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 · 2017
Earth and Environmental Sciences
The Western Pacific region is one of the most populous regions on Earth and also one of the most volcanically active regions. There are at least twenty-five active or dormant volcanoes withi…
ISEF · 2017
Mathematics
Western music is based on two concepts – Harmony, which is the simultaneous sounding of multiple notes (chords), and Voice Leading, which is the temporal motion of these notes (voices). The…
CSEF · 2017
Chemistry Second Award
Objectives/Goals Dyes are used in many industries, such as textiles, plastic, printing, and cosmetics. Because current methods of wastewater treatment are expensive and create toxic sludge,…
ISEF · 2017
Engineering Mechanics
Aircraft accidents are often caused by inadequate maintenance or unforeseeable structure failures due to loosen bolts and nuts on the aircraft. Although many different safety products availa…
CSEF · 2017
Aerodynamics/ Hydrodynamics (Junior Division Only) Third Award
Objectives/Goals The goal of my project was to apply a genetic computational strategy to optimize airplane wing shapes. Methods/Materials Materials: Python 2.7 programming language interpret…
ISEF · 2017
Systems Software Third Award
Today smartphones cannot match the capabilities of a personal computer. Also, the time of their use is limited to 1-2 days without recharging, and the cost in most cases is equal to the cost…
ISEF · 2017
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Fine particle is tiny material that cannot be seen to people. Its size is less than 2.5? in diameter, but it’s very harmful to our health. In some education school’s air condition, serious l…
ISEF · 2017
Engineering Mechanics Fourth Award
The world faces many problems. The most dangerous among these are environmental pollution and energy shortage in general specifically in Egypt pollution problem is considered a strategic pro…
CSEF · 2017
Microbiology (General) Third Award
Objectives/Goals This engineering project is building an oxygen generator using micro algae. High carbon dioxide concentration from breathing can cause headaches and breathing discomfort. Th…
CSEF · 2017
Toxicology
Objectives/Goals My question is to find out how much fertilizer that runs off into a body of water is harmful. My hypothesis is that the more concentrated the fertilizer dilution series, the…
CSEF · 2017
Mathematical Sciences
Objectives/Goals The objective is to automate the scoring process for Fast Fourier Transform plots, which represent a radio signal as observed by a telescope. The algorithm calculates a scor…
CSEF · 2017
Physics & Astronomy
Objectives/Goals This project analyzes the spectra of 157 stars, collected by the Lick Observatory's Automated Planet Finder (APF) telescope, to search for potential laser signals from extra…
ISEF · 2017
Physics and Astronomy Fourth Award
New survey telescopes and advances in observational technology have allowed astronomers to collect more detailed data about the universe than ever before. More efficient automated data analy…
ISEF · 2017
Physics and Astronomy
The purpose of the project is to determine if fire extinguishers can be made using only sound waves to combat fire. My hypothesis was that sound waves with any frequency will extinguish a fi…
CSEF · 2017
Microbiology (Medical) (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals The objective of this experiment is to determine if garlic is effective as an antimicrobial against E. coli bacteria. Methods/Materials The antimicrobial properties of garli…
ISEF · 2017
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Is it radioactive? That's what everyone asks when I tell them that I test items from Prince William Sound (PWS) beaches with my family. I am concerned with what is, and what will be, washed…
ISEF · 2017
Embedded Systems Second Award
Earthquakes are devastating natural phenomena which affect regions across the world. The recent Rome earthquake of 2016 or the memorable Nepal Earthquake of 2015 each claimed hundreds of liv…
ISEF · 2017
Materials Science
Graphene and Carbon nano-materials are amongst the most exciting materials of the next decades. Graphene’s superbly low resistivity and extraordinary strengths characteristics give it tremen…
ISEF · 2017
Cellular and Molecular Biology
Parkinson’s disease (PD) is an incurable, progressive neurodegenerative disorder characterized by the intracellular accumulation of alpha-synuclein (aSyn). aSyn oligomers have been implicate…
ISEF · 2017
Environmental Engineering
At present, we are faced with a variety of problems related to the mismanagement of natural resources such as pollution of ecosystems caused by the wastes that originate in our activities, s…
ISEF · 2017
Cellular and Molecular Biology
Mucociliary clearance of toxins from the respiratory tract epithelium depends on a precise ratio of ciliated to goblet cells. If this ratio is low, mucus produced by the goblet cells builds…
ISEF · 2017
Materials Science
Anodized aluminum has an artificial oxide film on its surface and is used for household products such as metal dishes or tea kettles. In general, synthetic dyes are used for coloring anodize…
ISEF · 2017
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Alzheimer’s affects 44 million people worldwide but has no preventive cures. This study created a novel methodology for Alzheimer’s (AD) and Mild Cognitive Impairment’s (MCI) early detection…
CSEF · 2017
Computational Systems & Analysis Fourth Award
Objectives/Goals To create an accurate diagnostic and prognostic machine learning based methodology for Alzheimer's early detection by using polygenic risk scores constructed from single nuc…
CSEF · 2017
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only) First Award
Objectives/Goals As cognitive training has been used as a primary treatment of several disabilities as well as memory diminishing diseases, my main objective of this project was to prove tha…
ISEF · 2017
Biomedical Engineering
Substantial research indicates that Curcumin may be a potent treatment for Alzheimer’s Disease. It’s water insolubility, degradation by alkalinity (small intestine) and tendency to be metabo…
CSEF · 2017
Computational Systems & Analysis Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals There exist no single, reliable methods of diagnosis for Parkinson's Disease, which motivates a machine learning approach. The purpose of this experiment is to perform a com…
CSEF · 2017
Computational Systems & Analysis Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals About 80% of all cancer incidences are sporadic and largely caused by environmental factors. This implies that cancer incidence varies widely based on geography, and my prel…
CSEF · 2017
Mathematical Sciences
Objectives/Goals Lesion segmentation plays an important role in the early identification and treatment of melanoma, a deadly skin cancer. Our objective was to develop an end-to-end methodolo…
ISEF · 2017
Environmental Engineering
Solar (PV) cells play a major role in turning our world green. The accumulation of dust and soil on the surface of (PV) cells drops its efficiency up to 85%.All technologies used for cleanin…