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
Oil, natural gas and its by-products represent 55% of global energy consumption. Unfortunately they won’t last more than a few decades, their reserves are finite and their use is the main so…
ISEF · 2015
In many of the countries involved in extraction processes, most of the pollution problems are usually mining related. Normally, a huge amount of material is dug from the ground and then crus…
ISEF · 2015
Second Award
Flying robots have tremendous potential for many applications, including search and rescue and emergency response. However, the capabilities of these robots are currently highly limited, and…
ISEF · 2015
Storing garlic (Allium sativum) with garcinia (Garcinia quaesita) is a traditional practice continued for centuries in Sri Lanka to preserve garlic. Therefore, the science behind this tradit…
ISEF · 2015
This research and experiment will prove which enzyme will bring out the optimal production in switch grass ethanol production. Information will be calculated from an experiment where ethanol…
ISEF · 2015
Neuroplasticity is thought to be critical for learning and memory storage. Such a process relies on changes in neural pathways and synapses. AMPA-type glutamate receptors (AMPARs) on dendrit…
ISEF · 2015
Fourth Award
Hydrocarbonoclastic (oil-eating) bacteria play an important role in the removal of petroleum hydrocarbons from polluted marine waters during oil spills. The bacterial biodegradation of hydro…
ISEF · 2015
Nanogeopolymer pervious concrete was tested for remediation of fecal coliforms (FC)-containing water. First, mix design of liquid-to-binder (L/B), fly ash-to-binder (FA/B), nanoSiO2-to-binde…
ISEF · 2015
Third Award
Heavy metal (HM) pollution has become a great issue over the last decades, because it endangers human’s health. Drinking water is one of the major routes, by which HM get into human’s body.…
ISEF · 2015
The release of heavy-metal-contaminated effluents into rivers, lakes, and oceans plays a large role in the degradation of aquatic environments. Organisms that take in these metals pass them…
ISEF · 2015
The goal of this paper, is to determinate quantitative and qualitative characteristics of camomile essential oil isolated from six gatherings acquired during the experimental cultivation. Th…
ISEF · 2015
There are approximately 352.94 million km2 of oil palm plantations around the world,16 million km2 of which is in Thailand. Most of the plantation is located in the Southern part of the coun…
ISEF · 2015
In Malaysia, 1.44 million tons of chicken was consumed in the year 2014 and chicken bones are the by-product of it. Therefore in this study, the feasibility of chicken bones to be used as a…
ISEF · 2015
First Award
The prevalence of malicious computer viruses has exploded in recent years. Anti-malware software, the natural defensive corollary, has not innovated on the same level, leading to the need fo…
ISEF · 2015
Total artificial hearts (TAHs) are 70cc in size but, in recent, a 50cc TAH has been developed. This smaller device could cause an increased percent of hemolysis due to greater pressure and t…
ISEF · 2015
The correct propeller is essential to optimum brushless motor performance. Propeller pitch is the distance the propeller would move forward if turned one revolution. Higher pitched propeller…
ISEF · 2015
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
Molecular rotors are compounds, which molecules include two or more fragments that can rotate to each other. As a result of the energy absorption molecules form excited states, which could t…
ISEF · 2015
The purpose of this experiment was to determine if we could engineer a PLA filament 3D printed scaphoid bone that could be used as a bone replacement. We printed five bones at low, medium, a…
ISEF · 2015
Euclidean distance metric based analysis, including regression and clustering, is good at detecting symmetrical relationships between variables, such as “if gene A was high, then gene B was…
ISEF · 2015
Biomedical Engineering
The idea behind this project was to first research how the Anterior Cruciate Ligament(ACL) tore. Then discover who is at risk for this injury and why. A Quadricep angle(Q-angle) is the degre…
ISEF · 2015
Fourth Award
For their education, the blind need to use convenient learning methods and strategies. Since they cannot learn as other individuals do, the Braille method was an outstanding and successful s…
ISEF · 2015
Smartphones are gaining popularity with blind people who often use them for taking notes instead of using braille slates or braille keyboards. However, typing on smartphones still has limita…
ISEF · 2015
First Award
This project aims to develop a technology-based solution for enabling people with physical disabilities to perform motor tasks. In its initial stage, this was substantiated by the use of ele…
ISEF · 2015
Biomedical and Health Sciences
This project is an analytical experiment on the effects of a coupled therapy involving mental exercise and brainwave therapy. Hypothesis: subjects will have improved scores on cognitive test…
ISEF · 2015
Breathe Easy explores the relatively unconsidered subject of CO2 build-up in vehicles, basing its rationale on ventilation studies in buildings and the accepted fact that heightened levels o…
ISEF · 2015
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
Purpose Using cuticle of plants, we can make a natural brightener which can inhibit the fungus, good and excellent in waterproof and suppress the corrosion of the metal. Result Study 1: Glos…
ISEF · 2015
Engineered wood beams are advertised to be stronger and more durable than standard sawn lumber beams. However, the commercially available engineered wood beams are much more expensive than s…
ISEF · 2015
Building off the past few years of research in robotic search and rescue, this year, we write an algorithm that calculates the visible horizon and peaks of hills from any location and direct…
ISEF · 2015
In the middle of XIX century the concept of homotopy group of topological space was formulated. It became one of the most important concepts in homotopy topology and now it is fundamental ch…
ISEF · 2015
Development of full cycle carbon neutral renewable energy management strategies are important in the light of diminishing resources and strict emission control guidelines. Current research p…