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
Integrated circuits fabricated using nano-scale CMOS technologies are prone to errors because of fluctuations in threshold voltage and supply voltage, electromigration, random dopant fluctua…
ISEF · 2015
Natural gas has the least carbon emissions of all fossil fuels when used as vehicular fuel. However, due to its low volumetric density, natural gas is costly and inefficient when used on-boa…
ISEF · 2015
Currently, cases of blindness have increased in people of all the world's people; because of this, it is necessary to develop tools that help them to adapt and develop within a context, whic…
ISEF · 2015
There is a wealth of available information on sites like Twitter that is not being utilized to its full productive potential. Many barriers exist between users, such as mistranslation or mis…
ISEF · 2015
Fourth Award
This research focuses on Feynman's question, why inverse sprinklers, sucking fluids in, instead of blowing them out, rotate. The conducted experiments using static sprinklers and a highly se…
ISEF · 2015
Systems Software
The goal of this project was to investigate whether Painted Lady Butterflies (Vanessa cardui) migrate using an internal compass, if the internal compass can detect strong or unnatural magnet…
ISEF · 2015
Filtering Agricultural effluent with fungal mycelia is a multiyear study focused on developing and deploying biological filters to remove phosphorus and nitrogen from sources of run-off that…
ISEF · 2015
In developing countries there are few clean water sources and the cost to purify water is expensive. This filtration system project was designed to inexpensively filter and purify contaminat…
ISEF · 2015
Biomedical Engineering
Disorders of iron metabolism are closely related to human disease. As per the World Health Organization, more than 2 billion worldwide (greater than 30% of the world’s population) suffer fro…
ISEF · 2015
Tornadoes and the straight-line winds that come with them can cause major building damage. I want to know if changing something as simple as the shape of a building could make it safer again…
ISEF · 2015
Find my dog is a simple dog tracker that aims to overcome some of the problems that other dog trackers don’t solve. For example, it gives a live position of your dog and updates this positio…
ISEF · 2015
Objectives: This study was designed to determine whether there is effect of the compounds Flavenoids, Tannins Phenols existing in the Mangrove plant on the bacteria that cause inflammation o…
ISEF · 2015
My project is called " Floating Lab " which includes a complete lab. This lab can measure the ph of the sample of the water and the temperature of the sample and the oxygen desolved in the w…
ISEF · 2015
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Mycoplasma bovis is a devastating disease in the cattle industry resulting in an estimated loss of $140 million in 2011. This causes mastitis, pneumonia, poly-arthritis, and otitis media in…
ISEF · 2015
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
Before starting this experiment there was confusion about how long that the food would take long, yet there was never a clarification on how long it would take. This experiment was designed…
ISEF · 2015
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design Second Award
Poly(R-3-hydroxybutyrate) (PHB) is a biopolymer that has been gaining interest throughout recent years for its biocompatibility and biodegradability. PHB has been studied for use as drug-del…
ISEF · 2015
It’s important to offer alternatives to solve of environmental contamination caused by CO2 and other car emissions. The problem is: What is the effect of using different forms of energy in t…
ISEF · 2015
Hydraulic fracturing is one of the most emergent oil and natural gas extraction processes in the United States. This controversial process has been the center of a large environmental debate…
ISEF · 2015
This research is based on the study of the fractal dimension of nodular lesions in radiographic images. The purpose is to calculate the irregularity of the outline of breast nodules. In addi…
ISEF · 2015
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
Supercapacitors are energy storage devices that have very long lifecycles and high power densities; however, current commercial supercapacitors, which use activated carbon electrodes, have l…
ISEF · 2015
The aim of this work is to represent brain activity and, in particular, epileptic seizures by using computer technology. The model provides a visual representation of brain activity, which i…
ISEF · 2015
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
Methane is a gas with two faces. On one hand it contributes to climate change if it is released uncontrolled into the atmosphere and on the other hand it is an important source of energy if…
ISEF · 2015
Using microwave heating to produce biochar from organic solid wastes not only recycles wastes but also promotes plant growth and carbon sequestration, and thus has positive implications in l…
ISEF · 2015
Biomedical and Health Sciences
The focus of this experiment was to study frustration and how it affected dispositional learning for 80 middle/high school students. Each student was given a questionnaire form and their hea…
ISEF · 2015
Today, gasoline made from petroleum products is primarily used to power vehicles. These products cause pollution and one day these resources may run out. Our nation has been researching alte…
ISEF · 2015
Third Award
A Grätzel solar cell (nano-crystalline dye sensitized or “DSSC”) is a photo electrochemical cell that use photons to excite electrons in organic fruit dyes to create electricity. The Grätzel…
ISEF · 2015
Virtually in every home in Nigeria and several other developing countries, there is one or more power generators. If our vehicles can be fuel-less and at the same time the owner can use them…
ISEF · 2015
Artificial neural networks (ANNs) proposed by McCulloch and Pitts are machine learning algorithms that are able to approximate any mapping or function when given a dataset. ANNs model the hu…
ISEF · 2015
The objective of the study was to evaluate the effect of chitosan as a fungicidal. Will chitosan be effective as a fungicidal for Rhizopus stolonifer fungus? The proposed hypothesis was if c…
ISEF · 2015
The main purpose of the project is to introduce a notion of Differential Topology in the setting of Fuzzy Set Theory, introduced by Zadeh in the 1960's. As Fuzzy Set Theory is just a general…