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 · 2016
High altitude balloon research conducted by universities and government research teams like NOAA and the EPA are expensive projects. The total equipment value for an average flight exceeds $…
CSEF · 2016
Environmental Engineering
Objectives/Goals The objective of this study was to explore the possibility of extracting more power, and extending the life of single use batteries that are considered dead, and altimately…
ISEF · 2016
Predictable or Chaotic: Orbits vs. Weather investigates the predictability of planetary and weather systems. In order to do this, a computer code was written to model each system. A simple a…
ISEF · 2016
First Award
A non-invasive risk-analysis tool was developed for assessing HPV-associated oropharyngeal cancer using oral-rinse samples. The idea for this tool came from work that showed evidence of abno…
CSEF · 2016
Mathematics & Computer Science Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals With almost forty million people displaced worldwide, the global refugee crisis has continued to worsen. This situation is further exacerbated by the lack of a coherent syst…
ISEF · 2016
Despite the widely known health risks of obesity, there is no accurate and reliable way to predict if an individual will become obese in the future. Artificial neural networks (ANNs) are cap…
CSEF · 2016
Mathematics & Computer Science
Objectives/Goals Despite the widely known health risks of obesity, there is no accurate and reliable way to predict if an individual will become obese in the future. The goal of my research…
ISEF · 2016
The purpose of my project is to predict the progression of Multiple Sclerosis (MS) by creating a computer aided diagnosis (CAD) system using image features from an MRI. I hypothesized that I…
ISEF · 2016
Third Award
Synergistic drug combinations for cancer have the potential to save millions of lives each year through lowering toxicity, limiting side effects, and drastically increasing the efficacy of t…
ISEF · 2016
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
Five totally new compounds containing NCN amidinato ligand were synthetized in their very pure form. Compounds were prepared applying two methods: 1) a direct nucleophilic addition of metal…
ISEF · 2016
The objective of this project was the design, construction, testing and evaluation of a mechanism to harvest pressure energy from automotive traffic and using it to generate electricity. The…
ISEF · 2016
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
Does pretreating stains with various detergents help? How do different detergents affect different stains? For example how to get rid of grass stains? In everyday life we often find ourselve…
CSEF · 2016
Applied Mechanics & Structures
Objectives/Goals Our project is to determine the best bracing types for buildings in earthquakes and to find the best terrains to make the building on. We show the best architecture bracing…
ISEF · 2016
Every year, severe burns kill approximately 265,000 people due to opportunistic infection from normal flora, such as Staphylococcus epidermidis. This research studies the efficacy of using f…
ISEF · 2016
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design Second Award
Approximately 80-90% of Americans develop allergic reactions upon contact with poison oak or poison ivy. The allergen in both of these plants is a molecule known as urushiol, which binds to…
CSEF · 2016
Biochemistry/ Molecular Biology
Objectives/Goals Approximately 80-90% of Americans develop allergic reactions upon contact with poison oak or poison ivy. The allergen in both of these plants is a molecule known as urushiol…
ISEF · 2016
Every year, an average of 37 children dies from hyperthermia (heat), when left unattended in the car. The objective of this experiment was to find an effective way to detect when the baby is…
ISEF · 2016
Pricey to Priceless Gel Electrophoresis’s purpose was to design a more cheap and effective way for forensic analysists to measure the accuracy of evidence in DNA testing of criminals, along…
CSEF · 2016
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals The objective of the study is to determine if the age related differences in the neurological structures of the adults' and children's brains affect the way they see and pro…
ISEF · 2016
The aim of this project is to investigate how differing geometric vessel shapes affect the fractional flow reserve value, given constant percent stenosis. The chosen geometry shapes were a c…
ISEF · 2016
Wearable electronics are finding new applications in everyday life. Future adoption of wearable electronics into applications such as medical diagnostics, identity protection, and asset situ…
ISEF · 2016
Heart disease is one of leading causes of death in the United States. Electrocardiograms (ECG or EKG) are often used to diagnose cardiac conditions. The actual output from an ECG is not easy…
CSEF · 2016
Mathematics & Computer Science
Objectives/Goals As a very busy Middle school student with homework, tests, class projects etc. I regularly encounter the problem how to decide which class task to do first? To solve this pr…
ISEF · 2016
Schizophrenia (SCZ) is a rather widespread, devastating psychiatric illness without defined causes. Studies have implied an immunological dysfunction hypothesis for SCZ by identifying abnorm…
ISEF · 2016
Third Award
To decrease the distance of model rocket drift after deploying a recovery system, the project goal was to develop a low-cost, guided system to bring a model rocket back to the launch area. A…
CSEF · 2016
Applied Mechanics & Structures Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals To decrease the distance required to recover model rockets-which can drift several miles after deploying a recovery system-the project goal was to develop a low-cost guided…
ISEF · 2016
Second Award
Nearly 40% of people age 65 and older have at least one disability; of those, two-thirds have difficulty walking. Wheelchairs can help people who have a hard time walking, but they are diffi…
CSEF · 2016
Applied Mechanics & Structures
Objectives/Goals Nearly 40% of people age 65 and older have at least one disability; of those, two-thirds have difficulty walking. Wheelchairs can help people who have a hard time walking, b…
CSEF · 2016
Electronics & Electromagnetics
Objectives/Goals Problem: Every one minute, one person dies from a heart-disease related event globally. Heart disease often strikes through myocardial infarction, or heart attack. Objective…
CSEF · 2016
Biochemistry/ Molecular Biology First Award
Objectives/Goals The objective was to develop a product that extends the shelf life of healthy produce at home and reduces excessive waste. Ethylene is a gaseous natural plant hormone that t…