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
Biochemistry
Purpose: To compare the effects of corn versus hi pro feed on dairy goats. Procedure: (1) Constructed a large pen for the goats. (2) Obtained wild hay and hi pro feed and ground corn. (3) Ne…
ISEF · 2015
In the Concentration Combination: Year II, the efficiency of a spherical and a cylindrical luminescent solar concentrator- solar water heater (LSC-SWH) combination was investigated. The purp…
ISEF · 2015
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Throughout history, the horrors of combat have left their mark on soldiers around the world through more than just external battle wounds. As years have passed, the number of men and women d…
ISEF · 2015
For some time now, it has been known that the ice caps on earth have been melting at unprecedented rates. This can affect the energy in the earths system and be potentially harmful to wildli…
ISEF · 2015
Biomedical Engineering
The purpose of my project was to find out if recently reported substances found in the aerosol of e-cigarettes are present in the e-liquids and aerosol produced from a brand popular in Hawai…
ISEF · 2015
The purpose of this study is to investigate the effects of stealth aircraft design constraints on the aerodynamic performance and mission capabilities of an aircraft. It is hypothesized if o…
ISEF · 2015
Atrazine is an herbicide that is widely used in industrial agriculture to target broadleaf weeds. It is known to have detrimental effects on nontarget communities. Runoff that contains atraz…
ISEF · 2015
Fourth Award
This project successfully developed a Gesture-Based Control System, which could manipulate values in a phantom three-dimensional field. The Gesture-Based Control System is a Control system t…
ISEF · 2015
Thermotaxis, the directional motion of an organism towards specific temperature gradient, has been observed in several species of bacteria. However, quantitative studies of thermotaxis in ba…
ISEF · 2015
Biomedical Engineering
Aim: Preventing hospital-acquired infections is a challenge for healthcare facilities. This study aimed to design and create an accurate, easy to use, and inexpensive system for electronical…
ISEF · 2015
Third Award
Oil spills are an increasingly growing environmental threat and current forms of remediation are costly, inefficient, and toxic. The purpose of this project was to develop a novel absorbent,…
ISEF · 2015
The purpose of this project is to detect a disease by breaking down the components of breath. The goal is to develop a process which captures air, breaks down the components into a format th…
ISEF · 2015
I worked on a project characterizing protein-protein interactions with the human oxidation resistance gene 1 (hOXR1). The aim of this work was to investigate possibility of an interaction be…
ISEF · 2015
Biomedical Engineering Second Award
Purpose: a) Design and implement a gravity spatial model for the ongoing epidemic of Ebola Virus Disease (EVD) in West Africa; and b) use this model, to evaluate the relative effectiveness o…
ISEF · 2015
Systems Software
Many of our everyday decisions are based on incentives. Some are conscious, and some are subconscious. Nevertheless, our decisions are mostly based on two different incentives: economic and…
ISEF · 2015
Fourth Award
A considerable amount of potential energy is lost as heat while hot beverages cool down. Until now, no effective technique of recovering this energy has been proposed. Simultaneously, there…
ISEF · 2015
Rubber sheets made from natural rubber (NR) is one of the most profitable export products of Thailand. The undesirable dark brown color of rubber sheet, mostly derived from enzymatic reactio…
ISEF · 2015
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Eyewitness testimony plays a major role in jury verdicts. This experiment is designed to determine if—and how—gender and age affect the accuracy of eyewitness testimony. We hypothesized that…
ISEF · 2015
This experiment investigates the effectiveness of genetically modified yeasts on fermentation in corn-based ethanol production. The experimental hypothesis states that GMO yeasts would yield…
ISEF · 2015
Fourth Award
The purpose of this experiment was to determine the effects of elevated pCO2 on the protein expression on the Pacific Oyster Crassostrea gigas. Recently, the rise in anthropogenic CO2 has co…
ISEF · 2015
Biomedical and Health Sciences
The effect of bilingualism on the multitasking ability of adolescents was investigated by comparing the performance of twelve monolingual and twelve bilingual subjects on a nineteen-question…
ISEF · 2015
Fourth Award
Mammalian cell membranes, unique films forming the borders of cells and organelles, are composed of lipid bilayers, proteins and other molecules such as for instance cholesterol. In my work,…
ISEF · 2015
Malaria is a disease that kills over one million people per year. It is caused by the parasite Plasmodium falciparum. Both Plasmodium falciparum and Toxoplasma gondii are Apicomplexan parasi…
ISEF · 2015
Current passive water heaters are considered effective, but not perfect. Progress can always be continued, by varying small details. Improvements differ in cost, but the ones that surely wil…
ISEF · 2015
This research was done in order to discover whether the use of electricity in plants would achieve a favorable result. The hypothesis consisted in proving that by applying electricity to the…
ISEF · 2015
Biochemistry
There is much concern over the possible effects of power line radiation on the fetus. Power lines emit about .1 Gauss (G). Most scientists believe that power line radiation can harm the fetu…
ISEF · 2015
This study examined potential environmental factors leading to the depletion of biodiversity of organisms due to a mine tailings spill. Collections of water, soil, and macroinvertebrates wer…
ISEF · 2015
The purpose of this experiment was to test whether the fibroin protein from spider silk inhibits the growth of Escherichia coli. It was hypothesized that fibroin would inhibit the growth of…
ISEF · 2015
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
Firefighter jackets can cost $2,200, which is very expensive, especially for some firefighting departments. This forces them to buy older, possibly less effective equipment. The jackets are…
ISEF · 2015
Biomedical Engineering
The objective of the experiment is to determine if the forced movement of legs will increase an individual's heart rate. In order to test if an increase in heart rate will occur, a bicycle-b…