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 · 2011
Mathematics & Software
Objectives/Goals My purpose with Set Phasors to Analyze Circuits was to create an electrical circuit analyzer, which is a computer program that can find the current and voltage of an electri…
CSEF · 2011
Earth & Planetary Sciences Fourth Award
Objectives/Goals The purpose of this research was to determine the shape, size, optical properties, and age of Borneo smoke plumes imaged by the MISR instrument between 2001 and 2009. The Mu…
CSEF · 2011
Applied Mechanics & Structures
Objectives/Goals My project goal was to determine if the angle of a plane's wings have a direct effect on the average speed of the plane. I believe that a plane with wings angled closer to t…
CSEF · 2011
Aerodynamics/ Hydrodynamics (Junior Division Only) Fourth Award
Objectives/Goals The objective of this project is to determine which shape of horizontal stabilizers provides a safe, twenty-degree-angled touchdown for an air-plane. I tested seven shapes o…
CSEF · 2011
Zoology
Objectives/Goals The objective of our experiment is to determine which of three shellfish species (mussels, clams, and oysters) filter bay water for food the fastest. We believe that the mus…
CSEF · 2011
Applied Mechanics & Structures
Objectives/Goals The purpose of this experiment is to optimize the handling of a high-performance remote control (RC) car. This project explores the effect of using different viscosity oil i…
CSEF · 2011
Earth & Planetary Sciences Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals We all know that weather is slightly different every year, if not a lot. I wanted to describe the weather patterns in Moss Landing and see if it correlated with ocean surfac…
CSEF · 2011
Mathematics & Software
Objectives/Goals The objective was to determine how accurite my fluid simulator was. Methods/Materials The simulation method was a staggered grid finite difference approximation of the two d…
CSEF · 2011
Behavioral & Social Sciences Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals The objective of this experiment was to determine whether singers or instrumental musicians would have a better sense of relative pitch - the ability to recognize distances…
CSEF · 2011
Physics & Astronomy
Objectives/Goals This project investigates a potential method of trapping microparticles (particles with diameter ~100 microns) with high-frequency sound (more specifically, acoustic Bessel…
CSEF · 2011
Earth & Planetary Sciences
Objectives/Goals This project was to determine which sinkhole repair technique would result in fewer sinkholes in neighboring areas where potential sinkholes can occur. The hypothesis was th…
CSEF · 2011
Plant Biology
Objectives/Goals The objective of my project is to determine if nitrogen and nutrient infused ashes from vegetation will have a significant affect on the pH level of soil and the overall ger…
CSEF · 2011
Environmental Engineering (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals The purpose of my project was to discover how several different materials remove oil from salt water in a small scale oil spill. I hypothesized that hair would prove to be t…
CSEF · 2011
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals This study examines the association of sleep patterns with psychological health in pre-dental and dental students. It is hypothesized that short sleep duration, high sleep d…
CSEF · 2011
Mathematics & Software
Objectives/Goals I have a very strong motivation for my project. Five months ago, VistaPrint stole my parent#s identity and made many fraudulent charges to the card weeks after the initial p…
CSEF · 2011
Behavioral & Social Sciences
Objectives/Goals The objective of this experiment is to see if smell affects taste. Methods/Materials Informed consent was obtained from 24 people. The people were blindfolded and nose plugs…
CSEF · 2011
Product Science (Physical) (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals In May 2010 Central Valley hair salons and pet groomers tried to help with the Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill by saving hair clippings that were stuffed into nylon tights by volun…
CSEF · 2011
Product Science (Biological) (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals I want people to know that soda is bad for their teeth, which is actually the main purpose of this project. I will take a controll like water or a healthy drink and compare…
CSEF · 2011
Microbiology (General)
Objectives/Goals The objective is to test whether or not the opacity of PET bottles affects the solar disinfection of pathogenic-infested water. Methods/Materials Fourteen PET bottles, fourt…
CSEF · 2011
Mathematics & Software
Objectives/Goals To create a software application written in Java to measure any software program code#s complexity, that allows Software Developers and Software Managers to ensure that soft…
CSEF · 2011
Applied Mechanics & Structures
Objectives/Goals The objective of this experiment is to determine the optimum moisture content at which a soil becomes most stable and be used for structural foundations. Methods/Materials I…
CSEF · 2011
Physics & Astronomy Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals I investigated whether a container's shape affects how much desalinated water ("D/W") is produced through solar desalination under set conditions. My hypothesis was that a b…
CSEF · 2011
Alternative Energy (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals The purpose of this experiment was to determine if the 2.5 inch solar panel would produce more electrical power to the rechargeable battery than the alkaline non-rechargeabl…
CSEF · 2011
Behavioral & Social Sciences First Award
Objectives/Goals The purpose of this project is to determine the type of sound wave that is most differentiable to the human ear when layering multiple instances of that type of sound wave.…
CSEF · 2011
Mathematics & Software
Objectives/Goals The objective of this experiment is to find which sorting algorithm is the fastest from five common algorithms. Our hypothesis was that mergesort would be the fastest as it…
CSEF · 2011
Electronics & Electromagnetics
Objectives/Goals The goal of our experiment was to prove that light can transmit sound over long distances and to verify what solar panel and what laser is the best for this experiment. Meth…
CSEF · 2011
Materials Science (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals My objective was to determine which of five household material insulated sound the best. Methods/Materials A scale model of two rooms were built using a 12:1 inch ratio. The…
CSEF · 2011
Cognitive Science (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals Our goal is to test if the students would focus more on the tests when they exercised. When someone exercises oxygen circulates through the brain, and oxygen is proven to in…
CSEF · 2011
Product Science (Physical) (Junior Division Only)
Objectives/Goals To determine if a spectrogram can detect differences in trumpet quality (low quality vs. high quality) and the level of trumpet players (beginning vs. intermediate). Methods…
CSEF · 2011
Physics & Astronomy Fourth Award
Objectives/Goals If it's possible to measure the speed of an object moving in a linear path with a strobe light, then it's possible measure the speed of an object moving in a circular path.…