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
Chemistry (Junior Division) Fourth Award
Acidic drinks are commonly consumed and may contribute to tooth enamel erosion. This experiment investigated how different beverages affect tooth enamel using eggshells as a model, since egg…
ISEF · 2026
Engineering Technology: Statics & Dynamics Fourth Award
Traditional forest fire monitoring suffers from inherent flaws, including early warning lag, safety risks of manual sensor deployment in complex terrain, limited flight endurance of conventi…
ISEF · 2026
Engineering Technology: Statics & Dynamics Fourth Award
When disaster strikes, the difference between life and death often comes down to timely information. First responders need an aerial view immediately, but current drones capable of both vert…
ISEF · 2025
Microbiology Fourth Award
Every one in five adults carry a genetic mutation related disease (Cross 2017). Current neoadjuvant and nanoparticle therapies are ineffective in treatment due to rapid tumor drug resistance…
ISEF · 2025
Physics and Astronomy Fourth Award
The growth of space debris in Low Earth Orbit (LEO) risks the current operation of satellites and spacecrafts. The Kessler Syndrome, in which debris is projected to grow at an exponential ra…
ISEF · 2025
Biomedical Engineering Fourth Award
Two billion people are vision impaired globally, of which 43.3 million are blind. 1 in 12 vision impaired people have been involved in a road collision in the last 5 years, with 58% of incid…
ISEF · 2025
Environmental Engineering Fourth Award
This year’s engineering project puts a focus on improving the BioRegen prototype which is a biopolymer that is completely derived from waste materials that fully biodegrades in natural envir…
ISEF · 2025
Plant Sciences Fourth Award
Microplastics, originating from various sources, threaten ecosystems such as the Gulf of Mexico, where they accumulate in food chains and impact vast wildlife & humans. On the other hand, mi…
ISEF · 2025
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics Fourth Award
A solid tumor is an abnormal mass of uncontrolled cell growth, typically originating in the breast, lung, or prostate. Its physiological features make treatment by traditional methods diffic…
ISEF · 2025
Biomedical Engineering Fourth Award
Heart failure (HF) is a leading cause of death globally, impacting 60 million people worldwide and leading to 17.9 million deaths. Traditional ventricular assist devices (VADs), a common sol…
ISEF · 2025
Materials Science Fourth Award
With applications ranging from astronomy and environmental monitoring to night vision and medical diagnostics, infrared (IR) imaging technologies are more in demand than ever. Despite the fa…
ISEF · 2025
Engineering Technology: Statics & Dynamics Fourth Award
This project aims to engineer the next-generation cooling device using ionic wind technology. This system consists of a high-voltage emitter and collector electrodes that generate and attrac…
ISEF · 2025
Earth and Environmental Sciences Fourth Award
In 2024, climate change-induced wildfires burned over 8 million acres across the U.S. and my home state of Oregon faced its most destructive wildfire year on record, with 1.9 million acres s…
ISEF · 2025
Biomedical Engineering Fourth Award
Dysarthria is a motor-speech disorder that impairs the control of muscles required for clear speech, creating serious communication barriers that cannot be fully resolved by existing Augment…
ISEF · 2025
Materials Science Fourth Award
Understanding the effects of machining processes and parameters on the surface integrity of materials is crucial to the manufacturing industry, as the ability to predict residual stress (RS)…
ISEF · 2025
Mathematics Fourth Award
High-dimensional data is often difficult to analyze because of the exponential growth of the size of the space in which the data lives as the dimension increases. One example of high-dimensi…
ISEF · 2025
Translational Medical Science Fourth Award
The prevalence of diseases such as diabetic retinopathy (DR), glaucoma, and age-related macular degeneration (AMD) is rapidly increasing worldwide, with over 700 million people expected to f…
ISEF · 2025
Biochemistry Fourth Award
Understanding and reconstructing pathways in metabolism can help identify biomarkers and metabolic changes associated with systemic diseases, such as cancer and cardiovascular diseases. Howe…
ISEF · 2025
Robotics and Intelligent Machines Fourth Award
The ongoing shortage of caregivers has made it increasingly difficult to meet growing healthcare demands, leaving many individuals without the necessary assistance for daily tasks. The use o…
ISEF · 2025
Earth and Environmental Sciences Fourth Award
Since the late 1970s, the Arctic has experienced a temperature rise more than three times the global average, leading to accelerated thawing of permafrost. This thawing initiates thermokarst…
ISEF · 2025
Embedded Systems Fourth Award
The Russia-Ukraine conflict has revealed that fiber-optic controlled UAVs can bypass conventional detection systems. Radar fails against low-altitude targets with small radar cross-sections;…
ISEF · 2025
Earth and Environmental Sciences Fourth Award
Understanding pCO2 is essential for assessing the ocean's role in the global carbon cycle. However, in many current methods for predicting pCO2, satellite-derived measurements for regional w…
ISEF · 2025
Engineering Technology: Statics & Dynamics Fourth Award
The aerodynamic efficiency of an aircraft's nose cone is crucial to overall flight performance. Traditional nose cone designs are optimized for specific speed regimes, which limits their ove…
ISEF · 2025
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics Fourth Award
Colorectal cancer (CRC) ranks as the second leading cause of cancer-related deaths worldwide. Although CRC incidence rates have traditionally been the highest in developed nations, they are…
ISEF · 2025
Materials Science Fourth Award
Arsenic contamination in groundwater is a global public health concern, with many areas across the globe exceeding the World Health Organization’s maximum permissible limit of 10 µg/L. Healt…
ISEF · 2025
Systems Software Fourth Award
A critical goal in robotics and autonomy is to teach robots to adapt to real-world collaborative tasks, particularly in automatic assembly. The ability of a robot to understand the original…
ISEF · 2025
Cellular and Molecular Biology Fourth Award
Metastatic prostate cancer (mPC) stands second in cancer-related mortality among men. As current treatment options are largely palliative, there is a dire need for novel therapeutic targets…
ISEF · 2025
Microbiology Fourth Award
Tuberculosis (TB), caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis, is once again the world's deadliest infectious disease, after being replaced by COVID-19 for three years. The only approved vaccine f…
ISEF · 2025
Physics and Astronomy Fourth Award
A transit occurs when an exoplanet blocks the light from its host star to cause a unique dimming. The Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) is an all-sky scanning space telescope that…
ISEF · 2025
Chemistry Fourth Award
Global carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions, exceeding 37 billion tons annually, are intensifying environmental crises and threatening public safety. Electrochemical CO2 reduction reaction (eCO2RR…