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
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design Fourth Award
Transplantation is a process that consists in replace a diseased organ or tissue for a healthy exemplar of it. In many times this is the only effective treatment to cure the disease. However…
CSEF · 2015
Environmental Engineering
Objectives/Goals Use ferrofluid and a neodymium magnet to help separate oil from water and see if increasing the amount of ferrofluid will improve the efficiency of the oil spill cleanup. Me…
CSEF · 2015
Zoology Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals The goal of my project was to examine the different ways Sea Star Wasting Syndrome affected the species of the sea star known as Pisaster Ochraceus. I believe that the effec…
ISEF · 2015
Animal Sciences
Problem: To determine if Turmeric or Motherwort is more successful in lowering the heart rate of a Daphnia. Hypothesis: If we are to expose the Daphnia to the Motherwort it will be a bit mor…
ISEF · 2015
The main task was to find a new disposal method for used oil filters. A company in Costa Rica had big problems with contamination of the ground and ground water with oil because of the throw…
ISEF · 2015
Biochemistry
The purpose of this experiment is to determine if a colostrum-based supplement will decrease the amount of time it will take a piglet to get up and sucking on a sow’s teat immediately after…
ISEF · 2015
Systems Software
The purpose of this project is to learn where most medal winning Olympians are training. Using a computer with internet access, search for official Olympic data medal counts by athlete for t…
ISEF · 2015
Biomedical Engineering
Immunotherapy, the interaction between cancer and immune cells, is one of the most promising treatments for cancer. A prominent research area is the B7-H1/PD-1 pathway. PD-1 (programmed cell…
ISEF · 2015
Oil Palm Shells(OPS) are produced in large quantity by the oil mills. for the instanceit was estimate that over 4 million tonnes of ops solid waste is produced annually and only a fraction i…
CSEF · 2015
Plant Biology Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals Can plants that serve nutritional value to humans survive the limitations of light defined by the lunar day cycle? Methods/Materials Two identical light-sealed boxes were bu…
ISEF · 2015
Superhydrophobicity is a physical property of a material wherein a drop of water beads up into a spherical shape having a static contact angle greater than 150 degrees. Inspired by lotus lea…
ISEF · 2015
Oil spills in the environment pose a significant risk to both the environment and the ecosystem. This science fair project has explored the possibilities of finding and characterizing oil-de…
ISEF · 2015
In this paper, we develop a method for a problem not heavily touched upon by existing mathematical literature: evaluating the constructibility of n-division points by area that can be applie…
ISEF · 2015
The Saffman-Taylor instability, also known as viscous fingering, forms between two fluids of different viscosities in a laminar flow environment. Viscous fingering structures are anisotropic…
ISEF · 2015
Cerny's conjecture is a 50-year old question which concerns the combinatorial field of synchronizing automata. In particular, it postulates that the maximal length of the minimal reset word…
ISEF · 2015
Translational Medical Science
Cystic fibrosis (CF) is a life-threatening genetic disease that causes breathing and digestion problems in those who inherit it. The most common type of CF is caused by the deletion of a phe…
ISEF · 2015
My work is devoted to generating series of infinite words without repetitions. At the beginning of XX century the problem on constructing infinite non-repeating words was raised by a mathema…
CSEF · 2015
Materials Science (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals What happens to the non-Newtonian fluid, oobleck, when it is exposed to extreme temperatures? The inspiration for this project came from finding out that there are many diff…
CSEF · 2015
Product Science (Physical) (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals The goal of this project was to find out which toothpaste protected your teeth the most. Methods/Materials Egg shells were used to simulate teeth and vinegar was used to rep…
CSEF · 2015
Product Science (Biological) (Junior Division Only) Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals For my project, I compared the effectiveness of home remedies and over the counter medication on lowering cholesterol. My hypothesis was that the Niacin 1,000mg capsule woul…
ISEF · 2015
Propose of Project: It has been found that, during classes, a wonderful light band is generated on the blackboard when a laser pen irradiates light beams onto a metal pointer. The objective…
ISEF · 2015
Fourth Award
Our experiment seeks to prove the existence of elastic collision reactions occurring between ions emitted from a plasma beam and the target chamber wall. In order to prove this phenomenon, w…
ISEF · 2015
Organic photovoltaics are at the forefront of renewable energy because of cheap cost, nontoxicity, scalability, and rising efficiencies. However, PCBM (phenyl- C61-butyric-acid methyl ester)…
ISEF · 2015
The problems in communication and broadcasting of information that have sprung in the Educational Institution Ángela Restrepo Moreno are due to the inadecuacy of the space and the deficient…
ISEF · 2015
Supercapacitors store ten to a hundred times more energy than a simple capacitor; however, supercapacitors possess only one tenth of the energy of a standard battery. Therefore, through the…
ISEF · 2015
The development of volumetric modulated arc therapy – or VMAT – plans for radiotherapy treatments require the optimization of parameters such as gantry angles and multi-leaf collimator (MLC)…
ISEF · 2015
BETA-glucosidase, an enzyme found mainly in fungal species, is essential in the breakdown of plant material and participates in a lysis reaction that cleaves cellobiose into glucose, which i…
ISEF · 2015
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
Due to its ability to serve as a linkage within larger molecules, 1,2,3-triazole derivatives are widely used in pharmaceuticals as means to facilitate stability, utility, and permeability. T…
CSEF · 2015
Microbiology (General)
Objectives/Goals The objective was to test whether a greater drop height onto slides before QFISH would expose more fully the chromosomal DNA. Methods/Materials Cell samples of Tetrahymena t…
ISEF · 2015
Improving ground-level and aerial intruder detection is a growing concern in the advent of threats such as drones for which current detection methods are inadequate. This research adopted a…