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 · 2016
The world faces pollution in many of its resources, most commonly in water, ground, and air. Water pollution is a form of biodegradation when pollutants are discharged into water bodies. One…
ISEF · 2016
Translational Medical Science Third Award
Antinuclear Antibody (ANA) in Systemic Erythematosus Autoimmune Disease patients was assumed to be capable of binding and killing cancer cells. This project has been carried out to experimen…
CSEF · 2016
Plant Biology Third Award
Objectives/Goals Bemisia tabaci is responsible for transmitting plant viruses causing the ongoing and devastating East African pandemics of cassava mosaic disease (CMD) and cassava brown str…
ISEF · 2016
In the body, sucrose is broken down into glucose and fructose, and this process in catalyzed by an enzyme referred to as sucrase in humans and invertase in plants and yeasts. As a result of…
CSEF · 2016
Plant Biology
Objectives/Goals The goal of my project was to determine if the sugar levels, and thus the biofuel viability, of a biomass plant called switchgrass would be affected by drought conditions. T…
ISEF · 2016
Fourth Award
Water resources scarcity is central problem in Egypt and when it comes to human health, it must be our top priority. According to the UN (20091), 1,164,000 of the total Egyptian population d…
ISEF · 2016
Gyrotron operates due to high magnetic fields. It is possible to generate them using a ring made from high-temperature superconductors. The main objectives of the project are developing the…
ISEF · 2016
In this investigation, the properties and effects of the magnetic forces, namely flux expulsion, the Meissner effect, and flux pinning, associated with superconductivity are explored and qua…
CSEF · 2016
Earth & Atmospheric Sciences (Junior Division Only) Second Award
Objectives/Goals I wanted to find out if a mountain stream would stay liquid at temperatures that freeze an alpine lake. My hypothesis was that moving water would be able to stay liquid at t…
CSEF · 2016
Chemistry
Objectives/Goals To see how super-cooling is done, and which type of salt defrosts ice the fastest. Methods/Materials 1.Water bottles 2.Ice 3.Bowl 4.Cups 5.freezer 6.knife or scissors 7.Kosh…
ISEF · 2016
Current methods of data transfer are limited by speed-of-light transmission delays, a problem for interplanetary communications and other applications. The possibility of communication via l…
ISEF · 2016
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design Third Award
Superparamagnetic iron(II,III) oxide silver cysteine complex nanoparticles (SISCCN) is an innovative, economical and highly reusable invention. 1 g of SISCCN can adsorb 281.13 mg mercury(II)…
CSEF · 2016
Mammalian Biology
Objectives/Goals We wanted to learn if dogs showed paw preference similar to human handedness. Methods/Materials We performed two tests for paw preference, ten trials each, on twenty differe…
ISEF · 2016
Fourth Award
Climate change is the greatest humanitarian dilemma of our time threatening our public health, the environment, the economy, our national security and more. In the years to come, the combina…
ISEF · 2016
Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats (CRISPRs) are genetic elements that function with CRISPR-Associated (Cas) proteins to cleave genes. The CRISPR-dCas9 system is modif…
ISEF · 2016
Over 4.4 million Americans have at least one internal fixation device (dental or orthopedic implant) susceptible to implant loosening post- surgery. Biointerlocking implant coatings often de…
CSEF · 2016
Product Science (Physical) (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals the goals of my project are to help let surfers know what surf wax will give them the most grip when surfing Methods/Materials I used 9 different types of surf wax and compa…
ISEF · 2016
Sickle Cell Disease is a genetic condition present at birth. We screened willing participants within our area to indicate whether or not they had the trait or the disease. The screening cons…
ISEF · 2016
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
What I hope to achieve in this experiment is to determine the percentage of students who have anxiety disorders, if females have it more commonly than males, or vise versa, and what age grou…
CSEF · 2016
Environmental Engineering
Objectives/Goals The goal of this experiment was to determine if recycled water grew squash fruit in higher quantities and in higher quality than tap water. Methods/Materials Materials 1.18…
ISEF · 2016
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
Coffee and tea are the two most common beverages in the world. Generally coffee is made from beans, while tea is from leaves. Every year, the tremendous amount of used coffee grounds and tea…
CSEF · 2016
Plant Biology
Objectives/Goals I wanted to learn how different sweeteners affected the taste and health of radishes. My hypothesis was that the sugar and Splenda would kill the radishes; Stevia would be h…
CSEF · 2016
Zoology
Objectives/Goals The objective of this project is to determine which amount of nitrogen concentration is the most effective to reduce whitefly fecundity while benefiting the host plants. Met…
ISEF · 2016
Biochemistry
Whiteflies (Bemisia Tabaci) are phloem-feeding pests that carry and spread diseases, with the capability of causing widespread damage to global food production. Thus, whiteflies are one of t…
CSEF · 2016
Aerodynamics/ Hydrodynamics (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals This project was designed to determine if wearing a swim cap while swimming increases your speed. My hypothesis was that using a swim cap would help increase your speed sign…
ISEF · 2016
Previous research has shown evidence that Elderberry (Sambuscus) has synergistic effects against bacterias when used with Chloramphenicol, Ampicillin, and Trimethoprim. This study is an atte…
CSEF · 2016
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only) Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals The purpose of this experiment is to determine a correlation between synesthesia and creative ability. Methods/Materials Volunteer participants, 7 question synesthesia surve…
CSEF · 2016
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals The purpose of this experiment was to determine the extent of grapheme-color association synesthesia exhibited by participants and the effects of age and gender. Methods/Mat…
ISEF · 2016
Current methods for production of biodiesel are not cost competitive when prices of crude oil are low. This study proposes a biodiesel production method that produces surfactant as a coprodu…
ISEF · 2016
The present project aims to develop the mechanism for introduction of gold nanoparticles into a biological system. To achieve this, we are looking for biologically compatible matrix that on…