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 · 2014
Plant Sciences
The purpose of the project was to determine if adding carbon nanoparticles to a salt water solution exposed to sunlight would cause steam to emerge from the water without it boiling and prod…
ISEF · 2014
Mathematics
Nosocomial infections, along with hospital errors, are one of the leading causes of death in America, resulting in 99,000 deaths annually. The problem being addressed is the prevalence of ba…
ISEF · 2014
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Analyzing how drugs affect the cell cycle requires cell cycle analysis. An approach using flow cytometry is limiting as the only parameter that can be collected is intensity. In order to obt…
ISEF · 2014
Embedded Systems Second Award
Although tuberculosis (TB) is the second leading cause of death from an infectious disease, affecting approximately one-third of the world’s population in some way, little is known about TB…
ISEF · 2014
Mathematics
Currently, organ transplantation is the best treatment available for patients experiencing end-stage heart and kidney failure. Unfortunately, the ten-year survival rate of a transplanted org…
ISEF · 2014
Plant Sciences
Black soybean is a medicine-food plant with high-protein kernel and black seed coat. This study is to investigate the effects, active components and its mechanisms of black soybean on promot…
ISEF · 2014
Mathematics
The egg timer test is a novel test that allows women to know how fast their biological clock is ticking. The test measures anti-Mullerian Hormone/Mullerian inhibiting substance (AMH/MIS), a…
ISEF · 2014
Energy: Physical
The purpose of this project is to design an energy harvesting piezo electric solution to power an internal retinal prosthesis system using the natural eye movement. The best and most recent…
ISEF · 2014
Physics and Astronomy Fourth Award
The presence of noise is ubiquitous in realistic physical systems. Entangled quantum bits represented by atoms, spins, photons, etc., often go through a process known as quantum decoherence…
ISEF · 2014
Embedded Systems Second Award
One of the key challenges of wearable computing is to increase the efficiency and usability of human–computer communication, without burdening people with keyboards. This project proposed a…
ISEF · 2014
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Noise in data can mask underlying trends. These trends can consist of ramps, steps, spikes, sinusoids, etc., and may provide important information about the process being monitored. In order…
ISEF · 2014
Mathematics
Atrial fibrillation (AFib) is a type of arrhythmia, where atria contract fast/irregularly due to a dysfunctional cardiac electrical system. AFib starts paroxysmally, and advances to persiste…
ISEF · 2014
Embedded Systems Third Award
Melanoma is one of the deadliest cancers but can be cured if detected early. The purpose of this project was to create an accurate system that allows for early diagnosis. Image processing te…
ISEF · 2014
Mathematics
Nanoparticle (NP) targeted drug delivery systems (TDDS) provide protection and enhanced uptake of therapeutics. Existing TDDS technology consists of pre-manufactured NPs with fixed targeting…
ISEF · 2014
Materials Science
Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV), the virus that causes the acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS), affects more than 1.7 million Americans. This infection results in progressive failu…
ISEF · 2014
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
New transition metal complexes of Co(II), Ni(II), Cu(II) and Zn(II) with the Schiff bases derived by condensation of 3-formyl-2-hydroxy quinoline with Guanine(GUOH) and 3-formyl-2-mercapto q…
ISEF · 2014
Embedded Systems
The method proposed here solves for the pose of an object and is most applicable in robotics. The calculation of camera pose estimation has been solved in many ways. The general solution inv…
ISEF · 2014
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Melanoma has an incidence rate of more than 75000 per year with mortality rate of 10000 approximately per year, so early detection highly increases the chance of treatment. A new method prop…
ISEF · 2014
Microbiology
The purpose for analyzing the spectra of R Coronae Borealis (RCB) stars and carbon stars is to determine if R Coronae Borealis stars can be identified from spectral analysis rather than from…
ISEF · 2014
Energy: Physical
Critical worldwide applications, such as seawater desalination, utilize Polysulfone (PSU) membranes. They are part of the ultrafiltration and microfiltration processes because of their chemi…
ISEF · 2014
Mathematics
As antibiotic resistance becomes an increasing issue, the need for a non-antibiotic solution increases. Recent papers indicated that high frequency AC currents were safe and applicable in vi…
ISEF · 2014
Engineering Mechanics Fourth Award
The first year's study involved the invention of a novel concentration cell with a single-liquid compartment for green energy harvesting. This year's goal was to improve the performance of t…
ISEF · 2014
Mathematics
Increasing reports about the toxic effects of bisphenol A (BPA), a neuroendocrine-disrupting chemical primarily found in polycarbonate plastic bottles, have led the plastics industry to repl…
ISEF · 2014
Plant Sciences Second Award
Axons form communication highways in the body that control fundamental neurological functions as movement. However, injury to matured axons results in devastating consequences to victims, su…
ISEF · 2014
Mathematics
According to the World Health Organization, the total societal cost of antibiotic resistance amounts to over $35 billion dollars per year in the United States alone when accounting for lost…
ISEF · 2014
Plant Sciences
Cancer is characterized by uncontrolled growth of cells and this disease prevention has taken an important dimension in the field of science, since it has recently been appointed as a major…
ISEF · 2014
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Developing antimalarial drugs has always been an important objective for the pharmaceutical industry. However, in the past few decades, there has been an increase in malaria parasites that h…
ISEF · 2014
Energy: Chemical
Extreme and hazardous weather such as hurricane and thunder storm occurs more frequently. To drive safely in heavy rain is challenging and risky. It is especially so in China’s populated cit…
ISEF · 2014
Chemistry
Our project is about social behavior, specifically in ants, which are social creatures that resembles humans. The experiment mainly tests their behavior in two different situations a normal…
ISEF · 2014
Energy: Physical Third Award
This study’s engineering goal was, “design and test 3-D printed PEEK (PolyEtherEtherKetone) for durability for possible use in less-invasive orthopedic knee implants.” This project had two p…