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.
CSEF · 2018
Chemistry Second Award
Objectives/Goals Achieving solar powered photochemical synthesis has long been the dream of scientists. Unfortunately, flaws with existing photochemical reactors and the solar spectrum's lac…
ISEF · 2018
Energy: Physical
Many developing communities do not have enough money to afford electricity for their homes. Nonrenewable Energy is cheap in generating energy, but they can cause detrimental effects on the e…
ISEF · 2018
Biomedical Engineering
Our goal is to help more than 30% of the world’s population to sleep better by providing a non-invasive closed loop system for improving sleep that can be used at home. The system is built i…
CSEF · 2018
Microbiology (General)
Objectives/Goals With the current wildfire and injuries caused to animals, there has been an increase interest for a suitable Band-Aid that can be used to facilitate would healing due to bur…
ISEF · 2018
Cellular and Molecular Biology
The use of the electronic nicotine delivery system, also known as electronic cigarette (e-cig), is tremendously rising in young adults in the US. E-cigs are the most commonly used tobacco-re…
ISEF · 2018
Biomedical Engineering
The beat had stopped. A beloved one had died. A family missed a father or a mother. We didn’t lose a heart; we lost a family. As the WHO said, in 2015 14.4 million people around the world di…
ISEF · 2018
Biomedical Engineering
Heart attacks are one of the most common heart problems and happen very quickly, so it is very important that people with a high risk of a heart attack be provided with devices that alert em…
ISEF · 2018
Translational Medical Science First Award
Heart disease is the leading cause of death worldwide (WHO), and experts estimate that half of all heart attacks and strokes occur in people who have not been flagged as ‘at risk'. There is…
CSEF · 2018
Physics & Astronomy
Objectives/Goals Space cooling and heating represents a significant use of energy in buildings. My experiments were aimed at proving that reflectance and thermal emittance are two properties…
CSEF · 2018
Physics & Astronomy
Objectives/Goals I became interested in learning about conduction, convection, and radiation in order to reduce the amount of energy to keep my house a comfortable temperature. If I reduce t…
CSEF · 2018
Product Science (Physical) (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals The objective of this project is to extract non-heme iron from breakfast cereal, and to determine if more iron can be extracted from cereals with a higher iron content. Meth…
CSEF · 2018
Environmental Engineering Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals Our project objective was to develop trash sorting habits in kids, inspire kids to contribute and help save the Planet. Waste, when properly sorted, will optimize recycling,…
ISEF · 2018
Biochemistry
Glioblastoma multiforme (GBM) is a very deadly form of brain cancer. The effects of hybrid compounds of heterocyclic rhodanine and arylidene (boronic acid) were tested on GBM cancer cells. T…
ISEF · 2018
Materials Science
Occlusive thrombus (blood clot) formation is a major pathological event in cardiovascular diseases. Therefore, removing the clot is critical to restore blood flow to vital organs. One way to…
ISEF · 2018
Systems Software Third Award
This project aims to present a novel method for the asteroid search processes’ automatization, since these procedures still commonly rely on humans and manual spotting. The program, featurin…
ISEF · 2018
Engineering Mechanics
There are over 1.5 million people living in refugee camps across the world. Wind storms with speeds over 80 mph rip current refugee tents apart, destroying what little they have left. We cre…
CSEF · 2018
Mammalian Biology
Objectives/Goals My goal/objectives in this project was to have all of my test subject's improve their average kilometer per hour speeds by introducing new mechanics that are focused on line…
ISEF · 2018
Physics and Astronomy
Current requirements for jet engines normally involve obtaining a great, maximum power while using the small mass of fuel and oxidizer. However, the task of creating effective low power rock…
AJAS · 2018
Ionically crosslinked alginate hydrogels can be permantly deformed and break under mechanical stimulation due to their low elasticity and brittleness. In this study, we engineered highly ela…
ISEF · 2018
Materials Science
PEDOT:PSS is a widely used conductive polymer in the field of photoelectric devices. However, the films fabricated by ordinary methods such as spin casting have adverse performance, therefor…
ISEF · 2018
Energy: Chemical
Supercapacitors (SC) have received attention due to quick charge times and higher power densities than lithium-ion batteries (LIB), which enable them to be implemented in electronic devices.…
ISEF · 2018
Physics and Astronomy Third Award
Scattering-type scanning near-field optical microscopy (s-SNOM) is a state-of-the-art optical technique to probe the dielectric properties of materials in the nano-scale. Only requiring mini…
ISEF · 2018
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy (CTE) is a medical condition that results from head impact injuries in contact sports. A Boston University study reports occurence of CTE in 87% of the cases…
ISEF · 2018
Biomedical Engineering
Each year, 251,000 patients die due to medical errors in the United States. In aortic valve replacement surgery, over 6% of patients die during or within 5 years of surgery due to medical er…
ISEF · 2018
Environmental Engineering
Having a source of potable water is essential for every country’s survival. Therefore, people need to know how to supply themselves with purified drinking water in case of a crisis. As in Pu…
ISEF · 2018
Translational Medical Science Fourth Award
Chemotherapy continues to play an important role in treating various cancers; however, during the course of treatment it is often challenging to differentiate between cancerous and healthy t…
ISEF · 2018
Animal Sciences
The purpose of Hopping Down the Bunny Trail: Spatial Distribution of Lepus americanus Tracks is to test if Lepus americanus tracks are distributed randomly in a survey area. This year, the p…
CSEF · 2018
Chemistry Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals The goal of my project is to determine if horse manure is a viable source of energy compared to traditional sources of energy such as wood and coal. Methods/Materials I buil…
CSEF · 2018
Environmental Engineering
Objectives/Goals Using safe, non-toxic household materials to absorb oil spills helps protect the environment and the people and animals that live in it. I wanted to determine which househol…
CSEF · 2018
Earth & Atmospheric Sciences (Junior Division Only) Third Award
Objectives/Goals This project answered 3 questions: (1) How accurate are the 10-day forecasts, for Walnut, CA and Boston, MA? (2) What cities have the most similar temperatures to Walnut and…