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 · 2015
The focus of this research is to computationally elucidate the motion in a recombinant vaccine to detect vital alpha carbon motions. To correct for PCA’s insufficiencies, a hierarchical anal…
ISEF · 2015
Fourth Award
The highly invasive species of algae, Gracilaria salicornia, has harmful detriments to Hawaii's vulnerable reef life. As a red algae, Gracilaria salicornia has the potential have agar extrac…
ISEF · 2015
Millions of pounds of residual rice hulls are produced annually, but this agricultural waste is typically burned, releasing greenhouse gasses into the atmosphere. Previous studies have succe…
CSEF · 2015
Toxicology Second Award
Objectives/Goals Bee pollination accounts for about $15 billion in added crop value and 1/3 of the food consumed in the U.S. For almost ten years, Colony Collapse Disorder (CCD) has been res…
ISEF · 2015
Biomedical Engineering
Peak acceleration has been used in many studies to explore Football helmet safety. In this experiment, a linear drop test from 152 cm (6 feet) was performed in the NOCSAE (National Operating…
CSEF · 2015
Electronics & Electromagnetics
Objectives/Goals Even a few decades, the possibility of frictionless vehicles seemed impossible, but today the new invention of floating maglev trains is more common all around the world. By…
CSEF · 2015
Mammalian Biology
Objectives/Goals The purpose of my science project is to determine if equine chiropractics affects stride length and flexibility. I will be testing to see if there is a change in horses' str…
CSEF · 2015
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only) Second Award
Objectives/Goals Recently, I have been researching whether music or foreign language proficiency impacts the ability to distinguish the four primary Mandarin tones. As a Chinese adoptee, I w…
CSEF · 2015
Environmental Science Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals I chose to study the effects of the May 2014 fires on the lichen of the Coastal Sage Scrub Community in Northern San Diego County. Lichens are sensitive to air quality. I wa…
ISEF · 2015
Biomedical Engineering
Asthma, a chronic inflammatory disorder of the lung, is associated with airway remodeling and hyper-responsiveness. T cells play a key role in regulating inflammatory responses in asthma. Th…
ISEF · 2015
Biomedical Engineering
Leptomeningeal dissemination (LMD) is the metastatic spread of tumor cells from the brain to spinal chord. LMD is a characteristic of and the most fatal step in the pediatric brain tumor med…
CSEF · 2015
Plant Biology
Objectives/Goals The purpose of this experiment is to determine what plant species the French marigold (Tagetes patula), Grandiflora petunia (Petunia grandiflora), Garden pansy (Viola wittro…
CSEF · 2015
Plant Biology First Award
Objectives/Goals The objective of this experiment is to determine whether the current method foresters use to measure radial growth rate on redwood trees and spruce trees is accurate. This w…
ISEF · 2015
Translational Medical Science
The purpose of investigating the biomarker of bladder cancer is to see if there's mutation in the biomarkers' regions since the same biomarker region of angiogenin from ALS was found to be m…
ISEF · 2015
Caenorhabditis elegans hermaphrodites seed stem cells of their germlines to reproduce. The proliferation of these stem cells is controlled in a large part by the FBF genes (fbf-1 and fbf-2).…
CSEF · 2015
Plant Biology
Objectives/Goals Pollen germination, which results in pollen tube growth, facilitates fertilization in angiosperms. While modern technology has increased magnetic exposure to plants, current…
CSEF · 2015
Aerodynamics/ Hydrodynamics (Junior Division Only) Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals The purpose of this project was to determine the effects of camber on airfoil lift. The upper surface of a cambered airfoil is longer than the lower surface. As air moves ov…
CSEF · 2015
Environmental Engineering
Objectives/Goals I recently read an article about researchers trying a new method of water purification using carbon aerogel. Carbon aerogel is an amorphous form of carbon which is extremely…
ISEF · 2015
Second Award
In several instances, industrialization has led to increased contamination of agricultural fields with cytotoxic level of heavy metals. In seeded plants, the ZIP (ZRT- IRT-like Protein) fami…
ISEF · 2015
Third Award
Gastrointestinal graft-versus-host disease (GVHD) is a severe complication of allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation in which donor T cells attack host tissues. Immunosuppressant…
CSEF · 2015
Microbiology (Medical) (Junior Division Only) Fourth Award
Objectives/Goals Antibiotic resistance is becoming an increasingly serious threat to public health in nearly every region of the world, as resistant strains of bacteria force patients to res…
CSEF · 2015
Biochemistry/ Molecular Biology
Objectives/Goals The objective of this research project was to find out how effective antioxidant protection is against skin cancer and to also find out the antioxidant that best helps preve…
CSEF · 2015
Product Science (Biological) (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals The objective of this project was to find out what type of milk spoiled the quickest before and after the quickest. Methods/Materials The first thing I did was get 2%, whole…
CSEF · 2015
Microbiology (General)
Objectives/Goals The objective is to compare the individual and combination effects of two common macrolide antibiotics (erythromycin and azithromycin) with two plant polyphenols capable of…
ISEF · 2015
The tragic deaths of 19 Arizona firefighters in 2013 reminds us that firefighters are regularly exposed to extreme temperatures and hazardous conditions. Current protective apparel, however,…
ISEF · 2015
Translational Medical Science
Autophagy is implicated in the pathogenesis of Huntington’s disease (HD), a fatal neurodegenerative disorder, and is unproductive in HD cells. This research focused on understanding cellular…
ISEF · 2015
Biomedical Engineering
Multiple sclerosis (MS) affects millions of young adults worldwide. The disease is caused by the immune system mistakenly attacking the central nervous system (CNS), which consists of the br…
ISEF · 2015
Biomedical Engineering
Type-2 diabetes results when insulin producing beta-cells cannot compensate for rising insulin resistance. Diabetic pathologies may ensue including retinopathies. Current treatments show adv…
ISEF · 2015
With growing dependence of technology in the world, the importance of finding an effective source of renewable energy to replace harmful fossil fuels has been a mission for solar researchers…
ISEF · 2015
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
One significant problem with fuel cells is that they are costly to construct because of the expensive platinum catalyst. Palladium has similar chemical properties to platinum and is approxim…