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 · 2015
Physics & Astronomy
Objectives/Goals This experiment explored the visualization of sound. To investigate what sound looks like with limited resources, it was necessary to apply sound waves themselves to differe…
ISEF · 2015
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Overbidding has been a concern among bidders since the beginning of auctions, but it has been difficult to quantify since overbidding is defined relative to one’s subjective valuation. Howev…
ISEF · 2015
Biomedical Engineering
Traumatic brain injury (TBI) occurs when an impact forces the brain to collide with the cranial bones. Despite decades of research, these injuries are still inadequately understood due to th…
CSEF · 2015
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals My project was to determine which thinking style (Divergent (a more creative thinking style that sees many possibilities) or Convergent (a thinking style that focuses mainly…
CSEF · 2015
Chemistry
Objectives/Goals In this science fair project I will be testing which of the following beverages stains your teeth the most in the least amount of time. The beverages I will be using are Coc…
CSEF · 2015
Mammalian Biology
Objectives/Goals My purpose of this experiment was to find out if Vitamin Water is unhealthy for you, and how if it dehydrates the body in relation to Coke, and other drinks. Methods/Materia…
CSEF · 2015
Microbiology (General) Third Award
Objectives/Goals Algae is the superfood of the future. Algae are a diverse group of eukaryotic organisms that can be unicellular or multicellular. A fast-growing microscopic blue-green algae…
CSEF · 2015
Mathematics & Software
Objectives/Goals The objective of this project was to determine a proof-of-concept in recognizing letters that subjects are thinking about based on their brain's EEG patterns. Our goal was t…
ISEF · 2015
Second Award
The Double Droplet System (DDS) provides a unique type of adaptive lens, one that rapidly oscillates to scan a large range of focal lengths faster than other lenses can. In this project, a D…
ISEF · 2015
'Throw the Ring' is a smart-phone application running on Androids (Google play store ). This physical puzzle game has many stages. And each stage consists of 'Bubbles' and 'Rings.' As you mo…
ISEF · 2015
The purpose of this study was to see if air plants could be used as an indicator of indoor air pollution by the way the plants responded. Epiphytic bromeliads were placed in various polluted…
ISEF · 2015
The "TINTAMIX", named by participants as being an ink developed in Puebla Mixteca, project involves the study and development of natural dyes, using the resources available to our Mixteca. T…
CSEF · 2015
Environmental Science
Objectives/Goals The objective of this experiment was to compare the waters of Europe and United States to the World Health Organization standardized guidelines, and to determine which one i…
CSEF · 2015
Physics & Astronomy Third Award
Objectives/Goals Gapless surface states on topological insulators (TI#s) are protected from backscattering, making them promising candidates for quantum computing and spintronics application…
ISEF · 2015
Fourier transform methods are used to analyze functions and data sets to provide frequencies, amplitudes, and phases of underlying oscillatory components. Fast Fourier Transform (FFT) method…
ISEF · 2015
Biochemistry
This experiment tests one of the leading hypotheses on the causes of salamander neoteny. Under ordinary circumstances, Barred Tiger Salamanders (Ambystoma mavortium) metamorphose into terres…
ISEF · 2015
Sign language is an effective alternative to speech for individuals who are speech impaired but still have full motor control. However, few people outside of the speech-impaired community un…
CSEF · 2015
Electronics & Electromagnetics
Objectives/Goals Sign language is an effective alternative to speech for individuals who are speech impaired but still have full motor control. However, few people outside of the speech-impa…
ISEF · 2015
Second Award
Corneal scarring is the leading cause of blindness worldwide. Since current therapies are expensive and functionally inefficient, the scarring process (known as the fibroblast-to-myofibrobla…
CSEF · 2015
Microbiology (General) Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals The objective is to see if antibacterial bio-restriction (a combination of conjugation inhibition, bacterial interference, and antibiotic) will inhibit the proliferation of…
ISEF · 2015
Ribonucleotide reductase is an enzyme that catalyzes formation of deoxyribonucleotides from ribonucleotides. I present for the first time a quantum-chemical study of the thermodynamics of re…
CSEF · 2015
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals Students and children today are creating cliques and deciding who their friends are based on what they themselves or others wear. The goal of this project was to discover ho…
CSEF · 2015
Product Science (Biological) (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals My objective was to determine which type of cat litter spreads the least amount of zoonotic diseases through airborne dust particles disbursed through litter box cleaning. I…
ISEF · 2015
Just hearing the word “cancer” can strike fear into anyone. The everyday constant worry about doing, eating, or drinking something that may end up giving you cancer is quite enough of a batt…
CSEF · 2015
Biochemistry/ Molecular Biology Fourth Award
Objectives/Goals THE OBJECTIVE OF THE PROJECT IS TO FIND OUT IF EXPOSURE TO ULTRA VIOLET LIGHT AFFECT YEAST FERMENTATION RATE AND/OR ALTER PROTEINS IN YEAST, THUS INDICATING THAT LIGHT EXPOS…
ISEF · 2015
Coconut Scale Insects (CSI), Aspidiotus destructor severely affected coconut plantations in the Philippines causing a drop in production since 2013. This study aimed to find an alternative o…
ISEF · 2015
The purpose of this investigation was to conduct a toxicology study on toluene-containing Pine-Sol; and to study the dangers it may pose to humans using yeast as a model organism. Rates of C…
CSEF · 2015
Mammalian Biology
Objectives/Goals The objective is to reveal through DNA that our human spices arose over 100,000 years ago in Africa from a single founding population and that every single human being can t…
ISEF · 2015
We designed and developed a photonic fence that locates and tracks insects. Photonic fences have a wide array of uses. They can be deployed outside buildings to prevent disease carrying inse…
ISEF · 2015
The purpose of this experiment was to see if traditional or nontraditional treatments for Clavebacter michiganensis nebraskensis (Goss’s Bacterial Wilt and Leaf Blight)a re more affective in…