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
Microbiology
Pseudogymnoascus Destructans, the fungus that causes White nose syndrome, has killed more than 6.7 million bats in the US since 2006. Local extinction of multiple bat species in the Northern…
AJAS · 2018
Bisphenol A is a chemical that has been used to make plastics and resins since the 1960s. BPA has been shown to mimic estrogen hormones, allowing it to interact with estrogen receptors affec…
AJAS · 2018
Pictures represent scenes by recording different values of brightness and color at different locations. A typical digital camera has a sensor with millions of pixels. Each pixel has stored e…
ISEF · 2018
Cellular and Molecular Biology
This research broadens the understanding of the murine immune system in inflammatory bowel disease simulations, highlighting the presence of a newly classified cell group, Myeloid Derived Su…
ISEF · 2018
Mathematics
We successfully extended Soddy’s theorem for the original Soddy’s hexlet to derive the number of spheres of what we refer to as the n-th generation hexlet: 6^n. The number of spheres composi…
ISEF · 2018
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Because most government regulation is based on arguments about “externalities” (effects on third parties), understanding how externality arguments affect public opinion and support for regul…
CSEF · 2018
Computational Systems & Analysis
Objectives/Goals As part of the Summer Internship Program in Environmental Studies, at the University of California Santa Cruz last summer, I manually tagged a number of images which had wil…
ISEF · 2018
Chemistry
Slaughtering of huge amounts of farmed chicken worldwide results in huge amounts of feathers. Unless they are properly dispensed and/or adequately utilized, accumulations of the chicken feat…
ISEF · 2018
Mathematics
The present work is used to set a mathematical problem to discover absolute barycentric coordinates of locus $P^n_{min}$ in the triangle plane, featured with the $n^{\text{th}}$ powers of di…
CSEF · 2018
Applied Mechanics & Structures Second Award
Objectives/Goals Commercial eyedrops are made twice as large as they need to be. This leads to a lot of medical waste. I wanted to understand the factors that determine drop size in order to…
ISEF · 2018
Embedded Systems First Award
The goal of this engineering project was to investigate and design an affordable system capable of controlling an electric wheelchair with ocular tracking. Based on electrooculographic (EOG)…
CSEF · 2018
Computational Systems & Analysis
Objectives/Goals Most individuals can't detect physical obstacles and avoid them. For example, if a table is blocking one's path, most people would walk around it to get to the other side. B…
ISEF · 2018
Materials Science
A novel flexible MoS2-based biosensor with patterned 10 nm single antibody size periodic line channel has been fabricated for the first time. In order to confine singular biomolecule movemen…
CSEF · 2018
Applied Mechanics & Structures Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals Carbon Microelectromechanical Systems (C-MEMS) are used in microfluidic applications and are theorized to be a suitable low cost replacement for today's silicon based electr…
ISEF · 2018
Biomedical Engineering
Cancer treatment approach applying nanotechnology has many advantages compared to conventional chemotherapy and radiation therapy. Nanoshells are optically tunable core/shell nanoparticles t…
ISEF · 2018
Microbiology
The electrochemical Geno-sensor is one of the most promising methods for the rapid and reliable detection of bacteria. In the present work, the Geno-sensor was used to detect Escherichia col…
CSEF · 2018
Chemistry Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals In recent years, the wrinkle fabrication of polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) has attracted scientists' attention as it provides a cost-effective way of producing nanostructures.…
ISEF · 2018
Behavioral and Social Sciences First Award
A novel diagnostic tool was developed that identified and digitized facial changes that differentiate Essential Tremor (ET) and Parkinson’s disease (PD) patients with 99.9% accuracy as compa…
CSEF · 2018
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals This goal of this project was to investigate how different regions of the face are important for depicting facial expressions. My investigative question was: Which facial ar…
CSEF · 2018
Product Science (Physical) (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals The objective of this study is to measure the efficacy of various motor oils to reduce heat cause by friction. Methods/Materials Wooden test stand (2"x 2"x 8" post), copper…
CSEF · 2018
Mathematical Sciences
Objectives/Goals Let a_{n} denote the number of positive integers containing only the digits 1, 3, and 4, so that the sum of the digits is equal to n. Then a_{2n} is always a perfect square,…
CSEF · 2018
Plant Biology Second Award
Objectives/Goals The purpose is to see if lichen can photosynthesize in more Mars-like conditions than on Earth and identify which lichen species is best suited for producing Oxygen for huma…
ISEF · 2018
Physics and Astronomy
The Faraday’s Bicycle apparatus an engineering project based upon Faraday’s Law of electromagnetic induction which states that an rotating magnetic field generates an electric charge within…
ISEF · 2018
Physics and Astronomy
The goal of this project is to utilize the public database of NASA's Kepler Space Telescope and analyze the data of single-star-single-planet systems to potentially discover additional exopl…
ISEF · 2018
Systems Software Third Award
Since the introduction of dockless shared bikes in 2016, there has been more than 16 million shared bikes in China, and illegal parking has become a serious social issue. However, the common…
ISEF · 2018
Physics and Astronomy
The neutron has opened a great sum of doors into the world of technological development by providing new forms of clean power and spectroscopy. In order to supply the required neutrons for t…
ISEF · 2018
Chemistry
Diesel fuel is one of the leading contributors to environmental pollution and can be very costly for individual consumers. Biodiesel, which is fuel made from plant and animal oil rather than…
ISEF · 2018
Engineering Mechanics Fourth Award
The purpose of this project is to act as a preliminary study of the relationships and properties of multivariable spidron fractals as generated via a novel method. To understand the effect t…
AJAS · 2018
Arthrospira platensis, best known as Spirulina, is a freshwater extremophile cyanobacterium that has a particularly desirable quality for Mars exploration and colonization, in that it could…
CSEF · 2018
Mathematical Sciences Second Award
Objectives/Goals RSA encryption is used to protect a person's privacy on the internet. Part of the encryption process involves quickly distinguishing large prime and composite numbers. The o…