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 · 2016
Optical Character Recognition (OCR) refers to the recognition of printed characters by a computer. While there are many different algorithms for OCR, they fall into two main categories: Matr…
ISEF · 2016
The recent increase in counterfeited documents, banknotes, and medications impacts society, calls for new security technologies that are difficult to reproduce. Nature mimicking materials wi…
ISEF · 2016
When a solar cell is illuminated by light, free electrons are generated in the semiconductor. They need to diffuse to an electrode to be collected to form a current. A quantity called electr…
ISEF · 2016
Optical guidance and alignment systems offer commercial applications in smart-home, elderly-aid and prosthetic systems. Conventional solutions that employ digital image processing for guidan…
ISEF · 2016
Smart glasses have become a major research interest in the field of wearable devices because of their vast potential applications. Currently most commercially available smart glasses product…
ISEF · 2016
Fourth Award
The United Nations estimates that 2.5 billion people worldwide are living without access to clean water with over 2 million dying each year from waterborne disease. Continual exposure to unc…
ISEF · 2016
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
A developing cancer treatment is photothermal ablation therapy (PTA), which uses the conversion of light to heat to kill cancer cells. Gold nanoparticles support surface plasmons, or waves o…
CSEF · 2016
Chemistry
Objectives/Goals The primary objective was to analyze the efficiency of transition metal-phosphate complexes as catalysts for the electrolysis of water, specifically Iron(III) and Cobalt(II)…
ISEF · 2016
The primary objective of this investigation is to improve the efficiency of the UltraScan-III software, which uses supercomputer environments to study soluble molecules in analytical ultrace…
ISEF · 2016
The purpose of this project was to was to find the optimal mixture of two enzymes, Cellulase RS and Macerozyme R-10, in order to maximize protoplast yield, viability, and size. Plant protopl…
ISEF · 2016
With the global energy crisis and pollution issues, like the BP Oil Spill and Flint Water Crisis, there is a major need for clean, accessible energy and sustainable remediation methods. Micr…
ISEF · 2016
Second Award
In countries with an unpaid and voluntary blood donation system, most donations are collected in blood drives arranged by mobile blood collection units. Optimizing the utilization of these u…
ISEF · 2016
Energy transition and storage have become one of the main problems intervening in battery development. Recently, sodium-ion batteries (NIBs) have garnered research interest because abundant…
ISEF · 2016
Second Award
Space debris emerges as an imminent threat to space vehicles in low earth orbit. Tracking space debris beforehand to alert spacecraft of a threat to maneuver spacecraft away from a collision…
ISEF · 2016
Sustainable energy resources have gained enormous research attention in recent years and there exists a need for achieving independence from fossil fuels. Among several sources, solar energy…
ISEF · 2016
Organic photovoltaics (OPVs) provide an exciting research topic due to the promising features such as the use of abundant materials, low cost and lack of harmful fabrication processes. Their…
CSEF · 2016
Chemistry
Objectives/Goals The objetive is to come to test organic fruits and come to a conclusion that Organic fruit is better your health and worth buying over non-organic fruits. Methods/Materials…
ISEF · 2016
Fourth Award
There is no curative therapy for liver cancer, the second leading cancer mortality worldwide, therefore cancer chemoprevention is the most impactful strategy to improve the dismal prognosis.…
ISEF · 2016
In the end of 2015 was noted by the US government that 1000 people died every day due to medical mistake and 4000 were permanently harmed by receiving inappropriate treatment. The main reaso…
ISEF · 2016
Fourth Award
Art and science are often thought to be polar opposite. This project, Origami Transformer, bridges ancient art with computer science by creating a self-folding origami with the aid of a comp…
CSEF · 2016
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals The objective of this study was to find out if elderly adults in a small temple town in South India self-medicate and the reasons for self-medication. Methods/Materials Duri…
CSEF · 2016
Environmental Engineering
Objectives/Goals The objective of this experiment is to find the most efficient ratio of magnetite to oil that will remove oil from saltwater. Methods/Materials We tested magnetite to oil ra…
CSEF · 2016
Aerodynamics/ Hydrodynamics (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals The purpose of this project was to test hydroelectric water turbine efficiency. Methods/Materials Many materials were used throughout the project but the turbine itself is m…
CSEF · 2016
Product Science (Physical) (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals The objective of this study is to determine the efficacy of paintball ammunition at different price points. Methods/Materials Method: Make the wooden target. Measure 10 mete…
ISEF · 2016
Direct methanol fuel cells have been considered as an ideal choice for a clean and high efficiency energy source. However, the most commonly used anodic catalyst, platinum, has problems such…
ISEF · 2016
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
Nowadays, several heavy metals have been continuously used in industry, where lead (II) ion is the most harmful metal in Thailand. People nearby industrial areas have been inflected with ser…
CSEF · 2016
Aerodynamics/ Hydrodynamics (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals The goal of this project was to find out what really is the best material for parachuting by calculating its drag. This project involved 8 trials in which a Polyester, Silk,…
ISEF · 2016
Systems Software
The research defined the level of participation of Pazos residents and the population of Tayacaja (Huancavelica region), in the guerrilla groups as part of the Breña Campaign headed by Gener…
ISEF · 2016
Amphipathic, self-assembly peptides consist of alternating hydrophobic and hydrophilic components. When introduced to water, the peptide self-assembles by burying hydrophobic residues while…
CSEF · 2016
Product Science (Physical) (Junior Division Only) First Award
Objectives/Goals Indoor pollution may be ten times higher than outdoor pollution and air fresheners may be contributing to particulate matter pollution. Air fresheners are omnipresent in man…