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
Engineering Mechanics
Question/Purpose: Which Organic Substrate will Produce the Most Biomethane Through the Process of Anaerobic Digestion? Hypothesis: If Twelve Different Organic Substrates are Prepared, then G…
ISEF · 2014
Engineering Mechanics
Bioremediation is an emerging technology for treatment of soil and water contaminations. This study aims to demonstrate bioremediation of diesel oil contaminated mangrove soil using bacteria…
ISEF · 2014
Environmental Engineering Fourth Award
Bioaugmentation is a developing method of remediating the disastrous effects of oil spills. If the existing species of hydrocarbonoclastic bacteria can be augmented through the addition of n…
ISEF · 2014
Engineering Mechanics
Oil spills drastically affect mammalian and marine environments because they damage fragile ecosystems and leave areas unsuitable for wildlife habitats. According to a 2010 report conducted…
ISEF · 2014
Environmental Engineering First Award
Due to the increasing awareness of conserving environment through reducing pollutants, the aim of finding natural colorants and mordants to substitute synthetic dyes and chemical mordants is…
ISEF · 2014
Cellular and Molecular Biology
Insects are known to be able to warm their bodies endogenously and to regulate their body temperatures by themselves. However precise mechanisms of their body temperature regulations are not…
ISEF · 2014
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Considering beads as corners of n-gons, we made 3D models, i.e. real bracelets. When we work on them on paper, we used digits {0,1,2} for each color. With the help of our models, considering…
ISEF · 2014
Mathematics
This project is an analytic experiment on the effects of brainwave entrainment on cognitive ability. Hypothesis: Human participants will demonstrate the best cognitive performance when their…
ISEF · 2014
Physics and Astronomy Fourth Award
The quantity and quality of the apple crop mostly depends on the pollination in apple orchards during March-April, for that apple grower’s use many techniques to pollinate. They use polliniz…
ISEF · 2014
Energy: Chemical Fourth Award
Buildings need strong wood beams to hold them up and support them. Can a composite laminated wood beam made out of the strongest woods under tensile and compression forces hold up and suppor…
ISEF · 2014
Embedded Systems
With the advent of modern computing capabilities, the need for large quantities of high quality random numbers has increased dramatically. These numbers can be used in cryptography for the p…
ISEF · 2014
Systems Software
Mendocino motor is an effective, reliable, and environmentally-friendly converter of solar energy into mechanical energy, working almost without friction. Such engine’s considered to have lo…
ISEF · 2014
Energy: Chemical
Batteries are a major part of everyday life. However, most common batteries are slow at recharging and can be dangerous to the environment when improperly disposed of. Our goal was to combin…
ISEF · 2014
Plant Sciences Fourth Award
In recent years fluorine has become increasingly important to the pharmaceutical industry. Coupled with already-potent drugs, fluorine has allowed common therapies to become even more effect…
ISEF · 2014
Engineering Mechanics
We often cast the energy from wave coming parallel with monotonous coasts or the small wave from many apparatuses because of the low wave height. However, this study designed an energy gener…
ISEF · 2014
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Have you ever wondered how nutritionists know how many calories a certain food contains? In this project, I used a more homemade method for measuring how much chemical energy is available in…
ISEF · 2014
Engineering Mechanics Third Award
The purpose of this project was to test the effectiveness of dried Water Hyacinth biomass on the adsorbance of Cadmium within an aquatic medium. Based on popular research it was hypothesized…
ISEF · 2014
Energy: Physical
A possible biomaterial as an alternative method of drug delivery is the hydrogel, a polymer-network with crosslinking and absorbing properties. The purpose of this experiment is to evaluate…
ISEF · 2014
Materials Science
The purpose of this project was to create a credible stochastic model of the micro economic scenario of two companies in competition. This model was then used to predict the companies’ futur…
ISEF · 2014
Mathematics
Proton beam therapy is a type of treatment that is more effective than traditional radiation therapy and is used in treating certain types of cancer. However, in order to reap the benefits o…
ISEF · 2014
Engineering Mechanics
A region is arid when it is dry, and frequently infertile. Soil can be arid and dry due to evapotranspiration. Evapotranspiration is the combination of water evaporation from the soil and tr…
ISEF · 2014
Embedded Systems
For as long as human’s have been alive, there has always been the desire to live in the imagination; A place where anything can happen, be it standing on top of the tallest building in the w…
ISEF · 2014
Materials Science
The purpose of my project was to evaluate if Brazilian pepper fibers could serve as adsorbent for phosphate removal, if fibers could be treated chemically to enhance adsorption, and test if…
ISEF · 2014
Chemistry
Media multitasking is increasingly prevalent in our society, especially among the young. Processing multiple streams of information simultaneously, however, is cognitively challenging, there…
ISEF · 2014
Physics and Astronomy
The main goal of the project was, without using any chemicals, to capture the fingerprint which is not on a glass surface using a simple laser marker and a mobile phone. The process depended…
ISEF · 2014
Plant Sciences
There is a considerable need for the dyes removal from textile waste water. Discharge of this waste water into receiving stream cause damage not only to aquatic life but also to human beings…
ISEF · 2014
Plant Sciences Third Award
Accumulation of beta-amyloid peptide in the brain is widely regarded as the primary pathogenic factor of Alzheimer’s disease (AD). The oligomeric form of beta-amyloid has been recently impli…
ISEF · 2014
Mathematics
Cinnabar has been used as a sedative and soporific agent for more than 1,000 years in China, India and other Asian countries, nowadays, the safety of cinnabar is widely disputed for the pres…
ISEF · 2014
Plant Sciences
The purpose of this continuation was to assess not only the cancericidal effects of carvacrol but also to test the potency and credibility of the drug itself. Carvacrol is found naturally in…
ISEF · 2014
Cellular and Molecular Biology
Dermatitis due to scabies is a common skin disease in cattle. Dermatitis causes economical loss in terms of abrogated levels of milk, meat and hides production. Available drugs are either ch…