over 21.2 million visually impaired adults in the U.S. However, almost all commercially available aids for this…
ISEF · 2014
Energy: Physical
Congenital heart defects are the leading cause of death in infants and young children. Current surgical procedures are unable to replicate the anatomy and function of the native myocardium.…
ISEF · 2014
Engineering Mechanics
An energy harvester is developed via the pyroelectric effect that utilizes temperature fluctuations due to the sun and the wind on a lead-zirconate-titanate (PZT) disk to generate energy in…
CSEF · 2014
Aerodynamics/ Hydrodynamics (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals My project goal was to experiment with different blade configurations and aerodynamics to produce the most voltage. Methods/Materials Horizon WindPitch Education Kit which c…
CSEF · 2014
Physics & Astronomy
Objectives/Goals The objective of this project is to find out if different light colors contains different amounts of energy. My hypothesis was Red will contain the highest level of energy.…
ISEF · 2014
Engineering Mechanics
Is recognized increasingly the narrow relation that exists between energy and the environment, in fact, the energy and the environment they are indispensable for the sustainable development,…
ISEF · 2014
Energy: Physical Fourth Award
Substantial challenges of drug delivery to treat various diseases exist in our modern world. The acidic environment of the stomach, combined with an array of intestinal digestive enzymes, po…
CSEF · 2014
Pharmacology/ Toxicology Third Award
Objectives/Goals Substantial challenges of drug delivery to treat various diseases exist in our modern world. For example; the acidic environment of the stomach, combined with an array of in…
CSEF · 2014
Applied Mechanics & Structures
Objectives/Goals I wanted to create wing designs that would generate more lift than the conventional wing for commercial planes. My question was: Will a wing with a curved leading edge or a…
CSEF · 2014
Physics & Astronomy Fourth Award
Objectives/Goals The world needs a clean, renewable source of energy that will fuel our existing four stroke engines. Ive proved before that HHO can safely run an engine without gasoline. Pr…
ISEF · 2014
Energy: Chemical
Major advances in artificial vision have the ability to aid the visually-impaired and create systems designed to improve the mobility and independence of the affected individuals. In 2002, a…
ISEF · 2014
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Visualizing differentiation of cancer cells is a crucial method of measuring cancer progression. A novel fluorescent protein reporter construct was designed with the purpose of recombining t…
ISEF · 2014
Environmental Engineering Second Award
Cimex lectularius, commonly known as the bed bug, presents a resurgent public health hazard characterized by its hosts’ allergic reactions, secondary skin infections, and psychological distr…
ISEF · 2014
Energy: Physical
Immunoassays, involving the precipitate reaction between antibodies and antigens, have wide applications for the detection of disease-related molecules in patients or contaminants in food or…
CSEF · 2014
Aerodynamics/ Hydrodynamics (Junior Division Only) Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals Design criteria: It needs to launch the rocket. It needs to be safe, not too difficult to build and low cost. It needs to go over twenty feet in the air and be repeatable. M…
ISEF · 2014
Systems Software
Botryococcus braunii race B is a green algae that generates large amounts of triterpene oils, such as squalene, which are known progenitors of modern combustible fuels. Triterpene methyltran…
ISEF · 2014
Systems Software Third Award
Algae are one of the most promising sources of biofuels because of their environmental sustainability, and the direct use of algal lipids as fuels. Conventional methods of extracting these l…
CSEF · 2014
Electronics & Electromagnetics Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals To create a smoke alarm system with a microcontroller capable of directing people to the nearest exit, and alert them the origin of the smoke. Methods/Materials An Arduino w…
ISEF · 2014
Environmental Engineering
This project was inspired by recent studies expressing a substantial need to increase food supplies. To accommodate the expected human population growth, developing more efficient protein so…
ISEF · 2014
Mathematics Third Award
The genetic explanation of Type II Diabetes has been long explored in hopes of developing a therapeutic treatment. Recent developments have led to the discovery of Betatrophin, an adipokine…
ISEF · 2014
Energy: Chemical
The objective of this study was to improve the accuracy of laser pointing by stabilizing the beam to stay constant on a specific target. To increase accuracy and stabilize the laser, a laser…
ISEF · 2014
Energy: Physical
In 2012, the World Economic Forum selected utilization of CO2 as a resource as one of 10 technologies which should be developed within the next three years. Also, many environmental problems…
ISEF · 2014
Environmental Engineering
The growth of population has created problems like increase of fCO2, food shortage and contamination to our water resources. Would it be possible to create a self-sustaining small portable 7…
ISEF · 2014
Plant Sciences
Environmental factors have a significant impact of the biological world. Much scientific research has focused on the adverse effects of endocrine disrupting compounds on wildlife and humans.…
ISEF · 2014
Environmental Engineering Fourth Award
Although there are some stove types in our life like gas stove and wood stove, all of these types can be harmful for humans and our environment. For example, the gas stove could burn the are…
ISEF · 2014
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Software environment for probabilistic comparison of protein sequences has been developed. It contains algorithms and tools for finding matrix of alignment probability for aminoacid pairs as…
ISEF · 2014
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Enzymes play a vital role in the human body. One most notably, in the digestive system, where they digest any starch you had previously consumed. Which lends itself to the problem, what woul…
ISEF · 2014
Microbiology
Virus; like smallpox, HIV, and H1N1; have cause millions of deaths, impacted lifestyles, and caused public scares. The best method of attack for a virus is to prevent it from ever happening,…