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
Earth and Environmental Sciences
In this project, we developed an intelligent motion tracking system incorporating both software and hardware. The software reads in a video stream from a webcam, processes it to recognize mo…
ISEF · 2014
Chemistry Fourth Award
This project examines two specific factors that influence the accuracy and confidence of eyewitness identification in criminal proceedings. Post-Identification Feedback refers to comments ma…
ISEF · 2014
Earth and Environmental Sciences
The main goal of the project was presenting options of artificial intelligence (namely genetic algorithms) on simple but complex example. The example being the simulation of robots with goal…
ISEF · 2014
Earth and Environmental Sciences Fourth Award
Blindness forms a significant barrier to participate in physical activities including entertainment. Playing video games is one way of having fun. At present the current video game technolog…
CSEF · 2014
Mammalian Biology
Objectives/Goals To record and observe the dietary and metabolic affects of artificial sweeteners such as Saccharin and Sucralose on the common mouse (Mus Musculus). Methods/Materials Materi…
CSEF · 2014
Applied Mechanics & Structures
Objectives/Goals There is nothing more precious than life! Yet, in the United States and around the world, many lives are being lost because of senseless killings due to possession of high-p…
ISEF · 2014
Energy: Chemical
Housewives and cleaning workers are suffering a lot when they clean walls, windows and fans. Thus, this idea of inventing a cleaner which can move easily on the walls and windows and climb o…
CSEF · 2014
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals A leading problem in our society is the lack of physical activity in the lives of busy teenagers. Many students need motivation to escape from the pile of homework on their…
ISEF · 2014
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Desert Bighorn Sheep thrived in the Santa Catalina Mountains of Arizona until twenty years ago, when the population became extinct from causes yet undetermined. A multi-group restoration eff…
CSEF · 2014
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only) Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals Ten male subjects and ten female subjects were both shown ten signs by the tester with a brief description of each. After fifteen minutes subjects were tested to see how man…
CSEF · 2014
Electronics & Electromagnetics Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals My objective was to design and build an electronic prosthetic device to handle delicate objects, like eggs, and be size and shape independent. It uses sensors to provide inp…
CSEF · 2014
Electronics & Electromagnetics Fourth Award
Objectives/Goals Over the course of this project, I developed and tested a novel method for a device which finds a sound source. Methods/Materials With components collected from local and in…
ISEF · 2014
Mathematics
Aspirin (acetylsalicylic acid) and salicylic acid are anti-inflammatory drugs with several molecular targets in cells. They were also found to suppress the growth of prostate and colon cance…
ISEF · 2014
Mathematics
The purpose of this experiment was to determine if selected local trees (Sage brush (Artemisia tridentate), Balsam poplar (Populus balsamifera), and Trembling Aspen (Populus tremuloides)) co…
ISEF · 2014
Energy: Physical
Stents are used for a variety of purposes throughout the human body. This investigation focused on two types of stents: arterial stents – which are used to treat narrowed or weakened arterie…
ISEF · 2014
Materials Science Fourth Award
Purpose: Electronic cigarettes (e-cigarettes) are new battery-powered devices that resemble tobacco cigarettes and convert nicotine solutions into inhalable vapors. Thirdhand exposure occurs…
ISEF · 2014
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Many of the current theories regarding the origin of life on Earth rely heavily on the assumption that amino acids were present in the ‘primordial soup’, some 4 billion years ago. However, r…
CSEF · 2014
Pharmacology/ Toxicology
Objectives/Goals The objective of this project was to determine the effectiveness of anthelmintics against intestinal parasites in select horses in Mendocino County. Methods/Materials We col…
CSEF · 2014
Microbiology (General)
Objectives/Goals The objective was to continue testing five select contact lens solutions against P. aeruginosa, and to see how low the lens solution preservatives Chlorhexidine Gluconate an…
CSEF · 2014
Applied Mechanics & Structures Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals This project compared the properties of two types of non-Newtonian fluids, colloidal and polymeric, and searched for and found a mechanism causing those properties at a mole…
CSEF · 2014
Electronics & Electromagnetics Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals This project studies how ferromagnetic and diamagnetic forces affect magnetic levitation distance and its stability, respectively in diamagnetic levitation. Methods/Material…
ISEF · 2014
Plant Sciences Fourth Award
A new kind of fire-retardant thermal insulating polymer material was studied. In order to improve the brittleness of phenolic foam and reduce its production cost, the tar crude phenol was us…
ISEF · 2014
Physics and Astronomy
The purpose of this project was to determine if Pseudomonas putida can be used as a biofertilizer in the production of corn and wheat in salty soil environments. Corn and wheat were grown in…
ISEF · 2014
Engineering Mechanics
Aircraft fuel consumption and carbon emissions can be reduced by improving aircraft wing efficiency. Drag inducing vortices form at the tips of aircraft wings and can be reduced by wingtip d…
CSEF · 2014
Physics & Astronomy
Objectives/Goals Solar events known as Coronal Mass Ejections (CMEs) regularly cause serious problems for electrical systems on our home planet, where the fluctuations of the solar magnetosp…
ISEF · 2014
Plant Sciences
Planarian flatworms are again gaining notoriety as creatures useful for scientific research. Through the use of stem cells, these worms regenerate lost tissue and repair structural damage. P…
CSEF · 2014
Environmental Science
Objectives/Goals This study was designed to 1) determine the change in population of keystone microorganisms with an increase in aqueous carbon dioxide, and 2) determine possible connections…
ISEF · 2014
Mathematics
Purpose of the Experiment: Mutations in ?-glucocerebrosidase, the genetic defect in Gaucher disease (GD), are an important susceptibility factor for Parkinson disease (PD). A PD effector is…
ISEF · 2014
Energy: Chemical
Every year close to 40 children die from heatstroke after being left in a car. This problem has gone largely unchecked in today’s vehicles, so the goal of this project was to end these death…
ISEF · 2014
Chemistry
The original purpose to this experiment was to determine the effects of ethanol concentration on the degradation of hydrogen peroxide by catalase, which forms oxygen and water. We had though…