20,037 real projects from ISEF, the Canada-Wide Science Fair, JSHS and the Calgary Youth Science Fair — searchable by meaning, and filterable by fair, year, category and award.
ISEF · 2015
Systems Software
The free-radical pathologies (FRP), including cardiovascular diseases, diabetes and cancer, were the leading causes of population mortality in 2014 according to the WHO data. The grade of DN…
ISEF · 2015
There has been public concern in American Samoa that vegetables grown locally may be unsafe to eat. As the majority of elementary and high school students consume locally-grown produce from…
ISEF · 2015
Robotic arms have been gaining global traction in numerous fields. Despite their utility, the barrier towards adopting this technology remains high; users face issues of cost, as well as a h…
ISEF · 2015
This science fair project is an exploration of the mysterious, elusive substance of antimatter. Research has been conducted about what is currently understood about antimatter and the state-…
ISEF · 2015
Often physically challenged and aged persons have to rely on the use of mobility assistive devices such as walking frames to aid with their mobility, balance and support. In the event of the…
ISEF · 2015
First Award
On Mars, research rovers traversing the surface are frequented by harsh Martian dust storms which are harmful because dust clogs or coats their optics, sensors, and solar panels, reducing th…
ISEF · 2015
Systems Software
Parkinson’s disease is a neurodegenerative disorder and its root cause is the aggregation of the protein a-synuclein, which leads to neural cell death. There exists no technique through whic…
ISEF · 2015
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
The study began with an interesting phenomenon in scientific activity. The past research had shown the coloration of starch and iodine is a joint result of iodide ion and water. It is diffic…
ISEF · 2015
Second Award
Alzheimer’s is a devastating and debilitating condition which affects humans, particularly in their senior years. It causes loss of short-term memory which results in disorientation and crea…
ISEF · 2015
As time progresses, the world is looking for an energy that can replace the nonrenewable fossil fuels: coal, natural gas, and gasoline which release greenhouse gases into the atmosphere. I e…
ISEF · 2015
This paper investigates patterns in the solutions of variations of three different “hat games,” and attempts to create generalized solutions. Hat games are logic problems phrased in terms of…
ISEF · 2015
Translational Medical Science
This research determined methods for both cell lysis and cell stasis based on simple methods in metabolic engineering. These methods could be useful to maximize the amount of product produce…
ISEF · 2015
Dating more than fifty years, controlling the Aedes aegypti mosquito in Costa Rica has been a major problem; this mosquito is the vector for the dengue virus and lately the Chikungunya virus…
ISEF · 2015
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design Third Award
More than 60% of yearly deaths are caused by chronic and degenerative diseases such as cardiovascular, cancer, Alzheimer's and diabetes. Overexpressed free radicals are the precursors and pr…
ISEF · 2015
First Award
An exact algorithm for counting the models of Boolean formulas in CNF (the #SAT problem) was developed. Unlike conventional backtracking-based approaches which measure the effect of incremen…
ISEF · 2015
Genetic mutations, often characterized by single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNP), have been shown to act as the main cause of varying gene expression, leading to the onset of many cancers. In…
ISEF · 2015
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design Third Award
This project fulfills future demands and need for sustainable, cheap resources. We have discovered that macroalgae, an underutilized resource, can be fermented and used for animal feed, fert…
ISEF · 2015
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
Objective: There are currently not many efficient methods for enrichment of phosphorylated proteins in complex biological samples. However, phosphoproteins play a significant role in several…
ISEF · 2015
Biomedical and Health Sciences
There are over 76 million people with alcohol-related disorders in the world, and the economic cost of alcohol addiction in the U.S. alone is over $224 billion annually. Animal models are cr…
ISEF · 2015
In recent years, there has been an upsurge in mobile device use. In addition to this, there has been a relative stall in the development of battery technology in comparison to the developmen…
ISEF · 2015
Color is an important aspect of human life and one day structural colors, never fading and mimicking nature, could replace toxic pigments. Aqueous suspensions from Cellulose Nanocrystals (CN…
ISEF · 2015
During a presentation for a science competition, a group called the Not Impossible Foundation presented their work in the war torn areas of Africa. They went to this area to fit a child with…
ISEF · 2015
DNA and RNA microarrays are important tools to measure the gene expression levels in cells. However, these technologies have major limitations, such as their inability to detect genetic aber…
ISEF · 2015
Biochemistry
Toxoplasma gondii is an obligate intracellular parasite with seropositivity exhibited in 2 billion humans globally. There are three canonical strains of T. gondii which infect the Central Ne…
ISEF · 2015
Biomedical Engineering
Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) is a fatal neurodegenerative disease that leads to severe metabolic deficits. This project investigates the molecular mechanisms of metabolic dysregulatio…
ISEF · 2015
Systems Software
The accurate representation of voter preference is a question in current U.S. Congressional elections. Shortest split line algorithms were used to test whether or not gerrymandering was the…
ISEF · 2015
Fourth Award
Because traditional (experimental) methods of drug design involve trial and error, they are expensive and time-consuming. Intrinsically disordered proteins (IDPs) are structurally flexible p…
ISEF · 2015
Second Award
An estimated 25 million people in the United States suffer from diseases for which there is no effective FDA-approved treatment. This issue exists for a variety of reasons; development of dr…
ISEF · 2015
Second Award
This hybrid elastomeric robot successfully demonstrated that a synthesized high-level robot controller, Linear Temporal Logic MissiOn Planning (LTLMoP), can reduce the unpredictability of so…
ISEF · 2015
The current drinking water system poses a risk to public and environmental safety due to the volatile nature of the gaseous chlorine used to disinfect water. The project is designed to deter…