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
Earth and Environmental Sciences Fourth Award
Pesticide runoff is a major challenge facing the agricultural and landscape industries today. The vast majority of sprayed pesticides end up in an environment other than their intended desti…
ISEF · 2018
Plant Sciences Fourth Award
One theory of how plants detect a change in gravity is the starch-statolith hypothesis. The hypothesis states during a change in gravity, statoliths, starch-containing organelles, settle to…
ISEF · 2018
Physics and Astronomy Third Award
In this enterprise, a formalism for describing the outcome of binary-binary chaotic interactions has been developed from computer simulations and mathematical models. In 1899, Henri Poincaré…
ISEF · 2018
Plant Sciences
Still water in floral buckets often produces bacteria, leading to shorter life, inventory shrink, a loss of money and waste of salvageable flowers. A plan was composed to aerate water in the…
ISEF · 2018
Earth and Environmental Sciences First Award
Every year, devastating wildfires cause substantial environmental and economic damage all around the world. In most cases, firefighters are unable to identify wildfires until the flames grow…
ISEF · 2018
Energy: Chemical
Assignment of Tasks: Austria gets most of its electrical energy from renewable energy sources. These sources have the problem that their energy output is not constant. This is the reason, wh…
ISEF · 2018
Environmental Engineering
The recent revolution of unconventional shale gas resources has flipped the coin to a new era in the oil and gas industry and the world. The primary motivation of this research is to utilize…
ISEF · 2018
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Effective epithelialization is essential to the restoration of tissue after a chronic injury to ensure wound healing. Examination of Fidgetin Like-2 (FL2), a novel microtubule depolymerase,…
ISEF · 2018
Plant Sciences Fourth Award
Two critical factors are involved in blooming of the morning glory, Pharbitis nil, a popular summer-flowering plant in Japan: (i) light/dark stimulus the evening before the day of flowering,…
ISEF · 2018
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Heart disease is the leading cause of death in women worldwide. However, the molecular pathway that causes different effects in men and women during a myocardial infarction (MI) is unknown.…
ISEF · 2018
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Fish is an essential and traditional element in the diet of many people in the Caribbean (Ricketts, 2016). However, some species have high concentration of Mercury (Hg), representing an incr…
ISEF · 2018
Microbiology
Purpose: Aspergillus versicolor(A.v.), a common mold that lives indoors and outdoors can cause health problems include allergies and infections. Putty on the wall can absorb water and become…
ISEF · 2018
Environmental Engineering
Soil acidification due to imprudent use of chemical soil fertilizers has become a serious problem these days. Limestone is widely used as a solution to this problem, however it causes second…
ISEF · 2018
Biomedical Engineering
Articular cartilage damage is the most common injury in the musculoskeletal system. Since cartilage is avascular, injured tissue cannot spontaneously heal and, if not treated, can lead to os…
ISEF · 2018
Microbiology
This study focused on antifungal susceptibility of Candida albicans, a normal gut flora microbe, to borate-based bioactive glass (BBG). C. albicans becomes pathogenic in immunocompromised in…
ISEF · 2018
Biomedical Engineering
The ability of siRNAs to regulate oncogenes through RNA interference makes them a promising target in cancer therapy. siRNAs are an especially beneficial treatment tactic for TNBC, a more ag…
ISEF · 2018
Energy: Chemical
Hydrogen fuel production is one of the most pressing issues that is preventing hydrogen fuel cells from becoming a green, cost-efficient alternative to fossil fuels. Currently, the cheapest…
ISEF · 2018
Materials Science
As one of the most promising electrical energy storage (EES) devices, lithium-sulfur (Li-S) batteries have been paid more and more attention. The high theoretical capacity of sulfur (1675 mA…
ISEF · 2018
Materials Science
Superconductors and the future possibilities of seamless energy transfer and levitating trains have long been plagued by the extremely low critical temperature required, a temperature that i…
ISEF · 2018
Biomedical Engineering
Infections occur when water touches an incision, such as a wound, due to the harmful bacteria that can begin to grow. 6.5 million patients in the U.S. have been affected by this. Ultimately,…
ISEF · 2018
Systems Software
In recent years, 3D Printing has become an essential part of technological development, and as such, the standard procedures and algorithms are always changing and improving. This project im…
ISEF · 2018
Engineering Mechanics First Award
The aeronautical industry struggles to find a balance between making aircraft efficient and durable simultaneously, high-ratio wings are able to provide efficiency at the loss of structural…
ISEF · 2018
Systems Software
As new space technologies are developed, it is pertinent that efficiency is taken into consideration during their conception. In order to determine conditions needed to reduce fuel consumpti…
ISEF · 2018
Environmental Engineering
The use of photovoltaic solar energy for the generation of electric energy has been increasingly considered in several countries as a great alternative to reduce the environmental impacts ca…
ISEF · 2018
Environmental Engineering
The structural health monitoring (SHM) is extremely important because Taiwan is located on the pacific seismic belt where earthquake hazards occur frequently. Maintenance management is requi…
ISEF · 2018
Translational Medical Science
Triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC) is an aggressive breast cancer subtype associated with a poor prognosis and reduced hormone therapy efficacy. Although the current standard treatment for…
ISEF · 2018
Translational Medical Science
Hodgkin Lymphoma (HL) is a blood cancer that develops in the lymphatic system when a lymphocyte undergoes a malignant transformation and develops a DNA mutation. HL makes up about 1% of all…
ISEF · 2018
Chemistry Second Award
It is known that branching in aliphatic amines reduces their degradation in an organism by MAO enzymes. The main target of our project was to reveal the influence of carbon chain branching i…
ISEF · 2018
Energy: Chemical
When over 850,000 people lost access to electricity in Puerto Rico April 12, 2018, the global instability of the power grid was exposed. More than an inconvenience, buildings vital for socie…
ISEF · 2018
Chemistry Third Award
Positron emission tomography (PET) is a promising technology that utilizes radiotracers for producing detailed, 3D images of the body. The radiotracer studied in this project targets the SV2…