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
Behavioral and Social Sciences Third Award
Ever since the Covid-19 pandemic, unemployment rates have steadily risen from 3.4% in April 2023 to 4.4% most recently in 2026. Amidst escalating economic inequality and worker burnout, onli…
ISEF · 2026
Physics and Astronomy Third Award
The study of exocomets, cometary bodies orbiting stars beyond our solar system, is essential for understanding planetary disc formation and the origins of life. Unfortunately, exocomets are…
ISEF · 2026
Mathematics Third Award
Disease outbreaks are dynamical systems that can abruptly cross critical transitions and escalate into epidemics. While early warning of epidemics is essential for life-saving interventions,…
ISEF · 2026
Materials Science Third Award
Over 2 billion people globally lack access to fresh water, and in recent years, fog harvesting has emerged as a promising solution in water-scarce regions. Yet, the only widely implemented s…
ISEF · 2026
Translational Medical Science Third Award
Pressure ulcers affect 2.5+ million people annually in the U.S., contributing to 60,000+ deaths and $26+ billion in healthcare costs. Current prevention methods remain inadequate. Preventive…
ISEF · 2026
Biochemistry Third Award
Liver fibrosis is a global health crisis, affecting approximately 7.3% of adults worldwide. The disease is progressive, with advanced stages characterized by formation of a permanent extrace…
ISEF · 2026
Materials Science Third Award
Skin cancer drives a global crisis with >7 million projected annual cases, yet clinical diagnostics remain inaccessible. This profound socioeconomic barrier is mirrored in Arizona, where the…
ISEF · 2026
Biomedical and Health Sciences Third Award
The purpose of this study was to explore the efficacy of three between-inning recovery methods [Active recovery (AR), passive recovery (PR), and electromuscular stimulation (EMS)] among high…
ISEF · 2026
Plant Sciences Third Award
Increasing concentrations of metals in groundwater and waterways that are leached from coal ash ponds threaten aquatic life and drinking water quality. Phytoremediation poses a potential sol…
ISEF · 2026
Physics and Astronomy Third Award
Motion-induced quicksand, or secondary rheology, refers to the sinking of an object into dry sand fluidized by distant movement in the same granular medium. In granular environments like des…
ISEF · 2026
Technology Enhances the Arts Third Award
Most smart glasses today are prohibitively expensive and closed source, making them difficult to integrate into custom projects. My vision is to make the beauty of AR more available worldwid…
ISEF · 2026
Physics and Astronomy Third Award
Wildfires pose significant threats to ecosystems and communities worldwide. While visible flames can be readily captured, the underlying thermofluidic processes governing atmospheric fire sp…
ISEF · 2026
Physics and Astronomy Third Award
Arterial stenosis, the narrowing of arteries by plaque buildup, is the primary cause of cardiovascular diseases. Diseased arteries often contain multiple or non-uniform stenoses, so clinical…
ISEF · 2026
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics Third Award
Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) exhibits substantial heterogeneity in long-term developmental outcomes. Children with similar early symptoms often follow divergent cognitive and adaptive-func…
ISEF · 2026
Biomedical and Health Sciences Third Award
Impaired wound healing is a widespread complication experienced by diabetic patients, with persistent hyperglycemic conditions being a central factor that disrupts cellular repair programs.…
ISEF · 2026
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics Third Award
Despite decades of therapeutic development, most disease-associated proteins remain therapeutically inaccessible. These so-called “undruggable” targets typically lack suitable binding pocket…
ISEF · 2026
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics Third Award
Drug-induced liver injury (DILI) accounts for 13% of acute toxicity cases in the U.S. and remains a primary barrier to pharmaceutical development. While most machine learning models predict…
ISEF · 2026
Plant Sciences Third Award
Harmful agricultural practices have degraded topsoil and reduced organic matter, leaving farmers reliant on costly and damaging soil amendments. This threatens the ability to produce food fo…
ISEF · 2026
Microbiology Third Award
The bacterium Vibrio cholerae has evolved unipolar sheathed flagellum as the main organelle to drive motility and facilitate biofilm formation and colonization in host cells although the und…
ISEF · 2026
Animal Sciences Third Award
Drosophila melanogaster in quail farms poses a serious pest problem, where they disturb the birds, degrade hygiene, and reduce egg production, an important source of nutritious food globally…
ISEF · 2026
Robotics and Intelligent Machines Third Award
Large language models (LLMs) achieve remarkable performance on complex reasoning tasks, yet they fail unpredictably and with high confidence on seemingly simple problems, posing a critical c…
ISEF · 2026
Biomedical Engineering Third Award
Assistive grasping of slippery, delicate, or thin objects remains challenging for hand-impaired individuals. Current prosthetic hands and soft grippers often rely on rigid linkages or bulky…
ISEF · 2026
Physics and Astronomy Third Award
Binary neutron star (BNS) mergers emit gravitational waves and eject neutron-rich matter, powering a short-lived infrared transient known as a kilonova. Immediately after the merger, the hyp…
ISEF · 2026
Microbiology Third Award
Burkitt's Lymphoma is an aggressive B-cell malignancy associated with Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) infection. Over 95% of the world's population is persistently infected by EBV. While current tr…
ISEF · 2026
Biomedical Engineering Third Award
In 2025, the American Cancer Society reported 2.1 million Americans were diagnosed with cancer, which is the leading cause for 1 in 6 deaths. This can largely be attributed to late diagnoses…
ISEF · 2026
Materials Science Third Award
Slips, Trips, and Falls (STFs) are major sources of accidents among various populations. About 38 mill falls happen each year in the US alone, with more than 50,000 associated with mobility…
ISEF · 2026
Translational Medical Science Third Award
Triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC) is one of the deadliest breast cancer subtypes because it lacks the receptors targeted by most therapies, leaving patients with few treatment options. Th…
ISEF · 2026
Robotics and Intelligent Machines Third Award
In fields such as exploration or inspection in hazardous environments, the ability to navigate terrain safely is crucial. This is often done through robotics; however, traditional systems (r…
ISEF · 2026
Translational Medical Science Third Award
Diagnosing drug-resistant strains Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) is critical for informing treatment plans and limiting infections. However, existing diagnostics are slow and cover a narro…
ISEF · 2026
Biomedical Engineering Third Award
As humanity ventures beyond Earth, the challenges of space travel extend beyond rocket science and astrophysics. Astronauts face extreme physiological stress, and during deep-space missions…