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
Our school is relatively colder in winter and cooler in summer when compared with the center of Daegu city. Geographically, the school is located at the valley of Palgong mountains in the ea…
ISEF · 2015
Fourth Award
Coral reefs and Cnidarians are hosts to symbiotic, nutrient-providing dinoflagellates (Symbiodinium/zooxanthellae). Almost all coral reefs experienced a major decline in the 1980s and climat…
ISEF · 2015
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
Natural products have a long-standing history of providing medicinally important compounds from aspirin all the way to taxol. Our group has an interest in identifying medicinally relevant co…
ISEF · 2015
The main purpose of the present research is contributing to the area of number theory. It is focused on the study of properties observed in the set of natural numbers when applied to the cub…
ISEF · 2015
The existence of the prime numbers has being documented since 300 AD when mathematicians like Euclid found this strange and beautiful numbers. If finding a prime number on the naturals is aw…
ISEF · 2015
The purpose of this investigation was to find a natural process to restore water quality parameters when chlorine and pH levels were altered. Using the common household plant Epipremnum aure…
ISEF · 2015
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
Environmental pollution by the oil spill effect is a serious problem in many places, its consequences affect not only to aquatic life but also to the whole ecosystem. Therefore, oil spill tr…
ISEF · 2015
Current common commercial solar cells use either crystalline silicon or thin-film cadmium telluride. Silicon in bulk crystalline form is expensive and cadmium is toxic. It is therefore desir…
ISEF · 2015
Bees take nourishment with the food located entirely sugar,nectar in flowers and pollen.It is completely different from the way of sheep,goats and cattle’s’ feeding.Moreover fertilizer forme…
ISEF · 2015
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
Garlic and garlic extracts have numerous therapeutical properties that result from its organosulfuric compounds, notably allicin. The first primary objective of this experiment was to constr…
ISEF · 2015
If the installation of an underwater piping system, a uniquely designed gas engine, and a chamber containing sphagnum moss and methanotrophic bacteria is implemented within a reservoir, we c…
ISEF · 2015
Cancer is a disease that affects more than one third of Americans and is the second leading cause of death in the United States despite the widespread use of surgery, chemotherapy, and radia…
ISEF · 2015
Silicone cerebrospinal shunts frequently get colonized and infected necessitating repeat surgeries in shunt-dependent patients. This study manipulates silicone with nanotechnology by coating…
ISEF · 2015
Fourth Award
One of the major difficulties faced by the elders and the differently abled people at present day is climbing up & down a staircase. To overcome this difficulty either they have to get assis…
ISEF · 2015
Plasmids containing a catalytically dead Cas9 endonuclease (dCas9) system were studied as a potential repressor to the mecA methicillin resistance gene in MRSA. Clustered Regularly Interspac…
ISEF · 2015
Disasters are serious disruptive events that occur suddenly and unexpectedly causing in permanent changes to human societies, ecosystems and environment. It may be impossible to avoid disast…
ISEF · 2015
The recent discovery of electrically conductive bacterial nanowires produced by a variety of microbes suggests that extracellular electron transfer via nanowires may be widespread in nature…
ISEF · 2015
The purpose of this project was to determine the most efficient material used in a microbial fuel cell (MFC) for the maximum production of electricity. Also, if a septic system additive woul…
ISEF · 2015
Third Award
Sun-dried banana peel was pyrolyzed (PBP) and activated to form carbon-fiber adsorbent with superior removal capacity bacterial pathogens as well as copper and lead from drinking water. A po…
ISEF · 2015
With increasing populations and vehicle traffic and limited crude oil supplies, alternative sources of fuel will be needed. Bio-energy sources have seen development with the use of corn to p…
ISEF · 2015
Prescribed burning is the most commonly used management tool in pine forests. A key problem with burning is that it decreases the amount of nitrogen (N), which is the most limiting nutrient…
ISEF · 2015
Biomedical Engineering Third Award
The flu is a major problem detected in many cities around the world, which damages and interferes demonstrably in the daily routine of everyone. Due to its high mutagenic rate, there is the…
ISEF · 2015
A great source of inspiration for superior quality materials comes from natural materials, like nacre, that exhibit great strengths and resilience. Nacre, known as Mother-of-Pearl, which for…
ISEF · 2015
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
Organic xanthates are widely used in synthesis due to the radical addition reaction. There are many examples of using xanthates with different functional groups (e.g. carbonyl, phosphoryl, e…
ISEF · 2015
There has been recent focus on water-soluble polymer matrices with integrated protein or starch bases to increase mechanical characteristics of extended-release drug delivery devices. Unfort…
ISEF · 2015
Second Award
The atmospheric release of CO2 is strongly correlated with climate change. Metal organic frameworks (MOFs), porous, uniform, and crystalline structures, have demonstrated high promises for C…
ISEF · 2015
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design Fourth Award
A one-pot approach has been developed for the preparation of Cu2O nanocubes from cupric nitrate in alkaline aqueous solutions containing fructose and ascorbic acid at 32 degrees clesius. In…
ISEF · 2015
Second Award
Biofouling is a major problem in membrane-based desalination and wastewater reclamation processes. It greatly compromises the performance of membranes and increases operating costs. In this…
ISEF · 2015
Trifluorothymidine is capable of influencing processes of the tumor growth. In addition to its properties as a chemotherapeutic and antiviral agent, trifluorothymidine is also a promising im…
ISEF · 2015
Agriculture in the 21st century faces several challenges: increase food production, adopt efficient and sustainable production methods, adapt to climate change. In order to fight agricultura…