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.
CSEF · 2013
Mammalian Biology Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals This project aimed to develop and test a low-cost device potentially capable of detecting sports-related concussions based upon brain wave data collected from a simple elect…
CSEF · 2013
Biochemistry/ Molecular Biology First Award
Objectives/Goals Obesity and related diseases such as Diabetes Mellitus (DM) and cardiovascular diseases (CVD) are caused by chronic imbalance between energy intake and expenditure. A novel…
CSEF · 2013
Plant Biology
Objectives/Goals The experiment was conducted to determine the difference in the iron intake of spinach in the presence of marble (alkaline soil) versus regular soil. If the marble increases…
CSEF · 2013
Electronics & Electromagnetics
Objectives/Goals My project was to determine whether or not dirt build up has an effect on the amount of energy made by a solar panel. Methods/Materials Two Identical solar panels were place…
CSEF · 2013
Chemistry
Objectives/Goals The purpose of this experiment was to determine the most cost-effective catalyst for electrolysis. The null hypothesis states that the cost to produce one mL of hydrogen and…
CSEF · 2013
Microbiology (General) First Award
Objectives/Goals The objective is to discover novel influenza endonuclease inhibitors as leads for a new type of anti-flu medicine that is effective against all influenza viruses including p…
CSEF · 2013
Zoology Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals In this research, the effect of varying territorial distribution on the cohabitation of the two species in conflict was tested. Methods/Materials Because the ants previously…
CSEF · 2013
Biochemistry/ Molecular Biology
Objectives/Goals The first objective of my experiment was to discover whether temperature of a drinkable solution had an effect on the dissolution rate of lactase enzyme tablets. My second o…
CSEF · 2013
Product Science (Physical) (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals The purpose of this experiment is to find out which commonly used, over the counter painkiller dissolves the quickest in water which is at body temperature. Methods/Material…
CSEF · 2013
Environmental Science
Objectives/Goals The objective of this experiment was to explore water quality and answer a scientific question: Do bigger watersheds have more coliform bacteria? Methods/Materials Samples w…
CSEF · 2013
Mammalian Biology
Objectives/Goals The objective is to determine whether boys or girls have a faster physical reaction. Methods/Materials An index card was used to measure the one-inch distance between every…
CSEF · 2013
Zoology
Objectives/Goals This experiment intended to see how exposure to the different types of radiation (microwave, UV light, and light bulb radiation) would affect the number of brine shrimp eggs…
CSEF · 2013
Zoology
Objectives/Goals My goal was to figure out if cell phones can affect living organisms. For my experiment I used planarian and observed their activity and speed. Methods/Materials Materials:…
CSEF · 2013
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals Previous research showed that auditory and visual learning modes are the most effective among Villa Park High School students for memorizing information on a short term basi…
CSEF · 2013
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals With the creation of this project, I worked to find how the differences between a positive mindset and a negative mindset, using the variable of speed and accuracy. I wanted…
CSEF · 2013
Microbiology (General)
Objectives/Goals The project tested if increasing the amount of copper in a culture of Pseudo-nitzschia would encourage its growth and thus contain more domoic acid. It was hypothesized that…
CSEF · 2013
Applied Mechanics & Structures
Objectives/Goals To test the torque resistance of concrete mixes when the ratio of cement is changed. I will change the ratio of cement to the sand and gravel. I will start with a normal one…
CSEF · 2013
Plant Biology
Objectives/Goals Test if pre-emergents effect the growth the raddish plants. Methods/Materials Planted 3 raddish seeds (72 individual containers) remove unhealthy plants, only one healthy pl…
CSEF · 2013
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals Our objective was to find out if and how the heart rate of an athlete affected memory. Methods/Materials For our experiment, we designed three tests to observe the effects o…
CSEF · 2013
Pharmacology/ Toxicology
Objectives/Goals To find out if hydrogen peroxide, a common fungicide and algaecide, at different concentrations, affects germination. Methods/Materials Materials: Snap Pea Seeds, plastic cu…
CSEF · 2013
Pharmacology/ Toxicology
Objectives/Goals To test the effectiveness of the multi purpose cleaner and bathroom cleaner used at Pioneer Valley High School on E.Coli bacteria. Methods/Materials Petri Dishes, Micro Pipe…
CSEF · 2013
Mammalian Biology
Objectives/Goals My objective was to discover if canines have paw dominance or are ambidextrous. Methods/Materials I used a sample of 10 dogs, enough treats for each dog a total of 15 times,…
CSEF · 2013
Zoology
Objectives/Goals This experiment tests the effect of a high fat diet during a fruit fly#s larval stage on its ability to respond to stress as a grown fly. Methods/Materials In this experimen…
CSEF · 2013
Zoology
Objectives/Goals The purpose of my project is to determine if the particle size of calcium ingested by chickens affect how calcium is metabolized in increasing egg shell strength.Humans have…
CSEF · 2013
Plant Biology
Objectives/Goals The objective of this experimentation was to determine whether or not talking to plants in different tones of voices would affect how tall they could grow in a seven-day per…
CSEF · 2013
Physics & Astronomy Third Award
Objectives/Goals My project's objective is to determine whether the temperature of a magnet will affect the strength of a magnet and its magnetic field. Methods/Materials I used 80 1.25 cera…
CSEF · 2013
Product Science (Physical) (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals The objective of my project was to determine if temperature affects the bounciness of a lacrosse ball. I hypothesized that a colder lacrosse ball would bounce higher than a…
CSEF · 2013
Materials Science (Junior Division Only) Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals There are many different types of drywall that are used all around an average, well made home. I want to find out if there is a correlation between the density of the drywal…
CSEF · 2013
Applied Mechanics & Structures Fourth Award
Objectives/Goals 3D-printing is a form of additive manufacturing where materials are added layer by layer to create a three-dimensional object. If the orientation an object is 3D-printed at…
CSEF · 2013
Zoology
Objectives/Goals I wanted to see if The Mendelian ratio really worked. Methods/Materials I used C. elegans as my test subject. First I get male and hermaphrodite C. elegans that have been mu…