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
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
When the conscious mind declares a movement in the body, the central nervous system carries a signal to the muscles by way of neurons. This signal causes the muscles to contract in the form…
ISEF · 2020
Embedded Systems
Falls are the leading cause of fatal injury among older adults with over 12 million falls in the United States annually. For elderly people living alone, quick assistance after a fall is cri…
ISEF · 2020
Biomedical Engineering
There are over 289 million people with visual disabilities worldwide and that number is expected to grow to 579 million in only 3 decades due to a large aging population. Current techniques…
ISEF · 2020
Biomedical Engineering
Epilepsy threatens the lives and freedom of around 50 million individuals worldwide annually. Predicting epileptic episodes (seizures) would increase the quality of life of epileptics. Howev…
ISEF · 2020
Plant Sciences
Due to heavy metal pollution in soil around the world, many countries are not able to maximize their farmland usage. While removing the toxic metals is possible, current methods are not viab…
ISEF · 2020
Biochemistry
I aim to modify a preexisting centrifuge force microscopy (CFM) to explore protein crystallization under hypergravity. Proteins are involved in every aspect of cellular life, performing a va…
ISEF · 2020
Biomedical Engineering
This project represents a prosthetic device that can be an external wearable mobile machine that covers the hand or part of it. The movement is generated by pneumatic and electric motors. It…
ISEF · 2020
Embedded Systems
The project aim was to reinvent the wheel. The intention was to develop a system to allow increased move-ability of mobility devices in confined spaces. It was desired that the system took a…
ISEF · 2020
Animal Sciences
In 2019, over 3.2 million adolescents aged 12-17 experienced symptoms of Major Depressive Disorder (MDD), and 73% of adolescents who experienced MDD did not get enough sleep per night. Depre…
ISEF · 2020
Earth and Environmental Sciences
If water pollution, including macro and micro plastics is detrimental to marine life, then developing an efficient cleaning system is essential because marine life needs to be protected and…
JSHS · 2020
The purpose of this experiment was to determine whether natural wood-based charcoals such as pine and juniper are just as effective at air filtration as activated charcoal. For our experimen…
ISEF · 2020
Environmental Engineering
Water security is becoming a new challenge for many countries as industrial waste containing heavy metals is being disposed in bodies of water. Lead (Pb) is an extremely toxic yet common con…
ISEF · 2020
Chemistry
Microbeads are widely used plastics which offer valuable properties that aid cosmetic products for exfoliation and scrubbing. Despite their size, they are currently having serious detrimenta…
ISEF · 2020
Microbiology
The need to develop antimicrobial therapies is on the rise as antibiotic resistance increases. Drug repurposing is a cost-effective measure and much more efficient than drug development. Nic…
ISEF · 2020
Plant Sciences
Viola mirabilis is one of the species of violets that distributed throughout Europe. Its feature is the ability to blossom twice a year: in the spring appear infertile flowers and in the sum…
ISEF · 2020
Mathematics
In this paper, we investigate the generalized tent maps, whose vertex, left endpoint and right endpoint are (a, b), (0, s) and (1,c) respectively, where 0<a<1, 0<b<=1,0<=<1 and 0<=s<1. Accor…
ISEF · 2020
Physics and Astronomy
Synchronization is a basic physical phenomenon in the dynamics of coupled nonlinear systems. This project mainly studies the coupling phenomenon in several metronomes, which means that the m…
ISEF · 2020
Translational Medical Science
Diabetic retinopathy (DR) is a complication of diabetes that can lead to blindness and is the leading cause of blindness in working-age adults. DR will affect most type-1 diabetic (T1D) pati…
ISEF · 2020
Materials Science
Organic pollutants cause detrimental effects to aquatic communities living in them; thus, becoming a threat to the Philippines' river water system. To address this, graphene oxide was magnet…
ISEF · 2020
Physics and Astronomy
As quantum computers advance, a way to diagnose quantum circuit failures becomes necessary for diagnostic purposes and to resolve data corruption due to faulty gates and eavesdropping. This…
ISEF · 2020
Translational Medical Science
The drawback of chemotherapy for treating cancer is that the cancerous cells acquire drug resistance after constant exposure to the drug, making them impervious to further dose escalation. M…
ISEF · 2020
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Modern diagnosis of glioma tumors requires several MRI sequences of the brain, which can be costly, burdensome to the patient, and provide toxic risks due to the presence of metallic, often…
ISEF · 2020
Plant Sciences
In agriculture around the world, we are diminishing beneficial soil microorganism populations, causing higher crop susceptibility to plant-parasitic nematodes, increased fertilizer need, and…
ISEF · 2020
Systems Software
The goal of this project was to create a program that would encode a robust watermark into a three-dimensional file type. Working with ASCII STL files, the program encoded the information by…
ISEF · 2020
Plant Sciences
Pollen germination and tube growth are critical for successful double fertilization, which is important for sexually propagated seed production in higher plants. Upon landing on stigma surfa…
ISEF · 2020
Microbiology
Affecting over 2.4 billion people, dental caries is the most prevalent, global disease. Caries is caused by Streptococcus mutans, a bacteria that produces lactic acid, creating lesions in th…
JSHS · 2020
Forsyth Institute Affecting over 2.4 billion people, dental caries is the most prevalent, global disease. Caries is caused by Streptococcus mutans, a bacteria that produces lactic acid, crea…
ISEF · 2020
Plant Sciences
Drought and salinization of the land are serious environmental problems facing our world, which will inhibit the normal growth of crops. Therefore, using purple corn as the research material…
ISEF · 2020
Engineering Mechanics
Nowadays the aviation industry is developing quickly. Constructors need better technologies to make their planes better and safer. As a pilot I have noticed that sharp transitions between an…
JSHS · 2020
Purdue University Neonicotinoids are a family of insecticides that have gained worldwide popularity. By 2009, the global Neonicotinoid market was worth $2.63 billion. Recently, their usage h…