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
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Garment classification is a typical first step for carrying out cloth manipulation tasks. This is a challenging feat for neural networks due to clothing’s easily deformable state, which caus…
ISEF · 2022
Physics and Astronomy
Fluid dynamics is a complex topic involving many phenomena that can be observed in everyday life. The research presents the phenomenon of milk diffusion in coffee and other substances, consi…
ISEF · 2022
Physics and Astronomy
Analogs constitute a powerful tool in physics: not only do they simplify complex phenomena but also allow the possibility of transferring experimental data from one field to another. First c…
ISEF · 2022
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
Petroleum-based engines use carbon-based non-renewable energy sources, and electric options have low range and slow refuel speeds. This experiment focused on designing, engineering, and prod…
ISEF · 2022
Environmental Engineering
The Mississippi River is a huge untapped kinetic energy source that flows at a rate of 1.6 million gallons of water per second. Meanwhile, burning fossil fuels produces 35 billion gigatons o…
ISEF · 2022
Plant Sciences
Nations across the world cannot produce their own crops due to their non-arable land. The research conducted in this experiment put simple and efficient systems of hydroponics to the test. T…
ISEF · 2022
Environmental Engineering
According to WHO 12.6 million people die every year owing to unhealthy environment. Therefore, the sustainable use of our ecosystem and preservation of next generation rights became an urgen…
ISEF · 2022
Embedded Systems
According on extrapolation of the data in 2022, there are around 190,000 cases of acute respiratory distress syndrome (ARDS) in the United States each year and the main reason of ARDS is hyp…
ISEF · 2022
Plant Sciences
Approximately 40% of all agricultural production is lost due to pests. HR4 (HOMOLOG OF RPW8 4) confers resistance to Myzus persicae, more commonly known as the green peach aphid (GPA), which…
ISEF · 2022
Chemistry
Gamma Hydroxybutyrate (GHB) and its precursor Gamma Butyrolactone (GBL) are easily accessible, Class C drugs, commonly used in drug-facilitated sexual assault cases. Existing technologies fo…
ISEF · 2022
Chemistry
Microplastics are plastic particles that are less than 5mm long that come from the breakdown of larger plastics and the use of synthetic polymers in manufacturing, and have been shown to hav…
ISEF · 2022
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics Second Award
With the lowest 5-year survival rate (9%) among all types of cancer, pancreatic cancer is considered one of the most lethal diseases in the world. Current conventional treatments often fail…
JSHS · 2022
With the lowest 5-year survival rate (9%) among all types of cancer, pancreatic cancer is considered one of the most lethal diseases in the world. Current conventional treatments often fail…
ISEF · 2022
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV2) is a viral disease that has caused a major global pandemic. There are many developing treatments for SARS-CoV2 including vaccines…
JSHS · 2022
Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV2) is a viral disease that has caused a major global pandemic. There are many developing treatments for SARS-CoV2 including vaccines…
ISEF · 2022
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Embryonic development is a universal process that is elucidated amongst healthcare professionals and researchers in the field of obstetrics. During particular stages of development, families…
ISEF · 2022
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
With thousands of Mendelian-inherited diseases, new bioinformatics technology such as WES has been implemented to identify causal genes and variants within patients. Even with modern technol…
ISEF · 2022
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Despite the immense promise of cancer immunotherapies, there are significant challenges to overcoming treatment resistance and improving efficacy. Strategies such as the combination immunoth…
ISEF · 2022
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Nearly seven million individuals in the U.S. have Essential Tremor (ET), making it one of the most common neurological disorders. Current ET research aligns it with a Purkinje cell disorder…
ISEF · 2022
Microbiology
Almost 10 million cancer-related deaths occur every year, with costs totaling $208.9 billion. Chemotherapy, the currently accepted treatment for cancer, causes significant economic losses, a…
JSHS · 2022
Responsible for over 460 million infections and 6 million deaths as of March 2022, the COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted the livelihoods of people across the globe. Research and development ha…
ISEF · 2022
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Immunotherapy activates the body’s immune response against cancers by inhibiting interactions between cancer cells and T-cells (cells that fight against foreign substances or in this case, c…
ISEF · 2022
Microbiology
Bacterial biofilms are complex and structured surface-attached bacterial communities held by a matrix of extracellular polymeric substances. Biofilms pose a significant threat to healthcare…
ISEF · 2022
Physics and Astronomy
High-mass stars (stars with masses above 8 times the mass of the Sun) generate great amounts of energy, more than several thousand times the energy generated by the Sun. At present, the mech…
JSHS · 2022
High-mass stars (stars with masses above 8 times the mass of the Sun) generate great amounts of energy, more than several thousand times the energy generated by the Sun. At present, the mech…
JSHS · 2022
Circular RNAs (circRNAs) have been a novel discovery in the past two decades. Formed by a different type of alternative splicing called back-splicing, circRNAs have been found to have functi…
ISEF · 2022
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Oil spills have become a major problem in waterways around the world, more specifically, the Gulf of Mexico. With increasing risks and effects, the necessity of oil containment has become a…
JSHS · 2022
With the rise of fossil fuel extraction and reliance on the non-renewable materials that are produced from these resources, interest in more sustainable materials has increased to combat the…
ISEF · 2022
Biomedical Engineering
The duplication of genetic information (DNA replication) is central to life. Numerous control mechanisms ensure the exact course of the process during each cell division. Disturbances of DNA…
ISEF · 2022
Chemistry
Nano titanium dioxide is a widely used photocatalyst, but there are still two problems with it. On the one hand, nano titanium dioxide can only absorb ultraviolet light, so the utilization r…