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 · 2026
Product Science (Junior Division) First Award
Millions of beverages are discarded annually due to improper storage, yet consumers lack simple tools to assess whether a drink has degraded. This project investigates how four common storag…
ISEF · 2026
Biomedical and Health Sciences First Award
Tumor growth in lung adenocarcinoma (LUAD) – the most prevalent form of lung cancer, with a 5-year survival rate below 20% – is promoted by abnormal vasculature. Importantly, the mechanisms…
ISEF · 2026
Environmental Engineering First Award
Marine ecosystems are paramount to the planet's health, but they are threatened by human-introduced pollutants. In particular, microplastics have proven to be detrimental to aquatic wildlife…
ISEF · 2026
Animal Sciences First Award
Apis mellifera are essential pollinators, contributing to 80% of global food crop pollination and $183 billion annually to the global economy. However, around 40–50% of hives collapse annual…
ISEF · 2026
Earth and Environmental Sciences First Award
It's been hypothesized that carbonaceous chondrite meteorites can transport compounds crucial to planetary habitability. Meteorites generate hydrothermal systems through impact energy dissip…
CSEF · 2026
Applied Mechanics (Senior Division) First Award
Assistive grasping of slippery, delicate, or thin objects remains challenging for individuals with hand impairments. Current prosthetic hands and assistive grippers often rely on rigid linka…
ISEF · 2026
Software Design First Award
MANTIS is the first entirely computerized muon-based subsurface imaging system. Its goal is to deliver a fully non-invasive and remote method for underground imaging that eliminates the need…
CSEF · 2026
Medicine & Physiology (Senior Division) First Award
The glial scar that forms after ischemic injury creates a structurally and functionally complex barrier, yet how it regulates neural stem cell (NSC) fate remains unclear. Single-cell RNA seq…
CSEF · 2026
Medicine & Physiology (Junior Division) First Award
Antibiotic-resistant Pseudomonas aeruginosa is responsible for an estimated 559,000 deaths annually worldwide, and for immunocompromised patients like myself, it is a leading cause of mortal…
CSEF · 2026
Zoology (Senior Division) First Award
Predator-prey interactions often involve temporal sequences of sensory cues, where predator-derived chemical signals are detected by the prey before physical contact occurs. Whether prey neu…
CSEF · 2026
Medicine & Physiology (Track 2) (Senior Division) First Award
Alzheimer’s disease (AD) affects 1 in 9 Americans over age 65, yet 98% of clinical trials fail, reflecting a mismatch between cellular heterogeneity and coarse-grained patient-level single-t…
CSEF · 2026
Behavioral & Social Sciences (Senior Division) First Award
Current diagnostic methods can only detect neurodegenerative conditions after symptoms emerge, when significant neurological damage has already occurred. This project investigates early sign…
ISEF · 2026
Chemistry First Award
N-heterocyclic carbenes (NHCs) have emerged as excellent spectator ligands in homogeneous catalysis, especially in transfer hydrogenation reactions. Transfer hydrogenation, the reduction of…
ISEF · 2026
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design First Award
Installed wind power capacity has tripled in the last decade, motivating significant research in wind turbine performance optimization. Traditional optimization methods often evaluate blades…
CSEF · 2026
Physics & Astronomy (Senior Division) First Award
Prior to the first unambiguous discovery in 2011, circumbinary planets (CBPs), planets orbiting two stars or eclipsing binaries (EBs), were considered unlikely to exist due to the perturbati…
CSEF · 2026
Environmental Engineering (Senior Division) First Award
Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) are “forever chemicals” contaminating global drinking water, with concentrations varying widely across communities. We create modular filters that…
CSEF · 2026
Earth & Environmental Sciences(Senior Division) First Award
California will inevitably experience future damaging earthquakes, but the exact timing and location of large events remain unpredictable. This study asked whether near-term hazard can be es…
ISEF · 2026
Materials Science First Award
Plastic recycling is limited by mis-sorting across polymer families and additives. Current identification methods, such as SPI resin codes, labels, and visible/near-infrared/Fourier Transfor…
CSEF · 2026
Earth & Environmental Sciences (Track 2) (Junior Division) First Award
Wildfires are increasing in frequency and intensity across California, producing long-term ecological impacts that persist beyond vegetation loss. One of the most significant effects occurs…
CSEF · 2026
Mathematical Sciences (Junior Division) First Award
Purpose: The knowledge of the relationship between an integer n and its divisors aids number-theoretic research in integer partitions, prime number search, and subset sum problems. Prior wor…
ISEF · 2026
Biomedical and Health Sciences First Award
Dysregulated astrocytic Ca2+ signaling is a key driver of high-burden CNS disorders, including Alzheimer’s and stroke, yet existing neuromodulation strategies remain invasive and neuron-cent…
CSEF · 2026
Chemistry (Senior Division) First Award
Ammonia fertilizers feed over half of the global population. However, its synthesis through the Haber-Bosch process is extremely unsustainable, leading to over 20% of global chemical CO2 emi…
ISEF · 2026
Physics and Astronomy First Award
Origami and linkages are widely used across architecture, space engineering, and the natural world owing to their high interconnectivity, where a single input drives the entire mechanism. Bo…
ISEF · 2026
Biochemistry First Award
Obesity has increased to 1 in 8 people globally, causing dangerous comorbidities, including type 2 diabetes, cardiovascular disease, and cancer. Many obese adults, particularly in low socio-…
CSEF · 2026
Environmental Engineering (Junior Division) First Award
This project investigates whether cardstock made from the Variegated American Agave Century Succulent (VAACS) should replace traditional tree-based cardstock. My hypothesis is that VAACS car…
ISEF · 2026
Cellular and Molecular Biology First Award
Epilepsy affects over 50 million people, and one in three cannot stop their seizures with medication. Neuromodulatory therapies are the leading alternative, but development has been bottlene…
ISEF · 2026
Behavioral and Social Sciences First Award
Pedestrian-vehicle conflict at intersections is a major safety challenge, as conventional fixed-time traffic signals do not adapt to real-time pedestrian crossing behavior and drivers often…
ISEF · 2026
Mathematics First Award
An equation f(x)=a, where f is a complex meromorphic function and a is a parameter, is solvable in elementary functions if the inverse map x=f^{-1}(a) can be expressed as a finite compositio…
CSEF · 2026
Physics & Astronomy (Junior Division) First Award
Purpose | Scientists have been working for centuries to find ways to make objects invisible. They have found that metamaterials can be used to direct waves in ways that natural materials can…
ISEF · 2026
Chemistry First Award
6PPD is an antiozonant ubiquitously used in global tire manufacturing that reacts with ground-level ozone to form 6PPD-quinone (6PPDQ). 6PPDQ is a compound acutely lethal to coho salmon—a sp…