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
Plant Sciences Second Award
Axons form communication highways in the body that control fundamental neurological functions as movement. However, injury to matured axons results in devastating consequences to victims, su…
ISEF · 2014
Mathematics
According to the World Health Organization, the total societal cost of antibiotic resistance amounts to over $35 billion dollars per year in the United States alone when accounting for lost…
CSEF · 2014
Microbiology (General)
Objectives/Goals The objective of this project is to determine if staphylococci gathered from different regions of the human skin show patterns of resistance to different antibiotics. My hyp…
ISEF · 2014
Plant Sciences
Cancer is characterized by uncontrolled growth of cells and this disease prevention has taken an important dimension in the field of science, since it has recently been appointed as a major…
CSEF · 2014
Electronics & Electromagnetics
Objectives/Goals My intention in performing this experiment was to see if it is relatively possible, and of course to examine and demonstrate the Biefeld-Brown Effect first hand. From this I…
ISEF · 2014
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Developing antimalarial drugs has always been an important objective for the pharmaceutical industry. However, in the past few decades, there has been an increase in malaria parasites that h…
ISEF · 2014
Energy: Chemical
Extreme and hazardous weather such as hurricane and thunder storm occurs more frequently. To drive safely in heavy rain is challenging and risky. It is especially so in China’s populated cit…
ISEF · 2014
Chemistry
Our project is about social behavior, specifically in ants, which are social creatures that resembles humans. The experiment mainly tests their behavior in two different situations a normal…
CSEF · 2014
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals The objective of this experiment was to measure the effect of gender on optical illusion perception. The hypothesis was that if the subject's gender was female, she would be…
ISEF · 2014
Energy: Physical Third Award
This study’s engineering goal was, “design and test 3-D printed PEEK (PolyEtherEtherKetone) for durability for possible use in less-invasive orthopedic knee implants.” This project had two p…
CSEF · 2014
Biochemistry/ Molecular Biology Second Award
Objectives/Goals The objective of this experiment was to determine the nutritional and caloric differences in GM vs. non-GM papayas. With population set to drastically expand by 2050, and GM…
ISEF · 2014
Environmental Engineering
The objective of this study is to understand the effects of wildfire on Southwestern willow flycatcher (SWFL) habitat and behavior to determine if fire could potentially benefit the bird whe…
ISEF · 2014
Physics and Astronomy
Azadirachta indica known as Nim, is a natural species from Asia and the Indian subcontinent, it belongs to the family Meliaceae, it is used as pesticide. The objective of this study was to i…
ISEF · 2014
Materials Science
To develop an easy, simple method for identifying microorganisms based on their DNA sequences, Bayes’ theorem was applied to DNA sequence analysis. It was hypothesized that the conditional p…
CSEF · 2014
Mathematics & Software Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals To develop an easy, simple method for identifying microorganisms based on their DNA sequences, Bayes' theorem was applied to DNA sequence analysis. It was hypothesized that…
ISEF · 2014
Energy: Chemical
In the field of disaster response, fast message relays are vital. To fulfill this need, Ham radio offers people who are willing to assist during emergencies, when typical communications aren…
ISEF · 2014
Materials Science
The researcher intends to apply the combination of different types of mathematical concepts such as Linear Algebra, Statistics and Game Theory in economic situations of real life. Game theor…
ISEF · 2014
Microbiology
The rapid evolution of viral species complicates the management of chronic infections and the control of other emerging microbiological, infectious agents. The accumulation of these polymorp…
ISEF · 2014
Materials Science
This research focuses on refining the formula of James Stirling that gives an approximation of the actual value of a factorial (Striling, 1730). A wide interval was selected for the value of…
CSEF · 2014
Plant Biology
Objectives/Goals The objective of this project is to investigate whether or not an aquaponics system can grow taller crops than those growing in fertilized soil. Aquaponics is a method for g…
CSEF · 2014
Plant Biology
Objectives/Goals My objective of this project is to grow plants using an eco-friendly environment with no pesticides. I predicted that if I grew plants in an Aquaponics system, that they wou…
ISEF · 2014
Mathematics
Throughout history, plant extracts have been used as treatments for a number of different illnesses. Past research suggests that clove oil and Eugenol, a chemical found both in cloves and ci…
ISEF · 2014
Materials Science Fourth Award
In this work, we observe that the right triangle with integral side lengths possess an interesting feature that the slope of the bisector of each respective interior angle is a rational numb…
ISEF · 2014
Materials Science
Our project aims to show the effectiveness of mass data keyword frequency over social-networking sites, such as Twitter, at accurately displaying real world occurrences and enumerating a pop…
CSEF · 2014
Behavioral & Social Sciences Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals My objective was to discover if negative consequences or positive rewards are more effective as motivation and whether gender is a factor. Methods/Materials I tested partici…
ISEF · 2014
Mathematics
Over 65 million people worldwide are affected by epilepsy, and there is no known cause for 60% of these cases. GM3 Synthase Deficiency is due to the loss of function of an enzyme at the head…
CSEF · 2014
Alternative Energy (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals The sun produces enough solar energy on earth to make almost every household in the world energy independent. Current solar panels have inefficiencies present which causes t…
CSEF · 2014
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only) Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals An experiment was carried out to determine if some multiplication facts are harder than others. For the purpose of this investigation, time to answer the fact and the accura…
CSEF · 2014
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals To establish and explore the connection between the mental and moral stages taken from Piaget and Kohlberg's theories by analyzing the responses from the test. Methods/Mater…
CSEF · 2014
Product Science (Biological) (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals The objective of this experiment is to observe whether contact solutions kill bacteria on contact lenses after one wash. It is hoped that through this experiment, one contac…