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
Plants have the ability to regenerate tissue after being injured or cut. Previous studies have examined the recovery mechanisms employed in stems and this knowledge has been applied to agric…
ISEF · 2015
Fourth Award
Amaranthus palmeri (Palmer's amaranth) is a highly invasive noxious weed that causes significant problems in agriculture as it is becoming resistant to glycine (Round-up). This glycine-resis…
ISEF · 2015
The purpose of my project was to determine if solar panels are functioning (or being designed to function) at their highest possible effectiveness. I asked “Can they produce more power if de…
ISEF · 2015
Hemolysis is the breaking of red blood cells in the blood. When hemolysis occurs, red blood cells release proteins called hemoglobin. While in the cell, hemoglobin helps carry oxygen around…
ISEF · 2015
What effect will microgravity VS gravity have on the Reishi mushroom’s (Ganoderma lucidum) ability to weaken, damage or destroy E.coli Bacteria?” Ganoderma lucidum, the common Reishi mushroo…
ISEF · 2015
Given n straight lines in the plane, Roberts in 1889 gave a formula to count the number of regions formed by an arbitrary arrangement of the n lines. While the minimum and the maximum number…
ISEF · 2015
Biomedical Engineering
An energy drink is a type of beverage containing the stimulant drug, caffeine, sugar (glucose and sucrose), and electrolytes. With the aim to determine the amounts of caffeine, total sugars,…
ISEF · 2015
The agricultural sector is an essential sector of the economy that is responsible for the production of food crops for sustenance and exports. To rectify the problem of poor crop quality, ar…
ISEF · 2015
Biomedical Engineering Third Award
Various studies have showed that children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) have an affinity towards interacting with virtual avatars. Children with ASD are able to understand basic emotio…
ISEF · 2015
As I originally chose this project to combine my love for biology, namely photosynthesis, and my concern for environmental issues, I chose a project based on Chlamydomonasreinhardtii, a phot…
ISEF · 2015
The study of microbial communities in desert saline soils have revealed the presence of extremophile microorganisms, such as gender Nocardiopsis Actinomycetes, which has proven to be an impo…
ISEF · 2015
The purpose of our study was to investigate the affinity of zebra mussels (Dreissena polymorpha) towards fresh water macrophytes and determine locations on the macrophytes where the mussels…
ISEF · 2015
Biomedical Engineering Second Award
Meiotic recombination is essential to create novel allele combinations and ensure proper segregation during gametogenesis. Descriptions of detailed mechanisms of recombination are of interes…
ISEF · 2014
Embedded Systems
It is a big problem today that children do not want to study. They want to play and communicate. I offer a distributed application with a 3D education world environment that provides learnin…
ISEF · 2014
Physics and Astronomy Second Award
This project investigates the formation and lifecycle of classical novae and determines how parameters such as: white dwarf mass, star mass and separation affect the evolution of the rotatin…
ISEF · 2014
Energy: Physical
There is currently a great interest in the development of thin, flexible, lightweight, and environmentally friendly supercapacitors as the booming of Smartphones and electronic devices. In o…
ISEF · 2014
Earth and Environmental Sciences
4+1 is a project that implements four functions created to improve the safety of driving plus one which improves the efficiency of the cars affecting positively pollution and energy consumpt…
ISEF · 2014
Energy: Physical
This investigation proposes to create a model of a water solar heater which maximizes the usage of available solar radiation in order to reach higher water temperatures. The problem was whic…
ISEF · 2014
Materials Science
Automobile exhaust accounts for about one-third of the total amount of air pollutants in cities, which is the main reason for the formation of haze and acid rain. Therefore, the research wor…
ISEF · 2014
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
The purpose of this experiment was to characterize a newly discovered ultrastable silver nanoparticle. Silver is known to be susceptible to oxidation while metals such as gold and platinum a…
ISEF · 2014
Physics and Astronomy
Achieving net gain controlled nuclear fusion on Earth would lead to a revolution in energy and transportation technologies. This endeavor combined the techniques of sonoluminescence and magn…
ISEF · 2014
Materials Science
The purpose of this project is to find the percentage weight loss of limestone, hard coral, and mushroom coral when in carbonic acid and mushroom coral in hydrochloric acid. Carbonic and hyd…
ISEF · 2014
Mathematics
I. Purpose: To determine the most effective acne medication in inhibiting bacterial growth II. Hypothesis: If I treat three bacteria cultures with three different acne medications, then mino…
ISEF · 2014
Mathematics
Antimicrobial resistance is a worldwide epidemic that continues to spread out of control. With the emergence of superbugs such as Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus and Carbapenem-r…
ISEF · 2014
Physics and Astronomy Fourth Award
It is imperative to develop new options for the development of high yielding and multiple stress and disease resistant cultivars of plants. The intention of this project was to determine if…
ISEF · 2014
Chemistry Fourth Award
Based on the results of previous work done by the researcher, which showed that quadruplex-forming oligonucleotides induced cell death in four breast cancer cell lines, this project studied…
ISEF · 2014
Chemistry
On September 13th, 2012, The United States Federal Reserve Board voted for the third time in its history to begin a Quantitative Easing Policy (Q.E.P.), a $40-90 billion a month, open-ended,…
ISEF · 2014
Physics and Astronomy Third Award
Global warming and increased CO2 emissions are becoming a large problem for the world. Tree plantations sequester carbon at up to 30 times the rate of old growth forests, and are a common wa…
ISEF · 2014
Engineering Mechanics Third Award
Current oil recovery rates are relatively low, ranging below 40%, while the costs of drilling are relatively high, approximately $42,000 a day. This will lead to a reduction in the future av…
ISEF · 2014
Physics and Astronomy
The bacterium Gluconacetobacter diazotrophicus, isolated from the roots of sugarcanes, is a bacterium that carries the nitrogen fixing capabilities for sugarcanes, and has shown some promise…