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 · 2022
Microbiology
In 1928, Alexander Fleming observed the ability of penicillin to kill Staphylococcus epidermidis, revolutionarily classifying penicillin as the first true antibiotic drug. Antibiotics are pr…
ISEF · 2022
Translational Medical Science
Noise induced hearing loss is a preventable cause of deafness. The deafness is permanent, as there is no treatment to regenerate damaged nerve cells. Hearing loss is debilitating and has a c…
ISEF · 2022
Biomedical Engineering
Insulin pumps on the market today are expensive and are computationally limited in calculating and providing accurate dose regimens for type 1 diabetics. In this work, four academic discipli…
ISEF · 2022
Plant Sciences
Indoor farming is a growing sector. Yet, there remains no economically viable tool that can signal vegetation stress to growers before it becomes visible to the naked eye. If early warnings…
ISEF · 2022
Environmental Engineering
Countries all over the world continue to develop and expand. Urbanization can cause significant problems including water sources being contaminated by bacteria. This research works to engine…
ISEF · 2022
Biomedical and Health Sciences Third Award
Homeostatic plasticity is necessary for maintaining neuronal activity within a set physiological range in response surrounding activity. While it plays a prominent role in learning and memor…
ISEF · 2022
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Pancreatic Ductal Adenocarcinoma (PDAC) is a highly lethal and aggressive form of pancreatic cancer with a 5-year survival rate of 8%. This form of cancer is particularly hard to treat due t…
ISEF · 2022
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Formalin-based embalming fluid has a primary reacting agent of formaldehyde, a carcinogenic and toxic substance. This research study presents environmentally-safe and non-toxic alternatives…
ISEF · 2022
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics Fourth Award
Alzheimer’s Disease, described by several researchers as the public health crisis of the 21st century, is a devastating neurodegenerative disorder of gradual onset, clinically characterized…
JSHS · 2022
When I first learned how x2±5x±6 can factor with interchangeable signs, I was fascinated with its simplicity and orderliness. I was curious to know if there would be more quadratics that cou…
ISEF · 2022
Physics and Astronomy
The statement, "It is always darkest just before the Day dawneth", is investigated. Luminous intensity for non-terrestrial sources of visible light (i.e., solar, lunar, and stellar) was meas…
ISEF · 2022
Environmental Engineering
The purpose of this engineering project was to design a system that can remove aquatic trash from a creek before it could make its way to the Gulf of Mexico, without contributing to global w…
JSHS · 2022
Global warming (GW) has recently been viewed as one of the most pressing environmental issues and has been hotly discussed in politics. Growing concerns and controversy over GW has attracted…
ISEF · 2022
Behavioral and Social Sciences Fourth Award
As coined by historian James Truslow Adams in 1931, the American Dream is the belief that any American can achieve their desired successes. What has upheld this distorted understanding of so…
ISEF · 2022
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design Third Award
Biogas is a renewable energy source generated by the anaerobic digestion (AD) of organic matter. Of all the gases produced by animal waste, 55-65% is methane, affecting global warming 21 tim…
ISEF · 2022
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
In line with recent increasing interest in renewable energy solutions, ammonia (NH3) has been attracting attention as an energy carrier. However, environmental conditions often affect curren…
ISEF · 2022
Environmental Engineering
Efficient collection of water samples is essential for scientists. However, most of the existing methods for collecting water samples have many drawbacks, such as being costly or time consum…
ISEF · 2022
Engineering Technology: Statics & Dynamics
Wall-climbing robots play an important role building and terrain prospection. They can replace human in prospecting dangerous environments and help improve the efficiency of high-altitude ta…
ISEF · 2022
Translational Medical Science
This project was performed to aid individuals and pathologists in the diagnostic process of treating melanoma and ascertain the common trends of various melanoma cases and their proper class…
ISEF · 2022
Systems Software Third Award
Limited socioeconomic data in developing countries has led to increased reliance on predictive models for socioeconomic estimation, but their proclivity to produce unequal error rates for di…
JSHS · 2022
Worldwide, thirty percent of landfill waste is composed of foam polystyrene, also known as Styrofoam. Despite the unsustainable demand for plastic all over the globe, there is currently no c…
ISEF · 2022
Materials Science
Cholesterol crystallization within membrane environments involves a complicated interplay of cholesterol molecules with adjacent phospholipids, cholesterol molecules, and surrounding water l…
ISEF · 2022
Microbiology
Urinary tract infections are among the most common infections seen in clinics. Females are much more sensitive to UTIs compared to males. Antibiotic and disinfectant resistance patterns have…
JSHS · 2022
Eddy current braking (ECB) technology has many advantages over conventional friction brakes, including less wear, faster activation time, and intrinsic properties similar to anti-lock brakin…
ISEF · 2022
Plant Sciences
Minerals are a key source of nutrients for your bodily functions. Chelates are a new and upcoming concept of minerals in the health and medical field. Chelated minerals are minerals that hav…
ISEF · 2022
Animal Sciences Fourth Award
The purpose of this project was to determine if accelerometer data be used in conjunction with a coupled nonlinear dynamics model to detect mode interactions and abnormal gaits in equines to…
AJAS · 2022
Behavioral Science
The interplay between three critical aspects --- biology of the virus, human behavior, and government policies --- significantly determines the spread and impact of any given epidemic. With…
ISEF · 2022
Animal Sciences
The purpose of this experiment was to observe the impact an altered magnetic field had on harvester ant’s foraging behavior which would help determine if harvester ants have magnetoreception…
ISEF · 2022
Chemistry Second Award
About 51 trillion microplastics (< 5mm size), which are proven to be harmful to living organisms, are present in water bodies worldwide. Filters, membranes, and nets, currently used to captu…
ISEF · 2022
Plant Sciences Third Award
Under current global circumstances of climate change, developing heat-tolerant crops has become of critical importance. S. lycopersicum, the most commonly cultivated tomato variety, is a val…