20,037 real projects from ISEF, the Canada-Wide Science Fair, JSHS and the Calgary Youth Science Fair — searchable by meaning, and filterable by fair, year, category and award.
ISEF · 2020
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
Breaking down cellulosic biomass into fermentable sugar is a key limiting step in the production of bioethanol from lignocellulose. Engineering baker’s yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae represe…
ISEF · 2020
Plant Sciences
Florida is the second largest state in the production of ferns. Ferns rely on high soil moisture levels to thrive. With the threat of drier soils from global warming, it is important to anal…
ISEF · 2020
Systems Software
On average, thirteen thousand Americans fall victim to gun violence each year. Gun violence is the second-leading cause of death for teens in the United States, 58% are homicides - approxima…
ISEF · 2020
Animal Sciences
Light pollution affects organisms throughout the entire ecosystem via disruption and interference of reproductive fitness. Drosophila melanogaster were chosen for this study because of the i…
ISEF · 2020
Embedded Systems
With a rapidly aging infrastructure in our country, safety of the public is at stake. Since only limited public transportation funds available, there is a growing urgency to measure the leve…
ISEF · 2020
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Although e-cigarettes have rapidly proliferated within our youth communities and supplanted cigarettes as the primary means of nicotine consumption across the United States over the past dec…
ISEF · 2020
Environmental Engineering
Microplastics (MP) are plastic debris smaller than 5 millimeters that are left behind from plastic pollution, which poses a threat to human health and marine life. In this study, a natural c…
ISEF · 2020
Translational Medical Science
Cognitive deterioration caused by Mild Cognitive Impairment (MCI), which is often a transition between regular aging and neurodegenerative disease (Alzheimer’s disease), is displayed before…
JSHS · 2020
Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering University of Puerto Rico at Mayaguez Cognitive deterioration caused by Mild Cognitive Imp airment (MCI), which is often a transition be twee…
ISEF · 2020
Environmental Engineering
The project aims to use an available organic waste, the orange peel, for the degradation and reuse of expanded polystyrene, a plastic that takes more than 500 years to degrade and generates…
ISEF · 2020
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
In Peru, 27.1% of the population living in rural areas does not have electricity service (INEI, 2017), a situation reflected in the C.P. La Yarada (new and rural district of Tacna) where the…
ISEF · 2020
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Even though nearly 39 million people worldwide are suffering from some form of profound visual impairment, the available assistive devices designed to help visually-impaired individuals stil…
JSHS · 2020
Tom Ritzdorf Zebra mussels, first detected in Montana in 2016, are known to cause severe economic and environmental damage when they colonize an area. To combat their spread, an accurate com…
ISEF · 2020
Physics and Astronomy
SpaceX’s Starlink satellite network promises world-wide high-speed internet access. With up to 42,000 satellites to be deployed, however, the Starlink satellite network will significantly de…
ISEF · 2020
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Objective: Glaciers have been moving in the Sierra for thousands of years. Recently these glaciers have been melting. I wanted to see if Sierra glaciers are still moving. Methods: I measured…
ISEF · 2020
Plant Sciences
Hydroponic growing in controlled environment horticulture has been an increasingly used method of produce production around the world. Its many methods integrate sustainability and growth ef…
ISEF · 2020
Cellular and Molecular Biology
Huntington’s disease (HD) is a fatal neurodegenerative disorder caused by an expansion of the CAG tract in the huntingtin (HTT) gene. Oxidative stress (OS), or an abundance of oxidants in th…
ISEF · 2020
Systems Software
The purpose of this study is to develop the Forward Head Posture(FHP) Feedback System using Markerless Skeletal Tracking and to improve its judgment criteria to compensate for the lack of pe…
ISEF · 2020
Physics and Astronomy
Acoustic Levitation technology has no material limits. Less receiving, and can move or mix objects without contact. It is an area that is expected to be applicable to various industrial appl…
ISEF · 2020
Physics and Astronomy
This paper is about the foot structure that can improve the harsh driving capacity of walking robot by utilizing the foot structure of Alpine Ibex. Walking robots are used to help transport…
ISEF · 2020
Chemistry
Marine pollution of microplastics has been a problem, but it has been receiving more attention as a serious environmental issue recently since it was included in the UNEP's international env…
ISEF · 2020
Environmental Engineering
The study began by thinking that the blood of smokers would be effective in attracting heavy-metals after seeing a paper stating that heavy-metals were detected more than non-smokers. The au…
JSHS · 2020
3D Systems By 2025, two-thirds of people could be living with freshwater scarcity. Harvesting atmospheric moisture is an innovative method to alleviate this crisis. Torrey Pine tree needles…
ISEF · 2020
Physics and Astronomy
The term “habitable exoplanets” is currently used to describe exoplanets that are in the habitable zone, areas around a star with the right conditions to support liquid water. This project a…
ISEF · 2020
Biomedical Engineering
(1) Background: Seeing that Pueraria montana is an invasive species in the Southeastern United States, there has been interest in repurposing the species. Noting that many plants have medici…
ISEF · 2020
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
[Problem] For individuals with hearing loss, distinguishing between various voices in noisy environments is difficult. Current hearing aids are unable to identify and attenuate background vo…
ISEF · 2020
Systems Software
Children with autism spectrum disorder (ASD) often find it difficult to understand other people’s emotions and facial expressions. However, it is possible to train them with DVDs, quizzes an…
ISEF · 2020
Environmental Engineering
Many people in rural areas are dealing with severe water shortages, but these locations are also big producers of banana plants, which require a great amount of water. In order to deal with…
JSHS · 2020
Mayo Clinic Brachytherapy, the use of radioactive implants placed near tumors, is a vital part of cervical cancer treatment. However, the lack of automated workflows makes brachytherapy plan…
ISEF · 2020
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Over 1.3 billion people worldwide suffer from either vision impairment or blinding retinal diseases, and approximately $139 billion is the estimated economic burden due to these retinal dise…