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
Physics and Astronomy
This project aims to find the most efficient combination of components in the building of a wireless power transmission unit (WPT) using generated polynomial functions. In experimentation, t…
ISEF · 2018
Cellular and Molecular Biology Third Award
Migraines are the third most prevalent illness in the world, and migraine symptoms (e.g. severe pain, visual disturbances, nausea, and cognitive impairments) all impede daily life. At the ne…
ISEF · 2018
Chemistry Second Award
This project investigates a new method for the extraction of microplastics (plastic particles less than 5mm in diameter) from water. Currently, no screening or filtering for microplastics ta…
ISEF · 2018
Materials Science
Lipid nanoparticles are gaining increasing attention due to their intracellular drug delivering capabilities, especially with their ability to deliver gene-editing materials such as componen…
ISEF · 2018
Chemistry
Purpose: Chronic Kidney Disease (CKD), a condition of characterized gradual loss of kidney function, lowers the glomerular filtration rate of its patient. As protein in urine is regarded as…
ISEF · 2018
Physics and Astronomy Second Award
Recent literature suggests that Alzheimer’s Disease (AD) may be initiated by a neurovascular mechanism that precedes neurodegenerative observations. Despite the potential great importance of…
ISEF · 2018
Mathematics Fourth Award
Learning from classified and unclassified data is generally categorized as semi-supervised learning (SSL). Traditional, graph-based SSL (GBSSL) algorithms operate by designing a relatively s…
ISEF · 2018
Chemistry
Many applications have been proposed for carbon nanotubes (CNTs) that touch a wide variety of technological arenas, from the automotive and aeronautical industries to biomedicine and energy…
ISEF · 2018
Materials Science
Exponentially increasing necessity for stronger and long-lasting turbine blades to power our industrial world calls for major development in the solidification protocol of metallic alloys. A…
ISEF · 2018
Materials Science
The goal of this project was to refine and create sensors that are more sensitive and more repeatable than the year before. This was done by combining graphene Nanoflake powder and silicon.…
ISEF · 2018
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Cancer is a major public health problem and is the second most leading cause of death worldwide. Today, treatments available to us include chemotherapy and surgery which are both vastly expe…
ISEF · 2018
Robotics and Intelligent Machines Second Award
Over the last years VoIP is constantly outperforming traditional mobile networks with more than one billion users in 2017. However, the voice quality is often affected by issues like noise,…
ISEF · 2018
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Electroencephalography (EEG) headsets, being highly portable, present a convenient, noninvasive method of recording the brain’s electrical activity. This project seeks to develop a method fo…
ISEF · 2018
Biomedical Engineering Fourth Award
The Zika virus (ZIKV) is an infectious disease from the virus family Flavivirdea which is spread from the Aedes mosquitoes. Zika was originally isolated in the Ziika Forest of Uganda where i…
ISEF · 2018
Translational Medical Science
Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT) is relatively new non-invasive imaging technique that can be used for a variety of medical diagnosis. OCT is cost-effective and requires fewer resources th…
ISEF · 2018
Translational Medical Science
Photodynamic therapy (PDT) is a form of cancer treatment that involves administering a photosensitizing drug and irradiating it with an external light source. Upon exposure, the photosensiti…
ISEF · 2018
Animal Sciences Second Award
Colony collapse is at an all time high devastating ecosystems and this project discovered a means to help the survival of honey bees through the supplementation of cysteine, which significan…
ISEF · 2018
Environmental Engineering
The purpose of my experiment was to determine if seeding Pseudomonas putida (applying a bacterial aerosol treatment to the surface of the sheen) will reduce the area of oil sheen on hydrocar…
ISEF · 2018
Robotics and Intelligent Machines Second Award
People with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) have difficulty in recognizing and in comprehending emotions from other's facial expressions. This impacts their development of empathy and affects…
ISEF · 2018
Animal Sciences Fourth Award
Tobacco abuse alone currently accounts for 1 in 5 deaths annually in the US. Despite this, present methods of rehabilitation have proven ineffective with over a 90% likelihood of relapse. To…
ISEF · 2018
Environmental Engineering
The purpose of experimentation was to determine how the degradation of 1,4-dioxane by Pseudonocardia dioxanivorans (ATCC? 55486) was affected by the presence of cis-DCE as it was degraded by…
ISEF · 2018
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Recent research has determined that genes are regulated by a complex, changing network of DNA spatial interactions. However, current wet-lab technologies for characterizing the 3D genome are…
ISEF · 2018
Biomedical Engineering Fourth Award
Cancer is a disease where mutated cells often clump together to form a tumor. Current oncological treatments include chemotherapy and radiotherapy, which often harm healthy tissue and have d…
ISEF · 2018
Systems Software
Cryptographic hash code algorithms are vital to the security of information and data -- hash codes are like unique fingerprints for one's data (can be files, passwords, etc.). The validity o…
ISEF · 2018
Embedded Systems
In the world people with disabilities face many problems in the society. Many people with such disabilities can’t afford to buy expensive gadgets and devices for their aid. Therefore, we hav…
ISEF · 2018
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) is crucial indicator of inflammatory diseases due to its extensive role in the inflammation process. However, despite its importance as a diagnostic indicator, there…
ISEF · 2018
Systems Software
Obtaining accurate, real-time position information is essential to realizing autonomous vehicle technology in everyday life. GPS currently does not meet the accuracy needs of autonomous vehi…
ISEF · 2018
Physics and Astronomy
Today, nuclear weapons and reactor plants are becoming more common. However, current methods of radiation shielding are not viable due to high cost and ineffective means of weakening photon…
ISEF · 2018
Systems Software Fourth Award
Cancer is a heterogeneous disease comprising different subtypes. Its occurrence alters clinical parameters in human body. The exact cause being unknown, various internal factors, demographic…
ISEF · 2018
Physics and Astronomy Fourth Award
There is a limitation in the ability to simulate a high-resolution image of diffracted light. Diffraction occurs when light passes through an aperture. An aperture is a common component of a…