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
Microbiology (Junior Division) Fourth Award
Currently in the scientific world, there is growing awareness of the concept called One Health. One Health states that the environment, humans, and animals are all connected. Furthermore, th…
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…
CSEF · 2026
Earth & Environmental Sciences(Senior Division) Fourth Award
Overwintering fires (OWFs), in which smoldering peat combustion persists underground through boreal winters and re-ignites the following spring, represent a growing but poorly monitored feed…
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…
CSEF · 2026
Medicine & Physiology (Senior Division) Fourth Award
Human midbrain organoids are 3-dimension neural tissues derived from iPSC-stem cells. As they self-assemble into layered neural networks, these models capture key aspects of developing human…
CSEF · 2026
Environmental Engineering (Junior Division) Fourth Award
According to the World Health Organization (WHO), indoor air pollution causes about 2.9 million deaths annually. This include over 309,000 deaths of children under the age of 5, making it a…
CSEF · 2026
Alternative Energy (Junior Division) Fourth Award
Triboelectrification occurs when two dielectric materials come into contact with each other and become charged after separation. This concept follows the principle of electrostatic induction…
CSEF · 2026
Environmental Engineering (Track 2) (Senior Division) Fourth Award
Wind-borne embers (firebrands) are responsible for up to 90% of home ignitions in U.S. wildfires, as they ignite dry materials near buildings. Despite advances in wildfire management, thousa…
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…
ISEF · 2026
Biochemistry Fourth Award
Alzheimer’s Disease is a neurodegenerative disorder characterized by the hyperphosphorylation of Tau and collapsin response mediator protein-2 (CRMP2), a newly identified and understudied bi…
ISEF · 2026
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics Fourth Award
This project aims to better predict cancer dynamics to mitigate the effects of drug resistance. This research project uses a dataset from Kaznatcheev et al., who created an evolutionary game…
ISEF · 2026
Biomedical and Health Sciences Fourth Award
Immune thrombocytopenia (ITP), a life-threatening disorder of humans and dogs, leads to spontaneous bleeding from antibody-mediated platelet destruction. Standard immunosuppressive therapies…
CSEF · 2026
Biochemistry/ Molecular Biology (Senior Division) Fourth Award
Cervical cancer is the 2nd largest among all gynecological cancer cases reported worldwide and is a challenge to treat. Immunotherapy remains a widely recognized treatment option but suffers…
ISEF · 2026
Environmental Engineering Fourth Award
Due to high ultrafine particle (UFP) concentrations on freeways and the lack of effective UFP prevention technologies in vehicles, passengers may be exposed to elevated cabin UFP levels duri…
ISEF · 2026
Chemistry Fourth Award
Mercury is a highly toxic heavy metal that poses a serious risk to human health and the environment, affecting an estimated 19 million people worldwide. In aquatic systems, inorganic mercury…
ISEF · 2026
Animal Sciences Fourth Award
Stag beetles are highly popular insects as pets in the world. During the larval stage, a pair of orange spot is observed exclusively on the abdomens of female larvae. These structures common…
ISEF · 2026
Biomedical and Health Sciences Fourth Award
Lactase dietary supplements are widely used to address lactose intolerance, a condition where the small intestine produces insufficient lactase enzyme to break down lactose, the natural suga…
ISEF · 2026
Behavioral and Social Sciences Fourth Award
Mental health disorders affect approximately 23% of American adults, highlighting the need for improved diagnostic tools (NIMH, 2024). Current diagnoses rely on self-reported surveys and cli…
ISEF · 2026
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics Fourth Award
Parkinson's disease (PD) affects over 10 million people globally. It is driven by the intrinsically disordered (IDP) protein a-synuclein (asyn). While asyn's flexibility is functional, it en…
ISEF · 2026
Behavioral and Social Sciences Fourth Award
Many teachers have started using phones as a way to encourage students in the classroom. I wondered how effective this method was, and what some of the undesirable consequences could be. The…
ISEF · 2026
Software Design Fourth Award
As hyper-realistic deepfakes grow into one of the world’s most pressing crises, the rush to secure digital integrity has made watermarking one of the most urgently researched sectors in cybe…
ISEF · 2026
Biomedical and Health Sciences Fourth Award
Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) infection is associated with neurocognitive dysfunction (NeuroHIV), which can occur in 30–50% of people with HIV, despite successful combination antiretrov…