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.
ISEF · 2014
Engineering Mechanics Fourth Award
Oil spills are a daunting threat and current forms of remediation are costly, inefficient, and toxic. A novel experiment using ferromagnetic nanoparticles and chlorella algae to remediate an…
ISEF · 2014
Energy: Chemical Fourth Award
This experiment was designed to invent a portable biomechatronic joint enhancement apparatus capable of increasing the strength, support, and load bearing capabilities of the human arm for m…
ISEF · 2014
Materials Science
The degree of deep infiltration in the vadose zone is an important measurement to obtain for many applications and studies in the field of agriculture, containment management, and groundwate…
ISEF · 2014
Materials Science
Aculco is a cheese village; processing about 100,000 liters of milk daily, which obtains 10,000 kg of cheese and 85.000 liters of whey. The whey or cheese whey is the liquid that is separate…
ISEF · 2014
Physics and Astronomy
Angiosperms have gone through multiple radiations throughout their evolutionary history, resulting in their great diversity. Certain gene classes (A, B and C) have been shown to function in…
ISEF · 2014
Mathematics
Colorectal cancer annually kills 694,000 people. Being one of the cancers of greatest concern, a natural method with no side effects to cure it could be a great contribution. The problem was…
ISEF · 2014
Energy: Physical First Award
The human brain contains 10^11 neurons and 10^15 synapses, which are the crucial connective parts between neurons. Synapses gather sensory inputs and interpret specific patterns of action po…
CSEF · 2014
Materials Science (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals The objective of my experiment is find which fabric is the most effective insulator. The supposition of this experiment was that wool would insulate the best, due to its thi…
CSEF · 2014
Behavioral & Social Sciences Third Award
Objectives/Goals For centuries, researchers have been trying to find the factors of humor. Many of those studies, however, look at what in the jokes themselves strikes a nerve, such as incon…
ISEF · 2014
Physics and Astronomy
The Mpemba effect is the occurrence of hot water freezing faster than cold. It is strangely counter-intuitive because hot water should take much more time to freeze than cold water because i…
ISEF · 2014
Mathematics
Human T-Cell Lymphotropic Virus Type 1 (HTLV-I) is the first-discovered retroviral disease and has been considered globally epidemic yet has no cure or treatment. This project aims to produc…
ISEF · 2014
Systems Software Fourth Award
PURPOSE: To determine the effects of natural extracts and agricultural fungicides on the growth and aggregate quality of soybeans. Secondly, to compare fungicidal attributes of natural extra…
CSEF · 2014
Electronics & Electromagnetics
Objectives/Goals The objective of this experiment is to determine how the number of magnets in a magnetic linear accelerator will affect the kinetic energy of the projectile. Methods/Materia…
ISEF · 2014
Systems Software
Many waves formed in nature are primarily linear and have a property called dispersion, causing different waveforms to separate and lose amplitude. Solitons can retain their pulse form as th…
CSEF · 2014
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals The purpose of the experiment was to determine if there was a difference in reading comprehension from a book to a tablet. I hypothesized that the subjects would have better…
CSEF · 2014
Applied Mechanics & Structures
Objectives/Goals Can the 2 Cylinders, Green Steam Engine TM be built as easily as stated? Is this design a viable source of alternative energy? Methods/Materials 1 - 7/8# X 6# steel bolt; 1…
ISEF · 2014
Engineering Mechanics Fourth Award
The purpose of this project was to test the effectiveness of Pancium virgatum (Switch grass) and Schizachyrium scoparium (Little Bluestem grass) in their abilities of phytoextraction and bio…
ISEF · 2014
Energy: Chemical
The purpose of this project was to create a pair of gloves that gives the visually impaired the ability to read any text and recognize and say aloud the value of any currency notes and provi…
ISEF · 2014
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics Third Award
Carrageenans are linear sulfated polysaccharides derived from red seaweeds that are popularly used in the food industry to gel, thicken and stabilize properties in certain foods, but their u…
ISEF · 2014
Energy: Physical Second Award
Despite extensive development of power generation and delivery infrastructure during the past century, over 1.4 billion people around the world still do not have access to or cannot afford e…
ISEF · 2014
Energy: Chemical
In modern times amidst the technological revolution, people are encouraging the use of robotics in everyday life. Since large amounts of people have been injured in the past year in emergenc…
ISEF · 2014
Plant Sciences
Wolbachia is a maternally transmitted intracellular symbiont that is mainly localized in the reproductive tissues of arthropods. Wolbachia is responsible for feminization, parthenogenesis, m…
ISEF · 2014
Physics and Astronomy
Hydroponic and aeroponic systems aim to reduce soil usage and degradation while increasing production, nonetheless both systems depend on fertilizers, demand considerable amounts of energy,…
CSEF · 2014
Pharmacology/ Toxicology
Objectives/Goals My goal in this project was to look at the blood glucose response to eating cereal bars and bread with different protein:carbohydrate ratios, with and without the consumptio…
ISEF · 2014
Robotics and Intelligent Machines Third Award
This study examines the classic traffic-flow problem: how should networks be designed in order to minimize commuters’ travel time? Besides transportation, this question also has important im…
ISEF · 2014
Mathematics
I previously investigated the effects of deuterium oxide on cell growth. However, I could not discover what factors attributed to a delay in the cell growth of rat basophilic leukemia (RBL-2…
CSEF · 2014
Behavioral & Social Sciences Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals Arousal-biased competition theory states that emotional arousal has an enhancing effect on memory for high priority information. However, there is a lack of understanding on…
CSEF · 2014
Biochemistry/ Molecular Biology Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals The goal of this study is to understand how the genetic modification to make soybeans Roundup Ready impacts how nutrients are absorbed in the human human gut - specially how…
ISEF · 2014
Environmental Engineering
Blood red boulders are scattered across a large area above the creek in Hailuogou, Gongga Mountain, Sichuan, the red matter attached to the stones is a species of Trentepohlia, a type of sub…
ISEF · 2014
Robotics and Intelligent Machines Third Award
Mycobacterium smegmatis mc2155 is a commonly used model organism for Mycobacterium tuberculosis, which is one of the most serious bacterial infections in the world and has become increasingl…