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 · 2015
Alternative Energy (Junior Division Only) Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals In this experiment, I tested which animals# waste produces the most easily harnessed methane energy. Methods/Materials I used animal waste from cow, horse, dog and pig to un…
ISEF · 2015
Biomedical and Health Sciences
The focus of this experiment was to study frustration and how it affected dispositional learning for 80 middle/high school students. Each student was given a questionnaire form and their hea…
ISEF · 2015
Today, gasoline made from petroleum products is primarily used to power vehicles. These products cause pollution and one day these resources may run out. Our nation has been researching alte…
ISEF · 2015
Third Award
A Grätzel solar cell (nano-crystalline dye sensitized or “DSSC”) is a photo electrochemical cell that use photons to excite electrons in organic fruit dyes to create electricity. The Grätzel…
ISEF · 2015
Virtually in every home in Nigeria and several other developing countries, there is one or more power generators. If our vehicles can be fuel-less and at the same time the owner can use them…
CSEF · 2015
Environmental Engineering
Objectives/Goals The objectives of the research were to determine the effectiveness of uranium removal via electrospun nanofibers by verifying significantly increased adsorption of U(VI) ion…
ISEF · 2015
Artificial neural networks (ANNs) proposed by McCulloch and Pitts are machine learning algorithms that are able to approximate any mapping or function when given a dataset. ANNs model the hu…
CSEF · 2015
Microbiology (Medical) (Junior Division Only) Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals To determine how much & which antifungal medication is required to slow down growth of fungus. Methods/Materials We made CO2 collection apparatus by drilling a hole in an em…
ISEF · 2015
The objective of the study was to evaluate the effect of chitosan as a fungicidal. Will chitosan be effective as a fungicidal for Rhizopus stolonifer fungus? The proposed hypothesis was if c…
CSEF · 2015
Mathematics & Software
Objectives/Goals The main purpose of the project is to introduce a notion of Differential Topology in the setting of Fuzzy Set Theory, introduced by Zadeh in the 1960's. As Fuzzy Set Theory…
ISEF · 2015
The main purpose of the project is to introduce a notion of Differential Topology in the setting of Fuzzy Set Theory, introduced by Zadeh in the 1960's. As Fuzzy Set Theory is just a general…
CSEF · 2015
Mathematics & Software
Objectives/Goals My goal of this project was to accurately show how long I was on the computer, and what I was doing, based on mouse movement, keystrokes, and CPU usage. Methods/Materials Th…
ISEF · 2015
Systems Software
The objectives of this project were (1) to utilize game theory to analyze the prevalence and effects of genetic discrimination and its implications for the future of genetic testing and tech…
ISEF · 2015
Multi-drug resistance (MDR) is a condition enabling disease causing microorganisms to resist distinct antibiotics. At present, the only way to fight against this problem is to develop a new…
ISEF · 2015
First Award
There is no simple sensor for the direct real-time measuring of the concentration of gas mixtures to date. While there are a variety of different probes for gas measuring, these are usually…
ISEF · 2015
Abstract: The United States automotive market is evolving to more fuel efficient fleets and alternative power-trains. This project analyzes the total cost of ownership (TCO) of a diesel and…
ISEF · 2015
Systems Software Fourth Award
Pancreatic cancer is poorly responsive to available chemotherapy. miR-34a has been suggested as a potential therapy for pancreatic cancer, however it needs to be specifically targeted to the…
CSEF · 2015
Behavioral & Social Sciences Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals The purpose was to examine the relationship between teacher gender, student gender, and performance in STEM. Methods/Materials Two large counties in California, Alameda and…
CSEF · 2015
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals This research explores gender as an influencing factor in ones reaction to frustration; can behavior be predicted by a subject#s gender? Based on literature, the hypothesis…
ISEF · 2015
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Often times, there are instances where making certain decisions are harder than others. One may think that a person who has trouble deciding in one area should also be indecisive across a br…
ISEF · 2015
The purpose of this project was to build a basic fuel cell using loamy mud and use it to generate electricity. A variety of types of mud were initially used to find out which would generate…
CSEF · 2015
Electronics & Electromagnetics
Objectives/Goals Approximately 1.3 billion people in the world do not have access to electricity for basic needs, but they do not know they can use simple techniques to generate it. There ar…
CSEF · 2015
Environmental Engineering
Objectives/Goals This project is based on determining how adding Sodium Chloride affects the power output of a microbial fuel cell. We hope to improve upon the environment through analyzing…
ISEF · 2015
Pellet Stoves have been around for many generations. They have generally been using wood as a fuel source. Although wood is a good fuel, this is a negative impact on the environment, and red…
ISEF · 2015
Second Award
Supercomputers have become critical to the advancement of many fields including medical research, big data analysis, and high-energy physics. Given the recent plateau in processor speeds, ho…
ISEF · 2015
Fourth Award
Due to the dynamic and variable nature of the stock market, trading strategies do have strong and weak periods. That requires periodic changes in the strategy, which involves finding the bes…
ISEF · 2015
Biomedical Engineering
Hermansky Pudlak Syndrome is an autosomal recessive disease: a type of albinism correlated to the mutation of an HPS gene and the pulmonary function of patients. Puerto Rico has the highest…
ISEF · 2015
Stem cell research is opening doors to solving medical complications in amazing and novel ways. Regenerative medicine, one of its principal applications, is responsible for having already sa…
ISEF · 2015
Halorubrum salsolis is a recently discovered halobacterium isolated from the Great Salt Lake in the western United States. H. salsolis is known for its high tolerance to UV radiation and sal…
CSEF · 2015
Toxicology Fourth Award
Objectives/Goals The purpose of this experiment is to study how metal contamination impacts biological organisms at a cellular level and how the growth properties of cells are impacted. The…