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 · 2018
Microbiology (Medical) (Junior Division Only) Fourth Award
Objectives/Goals The objective of this experiment was to find easily accessible solutions to kill bacteria and yeast found in the infected ears of dogs. The hypothesis is, if bacteria grown…
ISEF · 2018
Mathematics
In 1948, Paul Erdos and Ernst G Straus formulated the Erdos-Straus Conjecture, which states that for any natural number n, the equation 4/n=1/x + 1/y + 1/z is solvable in positive integers x…
CSEF · 2018
Environmental Science Fourth Award
Objectives/Goals My objective was to determine the effect of sediment on water quality in lakes and the marine organisms that inhabit it. Methods/Materials Sediment was collected from three…
ISEF · 2018
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Stress has become an epidemic in modern day America, manifesting itself as crippling panic and anxiety most predominantly in younger generations. Stress severely impedes academic performance…
ISEF · 2018
Biomedical Engineering
Being the eighth most frequent surgery in Germany, the insertion of hip replacement is becoming more and more important in our society. A growing problem is the early wear of such implants,…
CSEF · 2018
Mammalian Biology
Objectives/Goals Our worlds medical system has a gap. Acutonics FDA approved tuning forks made of space grade metal can fill that gap. Could sound healing vibration carried through a beginni…
CSEF · 2018
Materials Science (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals We hear sounds (or noise) all the time without realizing what impacts their intensity. The objective of this study is to understand the relationship between the density and…
ISEF · 2018
Embedded Systems
Colors play important roles in our life. The inability to sense colors might cause difficulties for the visually impaired in recognizing money and choosing commercial products. Converting co…
ISEF · 2018
Cellular and Molecular Biology Third Award
Metastatic breast cancer affects more than 250,000 people every year. Interactions of SOX transcription factors (TFs) and MALAT1 lncRNA may induce breast cancer metastasis. This study’s purp…
ISEF · 2018
Physics and Astronomy Fourth Award
Surveillance devices using laser beams to detect sound are a security threat. The goal of this research was to quantify the ability of irregular transparent treatments to mask reflected modu…
ISEF · 2018
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Before dams were built on the Columbia and Snake rivers, thousands of Sockeye Salmon would migrate from the Pacific Ocean to their breeding grounds at Redfish Lake in central Idaho. Now that…
CSEF · 2018
Electronics & Electromagnetics
Objectives/Goals Each year, approximately 600 million people fall sick and 420,000 people die from food poisoning. Often, people consume spoiled foods because there is no significantly visib…
ISEF · 2018
Physics and Astronomy
The purpose of this research work in the field of quantum theory is to clarify the nature of the two particle quantum correlation phenomenon. The work is divided in two parts. The first part…
ISEF · 2018
Earth and Environmental Sciences Fourth Award
Pesticide runoff is a major challenge facing the agricultural and landscape industries today. The vast majority of sprayed pesticides end up in an environment other than their intended desti…
CSEF · 2018
Alternative Energy (Junior Division Only) Fourth Award
Objectives/Goals The goal is to develop a vertical-axis wind turbine that will work for regions below 30m or the turbulent area in suburbs/residential areas. Methods/Materials The design cri…
ISEF · 2018
Plant Sciences Fourth Award
One theory of how plants detect a change in gravity is the starch-statolith hypothesis. The hypothesis states during a change in gravity, statoliths, starch-containing organelles, settle to…
AJAS · 2018
When a classical, ideal thermodynamic system is driven from equilibrium, it tends towards maximal entropy, described by the Boltzmann distribution. However, the probability distribution of a…
ISEF · 2018
Physics and Astronomy Third Award
In this enterprise, a formalism for describing the outcome of binary-binary chaotic interactions has been developed from computer simulations and mathematical models. In 1899, Henri Poincaré…
ISEF · 2018
Plant Sciences
Still water in floral buckets often produces bacteria, leading to shorter life, inventory shrink, a loss of money and waste of salvageable flowers. A plan was composed to aerate water in the…
ISEF · 2018
Earth and Environmental Sciences First Award
Every year, devastating wildfires cause substantial environmental and economic damage all around the world. In most cases, firefighters are unable to identify wildfires until the flames grow…
CSEF · 2018
Environmental Engineering First Award
Objectives/Goals In 2017, Devastating fires burned throughout the Napa Valley and Southern California, resulting in immense destruction, financial loss, and even casualties. In most present…
ISEF · 2018
Energy: Chemical
Assignment of Tasks: Austria gets most of its electrical energy from renewable energy sources. These sources have the problem that their energy output is not constant. This is the reason, wh…
ISEF · 2018
Environmental Engineering
The recent revolution of unconventional shale gas resources has flipped the coin to a new era in the oil and gas industry and the world. The primary motivation of this research is to utilize…
ISEF · 2018
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Effective epithelialization is essential to the restoration of tissue after a chronic injury to ensure wound healing. Examination of Fidgetin Like-2 (FL2), a novel microtubule depolymerase,…
ISEF · 2018
Plant Sciences Fourth Award
Two critical factors are involved in blooming of the morning glory, Pharbitis nil, a popular summer-flowering plant in Japan: (i) light/dark stimulus the evening before the day of flowering,…
CSEF · 2018
Applied Mechanics & Structures
Objectives/Goals My project consists of figuring out if there really is strength in numbers, and how it relates to the types of materials used in construction of bridges and structures. Meth…
ISEF · 2018
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Heart disease is the leading cause of death in women worldwide. However, the molecular pathway that causes different effects in men and women during a myocardial infarction (MI) is unknown.…
CSEF · 2018
Biochemistry/ Molecular Biology
Objectives/Goals The purpose of the study was to analyze the sequence and structure conservation and identity of the vision protein, rhodopsin, across multiple species of ectothermic and end…
CSEF · 2018
Environmental Engineering
Objectives/Goals It was hypothesized that bacteria collected from plastic incubated with ocean water, collected from Scripps pier, are capable of biodegrading plastic. Methods/Materials A sa…
ISEF · 2018
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Fish is an essential and traditional element in the diet of many people in the Caribbean (Ricketts, 2016). However, some species have high concentration of Mercury (Hg), representing an incr…