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
Systems Software Fourth Award
Though accurate, current cancer diagnostic methods are time-consuming, expensive, disease-specific, and qualitative. To improve clinical cancer treatment, a better quantitative system for ea…
ISEF · 2015
Quantum locking is the application of flux pinning to create a stable form of levitation which pins a superconductor within a strong magnetic field allowing movement only along regions of co…
ISEF · 2015
With the amount of agricultural land decreasing, it is essential to maximize the output of crops. Insects impact this output, reducing the amount of edible vegetation by about 20%. This proj…
ISEF · 2015
A quiver is a finite directed multigraph. However, this simple graph theory notion has an important algebraic interpretation. Each finite-dimensional algebra over an algebraically closed fie…
ISEF · 2015
This project tested the entropy and randomness of several sets of data from different sources to determine the best way to generate random numbers. Random numbers are used in applications wh…
ISEF · 2015
Purpose of the experiment ? The overall aim of our project was to find an alternative to a car’s windshield wipers. Our system is powered by high-speed air and is based on the following prin…
ISEF · 2015
A novel green electric double-layer capacitor (EDLC) have been succesfully made from carbonized ramie fiber using a single step method with ammonia gas (NH3). Ramie (Boehmerianivea L.) is fi…
ISEF · 2015
3D printers have moved from the research lab into the home and the market for consumer level 3D printers is growing at a rapid rate. The most common type of 3D printing involves the process…
ISEF · 2015
Fourth Award
Objective: The practical application and implementation of methods and algorithms that recognize emotions by biometric parameters of human’s face. The practical application and relevance: Th…
ISEF · 2015
The purpose of my project was to investigate if a longer incubation period is necessary to show antibiotic resistance. During the twenty- four hour incubation time, there was a very high gro…
ISEF · 2015
Recycled hair fibers have been used previously for oil spill clean up as an alternative to non-organic sorbents, but the process of assembling these fibers is inefficient. Here, an alternati…
ISEF · 2015
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
The colligative properties of solutions, including the boiling point elevation, are said to be only dependent on concentration of particles dissolved, not the identity of the particles; howe…
ISEF · 2015
Third Award
The purpose of this experiment was to determine the capabilities of certain lactic acid bacteria species to bind aflatoxin M1 (AFM1) in milk. AFM1 is a carcinogenic mycotoxin that is often f…
ISEF · 2015
Humans have been using switches for controlling lights, and other power sources, for a long time. When people leave their rooms, they often forget to turn off these switches resulting in the…
ISEF · 2015
Today 5% of the United States’s total energy consumption comes from air conditioner use at a cost of $11 billion and a release of 100 million tons of carbon dioxide into the atmosphere annua…
ISEF · 2015
The purpose of this experiment was to find out the nitrogen release patterns of organic fertilizer (tankage), in two different soils (Poamoho and Waimanalo) by using four different nitrogen…
ISEF · 2015
Systems Software
A 12-lead electrocardiograms(ECGs) is widely used. Medical doctors depend on experience for diagnosing arrhythmia. Yet, they may make a wrong arrhythmia diagnosis. Although convenient automa…
ISEF · 2015
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design Third Award
In this current study, electrochemical reduction of carbon dioxide to formic acid was carried out by cyclical voltammetry utilizing novel Indium Tin Oxide (ITO) electrode coated with doped (…
ISEF · 2015
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
In recent years, there has been significant interest in the use of hydrogen as an alternative energy source. In order to allow the safe handling of hydrogen, however, it is important to redu…
ISEF · 2015
Within the research the regeneration of Articular Cartilage using hADSC and Heparin Sulfate was conducted. Different degrees of Methacrylation were tested on hADSCs and in different hydrogel…
ISEF · 2015
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Proper and functional innervation of the heart by the autonomic nervous system is critical for healthy cardiac function. Inadequate innervation or an imbalance of the two branches of the aut…
ISEF · 2015
Third Award
According to U.S. Energy Administration Information, each day more than 100 million of air conditioners use massive amount of energy to cool down the daily stuffiness, in U.S. The problem is…
ISEF · 2015
Biomedical Engineering
Our project was born with the aim to give people suffering from Dysmetria a useful and effective way of improving their opportunities for rehabilitation. Dysmetria, a particular case of Atax…
ISEF · 2015
Switchgrass is a perennial, native prairie grass with strong potential as a biofuel stock crop. This project studied the relationship between switchgrass, fertilizer, and arbuscular mycorrhi…
ISEF · 2015
The purpose of this experiment is to determine if bone char can successfully remediate water contaminated with arsenic, cadmium, copper, zinc, or a combination thereof. If bone char effectiv…
ISEF · 2015
Biomedical and Health Sciences
This project is designed to test the extent of people's short-term memory, and reveal how age and gender cause people's minds to function differently. The hypothesis was if the age of female…
ISEF · 2015
Storm water from parking lots, driveways, and gas stations is often contaminated with the aromatic compound benzene, toluene, ethylbenzene, and xylenes (BTEX) that are a fraction of gasoline…
ISEF · 2015
Biomedical Engineering
The purpose of this study was to investigate the anti-amyloid and anti-inflammatory properties of CNI-1493 as a treatment for intracellular amyloid beta toxicity and chronic neuro-inflammati…
ISEF · 2015
This research is about a phenomenon where a half-black-painted glass bottle will make a sound when certain optical pulse reaches it. Firstly, different variables such as paint type, bottle s…
ISEF · 2015
In the course of my project, I wanted to examine if impregnating carbon nanotubes with different metal-oxides in a way so that the metal-oxides take their positive effects on nanotube based…