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 · 2021
Engineering Mechanics
On Mars, there must be a method for construction which uses the available resources, a process known as “in situ resource utilization”. While regular concrete is composed of water, aggregate…
ISEF · 2021
Embedded Systems
Intravenous infusion therapy is a common medical treatment method. However, this treatment method takes a long time, and the entire infusion process is often tedious. In order to ensure safe…
ISEF · 2021
Biomedical and Health Sciences Second Award
Cancer immunotherapy has led to vast improvements in long-term survival for patients with cancers like melanoma. However, the low response rate of immune checkpoint blockade (ICB) therapy li…
ISEF · 2021
Biomedical Engineering
Pulmonary embolisms (PE) affect approximately 300,000 to 600,000 people per year in the United States. Between 10 to 30% of those diagnosed with PE die within a month of its detection. As ra…
ISEF · 2021
Systems Software Third Award
The process of registering intra-procedural prostate magnetic resonance images (MRI) with corresponding pre-procedural images improves the accuracy of certain surgeries, such as a prostate b…
ISEF · 2021
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Glioblastoma is a highly aggressive malignant tumor of the central nervous system defined by its inter- and intra-patient heterogeneity. However, understanding of molecular differences withi…
ISEF · 2021
Chemistry Fourth Award
Water pollution is a pertinent issue today, with pollutants such as dyes and heavy metal ions causing health issues. Potassium tungstate (K2W4O13) nanowires show huge potential in mitigating…
ISEF · 2021
Chemistry
This study aims to create a cellulose-based ion sensor that can easily detect the validity of antibacterial films made of copper or silver ions that are used to prevent COVID-19. Thiourea 4.…
ISEF · 2021
Behavioral and Social Sciences
It is well known that the perceived color of a neutral stimulus can be altered by the presence of a surround. Here, we aimed to identify the neural mechanism underlying the phenomenon of col…
ISEF · 2021
Biochemistry
Iron deficiency anemia is a common occurrence for many, which is caused by low iron levels low Iron absorption. Lactoferrin is a key iron-binding protein and transporter of iron that can hel…
ISEF · 2021
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Alzheimer’s disease (AD) and other related neurodegenerative disorders are some of the most prevalent and debilitating conditions affecting elderly populations. Previous research has indicat…
ISEF · 2021
Physics and Astronomy Second Award
For much of the history of science it has been postulated that the behavior of dynamical systems, such as atmospheric circulation via convection, can be fully predicted once the parts are co…
ISEF · 2021
Behavioral and Social Sciences
The LGBT+ community faces many hardships in today’s society, but one of the less talked about issues is that of internalized oppression. Internalized oppression occurs when a member of a min…
ISEF · 2021
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Aging is associated with metabolic changes in the body as well as adaptations to age-related changes in order to maintain functional mechanisms in the body. An example of a potential compens…
ISEF · 2021
Translational Medical Science
Obesity can weaken the immune system and increase the risk of contracting a plethora of life-threatening diseases. It currently affects 1 in 5 children in the U.S. This study investigated th…
ISEF · 2021
Biochemistry
Hydrogen peroxide is a harmful oxidizing agent produced as a side product of the metabolism of many organisms. Catalase is an enzyme which occurs naturally in these organisms to facilitate t…
ISEF · 2021
Biomedical and Health Sciences
In the United States, epidemiological studies have highlighted a disparity in cancer incidence and outcome rates between racial groups. This disparity is attributed to numerous factors, incl…
ISEF · 2021
Biochemistry
Curcuma caesia and Curcuma longa (turmeric) have been found to have anti-cancer agents. Both turmeric species were used to determine the ability to inhibit cellular pathways targeted in Neur…
ISEF · 2021
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Anorexia Nervosa (AN) is a psychiatric illness characterized by the deliberate restriction of caloric intake, which can result in a slowed metabolic rate, hyperactivity, and dysbiosis of the…
ISEF · 2021
Biochemistry
Saccharomyces cerevisiae has a preference for consuming disaccharides and monosaccharides relative to any other carbon source. It is able to respire either aerobically or anaerobically, rele…
ISEF · 2021
Chemistry
Cellulosic biofuels are a potential solution to the renewable energy crisis but are currently too expensive to be actualized. Economic, eco-friendly, and efficient cellulosic biofuels from i…
ISEF · 2021
Materials Science
Case hardening heat treatment processes are used extensively in industry to improve wear-resistance and toughness of steel components, by producing a hardened layer on the outer surface of t…
ISEF · 2021
Materials Science
Current COVID-19 testing is invasive and requires certain equipment, making screening difficult without such devices. Furthermore, when testing can be expedited, it often brings with it a su…
ISEF · 2021
Physics and Astronomy
Overheating of the reactor in case of emergency is one of the main problems of water-cooled nuclear power plants. Passive safety systems operated by natural forces are used to improve the re…
ISEF · 2021
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
Purpose: The world's energy consumption is increasing day by day. This increasing energy need is largely obtained from coal and petroleum by-products. Greenhouse gases and aerosols are emitt…
ISEF · 2021
Animal Sciences
Snails are seemingly harmless animals in agricultural ecosystems: they are decomposers that feed off rotting vegetation and surplus soil nutrients. However, in order to move and maintain hom…
ISEF · 2021
Animal Sciences
On average, beef cattle have twins once in every 100 births or a 1% twinning rate. My family’s herd of 35 cattle had five sets of twins in the 2020 calving season, which is 14% of the herd.…
ISEF · 2021
Mathematics Third Award
Topdrops, a mapping of permutations first introduced by John Horton Conway, is examined. Topdrops has so far been under-researched compared to the similar topswops variant. A proof that the…
ISEF · 2021
Microbiology Fourth Award
Plant-parasitic nematodes account for 14% crop losses globally and $157 billion lost annually. Root-knot nematodes are yield-limiting and threaten crop production. Toxic chemicals, such as o…
ISEF · 2021
Animal Sciences
The horsefly which attack causes capacity diminution among people and is extremely damaging for agriculture, holds a special place among bloodsuckers in terms of harmfulness. Horseflies comm…