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 · 2023
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics First Award
In mid-2022, Mpox reemerged with heightened infectivity and transmissibility, causing 30,000 cases in just six months. As we recovered from COVID-19, fear of another pandemic heightened. Two…
ISEF · 2023
Microbiology First Award
Staphylococcus aureus (SA) kills over 330,000 people yearly, is becoming increasingly resistant to antibiotics, and can stop wounds from healing. This study engineered bacterial cellulose-ca…
ISEF · 2023
Microbiology First Award
The opportunistic pathogen Pseudomonas aeruginosa causes fatal and chronic infections, with 124,000 deaths annually, due to its beta-lactamase-mediated resistance to beta-lactam antibiotics…
CSEF · 2023
Mathematical Sciences First Award
Flip graphs are graphs of combinatorial objects, where 2 adjacent objects are related through a local change, or a flip. In my work, I studied friends-and-strangers (FS) graphs, an abstract…
CSEF · 2023
Applied Mechanics & Structures First Award
Pickleball is a rapidly growing sport, but there have been many complaints about games being too loud. The average noise level from a pickleball game is 70 decibels when measured at 100 feet…
ISEF · 2023
Engineering Technology: Statics & Dynamics First Award
Electric-vertical-takeoff-and-landing (eVTOL) aircraft could enable the implementation of large-scale Urban Air Mobility projects, thereby mitigating problems that currently face the transpo…
ISEF · 2023
Robotics and Intelligent Machines First Award
In future interplanetary missions, rockets must land on smooth terrain to avoid damaging their boosters or tipping over. Currently, scientists can narrow down Mars mission landing spots with…
CSEF · 2023
Toxicology First Award
Greenhouse gases and nutrient loading have contributed to the proliferation of harmful algal blooms. The overgrowth of diatoms and dinoflagellates forms hypoxic dead zones and produces letha…
CSEF · 2023
Behavioral & Social Sciences First Award
1 in 44 children in the USA are impacted by autism spectrum disorder (ASD), but only <50% of children received effective early intervention due to delayed diagnosis. This represents a huge m…
CSEF · 2023
Zoology First Award
Pollination services provided by managed honey bees are essential to a variety of agricultural crops. In February and March, more than 80% of the nation’s beehives are rented by almond growe…
ISEF · 2023
Biomedical and Health Sciences First Award
422 million adults worldwide have diabetes, and 48% of all juvenile deaths are due to diabetes or diabetes-inflicted diseases; diabetes in low-income families has risen rapidly---up to 21% w…
ISEF · 2023
Physics and Astronomy First Award
The longstanding question of how ultra-short-period (USP) planets form and survive so close to their host stars signifies a gap in our understanding of planetary formation. With only 127 USP…
CSEF · 2023
Physics & Astronomy First Award
The longstanding question of how ultra-short-period (USP) planets form and survive so close to their host stars signifies a gap in our understanding of planetary formation in the Universe. W…
CSEF · 2023
Toxicology First Award
Caffeine pollution is a form of wastewater pollution prevalent in the United States and other parts of the globe. We hypothesized that certain spices might be able to counteract stressful st…
ISEF · 2023
Cellular and Molecular Biology First Award
Mitochondria are highly dynamic organelles that interact with various cellular components, including the endoplasmic reticulum (ER). This essential interaction occurs through mitochondria-as…
ISEF · 2023
Plant Sciences First Award
The acylated flavonoid glycosides (AFGs) in Pseudognaphalium affine (D. Don) Anderberg, a plant resource that has the concomitant function of both medicine and foodstuff in China, exhibited…
ISEF · 2023
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design First Award
The global electricity consumption due to cool air conditioning is huge, accounting for about 10% of the total global electricity demand. The self-powered energy saving device for air condit…
ISEF · 2023
Earth and Environmental Sciences First Award
Sedimentary rock layers found in eastern Pennsylvania, including Berks County, are known to have uranium deposits. Radon-222 is a naturally occurring radioactive gas that is a daughter eleme…
CSEF · 2023
Behavioral & Social Sciences First Award
Chat GPT is a groundbreaking Artificial Intelligence (AI) application that can write essays in under a minute. Since its release in November 2022, it has sparked a worldwide debate about its…
ISEF · 2023
Engineering Technology: Statics & Dynamics First Award
In the diverse landscape of robotic applications, there has been limited research on robots capable of navigating under stick structures, despite their critical importance in high-risk envir…
CSEF · 2023
Cognitive Science First Award
Sleep is critical for memory, especially your declarative memory, which is used for storing facts and information. During sleep, your brain consolidates the information you learned throughou…
ISEF · 2023
Chemistry First Award
It is known that substances such as cocaine, barbiturates, LSD, and its derivatives, which have a stimulant and narcotic effect, have a strong addictive effect by directly affecting the cent…
CSEF · 2023
Plant Biology First Award
Plant photosynthesis is responsible for absorbing 25% of CO2 created on Earth. Research also shows indoor plants have abilities to reduce indoor air pollution. However, little attention has…
CSEF · 2023
Computational Systems & Analysis First Award
Each year, wildfires destroy billions of dollars of infrastructure, cost billions of dollars to suppress, emit billions of tonnes of carbon, and claim many lives. These negative effects are…
ISEF · 2023
Earth and Environmental Sciences First Award
The Arctic is warming three times faster than the rest of the world, causing decreased sea ice and permafrost, changing ecosystems, and threatening the livelihoods of indigenous people. In t…
ISEF · 2023
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics First Award
Replication errors represent two-thirds of cancer mutations. A novel subset, micro-changing short tandem repeats (mcSTRs), lack systematic examination in cancers due to complex chromosomal a…
ISEF · 2023
Translational Medical Science First Award
Three million people in the U.S. suffer from gluten intolerance/celiac disease (CD). In these patients, the digestive system cannot digest gluten proteins. My project aims to solve this issu…
ISEF · 2023
Environmental Engineering First Award
Implementation of carbon capture & storage (CCS) is vital for alleviating detriments from carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions. However, all current processes are deemed ineffective due to ineffic…
CSEF · 2023
Mammalian Biology First Award
Glioblastoma(GBM) is the most common malignancy of the central nervous system in adults. Despite medical advancements, the continued shortfall of many treatments such as Temozolomide, alongs…
ISEF · 2023
Biomedical Engineering First Award
This research aimed to enhance the accessibility and customizability of domestic chicken eggs for embryonic analyses and model system research. Through the engineering of a novel device, a s…