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 · 2018
Microbiology
The purpose of this experiment was to develop a more concise understanding of what organisms inhabit the surfaces within a school. When students come into contact with school surfaces, they…
CSEF · 2018
Electronics & Electromagnetics
Objectives/Goals Wild-land fire fighting can be a dangerous occupation. Heat stress, fatigue, respiratory hazardous issues due to smoke inhalation, and cardiac related events are the top mos…
ISEF · 2018
Earth and Environmental Sciences
This project is an engineering/botany project. Everything is hand-constructed in the biome. There are integrated systems to regulate water chemistry for optimum fish and plant health. The sy…
ISEF · 2018
Biomedical Engineering Third Award
Cancer is one of the most common diseases that has difficulties in diagnosis and treatment field. The number of cancer patients and their mortality rates are increasing day by day. Metastasi…
CSEF · 2018
Alternative Energy (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals To determine how to create a well-functioning microbial fuel cell, I decided to test what temperature range a microbial fuel cell best functions. Methods/Materials Tested wh…
ISEF · 2018
Plant Sciences
This project focuses on a potential treatment delivery method for the bacterial disease, Huanglongbing, or citrus greening, that has devastated Florida’s 9-billion-dollar citrus industry. HL…
AJAS · 2018
Energy efficient light emitting diodes (LEDs) have supplanted traditional incandescent bulbs as the default lighting component of a modern fixture. Unlike incandescent sources, LEDs emit lig…
ISEF · 2018
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Microplastics are small plastic particles that are generally less than 5 mm in diameter and can come from cosmetics, clothing, weathered and degraded plastic, and more. There has been growin…
ISEF · 2018
Earth and Environmental Sciences Third Award
Microplastics are an increasingly problematic aspect of plastic pollution with an estimated 83% presence in tap water worldwide. Microplastics are under 5 mm in size and circulate oceans, ha…
CSEF · 2018
Environmental Engineering Second Award
Objectives/Goals Microplastics are an increasingly problematic aspect of plastic pollution with an estimated 83% presence in tap water worldwide. Currently, there are no feasible water treat…
ISEF · 2018
Engineering Mechanics
The main part of my engine is the metal element shaped like a truncated cone. This part resembles a closed metal can and is named a resonant cavity. Inside that cavity I use an antenna to ex…
ISEF · 2018
Biomedical Engineering
Migraine is one of the most common ills among men and women but are more prevalent among women. Migraine is a sever half headache that lasts for several hours or days, it begins with strong…
ISEF · 2018
Plant Sciences
This project sought to determine if the similarities in transduction of mammalian and plant action potentials through ion channels could allow use of a unique plant indicator, the Mimosa pud…
ISEF · 2018
Microbiology
The plant kingdom is an implicit gold mine which continues to play an important role in the discovery of new treatment and preventive therapies. Ethnobotanical plants have been used for cent…
CSEF · 2018
Mathematical Sciences First Award
Objectives/Goals Research on bar visibility graphs was originally motivated by problems about constructing VLSI (Very Large Scale Integration) circuits, and were adopted in the 1980s as a ge…
ISEF · 2018
Systems Software Fourth Award
Virtualization is a technology widely adopted across IT industry. It is being used by a growing number of companies to enhance server security and enable scalability. The vast majority of vi…
CSEF · 2018
Aerodynamics/ Hydrodynamics (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals In my project, I designed the split scimitar winglet, blended winglet, and the wing with no winglet using Autodesk Inventor, AutoCAD software, at different cant angles of di…
ISEF · 2018
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics First Award
Chronic disease is the leading cause of death in the world. Next generation therapeutics are needed to combat the growing global health crisis of chronic diseases, such as cancers and heart…
ISEF · 2018
Translational Medical Science
Phenytoin is a commonly used antiepileptic drug. Its effect on causing gingival overgrowth with a prevalence of 50%. This problem caries both hygiene and cosmetic impact on patients. The aim…
AJAS · 2018
Energy and Transport (inferred)
Tests were run using a small model house with corresponding removable model roofs. This research project has had two phases thus far; Phase 1 focusing the difference in energy consumption fo…
ISEF · 2018
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Titanium dioxide nanoparticles (TiO2 NPs) are an abundant heavy metal stressor frequently discharged as industrial effluent. There has been little research on the effect of TiO2 NPs on aquat…
CSEF · 2018
Biochemistry/ Molecular Biology
Objectives/Goals Alzheimer's Disease (AD) is the leading cause of dementia and memory loss in adults. The disease presents itself through cognitive impairment. Dementia, memory loss, buildup…
CSEF · 2018
Chemistry
Objectives/Goals I wanted to know the exact ratio of iodine to bleach to make 100mL of water stay clear. What is the bleach doing to the iodine in this demonstration? Why is it happening? Wi…
ISEF · 2018
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Summary of the Project We found that in Palestine the percentage of blind people are 14.6% ,in the world there are about 45 million people and in the Educational institutions there is about…
CSEF · 2018
Microbiology (General)
Objectives/Goals The problem with current similar products, such as bioluminescent lamps is that it is made by simply putting luminescent bacteria inside a container with food. Thus, it is n…
ISEF · 2018
Animal Sciences
The American alligator, Alligator mississippiensis, was hunted extensively until a management program was started in 1967. This management program, which is still used today, consists of hun…
ISEF · 2018
Physics and Astronomy
Near-Earth asteroids can pose serious dangers to life on Earth. The location of near-Earth asteroid 2003 QB90 (242211) was measured over a four week period (July 9, 2017-August 5, 2017) usin…
CSEF · 2018
Physics & Astronomy
Objectives/Goals The objective is to model a quantum tunneling barrier with a specific structure that minimizes the frequency of electron wave oscillations, which indicates the energy of ele…
CSEF · 2018
Mammalian Biology Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals The primary objective of this study is to show how the filtration system in the kidney works and how different amounts of salt affect the efficiency of filtration. My hypoth…
ISEF · 2018
Physics and Astronomy
After a binary or triple stellar system is formed, its components follow elliptical trajectories. Due to interaction, their trajectories gradually change with characteristic time intervals r…