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 · 2015
Chemistry
Objectives/Goals I developed a new method for developing latent fingerprints on porous surfaces using microwave radiation. I compared my method to two other commonly used development methods…
CSEF · 2015
Electronics & Electromagnetics Fourth Award
Objectives/Goals The purpose of this project was to build a device that generated power from a soccer ball. I researched existing products, build and designed a prototype and then analyzed i…
ISEF · 2015
The main purpose of this engineering project is to come up with an innovative typing device useful for both disabled who are constrained with limited arm movements that a standard keyboard r…
ISEF · 2015
Positron emission tomography (PET) is considered the most advanced method of investigating neuroreceptor functionality. Promising radiotracers of PET, namely [11C]OMAR, present high binding…
CSEF · 2015
Chemistry Second Award
Objectives/Goals Our goal was to use polarimetry to measure the activation energy of the inversion of sucrose in the presence of a catalyst. Sucrose inversion occurs when it is dissolved in…
CSEF · 2015
Chemistry First Award
Objectives/Goals In this project, I synthesized magnetite nanocrystals in my home kitchen using everyday household supplies. Methods/Materials The ingredients for the synthesis of nanocrysta…
CSEF · 2015
Zoology
Objectives/Goals While observing birds at a local lagoon, I noticed that the overall bird abundance and diversity seemed to differ at high versus low tide. I was interested to learn more abo…
ISEF · 2015
The city of Lagos has few public toilet scattered around the city, both privately owned and government owned. Same situation if not worse replicates itself in several Nigerian and developing…
ISEF · 2015
The purpose of my project was to optimize enzymatic hydrolysis of waste paper to make fermentable sugars for biofuel production. I focused on adding surfactants to the paper to improve cellu…
ISEF · 2015
Third Award
The Great East Japan Earthquake caused serious damage due to many mountain slope failures, indicating the necessity of predicting the locations and extents of such failures in advance. In th…
CSEF · 2015
Mathematics & Software
Objectives/Goals Traffic jams are caused in a lane merge when people overly slow down when they are approaching the merge. As the people in front start to slow down people behind them also s…
ISEF · 2015
Biomedical Engineering
Problem: Post-operative pain exists following laparoscopic surgery due to trapped carbon dioxide gas. Purpose: Design a system to simulate the abdomen and test multiple methods that have the…
ISEF · 2015
Electrical utilities must be able to accurately predict the power inputs into their grid so that these inputs can be balanced against the electrical demands on the grid. A common objections…
ISEF · 2015
The Internet is a centralized communication network. In rural areas, it can be expensive or slow. Another concern is attackers can see when data on the Internet are being transferred. Using…
CSEF · 2015
Environmental Science
Objectives/Goals The purpose of this experiment was to prove the soccer fields I practice on don#t have harmful levels of lead (Pb) in the soil. Methods/Materials Materials included: Soccer…
CSEF · 2015
Environmental Science
Objectives/Goals For this year's science fair, I am investigating the dangerous levels of lead in soil in and around children's play areas. I chose this question because this topic greatly i…
CSEF · 2015
Chemistry
Objectives/Goals The objective of this project was to see what the most effective way for testing lead is. Prior to beginning this project, I believed that pure water solutions would work be…
ISEF · 2015
A staggering percentage of our time and resources are spent on food production in the U.S. each year, and just under half of the food made goes to waste. This project investigates the possib…
ISEF · 2015
Systems Software Fourth Award
PURPOSE: To investigate the effect of Leptomycin-B (LMB) on the subcellular distribution of a histone deacetylase protein (HDAC4) in HEK-293 cancer cells and how this response affects kidney…
ISEF · 2015
What would happen if the computers today did not use binary (Base Two) but instead used ternary (Base Three)? Theoretically a bigger base computer could store more information in the same am…
CSEF · 2015
Earth & Atmospheric Sciences (Junior Division Only) Fourth Award
Objectives/Goals My objective was to learn how the porosity of a porous medium impacts flowrate. My hypothesis was that the larger the porosity the faster the flowrate would be. Methods/Mate…
CSEF · 2015
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals The objective is to figure out what factors will affect a dancer's balance in positive or negative ways. My hypothesis was the dancers would balance the longest in a silent…
ISEF · 2015
Deferent expeditions to Mars have proven the existence of frozen water in the crust and rocks. The physical and the chemical analysis have mention that this frozen water contains a huge amou…
ISEF · 2015
Systems Software
Today Mosquitoes are causing thousands of diseases like malaria, yellow fever, dengue, elephantiasis etc .These diseases can further cause sudden death. No one has yet succeeded to eradicate…
CSEF · 2015
Environmental Science
Objectives/Goals The objective of my project was to determine if there is a correlation between light pollution levels and population. I also wanted to compare the different levels of light…
CSEF · 2015
Microbiology (General)
Objectives/Goals The purpose of my project is to see how different light/dark cycles affect bioluminescence in dinoflagellates. I believe that as the light cycle nears zero hours per 24 hour…
CSEF · 2015
Mammalian Biology
Objectives/Goals This experiment was performed to see if changes in sleep cadence affected a mouse's learning ability. This builds on my previous five years study of the effects of artificia…
ISEF · 2015
During the late 1980s to early 1990s, while working on President Reagan’s Strategic Defense Initiative Brilliant Pebbles laser, researchers noticed they could see what they described as the…
CSEF · 2015
Mathematics & Software
Objectives/Goals In this investigation, a lightweight, optic flow-based collision detection algorithm capable of running in real-time was developed with the goal of achieving key benchmarks…
CSEF · 2015
Microbiology (General)
Objectives/Goals My objective was to determine how will lime juice affect the growth of pathogen bacteria (E.coli) and how much time will it take for the lime juice to reduce the bacteria by…