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 · 2017
Earth and Environmental Sciences Third Award
Desalination and purification of seawater could prevent droughts and give all humanity access to clean water. However, current desalination techniques like reverse osmosis (RO) are difficult…
CSEF · 2017
Electronics & Electromagnetics Second Award
Objectives/Goals Currently, there are not many options to heat or cool the body without adding or dropping layers. Additionally, there is no way to intelligently increase and decrease one#s…
AJAS · 2017
Although the algal biofuel industry is growing, it is inhibited by the high cost of harvesting lipids and the energy used to harvest this energy exceeds the energy that is created. In additi…
CSEF · 2017
Computational Systems & Analysis
Objectives/Goals Physicians often rely on histology & cytology lab reports to diagnose diseases. Lab report generation needs manual intervention which adds cost and time. These prevent a loc…
CSEF · 2017
Applied Mechanics & Structures
Objectives/Goals The goal of this project is to develop a gadget with can be latched onto a vent and detect any clogging, heat buildup, and/or combustion in an air vent. Design criteria of t…
CSEF · 2017
Biochemistry/ Molecular Biology
Objectives/Goals Gene therapy shows great promise in treating many human diseases. However, one major drawback of the current technology is that it can only be directed to a particular mutat…
ISEF · 2017
Biomedical Engineering Fourth Award
Each year, 15 million infants—one in every ten born worldwide—are susceptible to hypothermia. This makes thermal stability a necessity for infant survival, with negligence of a stable enviro…
CSEF · 2017
Electronics & Electromagnetics
Objectives/Goals The objective is to build a pocket-sized, user-friendly, everyday refrigeration device suitable for transporting pharmaceuticals in developing countries and other areas wher…
ISEF · 2017
Biochemistry Second Award
In many parts of the world including India, several hazardous chemical insecticides are excessively sprayed on vegetables,fruits or any other consumable product for insect control. In genera…
ISEF · 2017
Biomedical Engineering
A rapid, microfluidic microRNA test using saliva is proposed as a tool to diagnose breast cancer in its early stages. Current means of diagnosing this disease requires expensive, highly tech…
ISEF · 2017
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Melanoma is one of the deadliest forms of skin cancer, causing 80% of skin cancer mortalities. However, it is fully curable if diagnosed early. Diagnosis is conducted by visually examining l…
ISEF · 2017
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Ice cores extracted from ice sheets contain valuable information about the past atmospheric makeup inside air bubbles within the ice, which are measured by releasing the contents of trapped…
ISEF · 2017
Biomedical and Health Sciences Third Award
The purpose of this experiment was to compare three types of auto-suturing (4, 5, & 6-sutures per segment) and control of continuous hand sutured anastomoses. It was hypothesized that if thr…
ISEF · 2017
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Biodiversity is very important for environmental health since it adds to genetic variability, preventing soil erosion, and discovering new resources. Endemic plants add to the biodiversity o…
ISEF · 2017
Materials Science Third Award
Conducting polymers (CPs) combine the electronic properties of semiconductors with the biocompatibility and mechanical properties of polymers. However, the capabilities of CPs are limited by…
ISEF · 2017
Materials Science
The fast detection of toxic gases traces in an inadequately ventilated environment is crucial to effectively reduce any widespread loss of life and property. This requires sensors capable of…
ISEF · 2017
Microbiology Third Award
The current rise of multi-resistant bacterial strains has required increased development and production of new antimicrobial compounds. Research into the “cryptic biosynthetic pathways” of a…
ISEF · 2017
Biochemistry
The enhancement of enzymatic catalysis for adequate digestion of accumulated proteins in the stomach is necessary for the prevention of dyspepsia, renal insufficiency, and further complicati…
ISEF · 2017
Translational Medical Science
Platelets, also known as thrombocytes, are one of the three blood cells of the human body that play a major role in the physiological process of hemostasis. Platelets, unlike erythrocytes, h…
ISEF · 2017
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
The multiparameter CMOS optical sensor developed in this research utilizes visual parameters to determine the existence of microbial forms in water samples. Though current PCR and bacterial…
ISEF · 2017
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics Third Award
Cancer is among the leading causes of death around the world. Immunotherapies have the potential to improve cancer survival by utilizing the immune system for treatment and reducing radiatio…
CSEF · 2017
Electronics & Electromagnetics
Objectives/Goals California experienced a historic drought between 2011 and early 2017. To comply with water usage restrictions, different costly water saving methods have been available for…
ISEF · 2017
Mathematics
This project aims at challenging the underlying conjectures in many modern encryption systems. The problem of integer factorization, and its associated difficulty is solving, is essential to…
CSEF · 2017
Environmental Engineering
Objectives/Goals Endangering aquatic species and threatening global ecosystems, algal blooms pose a serious environmental problem around the world; yet current control methods are costly, in…
CSEF · 2017
Environmental Engineering
Objectives/Goals I investigated wheatear microorganisms can biological convert carbon into oxygen.My thought was lake microbes can be fed plastics and use carbon from plastics as food source…
ISEF · 2017
Physics and Astronomy Fourth Award
Detection of harmful chemicals used in industrial complexes is crucial in order to create a safer environment for the workers. Presently, most chemical detectors used in workplaces are expen…
ISEF · 2017
Plant Sciences
Plant diseases are controlled mostly by chemical compounds toxic to plant invaders, causing health hazards to consumers. This strongly necessitates the search for harmless means of disease c…
ISEF · 2017
Mathematics
In the futuristic dystopia, The Minority Report starring Tom Cruise, the police would be at the crime scene before it occurred. Is this really possible? My project uses data science and mach…
AJAS · 2017
Brain tumor segmentation is an essential step in medical image analysis for surgical planning, cancer treatment, or monitoring of therapy. The task is to classify each voxel in a magnetic re…
ISEF · 2017
Cellular and Molecular Biology Second Award
Cardiometabolic disease (CMD) is a cluster of correlated diseases. Risk of heart disease, the world’s leading cause of death, is greatly increased by metabolic syndrome, a combination of dia…