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 Second Award
The Bornean orangutan is endangered, threatened by illegal poaching and habitat loss, largely caused by land conversion to palm oil plantations. In December 2013, the world's largest palm oi…
CSEF · 2014
Environmental Science Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals The Bornean orangutan has been classified as endangered since 1986. They are threatened by illegal poaching and habitat loss, largely caused by land conversion to palm oil p…
ISEF · 2014
Materials Science Fourth Award
There are nearly a billion people worldwide who do not have access to clean water and this lack of access has led to nearly 3.4 million deaths annually. This project attempted to determine a…
ISEF · 2014
Energy: Chemical
While computers become more powerful every year, the means of interacting with them have not evolved greatly since the beginning - keyboards, mice, and lately touch screens. Intelligent devi…
CSEF · 2014
Zoology
Objectives/Goals The objective is to determine if O. aureus (Blue Tilapia) and C. quadricarinatus (Red Claw Crayfish) can be raised together to create protein diversity in an aquaponic syste…
CSEF · 2014
Pharmacology/ Toxicology Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals Pollination accounts for $15 billion in agricultural value and 1/3 of the U.S. food supply. Since 2006, Colony Collapse Disorder has been responsible for anomalous bee losse…
ISEF · 2014
Mathematics
Antibiotic resistance is a significant problem in contemporary medicine. Drug-resistant microbial strains limit the number of treatments available to patients, which has led to a push for ne…
ISEF · 2014
Plant Sciences Fourth Award
Environmental protection, food availability and energy production are the most important issues in the 21st century. In comparison with traditional liquid base catalysts, solid acid catalyst…
ISEF · 2014
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Aspirin is a widely used pain killer to relieve minor aches and pains, and the drug’s main component, acetylsalicylic acid, can be synthesized somewhat easily in a high school or college che…
ISEF · 2014
Engineering Mechanics
Organic solar cells have become increasingly attractive due to the high costs of traditional fuel sources and the unwieldiness of silicon solar cells. This project aims to develop renewable…
CSEF · 2014
Pharmacology/ Toxicology
Objectives/Goals Polymeric microspheres are small spherical particles that have the potential to be used for coordinated release of therapeutic factors for regenerative medicine. Droplet mic…
ISEF · 2014
Earth and Environmental Sciences
The purpose of this project is to synthesize magnetically separable nanosupports which can then be applied to transportation fuels productions. Transportation fuels are necessary for the wor…
ISEF · 2014
Plant Sciences Second Award
This project aimed to synthesize periodic mesoporous organosilica (PMO) nanoparticles with a wrinkle pore structure to use as a delivery system for chemotherapeutic and radiotherapeutic agen…
ISEF · 2014
Earth and Environmental Sciences Fourth Award
The purpose of this experiment is to synthesize a compound that will inhibit the dimerization of the Signal Transducer and Activation of Transcription-3 (STAT3) protein, by altering its acti…
ISEF · 2014
Chemistry
As more and more information is discovered about proteins, it becomes necessary to use an appropriate model for the phospholipid bilayer to study the function of intermembrane proteins. Nano…
ISEF · 2014
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics First Award
Monosodium Glutamate (MSG) is one of the most commonly used spices for taste enhancement. Research has shown that people are sensitive to MSG and that all organs of the body contain glutamat…
CSEF · 2014
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals Our objective was to find out whether or not the internet is having an effect on todays youth regarding suicide and self harm rates. Methods/Materials We gave out 249 survey…
CSEF · 2014
Mathematics & Software
Objectives/Goals In 2010, accidental drug overdoses led to over 2 million visits to the ER and 30,000 deaths. According to the Centers for Disease Control, more Americans die each year from…
ISEF · 2014
Embedded Systems
With the development and advancement of life, and the spread of modern communication technologies, with an emphasis on the computer, it is a right for people with special needs to use the co…
CSEF · 2014
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals The goal of my project was to see how news affects social media.My results showed that sports had the most tweets per article on average. They also showed that sports had a…
ISEF · 2014
Energy: Chemical
Radio tracking has long been a successful method of tracking wildlife however it is expensive in terms of manpower and travel costs, requiring a researcher to be present in the field. GSM ne…
ISEF · 2014
Energy: Chemical Fourth Award
The purpose of our Project is to track a remotely designated target. It can be assumed as a basic simulation for the seeker part of a laser guided missile. Our Project consists of three comp…
CSEF · 2014
Biochemistry/ Molecular Biology
Objectives/Goals Short noncoding RNAs, microRNAs (miRNAs) regulate gene expression by silencing mRNAs through degradation. Since miRNA dysregulation is linked with tumorigenesis, expression…
ISEF · 2014
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics Second Award
Glioblastoma Multiforme is the most frequent and devastating malignant brain tumor among adults with an average life expectancy of one year after diagnosis. This is partly due to its multi-d…
ISEF · 2014
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
The focus of this project was the exploration of bacterial response to high-powered lasers over the course of multiple doses. Treatments by laser therapies are made possible by the unique sp…
CSEF · 2014
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals The objective of my investigation was to determine if the colors of soda affects the way we perceive its taste. The project I did was a three part test. Those three parts we…
ISEF · 2014
Energy: Chemical
The ineffectiveness of the paramedics’ means in critical emergency situations is frequently caused by the delay that exists between the request for help and the triggering of the means of em…
ISEF · 2014
Energy: Chemical
Conventional factory robots such as Kuka robotic arm normally cost approximately $30,000. For a small manufacturing company this amount of money may be too expensive. Also these off the shel…
CSEF · 2014
Zoology Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals This is my 4th year of science experiments on worms, slug/snails. Previously, I discovered that tea, especially the liquid form of high concentration of green/red tea, is le…
CSEF · 2014
Mathematics & Software
Objectives/Goals During an emergency, when releasing students to their parents is time critical, schools still have to sift through binders of information to match the students to their auth…