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
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
With increasing energy demand and increasing strain on the world’s resources, including supplies of fossil fuels and agricultural capacity, sustainable renewable energy is needed. Using disc…
ISEF · 2015
The project is focused on designing, building and programing a material-cutting mechanical system for applications in Nanotechnology and chemical analysis. Usually the cutting process relies…
ISEF · 2015
This project's aim is to create a multifunctional drone and study its physical characteristics. Currently, there are many civil UAV which may be used only as toys or flying cameras. So my id…
ISEF · 2015
The heat capacity (Cp) divergence of a fluid at its critical point has fascinated researchers for over 60 years. This singularity offers unlimited energy storage potential, but achieving it…
ISEF · 2015
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
The aim of project was to synthesize iron and iron oxide nanoparticles(NP), stabilize them by crown ethers and study catalytical properties.Diazacrown ether was used as stabilizer due to its…
ISEF · 2015
The Resource Public Key Infrastructure (RPKI) has been introduced as a way of authorizing Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) route announcements. The highly centralized structure of the RPKI prov…
ISEF · 2015
Key words: Small electric unmanned aerial vehicle, UAV, strong body, electric motor, remote control, cheap parts and materials. Aim of project: Elaborate, make and test custom designed small…
ISEF · 2015
Greenhouse gasses, carbon dioxide emissions, and an increasing population; all part of this planet we all call home. As the carbon dioxide amounts in the atmosphere increase, and the oxygen…
ISEF · 2015
Fourth Award
Catastrophic cyber infiltrations can devastate a nation's information infrastructure. This project provides a new way to defend modern adaptive computer networks. Computer networks are autom…
ISEF · 2015
Cylindric Young tableaux are combinatorial objects that are a natural extension of Young tableaux. Young tableaux -- grids of boxes with numbers that satisfy certain rules -- are useful thro…
ISEF · 2015
Systems Software
Graphene is a crystalline allotrope with sp2-bonded carbon atoms in a hexagonal lattice. Its versatile properties, such as high mechanical strength, biochemical functionalization, and high s…
ISEF · 2015
A preliminary research shows that 93.3% of the sample is not aware of their efficiency level relative to the use of a computer keyboard. Henceforth, the following question arises, is it poss…
ISEF · 2015
A method for the modeling and visualization of complex systems of objects was developed. The method developed implements a custom document object model to represent arbitrary data structures…
ISEF · 2015
Behavioral and Social Sciences
This experiment was to test different concentrations of termiticides to effectively prevent termite infestation in the home, and to see if the average homeowner could make a cheap efficient…
ISEF · 2015
Animal Sciences
An increasing dilemma in tropical climates is that of Rat Lungworm disease, caused by human infection by A. Cantonensis larvae. These larvae typically survive within a rat or slug host, the…
ISEF · 2015
The purpose of this research is to test the effectiveness of mycoremediation on urban soils. Mycoremediation is the process where fungal organisms such as mushrooms are used to degrade delet…
ISEF · 2015
Second Award
As battery cells age, their capacities diverge, which causes problems in large series connected packs such as those found in electric vehicles. Cells that develop larger or smaller capacitie…
ISEF · 2015
With the advent of many new sports in recent times,the possibility of developing water sports related to the use of bicycles in water caught our attention.In furtherance of this idea,we set…
ISEF · 2015
Atrial fibrillation (AFib) is the most common type of arrhythmia, where atria beat chaotically, resulting in an inefficient pumping action that causes blood to pool in the atria, increasing…
ISEF · 2015
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design Second Award
Biosensors are becoming increasingly prevalent in today’s society with applications in health diagnostics, bio warfare detection, water quality monitoring, and food safety. Currently in heal…
ISEF · 2015
Third Award
The World Health Organization estimates that over two million deaths worldwide can be attributed to unsanitary water. High levels of fecal indicator bacteria (FIB) in freshwater environments…
ISEF · 2015
Protein transporters, located in the bacterial cell membranes, are responsible for moving proteins produced inside bacteria to outside of the cell where they operate. The Tat (twin-arginine…
ISEF · 2015
Fourth Award
Several studies have documented marked alterations in the gut microbiota of patients with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). There are two major subphenotypes of IBD: Ulcerative Colitis (UC)…
ISEF · 2015
The purpose of this project is to engineer E.coli to design an optimum biosensor for the detection of lead, cadmium, and zinc in heavy-metal contaminated water. This experiment works towards…
ISEF · 2015
Biomedical Engineering
Environmental DNA (eDNA) is a highly promising field of survey science that hasn't been fully explored on mammalian species. The river otter species (Lontra canadensis), is a prime candidate…
ISEF · 2015
Each year in America, an average of 38 children die as a result of heatstroke from being left in a hot car. Often times this is a result of the adult being distracted and forgetting about th…
ISEF · 2015
The growing industrialization in the last decade, has increased, on the one side, the acoustic pollution or noise that considerably affects human beings in their bio-phsyco-social aspect and…
ISEF · 2015
Systems Software Third Award
This research project details the development and implementation of a novel biosensor utilizing gold nanorods for the early stage detection of HER2-mediated breast cancer. Aspect ratio depen…
ISEF · 2015
The rapid evolution of viral species complicates the management of chronic infections and the control of emerging infectious agents. Especially for pathogens that are highly fatal upon infec…
ISEF · 2015
This experiment sought to discover whether a certain set of software techniques, including "string comparison", "bag of words", and "fingerprinting", were more effective than one another. Th…