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
My eleven-year-old sister, Kate, was born with a heart condition which causes her to have a heart murmur. Kate’s pediatrician first diagnosed her by carefully listening to her murmur several…
ISEF · 2015
Shade made by buildings changes unpredictably. However, people may want to know quantified values about sunlight for some purposes such as solar generation, urban agriculture or everyday pro…
ISEF · 2015
Third Award
Heart allograft rejection occurs when transplanted cardiac tissue is rejected by the recipient’s immune system, which destroys the transplanted tissue. The effect of its treatment heavily de…
ISEF · 2015
Currently, oral cancer patients visit a pathologist in order to determine the severity of their oral cancer. The pathologist then takes a biopsy of the oral tissue, which undergoes a chemica…
ISEF · 2015
Fourth Award
The purpose of this project was to create a low cost, highly functional, and lightweight computer mouse device that could be used with a large range of physically impaired and disabled perso…
ISEF · 2015
Third Award
Mapping and orientation in 3-D space is one of the fundamental challenges of robotics. However, it still poses a problem because of its high computational difficulty. In my work I present a…
ISEF · 2015
Fourth Award
Solar power technologies, which offer sustainable, clean energy sources, are developing to improve efficiency of energy conversion and storage. Concentrated solar power (CSP) plants are an e…
ISEF · 2015
Ocean acidification is the ongoing decrease in the pH of the Earth’s oceans, caused by an increase in carbon dioxide (CO2) from the atmosphere. The more CO2 produced, the more oceans absorb.…
ISEF · 2015
The purpose of this project is to utilize mixed plastic regrind in concrete as a practical and environmentally friendly use of waste that would otherwise end up in landfills or worse — the e…
ISEF · 2015
Biomedical and Health Sciences
This experiment was preformed to find a possible correlation between the symptoms experienced after a concussion, and the age that a person was at the time the concussion occurred. It was hy…
ISEF · 2015
In our everyday lives, networks play an important role: networks like the internet, the road system of a society, the atoms of a molecule or the neurons of a brain. The mathematical discipli…
ISEF · 2015
This research is a study of dynamic graph labeling on the vertices of a polygon. We start the labeling by using a set of integers and continually perform the following operation: choose the…
ISEF · 2015
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Clinical studies that relate different cancers to various carcinogens can be quite costly, and may last anywhere from a couple of years to a few decades. This project is twofold, in that fir…
ISEF · 2015
Triangulation has been a popular choice for mapping 3D positions because of its speed and cost. However, it is constrained by the correspondence problem and limited to almost zero inter-fram…
ISEF · 2015
A fusion protein contains two or more independent proteins joined together. Fusion proteins have many applications as reporters for simultaneous detection by different methods, such as fluor…
ISEF · 2015
Translational Medical Science
In a process called Atherosclerosis, plaque builds up within the walls of arteries, and they limit blood supply, disturb oxygen flow, and ultimately lead to other cardiovascular diseases. To…
ISEF · 2015
Fourth Award
During my work experience at Astrium, Poynton in Manchester I was introduced to equipment and rack manufacture for use in hostile environments. In particular, much of the equipment was for u…
ISEF · 2015
Most prosthetic devices do not use computer-enabled mechanical components. The most advanced prototype systems, currently under development, seek to create neuro-mechanical interfaces. These…
ISEF · 2015
Abstract The global carbon dioxide emission due solely to the combustion of fossil fuels reached thirty-six billion tons, an increase of sixty-one percent since the 1990s. Therefore, in orde…
ISEF · 2015
Plankton are critically important to our ecosystem, accounting for more than half the primary productivity on earth and nearly half the total carbon fixed in the global carbon cycle. They fo…
ISEF · 2015
During the summer, many children throughout the United States (and the globe) are burned by overheated playground equipment. Since there has been little study of the issue, there are few rec…
ISEF · 2015
Ocean Acidification (OA) is caused by the increase of carbon dioxide (CO2) in the atmosphere due to industrialization. CO2 dissolves in the oceans to form carbonic acid. Carbonic acid dissoc…
ISEF · 2015
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design Fourth Award
Providing sustainable energy globally is one of the greatest challenges of the 21st century. Health and climate risks associated with combustion of fossil fuels threaten global stability, de…
ISEF · 2015
Cosmic rays are high penetrating particles that originate in outer space and consist partly of high energy atomic nuclei (Kormen, 2009). The question was what effect does scintillator config…
ISEF · 2015
According to the Department of Meteorology and Climate Study at San Jose State University, seventy-four heat stroke deaths among children in the United States in the last two years were caus…
ISEF · 2015
Second Award
The neurotrophin BDNF has been shown to engage in retrograde signaling and interneuronal transport, causing increased synaptic transmission and neurogenesis, respectively. It was hypothesize…
ISEF · 2015
This project investigates the El Niño-Southern Oscillation (ENSO) and determines the effects it has on: rainfall rates, sea surface temperatures (SST), and wind stress on the ocean using a s…
ISEF · 2015
Antibiotic resistance is caused by over-prescription and under metabolism of antibiotics. Eventually through sewer and water processing, antibiotics find their way into our drinking water an…
ISEF · 2015
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Cognitive impairment can be induced by conditions ranging from PTSD to the early onset of dementia (a symptom of Alzheimer’s). However, there is currently no way to inexpensively, non-invasi…
ISEF · 2015
Most computational fluid dynamics (CFD) models follow either a Lagrangian or Eulerian approach to study the performance of objects in fluid flow. These wind tunnel models monitor a multitude…