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
Energy: Chemical
A pest is any animal which causes damage to crops in its field, store, livestock or animal advantageous to man. Pest significantly reduce the efficiency of any agricultural system, common ag…
ISEF · 2014
Energy: Chemical
Due to the global warming, worldwide regions have suffered very serious climate changes. It causes a huge damage! We try to provide a solution to tackle this problem. We created the world’s…
ISEF · 2014
Embedded Systems
Online communication between students and teachers is irregular and inefficient. Teachers have begun to use the web to post homework, and various pieces of information about their classes, h…
ISEF · 2014
Embedded Systems Fourth Award
This project proposes new dynamic optimization algorithms that provide significant cache management enhancements over the known three basic algorithms for signature verifications to improve…
ISEF · 2014
Energy: Chemical
The purpose of this project was to design a Remotely Operated Vehicle (ROV) prototype that has active control capability that efficiently stabilizes rolling motion while in flight and can mo…
ISEF · 2014
Engineering Mechanics
This report details the second phase of a two-year project to design and test cheaper and more efficient aircraft to be used in seeding or fertilizing crops. Because aerial application is pe…
ISEF · 2014
Energy: Physical
The proposed engineering design was purposed to complement material spacecraft shielding already in place to mitigate the equivalent radiation dosage from galactic cosmic radiation and secon…
ISEF · 2014
Energy: Physical
Heavy metals such as arsenic, cadmium, lead, and zinc are toxic industrial byproducts that often leach into local water supplies. Current methods of heavy metal detection vary in sensitivity…
ISEF · 2014
Embedded Systems
A field programmable gate array (FPGA) is a special type of integrated circuit that has contributed to the broaden application of electronics, from aerospace to defense, and from medical ima…
ISEF · 2014
Earth and Environmental Sciences
The polydentate ligands have a great importance in catalysis, design of biomimetics and supramolecular chemistry. Recently poly(oximinoalkyl)amines were proposed as prospective polydentate l…
ISEF · 2014
Environmental Engineering
In developing countries, people walk long distances carrying heavy water drums. However, carried water is contaminated by bacteria, organic material, heavy metal and etc. The goal of this pr…
ISEF · 2014
Earth and Environmental Sciences Third Award
Coronary artery disease (CAD) is the leading cause of death world-wide. Coronary CT angiography (CTA) provides a noninvasive method for diagnosing CAD by creating 3D data of the heart. Detec…
ISEF · 2014
Microbiology
To learn more about the origins and evolution of stars and galaxies, astronomers study star clusters, the birthplaces of stars. Our ability to study these clusters can be hampered by the eff…
ISEF · 2014
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Mainstream content on the Internet is becoming less text-based, with more emphasis given to videos. As a result, the demands on automatic summarization are rapidly increasing. In the summari…
ISEF · 2014
Environmental Engineering Third Award
Environmental dust causes multiple problems, including negative effects on human health, impairment of machinery operation, and production of sensitive electronic components. Multiple types…
ISEF · 2014
Mathematics Third Award
Streptococcus pyogenes is the bacterium responsible for streptococcal pharyngitis, impetigo, and rheumatoid fever. As antibiotics are often ineffective due to increasing antibiotic resistanc…
ISEF · 2014
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Local search is a powerful optimization method used to approach numerous computationally intensive, real-world problems. This research focused on designing an algorithm using local search op…
ISEF · 2014
Mathematics
Achyranthes aspera is a plant found commonly in parts of India and has been anecdotally noted to improve the prognosis of pancreatic cancer patients. Because 91% of newly diagnosed pancreati…
ISEF · 2014
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Annually, 5000 kidney disease patients die while waiting for a kidney transplant match. The purpose of this experiment is to decrease this number by determining the efficiency of the optimiz…
ISEF · 2014
Chemistry
Visual perception is an essential skill, especially for school-aged children, as it is needed to understand and decipher things, learn reading skills, copy text accurately, develop visual me…
ISEF · 2014
Mathematics
In 2012, an estimated 2.3 million people were newly infected with HIV, while 14.1 million people were diagnosed with cancer. Marine sponges are considered to be habitats for numerous multitu…
ISEF · 2014
Energy: Physical
The engineering goal of this project was to develop a solar powered device designed to be able to fully sterilize surgical instruments. This device aimed to find an effective way to steriliz…
ISEF · 2014
Energy: Physical
Myoelectric prosthetics are among the biggest advances in biomedical engineering in the last 25 years, but there are still many improvements that need to be made to optimize device efficienc…
ISEF · 2014
Mathematics
Initial experiments determined the effects of metallic copper on the growth of Escherichia coli. E.coli was exposed to copper metal strips and copper powder. The fine copper powder prevented…
ISEF · 2014
Engineering Mechanics
Available sources of energy in the Earth are quickly depleting, necessitating the need for a renewable energy source. Biodiesel, solar, nuclear, and hydroelectric power are all sources of re…
ISEF · 2014
Environmental Engineering Second Award
Adsorption of bivalent heavy metal ions from polluted water was studied using dried powdered banana peels and banana peel pyrolyzed at 500°C and 600°C. The results were compared with adsorpt…
ISEF · 2014
Materials Science
HER2-positive breast cancer is characterized by an overexpression of HER2, a growth receptor protein, on the surface of the cancer cell, which increases the rate of cell growth and replicati…
ISEF · 2014
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Transcribing music is a difficult and time consuming task. Currently, no commercial software has been released to transcribe music automatically. The goal of this continuation project was to…
ISEF · 2014
Microbiology Second Award
Biofilms infections show increased antibiotic resistance thus necessitating the search for novel therapeutics. Bordetella pertussis biofilm infections, or whooping cough, have resurged globa…
ISEF · 2014
Systems Software
Agrobacterium tumefaciens causes the neoplastic ‘Crown Gall Tumor’ disease on most plants. The bacterium infects plants at a wound site and transfers a piece of DNA to a plant cell. The tran…