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
Energy: Physical Third Award
Over the past decade, photovoltaic solar cells have been increasing in popularity exponentially despite their high cost. Photovoltaics are clean, robust, and flexible energy sources that can…
ISEF · 2014
Environmental Engineering Second Award
Water availability and quality are universally important issues. The imbalance between fresh water demand and supply is expected to worsen. To date, water technology has been focused on desa…
ISEF · 2014
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Every single branch of science has its origins in math. Of all the mathematical concepts, exponents constitute one of the most fundamental and useful tools. This purpose of this project is t…
ISEF · 2014
Materials Science
The aim of this project is to explore a new statistical method to detect non-randomness in outputs obtained by a random number generator. The test detects convergence of a particular sequenc…
CSEF · 2014
Biochemistry/ Molecular Biology
Objectives/Goals The objective of this project was to determine whether lead (II) ion would have an adverse effect on glucose metabolism rates in Saccharomyces cerevisiae (baker's yeast), a…
ISEF · 2014
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Polychlorinated biphenyls, PCBs, have been shown to cause a variety of adverse health effects on the immune, reproductive, nervous, and endocrine systems. Due to their once widespread usage…
CSEF · 2014
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals For this year#s science fair project I chose to investigate if numbers make people gender biased. Methods/Materials I used test subjects and a survey with the face of a baby…
ISEF · 2014
Chemistry
More than 25% of people worldwide suffer from mental illness (WHO, 2013). Emotion is a subjective conscious experience essential to social interaction in humans, who express emotions primari…
ISEF · 2014
Environmental Engineering
This experiment builds on further testing of percolation of phosphate through soil rather than homogenization to remediate lead contaminated soil. The experiment tested if percolation of a p…
CSEF · 2014
Product Science (Biological) (Junior Division Only) Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals My objective in this project was to find the best milk product that would retain moisture and thickness in pancakes over time. Methods/Materials I used buttermilk, whole mil…
CSEF · 2014
Environmental Science
Objectives/Goals To construct a fuel cell that utilizes microbes and plants to produce energy. To analyze and compare the energy production of fuel cells consisting of Enterobacter cloacae (…
ISEF · 2014
Mathematics Fourth Award
A novel nanoparticle (NP) targeted cancer therapy with personalized medicine applications is described. A NP concept, applying biologically compatible quantum dots (QDs), was created for can…
ISEF · 2014
Energy: Chemical Second Award
The goal of this project, that is named ARTEMIS, was to design and develop a concept of wireless body area network (WBAN) for a particular application of monitoring and processing personal p…
ISEF · 2014
Mathematics
Problem: Primary care of external bleeding is extremely important, providing basic care of any wound that is crucial in life saving and preventing future morbidity. Bleeding is a main conseq…
ISEF · 2014
Engineering Mechanics
There are thousands of strains of algae in our environment, but which ones have the best properties for making biofuels? Last year, research was conducted to isolate if a local strain of alg…
ISEF · 2014
Physics and Astronomy
Photoacoustic microscopy (PAM) is an emerging non-invasive, high-resolution imaging technique used for superficial imaging of blood-related parameters in vivo without the use of contrast age…
CSEF · 2014
Mathematics & Software
Objectives/Goals The purpose is to use spot pattern recognition procedures and image processing to identify individual Chinook salmon using a program called Stripespotter. We must first test…
CSEF · 2014
Alternative Energy (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals The purpose of my project is to create and engineer effective solar cells into a solar array with a plant-like appearance. I chose this project because I feel it has marketa…
ISEF · 2014
Plant Sciences
Phthalates are used as plasticizers in many consumer products found throughout the household. Little research has been conducted on the effects of these phthalates as potential endocrine dis…
CSEF · 2014
Physics & Astronomy
Objectives/Goals Figure Skating and Physics My objective was to find out if one goes faster in an axle jump with their arms above their head or with their arms tucked into their chest and wh…
ISEF · 2014
Embedded Systems
Is a program that teaches physics in an interactive way. The program is divided into sections according to the areas of physics and each section is further divided into sub-areas. The progra…
CSEF · 2014
Pharmacology/ Toxicology
Objectives/Goals Chinese Hamster Ovary (CHO) cells are commonly used in the biotechnology industry to produce recombinant proteins for therapeutic protein medication. Serum is expensive, so…
CSEF · 2014
Microbiology (General)
Objectives/Goals Recent research reveals that select phytohormones seem to have significant antibacterial properties and cause plant resistance to fungal disease, but little light is shown o…
CSEF · 2014
Environmental Science
Objectives/Goals The objective is to determine the possibility of using easy and accessible materials along with plants to remove air and water contaminants. Methods/Materials In Phase I of…
ISEF · 2014
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
A technique called piezoresponse force microscopy (PFM) was used to non-destructively image and dimension conductive nanostructures created at the interface between LaAlO3 and SrTiO3. Compar…
CSEF · 2014
Electronics & Electromagnetics
Objectives/Goals The objective of my project was to create a platform consisting of an Arduino-based pillbox and a web application, to assist patients in adhering to their prescription sched…
ISEF · 2014
Embedded Systems
The purpose of this experiment was to determine if a Raspberry Pi could be utilized as a low cost, energy efficient, home file server, and perform competitively in both speed and total cost…
ISEF · 2014
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Cell culture is challenging due to the use of medium components such as fetal bovine serum and human serum, risk of transmission of microbial disease, allergies, and ethical issues. Thus, id…
ISEF · 2014
Materials Science
Bright and motivated high school students often choose to take the most rigorous classes possible in high school. The question then becomes why should a motivated, high achieving student sub…
ISEF · 2014
Embedded Systems
The goal of this project is to make a management plan for raising crops by considering various farming circumstances. The project uses its database and the current status of user's managemen…