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.
ISEF · 2015
Third Award
Implanted biomedical devices, such as pacemakers use batteries as power sources. These batteries run out over time and patients must undergo surgery to replace these batteries. Due to the hi…
ISEF · 2015
Second Award
Large-scale adoption of solar power is limited by high cost compared to fossil fuel-based power generation. Multijunction quantum dot solar cells offer a potential high-efficiency, low-cost…
ISEF · 2015
Biochemistry
Urban stormwater runoff adversely impacts the health of marine life. A more holistic approach to assessing water quality in urbanized areas should include indicators of fish health that are…
ISEF · 2015
The detection of toxic chemical vapors is a significant issue in environmental monitoring, disease detection and national security, yet no cheap, user-friendly, multipurpose sensor is curren…
ISEF · 2015
Cancer vaccines are a revolutionary, new field of cancer therapeutics that aim to utilize the body’s natural defenses to treat cancer. Through my research, I designed and optimized an effect…
CSEF · 2015
Biochemistry/ Molecular Biology
Objectives/Goals Cancer vaccines are a revolutionary field of cancer therapeutics that aim to utilize the body's natural defenses to treat cancer. Traditional chemotherapy strategies focus o…
ISEF · 2015
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design Third Award
Photodynamic cancer therapy (PDT) is an emerging technology that treats a variety of cancers without any side effects. In PDT, photosensitizers accumulated near cancer tumors are activated t…
CSEF · 2015
Microbiology (General) Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals With over 37 million people affected by the HIV virus globally and subjected to ineffective treatment, the current problem of low bioavailability of antiretroviral drugs mus…
ISEF · 2015
First Award
Over 60% of energy generated during electricity production is discarded as low-grade waste heat. Concurrently, modern power plants are reluctant to capture and sequester flue-gas CO2, due to…
ISEF · 2015
Systems Software Second Award
Tumor-shed cells from an epithelial lining lesion, or circulating tumor cells (CTCs), have been of significant concern with its highly characteristic identification and origin in metastatic…
ISEF · 2015
Systems Software
Current mosquito control methods, including chemical approaches and genetically-engineered solutions are impractical in some cases as a form of vector control. In many emergent global region…
ISEF · 2015
Among several dental problem caries process is deadly serious and chronic too. It is an irreversible microbial disease of calcified tissues of teeth. Bacterial plaque plays the primary role…
ISEF · 2015
Biomedical Engineering
Background: Ventricular fibrillation (VF), is a potentially lethal cardiac arrhythmia, and the number one cause of death in the United States. This condition is traditionally characterized b…
ISEF · 2015
Second Award
Water is an indispensable resource essential for the survival of all species; however, 780 million people in the world lack access to clean water. Due to rising population, industrial develo…
ISEF · 2015
The human cancerous inhibitor of PP2A (CIP2A) is regarded as a novel target for cancer therapy as it’s overexpression in 65% to 90% of tissues in almost all studied human cancers correlates…
CSEF · 2015
Chemistry
Objectives/Goals The objective is to develop and optimize a protocol to make instantaneous, self-reporting, color-changing chemical nanosensor that is commercially and practically viable. A…
ISEF · 2015
Biomedical Engineering
Stroke is the 5th leading cause of death in Kentucky and the United States as well as the leading cause of long-term disability in several countries. Despite its vast implications, there is…
ISEF · 2015
Biomedical Engineering Second Award
Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia (CLL), a cancer of B1 cells, is the most widespread leukemia in the world. Current chemotherapies fail to effectively target the malignant B1 cell subset in CLL,…
CSEF · 2015
Biochemistry/ Molecular Biology Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals Skin cancer accounts for more than 75% of all cancer diagnoses and melanoma accounts for more than 75% of skin cancer deaths. Every 57 minutes, someone with melanoma dies in…
ISEF · 2015
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
About 20% of novel pharmaceuticals and 40% of novel agrochemicals appearing every year contain at least one fluorine atom in their structure. However, the lack of existing methods for obtain…
CSEF · 2015
Environmental Science
Objectives/Goals The purpose of my project was to determine if the amount of nurdles found on the shoreline could be affected by the distance from a port. Nurdles are the raw form of plastic…
CSEF · 2015
Mammalian Biology
Objectives/Goals Our project was to determine which dog was more obedient, a Chihuahua or a Doberman. We believed the Doberman was more obedient than the Mexican Hairless Chihuahua and also…
ISEF · 2015
Impulse noises can seriously corrupt images. Median based filters are used to remove impulse noises. However, these filters introduce distortions while removing impulse noises. Traditionally…
ISEF · 2015
Fourth Award
A new approach to UAV control, combining computer vision and control techniques, is introduced. Objects are detected using a UAV camera. The distance between the object center of mass, in th…
CSEF · 2015
Mathematics & Software
Objectives/Goals The goal of the project is to have an AR Parrot Drone follow a person using computer vision techniques to recognize an object that he or she is wearing or holding. Methods/M…
ISEF · 2015
The purpose of this research was to classify Near Earth Asteroids. The type of asteroid determines how dangerous they are to Earth and the best way to move them if they will hit Earth. The a…
CSEF · 2015
Physics & Astronomy
Objectives/Goals The objective of this project was to see how the morphology of galaxies who host Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) are different from those that do not. Methods/Materials -If the…
ISEF · 2015
Translational Medical Science
The loss of cell to cell adhesion is one of the significant features of cancer. Proteins found in cell junctions, or groups of proteins which helps cells bind to each other, are downregulate…
CSEF · 2015
Aerodynamics/ Hydrodynamics (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals The objective is to construct a small scale wind tunnel to observe the aerodynamics of various car designs. Methods/Materials A small scale wind tunnel was constructed from…
CSEF · 2015
Environmental Engineering
Objectives/Goals To obtain the most biogas possible from one of the following biomasses: grated carrots, cow manure, or a mashed banana, and then measure it. Look for a way to impact the res…