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.
JSHS · 2020
Andrew Bramante Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is the most common type of liver cancer and is regarded as one of the most aggressive cancers. Over 800,000 people contract HCC each year and a…
ISEF · 2020
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Deep Neural Networks (DNNs) have successfully demonstrated superior overall performance in many image classification and recognition tasks on H&E histology images. Reported studies typically…
ISEF · 2020
Translational Medical Science
Heart diseases are the number one cause of deaths globally, with three-quarters occurring in developing countries (WHO). In India, heart-related mortality rates in rural areas have surpassed…
ISEF · 2020
Cellular and Molecular Biology
This research project identifies previously unknown vulnerabilities in pancreatic cancer cells that can be used to target cancer treatment. This research manipulates a step in the central do…
JSHS · 2020
Researchers in precision agriculture are exploring efficient methods of monitoring nitrogen content in crop systems to manage resources, increase crop yields, and prevent environmental degra…
ISEF · 2020
Mathematics
Mathematical modeling is a powerful way to comprehend emerging properties/behaviors in social problems involving many parameters acting simultaneously and non-linearly. Current epidemiologic…
ISEF · 2020
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Drug delivery devices specifically transport drugs to help reduce drug toxicity to healthy cells and repetitive drug administrations. This study analyzes the use of pH-responsive nanogels, p…
ISEF · 2020
Environmental Engineering
Environmental and economic concerns over accumulating plastic waste and dwindling reserves of fine-grade sand are on the rise. A proposed solution to both problems has been to replace sand w…
ISEF · 2020
Materials Science
This thesis’ purpose was developing applications relevant to engineering & biomedical science through theoretical and experimental study pertaining to micro-&nanowires, propitious materials…
ISEF · 2020
Systems Software
The purpose of this experiment was to simulate an automatic vehicle’s delivery route and examine how it recalculates if a road is blocked or slowed. To do this, Dijkstra’s algorithm, which c…
ISEF · 2020
Materials Science
40% of oil cannot be extracted from an oil well due to its strong physical interactions with the rock walls. This project aims to explain the interactions using molecular dynamic simulations…
ISEF · 2020
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Gut epithelium turns over rapidly due to damage from digestion and toxins produced by the enteric microbiota. The rapid turnover process of gut epithelium is tightly regulated. Dysfunction o…
ISEF · 2020
Chemistry
Strict environmental regulations and increasing awareness towards a safe future are the key driving forces towards the development of sustainable technologies. Today, more than 17% of the to…
ISEF · 2020
Translational Medical Science
Beta-secretase (BACE), an enzyme responsible for the endoproteolysis of amyloid precursor protein to produce the hallmark amyloid-beta plaques of Alzheimer's pathology, has been of considera…
ISEF · 2020
Translational Medical Science
Currently, there is no fully reliable or accurate way to determine whether an individual has Parkinson’s disease. Moreover, 90% of clinically-confirmed Parkinson’s disease cases are idiopath…
ISEF · 2020
Cellular and Molecular Biology
While at least eight Forkhead/Fox transcription factors are required for proper cardiac development in mammals and mutations in four Fox genes have been linked to human congenital heart dise…
ISEF · 2020
Plant Sciences
Injuries can be treated using medical devices that produce a pulsating magnetic field aimed at promoting metabolism and substance exchange. I questioned whether this system, a coil attached…
ISEF · 2020
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Water covers about 71% of the earth's surface, yet water shortages are impending worldwide. While this can be baffling, it's simple: out of the 71% of water only 3% is fresh water and 1% is…
ISEF · 2020
Embedded Systems
This project focusses on optimising signal timing plans at signalised intersections which are the major hotspots of congestion in any transportation network. Traditionally, signal controller…
ISEF · 2020
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Artificial intelligence has been used to identify cancer types with high accuracy, but despite this, we see increased death rates in cancer. Even though cancer is a complex and extremely het…
ISEF · 2020
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Arsenic is a known carcinogen, which can be ingested through contaminated drinking water. Most studies in the high-level arsenic range have found a significant correlation between arsenic in…
ISEF · 2020
Animal Sciences
Fall armyworm (Spodoptera frugiperda) is the pest that has spread out in Thailand since August 2018. The outbreak of fall armyworm causes severe damage of corn plants and other field crops.…
ISEF · 2020
Chemistry
In 2010, 780 million liters of crude oil flowed into the waters of the Gulf of Mexico. Eleven workers and hundreds of thousands of marine birds were to die. Oil spills do not only occur in m…
JSHS · 2020
Open clusters can contain about 100 to 1,000 stars, with the stars being relatively young. These conditions make open clusters suitable for exoplanet formation, for new stars harbor a lot of…
ISEF · 2020
Biochemistry
The ER is an essential organelle that carries out various cellular tasks, including protein synthesis and processing, detoxification of compounds, and lipid synthesis. How ER quality is cont…
ISEF · 2020
Engineering Mechanics
It has become an important matter to replace commercial mineral wool because it is not Eco-friendly since it does not biodegrade, with an Eco-friendly material that gives better efficiency i…
ISEF · 2020
Earth and Environmental Sciences
This project in its present form is the result of a simplified method to analytically measure ground-level ozone in the atmosphere in our rural town at low temperatures. The researchers hypo…
ISEF · 2020
Environmental Engineering
Acid rain is a common air pollution problem in southern China. Its acid particles corrode metal structures, causing significant economic losses and safety hazards. Traditional organic polyme…
ISEF · 2020
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
In 2015, 13,000 Louisiana residents died of heart disease. Due to expensive cost of ECG analysis, underrepresented community people cannot get medical supports. There are challenges on medic…
ISEF · 2020
Physics and Astronomy
The sound of waves breaking on shore or against an obstruction or jetty is an immediately recognizable sound pattern which could potentially be employed by a sensor system to identify obstru…