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 · 2023
Cellular and Molecular Biology
Alzheimer’s Disease (AD) is a disease that causes extreme memory loss in people and can severely affect their day-to-day life. AB is a molecule that accumulates in the brains of AD patients…
ISEF · 2023
Physics and Astronomy Second Award
Accurately determining the number of exoplanets in planetary systems is essential for gaining insight into planetary formation, the search for potentially habitable exoplanets, and the desig…
ISEF · 2023
Mathematics
Hampton Roads is located on the east coast of the United States, where it faces the threat of Atlantic Ocean hurricane season. Maximize the evacuation traffic flow is essential when facing s…
JSHS · 2023
Yield forecasting is critical for ensuring food security, especially given the rise of extreme weather events. However, the USDA NASS only provides state-level forecasts by conducting costly…
ISEF · 2023
Physics and Astronomy Third Award
Flageolet harmonics is a playing technique on bowed string instruments, in which a player lightly touches a nodal point on a string with their finger. Previous studies have reported that the…
ISEF · 2023
Systems Software
American Sign Language is the third most-used language in the United States following English and Spanish. More recent studies on speakers of ASL show that there are around 500,000 who commu…
ISEF · 2023
Biomedical Engineering Fourth Award
Every year, 124 million women receive Papanicolaou exams; and every year 4,000 die from cervical cancer. The root of this disparity lies in the outdated devices used to collect cervical cell…
ISEF · 2023
Biomedical Engineering
The aim of this project is to develop a mobile app that can detect drug/alcohol intoxication levels in individuals using eye-pupil analysis. The app will utilize computer vision algorithms t…
JSHS · 2023
Idiosyncratic drug-induced liver injury (iDILI) is a rare but potentially severe form of liver damage that occurs as a result of certain medications. It is characterized by liver inflammatio…
ISEF · 2023
Microbiology
The intent of this project is to identify the efficacy of antibacterial soap when compared to non-antibacterial soap. In 2016, the FDA banned antibacterial products which contained triclosan…
ISEF · 2023
Microbiology Fourth Award
Doxorubicin is a globally utilized drug for cancer treatment. This drug has unfortunate cardiotoxic side-effects through drug-induced functional loss of iron-regulatory proteins (IRP1, IRP2)…
ISEF · 2023
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Deep brain stimulation (DBS) is a novel therapy for Parkinson's disease, in which an electrode is surgically implanted into the patient's brain and remotely controlled to send an electrical…
ISEF · 2023
Translational Medical Science
Epilepsy is characterized by recurrent seizures and is often treated with anti-seizure medications. However, 30% of patients are refractory to this approach and do not experience seizure fre…
ISEF · 2023
Environmental Engineering Fourth Award
Developing sustainable technologies to harness solar energy for wastewater treatment and hydrogen fuel production is crucial for addressing global energy and environmental challenges. In thi…
JSHS · 2023
Low-field (LF) MRI scanners have power to revolutionize medical imaging by providing portable and cheaper alternative to high-field MRI scanners. However, such scanners are usually significa…
ISEF · 2023
Robotics and Intelligent Machines Fourth Award
3D printing is a groundbreaking technology that has enabled innovation in various aspects of our modern world, but one key issue that continues to limit its use is that of maintenance. In th…
ISEF · 2023
Materials Science
X-ray diffraction is the most common technique for determining atomic structures of crystals (e.g. semiconductors and proteins), and white-beam diffraction is such a powerful method that]pro…
ISEF · 2023
Environmental Engineering
The Brazilian semiarid region has 27 million inhabitants who depend on rainwater for subsistence activities such as agriculture and livestock. With average rainfall of 800 mm annually and li…
ISEF · 2023
Biochemistry Third Award
Determining transdermal permeability of compounds facilitates an understanding of drug distribution, improving quality of medical care. The study’s purpose was to analyze transdermal drug ab…
ISEF · 2023
Microbiology
Microplastics have been a significant environmental pollutant that are recently beginning to be studied within the past decade. While their threats have been well-documented among a variety…
ISEF · 2023
Physics and Astronomy
Post-Asymptotic Giant Branch (post-AGB) binary star systems are surrounded by large disks of dust and gas (termed transition disk) that exhibit conditions reminiscent of young protoplanetary…
ISEF · 2023
Plant Sciences Second Award
The flowering of plants is necessary for their further reproduction. Flowering is regulated by hundreds of genes encoding proteins. The goal of my academic work is to find out how AGO bindin…
ISEF · 2023
Mathematics
In this study, the definition of hypocycloid, the logic of its formation and its types are expressed. Hypocycloid is a curve traced out by a point on a rolling circle as it rolls around insi…
ISEF · 2023
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Microplastics (MP) are small fragments of plastic less than 5mm in dimension, that have recently received attention due to their high prevalence in the environment, potential to disrupt natu…
ISEF · 2023
Microbiology
This project analyzes the efficacy of osmoadaptation systems in the algae Chlamydomonas reinhardtii in response to osmotic stress caused by brine dumping cycles from desalination plants. As…
JSHS · 2023
Understanding the formation and evolution of ring galaxies, galaxies with an atypical ring-like structure, will improve understanding of black holes and galaxy dynamics as a whole. Current c…
JSHS · 2023
The IDEXX Enterolert* 250 Test Kit is designed to indicate the presence of Enterococcus and, when used with the Quanti-Tray®/2000 System, can provide a most probable number (MPN) of bacteria…
ISEF · 2023
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Microplastic pollution was initially identified in 2004 as an issue that originated in the 1960’s. Microplastics are defined as plastics that are five millimeters or less in size, and the gr…
ISEF · 2023
Physics and Astronomy
The aim of this project is to optimize thrust generated by compressed air propulsion for model rockets to increase maximal altitude inflight and to determine the parameters leading to a safe…
JSHS · 2023
Research Advisor: Mrs. Amy Demins About 51 trillion microplastics (< 5mm size), which are known to be harmful to living organisms, are present in water bodies worldwide. Filters, membranes,…