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
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…
CSEF · 2026
Applied Mechanics (Junior Division) Second Award
Mind Your Meds: A Timed Pill Dispenser Elijah Alcheck and Caden Eaton Objective/Goal: The goal of our project is a timed pill dispenser for seniors. Many seniors have trouble remembering to…
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…
CSEF · 2026
Zoology (Junior Division) Second Award
The goal of this experiment was to observe the effect that different extreme conditions had on the speed and mobility of Hypsibius exemplaris, an animal from a species of microscopic inverte…
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…
CSEF · 2026
Alternative Energy (Junior Division) Second Award
This project examines the effectiveness of a propeller-based energy harvesting system on a boat in mitigating the impact of waves while harvesting low-velocity, oscillatory water motion. Exi…
CSEF · 2026
Microbiology (Senior Division) Second Award
Azole antifungals have long served as frontline therapies for Candida infections due to their efficacy and oral bioavailability. However, the increasing prevalence of azole- resistant Candid…
CSEF · 2026
Biochemistry/ Molecular Biology (Senior Division) Second Award
Rapid identification of respiratory pathogens is essential for selecting the appropriate treatment, especially in primary care clinics and developing areas with limited medical resources. I…
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…
CSEF · 2026
Medicine & Physiology (Senior Division) Second Award
Neuroblastoma is a pediatric cancer arising from mutated embryonic nerve cell precursors. It is the most common extracranial pediatric solid tumor, yet current therapies are associated with…
CSEF · 2026
Earth & Environmental Sciences (Track 2) (Junior Division) Second Award
Kelp forests declined across California in 2014 from sea star wasting disease and a heatwave, though some are now recovering. I was inspired to use accessible technology to explore this hidd…
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…
ISEF · 2026
Environmental Engineering Second Award
Non-Polar Organic Contaminants (NPOCs) such as Micro/Nano-sized Microplastics (MNMPs), oils and Benzene, Toluene, Ethyl Benzene, Xylene (BTEX) are emerging contaminants that are critical thr…
CSEF · 2026
Physics & Astronomy (Junior Division) Second Award
This project investigated whether electrical impedance could be used to detect contamination in water. The hypothesis was that increasing levels of contamination would increase the conductiv…
CSEF · 2026
Environmental Engineering (Track 2) (Senior Division) Second Award
Wildfires have escalated into a global environmental catastrophe, and traditional suppression methods are increasingly insufficient. While prescribed burning is a critical mitigation tool, c…
CSEF · 2026
Environmental Engineering (Senior Division) Second Award
Abstract: Introduction: Plastics are one of the most widely used materials on the planet. They are mostly made from petroleum-based polymers, which can be molded into a variety of shapes and…
CSEF · 2026
Computational Science (Senior Division) Second Award
Over 80 million people face loss of upper-limb function. However, modern non-invasive electroencephalogram (EEG) prosthetic hand interfaces are limited to cumbersome, binary movements due to…
ISEF · 2026
Earth and Environmental Sciences Second Award
Wildfire smoke increasingly impacts agricultural land, specifically in the PNW, yet the effects of seed exposure to smoke remain poorly understood. This study investigated the effects on pla…