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
Physics and Astronomy
A particle accelerator was constructed using a pair of lithium niobate pyroelectric crystals as a power source. The crystals were arranged in a push-pull configuration to double the potentia…
ISEF · 2014
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Over 285 million people in the world today are visually impaired (World Health Organization). With enhancements in sensor technology and computer aided vision, tools to make the lives of the…
ISEF · 2014
Microbiology Third Award
The purpose of the project was to detect solar g-modes which would consequently confirm existing theories of solar magnetic fields. Viable sunspots were selected based on set criteria, and d…
ISEF · 2014
Materials Science First Award
Symmetric functions appear in many areas of mathematics and physics, including enumerative combinatorics, the representation theory of symmetric groups, statistical mechanics, and the quantu…
ISEF · 2014
Plant Sciences
Megacopta cribraria is a newly invasive stink bug species significantly reducing soybean crop yield across the southeastern United States. Chemical pesticides are a limited method of control…
ISEF · 2014
Materials Science
The purpose of this project is to see what the Olympic Medal results would look like if they were based on Gender and to see if Gender Equality is being promoted throughout the Olympic Games…
ISEF · 2014
Plant Sciences
Demyelinating diseases, such as multiple sclerosis (MS), are devastating disabling neurological disorders most commonly affecting millions of young adults worldwide. Microglia represent rati…
ISEF · 2014
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Barnette's conjecture states that every cubic, planar, 3-connected, bipartite (Barnette) graph is Hamiltonian. The conjecture is a famous unsolved problem in the field of graph theory. Due t…
ISEF · 2014
Materials Science Second Award
This project is inspired by a recent breakthrough in the study of the lower central series filtration of unitary associative Lie algebras. We consider the successive quotients of elements (a…
ISEF · 2014
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Given a bipartite graph, let us pick an acyclic orientation of its edges. Then, if we consider the partially ordered set (poset) induced by this orientation, the number of linear extensions…
ISEF · 2014
Plant Sciences Third Award
Our project analyzes the utility of amorphous silica produced from rice husk biowastes in producing higher quality, thermostable pigments. Heating the husks produces rice husk ash (RHA) cont…
ISEF · 2014
Materials Science
In this project, we provide a new notion of a topological homeomorphism by defining such in terms of a dynamical system. That is, we want to construct a time-dependent quasi-attractor and a…
ISEF · 2014
Materials Science
This work employed an information theoretic approach in order to understand how information is stored and manipulated in mammalian neocortical circuits. Through massive in silico simulations…
ISEF · 2014
Microbiology First Award
Young supernova remnants (YSNRs) are possible sites of cosmic-ray (CR) acceleration, thanks to which the CRs were observed to reach energies as high as 10e15 eV. However, such acceleration c…
ISEF · 2014
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Chloramines have been used to disinfect potable water because they do not product carcinogenic DBP’s like traditional free chlorine. However, chloramines have been linked with lead leaching…
ISEF · 2014
Plant Sciences
When equines fracture their phalanx, the most common ‘treatment’ is euthanasia because of the high cost and risk of surgery. Additionally, few non-invasive preventative measures and/or treat…
ISEF · 2014
Engineering Mechanics Fourth Award
The purpose of this project is to develop and evaluate combinations of technologies which will ultimately lead the design of a system tuned to collision avoidance. The goal is to observe and…
ISEF · 2014
Materials Science
Pancreatic cancer is a deadly disease that is very difficult to diagnose early and to treat effectively. It has a 95% mortality rate, the highest of all cancers, and only a 3-6% 5-year survi…
ISEF · 2014
Energy: Chemical
The search for forms of alternative energy has led to wind turbines, hydro-electric dams, bio-diesel, and nuclear power being tested but can only be used in specific areas, restricting their…
ISEF · 2014
Environmental Engineering
The purpose of this experiment is to reduce the environmental impact of burning fossil fuels by removing carbon dioxide from the flue gas that is the produced during this process. CO2 is a p…
ISEF · 2014
Energy: Physical
After the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster (Japan, March 2011), radioactive decontamination has appeared increasingly obvious for humanity. Is it possible to improve the actual processes t…
ISEF · 2014
Engineering Mechanics
Due to the high consumption of gasoline around the world, it becomes a priority to look for alternatives that can reduce its consumption. The research’s purpose is to reduce gasoline consump…
ISEF · 2014
Energy: Physical Third Award
The recently developed Lithium-Sulfur (Li-S) primary battery technology possess a theoretical energy capacity of 1600 mAh/g, which is significantly higher than any other battery on the marke…
ISEF · 2014
Engineering Mechanics
In today’s society, gasoline is becoming more expensive and harder to find, causing scientists to look for alternative fuels. One of these alternative fuels is biodiesel converted from oil e…
ISEF · 2014
Energy: Physical
Organic Photovoltaic (OPV) cells are important in the field of materials science due to their light weight, simple fabrication, and flexibility. Bulk-Heterojunction OPV devices contain photo…
ISEF · 2014
Systems Software
NASA has developed the Advanced Resistive Exercise Device (ARED) to help astronauts maintain lower body muscle mass on the International Space Station (ISS). While ARED squat exercise has be…
ISEF · 2014
Embedded Systems
I tried to determine if there was a chromosome that could best predict an individual's response to toxins so that my process could be shortened for future use. I started out with a spreadshe…
ISEF · 2014
Embedded Systems Fourth Award
Around 7% of the world's population is color-blind. The aim is to determine the most effective algorithm to optimize digital content for color-blind viewers and to develop an application tha…
ISEF · 2014
Energy: Physical Second Award
Natural gas separation and ammonia purge gas recovery are among the most important industrial processes by accounting for 22% of all in-plant energy use and improving the Haber Bosch process…
ISEF · 2014
Energy: Physical
Solar energy is needed to enhance and sustain the world’s energy needs-both now and in the future. Previous research has shown that CuInS2 quantum dots, miniscule semiconducting nanocrystals…