38,465 real projects from ISEF, the Canada-Wide Science Fair, JSHS, AJAS, the Calgary Youth Science Fair and the California Science & Engineering Fair — searchable by meaning, and filterable by fair, year, category and award.
ISEF · 2015
The purpose of my project "The Application of Fertilizer and Nitrogen on Glycine Max" was to determine the most efficient way to care for your soybeans. On June 5, I planted four different p…
CSEF · 2015
Behavioral & Social Sciences Third Award
Objectives/Goals This project is concerned with the question of how to effectively praise students for good performance to make them better motivated, more confident, and more inclined to ta…
CSEF · 2015
Mammalian Biology
Objectives/Goals The aim of this study was to determine if there is a higher occurrence of atypical laterality, as manifested by mixed handedness, mixed eyedness, and hand-eye cross dominanc…
ISEF · 2015
Consider the following process: Take any four-digit number which has at least two distinct digits. Then, rearrange the digits of the original number in ascending and descending order, take t…
ISEF · 2015
Fourth Award
Cystic fibrosis is a common fatal genetic disorder that affects over 70,000 individuals worldwide. The direct cause of death for 80% of cystic fibrosis patients is Pseudomonas aeruginosa inf…
CSEF · 2015
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals My project was to find out which gender has better short term memory. My hypothesis was if males and females take the same memory tests, then the females will achieve higher…
CSEF · 2015
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals People all around the world listen to music every day. Some claim it helps them concentrate, while others claim otherwise. However, in the early 1800s, a different kind of "…
ISEF · 2015
Systems Software
Every year, thousands of people are diagnosed with lung cancer. 85% of patients are diagnosed at a late stage with only a 4% survival rate when diagnosed late. The purpose of this project is…
ISEF · 2015
Polystyrene, or Styrofoam, is a common household and commercial waste product that naturally decomposes in approximately 1000 years. United States landfills receive around 2.5 million tons o…
CSEF · 2015
Applied Mechanics & Structures
Objectives/Goals During a major heat wave last September in Los Angeles, my pet chinchilla died from heat stroke. My objective was to create a evaporation-based cooling device for pet chinch…
CSEF · 2015
Applied Mechanics & Structures
Objectives/Goals The objective of this experiment is to compare a cylindrical grasp claw and a lateral prehension grasp claw in how well they can pick up objects, and how well each one can b…
ISEF · 2015
Systems Software
In the experiment, the relationship between the pteridine eye pigments of the drosophila melanogaster (fruit flies), including wild type, sepia type, white type and brown type and their resp…
ISEF · 2015
Biochemistry
Purpose: To compare the effects of corn versus hi pro feed on dairy goats. Procedure: (1) Constructed a large pen for the goats. (2) Obtained wild hay and hi pro feed and ground corn. (3) Ne…
ISEF · 2015
In the Concentration Combination: Year II, the efficiency of a spherical and a cylindrical luminescent solar concentrator- solar water heater (LSC-SWH) combination was investigated. The purp…
CSEF · 2015
Environmental Engineering
Objectives/Goals My goal was to find out whether a greenwall would affect the environment surrounding it. Most research deals with the effects on the inside of the building, so it would be i…
CSEF · 2015
Plant Biology
Objectives/Goals The aim of this project was to discover the similar characteristics propagated stem cuttings had which allowed them to have a higher advantage of germinating. Because the ge…
ISEF · 2015
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Throughout history, the horrors of combat have left their mark on soldiers around the world through more than just external battle wounds. As years have passed, the number of men and women d…
ISEF · 2015
For some time now, it has been known that the ice caps on earth have been melting at unprecedented rates. This can affect the energy in the earths system and be potentially harmful to wildli…
CSEF · 2015
Chemistry
Objectives/Goals The objective of this project was to determine how Vitamin C in fruit juices is degraded in three conditions: exposure to open air (time), electromagnetic radiation (microwa…
CSEF · 2015
Electronics & Electromagnetics
Objectives/Goals The objective of this project is to construct a solar harvesting system for a model airplane, and to integrate the solar harvesting system on the plane to test if there is e…
ISEF · 2015
Biomedical Engineering
The purpose of my project was to find out if recently reported substances found in the aerosol of e-cigarettes are present in the e-liquids and aerosol produced from a brand popular in Hawai…
ISEF · 2015
The purpose of this study is to investigate the effects of stealth aircraft design constraints on the aerodynamic performance and mission capabilities of an aircraft. It is hypothesized if o…
ISEF · 2015
Atrazine is an herbicide that is widely used in industrial agriculture to target broadleaf weeds. It is known to have detrimental effects on nontarget communities. Runoff that contains atraz…
ISEF · 2015
Fourth Award
This project successfully developed a Gesture-Based Control System, which could manipulate values in a phantom three-dimensional field. The Gesture-Based Control System is a Control system t…
ISEF · 2015
Thermotaxis, the directional motion of an organism towards specific temperature gradient, has been observed in several species of bacteria. However, quantitative studies of thermotaxis in ba…
ISEF · 2015
Biomedical Engineering
Aim: Preventing hospital-acquired infections is a challenge for healthcare facilities. This study aimed to design and create an accurate, easy to use, and inexpensive system for electronical…
ISEF · 2015
Third Award
Oil spills are an increasingly growing environmental threat and current forms of remediation are costly, inefficient, and toxic. The purpose of this project was to develop a novel absorbent,…
ISEF · 2015
The purpose of this project is to detect a disease by breaking down the components of breath. The goal is to develop a process which captures air, breaks down the components into a format th…
ISEF · 2015
I worked on a project characterizing protein-protein interactions with the human oxidation resistance gene 1 (hOXR1). The aim of this work was to investigate possibility of an interaction be…
CSEF · 2015
Product Science (Physical) (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals The goal of this project is to find the most durable nail polish utilized in various lifestyles, while minimizing exposure to harmful chemicals. Methods/Materials Six nail p…