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
Embedded Systems Second Award
Throughout history, wind has held great importance for humanity. Accurately measuring its speed and direction plays a vital role in fields such as agriculture, navigation, meteorology, and a…
ISEF · 2026
Materials Science Second Award
Button Battery Ingestion (BBI) constitutes a global emergency, reporting over 300,000 cases annually, primarily affecting children under six due to natural exploration, resulting in hundreds…
ISEF · 2026
Behavioral and Social Sciences Second Award
Racial disparities in federal sentencing have long raised concerns about fairness and the effectiveness of policies intended to mitigate them. This study examines whether judicial adherence…
ISEF · 2026
Robotics and Intelligent Machines Second Award
Most robotic grippers are either powerful or gentle, rarely both. Traditional rigid designs lack adaptability and often damage fragile objects through excessive force, limiting their usage i…
ISEF · 2026
Biomedical Engineering Second Award
This study addresses the prevalent issues of ADHD(attention deficit hyperactivity disorder) and distracted focuses under daily routine; this study aims to bridge the gap between abstract psy…
ISEF · 2026
Translational Medical Science Second Award
Triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC) remains a clinical challenge due to its aggressive nature and the lack of targeted therapies. Traf2 and NCK-interacting kinase (TNIK), a key regulator of…
ISEF · 2026
Environmental Engineering Second Award
Widespread contamination of surface and groundwater systems from heavy metals, excess nutrients, and other hazardous pollutants has intensified the need for sustainable water remediation tec…
ISEF · 2026
Biochemistry Second Award
Breast cancer remains the most prevalent malignancy among women worldwide. Dose-dense AC-T chemotherapy (Adriamycin, Cyclophosphamide, and Paclitaxel), a commonly prescribed regimen, is asso…
ISEF · 2026
Chemistry Second Award
Arsenic contamination in groundwater affects over 200 million people globally. Inorganic arsenic, mainly arsenite (As(III)) and arsenate (As(V)), is classified as a Group 1 human carcinogen,…
ISEF · 2026
Embedded Systems Second Award
On average, every 3 seconds a car hits a pedestrian, and every minute one is killed. Hindsight is a low-cost wearable sensor that alerts pedestrian users of vehicles approaching from behind…
ISEF · 2026
Cellular and Molecular Biology Second Award
Cancer and autoimmune diseases present an immunological paradox: T cells adopt opposing functional states. In cancer, T cells become dysfunctional and lose effector function, failing to elim…
ISEF · 2026
Earth and Environmental Sciences Second Award
Oil spills are among the most serious environmental threats. They remain difficult to control, and current remediation methods either disperse oil into water or use chemically aggressive tre…
ISEF · 2026
Software Design Second Award
Passwords are failing. Stolen credentials are now responsible for over 88% of online attacks, and systems are unable to detect when an attacker bypasses a login screen or accesses an unatten…
ISEF · 2026
Biochemistry Second Award
Ionizable lipid nanoparticles (LNPs) are the mainstream delivery mechanisms for mRNA vaccines, with their pH-sensitive protonation facilitating post-endocytic endosomal escape. However, LNPs…
ISEF · 2026
Software Design Second Award
Gaze keyboards require people with ALS to spell words one letter at a time, a process that is slow, exhausting, and forces users to translate simple thoughts into tedious typing sequences. E…
ISEF · 2026
Plant Sciences Second Award
Whether plants—which lack a nervous system—can exhibit "intelligent" behaviors such as learning and stimulus discrimination remains a fundamental question in biology. I addressed this questi…
ISEF · 2026
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design Second Award
Solar water evaporation (SWE) outstands as a promising method to solve the global freshwater shortage due to its lower cost, green and sustainable. Semiconductors photothermal materials (SPM…
ISEF · 2026
Biomedical and Health Sciences Second Award
Chemoresistance remains a primary cause of cancer treatment failure and is increasingly attributed to non-genetic regulatory mechanisms. Emerging evidence suggests that three-dimensional chr…
ISEF · 2026
Biomedical and Health Sciences Second Award
Food allergy (FA) affects 18% of the population and is driven by type-2 inflammation, epithelial barrier dysfunction, and tight junction (TJ) disruption. Recent studies identify Zonulin and…
ISEF · 2026
Animal Sciences Second Award
Pygmy and dwarf sperm whales (Kogia breviceps and Kogia sima) are deep-diving cetaceans with limited internal health data due to low visibility. Necropsies often reveal stomach infestations…
ISEF · 2026
Robotics and Intelligent Machines Second Award
Globally, tens of millions of people suffer from lower body impairments, including spinal cord injuries, cerebral palsy, stroke, and muscular dystrophies, leading to loss of independent mobi…
ISEF · 2026
Microbiology Second Award
An estimated $6 billion USD will be lost in 2026 globally due to disease outbreaks in aquaculture facilities, particularly from Vibrio coralliilyticus, a pathogen that infects corals, fish a…
ISEF · 2026
Engineering Technology: Statics & Dynamics Second Award
Autonomous vehicle (AV) research has focused on structured, high-income Western environments, leaving dense, variable developing regions underexplored. This project develops three prototypes…
ISEF · 2026
Materials Science Second Award
Despite decades of medical advancement, cancer continues to claim about 10 million lives annually. mRNA therapeutics represent a promising approach for cancer immunotherapy, particularly bec…
ISEF · 2026
Physics and Astronomy Second Award
Prior to the first unambiguous discovery in 2011, circumbinary planets (CBPs), planets orbiting two stars or eclipsing binaries (EBs), were considered unlikely to exist due to the perturbati…
ISEF · 2026
Materials Science Second Award
This study optimizes the composition and factors of potassium superoxide (KO2) and calcium hydroxide (Ca(OH)2) for use in a chemical oxygen generator (COG) for emergency escape devices. The…
ISEF · 2026
Earth and Environmental Sciences Second Award
Because exact earthquake prediction remains unavailable and retrofit budgets are limited, I developed a physics-anchored continuous space-time model to rank where short-term regional seismic…
ISEF · 2026
Engineering Technology: Statics & Dynamics Second Award
Entanglement is the leading cause of death in marine mammals each year and it is estimated that only 10% of entanglements are detected and reported. Rescuers have been injured and lost their…
ISEF · 2026
Physics and Astronomy Second Award
Quantum computers encode information in qubits, which are susceptible to physical noise. To protect information, quantum systems use error correction codes like the surface code, detecting e…
ISEF · 2026
Biomedical and Health Sciences Second Award
Evolution has shaped primates to develop two key advanced traits in comparison with lower mammalian species: first higher intelligence with increased brain size and cortical complexity and s…