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
Fluid intelligence (gF) is the basis of innovation, problem solving, and leadership and evaluating gF is critical to the investigation, diagnosis, and treatment of cognitive and mental disor…
ISEF · 2015
Biomedical Engineering
Diabetes is a disease that affects 250 million people worldwide, and is one of the fastest growing diseases. Once acquired, the patient is faced with lifelong medication, treatment, and risk…
ISEF · 2015
Biomedical Engineering
Arsenic has long been seen as an environmental toxin and carcinogen. Recent studies on the drinking water arsenic levels in Chile suggest that low concentrations of arsenic could be preferen…
ISEF · 2015
The purpose of this paper is to establish a new perspective on the K-theory of exact infinity-categories. I show that if the definition of K-theory is slightly modified, one can interpret th…
ISEF · 2015
Biomedical Engineering Third Award
Purpose of the Experiment: Today, it is impossible to control inner-cast pressure during the patient's healing process. The human limb can change its volume after an injury therefore irregul…
ISEF · 2015
Microwave sintering is known to provide rapid volumetric heating that reduces processing time compared with conventional furnace sintering methods. With the application of uniaxial pressure,…
ISEF · 2015
Oral Streptococcus of the viridans group are common bacteria with disease-causing potential and a high prevalence of antibiotic resistance (Whitney, 2000). The prevalence of ampicillin resis…
ISEF · 2015
Third Award
One out of every twenty hospital patients will contract a nosocomial infection from invasive devices. We investigated the hypothesis that graphene, graphene oxide and silver nanoparticles po…
ISEF · 2015
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is a progressive neurodegenerative disorder, which is characterized by the formation of senile plaques and neurofibrillary tangles in the brain. The pathological hal…
ISEF · 2015
In this project, I wished to determine the best way to increase the efficiency of a wing. I hypothesized that leading-edge wing fences or full-body wing fences would correct wingtip vortices…
ISEF · 2015
Polyhydroxybutyrate (PHB) is a biodegradable plastic that can be used as a substitute for petroleum based plastics that are harmful for the environment as they do not decompose naturally. Th…
ISEF · 2015
Coal was made from two waste organic materials: coconut and orange peels, applying two approaches: physical and chemical activity respectively, in both cases both home-made and more technica…
ISEF · 2015
Ballistic products have the life-saving importance that is likely to be useful only once in life of people.However, in some circumstances the weight of steel vests may adversely affect the m…
ISEF · 2015
Second Award
This project seeks to solve two prevalent issues in our society, inefficient waste management and harmful nonrenewable energy sources, by means of micro-scale anaerobic digestion. The overal…
ISEF · 2015
Mexico faces gradual reduction in main energy source (petroleum), because of their non-renewable natural; however, energy demanded increases at exorbitant steps. This joined with the problem…
ISEF · 2015
Fourth Award
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a neurodegenerative disease known for significant brain atrophy and pathological lesions that are thought to damage synaptic connections between cells. In particu…
ISEF · 2015
The objective of our design project is for the AI to learn from past successes and failures and to adapt them to future games, utilising past pattern recognition. We began this project by re…
ISEF · 2015
According to a U.S. Census Bureau report, nearly 40% of people age 65 and older have at least one disability. Of those 15.7 million people, two thirds have difficulty walking. People who can…
ISEF · 2015
Translational Medical Science
Hypericine is used traditionally as a wound healing agent; therefore it’s a potential promoter for reprogramming induced pluripotent stem cells (IPSCs) which possesses several problems due t…
ISEF · 2015
Biomedical Engineering
Stroke is the leading cause of disability and the fourth leading cause of death in the US. Acute Ischemic Stroke accounts for 80% of cases in adult stroke victims. In this context, the prese…
ISEF · 2015
An aging population is a powerful and transforming demographic force. It is projected that the number of people above the age of 65 will increase from 524 million in 2010 to 1.5 billion by 2…
ISEF · 2015
Translational Medical Science
Iron homeostasis is a vital biological process closely regulated by several signaling systems. One of the most important systems is HJV/BMP6; it regulates the release or sequestration of iro…
ISEF · 2015
First Award
Every year, over 2.5 billion people are at risk of dengue virus infection, killing over 25,000 of the people infected. Currently, details of the budding mechanism by which dengue virus infec…
ISEF · 2015
The last two decades have seen 60% annual growth rate (AGR) in the global IP traffic and it is expected that the AGR will keep the exponential growth in the next five years. Recent advances…
ISEF · 2015
Biomedical Engineering
Last year, the experimenter tested if there were differences in lip fissure patterns between ethnic groups. This year the purpose of the experiment was to determine if there is similarities…
ISEF · 2015
Systems Software
In response to ultrasonic pest control devices spouting unsupported claims, between 1985 and 1997 the Federal Trade Commission pursued legal action against six companies falsely marketing su…
ISEF · 2015
Polluted water is found all over the world. The developed world has found ways to filter our water for personal use. However, in less developed third world countries, the problem of heavily…
ISEF · 2015
A recycled polyolefin based polymer, low density polyethylene (LDPE) was used to produce a biodegradable polymer in this. Spear grass and pumpkin seed was used as a pro-oxidant. The plastic…
ISEF · 2015
Biochemistry
Acanthaster planci, coral-eating starfish, infests several islands of Antique, Philippines. Local government dealt with this problem by manually collecting and burning A. planci but this eff…
ISEF · 2015
Systems Software
Bronchiolitis is one of the leading causes of hospitalization during infancy in the US with almost 150,000 admissions per year; it is mainly caused by rhinovirus (RV) and human metapneumovir…