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
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Software environment for probabilistic comparison of protein sequences has been developed. It contains algorithms and tools for finding matrix of alignment probability for aminoacid pairs as…
ISEF · 2014
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Enzymes play a vital role in the human body. One most notably, in the digestive system, where they digest any starch you had previously consumed. Which lends itself to the problem, what woul…
ISEF · 2014
Microbiology
Virus; like smallpox, HIV, and H1N1; have cause millions of deaths, impacted lifestyles, and caused public scares. The best method of attack for a virus is to prevent it from ever happening,…
ISEF · 2014
Mathematics
Pancreatic adenocarcinoma is one of the most common causes of cancer-related death. Perineural invasion (PNI) occurs frequently in pancreatic adenocarcinoma and correlates with poor prognosi…
ISEF · 2014
Mathematics
The formation of biofilms on biomedical devices has become a major issue all over the world. People with biomedical implants often require several surgeries for replacement of their biomedic…
ISEF · 2014
Materials Science
The purpose of this project was to compare the effects these two water purification methods had on E. coli. It was hypothesized that Ultraviolet light sterilization would disinfect and kill…
ISEF · 2014
Chemistry
Parkinson’s Disease (PD) is the second most common neurodegenerative disease, and is defined by the loss of dopamine-producing cells and the presence of Lewy bodies and Lewy neutrites. Dopam…
ISEF · 2014
Physics and Astronomy
Due to population growth, food consumption has risen, thus increasing the need for greater food productivity by 70 percent by the year of 2050. At the same time, fresh water for crop irrigat…
ISEF · 2014
Chemistry Fourth Award
This research is a comparative study between varying pretreatment methods employed in the cellulosic bioethanol production process. The first pretreatment is a process known as biological pr…
ISEF · 2014
Energy: Physical
Microbial fuel cells (MFCs) have been shown to efficiently generate electricity from organic compounds and to serve as a method for waste treatment. Another possible application for this tec…
ISEF · 2014
Engineering Mechanics
The purpose of my project is to determine which petroleum contaminated soil remediation method is the most effective when is dealing with contaminated soil. For this experiment, I tested one…
ISEF · 2014
Cellular and Molecular Biology
The way the project is now focuses on which puzzle solving approaches different ages use primarily. The project started out with the intention to measure the effectiveness of each approach,…
ISEF · 2014
Robotics and Intelligent Machines Fourth Award
Triclosan™ is a widely utilized chemical antimicrobial used to combat a wide range of pathogenic microbes; however, it’s use may cause environmental issues including the creation of dioxins…
ISEF · 2014
Plant Sciences
In the United States, skin cancer is common; it can be prevented by using sunscreen lotion. My goal was to create a natural sunscreen using plant pigments (anthocyanins) found in blueberries…
ISEF · 2014
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
During the course of the past two years, the effects of antioxidants on cell viability and bacterial growth have been tested. The addition of anthocyanins to cancer cell cultures significant…
ISEF · 2014
Microbiology
This experiment evaluates the proportionality constant between 18 selected galaxies’ distances and recessional velocities from earth. Then, compares that constant to the current accepted val…
ISEF · 2014
Mathematics
The purpose of this investigation was to measure and compare the balance ability of male soccer players and sedentary control subjects between ages 6-7. 50 male soccer players and 50 male se…
ISEF · 2014
Mathematics
In this prospective study, “The Evaluation of Delirium in the ICU Utilizing CAM-ICU,” the impact of additional physical therapy for critically ill patients suffering from delirium will be ev…
ISEF · 2014
Mathematics
Hemorrhoids is the medical name for piles. They are the pillow like clusters of veins that lie just beneath the mucus membranes lining the lowest part of the rectum and the anus. Hemorrhoids…
ISEF · 2014
Engineering Mechanics
This study was conducted in the town Quebracho, dominant ethnic population Wichí who ancestrally used the fruits of Prosopis alba (algarrobo blanco) to produce flour for home consumption. Th…
ISEF · 2014
Biomedical and Health Sciences
The purpose of this experiment was to find out at what temperature (29°C, 23°C, 20°C) adult small hive beetles(SHB) emerged first from the soil. The hypothesis of this experiment was if temp…
ISEF · 2014
Mathematics
Background: Ventricular mass determination is essential for evaluation of the progress of Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM). Four-dimensional echocardiography (4DE) has been shown able to de…
ISEF · 2014
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Water evaporation by direct heating is a method to generate water from salt water. on the other hand, it was observe that bubbling air through a body of water would cause water evaporation w…
ISEF · 2014
Plant Sciences Third Award
Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is the most common and costly neurodegenerative disease, increasing in prevalence and expense annually. This study investigated a method of passive immunization to p…
ISEF · 2014
Mathematics Fourth Award
An alternative treatment using natural plant extracts was investigated for the opportunistic fungal pathogen, Candida albicans. Infections with this pathogen are frequently seen in immunocom…
ISEF · 2014
Robotics and Intelligent Machines Third Award
Iridium-based oxides have become a fertile ground for novel physics driven by strong spin-orbit coupling. Among them, honeycomb lattices Na2IrO3 and Li2IrO3 have drawn a great deal of attent…
ISEF · 2014
Earth and Environmental Sciences
This design investigation in its present form was to engineer a quantum gomoku game in C# that could successfully simulate the concepts of quantum mechanics with an Artificial Intelligence p…
ISEF · 2014
Systems Software Third Award
Taro is an important crop to many nations, especially Hawaii where myth labels it the elder sibling of all Hawaiians. Being isolated, Hawaiian varieties of taro were susceptible to many fore…
ISEF · 2014
Environmental Engineering
Septic systems and other small-scale waste-water processing systems do little to remove NH4+, NO3- and inorganic phosphorus from waste-water. Emission of the effluent from these systems can…
ISEF · 2014
Engineering Mechanics
Due to the recent depletion of our world’s natural resources, the expansion of technology into other methods of clean energy has become a new world focus. Wind energy has become a newly popu…