38,465 real projects from ISEF, the Canada-Wide Science Fair, JSHS, AJAS, the Calgary Youth Science Fair and the California Science & Engineering Fair — searchable by meaning, and filterable by fair, year, category and award.
CSEF · 2016
Electronics & Electromagnetics Fourth Award
Objectives/Goals Hearing aids have a fundamental limitation - when used in areas of high ambient noise such as restaurants or public buildings, they amplify background noise as much as desir…
ISEF · 2016
Animal Sciences
The purpose of this experiment was to investigate the excitotoxic effects that Neotame and Aspartame may have on the heart rates of Daphnia magna, a common water flea. The hypothesis was tha…
ISEF · 2016
This engineering project was designed to improve the accuracy and reliability of counting I.V. drops while administering medicine. These devices would be used when a medical infusion pump is…
ISEF · 2016
As the search for a cleaner source of energy continues, bio-oil has shown to be an attractive alternative to fossil fuels. Bio-oil is a liquid fuel made from biomass, or organic matter deriv…
ISEF · 2016
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
Flexible polyurethane foams have wide and prominent applications across US and global markets. This, along with the dangers and costs of vehicle and household fires, makes the incorporation…
ISEF · 2016
Systems Software
The giant apple snail, Pomacea maculata, is an invasive species that affects local waterways and those as far as East Asia. Attempts, ranging from trapping to mollusticides, have been made t…
ISEF · 2016
This project is the result of the investigation of “spidrons”, which are plane geometric figures that consist of an alternate sequence of isosceles and equilateral triangles. The purpose was…
CSEF · 2016
Microbiology (General)
Objectives/Goals The objective was to measure the nutrient concentration of Spirulina cultures fed with different food types (f/2 and red abalone feces). I chose to measure mono-unsaturated…
ISEF · 2016
Fourth Award
More than one billion people worldwide are disabled and they often try to overcome shortcomings to continue their daily lives. “The prosthesis makes no pretense of trying to replace the lost…
ISEF · 2016
A study concerning “the gut-brain axis: interactions between enteric microbiota, central and enteric nervous systems” (NCBI, 2015) defines the gut-brain axis connection as, the gut-brain axi…
CSEF · 2016
Mathematics & Computer Science
Objectives/Goals Study how shape and dimensionality determines the number of sides on a shape and investigate the similarities and differences between flexagons, Mobius loops, and Klein bott…
ISEF · 2016
Third Award
Modern society has become dependent on electronics. With rapidly advancing technology, devices quickly become obsolete and are often improperly disposed in landfills. These electronics conta…
ISEF · 2016
The greenhouse effect occurs when light from the sun passes through Earth’s atmosphere and strikes the surface. The radiation from the atmosphere warms Earth’s surface to temperature that co…
ISEF · 2016
Let G be a group and [G, G] be its commutator subgroup which is generated by special elements named commutators. Therefore, every element from the commutator subgroup can be represented as a…
ISEF · 2016
Colorectal cancer (CRC) is one of the world’s leading causes of cancer death. Changes in gut microbiota composition and metabolism have been accepted as major contributors to colorectal carc…
ISEF · 2016
Biomedical Engineering
The purpose of this experiment was to determine whether or not Aloe vera, vitamin E, Suave Hair Conditioner, a triple antibiotic ointment, glycerin, and Vaseline would improve the healing ra…
ISEF · 2016
Biomedical and Health Sciences
According to Autism Society Organization, about one percent of the world's population has Autism Spectrum Disorder. It costs more than $86,000 extra per year to educate a student with autism…
ISEF · 2016
Third Award
Understanding the physiology of the malaria parasite is critical to developing new drugs to fight malaria. This study used Tetrahymena thermophila as a model organism to investigate a potent…
ISEF · 2016
Animal Sciences
The reason I did this project was to find how effective anthelmintics are when given to cattle. I wanted to see what parasites affect cattle that have not been given anthelmintics and how lo…
ISEF · 2016
Biomedical Engineering
The impact of sport jackets on adjusting backbone vertebra during running for the players of speed specialty in the athletics association in 2015-2016 it aims to remove barriers which are ha…
ISEF · 2016
Translational Medical Science
The sun provides heat and light to humans and other organisms, but while it is regulating our planet, it is also causing damage to our DNA. The purpose of our experiment is to observe how UV…
CSEF · 2016
Physics & Astronomy
Objectives/Goals The objective is to determine whether weight or surface area has more of an impact on static friction. Methods/Materials I determined the static friction force between an ob…
CSEF · 2016
Mammalian Biology
Objectives/Goals This experiment was done to find the ratio of straining between the quadriceps muscle and the patellar tendon while decreasing the angle of the knee from 150 degrees to 30 d…
ISEF · 2016
The substantial effort made in the research and study of nanomaterials and their properties resulted in broadening the capabilities of applied sciences. The discovery of diverse fields of th…
ISEF · 2016
The purpose of our experiment was to test the effect of Minnesota triclosan concentrations on the reproductive rate of Daphnia magna. We hypothesized that in D. magna samples exposed to grea…
CSEF · 2016
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals The purpose of this project was to obtain a general idea of how people felt about their personal safety based on being attacked and terrorist attacks/shootings, and collecte…
ISEF · 2016
Systems Software
Commercial palm oil plantations can influence world economic. In opposite, they may affect negatively on social interaction within particular communities and their surrounding environment. L…
ISEF · 2016
The project is designed to address the shortcomings observed in traffic control, which has resulted in adverse effects on the economy. Furthermore, the erratic power supply in Nigeria affect…
CSEF · 2016
Chemistry
Objectives/Goals The amount of acetaminophen and aspirin that is retained by plastics placed in saturated solutions was measured to determine if plastics treated with either of these molecul…
ISEF · 2016
This project investigated the winning values of the following Nim variant: There exists set A and set B, with some number of elements in each. On a player's turn, the player may reduce set A…