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 · 2014
Engineering Mechanics
F. duorarum is one of the most economically important shrimp species in the US, and also may serve as a critical indicator for assessing effectiveness of Everglades restoration. Understandin…
ISEF · 2014
Physics and Astronomy Third Award
Spectrophotometers are optical instruments which analyze substance samples using electromagnetic spectra. Traditional professional spectrophotometers have extensive applicability in physics,…
ISEF · 2014
Physics and Astronomy
This study will show how much make-shift spectrophotometers can be relied upon. By taking pictures of specific fluids as water and colored water, we can measure these with a software based p…
CSEF · 2014
Pharmacology/ Toxicology Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals To test the effects of nicotine, alcohol , and caffeine on the heart. Methods/Materials Using Daphnia Magna, a water flea with a transparent carapace to be able to see the h…
CSEF · 2014
Physics & Astronomy
Objectives/Goals One goal of this project was to determine if the speed of light changes in different media. Also, if it did change to see if there are any noticeable connections between lig…
CSEF · 2014
Physics & Astronomy
Objectives/Goals The objectives of this experiment is to calculate the velocity of a standing sinusoidal wave and to investigate the relationship between number of nodes and wavelength. Meth…
CSEF · 2014
Mathematics & Software
Objectives/Goals Certain algorithms for orienting and permuting the unsolved portion of a Rubik#s Cube will come up more frequently than others, and learning those will decrease my average s…
ISEF · 2014
Plant Sciences
The aim of our project is to create a product which results effective in the fight against overweight lately affecting more and more young people. Our attention addressed a particular cause…
ISEF · 2014
Microbiology
Staphylococcus aureus is a strand of Staph that has developed into a superbug that affects 500,000 patients in American hospitals annually. To help decrease this statistic the spreading of t…
ISEF · 2014
Microbiology
Noting the difficulty of locating a celestial body during an astronomical observation I developed a device capable of pointing an average power green laser for a chosen star, which was selec…
ISEF · 2014
Plant Sciences
Lionfish (Pterois volitans) have been commonly found in the waters surrounding St. Croix and the US Virgin Islands for six years now, and it has become common to see lionfish while diving. T…
ISEF · 2014
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
The purpose of “Stay Home or Go Global - Local Versus Imported Fruit?” is to study what pesticides we may be eating and which fruits might be the worst ones. Pesticides can be fungicides or…
CSEF · 2014
Physics & Astronomy
Objectives/Goals The objective is to determine which 3-D geometric shape (cylinder, crumpled cylinder, W, or V), reflects the least light and hence is the stealthiest, and test the effect of…
CSEF · 2014
Physics & Astronomy Second Award
Objectives/Goals Elements heavier than iron are formed via two neutron capture processes: the rapid r-process that occurs in supernovae and the slower s-process that occurs in less massive s…
ISEF · 2014
Mathematics
The ankle-foot complex is a joint mechanism that can provide stability, bear heavy weight loads, and provide fluid movement. Improper alignment of the foot affects the ankle and subsequently…
CSEF · 2014
Biochemistry/ Molecular Biology Fourth Award
Objectives/Goals The goal was to determine which growth factors, NGF and cAMP, stimulate the neurons to grow the longest axons, and the largest area of the growth cones. Methods/Materials PC…
ISEF · 2014
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics Second Award
The fabrication of laser grade ceramics must be improved to achieve better reproducibility of high quality yields, requiring a control of the bulk stoichiometry beyond that of current analyt…
ISEF · 2014
Materials Science
The purpose of this project is to design and develp a filtration system that will filter nitrates and/or phosphates from rain water. A media will be selected to test the pilot filter at one…
CSEF · 2014
Electronics & Electromagnetics Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals Currently ¼ of all older people cannot hear over 4 kHz sounds, which is the sound that stove timers commonly make. The main goal of this project is to create a device that p…
ISEF · 2014
Physics and Astronomy
This project was executed in order to improve the acclimation of cassava vitro plants by applying CO2 to the explants during their in vitro period, so these can establish an autotrophic syst…
ISEF · 2014
Plant Sciences
Daphnia Magna are invertebrate organisms that live in streams and rivers, and are used for medical research, environmental, pharmaceutical, and other types of studies. Many vertebrae animals…
CSEF · 2014
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals To investigate if Transcendental Meditation will have an effect on blood pressure, heart rate, respiratory rate, and skin temperature. Methods/Materials Materials: Biodots,…
ISEF · 2014
Physics and Astronomy
The project's purpose was to find an affordable way for farmers to check their crops for heat stress at the cellular level before they are mature, allowing farmers to react to the stressors…
CSEF · 2014
Mammalian Biology
Objectives/Goals Stress is the body's reaction to a change that requires a physical,mental,or emotional behavior. Stress is a normal reaction that happens in our daily lives. Physiologically…
ISEF · 2014
Environmental Engineering
First of all, as a country with almost no source of petroleum, the Jordanian society faces countless issues in regards to any field that requires the use of petroleum such as industry, trans…
ISEF · 2014
Energy: Physical Third Award
Cardiac arrhythmias are the leading cause of death in the U.S. and the developed world but remain poorly understood. Mathematical models of the heart have proven essential to their study, bu…
CSEF · 2014
Mammalian Biology Second Award
Objectives/Goals Mathematical models of the heart have proven essential to the study of cardiac arrhythmias, which are poorly understood yet the leading cause of death in the industrialized…
ISEF · 2014
Cellular and Molecular Biology
The purpose of this experiment was to test the efficacy of the nematophagous fungi Duddingtonia flagran's in reducing the L3 Strongyles migration. The hypothesis was: If Duddingtonia flagran…
CSEF · 2014
Physics & Astronomy
Objectives/Goals Presented is a study of the structural parameters and model behaviors of galaxies with redshifts 0.8 to 2.0 and solar masses greater than 10^10. The goal of this study is to…
ISEF · 2014
Chemistry Fourth Award
The use of transition state analogs to inhibit protein and enzyme activity has an extremely powerful application to medical and biochemical disciplines. Kluyveromyces lactis, along with many…