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
In the 1900s silver was used extensively as an antimicrobial agent. When antibiotics were developed they became very popular and silver as an anti-bactericide decreased (Alexander, 2009). Th…
ISEF · 2019
Plant Sciences
Purpose: Analyze microbial biomass of soil samples from natural and restoration sites of Mulanje cedar trees to determine if a higher population of bacteria than fungi is present, contributi…
ISEF · 2019
Energy: Physical Fourth Award
Purpose A big problem of the present times is high concentration of carbon dioxide, constantly increasing global warming , as well as other phenomena, which are largely the result of obtaini…
ISEF · 2019
Microbiology
Methane is approximately 84 times more potent as a greenhouse gas than carbon dioxide, making the emission of this gas to the atmosphere a big threat to rising global temperature. One of the…
ISEF · 2019
Embedded Systems
A number of grand challenges obstruct the world’s wheel of development. The world has numerous grand problems that affect daily life such as: lack of water resources, over consumption of ene…
ISEF · 2019
Biomedical Engineering
Emergency rooms are overcrowded with patients seeking medical attention for lacerations, the most common injury after broken bones. Most cuts require a simple treatment: sutures or staples;…
ISEF · 2019
Plant Sciences
The flytrap is a carnivorous plant. We want to find out if the flytrap can be triggered by a self-generated external action potential. Therefore, we measured the electrical action potentials…
ISEF · 2019
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Phytoplankton are vital organisms serving as a biological carbon pump, removing approximately ten trillion kilograms of carbon from the atmosphere annually. Nitrogen and phosphorus are two n…
ISEF · 2019
Engineering Mechanics
Many elderly and disabled people get around with the help of wheelchairs everyday. Manual wheelchairs are inconvenient when going up-hill and when used by the physical weak. On the other han…
ISEF · 2019
Mathematics Fourth Award
Creating a crease in a ring-shaped circular piece of paper results in a saddle-shaped structure which when cut creates a frustum with inner and outer edges in contact with a surface. The pur…
ISEF · 2019
Mathematics
Time-distance maps have scales expressed in time units rather than in distance units such that distances between points are proportional to the time-distances. Time-distance maps provide a v…
ISEF · 2019
Systems Software
Due to political and economic reasons, children all over the world face many problems while obtaining education: shortage of teaching materials, lack of “neighbourhood” schools, gender inequ…
ISEF · 2019
Engineering Mechanics
Astronauts lose their tools constantly during extravehicular activities. This is a major problem financially and environmentally as these tools become deadly satellites that can collide with…
ISEF · 2019
Biomedical Engineering
A mobile vaporizer is a device that alleviates the dysfunction of the respiratory system and hard breathing. The device provides the patient with a sufficient quantity of medicine necessary…
ISEF · 2019
Biomedical Engineering
Brain-computer interfaces (BCI) are systems that directly connect the human brain to a computer to allow those who are motion-impaired to communicate independently. Among the signals used fo…
ISEF · 2019
Behavioral and Social Sciences Third Award
It is said that the Other Race Effect (ORE) might contribute to racial discrimination. Since the Face Inversion Effect (FIE) is related to configurational processing, investigating it helps…
ISEF · 2019
Animal Sciences Third Award
Bees encounter numerous stimuli in nature. However, some prompt a stronger response than others as not all stimuli are of equal value. It is not well understood in any animal model how stimu…
ISEF · 2019
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Rosemary (Rosmarinus officinalis L.) is a common herb, employed in traditional medicine for its healing properties. One of its active compounds, Rosmarinic acid, is a well known natural anti…
ISEF · 2019
Chemistry
Paint coatings are widely used in the modern world, especially for corrosion protection of the metal with simultaneously formation decorative image. But the main disadvantage of pain coating…
ISEF · 2019
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Coding classes teach that all code has an “If, Then” statement. What if it is possible to create an AI that only requires an “If” statement and it is able to find the solution independent fr…
ISEF · 2019
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Omija is a special product of Mungyeong province which is mainly used for production of teas and food supplements. In this study, we have utilized the seeds and shells that are not commonly…
ISEF · 2019
Behavioral and Social Sciences
The current study examined the detrimental impacts of chemotherapy on the neurophysiology and neurocognition of pediatric cancer survivors. Chemobrain is the classification of neurocognitive…
ISEF · 2019
Biomedical and Health Sciences
This investigation came to development because patients with diabetes type 2, suffer various side effects due to insulin injection and prescribed drugs by their specialized doctors. The purp…
ISEF · 2019
Energy: Chemical
Energy storage devices that can deliver high powers have many applications, but they bring out time and economic problems. Here we report an alternative approach of a new breakthrough “The P…
ISEF · 2019
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Hypertension has been considered a pandemic disease affecting different age populations. About 75 million American adults (32%) have hypertension. Having hypertension puts you at a risk for…
ISEF · 2019
Cellular and Molecular Biology
Ixodes scapularis (black-legged ticks) infected with Borrelia burgdorferi, the causative agent of Lyme disease, is endemic throughout the upper Midwest. Over the most recent years, the numbe…
ISEF · 2019
Animal Sciences
Cryptosporidiosis is a disease caused by a parasite, Cryptosporidium, often found in neonatal calves. Roughly 57% of scours in young calves is caused by Cryptosporidium. Currently there is n…
ISEF · 2019
Physics and Astronomy
Blazhko effect which is a long-period modulation in amplitude and period of light variations associated with RR Lyrae stars, has bothered several generations of astrophysicists since it was…
ISEF · 2019
Translational Medical Science
When a cardiac injury occurs as a result of hemolysis, the heart suffers from an intramyocardial hemorrhage and left ventricular remodeling. Studies are showing that the result of this damag…
ISEF · 2019
Environmental Engineering
Over a year ago now I asked myself a question: did an affordable, efficient solution for measuring soil condition exist in the marketplace? Acting on my curiousity I performed some research,…