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 · 2018
Energy: Chemical
Solar energy is a rising new alternative to fossil fuel. The most common source of solar energy, silicon-based solar cells, are often overpriced and environmentally harmful. In light of this…
ISEF · 2018
Biomedical Engineering
Currently cardiovascular diseases are the leading cause of death in the world, for this reason it is essential that patients suffering from these diseases and asymptomatic ones, have an adeq…
ISEF · 2018
Systems Software
Clients using public logs should be able to securely verify that data in the log has not been maliciously changed or removed by the log’s server. Unfortunately, this verification in existing…
ISEF · 2018
Animal Sciences
Planarians are a form of flathead worm from the Tubellaria class. Their regenerative properties are renowned. The properties of the frequency of 528Hz are being introduced into the medical f…
ISEF · 2018
Animal Sciences
Honeybee populations in the U.S. are declining at an unsustainable rate. For Apis mellifera, aka the domestic honeybee used on farms, the primary culprit is the varroa mite. This is not the…
ISEF · 2018
Engineering Mechanics
The study of rapid chemical kinetics is limited by the homogenization time of the reaction mixture. In our schools, we can study transformation periods whose characteristic time is of a few…
ISEF · 2018
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Multiple sequence alignments, alignments of three or more biological sequences play a critical role in phylogenetic tree development and identification of evolutionarily conserved regions. E…
ISEF · 2018
Animal Sciences First Award
Nicotinic acetylcholine receptors (nAChRs) are important components of the peripheral and central nervous systems. Nematostella vectensis, the starlet sea anemone, is an important model syst…
ISEF · 2018
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Pathogen populations are not static, but instead sporadically mutate, posing a difficult threat to combat as they evolve to resist antibiotics. Fortunately, we can look to genetics to help p…
ISEF · 2018
Earth and Environmental Sciences
The phenomenon of the Sailing Stones refers to grinding tracks in the clay with stones at their end. The most common place showing this phenomenon is the Racetrack Playa in Death Valley Cali…
ISEF · 2018
Embedded Systems
This project introduces new implementation and design of planner low profile antenna for UWB (Ultra-Wideband) applications. Our new microstrip antenna mainly consists of the partial conducti…
ISEF · 2018
Materials Science
This study gathered data on the breaking strengths of four groups of chestnut lumber, American chestnut (Castanea dentata), Chinese chestnut (Castanea mollissima), BC3 hybrid chestnut, and B…
ISEF · 2018
Animal Sciences Fourth Award
A novel muscle myopathy in chickens, termed woody breast (WB), is causing meat quality issues leading to consumer complaints and economic losses to the global poultry industry. Detection and…
ISEF · 2018
Energy: Chemical
Nowadays, the vast majority of rapidly increasing energy needs is supplied from fossil fuels. As a result, our world is being exposed to global warming each day. The best way to prevent thes…
ISEF · 2018
Microbiology Second Award
Arsenic presence in groundwater is a major health hazard. Efficient ways to monitor and remove arsenic from water must be developed for communities to prevent the adverse health effects that…
ISEF · 2018
Mathematics
In recent years, with the rising popularity of soccer games in China, fans violence has also increased dramatically. Overexcited soccer fans have physical confrontations with opposition supp…
ISEF · 2018
Earth and Environmental Sciences Fourth Award
Noctiluca scintillans, a dinoflagellate species, has a unique capability as a mixotroph to both photosynthesize and feed on organic nutrients. This behavior has allowed it to persist in the…
ISEF · 2018
Behavioral and Social Sciences Third Award
This study aimed to examine the effectiveness of the APS device when treating auditory hypersensitive autistic children aged 3 – 8 years old. The study’s methodology consisted of four phases…
ISEF · 2018
Microbiology
Necrotic enteritis (NE), caused by Clostridium perfringens (CP), is a re-emerging disease in chickens due to the removal of growth promoters (low level of antibiotics) from poultry feed by m…
ISEF · 2018
Earth and Environmental Sciences Third Award
Nitrophenols (Nphs), a chemical used for synthesizing in pesticides, insecticides, herbicides and other industries, is a major source of water pollution. Due to population growth, the usage…
ISEF · 2018
Energy: Physical
Sustainable power source part in Kenya is among most dynamic in Africa. In Kenya, speculation developed has gone from virtually zero to US dollar 1.3 billion in 2010 over advancements such a…
ISEF · 2018
Plant Sciences
Pollution, lack of arable lands and low global water availability are some of the many problems the farming process faces nowadays. To solve these problems, two solutions are suggested: hydr…
ISEF · 2018
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
The purpose of my research was to build an accurate solo musical instrument classifier that assigns a probability distribution of instrument class labels to a given audio signal. Last year,…
ISEF · 2018
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Autonomous vehicle systems have hit public roads, but they remain way to expensive for common consumers. This project aimed to find alternative ways to make autonomous vehicle systems more c…
ISEF · 2018
Environmental Engineering
Radon is a radioactive gas that emerges from Earth’s surface. A product of the radioactive decay of Uranium, radon and its daughters present a serious health hazard that is often neglected.…
ISEF · 2018
Mathematics First Award
This paper presents the solution to the open problem of the fine classification of second minimal odd periodic orbits of continuous endomorphisms on the real line. It is rigorously proven th…
ISEF · 2018
Biomedical Engineering
Insulin Dependent Diabetes is a chronic condition that affects over 200 million people worldwide. Diabetic patients keep this disease under control by externally administrating Insulin hormo…
ISEF · 2018
Physics and Astronomy
The quantum entanglement phenomenon regarding the decay of the spin-singlet state of positronium has experimental results revealing quantitative evidence to support the entanglement of the a…
ISEF · 2018
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Machine learning (ML) is a branch of artificial intelligence (AI) where systems learn from data, identify patterns, and make decisions with minimal human intervention. Classification algorit…
ISEF · 2018
Robotics and Intelligent Machines Second Award
Small scale farms are responsible for producing 70% of food worldwide. Of this food produced a large amount is stored in structures called silos. Silos are agricultural containment vessels o…