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 · 2017
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Long-term exposure to blue light from smartphones and LEDs may lead to eye diseases like macular degeneration. However, the possible mechanism of how blue light- induced generation of reacti…
ISEF · 2017
Biomedical and Health Sciences
The topic addressed in our research refers to livestock production for food which is the main activity of our region. It is true that food is produced, but in the process the environment is…
ISEF · 2017
Systems Software
Meet Protium Protium is a high-level web-development platform that encourages rapid development and clean, pragmatic design. With Protium you can take Web applications from concept to launch…
CSEF · 2017
Electronics & Electromagnetics Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals The objective was to design a reliable omnidirectional drone collision avoidance system to assist drone users and expand drone capabilities. Methods/Materials The task of cr…
ISEF · 2017
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Neural networks are the heart of artificial intelligence and machine learning. They are computer programs that loosely act like a biological brain and they can learn to approximate functions…
ISEF · 2017
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Left-handedness and forced handedness (left-handed to right-handed, or vice versa) have been tangibly proven to worsen brain functions, through higher incidences of neurodevelopmental disord…
ISEF · 2017
Behavioral and Social Sciences
The purpose of this study is to isolate biomarkers of psychosocial stress by means of presenting scenarios with increasing stakes and observing changes in blood pressure, blood oxygen, and p…
CSEF · 2017
Product Science (Physical) (Junior Division Only) Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals Many people spend money on lipsticks marketed as long-lasting (eg,"16-hour kiss-proof lip color",etc.). My goal was to i.d. which brand of 6 long-lasting lipsticks is the mo…
ISEF · 2017
Microbiology
This experiment is intended to devise a safe way to sanitize a refrigerator and its contents. Food borne illnesses are extremely common and have become an increasing issue in the United Stat…
CSEF · 2017
Mammalian Biology Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals Will performing one set of pushups to failure prior to performing one set of pull ups to failure effect the number of repetitions completed in the one set of pull ups to fai…
ISEF · 2017
Systems Software
In this paper we describe a composing program written in Python. The purpose of the program is to ease the work of a human composer by providing inspiration. It is also possible to generate…
ISEF · 2017
Microbiology Fourth Award
Increased antibiotic resistance in bacteria has rendered many antibiotics useless; thus, the objective of the project was to develop a novel antimicrobial compound of pyrimidine derivatives…
CSEF · 2017
Microbiology (General) Second Award
Objectives/Goals Increased antibiotic resistance in bacteria has rendered many antibiotics useless; thus, the objective of this project was to develop a novel antimicrobial compound of pyrim…
AJAS · 2017
The ubiquity of smartphones and their sensors has led to the rise of Mobile CrowdSensing (MCS), the practice of crowdsourcing sensory information from mobile devices. However, little researc…
ISEF · 2017
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Amyloids comprise of the amino acids that are the primary cause of Alzheimer's; an antibody that binds with high affinity to the amyloid has great potential of being an improved drug candida…
CSEF · 2017
Computational Systems & Analysis
Objectives/Goals Amyloids comprise of the amino acids that, when misfolded, are the primary cause of Alzheimer's; an antibody that binds with high affinity to the amyloid has great potential…
CSEF · 2017
Microbiology (General) Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals This experiment aims to assess the feasibility of using the CRISPR-Cas9 system to generate Geminivirus resistance in plants by targeting a site in the viral genome that is e…
ISEF · 2017
Energy: Chemical
There is a growing problem of critical failure in many commercially manufactured Li-ion batteries today due to gas evolution. To determine a safer composition of Li-ion batteries for public…
AJAS · 2017
Physics and Astronomy (inferred)
Solar flares are among the leading causes of our planet's magnetosphere disruption; they often induce major geomagnetic storms, and can lead to consequences, chiefly telecommunications and s…
ISEF · 2017
Physics and Astronomy
The purpose of this project is to determine the application of the physical quantum eraser to theoretical quantum computation. In addition, both the effect of the quantum eraser on informati…
CSEF · 2017
Electronics & Electromagnetics
Objectives/Goals The objective of my project was to test if changing the angle of a neodymium magnet would affect the amount of time it would hover over a superconductor. Methods/Materials F…
CSEF · 2017
Physics & Astronomy
Objectives/Goals The objective of this experiment was to analyze how superconductors can be used to decrease the amount of power loss due to power transmission and to reveal how quantum levi…
CSEF · 2017
Chemistry
Objectives/Goals The goal of my project was to discover if it was possible to harden low carbon steel by exchanging the quenching medium. Methods/Materials In my project I tested four differ…
ISEF · 2017
Physics and Astronomy
Many people enjoy looking through telescopes into the night sky as a hobby, and many people use them as a means of learning more about our universe. To work properly, telescopes must often b…
CSEF · 2017
Physics & Astronomy Second Award
Objectives/Goals The goal of my project was to develop an efficient method of aligning an optical telescope. Optical telescopes are expected to have a very small wavefront error in order to…
ISEF · 2017
Behavioral and Social Sciences
This research work is based on the search and description of information storage systems used by Incas of Peru, by means of quipus, an improved mnemonic procedure made up by cords of various…
CSEF · 2017
Behavioral & Social Sciences Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals My objective was to determine whether fifth grade students, regardless of socioeconomic status and racial/ethnic backgrounds will have uniformly positive opinions of the lik…
ISEF · 2017
Physics and Astronomy
Recent concerns on potential harmful effects of non-ionizing or radio frequency electromagnetic frequency (EMF) emissions from wireless communication devices, creates the need to (a) verify…
CSEF · 2017
Electronics & Electromagnetics Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals My project goal is to create a system that will map radio propagation across a city, allowing the user to visualize the abilities and limitations of their radio system. Meth…
ISEF · 2017
Earth and Environmental Sciences First Award
From the 1940’s, radionuclides were widely dispersed in the environment from atmospheric nuclear testing and reactor waste. Since, environmental radioactive monitoring systems have been sign…