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
Third Award
The disease Chytridiomycosis (caused by the fungus Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis) has been detrimentally affecting amphibian populations for the past two decades. To make matters worse, the…
ISEF · 2015
Detection of an object, such as a line or a circle, is one of the major components of computer vision applications. The Hough Transform utilizes a voting procedure to identify arbitrary obje…
ISEF · 2015
The main problem that brings about this project is environmental combustion due to carbon monoxide produced by all types of internal combustion motors plus the variety of different sectors o…
ISEF · 2015
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
Using three different types of cleaners (an oxygen, a chlorine, and a regular detergent) three by three squares were washed either one, two or three times. Eight common forensics tests were…
ISEF · 2015
Biomedical Engineering Fourth Award
Diabetes is a serious worldwide epidemic that affects a growing portion of the population. While the most common method for testing blood glucose involves finger pricking, it is painful and…
ISEF · 2015
Systems Software
The purpose of this research is to indicate the symptoms of a rare duplication located on the chromosome 16 and to propose more efficient way to diagnose the 16p12.3p13.11 duplication syndro…
ISEF · 2015
Biomedical Engineering Fourth Award
Cellulosic bioethanol, an alternative energy source produced by saccharification and fermentation of plant polysaccharides such as cellulose and hemicellulose, is a promising renewable energ…
ISEF · 2015
Biomedical Engineering
Past studies indicated that Drosophila (fruit flies) share 75% of the genes that cause diseases with humans. Thus by studying fruit fly genetics, one can learn about human genetics and possi…
ISEF · 2015
Businesses and vehicles act in the environment, producing great quantities of particles of CO2 which is enemy number one of human health and to life on planet earth: starting from this state…
ISEF · 2015
Thermal power plants generate coal-ash, a bi-product of combustion, which is drained in a liquefied form into man-made ponds, called coal-ash ponds. These coal-ash ponds contain dangerous ch…
ISEF · 2015
The title of the experiment is Coating: Effect of Particle Size and Shape. The purpose of the experiment is to determine how pigment size and shape affect the strength of the latex/pigment c…
ISEF · 2015
Ocean Acidification is the reduction in the pH of the ocean due to absorption of CO2 in the atmosphere. When absorbed the carbon dioxide mixes with ocean water to create carbonic acid. The a…
ISEF · 2015
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
The purpose of my project was to determine if it is possible to detect heavy metals in coconut water, when the coconut plant grows on contaminated soil. Since coconut plants take a long time…
ISEF · 2015
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design Third Award
It is known that copper plates are heated in the air to form copper(I) oxide on their surfaces and give various colors due to optical interference of thin film. Heating copper foil was found…
ISEF · 2015
Currently, most colorization of black-and-white photos is performed manually. However, manual colorization is expensive, as well as being inaccurate because of depending on the intuition of…
ISEF · 2015
Second Award
Chondroitin sulfate is one branch of glycosaminoglycan that forms proteoglycans within the connective tissue of jellyfish. However, few studies are done on the source jellyfish for extractio…
ISEF · 2015
First Award
Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) has the shortest survival time of any cancer, and affects more than 850,000 people worldwide as the second leading cause of cancer-related mortality. Understan…
ISEF · 2015
Third Award
Industrial wastewater engenders significant environmental concern primarily due to the environmental contamination caused by the presence of toxic heavy metals dissolved in water. This inves…
ISEF · 2015
World Health Organization reported that antibiotic resistance is a serious worldwide threat to human health. In United States, two million illnesses and 23,000 deaths are attributed to antib…
ISEF · 2015
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design Second Award
This is a continuation project (Year 3). Two types of simple, cost-effective, reusable electrochemical sensors were created with functionalized gold nanoparticles (~1.6 nm core diameter) for…
ISEF · 2015
The high frequency of oil spills in the oceans cause nations to focus on cleaning methods. Some of the mechanisms used are expensive, toxic to marine species and take a long time. There are…
ISEF · 2015
The purpose of this project was to determine which alternative treatment is the most effective at preventing E. coli O157:H7 cell growth and/or Shiga toxin production. It was hypothesized th…
ISEF · 2015
Systems Software
The purpose of this study is to identify a statistical relationship between owning a dog and the Big Five Personality Facets. Many prospective parents have decided to practice with a dog bef…
ISEF · 2015
Acinetobacter baylyi, a gram-negative soil bacterium, is highly competent for natural transformation, a process in which DNA is imported across cellular membranes and potentially recombined…
ISEF · 2015
Systems Software
The purpose of this study was to observe how conflicting classical reward conditionings affect the memory which is a basic concept of learning and memory, though poorly understood. The hypot…
ISEF · 2015
The purpose of this experiment was to determine whether a home server, or NAS, is a viable competitor to consumer cloud services such as Mediafire or Google Drive. We hypothesized that, beca…
ISEF · 2015
Fourth Award
Shingles, herpes zoster virus, affects many middle aged adults around the world, exhibiting symptoms of pain, itching, burning, and postherpetic neuralgia. In an attempt to discover effectiv…
ISEF · 2015
Composing music with sign language pattern recognition provided the concept of being able to communicate with any system through sign language whether it be composing music or translating a…
ISEF · 2015
Systems Software
Chromatin remodeling, modification of nuclear chromatin allowing for the regulation of gene expression, is believed to be an integral part of memory encoding. The enzyme PARP-1 and its produ…
ISEF · 2015
TDP-43, a protein functioning in transcription and pre-mRNA splicing regulation, is known to cause exon skipping on the CFTR and apoA-II genes by binding to TG-repeat motifs 12 bases or long…