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
Benzodiazepine derivatives are promising compounds for treatment of nervous system disorders with wide spectrum of sedative, anxiolytic and myorelaxant action. Molecules of benzo[e][1,4]diaz…
ISEF · 2015
OPVs (Organic Photovoltaics) are highly tunable based on monomer composition. In other studies, PEDOT:PSS or (poly-3, 4-ethylenedioxythiophene:poly-styerenesulfonate) has been championed ove…
ISEF · 2015
Imagine a world where oxygen availability is not tied to fertile soil or oxygen tanks. The purpose of this project was to design an artificial leaf that can evolve oxygen via photosynthesis…
ISEF · 2015
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design First Award
Fluorine has allowed common therapies to become even more effective in treating many diseases because of the small size, low polarizability, and high electronegativity of the fluorine atom.…
ISEF · 2015
Rare-earth-doped nanoparticles (ReNPs) are capable of generating optical emissions for imaging molecular events. ReNPs typically consist of a host material and rare earth dopants. Though ser…
ISEF · 2015
Second Award
Though patient sex influences response to cancer treatments, time-consuming trial-and error screening currently hinders prediction of sex-disparate drug effects. We developed a novel framewo…
ISEF · 2015
Systems Software
This project involved the tagging of red drum (Sciaenops ocellatus) with a non-activated, acoustic tag internally and externally to determine which method would cause the least amount of str…
ISEF · 2015
"TAKE CHANGE" is a control-oriented software who let you turn on and turn off all the electronic elements of your house or company as you want by a cell phone (lighting, setting of heating,…
ISEF · 2015
Third Award
People suffering from Developmental-Disabilities, Tetraplegia, Parkinson’s disease etc. are almost entirely paralyzed and are not able to communicate in any way except using an Augmentative…
ISEF · 2015
Biomedical Engineering
Severe loss of cell polarity is one of the signatures of triple negative breast cancer (TNBC), which is a current clinical challenge due to its aggressive malignancy and absence of therapeut…
ISEF · 2015
Biomedical Engineering
Carbon nanotubes (CNTs) have been shown to improve drug delivery methods. However, invasive methods are currently needed for patients to benefit from CNT delivery methods. The purpose of thi…
ISEF · 2015
Biomedical Engineering Fourth Award
Breast cancer is devastating and the most common life-threatening cancer in Saudi Arabia. Chemotherapy is found to be effective for the treatment of many cancers especially breast cancer. Un…
ISEF · 2015
Biomedical Engineering
Light therapy or Syntonics is a type of ocular science involving selected light frequencies through the eyes. It has been used clinically for over 70 years in the field of optometry with suc…
ISEF · 2015
Biomedical and Health Sciences
We decided to investigate about the eating habits in young children between 5 and 11 nowadays as well as why they have acquired them. The research was done among children who live in Rosario…
ISEF · 2015
Systems Software First Award
Up to 90% of Ebola victims will die without early diagnosis and medical intervention, which can reduce fatalities by 50% and are critical to preventing future epidemics. Current detection me…
ISEF · 2015
Modified Newtonian Dynamics (MOND) is a hypothesis by Mordehai Milgrom as an alternative to the dark matter explanation of the missing mass surrounding spiral galaxies. lt states that the ac…
ISEF · 2015
Biochemistry
This experiment was conducted to determine whether Barringtonia asiatica or Derris malaccensis plant extracts were able to kill the crown-of-thorns seastar (Acanthaster planci). The experime…
ISEF · 2015
Biomedical Engineering
Breast cancer has grown significantly in the Americas becoming one of the major public health problems in the region. Only in Mexico, over the past seven years, this disease has grown by mor…
ISEF · 2015
6540 breast cancer clinical trials are performed in the world and drug life cycle takes an average of 14 years. The average pre-tax industry cost per new prescription drug approval (inclusiv…
ISEF · 2015
Ailanthus altissima (tree of heaven) presents an ecological problem due to its ability to out-compete native species. This project attempted to determine the presence of allelopathic chemica…
ISEF · 2015
The world is facing a growing tension of water resources. Our project states that the current concept of using drinking water for cleaning purposes is wrong. By maximizing the solubility of…
ISEF · 2015
Problem/Purpose ? This experiment of the wave in the textbook is done only in the plane which has no movement of the medium. ? Manufacture a device for advancing the wave experiment in slope…
ISEF · 2015
Biomedical Engineering
Aim:Thymes antimicrobial, antioxidant and anticancer effects are also shown scientifically. In the present study, we aimed to investigate if antiangiogenic effect of Thyme has role at its an…
ISEF · 2015
Wiliwili, or Erythrina sandwicensis, is an endemic tree that Hawaiian translator Akaiko Akana said was used to treat venereal diseases. With no published modern medicinal testing on wiliwili…
ISEF · 2015
The purpose of my project "The Application of Fertilizer and Nitrogen on Glycine Max" was to determine the most efficient way to care for your soybeans. On June 5, I planted four different p…
ISEF · 2015
Consider the following process: Take any four-digit number which has at least two distinct digits. Then, rearrange the digits of the original number in ascending and descending order, take t…
ISEF · 2015
Fourth Award
Cystic fibrosis is a common fatal genetic disorder that affects over 70,000 individuals worldwide. The direct cause of death for 80% of cystic fibrosis patients is Pseudomonas aeruginosa inf…
ISEF · 2015
Systems Software
Every year, thousands of people are diagnosed with lung cancer. 85% of patients are diagnosed at a late stage with only a 4% survival rate when diagnosed late. The purpose of this project is…
ISEF · 2015
Polystyrene, or Styrofoam, is a common household and commercial waste product that naturally decomposes in approximately 1000 years. United States landfills receive around 2.5 million tons o…
ISEF · 2015
Systems Software
In the experiment, the relationship between the pteridine eye pigments of the drosophila melanogaster (fruit flies), including wild type, sepia type, white type and brown type and their resp…