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 · 2014
Embedded Systems Fourth Award
Around 7% of the world's population is color-blind. The aim is to determine the most effective algorithm to optimize digital content for color-blind viewers and to develop an application tha…
ISEF · 2014
Energy: Physical Second Award
Natural gas separation and ammonia purge gas recovery are among the most important industrial processes by accounting for 22% of all in-plant energy use and improving the Haber Bosch process…
CSEF · 2014
Mathematics & Software
Objectives/Goals The purpose of this experiment was to determine the effect that changes in quantization matrix scale factor (abbreviated "S-factor") and pixel density have on the effectiven…
ISEF · 2014
Energy: Physical
Solar energy is needed to enhance and sustain the world’s energy needs-both now and in the future. Previous research has shown that CuInS2 quantum dots, miniscule semiconducting nanocrystals…
CSEF · 2014
Alternative Energy (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals The objective of my project is to determine if a solar tracker that is designed to rotate the solar panel throughout the day to follow the sun will generate more energy than…
ISEF · 2014
Microbiology
Asteroid orbits are subject to chaos theory, that is, extremely sensitive to initial conditions. Because of this, it is critical to obtain both accuracy and high precision when generating th…
ISEF · 2014
Physics and Astronomy Third Award
The purpose of the experiment was optimizing the process of coupling single photons into single-mode fibers. The reason I chose polarization-entangled photons was that they are widely used i…
ISEF · 2014
Engineering Mechanics
Wind energy has great potential to reduce our dependence on traditional energy resources. Wind is a clean source of energy that has fewer environmental impacts than traditional energy source…
ISEF · 2014
Engineering Mechanics
The purpose of this research is to determine if a more efficient and cost effective wind turbine design can be created through the utilization of novel engineering concepts. This researcher…
ISEF · 2014
Microbiology
Bacterial antibiotic resistance has become a concern following this class of drugs’ widespread adoption and subsequent misuse. New methods to eradicate bacteria must be discovered and perfec…
ISEF · 2014
Chemistry First Award
The organic food market is the fastest growing food sector, yet it is unclear whether organically raised food is nutritionally superior to conventionally grown food and whether consuming org…
ISEF · 2014
Physics and Astronomy
Reusing food waste and using natural fertilizers on organically grown produce is important to me. I redesigned and rebuilt a compost grinder to create a new type of organic fertilizer for se…
ISEF · 2014
Physics and Astronomy
Every year farmers spend time and money on eliminating infestations of musk thistles in their pastures. Some farm animals may eat the thistle, but cattle will not because of thorns. Alfalfa…
ISEF · 2014
Environmental Engineering
This project solves an ongoing issue of the organic wastes, it became a worldwideproblem. After a long time research we finally came up with a solution to have a great benefit by making this…
ISEF · 2014
Energy: Physical
My project's name is Orthopedic Vest. My vest's destination is to get rid of scoliosis in adults and treat patients. As it's known, the most important for humans is to be healthy and if we d…
CSEF · 2014
Alternative Energy (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals The objective is to determine the impact of water's salinity level on the production of osmotic generated power? Methods/Materials Two chambers separated by an osmotic membr…
ISEF · 2014
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics Second Award
One in eight women will be diagnosed with a form of noninvasive Breast cancer during her lifetime. NEK2 is a highly-expressed gene in Breast cancer. The objective was to determine the role N…
ISEF · 2014
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
The adult muscle has stem cells called satellite cells. Those cells are quiescent in a normal situation and they get activated after injury. The most important function of satellite cells is…
ISEF · 2014
Earth and Environmental Sciences
The explosive growth of verbose content on the internet in recent years, especially of news articles and blogs, coupled with a shift towards mobile internet access, has created a case for in…
ISEF · 2014
Materials Science Second Award
Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) are ubiquitous non point source aquatic contaminants derived from various combustive and fossil fuel sources, causing sublethal cardiotoxic effects in…
CSEF · 2014
Biochemistry/ Molecular Biology
Objectives/Goals The goal of this research is to modify proteins through direct arylation, a method used for coupling aromatic molecules through transition-metal catalyzed C-H activation. Th…
ISEF · 2014
Embedded Systems Third Award
The adoption of distributed computing systems has grown massively in the past few years. In particular, Apache Hadoop, which allows developers to create applications that run on a cluster of…
ISEF · 2014
Systems Software
Most people enthuse about watching curving ball made by baseball player. Perhaps, it’s because it’s difficult to make curving ball to general people. but we found the way which make curving…
CSEF · 2014
Electronics & Electromagnetics
Objectives/Goals This project seeks to measure if a parabolic reflector increases the strength of WiFi, and if so, by how much? Methods/Materials 11x5in Cardboard, Foil, 8x5 3/4 in cardboard…
ISEF · 2014
Energy: Physical
The purpose of this science fair project is to design a parabolic mirror with copper tubing at its focus, and use a solar-powered pump that can efficiently heat water solely from solar energ…
CSEF · 2014
Aerodynamics/ Hydrodynamics (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals Our project was to determine if parachutes with smaller surface areas are quicker to fall to the ground than parachutes with larger surface areas. We believe that if we chan…
ISEF · 2014
Earth and Environmental Sciences
The purpose of the first part of this research is to determine the fastest algorithm to sort a random list of numbers into sequential order. I predicted that bubble sort would be the fastest…
CSEF · 2014
Mathematics & Software Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals People forget where they parked their car in multi-story parking lots, and parking levels sometimes look alike. GPS systems do not work well inside buildings, or provide par…
ISEF · 2014
Energy: Chemical Fourth Award
The scale of a parking lot is huge in urban areas nowadays, so it’s getting harder to find a vacant parking place and to get back to your car after parking. The current intelligent parking s…
ISEF · 2014
Microbiology
The Weakly Interacting Massive Particle (WIMP) theory for dark matter predicts the production of gamma radiation from WIMP annihilation and decay. To examine the possibility of WIMP dark mat…