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 Third Award
I. REASONS TO CHOOSE THE TOPIC + There are many disabled people in the world. + There are a number of technological products for people with disabilities such as robotic arms that use brain…
ISEF · 2021
Environmental Engineering
Plastic pollution is a major pandemic for the environment. For the last 27 years, over 9.5 million volunteers have collected 163 million pounds of garbage from more than 330,000 miles of coa…
ISEF · 2021
Microbiology
There are 5 outbreaks that have happened in 2019, which have been estimated to have caused over 400 illnesses and waste over 500,000 pounds of food in the US. The current system of treating…
ISEF · 2021
Engineering Mechanics Third Award
The purpose of the Rotating Weekly Pill Dispenser is to assist with medication compliance among older people and allow a caregiver to lock medication into organized compartments that automat…
ISEF · 2021
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Observations indicate that offset inner-eyewall of the double eyewall typhoons would rotate counterclockwise inside the outer eyewalls. The rotation results in a trochoidal track when the ty…
ISEF · 2021
Cellular and Molecular Biology
Using Saccharomyces cerevisiae (baker's yeast) as a model organism, this research aims to study the Hog1 pathway in yeast and consequently mammalian homologous p38, which are SAPKs in contro…
ISEF · 2021
Engineering Mechanics
There are many industrial accidents caused by mechanical jamming. I thought that if workers work remotely in another secure space, not directly in a dangerous workspace, this problem could b…
ISEF · 2021
Engineering Mechanics Fourth Award
Every year in California, broken utility poles and conductors ignite approximately 500 fires. In 2017 and 2018, four utility-caused fires destroyed 27,000 buildings, killed 133 people, and c…
ISEF · 2021
Environmental Engineering
On average, about 25,000 tons of sanitary waste is released daily. Due to the lack of proper disposal, these are found dumped in open areas and sometimes in the water bodies, leading to envi…
ISEF · 2021
Systems Software
According to the Puerto Rico Police Bureau, from March 15 to May 6, 2020, 919 incidents of gender violence were reported, most of them against women. Taking advantage of technology, we can p…
ISEF · 2021
Systems Software
The summer of 2020 was a different one: sea waters remain salty, the rivers ones persist crystal and clear; nonetheless, in the air, the threat hovers... The Covid-19 pandemic posed unforese…
ISEF · 2021
Biochemistry Second Award
There exist evolutionarily-conserved genetic similarities between signals for planarian regeneration and human inflammation. The ROS-activated TRPA1 ion channel is implicated in planarian re…
ISEF · 2021
Behavioral and Social Sciences Fourth Award
For more than 20 years, our Palestinian community has been suffering from an increase in the number of people who are diagnosed with cancer, which has reached about 12,000 cases in 2019, whi…
ISEF · 2021
Cellular and Molecular Biology Third Award
Intragenomic conflict occurs when selfish genes attempt to increase their own prospects of replication at the expense of the organism. It has clinical and ecological significance–the genes a…
ISEF · 2021
Animal Sciences
ABSTRACT: In this project, a fluid diet is prepared for cats which helps them to overcome dehydration. This diet is more beneficial than cat food given to cats as it contains basic electroly…
ISEF · 2021
Materials Science
Polyurethane foam, a material valued across countless industries for its high performance and versatility, is composed of hazardous, nonrenewable petrochemicals that continuously off-gas int…
ISEF · 2021
Biomedical Engineering
The COVID-19 Pandemic emphasizes the need for a Track, Trace, and Isolate approach (TTI) in society. Solutions (like mobile apps and Bluetooth devices/sensors) proposed for COVID-19 risk man…
ISEF · 2021
Biomedical and Health Sciences Third Award
Peripheral nervous system (PNS) demyelinating diseases, such as Guillain-Barré syndrome, are characterized by nerve impulse conduction anomalies. These anomalies can be caused by demyelinati…
ISEF · 2021
Systems Software
Existing static code analyzers are aimed at finding errors (syntax and semantic) for which there are explicit formal criteria, for example division by zero. They are capable of detecting onl…
ISEF · 2021
Physics and Astronomy
Future space missions may use resources embedded in asteroids for fuel, water or oxygen. Carbon-based asteroids are suspected to contain water; therefore, NASA sent the OSIRIS-REx spacecraft…
ISEF · 2021
Earth and Environmental Sciences
If passed, a recent proposal by the EPA will take away the Clean Water Act’s protection of intermittent headwater streams which make up around 9 million of America’s stream miles. Due to the…
ISEF · 2021
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Microplastics have become ubiquitous in marine ecosystems. Toxic chemicals can leach from microplastics posing significant health risks to marine life. Removal of microplastics is difficult…
ISEF · 2021
Animal Sciences
Vision, one of the most important senses for survival, depends on the detection of light by the eye. Antarctic icefish live in an environment where there is no sunlight for six months of the…
ISEF · 2021
Behavioral and Social Sciences
The areas of the brain that become active when someone formulates a lie, or “deceit patterns”, are denoted on fMRI scans, yielding results that are more accurate than the polygraph. Using pu…
ISEF · 2021
Embedded Systems
In the United States forty percent (2.4 million) of all six million accidents a year on average are caused by rear end collisions. Given these statistics our mission is to design a system th…
ISEF · 2021
Environmental Engineering Third Award
Microplastics pose an increasing risk to beach ecosystems around the world. The abundance of microplastics negatively impacts natural processes such as evaporation, water flow, and heat tran…
ISEF · 2021
Chemistry
Chromatography is a well-known method for separating gas or liquid components from mixtures but is unavailable for mixtures of solids. Here, we describe a practical analytical method for sep…
ISEF · 2021
Biomedical Engineering
Food allergies and food poisoning are widely spread. Globally, 220-250 million people suffer from food allergies. Some allergic reactions called anaphylactic reactions are fatal especially i…
ISEF · 2021
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
As environmental change has become a more prominent issue in the world, the need for alternative energy sources is ever growing. However, it is apparent that wind turbines are not nearly eff…
ISEF · 2021
Microbiology Fourth Award
Because of the strong association between microbial imbalance, decreased short-chain fatty acid (SCFA) production, and Crohn’s disease (CD) onset, microbiota-targeting therapies are crucial…