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
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Many experts agree that energy may become the most important issue that society will face in the future. As fossil fuel sources are quickly being depleted and nuclear energy has proven to be…
ISEF · 2014
Engineering Mechanics Fourth Award
The purpose of this project was to create an efficient, reliable, low-cost and alternative source of energy from pine cones. Mature female Pinus coulteri cones were used in the study. In the…
ISEF · 2014
Physics and Astronomy Third Award
This project explores themes of an organically friendly, globally accessible product of milk to increase grain yields. The supreme concepts behind the idea to use milk are to apply carbohydr…
ISEF · 2014
Robotics and Intelligent Machines Third Award
Hospital-acquired infections are becoming increasingly numerous and difficult to manage. There are strict regulations in most hospitals regarding infection control however these are scarce r…
ISEF · 2014
Environmental Engineering Third Award
The world is heading towards an energy crisis due to the huge consumption of energy in many fields including, but not restricted to, distillation techniques. Thermal distillation technique,…
ISEF · 2014
Embedded Systems
The internet as global communication platform evolved to a pillar of modern society. Increasing demand to exchange data keeps putting a fundamental question to internet service providers: Ho…
ISEF · 2014
Systems Software
The objective of this study was to determine the optimal flight path re-entry angle during the end-of-life of the International Space Station (ISS) that would be most effective at minimizing…
ISEF · 2014
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics Fourth Award
Tumor-associated lymphatics play an important role in tumor growth and metastasis. In this in vitro study, gold nanoshell (AuNS) mediated photothermolysis of lymphatic endothelial cells (LEC…
ISEF · 2014
Physics and Astronomy
Stars originate from massive dense cores of gas and dust. Cold gas and dust in interstellar molecular clouds clump up due to turbulent motion and form regions called dark clouds that are sli…
ISEF · 2014
Energy: Chemical Second Award
Many accessories and machinery have introduced for various agriculture based activities, yet nobody has introduced a Machine for bund reforming with ability to plough in Paddy field. Up to n…
ISEF · 2014
Energy: Chemical
Expansive land resources are required to maintain traditional horizontal axis wind turbine farms due to disadvantages imposed by the interaction of adjacent turbine wakes. Horizontal wind tu…
ISEF · 2014
Microbiology
Asteroids that are larger than 200 meters are usually rubble piles, consisting of rocks and ice held together by gravity. If they rotate faster than about ten times per day, they will spin a…
ISEF · 2014
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Cellular processes like motility, morphogenesis, and differentiation are heavily governed by the physical properties of the cell. For example, cellular stiffness is a primary indicator of th…
ISEF · 2014
Microbiology
Tidal lock is a phenomenon that gravitationally “locks” the orientation of an orbiting body toward the other body. A good example is the Moon facing the Earth always with the same face. Moon…
ISEF · 2014
Energy: Physical
Metered Dose Inhalers (MDIs) are designed to deliver medication to a patient’s lungs fast and effectively. However, when used alone, MDI’s deliver less than half of the medication to the lun…
ISEF · 2014
Mathematics
Epilepsy is the most common serious brain disorder recognized by the World Health Organization, affecting 60 million people worldwide. People with epilepsy suffer from recurrent unprovoked s…
ISEF · 2014
Embedded Systems
The purpose of the project was to build an Integrated Development Environment that gives blind, visually impaired or people suffering of Repetitive Strain Injuries that have no experience in…
ISEF · 2014
Energy: Chemical Fourth Award
The project enables the speech impaired people, who have defects in the larynx, to speak. For a particular sound or word, there exist a particular tongue and lip movement. Sensing the tongue…
ISEF · 2014
Embedded Systems
According to "World Health Organization" in 2013, there are 1,000,000 blinds in Egypt. Blinds need an easy voting system in order to express their political views just like other citizens. T…
ISEF · 2014
Energy: Chemical Third Award
The objective of this project is to create a remotely operated rescue robot that can navigate dangerous situations such as a natural disaster or a fire, locate a person in need of rescue, pr…
ISEF · 2014
Mathematics
The project seeks to find a sustainable and permanent cure for halitosis which is the persistent bad breath that comes from human mouth and it is more pronounced in the morning. Conventional…
ISEF · 2014
Environmental Engineering Third Award
Current ethanol production methods offer impractical and expensive long-term solutions that would cause dramatic increases in food prices and require extensive areas of land. This research o…
ISEF · 2014
Environmental Engineering
The need for alternative fuel sources is becoming increasingly evident due to the climate changing effects of gasoline. One popular alternative, corn, may not be better due to the energy req…
ISEF · 2014
Energy: Physical
The purpose of this theoretical experiment is to present a device that will lessen the frequency of acid rain that occurs fro the amount of sulfur dioxide that is emitted from oil refineries…
ISEF · 2014
Materials Science
Our country "Egypt" is susceptible to droughts and could possibly run out of water by 2025. Providing new source of pure water is challenging. The solution is inspired from our natural, God-…
ISEF · 2014
Engineering Mechanics
Wave energy, an up-and-coming, field in the area of sustainable resources, harnesses the movement of waves in order to generate usable energy. one of the main problems, as for most types of…
ISEF · 2014
Engineering Mechanics Third Award
The lack of drinking water in the near future is one of the key problems that appeared before humanity in 21st century. Therefore, the best way to obtain fresh drinking water is desalination…
ISEF · 2014
Systems Software
Fire vortex is a certain type of fire that curls upward like a tornado. It is also known to cause more damages and harder to extinguish compared to other types of fire, because of its charac…
ISEF · 2014
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
The weighted Catalan numbers, like the Catalan numbers, enumerate various mathematical objects. For example, the number of Morse links with n critical points is the n-th weighted Catalan num…
ISEF · 2014
Plant Sciences
Neogobius melanostomus (Round Goby) are a benthic dwelling invasive species of fish in the Great Lakes. The question is: What effect does gender, tones, and sound location have on the respon…