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
Microbiology
Asteroid orbits are subject to chaos theory, that is, extremely sensitive to initial conditions. Because of this, it is critical to obtain both accuracy and high precision when generating th…
ISEF · 2014
Physics and Astronomy Third Award
The purpose of the experiment was optimizing the process of coupling single photons into single-mode fibers. The reason I chose polarization-entangled photons was that they are widely used i…
ISEF · 2014
Engineering Mechanics
Wind energy has great potential to reduce our dependence on traditional energy resources. Wind is a clean source of energy that has fewer environmental impacts than traditional energy source…
ISEF · 2014
Engineering Mechanics
The purpose of this research is to determine if a more efficient and cost effective wind turbine design can be created through the utilization of novel engineering concepts. This researcher…
ISEF · 2014
Microbiology
Bacterial antibiotic resistance has become a concern following this class of drugs’ widespread adoption and subsequent misuse. New methods to eradicate bacteria must be discovered and perfec…
ISEF · 2014
Chemistry First Award
The organic food market is the fastest growing food sector, yet it is unclear whether organically raised food is nutritionally superior to conventionally grown food and whether consuming org…
ISEF · 2014
Physics and Astronomy
Reusing food waste and using natural fertilizers on organically grown produce is important to me. I redesigned and rebuilt a compost grinder to create a new type of organic fertilizer for se…
ISEF · 2014
Physics and Astronomy
Every year farmers spend time and money on eliminating infestations of musk thistles in their pastures. Some farm animals may eat the thistle, but cattle will not because of thorns. Alfalfa…
ISEF · 2014
Environmental Engineering
This project solves an ongoing issue of the organic wastes, it became a worldwideproblem. After a long time research we finally came up with a solution to have a great benefit by making this…
ISEF · 2014
Energy: Physical
My project's name is Orthopedic Vest. My vest's destination is to get rid of scoliosis in adults and treat patients. As it's known, the most important for humans is to be healthy and if we d…
ISEF · 2014
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics Second Award
One in eight women will be diagnosed with a form of noninvasive Breast cancer during her lifetime. NEK2 is a highly-expressed gene in Breast cancer. The objective was to determine the role N…
ISEF · 2014
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
The adult muscle has stem cells called satellite cells. Those cells are quiescent in a normal situation and they get activated after injury. The most important function of satellite cells is…
ISEF · 2014
Earth and Environmental Sciences
The explosive growth of verbose content on the internet in recent years, especially of news articles and blogs, coupled with a shift towards mobile internet access, has created a case for in…
ISEF · 2014
Materials Science Second Award
Polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) are ubiquitous non point source aquatic contaminants derived from various combustive and fossil fuel sources, causing sublethal cardiotoxic effects in…
ISEF · 2014
Embedded Systems Third Award
The adoption of distributed computing systems has grown massively in the past few years. In particular, Apache Hadoop, which allows developers to create applications that run on a cluster of…
ISEF · 2014
Systems Software
Most people enthuse about watching curving ball made by baseball player. Perhaps, it’s because it’s difficult to make curving ball to general people. but we found the way which make curving…
ISEF · 2014
Energy: Physical
The purpose of this science fair project is to design a parabolic mirror with copper tubing at its focus, and use a solar-powered pump that can efficiently heat water solely from solar energ…
ISEF · 2014
Earth and Environmental Sciences
The purpose of the first part of this research is to determine the fastest algorithm to sort a random list of numbers into sequential order. I predicted that bubble sort would be the fastest…
ISEF · 2014
Energy: Chemical Fourth Award
The scale of a parking lot is huge in urban areas nowadays, so it’s getting harder to find a vacant parking place and to get back to your car after parking. The current intelligent parking s…
ISEF · 2014
Microbiology
The Weakly Interacting Massive Particle (WIMP) theory for dark matter predicts the production of gamma radiation from WIMP annihilation and decay. To examine the possibility of WIMP dark mat…
ISEF · 2014
Energy: Physical Third Award
Over the past decade, photovoltaic solar cells have been increasing in popularity exponentially despite their high cost. Photovoltaics are clean, robust, and flexible energy sources that can…
ISEF · 2014
Environmental Engineering Second Award
Water availability and quality are universally important issues. The imbalance between fresh water demand and supply is expected to worsen. To date, water technology has been focused on desa…
ISEF · 2014
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Every single branch of science has its origins in math. Of all the mathematical concepts, exponents constitute one of the most fundamental and useful tools. This purpose of this project is t…
ISEF · 2014
Materials Science
The aim of this project is to explore a new statistical method to detect non-randomness in outputs obtained by a random number generator. The test detects convergence of a particular sequenc…
ISEF · 2014
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Polychlorinated biphenyls, PCBs, have been shown to cause a variety of adverse health effects on the immune, reproductive, nervous, and endocrine systems. Due to their once widespread usage…
ISEF · 2014
Chemistry
More than 25% of people worldwide suffer from mental illness (WHO, 2013). Emotion is a subjective conscious experience essential to social interaction in humans, who express emotions primari…
ISEF · 2014
Environmental Engineering
This experiment builds on further testing of percolation of phosphate through soil rather than homogenization to remediate lead contaminated soil. The experiment tested if percolation of a p…
ISEF · 2014
Mathematics Fourth Award
A novel nanoparticle (NP) targeted cancer therapy with personalized medicine applications is described. A NP concept, applying biologically compatible quantum dots (QDs), was created for can…
ISEF · 2014
Energy: Chemical Second Award
The goal of this project, that is named ARTEMIS, was to design and develop a concept of wireless body area network (WBAN) for a particular application of monitoring and processing personal p…
ISEF · 2014
Mathematics
Problem: Primary care of external bleeding is extremely important, providing basic care of any wound that is crucial in life saving and preventing future morbidity. Bleeding is a main conseq…