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
Almost 10 million cancer-related deaths occur every year, with costs totaling $208.9 billion. Chemotherapy, the currently accepted treatment for cancer, causes significant economic losses, a…
JSHS · 2022
Responsible for over 460 million infections and 6 million deaths as of March 2022, the COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted the livelihoods of people across the globe. Research and development ha…
ISEF · 2022
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Immunotherapy activates the body’s immune response against cancers by inhibiting interactions between cancer cells and T-cells (cells that fight against foreign substances or in this case, c…
ISEF · 2022
Microbiology
Bacterial biofilms are complex and structured surface-attached bacterial communities held by a matrix of extracellular polymeric substances. Biofilms pose a significant threat to healthcare…
ISEF · 2022
Physics and Astronomy
High-mass stars (stars with masses above 8 times the mass of the Sun) generate great amounts of energy, more than several thousand times the energy generated by the Sun. At present, the mech…
JSHS · 2022
High-mass stars (stars with masses above 8 times the mass of the Sun) generate great amounts of energy, more than several thousand times the energy generated by the Sun. At present, the mech…
JSHS · 2022
Circular RNAs (circRNAs) have been a novel discovery in the past two decades. Formed by a different type of alternative splicing called back-splicing, circRNAs have been found to have functi…
AJAS · 2022
Computer Science
Unsupervised Clustering Machine Learning to Identify Unique Subsets of Patients in a Racially and Ethnically Diverse Rheumatoid Arthritis Cohort. Single biomarkers have limited utility to da…
ISEF · 2022
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Oil spills have become a major problem in waterways around the world, more specifically, the Gulf of Mexico. With increasing risks and effects, the necessity of oil containment has become a…
JSHS · 2022
With the rise of fossil fuel extraction and reliance on the non-renewable materials that are produced from these resources, interest in more sustainable materials has increased to combat the…
ISEF · 2022
Biomedical Engineering
The duplication of genetic information (DNA replication) is central to life. Numerous control mechanisms ensure the exact course of the process during each cell division. Disturbances of DNA…
ISEF · 2022
Chemistry
Nano titanium dioxide is a widely used photocatalyst, but there are still two problems with it. On the one hand, nano titanium dioxide can only absorb ultraviolet light, so the utilization r…
ISEF · 2022
Biomedical Engineering
The novel use of stem cells (SCs), specifically induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs), in regenerative medicine to treat degenerative, autoimmune, and genetic disorders has shown great prom…
ISEF · 2022
Biomedical and Health Sciences Third Award
Mus musculus (mice) are often used to model the human immune system and to develop healthcare treatments because mouse immunology accurately recapitulates many aspects of the human immune sy…
JSHS · 2022
Mus musculus (mice) are often used to model the human immune system and to develop healthcare treatments because mouse immunology accurately recapitulates many aspects of the human immune sy…
ISEF · 2022
Cellular and Molecular Biology
Knee osteoarthritis (OA) is a degenerative joint disease in which the cartilage within the joint gradually wears away, leading to pain, stiffness, and swelling of the knee. About 10% of men…
JSHS · 2022
Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) affects 25% of adults, becoming the most prevalent cause of liver disease in the world. Although socioeconomic factors are known to have an effect o…
ISEF · 2022
Plant Sciences
Fishing is one of the top outdoor activities in America. In South Dakota, over 170,000 fishing licenses were sold in 2020. With the thousands and thousands of fish people catch, that means t…
ISEF · 2022
Animal Sciences
Due to asthma, I was prescribed prednisone a lot when I was young. After my 7th grade physical, my growth showed a decrease from the 50th percentile to the 20th percentile. My doctor suggest…
ISEF · 2022
Biomedical and Health Sciences
West Nile virus (WNV) is the leading mosquito-borne disease in the United States but is not currently preventable through vaccination or treatable by any medications. It has caused over 2,50…
ISEF · 2022
Systems Software
The Covhelp mobile app was developed in the “MIT App Inventor” software development program. This application provides users with access to the necessary information about COVID – 19, as wel…
JSHS · 2022
Epilepsy is generally diagnosed using electroencephalograms, or EEGs, which are tests that detect electrical activity in a person’s brain and consist of measurements of a set of potential di…
ISEF · 2022
Environmental Engineering
Many water sources contain emerging contaminants (contaminants whose water presence has only recently been confirmed) that lead to debilitating health and environmental effects, yet current…
AJAS · 2022
Environmental Science
Increased drinking water contaminant concentrations have been frequently reported in communities with higher minority percentages as well as those with lower average incomes, causing numerou…
ISEF · 2022
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Large biomedical datasets routinely consist of more data points than can be displayed faithfully on a computer monitor. Computer screens are incapable of representing high-volume datasets wi…
ISEF · 2022
Environmental Engineering
Aquaculture wastewater with high nitrite concentration due to low denitrification activity in winter is lethal to hydrobionts such as fish and shrimp. Therefore, bioremediation using bacteri…
JSHS · 2022
Chronic stress and anxiety often cause mental and physical dysfunctions. Inevitable cardiac responses usually accompany as a part of the autonomic nervous system’s reaction to combat stress.…
ISEF · 2022
Chemistry
Milled rice is deficient in almost all major classes of nutrients except carbohydrates. Poor nutrition of rice has resulted in severe malnutrition problems in developing countries where the…
ISEF · 2022
Environmental Engineering First Award
Plastic waste poses threats to both the environment and human health. PET is the world’s most common plastic. Compared to traditional methods to treat PET waste, biodegradation is environmen…
ISEF · 2022
Microbiology
Oral diseases such as tooth decay are expected to affect roughly 3.5 billion individuals worldwide. In most developing countries, access to primary oral health treatments is limited due to a…