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 · 2025
Materials Science Fourth Award
Biomedical devices for personalized health monitoring are crucial for early disease detection and therapy, yet current devices are rigid and uncomfortable, causing issues with long-term wear…
ISEF · 2025
Animal Sciences Fourth Award
The circadian rhythm is a 24-hour biological clock that regulates physiological and behavioral cycles in response to environmental light cues. While previous studies on circadian rhythms in…
ISEF · 2025
Animal Sciences Fourth Award
Stingless bees (Tetragonula (Tetragonilla) collina) are key pollinators in agriculture and ecosystems. However, they are at risk of extinction due to the rapid urbanization, unsustainable ha…
ISEF · 2025
Plant Sciences Fourth Award
The parasitic plant, Striga hermonthica, threatens food security in Africa and affects the income of smallholder farmers, with impacts between $7-10 billion USD annually. A newly emerging st…
ISEF · 2025
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics Fourth Award
Every year, approximately 90,000 people in the United States are diagnosed with lymphoma, a cancer impacting white blood cells called lymphocytes. The CD30 receptor, overexpressed in Hodgkin…
ISEF · 2025
Earth and Environmental Sciences Fourth Award
Louisiana pipelines are made of many different materials as they were all built during different times where certain metals were optimal. These aging pipes can be hazardous to the community,…
ISEF · 2025
Systems Software Fourth Award
Individuals with conditions such as Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) or paralysis often face significant barriers in communicating speech and mobility limitations. These challenges necess…
ISEF · 2025
Earth and Environmental Sciences Fourth Award
Arctic sea ice and permafrost are critical to global climate balance and bio-geophysical diversity. Recent CryoSat-2 satellite data indicates that ice thickness is depleting at the rate of 1…
ISEF · 2025
Physics and Astronomy Fourth Award
When a vertically downward water jet strikes a horizontally placed disk, it forms a unique axisymmetric water film called a “water bell.” This water bell can undergo a dramatic and irreversi…
ISEF · 2025
Biomedical and Health Sciences Fourth Award
Heart disease is the leading cause of death for both men and women in the United States, and is responsible for a third of deaths worldwide. Most cardiovascular disease is caused by the accu…
ISEF · 2025
Materials Science Fourth Award
Mesoporous silica nanoparticles are sub-microscopic particles that contain numerous pores, allowing for the loading of drugs for therapeutic uses. By developing mesoporous silica nanoparticl…
ISEF · 2025
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design Fourth Award
Electrolysis, one of the most efficient methods for hydrogen production, consumes around 40 billion liters of freshwater annually, thus limiting its scalability due to freshwater scarcity. S…
ISEF · 2025
Microbiology Fourth Award
Water contamination poses a global challenge, particularly in regions relying on unlicensed artesian wells for agriculture and livestock without regulatory oversight. This study examines the…
ISEF · 2025
Translational Medical Science Fourth Award
Autoimmune diseases affect millions worldwide, yet many are difficult to diagnose due to biological complexity and variability across patients. I developed a computational pipeline to addres…
ISEF · 2025
Systems Software Fourth Award
Distracted driving represents an escalating public safety crisis, with its role in motor vehicle collisions and resulting fatalities steadily increasing. Despite advances in distracted drivi…
ISEF · 2025
Embedded Systems Fourth Award
Hydrogen sulfide (H2S) is a highly toxic gas that poses a significant health hazard in oil and gas industries. Traditional H2S gas leak detection methods are often time-consuming, labor-inte…
ISEF · 2025
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics Fourth Award
Salmonella is a common pathogen, infecting more than a hundred million people yearly. About 8% of these cases worldwide result in life-threatening conditions around 4-7 days after exposure.…
ISEF · 2025
Environmental Engineering Fourth Award
With the rapid expansion of global manufacturing, emissions of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) have surged, posing serious threats to both public health and environmental safety. However,…
ISEF · 2025
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design Fourth Award
The ever-increasing global energy demand—particularly for small, portable, and wearable electronics and self-powered systems—necessitates the development of sustainable energy sources. Mecha…
ISEF · 2025
Chemistry Fourth Award
This study designed and synthesized a series of donor (D) molecules in an attempt to form exciplexes with known acceptor (A) molecules and to investigate the influence of the chemical struct…
ISEF · 2025
Cellular and Molecular Biology Fourth Award
Base editors hold great promise in the treatment of genetic diseases as nearly half of known pathogenic genetic variants are point mutations. However, despite recent progress, the base edito…
ISEF · 2025
Physics and Astronomy Fourth Award
Whilst doing background radioactivity measurements I noticed that it changes significantly throughout the months. Thus, I asked myself if environmental radioactivity was influenced by the me…
ISEF · 2025
Translational Medical Science Fourth Award
Radiology, an important branch of medicine, relies on imaging techniques such as X-rays to diagnose diseases and injuries, yet a shortage of radiologists in underserved areas causes delays i…
ISEF · 2025
Earth and Environmental Sciences Fourth Award
Approximately 98% of Americans have detectable levels of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) in their blood. These “forever chemicals” have been recognized as emerging contaminants in…
ISEF · 2025
Cellular and Molecular Biology Fourth Award
Alcohol consumption leads to complications in brain blood vessels and biological function, but how alcohol damages such vessels is unclear. Lysophosphatidic acid (LPA) signaling, regulated b…
ISEF · 2025
Systems Software Fourth Award
Recent events have once again proven how big and pressing of an issue wildfires are. In our approach to wildfire predictiveness, rather than focusing on a single model, we branch into differ…
ISEF · 2025
Biomedical Engineering Fourth Award
Congenital heart disease (CHD) affects 1.4 million newborns annually, with over 20% requiring a heart valve prosthetic. A major challenge in pediatric cardiac care is the absence of a long-l…
ISEF · 2025
Plant Sciences Fourth Award
Lunar colonization will require sustainable agriculture using in-situ resources and minimal fostering materials from Earth. This study aimed to grow Raphanus sativus (radish) in a Lunar Sout…
ISEF · 2025
Biochemistry Fourth Award
Oligonucleotides, especially siRNAs, have been identified as a point of interest due to their capability for precision targeting of "undruggable" targets. siRNAs (Small Interfering RNA) bind…
ISEF · 2025
Behavioral and Social Sciences Fourth Award
Bipolar disorder (BD) complications extend beyond mood swings, with up to 60% of patients experiencing cognitive deficits even during euthymia. Key areas affected include attention, executiv…