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
The goal of this project is to determine whether Poly(vinylidene fluoride) Films will generate a modeled voltage and amperage for hi-volt galvanic healing when when strained by a simulated h…
ISEF · 2014
Energy: Chemical
The present study was conducted to determine how to reduce rollover rates in Sports Utility Vehicles. A remote controlled toy model Sports Utility Vehicle was modified, in order to simulate…
ISEF · 2014
Energy: Physical
Biomechatronics is the synergistic application of mechanics, biology and electronics. Examples of biomechatronic implants are cardiac pacemakers and neurostimulators, which are implanted in…
ISEF · 2014
Earth and Environmental Sciences
“In the modern world it is necessary to establish a self-sustainable and ecological approach to allow the technological and productive development of developing countries, to achieve it, it´…
ISEF · 2014
Physics and Astronomy
Food shortage is a worldwide problem and it is important to learn how to use the best methods to culture plants for food. Can marine algae be used as fertilizers to increase and strengthen t…
ISEF · 2014
Environmental Engineering
Introduction: Treating the disaster of oil leaking from marine oil platforms by using sealant oil device with low costs Problem of research • Wasting billions of Dollars when catastrophic po…
ISEF · 2014
Engineering Mechanics Fourth Award
One area actively under development at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory is the entry, descent, and landing phase of missions to Mars. Work is needed to reduce the size of landing ellipses. I…
ISEF · 2014
Materials Science
The goal of this project was to form a mathematical model of genetic amplification. Unlike previous attempts this equation was based off of actual data, thereby greatly reducing the percent…
ISEF · 2014
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
The aim of my work is to study the matrix generalizations of the well-known Euler function. Recall, that the Euler function maps natural number m to a number of invertible elements from set…
ISEF · 2014
Energy: Physical
When sand contains water, it has plastic properties and can assume a variety of forms. In Japan, this characteristic of mud has long been used by children to make doro-dango, or mud balls. S…
ISEF · 2014
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
About a decade ago it was discovered by Italian scientists that the Briggs-Rauscher oscillating reaction is sensitive to antioxidants. These free-radical scavengers inhibit the reaction; the…
ISEF · 2014
Physics and Astronomy Fourth Award
When a water droplet impacts a surface of water, part of the drop disappears into the water, while the rest bounces out again. This fascinating process repeats itself several times in a frac…
ISEF · 2014
Plant Sciences Fourth Award
Purpose: The principle of this study is to identify possible mechanism of apoptotic actions of colloidal silver and bromelain on pheochromocytoma cells (PC12). If colloidal silver and bromel…
ISEF · 2014
Earth and Environmental Sciences First Award
"Chinese Silver Staining Diagnosis" is a traditional Chinese Medicine procedure. Despite its popularity and long history in southern China, its mechanism remains unclear. In this research, a…
ISEF · 2014
Physics and Astronomy First Award
bZIP transcription factors exist in all eukaryotes. In plants, they are master regulators of many central developmental and physiological processes. In 2012. bZIP16 was reported to promote s…
ISEF · 2014
Mathematics
In the past, Ocimum basilicum (Basil) and Azadirachta indica (Neem) have been considered medicinal plants. With the need for new antibiotics and bacteria constantly evolving and resistant, B…
ISEF · 2014
Mathematics Second Award
The prevalence of tanning and UV-overexposing activities continues to enthrone skin cancers as the most common type of cancer affecting humans. The deadliest and most aggressive form of thes…
ISEF · 2014
Materials Science
The purpose of this project is to investigate whether it is more accurate to predict an unknown amount of items in a container using the mean, median, or individual guess, and to analyze how…
ISEF · 2014
Materials Science
Recent study showed that peppermint oil is capable to repel rats. The main purpose is to reduce the spread of contagious disease caused by rats. It is eco-friendly because it was made from n…
ISEF · 2014
Engineering Mechanics
Scientists are currently pressed with the problems of conjuring up clean energy, clean drinking water, and waste management in a sustainable way so that we do not drink our planets resources…
ISEF · 2014
Materials Science
Ponds and streams are being impacted daily in complex ways. Teems of organisms that inhabit these waters are excreting nitrogenous waste products. Fisherman and farmers may also be adding sm…
ISEF · 2014
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
We investigated the growth of mould fungus on button mushrooms under different storage conditions. Interestingly, we found that improper storage of button mushrooms lead to increasing rates…
ISEF · 2014
Mathematics
From the moment we discovered the existence of germs, we have been trying to kill them. And from that moment, they have been adapting. Even now, as we introduce ever increasingly effective a…
ISEF · 2014
Energy: Physical
The purpose of this experiment was to test whether the use of a micro-pin-fin heat sink to cool Concentrator Photovoltaics produces a significantly more uniform temperature distribution than…
ISEF · 2014
Energy: Physical
The multiple mode resonator microwave sintering furnace provides more uniform microwave field for SiC ceramic roller, ensuring the uniform heating for large size SiC ceramic roller. Using th…
ISEF · 2014
Energy: Chemical Third Award
People usually do not recognize the seriousness of indoor air pollution including particulate matter or toxic gases generated by cooking, etc. This study examined that these kinds of situati…
ISEF · 2014
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
The main goal of this project is to answer the question: How mitochondria of Candida albicans adapt and modulate the fungi adaptation to sudden chances in growth conditions associated to the…
ISEF · 2014
Energy: Chemical Fourth Award
Rockets, assembly lines, temperature controllers, and inverted pendulums use one thing in common: sophisticated control algorithms to maintain proper balance. The objective of this project w…
ISEF · 2014
Earth and Environmental Sciences
The goal of this project is to demonstrate that multiple frequency Bluetooth enhanced mobile devices with string-shape based structural-spectra pattern recognition software can provide a cos…
ISEF · 2014
Engineering Mechanics
For this project, I examined present day, three bladed horizontal axis wind turbines and tried to find a way to increase their output efficiency with post production modifications. The conce…