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 · 2019
Chemistry
Fruits are a vital source of essential nutrients and vitamins in our diet and they attain full maturity during ripening. Currently, the application of artificial ripening agents has become w…
ISEF · 2019
Earth and Environmental Sciences Fourth Award
The purpose of this experiment was to better understand the impact of coal ash pollution in the environment through studying its impact on the model organism C. elegans. Coal ash, a pollutan…
ISEF · 2019
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Concussions are a brain injury caused by an outside blow to the head or rapid movement of the brain inside of the skull. Over 3.8 million high school athletes are affected by these injuries…
ISEF · 2019
Cellular and Molecular Biology
Currently, mutations in the BRCA1 and 2 genes are estimated to explain approximately 15 percent of hereditary breast cancer cases. However, studies have established that 50 percent of women…
CSEF · 2019
Microbiology (General) Honorable_mention Award
Objectives The objective of this study is to evaluate if Equisetum hyemale can inhibit the growth rate of Penicillium italicum on citrus fruit. Methods Bleach all oranges and containers in 1…
ISEF · 2019
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Muntingia calabura Linn (Tingiaceae), locally known as Aratiles or Jamaican cherry in its native neotropics, is widely distributed in the Philippines. Despite the various claims about its ph…
ISEF · 2019
Plant Sciences
Synthetic and natural turfgrass have been commonly used on athletic fields for a long time. One of the biggest concerns with synthetic turfgrass is the potential effect on players’ health. I…
ISEF · 2019
Animal Sciences
The purpose of this research is to Evaluate the Biodegradable Effect of Tenebrio molitor in Polystyrene to reduce Environmental Pollution and Generate Conscience. The procedures have an expe…
ISEF · 2019
Mathematics
This paper shows a thorough examination of fully homomorphic encryption schemes and their performance in programs. We do an analysis of one specific, widely-used scheme – the Gentry-Sahai-Wa…
ISEF · 2019
Materials Science
Measurement of gain in light-emitting quantum wells using etched facet semiconductors is time-consuming and may damage the quantum well material. Photoluminescence measurements of cleaved fa…
ISEF · 2019
Microbiology
Cystic fibrosis (CF) patients experience inhibited clearance of airways leading to a higher rate of colonization by opportunistic microbes. Approximately 60% of CF patients are infected by A…
CSEF · 2019
Earth & Environmental Sciences
Objectives Examine and deduce a connection between poor water quality in natural parks and the presence of wild boars by analyzing a park with boars living in it to a park without boars. Met…
ISEF · 2019
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
When conducting a study using fMRI, it is often beneficial to be able to track the eyes of participants, especially for experiments that require visual fixation. One method of achieving this…
ISEF · 2019
Physics and Astronomy Fourth Award
Current methods of bacterial disinfection are unsuitable due to high cost and inability to kill microbes without altering the product composition. Pulsed magnetic field technology offers pot…
ISEF · 2019
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Huntington’s disease (HD) is a fatal, autosomal dominant, neurodegenerative disease that currently has no cure. Most neurodegeneration occurs in the striatum, which is comprised of 95% mediu…
ISEF · 2019
Earth and Environmental Sciences
We researched the correlation between varying levels of carbon dioxide on the freshwater Malaysian Trumpet snails. This research was inspired by a well-known ocean acidification shell experi…
AJAS · 2019
The purpose of this experiment was to test whether exercise could mitigate neuroinflammation, epigenetic dysregulation, and memory loss caused by high-fat diet. Diets high in fat cause decre…
ISEF · 2019
Engineering Mechanics
A crucial part of an aircraft’s flight is the landing. The most common mechanisms used to assist with landings are flaps, spoilers, and airbrakes. These mechanisms work together during landi…
CSEF · 2019
Applied Mechanics & Structures
Objectives For this project, I constructed a motorized arm attachment that will aid in carrying loads. It is a continuation of last year's science project to implement the motorized or actua…
CSEF · 2019
Electronics & Electromagnetics
Objectives Caring for specific plants can be difficult, especially for individuals with busy schedules. Many existing solutions to this problem deliver limited functionality at a significant…
ISEF · 2019
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Important biotechnological challenge is prolonged expansion of hematopoietic stem cells (HSC), without losses in their functional activity and high levels of proliferation. Cord blood is rec…
ISEF · 2019
Chemistry
Arsenic is a carcinogenic contaminant that pollutes the groundwater, a consequence of poor arsenic disposal. Current arsenic separating agents have a limited adsorption capacity. To address…
CSEF · 2019
Applied Mechanics & Structures
Objectives Sometimes the price of an authentic product may cost a lot more than the quality and design of the product, but consumers feel more comfortable in trusting name brands by paying t…
ISEF · 2019
Energy: Chemical
Indonesia has huge potential on energy resources from biomass. One of them is marine microalgae plant such as Spirulina maxima. It has phycocyanin and carotenoid pigments that commonly used…
ISEF · 2019
Robotics and Intelligent Machines Fourth Award
For bloggers, video editors and composers, choice of music to video and video to music, which harmoniously combines and successfully share author's idea, is a complex and lengthy process. Be…
ISEF · 2019
Systems Software
Rendering virtual environments for simulated reality applications often proves to be a challenge due to the high demands of simulations capable of imparting enough detail to appease the huma…
AJAS · 2019
Abstract Surgical site infections (SSI) frequently form in an open wound from the initial orthopedic implant surgery. These infections are caused by an unsterile environment during and follo…
CSEF · 2019
Materials Science (Junior Division Only) Second Award
Objectives The purpose of my project was to create sintered alloys and test their efficiency in converting heat into electricity to build a thermoelectric generator that would be cheaper tha…
CSEF · 2019
Microbiology (General)
Objectives Antibiotics are essential to human health and wellbeing, providing cures to bacterial infections. However, due to a lack of new antibiotics being introduced and the growing threat…
ISEF · 2019
Biochemistry Third Award
During circulation, red blood cells (RBCs) experience shear stress. While RBCs are mechanically robust, extreme flows may compromise the spectrin network and lipid bilayer, leading to hydrop…