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
Animal Sciences
As the human population continues to increase, aggravating mosquito disease transmission, a control measure for mosquitoes is imperative. Mosquito control using sound would be an improvement…
ISEF · 2018
Translational Medical Science
The presence of circulating tumor cells (CTCs) in a patient's blood may indicate the aggressiveness of metastatic cancer, and the detection of CTCs can assist physicians in decision making a…
ISEF · 2018
Biochemistry Third Award
Replication stress is one of the major sources of genomic instability in tumor cells. DNA replication is threatened by various obstacles which impede its progression and can lead to nascent…
ISEF · 2018
Biomedical and Health Sciences Fourth Award
Diabetes is a multi-factorial disorder, characterized by chronic elevation of glucose in the blood. Chronic exposure to high glucose (HG) is a leading cause of cell damage, which is responsi…
ISEF · 2018
Plant Sciences
Better understanding fruit growth and development could result in an increase in the world’s food and feed supply. This project employed classical molecular approaches together with a new ge…
ISEF · 2018
Chemistry Fourth Award
The opioid epidemic has reached alarming levels and was declared a national public health emergency. Use of street available opioids such as heroin have doubled and deaths from overdose have…
ISEF · 2018
Energy: Chemical
As we move into the future, increasing energy demands of technologies like electric vehicles have led to interest in more sustainable materials and more efficient battery systems. Bio-based…
ISEF · 2018
Microbiology First Award
Epstein-Barr virus is an oncogenic herpesvirus which causes over 150,000 fatalities annually and has no FDA-approved treatment. Latent EBV is characterized by limited gene expression, which…
ISEF · 2018
Biomedical Engineering
Organ transplantation is facing a number of increasingly worrisome problems. Organ shortage threatens an increase in waitlisted patient’s mortality. Incompatibility and immunosuppressive com…
ISEF · 2018
Translational Medical Science Fourth Award
A rapid, inexpensive, and non-invasive warning mechanism for imminent stroke and epileptic seizures was developed using gold nanoparticle-hydrogel composites. Stroke is the third leading cau…
ISEF · 2018
Mathematics Fourth Award
In this project, it is investigated a problem of exploring of the rule of number patterns. In fact, the problem is to find general term of the number sequences, if we have some consecutive t…
ISEF · 2018
Physics and Astronomy Third Award
Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD), or the theory of the strong interaction, states that at the high temperatures and densities produced in relativistic heavy-ion collisions, nucleons de- confine…
ISEF · 2018
Energy: Physical
High rise buildings waste the energy generated from millions of liters of falling water every day. They typically use a booster pump system, which requires substantial amounts of energy for…
ISEF · 2018
Mathematics
In this project we study the energy functional on the set of Lagrangian tori in CP^2. The energy conjecture asserting that the value of energy functional for any Lagrangian torus in CP^2 is…
ISEF · 2018
Systems Software
'One-Handed Operation UI on Smartphone' is an Android application considering the human physical characteristics in order to improve the instability of one-handed manipulation according to t…
ISEF · 2018
Environmental Engineering
The intelligent disinfection cabinet for textbooks is sterilized with ozone, with an automatic page turning device used to make textbook pages contact with the ozone fully and enable a thoro…
ISEF · 2018
Mathematics
Although the infinite sum of the reciprocals of Mersenne primes has already been approximated to 0.51645417894, that result has not been compared with (a) the infinite sum of the reciprocals…
ISEF · 2018
Mathematics Second Award
Consider a square of integer side N divided into unit squares. The opposite vertices of some unit squares are connected with diagonal lines so that none of the diagonals have common points.…
ISEF · 2018
Mathematics
The Collatz function is defined as follows: start with a positive integer x. If x is odd, multiply it by three and add one, and if x is even, divide it by two. A recursion of this function c…
ISEF · 2018
Mathematics
In classical logic, formulas are constructed using a given alphabet composed of connectives and prime statements. The prime statements are assigned one of two truth values: {t,f} and the con…
ISEF · 2018
Mathematics
Abstract algebra is a branch of mathematics that studies algebraic structures. Lie algebras theory is one of the most important and developing topic of abstract algebra. A Lie ring is a Lie…
ISEF · 2018
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Robots are starting to interact more frequently with a dynamic environment, outside limited manufacturing sites, encounter a difficulty when needed to navigate from one location to another.…
ISEF · 2018
Systems Software
This project creates OCR software for recognition of cursive handwriting from page photos. The initial goal was to create software for converting handwritten notes into digital format. Such…
ISEF · 2018
Materials Science
We hypothesize there exists an optimum nanostructure size and material to detect changes in the environment via optical responses. We perform this study to build the foundation for more exte…
ISEF · 2018
Biochemistry
The objective of this research project is to define the optimal circadian rhythm, or length of night and day periods, of bioluminescent, or glowing, dinoflagellate algae for lengthening the…
ISEF · 2018
Biomedical and Health Sciences Second Award
Cancer immunotherapy is an important alternative to traditional treatments such as chemotherapy and radiation, reducing the toxicity and negative side effects. By eliciting an immune respons…
ISEF · 2018
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Epilepsy is a very common and devastating neurological disorder that affects 65 million people globally. Electroencephalography (EEG) recording is an essential tool in evaluating seizure act…
ISEF · 2018
Physics and Astronomy
In a vastly increasing energy dependent society, there is need for the transportation of energy quickly and efficiently. Laser power beaming and transferring energy with fiber optic cables a…
ISEF · 2018
Engineering Mechanics
Fuel costs, depletion of energy resources, and emissions are environmental concerns in many industries today. Even a small improvement in burner efficiency could potentially save millions of…
ISEF · 2018
Microbiology
In bacteria, cellular energy is largely consumed by two essential functions: reproduction and chemotaxis, the behavior where single-celled organisms swim up a gradient of nutrients. When bot…