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
Environmental Engineering
Solid waste management is a major concern for Pakistan like many other developing countries. Now with arising climatic impacts on hand, waste management has become an inevitable problem for…
ISEF · 2019
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Emissions caused by burning of fossil fuels have tremendously increased acid deposition on earth in the form of sulphuric and nitric acids along with rain, fog, mist and snow badly affecting…
ISEF · 2019
Behavioral and Social Sciences
The purpose of this project was to determine if English-Spanish bilinguals have more Stroop Interference than English monolinguals. This is important because little research has been done on…
ISEF · 2019
Biomedical Engineering
Point of care technology, which monitors the human body through direct-contact sensors, has been on the rise. The next step would be to sense problems and then release medicine or nano-techn…
ISEF · 2019
Cellular and Molecular Biology
BACKGROUND: The androgen receptor (AR) is the driving force of prostate cancer growth. The AR is a nuclear receptor which, upon activation, goes to the nucleus and promotes transcription of…
ISEF · 2019
Animal Sciences
There has been substantial growth in the prevalence and popularity of electronic cigarettes since they were developed in 2004, possibly due to advertisements that market them as a safer alte…
ISEF · 2019
Physics and Astronomy Third Award
Three-dimensional topological Dirac semimetals (3D-TDSMs) have unusually high mobility at room temperature due to their unique linear electronic band dispersion and nontrivial band topology.…
ISEF · 2019
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Infantile Hypertrophic Pyloric Stenosis (IHPS) is a condition that occurs in newborns from 0-6 months of age. Food is restricted from passing through the pylorus causing the obstruction of t…
ISEF · 2019
Biomedical and Health Sciences
OBJECTIVE: To investigate the mechanism by which flavanol (ZGM1,2-(2,3-dihydroxyphenyl)-5,7-dimethoxychroman-4-one) changes the aggregation process of beta-amyloid (Abeta) and verify the pro…
ISEF · 2019
Energy: Chemical
Grilling meat at elevated temperatures has been associated with the formation of carcinogens in grilled meat. It the temperatures produced by the grilling fuels and the number of drippings o…
ISEF · 2019
Microbiology
Antibiotics are becoming less effective, due to their increased use, producing resistant bacteria. Phages, viruses that infect bacteria, can be researched to treat bacterial infections. One…
ISEF · 2019
Chemistry
Polyaromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) are common organic pollutants in water and well known for their persistence, carcinogenicity, mutagenicity, and toxicity. Motor oil from cars, insecticides,…
ISEF · 2019
Plant Sciences
Many plants depend on complex communities of microorganisms to support growth. Symbiosis, the interaction between two species, has been occurring for over 400 million years. As close partner…
ISEF · 2019
Materials Science
The ability to control the growth of zinc oxide nanowires is important for such applications as field emission electron sources, chemical sensors, and optoelectronic devices. In field emissi…
ISEF · 2019
Embedded Systems
The charge equalizer was able to sustain the same amount of voltage in all the battery configurations regardless of the number of batteries in the array or their individual positions. Implem…
ISEF · 2019
Biochemistry
The most abused chemical, alcohol, has been linked to dementia and ischemic stroke, in which blood-brain barrier (BBB) dysfunction is a common characteristic. The goal was to investigate if…
ISEF · 2019
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Alcohol and aspartame are commonly consumed substances. Alcohol, a depressant, is currently the most abused substance today. It slows down bodily functions and can severely damage the heart.…
ISEF · 2019
Behavioral and Social Sciences
This study revealed the influence of an instructor on students’ ideology and perception of valid information. It was hypothesized that if students were presented with an economic theory by a…
ISEF · 2019
Physics and Astronomy
This study was designed to assess the effects of the fit of a mountain biker's aerodynamics. 1 participant rode a standard entry-level cross-country mountain bike down a one-kilometer segmen…
ISEF · 2019
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Coral reefs are one of the most diverse ecosystems in the world. With the use of motor boats, gasoline is being emitted into the ocean everyday at an alarming rate. The objective of this stu…
ISEF · 2019
Microbiology Third Award
Periodontitis is one of the most prevalent inflammatory diseases, with an annual expense of 14 billion dollars on the disease therapy. It is the leading cause of tooth loss among adults and…
ISEF · 2019
Microbiology Fourth Award
i-Motifs and G-quadruplexes are unusual DNA secondary structures that have been implicated as regulatory elements for eukaryotic gene expression. i-Motifs are intercalated ladder formations…
ISEF · 2019
Biochemistry
Background: Alzheimer’s dementia (AD) is characterized by profound memory loss. New models of treatment are needed since the prevailing amyloid hypothesis has not resulted in successful trea…
ISEF · 2019
Biomedical and Health Sciences Third Award
Retinopathy of prematurity (ROP) is a retinal angiogenic disorder that results from rapid microvascular proliferation after exposure to oxygen supplementation in preterm infants. It is curre…
ISEF · 2019
Materials Science
This study aims to use organic waste and materials from natural sources to produce eco-friendly patching products as an alternative to the existing plaster in the market. Presently, limeston…
ISEF · 2019
Physics and Astronomy
The purpose of this experiment was to determine how the efficiency of an electromagnetic braking system changes as the electromagnet is moved farther from the wheel’s center. I hypothesized…
ISEF · 2019
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
In year two of building the electromagnetic wall climber the goal of building a robot capable of climbing steel structures remained the same. This year the project’s focus is on improving th…
ISEF · 2019
Plant Sciences
The purpose is to better understand the relationships that arise between corn plants and their mycorrhizal symbionts in order to pursue agricultural applications of mycorrhizal fungi. The hy…
ISEF · 2019
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Every year, over 600,000 people suffer from neurological injuries in the U.S. alone, and about 80% of acute stroke survivors lose motor skills of the upper limb. Research shows that methodic…
ISEF · 2019
Biomedical Engineering
Over the years, I have worked with the visually impaired and the blind community in aiding them in different necessities of their lives. The visually impaired and the blind are sometimes ove…