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 · 2026
Materials Science Fourth Award
Large-scale reforestation efforts often struggle due to the large cost associated with seeding and low growth yield due to pest predation on seeds. To negate pests, blanket application of ch…
ISEF · 2026
Embedded Systems Fourth Award
Since 1993, the IAEA has reported 4,243 radioactive accidents, causing deaths due to radioactive lost/stolen sources and leaks. Therefore, surveying contaminated areas using a UAV-based plat…
ISEF · 2026
Robotics and Intelligent Machines Fourth Award
By 2052, one quarter of the population will be over the age of 65, with adults over 85 the fastest growing segment. Supporting older adults to maintain their independence is a global priorit…
ISEF · 2026
Materials Science Fourth Award
Microbial contamination in healthcare and marine environments compromises safety and incurs billions in costs. To address this, a parametric study was conducted on eight cast Cu-Zn-Al-Sn all…
ISEF · 2026
Physics and Astronomy Fourth Award
Localized surface plasmons (LSPs) are collective oscillations of free electrons on metallic nanoparticles. By confining light into nanoscale volumes, LSPs generate strong electromagnetic nea…
ISEF · 2026
Microbiology Fourth Award
Chlamydia trachomatis (Ctr) causes over 130 million urogenital infections annually. Despite high genetic similarity, Chlamydia muridarum (Cm) exhibits different host tropism. Interspecies di…
ISEF · 2026
Chemistry Fourth Award
Traditional “best-before” dates on packaged meat are often rough estimates that do not take real storage conditions into account which can increase the risk of consuming spoiled food, posing…
ISEF · 2026
Software Design Fourth Award
Multi-agent AI systems are increasingly prevalent in various fields ranging from autonomous drone systems to healthcare assistant robots. Achieving success in complex environments requires e…
ISEF · 2026
Robotics and Intelligent Machines Fourth Award
Clutch is a hybrid electrostatic dry adhesive climbing robot, and is a culmination of a research and development project. For the past few decades, researchers have been trying to replicate…
ISEF · 2026
Biochemistry Fourth Award
Metastatic triple negative breast cancer (TNBC) is the most aggressive form of breast cancer, with a 5-year survival rate of 12%. Mesenchymal quadruple negative breast cancer (QNBC) is a mol…
ISEF · 2026
Embedded Systems Fourth Award
Adequate access to tactile resources such as braille and tactile images is one of the largest challenges towards improving the blind or visually impaired (BVI) education level and socially c…
ISEF · 2026
Plant Sciences Fourth Award
Global agricultural sustainability is currently threatened by the inefficient use of chemical fertilizers, which often leach into ecosystems as pollutants rather than being absorbed by crops…
ISEF · 2026
Physics and Astronomy Fourth Award
Diffractive sails are a novel aerospace propulsion concept that direct photon momentum through controlled diffraction. By electrically controlling how light is redirected as it passes throug…
ISEF · 2026
Materials Science Fourth Award
Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) are anthropogenic contaminants used in superomniphobic products, due to the exceptional stability of their carbon–fluorine bonds, that allow them t…
ISEF · 2026
Chemistry Fourth Award
Oxidative stress is a harmful bodily process which is linked to diseases like cancer and heart disease. Azo dyes have demonstrated bioactivity, specifically antioxidant and antibacterial pro…
ISEF · 2026
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics Fourth Award
Classified under the Bromodomain-Extra Terminal family, Brd4 plays a crucial role in the transcriptional activation of genes involved in immunity, leading to sterile inflammation and fibrosi…
ISEF · 2026
Robotics and Intelligent Machines Fourth Award
3D point clouds are fundamental to robot perception and 3D reconstruction. However, due to interference, they often contain outliers which distort surface geometry and degrade the performanc…
ISEF · 2026
Robotics and Intelligent Machines Fourth Award
Hundreds of U.S. workers are killed annually performing inspections in confined spaces, industrial facilities, and critical infrastructure, with thousands more suffering severe injuries (Bur…
ISEF · 2026
Translational Medical Science Fourth Award
Every 3 seconds, a new case of dementia is diagnosed worldwide, and more than 55 million people live with dementia, underscoring the need for innovative, accessible complementary strategies…
ISEF · 2026
Translational Medical Science Fourth Award
The prevalence of Alzheimer's disease (AD), a multifactorial, neurodegenerative disease characterized by a decline in cognitive functions, is projected to double by 2060, underscoring a grow…
ISEF · 2026
Physics and Astronomy Fourth Award
White dwarfs (WDs) are a unique window into the fate of planetary systems, but confirmed planets around WDs are rare and transit signals last only minutes, making them easy to miss in ground…
ISEF · 2026
Environmental Engineering Fourth Award
Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) are synthetic chemicals with strong carbon-fluorine bonds that resist breakdown in the environment and are associated with serious health effects,…
ISEF · 2026
Biochemistry Fourth Award
Drug repositioning—the repurposing of existing drugs for new applications—provides high safety but is still limited in gene therapy. As gene therapy research grows globally, safe genome engi…
ISEF · 2026
Earth and Environmental Sciences Fourth Award
Access to safe drinking water remains a pressing global challenge, with millions exposed to heavy-metal contamination each year. At the same time, fertilizer runoff degrades water quality th…
ISEF · 2026
Technology Enhances the Arts Fourth Award
Communication barriers significantly affect those who are deaf, hard of hearing, speech impaired and/or mute. Limiting access to education, healthcare, employment, and everyday social intera…
ISEF · 2026
Embedded Systems Fourth Award
In this project, the researcher developed the engineering goal of creating a real-time drone system that would fly over an area, state the location of each invasive plant, create a risk asse…
ISEF · 2026
Materials Science Fourth Award
Freshwater is becoming a depleting resource globally due to climate change, urbanization, and pollution. Thus, there is an urgent need for decentralized and energy-efficient freshwater gener…
ISEF · 2026
Mathematics Fourth Award
Brain aneurysms are balloon-like bulges in brain arteries, where abnormal blood flow is believed to influence whether an aneurysm grows or ruptures. This project studies a mathematical model…
ISEF · 2026
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics Fourth Award
The clinical translation of CRISPR-Cas9 therapeutics is limited by the risk of unintended "off-target" mutations, which can cause errors like oncogenic chromosomal alterations. Current compu…
ISEF · 2026
Microbiology Fourth Award
Emerging infectious diseases require accurate spatial risk assessments, yet current strategies in disease ecology lack a clear and reliable framework when direct disease data is lacking. One…