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 · 2019
Cellular and Molecular Biology Fourth Award
Aggregation of protein tau into neurofibrillary tangles and a-synuclein into Lewy bodies are hallmarks of Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s disease, respectively. These proteins are known to form…
ISEF · 2019
Engineering Mechanics
There are many vehicular intersections traffic lights that stop working due to the lack of electrical energy caused by natural disasters and/or blackouts (Dávila, 2017). As an alternative to…
ISEF · 2019
Embedded Systems
Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) is a neurodegenerative disease that affects the motor neurons responsible for voluntary movement. It is characterized by progressive loss of muscle streng…
ISEF · 2019
Energy: Chemical
Energy efficiency is a recurrent issue in today's society. Scientists and engineers are tirelessly seeking ways to reduce the use of nonrenewable fuels and replace them with things like sola…
ISEF · 2019
Energy: Chemical
Demand for energy is increasing in economically and socially developing societies with higher living standards. Unfortunately higher energy demand is comes with pollution and waste output. A…
ISEF · 2019
Materials Science
The safety of bike riders going from one bikeshare system to another is absent due to insufficient use of helmets (“Bike Sharing in United States,” 2012). A collapsible helmet, in contrast t…
ISEF · 2019
Biomedical Engineering
This project focused on creating a motion capture suit for lumbar spine and a software for displaying the recorded movements. The device is meant for athletes, such as swimmers and hockey pl…
ISEF · 2019
Energy: Chemical
Aluminum-ion batteries, with a stainless steel mesh cathode, aluminum (Al) anode, and salt(NaCl) water electrolyte has the ability to sequester CO2 around it, generating aluminum oxalate as…
ISEF · 2019
Materials Science
Optical telescope mirrors used in aerospace imaging typically contain aluminum or silver protective coatings. Mirror life time is about three to five years, as corrosion severely degrades th…
ISEF · 2019
Translational Medical Science Fourth Award
Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer-related deaths in the world. The need exists to develop an innovative diagnostic and detection measure to promptly detect the presence and type of…
ISEF · 2019
Embedded Systems
This project uses Machine Learning, NLP and Multilingual named entity transliteration approach to identify devices, help in device diagnostics and create effective communication between the…
ISEF · 2019
Microbiology
Bacteria cause numerous issues when they infect water sources, including bacterial disease, which affects billions of people annually, aquarium and aquaculture issues, and environmental issu…
ISEF · 2019
Plant Sciences
In the near future, humans will begin to explore and colonize Mars. As a result, methods of in-situ resource utilization must be developed and tested to increase the likelihood of survival o…
ISEF · 2019
Animal Sciences
Minecraft is a survival/sandbox game from 2009 where the goal is to survive in a world filled with blocks. You can find monsters in the game that will spawn in dark areas. Observations have…
ISEF · 2019
Plant Sciences Fourth Award
This work reports the design, fabrication, and testing of a novel minimally-invasive mechanical delivery system that can potentially transport therapeutics to Huanglongbing (HLB) affected tr…
ISEF · 2019
Biochemistry
Recently, complement component C1q and its corresponding receptors (gC1qR and cC1qR) have generated interest due to their involvement in autoimmunity, inflammation, and infectious disease. D…
ISEF · 2019
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics Third Award
Plant field testing proves often a long and costly process crucial to the development of efficient agricultural techniques. We aimed to create a plant topology simulator that presents a sign…
ISEF · 2019
Engineering Mechanics
The flood problem affects us globally. Presently due to climate change, this problem occurs more frequently and unexpectedly. Those living in flood prone areas constantly worry when it rains…
ISEF · 2019
Engineering Mechanics Third Award
Our project is AMSD drone and its aim is to help with rescuing people’s lives. In order to achieve that, we came up with an innovative, half-autonomic method of controlling the device. We ca…
ISEF · 2019
Biochemistry
Cancer metastasis is the cause of ninety percent of cancer deaths. The collagenase, Matrix Metalloproteinase-2 (MMP-2) has been identified to have a critical role in the proliferation of can…
ISEF · 2019
Systems Software Fourth Award
Diagnosing diseases automatically has been an immense challenge, owing to their variable properties and symptoms. On the other hand, Neural Networks (NNs) have developed into a powerful tool…
ISEF · 2019
Systems Software
According to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, adverse drug events (ADEs) account for one-third of total hospital adverse side effects every year. The increasing prevalence o…
ISEF · 2019
Microbiology Third Award
Each year, 2 million Americans acquire antibiotic-resistant infections and 23,000 die. Unfortunately, the scientific consensus is that no new classes of antibiotics are left to be discovered…
ISEF · 2019
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Surveys are a preferred, but flawed, method of predicting election outcomes. 71% of polling during the last months of the 2016 Presidential campaign predicted candidate Clinton winning by an…
ISEF · 2019
Mathematics
Attention deficit is always a confusing disease: the exact causes of this disorder is still unclear. However, the prevalent idea is that genetics is a major factor of ADHD. Based on that ide…
ISEF · 2019
Chemistry
In this project a simple and yet a relatively cheap and effective method was used in an attempt to break the atmospheric CO2 into its basic constituents.A closed cubical control chamber was…
ISEF · 2019
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Type One Diabetes (TID) is a very prevalent disease affecting 1.25 million and 40,000 more patients are diagnosed every year. This happens when auto antibodies “confuse” the pancreas as a fo…
ISEF · 2019
Engineering Mechanics
My previous project showed that irregular transparent window coatings can subvert the security implications of laser surveillance. In this work, I have addressed the same goal by using activ…
ISEF · 2019
Chemistry
This project analyzes the manufacturing and polymerization process in creating a stable polymer based upon the monomer D-Glucose. The purpose was to assess whether changes to the materials a…
ISEF · 2019
Physics and Astronomy
Carbon stars are usually cool hydrogen deficient red giants with rich, carbon-abundant spectra. A comparison of C5 and C6 N-type stars was conducted to compare the spectral abundances of CN,…