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 · 2018
Environmental Engineering Fourth Award
In April 2017, a US District Court overturned the exemption concentrated animal feeding operations (CAFOs) enjoyed from air emission control rules. Odor, ammonia and/or hydrogen sulfide emis…
ISEF · 2018
Earth and Environmental Sciences
The Egyptian Industry faces many challenges in areas such as energy production and sustainable agriculture. Many of these challenges could be tackled when our industries start operating on a…
ISEF · 2018
Environmental Engineering
Current wastewater treatments are complex, costly and leads to secondary pollution. Algal bioremediation is a viable alternative to removing heavy metals and toxic organic compounds from was…
CSEF · 2018
Biochemistry/ Molecular Biology Second Award
Objectives/Goals CRISPR/Cas9 has an enormous potential to treat chronic and genetic diseases through its versatility and efficiency in editing DNA. However, this technology has yet to be imp…
AJAS · 2018
Biomedical and Health Sciences (inferred)
Antigenic similarity between tumor cells and embryonic stem cells has been recognized for many years. However, treatments harnessing this similarity have achieved little success, largely due…
ISEF · 2018
Plant Sciences
Our 2016-2017 research found negative effects to radish seeds from a low-orbit, 30-day space flight and verified those results with independent treatments of beta radiation and vibration. Fo…
AJAS · 2018
Biomedical Engineering (inferred)
Concussion research has become a very relevant topic across various media outlets. In the NFL there was an increase of 58% on the amount of concussions during the regular season in 2016. Con…
ISEF · 2018
Embedded Systems
Making a device to provide the appropriate environment for a large group of plant species by providing the important factors for growth and reducing the amount of water used in irrigation. A…
AJAS · 2018
Biomedical and Health Sciences (inferred)
Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA), the most common form of autoimmune arthritis, is a progressive inflammatory autoimmune disease with unclear causes. The objective of this project was to assess how…
CSEF · 2018
Environmental Engineering
Objectives/Goals My project is to learn how fast things decompose in different environmental conditions. I did this project because grocery stores are now charging for plastic bags to encour…
ISEF · 2018
Animal Sciences Third Award
Textiles have become the second most polluting industry in the environment, after petroleum. As a $772 billion field, businesses will need to find green, alternative solutions, due to the 2.…
ISEF · 2018
Earth and Environmental Sciences
The objective of our project is to monitor the environmental pollution of the Black Sea seaside using magnetic susceptibility measurements. We monitor: the beaches, areas adjacent to the mai…
ISEF · 2018
Plant Sciences
Banana peels are a high starch fruit with a molecular composition that allows the peel to be broken down and remade into a biodegradable plastic. These plastics are an economic way to help f…
CSEF · 2018
Zoology Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals The objective of these studies is to determine potential control methods for spinose ear ticks on dairies. The studies include observations on when the animals become infest…
AJAS · 2018
The Arctic treeline is the largest ecological transition zone that marks the the northernmost boundary where trees can exist. The boreal forest comes to an abrupt stop, and beyond the last s…
ISEF · 2018
Mathematics
Our project is motivated by the following property: “For four focal radii originating equiangularly from a focus of an ellipse, the sum of their squared reciprocals is a constant.” We genera…
ISEF · 2018
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Hot Springs National Park implemented controlled burns in the old growth areas of Sugarloaf Mountain in March 2010 and February 2016 with the intention of restoring habitat for shortleaf pin…
CSEF · 2018
Mammalian Biology Third Award
Objectives/Goals We set out to determine the energetic cost for the Southern Sea Otter foraging in Moss Landing Harbor channel, a location with increased boat disturbance. This entailed answ…
ISEF · 2018
Engineering Mechanics
The purpose of this experiment was to test the importance of four separate factors in a hyperloop system and to see if a combination of all of the factors produced greater velocities than th…
ISEF · 2018
Materials Science
This study was done to establish appropriate methods for creating microcracks in concrete. Establishing these methods allow for further investigation on the factors that effect self-healing…
ISEF · 2018
Biomedical and Health Sciences Fourth Award
Topotecan (TPT) is a chemotherapeutic drug frequently used to treat lung cancer, which is the leading cause of cancer-related death in the US. However, the development of drug resistance in…
ISEF · 2018
Embedded Systems
The subject of my current development is a medical device which can keep the controlled temperature of the skin for hours. The effective part of the device is a thermo-electric cooler based…
AJAS · 2018
Animal Sciences (inferred)
Amino acids are essential to the human diet. However, little is known about how the body senses and perceives amino acids. To study chemosensory and gustatory systems on a smaller, simpler s…
ISEF · 2018
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Harmful algal blooms (HABs) have greatly devastated the world’s aquatic ecosystems. Therefore, it is an objective to find a viable solution to a detrimental problem. The root of the problem…
CSEF · 2018
Biochemistry/ Molecular Biology
Objectives/Goals Myeloproliferative Neoplasms (MPNs) are malignancies marked by an excess of blood cells. JAK2, Janus Kinase 2, mediates pro-inflammatory cytokines, like Tumor Necrosis Facto…
CSEF · 2018
Microbiology (General) Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals Non-caloric artificial sweeteners (NAS) are among the most commonly used food additives in the world. These artificial sweeteners can actually lead to obesity indirectly by…
AJAS · 2018
Wildfires are growing in both number and intensity across the United States as a result of many factors, including climate change, extreme drought, and human impacts. With this increase of w…
ISEF · 2018
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) present a high degree of clonal heterogeneity, making it difficult to identify which cells are capable of repopulating tissues versus those more prone to underg…
ISEF · 2018
Materials Science
As the use of transistors have proliferated in electronic devices, much attention has been granted to the area of research in increasing their efficiency. Thin film transistors (TFT) are imp…
ISEF · 2018
Engineering Mechanics
Designs for scrubbers to be deployed on a Remotely Operated Vehicle (ROV) were evaluated for speed and efficiency of removing sea growth from ship’s hulls without damaging the underlying pai…