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
Biomedical and Health Sciences Fourth Award
Topotecan (TPT) is a chemotherapeutic drug frequently used to treat lung cancer, which is the leading cause of cancer-related death in the US. However, the development of drug resistance in…
ISEF · 2018
Embedded Systems
The subject of my current development is a medical device which can keep the controlled temperature of the skin for hours. The effective part of the device is a thermo-electric cooler based…
ISEF · 2018
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Harmful algal blooms (HABs) have greatly devastated the world’s aquatic ecosystems. Therefore, it is an objective to find a viable solution to a detrimental problem. The root of the problem…
ISEF · 2018
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) present a high degree of clonal heterogeneity, making it difficult to identify which cells are capable of repopulating tissues versus those more prone to underg…
ISEF · 2018
Materials Science
As the use of transistors have proliferated in electronic devices, much attention has been granted to the area of research in increasing their efficiency. Thin film transistors (TFT) are imp…
ISEF · 2018
Engineering Mechanics
Designs for scrubbers to be deployed on a Remotely Operated Vehicle (ROV) were evaluated for speed and efficiency of removing sea growth from ship’s hulls without damaging the underlying pai…
ISEF · 2018
Biochemistry
Asymmetric synthesis is an organic chemistry field directed to the production of chiral molecules with high optical purity which constitute a large part of the drugs and agrochemicals becaus…
ISEF · 2018
Animal Sciences
Copper mining is a crucial component of the overall Chilean economy. It generates high volumes of mining tails with signi?cant environmental risk and potential impacts on ecosystems. Most of…
ISEF · 2018
Engineering Mechanics Fourth Award
In the U.S., semi-trucks on average travel about 140B miles, often over hilly terrain,annually producing 1.34B metric-tons of CO2, as well as diesel-fumes, which the IARC links to cancer. El…
ISEF · 2018
Animal Sciences Third Award
Bulrush aphids, Schizaphis scirpi, colonize on leaves of cattail, Typha latifolia, while another Schizaphis species, S. acori, is usually found on leaves of calamus, Acorus calamus. Since th…
ISEF · 2018
Earth and Environmental Sciences
This research is to examine the directivity and the rupture direction of the 2016 M6.6 Meinong Earthquake by comparing spectrums of different directions from the epicenter. The seismic wavef…
ISEF · 2018
Environmental Engineering
Fatbergs are deposits of fats, oils, and greases that are formed through the same process by which soap is made. They are responsible for major sewer blockages throughout the world, and requ…
ISEF · 2018
Cellular and Molecular Biology
Purpose: Vessels, lined by endothelial cells (ECs), supply oxygen (O2) to our bodies. When tissues are devoid of enough O2, Hypoxia Inducible Factor (HIF) is stimulated to induce >200 genes…
ISEF · 2018
Microbiology
Purpose: Green algae can be used to combat increasing carbon emissions, since they reproduce and photosynthesize rapidly. An alteration in temperature can be stimulated to examine its effect…
ISEF · 2018
Biomedical Engineering
Stroke is a very important medical and social problem. An important factor in the quality of life of a person who has suffered a stroke is the preservation hand's fine motor skills. The most…
ISEF · 2018
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Purpose: Lung Cancer is the leading cause of cancer related death among men and women. M2 macrophages are known suppressors of host anti-tumor immune functions and promote primary growth and…
ISEF · 2018
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics Fourth Award
Stroke is the leading cause of severe disabilities in the developed world, often leaving people physically shut out from society despite their functional minds. Current solutions for rehabil…
ISEF · 2018
Embedded Systems
The purpose of this project is to create a natural and universal interface between humans and computers, by studying the movement of upper limbs. The study is based on a physical prototype r…
ISEF · 2018
Physics and Astronomy
The Moon is cratered with thousands of well-preserved impact basins. Shared geologic history with Earth makes lunar basins a good proxy for the processes affecting early Earth. Porosity, the…
ISEF · 2018
Cellular and Molecular Biology First Award
Though cell cycle regulation plays a key role in numerous developmental processes, including morphogenesis and differentiation, the regulatory systems that control the cell cycle remain poor…
ISEF · 2018
Materials Science
Exposure to UV radiation may cause radiation poisoning as well as skin cancer to astronauts. Will vinyl (new idea) have better UV protective capabilities on the outer layer of astronaut suit…
ISEF · 2018
Plant Sciences
Rhamnus cathartica (common buckthorn) and members of the family Lumbricidae (earthworms) are two invasive species to Minnesota that negatively affect native plant growth and contribute to ov…
ISEF · 2018
Biochemistry
The floatation and rapid propagation of algal cells in eutrophic water are the key factors of cyanobacterial blooms. The buoyancy regulation of cyanobacteria is particularly important, becau…
ISEF · 2018
Microbiology
Pseudogymnoascus Destructans, the fungus that causes White nose syndrome, has killed more than 6.7 million bats in the US since 2006. Local extinction of multiple bat species in the Northern…
ISEF · 2018
Cellular and Molecular Biology
This research broadens the understanding of the murine immune system in inflammatory bowel disease simulations, highlighting the presence of a newly classified cell group, Myeloid Derived Su…
ISEF · 2018
Mathematics
We successfully extended Soddy’s theorem for the original Soddy’s hexlet to derive the number of spheres of what we refer to as the n-th generation hexlet: 6^n. The number of spheres composi…
ISEF · 2018
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Because most government regulation is based on arguments about “externalities” (effects on third parties), understanding how externality arguments affect public opinion and support for regul…
ISEF · 2018
Chemistry
Slaughtering of huge amounts of farmed chicken worldwide results in huge amounts of feathers. Unless they are properly dispensed and/or adequately utilized, accumulations of the chicken feat…
ISEF · 2018
Mathematics
The present work is used to set a mathematical problem to discover absolute barycentric coordinates of locus $P^n_{min}$ in the triangle plane, featured with the $n^{\text{th}}$ powers of di…
ISEF · 2018
Embedded Systems First Award
The goal of this engineering project was to investigate and design an affordable system capable of controlling an electric wheelchair with ocular tracking. Based on electrooculographic (EOG)…