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 · 2020
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Right ventricular (RV) dysfunction is the main determinant of mortality in patients with pulmonary arterial hypertension (PAH); yet, there is limited information on the role of RV inflammati…
JSHS · 2020
Objective/Goals: She ll waste contains useful compounds: chitin, calcium carbonate, and protein which influence its physical properties. Yet unlike plastics, they can naturally degrade in th…
JSHS · 2020
With over 4.9 million liters of raw petroleum being released into the oceans each year, a simple, cost-effective, and easily replicable method of oil removal must be found, both for the safe…
ISEF · 2020
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Oil spill causes serious depletion to marine life around the world. In the Philippines, managing oil spill remains a challenge due to unexplored technology for clean up and retrieval. This s…
ISEF · 2020
Mathematics
We propose a generalization of Artin's conjecture on primitive roots to the ring Z[i] of Gaussian integers. We conjecture that for a fixed positive integer q, every non-zero Gaussian integer…
ISEF · 2020
Mathematics
The problem of finding the largest pi/2-avoiding spherical set first appeared in the AMS monthly journal in 1974. H. S. Witsenhausen asked readers to determine alpha(n)=(|U|)/(|S^(n-1) |), w…
ISEF · 2020
Mathematics
In this paper, I consider the possibility of using graph theory to study alternating knots and links, which we will simply call knots in what follows. Alternating knot can be built from arbi…
ISEF · 2020
Translational Medical Science
The aim of our work was to create an affordable and easy-to-use device for the early diagnosis of transparency disorders in the optical media of the human eye. As a result of the analysis of…
ISEF · 2020
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
One of the major needs in our world today is developing clean energy sources which can help limit the use of fossil fuels and prevent global warming, as well as bring electricity to developi…
ISEF · 2020
Mathematics
Optimization plays an essential role not only in mathematics, but in many related fields such as biology, robotics or transport. This particular research focuses on finding an optimal planar…
ISEF · 2020
Physics and Astronomy
The make-up of dark matter, which contributes about 30% to the universe’s matter-energy contribution, is one of the most puzzling mysteries and active areas in contemporary physics research.…
JSHS · 2020
Cabrillo Marine Aquarium Photosynthetic microbial fuel cells (PMFCs) present a relevant and new focal area in the field of renewable energy. In PMFCs, electrons produced by anaerobic bacteri…
ISEF · 2020
Microbiology
The unsustainability and environmental pollution caused by primary energy sources along with issues on the purification of wastewater act as a major impetus for research into alternative bio…
ISEF · 2020
Environmental Engineering
Commercially viable carbon dioxide (CO2) sequestration with magnesium silicates, such as olivine, is still primarily experimental. My previous research showed a closed system containing oliv…
ISEF · 2020
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Contemporary advances in graph theory and network science allow ecologists and biologists to develop methods to preserve our ecosystem. One of the ways ecosystems have been preserved is thro…
ISEF · 2020
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Using macroinvertebrates for freshwater bioassessment was popularized by Hilsenhoff in 1977. They show cumulative effects of habitat alteration and pollutants that chemical testing and field…
ISEF · 2020
Materials Science
Currently, the market for protein and peptide-based drugs accounts for over 40 billion U.S. dollars - the equivalent of 10% of the pharmaceutical market. Using peptide therapeutics is of gro…
ISEF · 2020
Physics and Astronomy
The orbit determination and projection of potentially hazardous asteroids (PHAs) are crucial, as these bodies present a danger to Earth and spacecraft. The goal of this study was to determin…
ISEF · 2020
Physics and Astronomy
It is known that applying electric field is able to adjust the viscosity of a non-conducting fluid emerged with dielectric particles, known as electrorheological (ER) fluid, and the viscosit…
ISEF · 2020
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Careful monitoring of plant conditions and their diagnosis is necessary, but a human cannot control a large area of land where the crop grows. Early diagnosis and accurate detection of plant…
ISEF · 2020
Translational Medical Science
Pancreatic cancer (PC) is the fourth leading cause of cancer death in the United States because it’s five-year survival rate is 8.9%. This occurs because of late diagnosis which is affiliate…
ISEF · 2020
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Pancreatic cancer is a devastating and incurable disease with a 5-year survival rate of just 10%. Due to genetic alterations known as mutations, certain cancer-inhibiting and cell vitality g…
ISEF · 2020
Translational Medical Science
Retinal diseases such as glaucoma and diabetic retinopathy (DR) currently devastate the developing world, causing permanent visual impairment when left undiagnosed and untreated. Glaucoma is…
ISEF · 2020
Systems Software
Many mathematical and practical problems, such as Sudoku, timetabling, and resource distribution, require elements of a set to be arranged in a way that satisfies specific conditions. Such t…
ISEF · 2020
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Approximately 38,000 children with severe-to-profound hearing loss in the United States use a cochlear implant. Research demonstrates that adolescent cochlear implant recipients experience d…
ISEF · 2020
Environmental Engineering
The purpose of this project is to identify which of the four types of firewood (pine, pinon, oak, and cedar) produce the most carbon monoxide, carbon dioxide, with the addition of particulat…
ISEF · 2020
Plant Sciences
Without being able to predict the pattern of inheritance much time would be lost to trial and error as well as the product and seed being wasted. The ability to trust that you will get the p…
ISEF · 2020
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Colorectal cancer is the second highest cause of cancer occurrence and death in men and women in the United States combined. A specialist usually confirms their diagnosis by a careful micros…
ISEF · 2020
Biochemistry
The goal of this research is to determine the mechanism by which epigallocatechin-3-gallate (EGCG) and small drug molecules (6-fluoro-4H-1,3-benzodioxine-8-carboxylic acid known as RK038) bi…
ISEF · 2020
Earth and Environmental Sciences
This study uses simulated septic effluent leaching into sandy soils similar in composition to those located in the Cape Cod area of Massachusetts to identify the orthophosphate (PO4 3-) filt…