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.
CSEF · 2012
Product Science (Physical) (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals The objective was to test whether cold water detergent or hot water detergent cleans better. My assumption was that cold water detergent would clean as well as hot water det…
CSEF · 2012
Applied Mechanics & Structures Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals My objectives for this experiment was to find out if I change the design of a bridge into a plank, suspension, or truss bridge will it affect how much mass the bridge can ho…
CSEF · 2012
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals My project was to determine if color has an effect on blood pressure. I believe that out of the six colors (blue, red, black, white, green and yellow) chosen to test; red an…
CSEF · 2012
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals Our goal was to learn whether or not age or gender have an affect on what colors 6th through 12th graders are most attracted to. Methods/Materials We tested 5 girls and 5 bo…
CSEF · 2012
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals The purpose of my project was to find out whether or not the color of a drink affect's a person's perception of taste. Methods/Materials I had to do two trials because the f…
CSEF · 2012
Applied Mechanics & Structures
Objectives/Goals If ozone is introduced into the intake manifold of an internal combustion engine, the fuel efficiency will increase and the emissions will decrease, because ozone is a dense…
CSEF · 2012
Product Science (Biological) (Junior Division Only) Third Award
Objectives/Goals The objective is to compare commercial, non-environmentally friendly weed killers with non-commercial, environmentally friendly substances to see which will kill weeds the f…
CSEF · 2012
Biochemistry/ Molecular Biology Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals The purpose of this project was to determin which type of food (chocolate candy or oats) would produce more biogas when anaerobically digested. Methods/Materials The manure…
CSEF · 2012
Materials Science (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals The purpose of my project was to determine if the time it took for a wooden structure to catch fire and burn changed based on the price of the paint used. I wanted to know i…
CSEF · 2012
Biochemistry/ Molecular Biology
Objectives/Goals The purpose of my investigation is to compare and determine the relationship between iron concentration of organic and non organic spinach and potatoes. Methods/Materials To…
CSEF · 2012
Microbiology (General)
Objectives/Goals The objective of my project was to discover which brands and stores contained the highest level of contamination on the tops of their soda cans. The reason I am doing this i…
CSEF · 2012
Applied Mechanics & Structures Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals The objective of my experiment was to explore the possibility of wave energy for the Santa Monica Bay. The voltage output and efficiency of two specific wave energy converte…
CSEF · 2012
Applied Mechanics & Structures
Objectives/Goals This project was designed to continue research into finding the optimal ducting configurations of a fanwing propulsion system in respect to its efficiency in lift and thrust…
CSEF · 2012
Mathematics & Software
Objectives/Goals The goal of this project is to implement two RAM disk file systems and test their performance under Dreckig OS. This operating system uses the experimental megalithic kernel…
CSEF · 2012
Environmental Science Fourth Award
Objectives/Goals My objective was to test the quality of drinking water in Fresno and Clovis. Water is essential to the human body. all living organisms need it to survive. Furthermore the q…
CSEF · 2012
Mathematics & Software First Award
Objectives/Goals AI researchers have always been interested in abstract strategy games because they involve complex human thought process and a clean environment with clear criteria for succ…
CSEF · 2012
Behavioral & Social Sciences Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals This study explored the visual recall implications of grapheme-color synesthesia, a neural phenomenon in which the viewing of letters and numbers leads to the perception of…
CSEF · 2012
Alternative Energy (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals My project was to test three different green house containers in a solar oven. My hypothesis was that the plastic container will hold the most heat in the solar oven. Method…
CSEF · 2012
Zoology First Award
Objectives/Goals Copepods are essential food sources for captive marine animals. However, due to their slow reproductive rate in laboratories, copepods are not a viable food source for some…
CSEF · 2012
Chemistry
Objectives/Goals Corrosion of metals costs companies millions of dollars each year either through replacing things or trying to prevent it from happening in the first place. For this reason…
CSEF · 2012
Chemistry
Objectives/Goals The purpose of my project was to test the most effective method of slowing down the corrosion of metal. Methods/Materials I prepared steel washers four different ways. The f…
CSEF · 2012
Earth & Planetary Sciences Fourth Award
Objectives/Goals This experiment examined whether the local variables of temperature, humidity and barometric pressure influence the frequency of muon strikes at sea level. Methods/Materials…
CSEF · 2012
Materials Science (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals The objective is to find out the most cost efficient fire fuel. Methods/Materials Five burning materials (pine, oak, charcoal briquettes, lump charcoal, fire logs) were spli…
CSEF · 2012
Mathematics & Software Third Award
Objectives/Goals Our project was to create a global positioning system (GPS) by building a device to measure the azimuth and elevation of the Sun and creating an algorithm to calculate the l…
CSEF · 2012
Microbiology (General) Second Award
Objectives/Goals Bacterial resistance is a growing issue in the modern world. Silver is an antimicrobial that does not have the same issues with resistance associated with antibiotics. The s…
CSEF · 2012
Mammalian Biology
Objectives/Goals The question I posed is will fingerprint patterns show similarity between siblings? After working with fingerprints for several weeks, when creating a title, a crime scene q…
CSEF · 2012
Product Science (Biological) (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals The objective was to determine the best type of milk to be used for milk coagulation. It was hypothesized that whole milk would be best for coagulation because it had the hi…
CSEF · 2012
Product Science (Physical) (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals The objective is to determine which die cutting machine (press, roller or electronic cutter) requires the least user interaction, resulting in most efficient use of time. I…
CSEF · 2012
Mathematics & Software
Objectives/Goals The objective is to determine if a computer program be used to demonstrate the birthday paradox where in a group of 23 people there is a 50.5% probability that two people ha…
CSEF · 2012
Chemistry
Objectives/Goals The worldwide demand for fresh water is on the rise. Will the oceans be the source of our future drinking water? To help answer this, I have created a question to test: Whic…