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.
CSEF · 2016
Microbiology (General)
Objectives/Goals Improve Artemia (brine shrimp) survival by coincubation with common strain of Lactobacillus to solve dilemma of bacterial disease and antibiotic resistance in aquaculture. M…
ISEF · 2016
Biomedical and Health Sciences
We decided to investigate about the transgenic crops to inquire how changes made by geneticists can have repercussions on society, leading to debates and divergent stances. The purpose of th…
ISEF · 2016
Alzheimer`s disease is one of the leading causes of death and affects millions of people worldwide. Since this form of dementia has such a large impact on the human population, it is imperat…
CSEF · 2016
Environmental Engineering Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals To explore methods to reduce/remove the presence of hexavalent chromium in drinking water through use of steel wool filtration and chemical precipitation using ferrous sulfa…
CSEF · 2016
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals The purpose of this project was to examine the association between academic exam stressors and executive functioning and negative eating behaviors. Methods/Materials Field E…
ISEF · 2016
This study explored the relationship between a pond's distance from the nearest paved road and the health of the frog populations inside. It was hypothesized that ponds greater than 100 mete…
CSEF · 2016
Zoology
Objectives/Goals To compare the effects of El Niño conditions on two different ecosystems in Henry Cowell State Park, determining if increased soil moisture as a result of additional rainfal…
CSEF · 2016
Physics & Astronomy
Objectives/Goals The purpose of this project is to discover a definite relationship between the trajectories of a projectile fired at the same angle and velocity both with and without gravit…
CSEF · 2016
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals The purpose of this project is to compare the level of depression or symptoms of depression between nurses working nights and nurses working days, as measured by the PHQ-8 s…
ISEF · 2016
The accumulation of heavy metal ions in rivers can have detrimental effects on the ecosystem. My project investigates the possibility of using an invasive aquatic plant called the water hyac…
ISEF · 2016
The following project will include a series of experiments to find biological consequences that exposure to electromagnetic fields may bring not just to Drosophila Melanogaster and their rep…
CSEF · 2016
Materials Science (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals To observe two different thermite reactions and determine whether copper oxide or iron oxide thermite would cause more observable damage (melting) to the test subject (made…
ISEF · 2016
The purpose of this experiment is to create a device that measures the temperature of diabetic patients’ feet so that it can alert and record when the temperature difference of each foot is…
CSEF · 2016
Physics & Astronomy
Objectives/Goals Based on my research on thermoelectricity, I believed that I would be able to convert heat into electricity by utilizing the process called the Seebeck Effect. The Seebeck E…
ISEF · 2016
The project started when I became aware of a company that had an idea about a project that could be carried out by a student. They are a company that develop commercial refrigeration systems…
CSEF · 2016
Electronics & Electromagnetics
Objectives/Goals In this project, I want to make an Artificial Pancreas that can be used for any patient with Type 1 Diabetes. Instead of using actual insulin and glucose I will test the art…
ISEF · 2016
Background: Prostate cancer is the second most commonly diagnosed male cancer in the western world. In over half of the patients, Ets Related Gene (ERG) has been found to express in prostate…
ISEF · 2016
Systems Software
Increased globalization has led to more diversity in the United States, yet, people are often reluctant to initiate interracial interactions. These interactions may engender identity threate…
ISEF · 2016
Second Award
Cisplatin cures cancers but increases mortality due to its nephrotoxicity. My in vitro studies led to the hypothesis that mice treated with acrolein or cisplatin will promote kidney fibrosis…
ISEF · 2016
In Inertial Electrostatic Confinement (IEC) and Beam Target (BT) fusion systems secondary electrons are a product of beam-target and beam-beam interactions. these secondary electrons can the…
ISEF · 2016
The rolling lamp, a cultural heritage in China, also represent a kind of structure that is interesting mathematically. We define a math model of the rolling lamp, which is an arrangement of…
CSEF · 2016
Product Science (Physical) (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals Millions of people today, perhaps also you, are being tricked and put into danger when using commercial grease-cleaning products such as Formula 409, Goo Gone, and many othe…
CSEF · 2016
Mathematics & Computer Science
Objectives/Goals The object of my project is to test which method works the best to predict run production. Methods/Materials computer, taking baseball statistics from the last 10 years and…
ISEF · 2016
A big disaster happened in Kuwait where a huge fire started in the scrap tiers yard which cause emission of a very big amount of poison gases like [so2] and [co] that’s why I decided to look…
ISEF · 2016
Tossing a coin is often used to make a binary decision. For the coins in daily life, there exist protuberant parts, portrait or decorative pattern on the surface. The mass is non-uniform dis…
CSEF · 2016
Microbiology (Medical) (Junior Division Only) Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals The objective of this study is to determine if toothbrushes have harmful bacteria in their bristles and which one of my cleaning techniques would clean the toothbrush the mo…
ISEF · 2016
First Award
Development of cancer-specific drugs is critical to improve quality of life and survival of cancer patients. This integrative research demonstrates a novel concept to improve specificity of…
ISEF · 2016
Smart e-speaking stick is a stick-speaking especially to help blind people to alert them to the most prominent and the most important things that blind lacks feeling for keeping them safe. B…
ISEF · 2016
Biomedical Engineering Second Award
Electronic-cigarettes, or Electronic Nicotine Delivery Systems (ENDS), represent a major public health issue, but little is known about their toxicological effects when inhaled. This study e…
ISEF · 2016
Fourth Award
Two critical necessities for people in developing communities are generating affordable power and accessing clean water. According to a joint WHO and UNICEF 2015 monitoring report, 9% of the…