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 · 2017
Plant Biology Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals Drought is an environmental stress that affects the establishment, survival, and growth of plants. Researchers have discovered that karrikin, a compound found in smoke, acce…
AJAS · 2017
Plant Sciences (inferred)
The purpose of this project was to measure interorganismic communications through growth pattern responses in Phaseolus vulgaris plants when neighboring plants were exposed to high le…
ISEF · 2017
Engineering Mechanics
Since 1998, dielectric barrier discharge plasma actuators or vortex generators have been steadily rising in popularity. This interest is due to complex physics unraveling itself into the for…
CSEF · 2017
Applied Mechanics & Structures
Objectives/Goals Pneumatic/hydraulic systems are used in a wide variety of applications such as toys, construction equipment, and robotics. The goal of my project was to determine whether a…
ISEF · 2017
Behavioral and Social Sciences
We investigated which issues and criteria cause Wisconsinites to vote the way they do in elections and then broke down the data based on variables, such as gender. The survey contained quest…
ISEF · 2017
Plant Sciences
Bees represent a vital part of our agricultural system, supporting by their pollination activities approximately one-third of the food consumed by humans. Despite colony collapse disorder, a…
ISEF · 2017
Animal Sciences
a) Purpose - To find out if magnetic fields affect the rate of growth in the regeneration of planaria. Because magnetism alters the intracellular calcium distribution in neoblast cells, my h…
ISEF · 2017
Mathematics
Polygon Triangulation problem is one of the problem in combinatorial mathematics. The problem is that, in how many ways can a convex polygon with n+2 sides (labelled 0,1,2,…,n) be divided in…
ISEF · 2017
Materials Science
Currently, the search for lower costs cause companies to adopt new processing techniques, concerned with the recovery of their waste or with the attempt to use waste from other processes as…
ISEF · 2017
Biomedical and Health Sciences
The human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) became associated with the autoimmune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) in 1989. Even after years of research there´s still no cure nor preventative treatment…
ISEF · 2017
Mathematics
The field of Diophantine approximation is a branch of number theory which concerns itself with certain properties of real numbers in relation to the rational numbers. In specific, one may de…
ISEF · 2017
Plant Sciences
Though the properties of Georgian polyphenols and anthocyanins grapes have not been thoroughly studied, it has been suspected that they possess oenological potential. This project aims to st…
CSEF · 2017
Plant Biology
Objectives/Goals Observed the efficacy of polyphosphate-rich mustard algae on kale plant growth to determine its organic fertilizer potential, transforming a prevalent swimming pool pest int…
CSEF · 2017
Applied Mechanics & Structures
Objectives/Goals The objective of this project is to build a device that makes it easier for the visually impaired service dog owners to know when their guide dog is excreting waste. Methods…
ISEF · 2017
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Silica gels greatly impact D. magna populations, increasing the neonate and juvenile mortality rates by up to 6 and 1.5 times. Six trials were conducted, and all six were found to be statist…
ISEF · 2017
Physics and Astronomy
Fluorescent molecular rotors (molecules that can emit light when they absorb energy and whose parts can turn one around another) can be used for observing the process of the light-caused des…
ISEF · 2017
Environmental Engineering
The world of 3D printing is thus far not closely aligned with the world of the consumer. In the eyes of the average consumer, 3D printers are large, abstracted, industrial machines like inje…
CSEF · 2017
Environmental Science
Objectives/Goals I studied plant numbers and species (native vs. non-native) that grew in burned (BA) and unburned areas (UBA) after fire in Coast Sage Scrub (CSS). I measured Artemisia cali…
CSEF · 2017
Environmental Engineering
Objectives/Goals I wanted to learn which way was most efficient to desalinize seawater and find a usage for the remaining salt. Methods/Materials Materials: seawater, heater source, TDS mete…
ISEF · 2017
Energy: Chemical Second Award
Most of the Zimbabwean population has no access to proper household lighting facilities. In a bid to solve this problem the researcher invented an environmentally friendly battery using loca…
ISEF · 2017
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Electronic cigarettes are battery operated devices using nicotine and liquids to produce vapor. They are comprised of three parts: a cartridge, a heating device, and a power source. The cart…
ISEF · 2017
Biomedical and Health Sciences
The objective of this study was to re-measure the effect of maximum safe dosages of multi-vitamins and minerals (MVM) on biochemical markers alterations that occurred during Alzheimer's in a…
ISEF · 2017
Translational Medical Science
Renal fibrosis, featured by excessive accumulation of extracellular matrix (ECM), is a detrimental path of chronic kidney disease while lacking an effective treatment for 0.5 billion adults…
ISEF · 2017
Systems Software
With the advent of smart devices and mobility, today’s networks are increasingly dynamic. This research assesses optimal low-power communication between devices in ever-changing networks, wh…
ISEF · 2017
Environmental Engineering Fourth Award
Forward Osmosis (FO) is an alternative method of desalination that uses a hypertonic “draw" solution to leach water molecules from a hypotonic "feed" solution such as seawater across a semip…
ISEF · 2017
Energy: Physical
Kinetic energy is a readily available source of energy that can be converted into usable forms, such as electricity. In addition to depleting the supply of many nonrenewable resources to com…
ISEF · 2017
Engineering Mechanics
The purpose of my project is to find out what must be done to get the strongest and largest quantity of hydrogen gas out of my generator as possible. The generator will be used to run an eng…
CSEF · 2017
Computational Systems & Analysis Fourth Award
Objectives/Goals My project goal was to create a program that could automatically classify a given text document with >80% accuracy into three levels of Formality: Formal, Casual and Semi-Fo…
ISEF · 2017
Translational Medical Science Fourth Award
Lung cancer claims 150,000 Americans yearly, yet only 15.7% are diagnosed pre-metastasis. Current computer diagnostics focus on Bayesian networks using rule-based prediction. In this project…
ISEF · 2017
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
The objective of this investigation is to determine the most accurate machine learning algorithm for recommending surgical and radiation treatment and predicting survival for lung cancer. Ma…