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
Engineering Technology: Statics & Dynamics Third Award
The IceCube Neutrino Observatory requires boreholes drilled 2,500 meters into the Antarctic ice sheet using a 5 megawatt hot water drill. During the first 66 minutes of drill startup insuffi…
ISEF · 2026
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics Third Award
Over 80 million people face loss of upper-limb function. Yet noninvasive electroencephalogram (EEG) prosthetic hand interfaces are limited to cumbersome, binary control due to severe signal…
ISEF · 2026
Biochemistry Third Award
The fidelity of DNA is essential for healthy cellular development and proliferation. Mismatched base pairs can arise because of polymerase errors or exposure to genotoxic chemicals. Mismatch…
ISEF · 2026
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design Third Award
Ocean energy is a mostly unexplored renewable energy source. Conventional wave energy converters are limited by moving parts prone to deterioration and narrow frequencies ranges, which reduc…
ISEF · 2026
Animal Sciences Third Award
Recent studies have identified potentially harmful substances in menstrual products. However, the biological effects of exposure to these substances through menstrual products are poorly exp…
ISEF · 2026
Physics and Astronomy Third Award
Freshwater scarcity affects over 50% of the current world population, making atmospheric water harvesting (AWH) an important field of research. This project utilizes mechanically exfoliated…
ISEF · 2026
Translational Medical Science Third Award
Purpose. Osteosarcoma (OS) is an especially aggressive bone cancer disproportionately affecting children. Current treatments like surgery, chemotherapy, and radiation suffer from high recurr…
ISEF · 2026
Earth and Environmental Sciences Third Award
Pollution is a concern throughout the world, particularly in oceans. Recent concerns have arisen about the impacts of microplastics. Sea urchins are commonly used for developmental studies,…
ISEF · 2026
Chemistry Third Award
Drug discovery requires an understanding of protein conformations and ligand binding poses. Classical molecular dynamics (MD) can provide this understanding, but it is too slow to sample ess…
ISEF · 2026
Behavioral and Social Sciences Third Award
Smartphones are deeply integrated into students' daily lives, and frequent notifications may interrupt sustained attention during academic tasks. This study examined whether realistic phone…
ISEF · 2026
Cellular and Molecular Biology Third Award
Isoflurane is an FDA-approved volatile anesthetic used to induce and maintain general anesthesia. Isoflurane hyperpolarizes membrane potential by selectively enhancing K+ channels and inhibi…
ISEF · 2026
Mathematics Third Award
This project focuses on the Repelling Propellers Problem, an unsolved problem proposed by Professor James Propp. The question investigates how same-sign, equally charged/spaced points behave…
ISEF · 2026
Materials Science Third Award
Vanadium dioxide (VO2) thin films display an intriguing insulator-to-metal phase transition, which results in a distinct change in infrared (IR) transmittance across the solar spectrum. This…
ISEF · 2026
Chemistry Third Award
Peptide cyclization is a common chemical modification of linear peptides, resulting in the formation of cyclized frameworks. Compared to their linear counterparts, cyclic peptides are well k…
ISEF · 2026
Earth and Environmental Sciences Third Award
Tornadoes are among the deadliest and costliest weather phenomena in our world and remain challenging to predict despite significant advancements in weather forecasting. Current tornado fore…
ISEF · 2026
Biomedical Engineering Third Award
Pathological hand tremors affect 5% of the world population, yet diagnosis remains a subjective 0-4 visual score, and treatments are dangerous (Beta-Blockers), ineffective (orthotics), or ex…
ISEF · 2026
Embedded Systems Third Award
Each year, over 350,000 people in the United States experience out-of-hospital cardiac arrest, and nearly 90% do not survive. Early cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) can triple survival ra…
ISEF · 2026
Plant Sciences Third Award
Due to population growth, demand for crop yields is rising, leading to greater use of environmentally harmful chemical fertilizers. Stressors (e.g., water, salinity stress) complicate this i…
ISEF · 2026
Environmental Engineering Third Award
With approximately 4.4 billion people worldwide lacking access to safe water, sustainable purification technologies that operate efficiently under natural sunlight are necessary. Industrial…
ISEF · 2026
Software Design Third Award
Living alone should not mean dying alone, yet loneliness and unattended deaths continue to rise as global isolation increases; research shows a 32% increase in mortality among solitary indiv…
ISEF · 2026
Microbiology Third Award
Human-pathogenic Vibrio, particularly Vibrio vulnificus, in Gulf oysters pose increasing public health risks as coastal waters warm. Although temperature–Vibrio relationships are known, stra…
ISEF · 2026
Earth and Environmental Sciences Third Award
Sensing of the Tropopause and Marine Boundary Layer (MBL) is limited by cost and operational constraints of conventional fixed monitoring systems. WindDrift is a dual-modality Lagrangian sen…
ISEF · 2026
Animal Sciences Third Award
Anti-apoptotic B-cell leukemia/lymphoma (Bcl-2) proteins are overexpressed in around half of human cancers, linked to tumorigenesis, chemotherapy resistance, and poor prognosis. Effectively…
ISEF · 2025
Engineering Technology: Statics & Dynamics Third Award
This research introduces a bio-inspired robotic tail exoskeleton designed to assist human balance, drawing inspiration from animals like cats and kangaroos. The device aims to address the si…
ISEF · 2025
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics Third Award
Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) is a heterogeneous neurological disorder affecting approximately 1 in 100 children today. The diagnosis and treatment of ASD are complex, partly due to its obs…
ISEF · 2025
Behavioral and Social Sciences Third Award
To bridge the gap between the increasing demand in the STEM workforce and the mathematician shortage, we constructed a children's book that combined the definition and applications of a comp…
ISEF · 2025
Translational Medical Science Third Award
Neurodegenerative disorders like Alzheimer’s disease affect approximately 55 million people worldwide and are expected to double every 20 years. Standard detection methods, such as cerebrosp…
ISEF · 2025
Robotics and Intelligent Machines Third Award
The engineering design process uses repeated steps to produce the desired design. It starts by identifying a problem, researching it, brainstorming solutions, prototyping, testing, and itera…
ISEF · 2025
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics Third Award
Globally, health issues such as antibiotic-resistant infections and cancer become increasingly severe; however, the extensive time and cost required for drug development impose a significant…
ISEF · 2025
Microbiology Third Award
Klebsiella pneumoniae (KP) has been raging around the world recently, posing a threat to public health and also becoming a significant burden on healthcare systems. Although antibiotics were…