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 · 2016
Third Award
Boron Neutron Capture Therapy is an emerging cancer radiation therapy employing the use of high energy alpha particles produced in the reaction between thermalized neutrons and Boron-10 to s…
ISEF · 2016
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Researchers have investigated the Cross Race Effect – own race bias- before; however, not to the specificity of eyewitness testimony as this experiment does. Based on our research, we believ…
ISEF · 2016
Third Award
The human immunodeficiency virus, or HIV, is responsible for causing the AIDS pandemic and killing millions of people around the world. This project seeks to shed light on the evolutionary r…
CSEF · 2016
Mathematics & Computer Science
Objectives/Goals According to the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), one third of the food produced in the world for human consumption every year is wasted. Wasting food also waste…
ISEF · 2016
Third Award
Potato late blight, spread by Phytopthora infestans, caused the Irish Potato Famine and still causes about $7 billion of annual crop damage. Tracking and predicting its spread remains proble…
ISEF · 2016
Third Award
The goal of the TCD3 project is to identify anomalous and dangerous driving patterns from traffic camera feeds. Successful execution can improve road safety by assisting law enforcement catc…
CSEF · 2016
Electronics & Electromagnetics
Objectives/Goals My projects goal is to find out if I am able to test a commercial trailers light system without having a truck available as a power source. The tester I will build needs to…
ISEF · 2016
In an unknown area where the signal is shielded. Celestial Navigation System (CNS) will not apply. So the authors hope to design a navigation device which avoids delivery of external signal…
ISEF · 2016
Purpose of the Experiment Breast cancer is one of the most common malignant diseases. Of the five types of existing breast cancer, the basal like tumors we examined are the most aggressive a…
CSEF · 2016
Chemistry
Objectives/Goals The objective of this project was to see if NaOH as a catalyst (substance used to speed up transesterification) or Hydrochloric acid as a catalyst would produce more biofuel…
CSEF · 2016
Microbiology (General)
Objectives/Goals Develop resistance to Gentamicin and Ciprofloxacin in one strain of E. coli, then transform the resistance to the wild type E. coli. Methods/Materials Tested the transferenc…
CSEF · 2016
Plant Biology
Objectives/Goals This investigation assess the effect of magnetic fields on a model organism: garden cress (lepidium sativum). Methods/Materials Eight samples of garden cress seeds were grow…
ISEF · 2016
First Award
Nowadays it is possible to observe certain shortcomings in commercial transradial myoelectric prostheses regarding skill and haptic capabilities of natural human limb mimicry. This is due to…
ISEF · 2016
Figures of constant width are figures able to rotate inside a square being tangent to all its sides simultaneously. The Reuleaux triangle is the most famous of these figures, being the base…
CSEF · 2016
Biochemistry/ Molecular Biology
Objectives/Goals The objective of the project is to resolve how different blood types, with varying antigens and Rhesus factors, react to other antibodies in their rates and severity of aggl…
ISEF · 2016
Third Award
In the modern world, fossil fuels have ignited an overwhelming concern for pollutants emitted through the burning of gasoline and other non-renewable resources in vehicles, industry, and oth…
CSEF · 2016
Applied Mechanics & Structures
Objectives/Goals The goal of this project was to explore how polygonal robots move. Engineers have created cube robots that flip by using flywheels that spin fast and stop abruptly. My proje…
CSEF · 2016
Environmental Engineering Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals Biogas represents a promising alternative fuel to combat our increasing dependency on fossil fuels and rising greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. For my project, I sought to des…
ISEF · 2016
Second Award
Probiotics were engineered to deliver antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) that show promise as an alternative to antibiotics. This work involved designing a broad-spectrum Escherichia coli Nissle…
ISEF · 2016
Third Award
This project examined how cyanobacteria/algae might exist under Martian simulated conditions, helping convert Mars’ most abundant gas CO2 into oxygen; thus paving the way for possible settle…
ISEF · 2016
Fourth Award
Single-atom thick crystals have the potential to be used in smaller, faster electronics, replacing the silicon-based semiconductors found in current computers. In particular, graphene, a sin…
ISEF · 2016
Fourth Award
The limitation of the speed of a computer is the access speed of its Random Access Memory (RAM). The growing disparity between CPU speed and RAM access times in computation is known as the m…
ISEF · 2016
ONRUN Platform is trying to construct a human-like intelligent integrated body which can sense any changes taking place at any place at any time and make people know of them. And the integra…
CSEF · 2016
Product Science (Biological) (Junior Division Only) Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals The objective of this experiment is to determine which SPF value protects the skin from skin cancer, skin aging, sunburns, cataracts, a weakened immune system, and other eff…
ISEF · 2016
The goal of this project was to create a standing acoustic wave at a high frequency in order to suspend small, lightweight object, such as Styrofoam, in midair. To do this the student was gi…
CSEF · 2016
Electronics & Electromagnetics
Objectives/Goals Fractures in the elderly that result from falls are often due to impaired eyesight and are a major health problem. These falls are estimated to exceed 2 million per year in…
ISEF · 2016
Oil spills critically damage the environment. Spilled oil can be removed from water, but oil contaminated sand is dumped into landfills. The oil from the contaminated sand can leach into gro…
CSEF · 2016
Biochemistry/ Molecular Biology
Objectives/Goals This study examined how ultraviolets (PUVA/PUVB) effect the protein structure of Saccharomyces cerevisiae, yeast cell metabolism compared to other carboxyl- amino acids afte…
CSEF · 2016
Earth & Atmospheric Sciences (Junior Division Only) Fourth Award
Objectives/Goals The objective of the study was to see how UV levels changed as altitude increased. Methods/Materials A weather balloon is a large balloon that can go into the upper atmosphe…
ISEF · 2016
Second Award
The purpose of this experiment was to study the interactive effects of radiation, convection, and fluid vortices in a forest fire heat transfer environment. Applying these principles to fire…