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 · 2019
Environmental Engineering
Objectives Our goal was to see if the change of slope effects how well a bioswale filters water. Methods We built a bioswale that we could change to different slopes, and poured polluted wat…
CSEF · 2019
Mathematical Sciences
Objectives The objective of my project is to compare several different strategies used in the game Iterated Prisoner s Dilemma. I investigate how each strategy performs against all other ava…
ISEF · 2019
Systems Software
Nowadays people, especially the young, spend more and more screen time browsing web pages, playing games, or chatting with friends on smart phones. The intensive eye usage is causing visual…
ISEF · 2019
Energy: Physical
A lot of people struggle with their air conditioning system with problems like hot and cold spots. Air conditioning systems need to be more effective in cooling and heating rooms properly an…
CSEF · 2019
Plant Biology Second Award
Objectives To test if jasmonic acid is a feasible solution to combatting drought and salinity stresses in two types of plants, Brassica rapa and A. thaliana. Methods Planted 50 Brassica rapa…
ISEF · 2019
Mathematics
In this study, we consider a discrete dynamic system starting with n arbitrary points on a circle. In one transition, each point moves simultaneously from its current state counterclockwise…
ISEF · 2019
Biomedical Engineering
This project aims to allow visually impaired people to use their hands to feel various graphics and pictures encountered in everyday life. There is a sculptural technique known as "relief" w…
ISEF · 2019
Translational Medical Science Third Award
Amblyopia is the most frequent vision disorder in children leading to permanent visual impairment. Prevalence of amblyopia varies from 1.1%-5% in various studies. Early detection through a c…
ISEF · 2019
Physics and Astronomy
The objective of this project is to determine the most efficient and accurate method, among peak fitting analysis (PFA), linear combination fitting analysis (LCF), and principal components a…
CSEF · 2019
Environmental Engineering Third Award
Objectives Trillions of pieces of trash currently pollute the ocean, which greatly harm marine life and the environment. Our goal is to design, build, and test an autonomous prototype boat t…
CSEF · 2019
Chemistry
Objectives The objective was to determine what initial temperature for a hand warmer would create the most effective hand warmer in terms of warmth, crystallization rate, and voltage from it…
ISEF · 2019
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Artificial intelligence is one of the fastest growing fields in the U.S. It can be used for anything from medicine to self-driving cars. An easy environment for an AI to learn in is a videog…
ISEF · 2019
Environmental Engineering
Over 300 million tons of plastic waste is produced annually, and over 270 million tons of that waste is sent to landfills. This research hopes to better characterize plastic consumption in B…
CSEF · 2019
Product Science (Biological) (Junior Division Only)
Objectives Does Therapeutic Kinesiology Tape (KT) actually improve an athlete's performance and does the athlete's opinion about whether KT tape is helpful affect their performance. Methods…
ISEF · 2019
Energy: Chemical
Bioreactors are landfills that aim to accelerate the process of waste decomposition through the recirculation of leachate in order to produce higher concentrations of methane. Methane can be…
ISEF · 2019
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Harmful Algae Blooms (HABs), which are fatal to aquatic ecosystems, human health, and water-reliant industries, largely occur because of unnatural increases of Nitrate and Phosphate and are…
CSEF · 2019
Electronics & Electromagnetics
Objectives Laser communication is meant to solve the problem with radio wave communication in space. Radio waves degrade over long distances, can get messed with by interference, and cannot…
ISEF · 2019
Embedded Systems
Every day the status of the earth gets worse than the day before. Greenhouse effect, global warming and all of the striking problems approach the massive destruction of the earth. Therefore,…
ISEF · 2019
Physics and Astronomy
The aim of the project is to research the effect of laser radiation on AlN ceramics, which is significantly superior in its parameters to fiberglass laminate. In this case the surfacing meth…
ISEF · 2019
Systems Software
The goal of this project was to make a website’s user database as secure as possible, so that even if hackers got ahold of the database itself, they wouldn’t be able to crack the hashed pass…
ISEF · 2019
Plant Sciences
The purpose of this experiment is to determine ornamental landscape plants that uptake lead out of the soil using phytoremediation. To execute this experiment, the scientist planted 120 plan…
ISEF · 2019
Chemistry
The project we developed starts from an element that has strongly characterized the five hundred and twenty years of the artwork: its fragility. The painting is one the most vulnerable among…
CSEF · 2019
Microbiology (Medical) (Junior Division Only)
Objectives This investigation tests common household product solutions, such as distilled water, chlorine bleach, white vinegar, baking soda, and salt, in order to determine which solution i…
CSEF · 2019
Earth & Environmental Sciences
Objectives Lichen is a symbiosis between fungi, yeast, algae and/or cyanobacteria. We learned about lichens sensitivity to air pollution, especially particulates PM(2.5) and PM(10), and wond…
ISEF · 2019
Embedded Systems
In the United States, an estimated 26.9 million adults live with some sort of visual impairment. Many VI individuals make use of a phenomenon called "facial vision," which is the ability of…
CSEF · 2019
Electronics & Electromagnetics
Objectives Using sound output to analyze the effect of distance on data transmission through light waves. Methods To do this, I first made a Li-Fi model (Li-Fi is a wireless optical networki…
ISEF · 2019
Materials Science
Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is a neurodegenerative disease in which current diagnostic tools are invasive and lack the ability to diagnose early-onset dementia. Current antibody-based diagnosti…
CSEF · 2019
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives I compared older and newer horror movies, seeking to ascertain whether newer movies led to greater changes in vital signs. Methods Movie clips viewed were derived from the 1960s,…
CSEF · 2019
Toxicology Fourth Award
Objectives Dinoflagellates are bioluminescent planktons that float near the ocean's surface and flash brightly when disturbed to scare or distract predators. This project examined how four c…
CSEF · 2019
Chemistry
Objectives The purpose of this experiment was to determine which common oil had the largest effect on the elasticity medical grade latex. Methods I tested which type of oil decreased the ela…