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 · 2015
The purpose of this project is to help people with tinnitus. The experimenter created a computer program that uses generated sine waves and phase to cancel out tinnitus frequencies. First th…
ISEF · 2015
Biomedical Engineering
Recently, fast food chains and local restaurants around the nation have been changing their menus from fried and breaded meat products to grilled meats. This change, while meant to be positi…
CSEF · 2015
Environmental Engineering First Award
Objectives/Goals The purpose of this study was to determine whether Corn Starch, Wheat Starch and Potato Starch each mixed into a solution with biodegradable biopolymers Xanthan Gum and Beta…
ISEF · 2015
The purpose of this project is to demonstrate the mathematical principles of the Monty Hall problem. The Monty Hall problem is a three door probability puzzle loosely based on the television…
ISEF · 2015
Biomedical Engineering Third Award
Glioblastoma (GB) is the most common and aggressive primary malignant brain tumor. Despite aggressive treatment, including maximum surgical resection followed by both chemotherapy and radiot…
ISEF · 2015
Systems Software
Several high-profile deaths recently focused societal attention on the use of video footage as evidence. This experiment investigated how slow motion and jury instructions affect the judgmen…
ISEF · 2015
Biomedical Engineering
Heart Disease is the top killer in the United States, causing 600,000 deaths annually. Current methods of prevention for this disease cause discomfort to 30% of the population and may be inv…
CSEF · 2015
Biochemistry/ Molecular Biology Second Award
Objectives/Goals Heart Disease is the top killer in the United States, causing 600,000 deaths annually. Current methods of prevention for this disease cause discomfort to 30% of the populati…
CSEF · 2015
Electronics & Electromagnetics
Objectives/Goals My objective was to test the feasibility of replacing hydroelectric dams with multiple small turbines in free flowing rivers. Methods/Materials A pelton wheel turbine genera…
ISEF · 2015
Third Award
Nilaparvata lugens Stal or brown planthopper is the dominant damaging pest found in rice field together with Cyrtorhinus lividipennis which is its egg predator. Using chemical insecticides e…
ISEF · 2015
Computer technology has made large impacts on society however, there are still areas in which new technologies can be implemented in order to improve lives such as in the lives of the visual…
CSEF · 2015
Zoology
Objectives/Goals The objective is to genetically engineer a line of flies that are capable of highlighting the genes responsible for extending lifespan in the Drosophila melanogaster#s #Hsp2…
ISEF · 2015
Third Award
This multiphase study was conducted to evaluate the feasibility of utilizing a piezoelectric crystal tree to harvest electrical energy from rain water to use as a clean, renewable energy sou…
ISEF · 2015
Fourth Award
The purpose of this experiment is to find a way to provide a constant supply of electrical power to a cardiac pacemaker utilizing cardiac and pulmonary motions in conjunction with piezoelect…
CSEF · 2015
Chemistry Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals To discover and harness latent properties that exist between exoelectrogenic communities in a biochemical fuel cell and their organic interactions with different types of el…
ISEF · 2015
The ozone layer is a deep layer in the stratosphere which surrounds the Earth. The layer shields the entire Earth from the harmful ultraviolet (UV) radiation that comes from the Sun. However…
ISEF · 2015
Worldwide, Influenza kills more than 250,000 yearly. Despite this, the approach to flu vaccination has not changed in several decades. One novel technique in vaccine development is the use o…
ISEF · 2015
To help vaccinate the rural population of Africa, who do not have easy access to electricity and refrigeration, the thermophilic gene could be added to common vaccines to help them remain po…
CSEF · 2015
Environmental Science
Objectives/Goals Does the leeway coastal sand of Okinawa, Japan, along the East China Sea, transport from north to south due to the Black Current and other surface water processes? This expe…
CSEF · 2015
Plant Biology Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals The purpose of this project is to contrast the growth of organic, inorganic, and genetically modified plants in different soil types. This includes finding which group of pl…
CSEF · 2015
Mammalian Biology
Objectives/Goals My goal was to find out whether a horse or it's rider's heart rate would be most affected after jumping a course of jumps. Methods/Materials Stethoscope, Stopwatch, Course o…
ISEF · 2015
We find a depth-first search version of Dhar's burning algorithm that gives a bijection between the parking functions of a multigraph and its spanning trees. Thus we extend a result by Perki…
ISEF · 2015
Biomedical Engineering Fourth Award
Schizophrenia (SCZ) is a rather widespread neuropsychiatric illness without defined causes. Studies have implied an immunological dysfunction hypothesis for SCZ by identifying differences in…
ISEF · 2015
Biochemistry
The purpose of this research focused on whether or not thawing water temperatures made an impact on viability of bovine semen cells. Bovine semen was tested to find the prime temperature of…
ISEF · 2015
MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are involved with gene regulation by obstructing translation or by helping with the deterioration of mRNAs therefore suppressing the gene. A lack or surplus of miRNAs is r…
CSEF · 2015
Biochemistry/ Molecular Biology
Objectives/Goals Reports published by the U.S. National Institute of Health indicate a food's vitamin C oxidizes and denatures at 70° C (or 158° F). I set out to learn if vitamin C could be…
ISEF · 2015
Biomedical Engineering
Studies have shown an inverse correlation between prostate cancer incidence and ultraviolet (UV) exposure by region. Vitamin D (1,25(OH)2D3) is a seco-steroid hormone that is absorbed into t…
CSEF · 2015
Physics & Astronomy
Objectives/Goals The objective of the experiment was to use an inexpensive mirror with an anisotropic holographic diffuser, rotating at 5 times a second by being mounted on a 300RPM motor sy…
ISEF · 2015
Second Award
This experiment pioneered a technique to locate the descent velocity at which an unmanned aeronautical vehicle (UAV) is susceptible to vortex ring state (VRS). VRS forms when a rotorcraft de…
CSEF · 2015
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only) Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals The objective was to see how time perception is learned in children. We hypothesized that time estimation would become more accurate with age and could be learned with feedb…