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
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
The aim of the project is the recovery of phosphorus by a thermal process, as the primary sources of phosphorus will be depleted in the next few years. Our educt is mainly sewage sludge ash,…
ISEF · 2015
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design Fourth Award
Recently, cutting edge 2-D materials have emerged in the field of photovoltaics for light energy conversion. Graphene, the 2-D version of graphite, has a high carrier mobility, transparency,…
ISEF · 2015
Purpose: The purpose of this project is to see which amount of resistance will have the greatest affect on the efficiency of the electrochemical cell. Procedure: Six wires were cut to size w…
ISEF · 2015
The quadrupole ion trap utilizes time-varying electric fields to confine ions for high precision atomic measurements. To explain its working principles, the rotating saddle trap was used as…
ISEF · 2015
First Award
The current productive upsurge of bat research mostly concentrated on animal behaviors, passive sound measurements and numerical calculations. This research filled the blanks with its physic…
ISEF · 2015
The purpose of our project was to determine, from the weight of the different arrows (360, 400, 420) which arrow, projected by the same bow will create the most kinetic energy, as you would…
ISEF · 2015
This experiment was conducted to detect quantum entanglement of paired photons produced by electron - positron (matter – antimatter) annihilation events that result from Sodium-22 decay. Ent…
ISEF · 2015
Third Award
Imidacloprid (IMI) is the most utilized insecticide and an emerging contaminant. IMI acts as a nicotinic acetylcholine receptor (nAChR) agonist. 6-chloronicotinic acid (6-CNA) is a photodegr…
ISEF · 2015
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
There are as many as 350,000 contaminated sites in the United States that require a cleanup over the next 30 years at an estimated cost of $250 billion. Phytoremediation is an effective way…
ISEF · 2015
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
Benzene is a volatile organic compound and a recognized carcinogen linked to leukemia. The Environmental Protection Agency released a statement that claimed exposure to benzene levels above…
ISEF · 2015
Third Award
Annually, over 1.5 million bone grafts occur in the United States, many that are specific to bone allografts. Computer-assisted surgeries leveraging the 3-dimensional (3D) features of graphi…
ISEF · 2015
Energy conservation law establishes that energy can’t be created or destroyed, but transformed. Kinetic energy is related to moving objects and it depends on mass and velocity. This energy c…
ISEF · 2015
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
The purpose of our experiment was to determine how the coating of a pill affects the rate at which a medicine enters the bloodstream. To represent the digestive process we used hydrochloric…
ISEF · 2015
Quantum Chromodynamics (QCD) is the theory of strong interactions that explains how hadrons such as protons, neutrons, and pions form stable bound states. It is impossible to study a system…
ISEF · 2015
Translational Medical Science
The purpose of this study was to examine the inhibitory effects of piperine, a compound found in black pepper, on B16F10 mouse melanoma cell growth, and to see, when UV is added to B16F10 ce…
ISEF · 2015
Biochemistry
Pisaster ochraceus is a keystone-predator of coastal pacific North America. Over the past two years it has undergone an outbreak of sea star wasting disease (SSWD) caused by sea star associa…
ISEF · 2015
Fourth Award
Plants can communicate with each other through common underground mycorrhizal networks (CMN). In this study, we show that CMN can act as a conduit for signals that affect immune response in…
ISEF · 2015
Plantations of Guandu bean (Cajanus cajan, Fabaceae) are attacked by the fungus Colletotrichum cajani (Glomerellaceae, Ascomycota) which causes severe anthracnose in stems, leaves and pods o…
ISEF · 2015
The goal of this research was to determine how exposure to plastics affected the overall health of aquatic organisms. Plastics are the main source of aquatic pollution and are known to leach…
ISEF · 2015
Semiconducting polymers opened up new avenues in electronics device technology and with advantages such as economic feasibility, low temperature processing, large area and roll to roll print…
ISEF · 2015
Aspirin is one of the most beneficial analgesic drugs created, however it’s also one to which people are most allergic to; there for creating a microcapsule that is capable to control its re…
ISEF · 2015
A large volume of oil and its derivatives are routinely disposed in the sea during the washing processes performed in oil cargo ship tanks. This occurs because after the tanks are unloaded i…
ISEF · 2015
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design Fourth Award
The copper(l)-catalyzed azide-alkyne cycloaddition(CuAAC) is one of the premier example of click chemistry, a term which means a set of 'almost perfect' bond-forming reactions useful for rap…
ISEF · 2015
The purpose of this work is to make a dye-sensitized solar cell with natural and synthetic dyes. The cell is usually made out of a platinum-covered cathode, which we intend to replace by a c…
ISEF · 2015
An increasing human population needs more energy. The purpose of this project was to show that solar power could meet current energy demands and that a sun tracking solar charger could be mo…
ISEF · 2015
Bacterial collagen like recombinant protein, VCLCL, from S.pyogenes is hydroxylated with dual plasmid system that codes for human prolyl hydroxylase (P4H) enzyme and 1,4 arabinono lactone ox…
ISEF · 2015
This project aims at utilizing the previously wasted energy and channel it to a battery pack installed in the boot of the car. The current in the charged batteries was passed through an inve…
ISEF · 2015
It is becoming more and more necessary to find an alternative fuel to petroleum. In the last few years crops, waste oil, coffee grounds and different seeds have been studied to produce biodi…
ISEF · 2015
The project was designed primarily to solve the challenges of epileptic power supply in Nigeria and at the same time address the shortcoming of power generation through mechanical moving dev…
ISEF · 2015
Breast cancer continues to be researched, as it is still incurable. The grading system for breast cancer, while based off of numbers, is subjective as it depends upon the interpretation of t…