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
There are many machine learning methods developed for individual applications, and each has its strengths and weaknesses. However, none of these can be used for all databases and deliver sat…
ISEF · 2015
The thermocycler is an apparatus widely used in molecular biology laboratories for the amplification of DNA using the PCR technique (Polymerase Chain Reaction). The main applications of the…
ISEF · 2015
Biomedical Engineering Second Award
A novel antigen-presenting cell (APC)-targeted immunomodulatory nanoparticle (NP) was developed as a vaccination platform, with potential uses such as cancer therapeutics. The nanoparticle e…
ISEF · 2015
I developed software that implements semi-supervised learning to dramatically improve accuracy when stylometrically attributing an unidentified tweet to the correct author from a set of know…
ISEF · 2015
Systems Software
This project is to develop a novel targeted next generation sequencing (NGS) assay for early screening of Colorectal Cancer (CRC) using methylated DNA Biomarkers. CRC is the second leading c…
ISEF · 2015
Systems Software
The objective of this project was to develop and test a novel biomarker algorithm for a screening test for the early detection of liver cancer. Liver cancer has risen to the forefront of let…
ISEF · 2015
With the improvements of cancer treatment selectivity and real-time monitoring in mind, the goal of this project was to develop an anticancerous prodrug that could concurrently track and inh…
ISEF · 2015
Biomedical Engineering First Award
In this innovative research, a novel oncolytic virus, AM105, is designed to target and selectively kill cancer cells. Current methods of cancer treatment including radiation and chemotherapy…
ISEF · 2015
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design Second Award
Radiation and nuclear terrorism are growing threats for humanity in today’s world. One reason for this is the lack of a shielding material that is effective against both neutron and gamma ra…
ISEF · 2015
Systems Software
Optical imaging plays an integral role in pre-operative tumor detection. In molecular imaging with fluorescent contrast agents, non-flat surfaces scatter excitation light across the region o…
ISEF · 2015
Transverse tilt-wing design has currently not been experimented within the nano class of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles and has applications in defense, wildlife conservation, crop agriculture, se…
ISEF · 2015
Third Award
In epidemiology, Contact Tracing, the process of identifying and isolating contacts of infected individuals through manual interviewing, is the primary technique used to control the spread o…
ISEF · 2015
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Learning is crucial to the adaptability of a species and is a behavior influenced by both innate and experiential factors. The learning of key behaviors like language is marked by critical p…
ISEF · 2015
TaqMan® assays are highly sensitive and specific in the detection of infectious agents. In this research TaqMan® probes and primers were developed for the detection of several new genetic va…
ISEF · 2015
Fourth Award
Phycoerythrin is a light harvesting phycobilin protein extracted from the red seaweed species Chondrus crispus. Phycoerythrin has the potential to be used as the sensitizer in dye sensitized…
ISEF · 2015
Second Award
Energy, transportation, and chemical sectors are major contributors to the increase in the greenhouse gas CO2 concentration in our atmosphere. Increasing greenhouse gases causes global warmi…
ISEF · 2015
Biomedical Engineering
Currently heart disease is the number one cause of death in patients with type two diabetes. Studies show that individuals with diabetes are 2 to 4 times more likely to suffer and die from h…
ISEF · 2015
Over the past years with a growing world population we have had an exponential demand in crop production and so to solve this problem the use of copious amounts of fertilizer has become a no…
ISEF · 2015
Biomedical Engineering
Canary Seed (Phalaris canariensis) is commonly consumed in Hispanic cultures as a homeopathic remedy for diabetes. Previously, a single study showed that oral consumption of a canary seed ex…
ISEF · 2015
This project was conducted to develop a computer program that could model a situation involving decision making and control over several variables. In this case, the scientist developed a pr…
ISEF · 2015
Translational Medical Science First Award
Chronic kidney disease (CKD) is a significant global health problem that affects over 31 million Americans. Kidney transplantation is an effective treatment for CKD, but is limited by donor…
ISEF · 2015
The aim of the research is to define new mathematical structure based on distinctive axioms group. While choosing main concepts and axioms I use generalization methodology; I choose objects…
ISEF · 2015
Third Award
Angiogenesis, the development of new vasculature, is a critical process in the growth of new tumors. Driven by a goal to understand this aspect of cancer proliferation, I developed a discret…
ISEF · 2015
We revisit the previously hypothesized time-evolution of galaxies’ color in the redshift ranges from 0 to 0.3, using the spectroscopic data from Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS). Our samples…
ISEF · 2015
Packings of Platonic solids, a class of regular polyhedrons consisting of the tetrahedron, the cube, the octahedron, the dodecahedron and the icosahedron, provide a model environment for mor…
ISEF · 2015
This work aims to study the kinematic properties of the Galaxy. To do this, I consider classical Cepheids as test particles in the global velocity field. These high-luminosity stars are puls…
ISEF · 2015
Systems Software
Parasitic nematodes infect over one billion individuals globally and cause over $120 billion of crop damage annually. The first objective in this project is to investigate the diversity of s…
ISEF · 2015
Lactase is an enzyme that breaks down lactose into the simpler monosaccharide glucose. If plant sugar-digesting enzymes are affected by salinity, then lactase, an animal sugar-digesting enzy…
ISEF · 2015
Systems Software
Secondhand cigarette smoke (SHS) exposure is the third leading cause of preventable death. More than 7,000 chemicals in tobacco smoke and 70 of which are known to cause devastating lung dise…
ISEF · 2015
Biomedical and Health Sciences
The purpose of this study is to examine the neurophysiology of place cells by studying the place cell firing patterns created when only visual cues are utilized in an environment. Based on p…