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
Energy: Chemical Fourth Award
Earth absorbs approximately 3850 zeta joules of solar energy year-1, which is more than enough to power the entire planet. Solar cell technologies have the potential to harvest this energy;…
ISEF · 2019
Materials Science
Micro-/nano-structured surfaces in nature inspire many cutting-edge applications. Chameleon skin contains flexible micro-/nano-structures that can be geometrically tuned in response to envir…
ISEF · 2019
Materials Science
PURPOSE: Extend the endothermic chemical reaction of ammonium nitrate by adding a hydrated polymer and alkaloid to create a survival shelter from a firetruck cab that won’t exceed 37°C of he…
ISEF · 2019
Physics and Astronomy Fourth Award
Heaping behavior of granular materials under vertical vibration has attracted increasing interest in recent years as it is a beautiful example of gas-granular interaction and granular hydrod…
ISEF · 2019
Physics and Astronomy
The purpose of the Faraday Return project was to pioneer innovation in the field of generator technology through a new generator technology that takes full advantage of Faraday's law of elec…
ISEF · 2019
Plant Sciences
There are many compelling reasons to explore Mars: to understand climatic changes, to understand ancient environment conducive to life’s origin, and to find a new home for the rising populat…
ISEF · 2019
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
The present research involves the areas of mechanical engineering and assistive technology. It is a technological study on the feasibility of building an electromechanical device with severa…
ISEF · 2019
Systems Software Third Award
The intensity and length of wildfire seasons around the world is increasing, exacerbated by climate-change-related factors such as drought and insect infestation. Fire fighting cost Montana…
ISEF · 2019
Robotics and Intelligent Machines Third Award
Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) is used extensively across the world to get detailed physiological images that are unattainable with other imaging modalities. Although it has widespread app…
ISEF · 2019
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Usually, training of an assistant robot recognition system requires more than 100 man-hours because input image material should be collected and marked up, usually manually. It also makes a…
ISEF · 2019
Biochemistry
The experiment I conducted is about the fat content of various snack foods. The purpose of my experiment was to gain knowledge about the types of fats that snacks contain and to help educate…
ISEF · 2019
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Emotion inference is the ability to infer how another individual is feeling and is crucial to social interaction and well-being. The predominant form of investigation involves unimodal, simp…
ISEF · 2019
Robotics and Intelligent Machines Third Award
This project is intended for helping Parkinson patients have meals more easily by using a feeding robot that applies image processing and voice recognition technology in its control method.…
ISEF · 2019
Translational Medical Science
In traditional Nigerian medicine, different parts of Ficus exasperata Vahl, are used as analgesic, diuretic, wound healing, anti-parasitic and for treating hemorrhoids. However, much documen…
ISEF · 2019
Embedded Systems
Potatoes require heavy watering and intensive fertilization in order to grow, which negatively impacts the environment. A system designed to mitigate these environmental impacts and improve…
ISEF · 2019
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Purpose: The purpose of this experiment is to use computational methods to dock compounds onto a Zika virus protease and find stable inhibitors, as indicated by a low binding and interaction…
ISEF · 2019
Microbiology
The central focus of this study was to determine the bacterial composition of the oral cavities of Sphyrna tiburo and Negaprion brevirostris populations native to Beaufort County, South Caro…
ISEF · 2019
Environmental Engineering
Rapidly developing industrial processes and manufacturing are releasing an alarming and overwhelming surplus of 29 gigatons of CO2 into the atmosphere every year, adding to the natural disch…
ISEF · 2019
Biomedical and Health Sciences
An aberrant interaction between wolframin and neuronal calcium sensor 1 (NCS1) explains the clinical implications of Wolfram Syndrome, an orphan disease without a cure. Wolfram Syndrome is a…
ISEF · 2019
Mathematics Third Award
This project is motivated by studying Chebyshev polynomials such as cos?(mx) is a polynomial of cos?(x). It is interesting to know if there are other non-constant continuous functions f havi…
ISEF · 2019
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Up to $18.7 billion is spent on the treatment of chronic wounds per year, which afflict over 6.5 million people per year. To combat this issue, we set out with the goal of analyzing and refi…
ISEF · 2019
Environmental Engineering Third Award
In the place that we live, an extremely rare and beautiful plant is on the verge of extinction. It is being threatened by the fungus known as Rapid Ohia Death (R.O.D). Rapid Ohia Death can b…
ISEF · 2019
Engineering Mechanics
Car accidents can result in a spectrum of situations, ranging from a few car dents and passenger bruises to a complete catastrophe involving a trip to the emergency room. And this concept di…
ISEF · 2019
Microbiology
The bacteria Streptomyces antibioticus produces several industrially important antibiotics, but the species is difficult to culture and therefore to effectively discover antibiotics in. To f…
ISEF · 2019
Microbiology
The world is facing a serious food crisis due to increasing population, intensive farming, and environmental stressors such as drought. More effective and environment-friendly farming techno…
ISEF · 2019
Biomedical Engineering
Fishiotherapy is a “Virtual Reality Interfacing” unit that harnesses and extends XR technologies to provide low cost, personalised and supplemental physiotherapy services to patients sufferi…
ISEF · 2019
Biomedical Engineering
Today, at a global level, we see that the majority of deaths are attributed to the category of diseases which involve abnormal concentrations of cells and proteins. Consequently, the develop…
ISEF · 2019
Energy: Chemical
As devices increase in needs for alternative energy source other than batteries, supercapacitors have been in development with advanced materials. The objective of the research was to make a…
ISEF · 2019
Materials Science
Rechargeable lithium ion batteries are now widely applied in the energy landscape. However, safety issues such as short-circuiting, thermal runaway and explosion hazards frequently occur, es…
ISEF · 2019
Physics and Astronomy Fourth Award
Collective motion is a phenomenon of ordered motion that attracts much scientific interest because of its presence in a wide variety of applications such as the flocking behavior of birds or…