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 · 2015
Product Science (Physical) (Junior Division Only) Second Award
Objectives/Goals My objective was to determine if there was another dishwashing soap that can clean oiled birds as well as Dawn. I hypothesized that another brand of dishwashing soap will cl…
ISEF · 2015
Systems Software
How do young entrepreneurs use social media to connect with potential customers and to build a brand of their products or services? the study explores this research question by looking at ev…
CSEF · 2015
Plant Biology
Objectives/Goals Modern farming has allowed us to produce enough food to supply the world#s population. But at what cost? The nutrient value of the food we eat is being degraded due to soil…
ISEF · 2015
The objective of this project was to use an intelligent moisture sensor to create a project that tests the moisture level of soil and alerts the plant owner if the plant needs to be watered.…
CSEF · 2015
Environmental Science
Objectives/Goals The objective is to determine whether salt or freshwater marshes store the most soil carbon on the wetlands of northern Humboldt Bay. I predicted that the salt water marshes…
CSEF · 2015
Physics & Astronomy
Objectives/Goals Our objective was to send a weather balloon with data recording equipment into space and make observations on key variables that determine the amount of radiation at and or…
ISEF · 2015
The sun's energy is essential to the existence of life on the planet, it is also a resource to power to become transformed into electrical energy by plates directly receiving sunlight, and t…
CSEF · 2015
Electronics & Electromagnetics
Objectives/Goals I tested whether or not I could simulate a solar-powered electric bicycle that could go 0.4 kilometers on one charge of its batteries. Methods/Materials I used many regular…
CSEF · 2015
Environmental Engineering Second Award
Objectives/Goals The objective is to determine if solar desalination of ocean water can be used to help end California#s water issues. Methods/Materials A solar panel was used to capture ene…
ISEF · 2015
The purpose of doing this project is that the world is dependent on fossil fuels. There are many ways to produce renewable energy. I have used the BASIC Stamp and Arduino to operate light se…
ISEF · 2015
The purpose of the experiment was to design and construct a solar thermal system that had two components; the first component was a panel that heated air by drawing it through porous copper…
CSEF · 2015
Alternative Energy (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals The purpose of this project was to explore the impact of copper tube diameter, tilt, and cover material on the efficiency of a homemade solar water collector. Methods/Materi…
CSEF · 2015
Environmental Engineering
Objectives/Goals I have asthma and allergies which becomes worse someone is cooking in the kitchen. This made me think what pollutants were causing me to cough. I decided to investigate more…
ISEF · 2015
The study of error correcting codes seeks to minimize the redundancy needed for the accurate transmission of data on a fuzzy channel. Interference necessitates costly amounts of redundancy,…
ISEF · 2015
Finding a new sustainable, powerful, reliable and environmentally friendly form of energy has been a problem that has grown in importance over the last few decades due to the energy crisis.…
ISEF · 2015
The topic I researched was the production of green beans using bags of soil. I chose this topic because my grandfather was having both of his knees replaced in early spring and would not be…
ISEF · 2015
Alfa (Alpha in English) is a robot that was designed with two main proposes: meteorological and explore unknown zones. It has its own processor to operate by remote control and for collect d…
ISEF · 2015
Due to human dependency on oil, it is constantly being drilled for. Safety precautions are used while drilling, but some oil still ends up in the ocean. These accidents cause harmful damage…
ISEF · 2015
Translational Medical Science
Sorting Nexin 27 (SNX27) belongs to a super family of sortin nexins which mediate protein-protein interaction in intracellular trafficking, membrane remodeling, organelle motility, tight jun…
ISEF · 2015
Fourth Award
The drought has caused several impacts in different continents of the planet. The increase of poverty and hunger has been considered as a direct consequence of droughts for the world populat…
CSEF · 2015
Mammalian Biology
Objectives/Goals I have always been interested in sound, and I had just discovered synthesized waveforms. My goal was to investigate if synthesized sound waveforms might affect the ability t…
CSEF · 2015
Physics & Astronomy
Objectives/Goals Micrometeoroids pose a significant threat to space exploration. Resistance to micrometeoroid impact is a significant design challenge for spacecraft and spacecraft designers…
ISEF · 2015
The collision hazard in Earth orbit has increased due to Orbital debris that is all man-made objects in orbit about the Earth which no longer serve a useful purpose. More than 100 million pi…
CSEF · 2015
Electronics & Electromagnetics
Objectives/Goals The objective is to test if water flow affects the electricity produced measured as number of sparks per three minutes using the Kelvin's Electrostatic Battery. I predict th…
CSEF · 2015
Product Science (Physical) (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals My mom was diagnosed with Melanoma when she was 40 years old, and my grandma has had several basal cell and squamous cell carcinomas removed in her lifetime. I take after th…
CSEF · 2015
Microbiology (General)
Objectives/Goals This experiment was created to find the effects of spices on bacteria. Spices are used in many countries to preserve food, and are said to prevent bacterial growth. By testi…
CSEF · 2015
Plant Biology Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals In this science fair project, I investigated how plants know how to send their roots down, and how to change the direction that their roots will grow. My research question w…
CSEF · 2015
Materials Science (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals The purpose of this work was to determine the best materials to use for protective clothing against paintballs. This project involved three separate experiments. In Experime…
CSEF · 2015
Physics & Astronomy
Objectives/Goals My objective was to determine what makes performers feel hot on stage, and whether it is the light that falls on the body creating the heat, or whether the heat from the bul…
ISEF · 2015
Fourth Award
Each year in the United States, at least 23,000 people die each year as a direct result of antibiotic-resistant infections with 80% of these deaths from gram-positive bacteria. One promising…