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
Engineering Mechanics
There are thousands of strains of algae in our environment, but which ones have the best properties for making biofuels? Last year, research was conducted to isolate if a local strain of alg…
ISEF · 2014
Physics and Astronomy
Photoacoustic microscopy (PAM) is an emerging non-invasive, high-resolution imaging technique used for superficial imaging of blood-related parameters in vivo without the use of contrast age…
ISEF · 2014
Plant Sciences
Phthalates are used as plasticizers in many consumer products found throughout the household. Little research has been conducted on the effects of these phthalates as potential endocrine dis…
ISEF · 2014
Embedded Systems
Is a program that teaches physics in an interactive way. The program is divided into sections according to the areas of physics and each section is further divided into sub-areas. The progra…
ISEF · 2014
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
A technique called piezoresponse force microscopy (PFM) was used to non-destructively image and dimension conductive nanostructures created at the interface between LaAlO3 and SrTiO3. Compar…
ISEF · 2014
Embedded Systems
The purpose of this experiment was to determine if a Raspberry Pi could be utilized as a low cost, energy efficient, home file server, and perform competitively in both speed and total cost…
ISEF · 2014
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Cell culture is challenging due to the use of medium components such as fetal bovine serum and human serum, risk of transmission of microbial disease, allergies, and ethical issues. Thus, id…
ISEF · 2014
Materials Science
Bright and motivated high school students often choose to take the most rigorous classes possible in high school. The question then becomes why should a motivated, high achieving student sub…
ISEF · 2014
Embedded Systems
The goal of this project is to make a management plan for raising crops by considering various farming circumstances. The project uses its database and the current status of user's managemen…
ISEF · 2014
Embedded Systems
This study examines the paleoenvironment of the Pleistocene Rancholabrean (210,000 – 11,000 years ago) large mammalian fauna from the Aransas River, San Patricio County, Texas based on the 1…
ISEF · 2014
Chemistry
Peptide nucleic acids (PNAs) are highly resilient molecules that are resistant to nucleases and proteases. As formidable nucleic acid mimics, peptide nucleic acids can hybridize with complem…
ISEF · 2014
Energy: Chemical
The objective of the project was to create a full body exoskeleton that would increase the strength of the user though implementation of electromyographic sensors and pneumatic actuators. Th…
ISEF · 2014
Energy: Chemical Second Award
My aim was to create a poker robot, not only for entertainment but also as a sparring partner which can be used to improve tactics. The first step of the project was to design and build a ro…
ISEF · 2014
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
This experiment analyzed the effects of solute concentration on the optical rotation of various chiral molecules by building a polarimeter to measure their angle of rotation and comparing th…
ISEF · 2014
Energy: Physical
The concept of PORTABLE KIDNEY has been conceived in the hope that it will change the lives of hundreds of kidney failure patients suffering from tough fixed schedule treatments. Portable Ki…
ISEF · 2014
Materials Science
Purpose: A series of biomonitoring techniques were used to assess the surface water quality of Weeks Bayou subwatershed using chemical, macroinvertebrate, and bacterial analyses. The aquatic…
ISEF · 2014
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Research presented here addresses the potential to use the principles of evolutionary robotics to design a controller able to learn within the lifetime of the robot. Test groups of robots ar…
ISEF · 2014
Energy: Chemical
Due to the erratic power failure in some developing countries and the stress people undergo in changing power sources and safety concerns brought about the project. It operates with the prin…
ISEF · 2014
Engineering Mechanics
In the current society, individuals depend heavily on fossil fuels to function properly. The non-renewable aspect of such energy looms over as resources dwindle over time. Options to combat…
ISEF · 2014
Energy: Chemical
The purpose of this experiment is to find out which of alternative energy can produce more power under the same circumstances. I wanted to see which element, wind or water, at the same rate…
ISEF · 2014
Engineering Mechanics
The primary purpose of this experiment was to determine whether quarry's can sustain freshwater prawns. These researchers tested the quarry's water quality and compared it to the water quali…
ISEF · 2014
Earth and Environmental Sciences Fourth Award
The future of personalized cancer treatment relies on the existence of computational models that can accurately predict how a patient will respond to a cancer drug, given the genetic makeup…
ISEF · 2014
Embedded Systems
Epilepsy afflicts 50 million people worldwide, and any type of seizure has the potential to be dangerous, especially if the victim is unprepared. Epileptic patients need an easy and convenie…
ISEF · 2014
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Eye-color genotypes are good predictors of eye-color phenotypes. The purpose of this project was to go the other direction and see if eye-color genotypes could be predicted based on eye-colo…
ISEF · 2014
Microbiology
This project focuses on predicting the strength of solar flares based on sunspot characteristics. It was hypothesized that the probability of generating an intense solar flare within a sunsp…
ISEF · 2014
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
New evidences have revealed that the protozoan parasite Plasmodium falciparum uses a communication net based on the releasing extracellular vesicles from infected red blood cells. The conten…
ISEF · 2014
Plant Sciences
Dengue fever is a viral disease caused by the dengue virus, which affects 390 million people worldwide every year. It is transmitted through the bite of the Aedes aegypti female mosquitoes a…
ISEF · 2014
Microbiology
Detection of disease in humans is primarily based upon symptoms an individual may experience. New research suggests that monitoring the oral microbiome for changes in the normal flora could…
ISEF · 2014
Materials Science Third Award
Endocrine Disrupting Compounds (EDCs) have a profound impact on aquatic reproductive processes. Current municipal waste water treatment plants (MWTP) do not eliminate highly persistent EDC’s…
ISEF · 2014
Materials Science
The effects of acid rain on plants and soil have been carefully studied. By using sacrificial metals, like magnesium, these negative effects of acid rain can be offset. Both mortality rate a…