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
Product Science (Biological) (Junior Division Only) Third Award
Objectives/Goals Antifouling boat hull paint contains biocides and copper which can harm sea creatures and even humans. There are other kinds of boat hull paints that are environmentally saf…
CSEF · 2015
Plant Biology Third Award
Objectives/Goals My objective was to determine which plant will germinate faster, the invasive plant (Limonium ramosissimum) or the native (Limonium californicum) under the conditions of lig…
ISEF · 2015
The purpose of this second-year project furthered the previous findings of mathematical modeling of wildfires. The first goal was to optimize the Cellular Automata model created last year in…
ISEF · 2015
Biomedical and Health Sciences
This experiment developed a technique for improved quantitative diagnosis of mental disorders using intentionally ambiguous feedback in traditional pattern recognition testing. Pattern recog…
ISEF · 2015
The purpose of this project was to determine the effect of heart tissue deformation on cardiac action potential duration (APD). The hypothesis was that deformation of the heart tissue would…
CSEF · 2015
Biochemistry/ Molecular Biology
Objectives/Goals To investigate the effectiveness of controlling cell cluster growth using feedback in stochastic and spatially heterogeneous environments Methods/Materials I created a cell…
CSEF · 2015
Mathematics & Software
Objectives/Goals I set out to build a user-friendly suite of math calculators that can be used offline, & downloaded at no cost from the Google Play Store. I wanted this app to help students…
CSEF · 2015
Earth & Atmospheric Sciences (Junior Division Only) Third Award
Objectives/Goals The primary objective was to determine if the number of cosmic rays changes with altitude. The secondary objective was to obtain temperature, other flight data, and video. M…
ISEF · 2015
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design Fourth Award
Radon222 is a chemically inert gas with an atomic number of 86. It forms from the natural decay of Uranium238. It is the second leading cause of lung cancer in Ireland. This is due to the em…
ISEF · 2015
Fourth Award
Recent research efforts in ambient RF energy harvesting are being focused on designing ultra-low power battery free products and maximizing the efficiency of RF harvesting circuits. But the…
ISEF · 2015
Currently, drug interactions are explained by the lock-and-key model which offers a crude approach to quantifying the efficacy of drugs based on receptor communications. There is no gradient…
ISEF · 2015
Biomedical and Health Sciences
A method is described for the analysis of cotinine, as a metabolite of nicotine, in saliva samples. The aim of this method is to compare cotinine levels between two groups of both non-smokin…
ISEF · 2015
Biomedical Engineering
The purpose of this investigation is to assess the concentration of FD&C Blue No.1 in different beverages. Also, this experiment investigates how bleach interacts with the blue dye solution.…
CSEF · 2015
Physics & Astronomy
Objectives/Goals My objective was to measure the acceleration constant and mass of the earth to within 10% accuracy using a non-automated system. Methods/Materials I manually timed how long…
CSEF · 2015
Chemistry
Objectives/Goals The objective of our project is to determine what coating on Ibuprofen will dissolve the fastest, to release the Ibuprofen inside the pill first. Methods/Materials We used .…
CSEF · 2015
Physics & Astronomy
Objectives/Goals We can all see that some foods change color when they cook. I wanted to understand what aspect of reflectivity changes in food as it cooks. The human eye has difficulty quan…
ISEF · 2015
'Mechanics Simulator' is a program that simulates basic middle to high school level mechanics(also called dynamics or motion physics). It is based on Newton’s laws of motion. This program wa…
ISEF · 2015
Purpose: Cancer has become a common disease in today’s society and although chemotherapy is a prevailing treatment, chemotherapy relies on the use of cytotoxic anti-neoplastic drugs which of…
ISEF · 2015
Arsenic is one of the natural compositions of our earth's crust that can present many lethal effects to our cardiovascular system. In fact, many individuals especially in third world and dev…
ISEF · 2015
Corn (Zea mays L.) is a plant belonging to the Gramineae/Poaceae family, the third most cultivated cereal planet. This way, the stigma of the plant, also known as hair, silk, beard or corn d…
ISEF · 2015
The pharmaceutical industry spends billions of dollars researching and developing new products; however, late in the developmental process, it is often discovered many of these seemingly hop…
ISEF · 2015
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Alzheimers Disease is a neurodegenerative disease resulting in loss of brain function and memory, caused by the build-up of Amyloid-beta (Abeta) protein plaques and neurofibrillary tangles.…
CSEF · 2015
Zoology Second Award
Objectives/Goals The goal and objective of the experiment is to figure out the duration of memory for natural memetics (e.g. learned information) in three species of captive Tetras, includin…
CSEF · 2015
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals The objective is to determine if memorizing words in black text, in yellow text with a black outline, or as a naturally colored picture is more effective. We believe colored…
CSEF · 2015
Mathematics & Software
Objectives/Goals My objective is to create a computer algorithm that can accurately predict the implementation of a Clam Shell Disk Bead (CSDB) by recognizing pattens in predetermined beads,…
ISEF · 2015
Biomedical Engineering
Background: Mesenchymal stem cells secrete anti-inflammatory and antimicrobial products. Cystic Fibrosis is a disease that results in infection with P. aeruginosa (PA) S. pneumoniae (ST) or…
ISEF · 2015
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design Fourth Award
Hydrogels can be injected into localized surface tumors for the consistent release of anti-cancer drugs over a specific period of time. This project used metal-free “click” chemistry to deve…
ISEF · 2015
This study examines water quality and biota in Birds Creek to determine if levels decrease as the stream flows past a solid waste transfer station. Data collection Site #1 was 1600 meters up…
ISEF · 2015
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Clown fish (an anemone fish) Amphiprion ocellaris symbiotically lives among tentacles of sea anemone Stichodactyla gigantean without suffering any attacks of nematocyst discharge from the se…
CSEF · 2015
Alternative Energy (Junior Division Only) Second Award
Objectives/Goals A microbial fuel cell is a renewable means of generating electricity using anaerobic bacteria that decompose organic matter. The goal of my project is to find out how the pH…