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
Earth and Environmental Sciences Second Award
We present Semantic Multilayer Support Vector Machine (SMLSVM), a novel prototype for artificial intelligence that uses a multilayer network of Support Vector Machines (SVM) to perform data…
ISEF · 2014
Energy: Chemical
A common source of frustration for many cell phone users is having that device run out of battery, especially in a location without available outlets. Existing solutions that provide tempora…
ISEF · 2014
Systems Software
Potato viruses affect the potato farming and production industry each year. Finding tubers with resistance to the viruses is important for potato breeders in order to yield healthier tuber p…
ISEF · 2014
Physics and Astronomy
Silver nanoparticles (AgNPs) are found in over 200 common products, including paints and toothpastes. These particles can be flushed into wastewater, and agricultural fertilizer is formed fr…
ISEF · 2014
Plant Sciences
Nanobiotechnology is a relatively new science field, and today silver nanoparticles are the most common nanoparticles used in industry. Recently, the safety of such materials has been questi…
ISEF · 2014
Mathematics
Using the Kirby Bauer Protocol, my recent findings show silver ions can override antibiotic resistance in E. coli. Control trials were cultured E. coli on Mueller-Hinton agar with the additi…
ISEF · 2014
Energy: Chemical
The project proposal was to develop a system of home monitoring that is affordable for the visually impaired. The project came in trying to help the visually impaired in their day to day, as…
ISEF · 2014
Environmental Engineering Fourth Award
The water situation in the Atacama region is entering a critical stage, especially in the north of Chile, which is supplied by groundwater. "In the fourth sector of the watershed, where the…
ISEF · 2014
Energy: Physical Third Award
As the demand for more efficient and cheaper solar cells increased, the integration of carbon nanotubes and solar cells has become the center of discussion. The purpose of this research was…
ISEF · 2014
Physics and Astronomy
The purpose of this project observes the effects of the application of skim milk on the affects of Tobacco Mosaic Virus, the most common virus in the world, and its affects on the growth rat…
ISEF · 2014
Environmental Engineering
The concept of sustainability provides the framework for this technological project. The study consists in designing and creating a device to recycle organic household waste, with the object…
ISEF · 2014
Earth and Environmental Sciences Third Award
There has been an explosion in the amount of genetic data available to biologists in the past two decades. To analyze this vast information, computer algorithms (e.g. BLAST) have been develo…
ISEF · 2014
Energy: Physical
Breast cancer in Mexico is the leading cause of cancer death in women of reproductive age, every two hours a woman dies as a consequence of this disease. Most people who survive have a maste…
ISEF · 2014
Embedded Systems
Today discoveries in science are hardly possible without using massive computing power and processing large amounts of data. Unluckily, few researchers can afford to create and support their…
ISEF · 2014
Plant Sciences
Various silver pastes of different glass frit compositions and concentrations were prepared in this study to determine the effect of glass frits in front-side pastes on solar cell efficiency…
ISEF · 2014
Energy: Chemical
The purpose of doing a project like this is that the world is dependent on fossil fuels. There are a few different ways of producing renewable energy. Solar energy is one of them. Over the c…
ISEF · 2014
Environmental Engineering
The evolution of the human civilization requires increasing energy consumption. The contemporary energy supply systems were developed mainly on fossil fuels and nuclear energy, but these are…
ISEF · 2014
Physics and Astronomy
A study was carried out of the trajectories of space probes powered only by solar sails using modulated radial thrust (MRT). The flux of photons hitting a solar sail exerts a thrust that pus…
ISEF · 2014
Energy: Chemical Fourth Award
A solid state fan is an air propulsion device with no moving parts. This is often achieved using an electrohydrodynamic system that uses corona discharge to ionize air and an electric field…
ISEF · 2014
Engineering Mechanics
F. duorarum is one of the most economically important shrimp species in the US, and also may serve as a critical indicator for assessing effectiveness of Everglades restoration. Understandin…
ISEF · 2014
Physics and Astronomy Third Award
Spectrophotometers are optical instruments which analyze substance samples using electromagnetic spectra. Traditional professional spectrophotometers have extensive applicability in physics,…
ISEF · 2014
Physics and Astronomy
This study will show how much make-shift spectrophotometers can be relied upon. By taking pictures of specific fluids as water and colored water, we can measure these with a software based p…
ISEF · 2014
Plant Sciences
The aim of our project is to create a product which results effective in the fight against overweight lately affecting more and more young people. Our attention addressed a particular cause…
ISEF · 2014
Microbiology
Staphylococcus aureus is a strand of Staph that has developed into a superbug that affects 500,000 patients in American hospitals annually. To help decrease this statistic the spreading of t…
ISEF · 2014
Microbiology
Noting the difficulty of locating a celestial body during an astronomical observation I developed a device capable of pointing an average power green laser for a chosen star, which was selec…
ISEF · 2014
Plant Sciences
Lionfish (Pterois volitans) have been commonly found in the waters surrounding St. Croix and the US Virgin Islands for six years now, and it has become common to see lionfish while diving. T…
ISEF · 2014
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
The purpose of “Stay Home or Go Global - Local Versus Imported Fruit?” is to study what pesticides we may be eating and which fruits might be the worst ones. Pesticides can be fungicides or…
ISEF · 2014
Mathematics
The ankle-foot complex is a joint mechanism that can provide stability, bear heavy weight loads, and provide fluid movement. Improper alignment of the foot affects the ankle and subsequently…
ISEF · 2014
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics Second Award
The fabrication of laser grade ceramics must be improved to achieve better reproducibility of high quality yields, requiring a control of the bulk stoichiometry beyond that of current analyt…
ISEF · 2014
Materials Science
The purpose of this project is to design and develp a filtration system that will filter nitrates and/or phosphates from rain water. A media will be selected to test the pilot filter at one…