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
The purpose of this project was to test the efficiency of constructing a multi-stage coil gun. As a continuation of the single stage coil gun model produced last year, the goal was to determ…
ISEF · 2015
Biomedical and Health Sciences
The purpose of this paper is to determine the relative impact of credit union and large bank investment in business on the state level. This is accomplished by studying the relationship betw…
ISEF · 2015
Biochemistry
Turmeric (Curcuma longa), the common South Asian spice, has long been utilized for its therapeutic properties which are attributed to the active ingredient curcumin. Due to its low bioavaila…
ISEF · 2015
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Since 2006 the over winter loss of managed honeybee colonies has peaked over 30%, double the acceptable limit. Continued high losses threaten worldwide food security. Over winter bees do not…
ISEF · 2015
This study examined impacts of an early 19th century Mdewakanton Dakota settlement on the ecology of the lake Mde Maká Ská (called Lake Calhoun today) in Minneapolis, MN. Lacustrine coring t…
ISEF · 2015
Biomedical Engineering
Major Depression is a common health problem in the United States and around the world. If left untreated, depression can lead to self-harm, suicide, and occasionally violence against others.…
ISEF · 2015
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
Gold nanospheres and nanoplates were synthesized by aggregation of gold seeds to determine how the difference in their morphologies and the presence of visible light would affect the rate at…
ISEF · 2015
The purpose of the research determined if the growth of fish would be affected by the presence or absence of aquatic plants or probiotics. Four identical twenty gallon tanks housed ten fish…
ISEF · 2015
Behavioral and Social Sciences
The freshwater organism, Hydra littoralis, has served as an effective model for biochemical, behavioral, reproductive, and environmental studies. When well-fed, hydra reproduce asexually by…
ISEF · 2015
Arsenic and lead contamination of rice and water is a worldwide health crisis with no current solution. Additionally, exposure to these chemicals poses the highest cancer risk ever found. Pr…
ISEF · 2015
Aerodynamic drag is often the largest factor of wasted energy for vehicles traveling at moderate to high velocities. Thus, drag reduction to improve energy efficiency can lead to significant…
ISEF · 2015
Third Award
At present, dry-cell batteries contain carbon electrodes as a major component. The efficiency of carbon electrodes is based on the high surface area and the porosity of the carbon for better…
ISEF · 2015
Physically based light transport simulation has long been used to create photorealistic images and animations of computer-generated structures in many areas, from special effects in movies t…
ISEF · 2015
Recently, we can often see many solar panels around us. However, most of them are only used to generate small amounts of electricity because of insufficient setup space. To solve this proble…
ISEF · 2015
First Award
The world today faces an increasing shortage of food production due to the exponential growth in the human population and deficiencies in resources. Updated genetic engineering has been util…
ISEF · 2015
Systems Software
Megacopta cribraria is an invasive stink bug species that is devastating soybean crops across the Southeastern United States. Pheromone traps are an effective and environmentally friendly me…
ISEF · 2015
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
As non-renewable energy and fresh water resources rapidly deplete, countries are utilizing electrolysis to attain potable water and renewable energy; however, many developing countries warra…
ISEF · 2015
In today's world, energy is obtained from high-energy radiation resources, from nuclear reactors. Besides solar panels, which benefit only from a certain part of the solar spectrum, it has n…
ISEF · 2015
In the experiment "Electromagnetic Rail Launch System", a projectile is launched off two different copper rails that interchange with the spring Armature launch base. The hypothesis, if the…
ISEF · 2015
Fourth Award
Atrial Fibrillation (AF) is the most commonly encountered cardiac arrhythmia in the clinical setting, and is a leading cause of stroke and heart failure. Hyperactivity of the ryanodine recep…
ISEF · 2015
Intestinal Escherichia coli pathogens are leading causes of acute gastroenteritis (AGE) worldwide and they are top causes of death in children under 5 years of age. Children in Colombia, Sou…
ISEF · 2015
Fungal synthesis of lipids and ethanol using biologically pretreated biomass was investigated. Aspen, confined in modified soil-block microcosms, was treated with Ceriporiopsis subvermispora…
ISEF · 2015
First Award
The current design of gene expression studies makes data sets susceptible to bias and hinders cross-platform comparison. To address these issues, an unprecedented global-scale meta-analysis…
ISEF · 2015
I have developed a cryptography program, ENCRYPTA. My theoretical reference was Chaos Theory, particularly Logistic Maps – complex, dynamic systems that are rigorously deterministic and sens…
ISEF · 2015
In this investigation, alpha particles from an Am-241 source (approximately 5 MeV) were used to bombard a 10B target (fine powder on a piece of tape) to produce high energy protons and later…
ISEF · 2015
Energy from Noise (Energetic Noise) is a new strategy to reduce the problem of acoustic pollution in educational institutions starting with the Francisco Restrepo Molina Liceum. The project…
ISEF · 2015
Biomedical Engineering Fourth Award
Purpose: Millions of intraocular injections are given each year. I developed a novel device (the Intraocular Injection Guide, IIG) to improve patient comfort during intraocular injections by…
ISEF · 2015
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design Fourth Award
Certain materials possess the ability to harness energy from light to facilitate reactions. These photocatalysts present an opportunity for providing a sustainable way to solve energy and en…
ISEF · 2015
Roughly 3.8 million concussions occur every year because of sports in the United States. Soccer has the third highest rate of traumatic brain injuries (TBIs) of any sport in the USA. No head…
ISEF · 2015
Currently, endothelial cells are cultured in vitro on matrigels: expensive and difficult to synthesize protein mixtures derived from Engelbreth-Hoth-Swarm mouse sarcoma cells. Inexpensive vi…