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.
CSEF · 2015
Mammalian Biology Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals My project goal was to find out if the activity level of the pika, Ochotona princeps, is affected by temperature. Pikas are small mammals that live at high elevations in the…
CSEF · 2015
Aerodynamics/ Hydrodynamics (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals The objective of this project is to determine how the pitch, length, and number of blades affect propeller efficiency. Methods/Materials The following materials were used to…
ISEF · 2015
Biomedical Engineering
Ischemic heart disease is the leading cause of death worldwide, originates 7.25 millions of deaths per year. it is estimated that by 2030 will be 23.6 million. In Mexico, occupies the lead c…
ISEF · 2015
Second Award
Nowadays, 3-D printers are considered as one of the most innovative technical developments. Until now, numerous processes, constructions as well as many possibilities of application have bee…
ISEF · 2015
The field work showed that my hypothesis was correct the water quality testing did show the presence of PPCP’s within the system of waterways known as the Monte Vista Wildlife Refuge. There…
ISEF · 2015
Fourth Award
The harlequin bug, Murgantia histrionic Hahn. (Hemiptera:Pentaomidae), is the most significant pest of cole crops such as broccoli, cabbage, collards, kohlrabi, kale, mustard and radish in t…
CSEF · 2015
Mathematics & Software
Objectives/Goals When creating a Fibonacci-like sequence of 100 numbers and then creating a ratio of the last number to the next-to-last number, which two starting numbers will produce a rat…
ISEF · 2015
Phosphorus pollution occurs when too much phosphorus enters an environment through septic system wastewater or agricultural runoff. It is a major problem, as it can stimulate growths of plan…
ISEF · 2015
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
The aim of the project is the recovery of phosphorus by a thermal process, as the primary sources of phosphorus will be depleted in the next few years. Our educt is mainly sewage sludge ash,…
CSEF · 2015
Product Science (Biological) (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals This project was designed to discover which of the two most common commercial methods of growing algae helps it grow fastest. The two commercial methods, a photobioreactor a…
CSEF · 2015
Environmental Engineering
Objectives/Goals Photo-degraded plastic bags are a major problem when it comes to recycling. My main objective is trying to improve the photo-degradation of HDPE #2 plastic bags. I also want…
ISEF · 2015
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design Fourth Award
Recently, cutting edge 2-D materials have emerged in the field of photovoltaics for light energy conversion. Graphene, the 2-D version of graphite, has a high carrier mobility, transparency,…
ISEF · 2015
Purpose: The purpose of this project is to see which amount of resistance will have the greatest affect on the efficiency of the electrochemical cell. Procedure: Six wires were cut to size w…
ISEF · 2015
The quadrupole ion trap utilizes time-varying electric fields to confine ions for high precision atomic measurements. To explain its working principles, the rotating saddle trap was used as…
ISEF · 2015
First Award
The current productive upsurge of bat research mostly concentrated on animal behaviors, passive sound measurements and numerical calculations. This research filled the blanks with its physic…
ISEF · 2015
The purpose of our project was to determine, from the weight of the different arrows (360, 400, 420) which arrow, projected by the same bow will create the most kinetic energy, as you would…
ISEF · 2015
This experiment was conducted to detect quantum entanglement of paired photons produced by electron - positron (matter – antimatter) annihilation events that result from Sodium-22 decay. Ent…
ISEF · 2015
Third Award
Imidacloprid (IMI) is the most utilized insecticide and an emerging contaminant. IMI acts as a nicotinic acetylcholine receptor (nAChR) agonist. 6-chloronicotinic acid (6-CNA) is a photodegr…
ISEF · 2015
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
There are as many as 350,000 contaminated sites in the United States that require a cleanup over the next 30 years at an estimated cost of $250 billion. Phytoremediation is an effective way…
ISEF · 2015
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
Benzene is a volatile organic compound and a recognized carcinogen linked to leukemia. The Environmental Protection Agency released a statement that claimed exposure to benzene levels above…
ISEF · 2015
Third Award
Annually, over 1.5 million bone grafts occur in the United States, many that are specific to bone allografts. Computer-assisted surgeries leveraging the 3-dimensional (3D) features of graphi…
ISEF · 2015
Energy conservation law establishes that energy can’t be created or destroyed, but transformed. Kinetic energy is related to moving objects and it depends on mass and velocity. This energy c…
ISEF · 2015
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
The purpose of our experiment was to determine how the coating of a pill affects the rate at which a medicine enters the bloodstream. To represent the digestive process we used hydrochloric…
CSEF · 2015
Aerodynamics/ Hydrodynamics (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals My objective for this project was to determine if changing the amount of blades on a wind turbine, or in this case a pinwheel, would affect how sensitive it was to wind. Met…
ISEF · 2015
Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD) is the theory of strong interactions that explains how hadrons such as protons, neutrons, and pions form stable bound states. It is impossible to study a system…
ISEF · 2015
Translational Medical Science
The purpose of this study was to examine the inhibitory effects of piperine, a compound found in black pepper, on B16F10 mouse melanoma cell growth, and to see, when UV is added to B16F10 ce…
ISEF · 2015
Biochemistry
Pisaster ochraceus is a keystone-predator of coastal pacific North America. Over the past two years it has undergone an outbreak of sea star wasting disease (SSWD) caused by sea star associa…
CSEF · 2015
Zoology
Objectives/Goals For this year#s science fair project I chose to investigate if after being cut in half will the top half or bottom half of a planarian worm regenerate faster. The reason I c…
CSEF · 2015
Aerodynamics/ Hydrodynamics (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals The objective is to determine if planes will save fuel when flying in a "V" shape formation. My hypothesis is "If planes fly in a "V" shape like birds, then they will save f…
CSEF · 2015
Biochemistry/ Molecular Biology Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals Obesity is a global problem that affects 30% of the World's population. One of the approaches used to target obesity is to decrease the absorption of fatty acids from the di…