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 · 2018
Mathematics
In this project we study the energy functional on the set of Lagrangian tori in CP^2. The energy conjecture asserting that the value of energy functional for any Lagrangian torus in CP^2 is…
CSEF · 2018
Chemistry
Objectives/Goals Today, drugs are administered orally or intravenously. Such methods distribute drugs systemically, resulting in low drug efficacy and side effects. To solve this, scientists…
CSEF · 2018
Environmental Engineering
Objectives/Goals This year we continue our endeavor to find a more sustainable way to collect atmospheric inversion data. The previous methods using a radiosonde and sounding system are very…
ISEF · 2018
Systems Software
'One-Handed Operation UI on Smartphone' is an Android application considering the human physical characteristics in order to improve the instability of one-handed manipulation according to t…
ISEF · 2018
Environmental Engineering
The intelligent disinfection cabinet for textbooks is sterilized with ozone, with an automatic page turning device used to make textbook pages contact with the ozone fully and enable a thoro…
CSEF · 2018
Biochemistry/ Molecular Biology First Award
Objectives/Goals My objective is to find the type of rice with the lowest amount of starch for people who have diabetes. Methods/Materials Materials- Pressure cooker, jasmine rice, basmati r…
ISEF · 2018
Mathematics
Although the infinite sum of the reciprocals of Mersenne primes has already been approximated to 0.51645417894, that result has not been compared with (a) the infinite sum of the reciprocals…
ISEF · 2018
Mathematics Second Award
Consider a square of integer side N divided into unit squares. The opposite vertices of some unit squares are connected with diagonal lines so that none of the diagonals have common points.…
ISEF · 2018
Mathematics
The Collatz function is defined as follows: start with a positive integer x. If x is odd, multiply it by three and add one, and if x is even, divide it by two. A recursion of this function c…
CSEF · 2018
Mathematical Sciences
Objectives/Goals The purpose of this project was to observe inherent modular trends within all hypothetical Collatz loops. Methods/Materials The Collatz function is defined as follows: start…
ISEF · 2018
Mathematics
In classical logic, formulas are constructed using a given alphabet composed of connectives and prime statements. The prime statements are assigned one of two truth values: {t,f} and the con…
ISEF · 2018
Mathematics
Abstract algebra is a branch of mathematics that studies algebraic structures. Lie algebras theory is one of the most important and developing topic of abstract algebra. A Lie ring is a Lie…
ISEF · 2018
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Robots are starting to interact more frequently with a dynamic environment, outside limited manufacturing sites, encounter a difficulty when needed to navigate from one location to another.…
ISEF · 2018
Systems Software
This project creates OCR software for recognition of cursive handwriting from page photos. The initial goal was to create software for converting handwritten notes into digital format. Such…
ISEF · 2018
Materials Science
We hypothesize there exists an optimum nanostructure size and material to detect changes in the environment via optical responses. We perform this study to build the foundation for more exte…
CSEF · 2018
Applied Mechanics & Structures
Objectives/Goals Ballistas were weapons of war used to launch projectiles at enemy fortresses. Attackers would want to fire the ballista from as far away as possible, so the army would want…
ISEF · 2018
Biochemistry
The objective of this research project is to define the optimal circadian rhythm, or length of night and day periods, of bioluminescent, or glowing, dinoflagellate algae for lengthening the…
CSEF · 2018
Applied Mechanics & Structures Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals The combustion of fossil fuels is the leading contributor to global warming. Reducing emissions of toxic elements by switching to renewable resources by harnessing energy fr…
ISEF · 2018
Biomedical and Health Sciences Second Award
Cancer immunotherapy is an important alternative to traditional treatments such as chemotherapy and radiation, reducing the toxicity and negative side effects. By eliciting an immune respons…
AJAS · 2018
The normal development of an organism is tightly regulated and highly orchestrated by microRNAs (miRNA), short pieces of regulatory RNA. The timing of the expression of these miRNAs determin…
ISEF · 2018
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Epilepsy is a very common and devastating neurological disorder that affects 65 million people globally. Electroencephalography (EEG) recording is an essential tool in evaluating seizure act…
ISEF · 2018
Physics and Astronomy
In a vastly increasing energy dependent society, there is need for the transportation of energy quickly and efficiently. Laser power beaming and transferring energy with fiber optic cables a…
CSEF · 2018
Applied Mechanics & Structures Fourth Award
Objectives/Goals The goal is to design and construct a geometry of 3D printed constructs that would address the 3D bioprinting issues of contractility, feasibility and functionality of cardi…
ISEF · 2018
Engineering Mechanics
Fuel costs, depletion of energy resources, and emissions are environmental concerns in many industries today. Even a small improvement in burner efficiency could potentially save millions of…
CSEF · 2018
Environmental Engineering
Objectives/Goals Among the scientific community, there is growing agreement that microalgal photobioreactors are among the most effective systems for biomass generation and carbon capture to…
ISEF · 2018
Microbiology
In bacteria, cellular energy is largely consumed by two essential functions: reproduction and chemotaxis, the behavior where single-celled organisms swim up a gradient of nutrients. When bot…
ISEF · 2018
Plant Sciences
Feeding nine billion people is a daunting task, but the reality we will face by the mid twenty-first century. Population growth and climate change will require alteration of agricultural pra…
ISEF · 2018
Biomedical Engineering
Synthetic biology seeks to imbue living cells with complex genetic circuits that execute localized logical computations. These genetic circuits are usually composed of multiple genes express…
CSEF · 2018
Biochemistry/ Molecular Biology
Objectives/Goals Current gene constructs need an effective mechanism able to maintain expression units in open chromatin configuration, both prohibiting cross talk between nearby promoters i…
CSEF · 2018
Electronics & Electromagnetics
Objectives/Goals Magnetic field sensing is a powerful technique that allows for non-invasive measurements of magnetic structure. For example, magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) allows for non-…