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 · 2025
Physics and Astronomy Third Award
The formation of planetary orbits and star systems remains one of the greatest mysteries in astronomy. Exocomets, with their unique geological and molecular compositions, may hold the key to…
ISEF · 2025
Environmental Engineering Third Award
Only half of global wastewater is treated—dropping to just 4.3% in low-income countries—while treatment consumes 4% of global electricity. With the energy sector already accounting for 75% o…
ISEF · 2025
Materials Science Third Award
According to UNICEF (2021), 500 million women worldwide lack access to menstrual products, clean water, sanitation, and hygiene facilities. Women in developing countries have difficulty obta…
ISEF · 2025
Plant Sciences Third Award
The hydrogel has gained attention as a delivery mechanism to reduce nutrient runoff and improve delivery of fertilizers. Hydrogels are crosslinked polymers that expand to hold liquid when su…
ISEF · 2025
Behavioral and Social Sciences Third Award
Political polarization creates echo chambers where misinformation thrives. When misinformation aligns with political ideologies, it reinforces biases and obstructs progress on issues like cl…
ISEF · 2025
Biochemistry Third Award
With implications in diseases such as monocytic leukemia, sarcoidosis, and Alzheimers, the detection of lysozyme, an antimicrobial enzyme, remains central in the development of precise antib…
ISEF · 2025
Cellular and Molecular Biology Third Award
Fibrodysplasia Ossificans Progressiva (FOP) is a rare bone disorder caused by a mutation in the ACVR1 receptor, whose downstream signaling leads to excessive bone growth. The defining charac…
ISEF · 2025
Cellular and Molecular Biology Third Award
Fetal Bovine Serum (FBS) is a staple supplement in cell culture, providing key growth factors that promote cell health and proliferation. Cell culture has been a cornerstone of biological sc…
ISEF · 2025
Mathematics Third Award
Federated Learning (FL) has emerged as an innovative and critical machine learning (ML) framework for addressing data privacy and security concerns in training ML models. Unlike traditional…
ISEF · 2025
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics Third Award
Alzheimer’s Disease (AD), a neurodegenerative disorder linked to pathologies characterized with neural cognitive decline, has recently been connected to iron dysregulation and ferroptosis in…
ISEF · 2025
Materials Science Third Award
Recent efforts in photonic material development have aimed to create high-performance, low-cost components that can be integrated into portable diagnostic systems, especially for use in unde…
ISEF · 2025
Plant Sciences Third Award
Despite the recent, and to some extent controversial, advent of plant classification by molecular methods, such as DNA barcoding, morphological characteristics (relating to a plant’s physica…
ISEF · 2025
Robotics and Intelligent Machines Third Award
Over 10 million people live with Parkinson's Disease (PD), an incurable movement disorder that disrupts daily life. Freezing of Gait (FoG) affects 80% of advanced patients, causing sudden im…
ISEF · 2025
Animal Sciences Third Award
Fire ants cause billions of dollars of economic damage every year, and common control methods kill all insects in a given area, even advantageous ones. As my local community is highly effect…
ISEF · 2025
Systems Software Third Award
Cognitive decline and fine motor skill deterioration are common in the aging process, contributing to diminished quality of life and increased dementia risk. This study introduces HandNBrain…
ISEF · 2025
Microbiology Third Award
The World Health Organization reports Vibrio cholerae serogroup O139 as a high-priority pathogen that has the potential to precipitate the 8th cholera pandemic. This project explores the use…
ISEF · 2025
Materials Science Third Award
Excessive bleeding from trauma accounts for about 40% of major global mortality causes, showing the importance of effective bleeding control. Powdered hemostatic agents offer many advantages…
ISEF · 2025
Engineering Technology: Statics & Dynamics Third Award
Some objects can transform between multiple geometric configurations when you interact with them. These systems, known as deployable structures, have significant applications in space techno…
ISEF · 2025
Chemistry Third Award
As global hydrogen demands reached 20 million tons in 2024, electrolysis "the chemical process of splitting water into hydrogen and oxygen" remains one of the most promising methods for clea…
ISEF · 2025
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design Third Award
Wind energy is projected to contribute 35% of total energy production in USA by the year 2050. Vertical axis wind turbines (VAWTs) have gained prominence due to their distinct advantages, i.…
ISEF · 2025
Environmental Engineering Third Award
Fossil fuel combustion releases vast amounts of CO2, contributing to over 8 million premature deaths annually, more than those caused by smoking, by intensifying respiratory illnesses, heart…
ISEF · 2025
Robotics and Intelligent Machines Third Award
Over 250 million visually impaired individuals face significant challenges in navigation, limiting mobility and independence. Traditional aids like white canes and guide dogs offer minimal e…
ISEF · 2025
Biomedical and Health Sciences Third Award
As global energy needs have skyrocketed in the past decade, energy byproduct has increased in tandem. Places like Mooresville, North Carolina; Pineville, Indiana; and southeastern Puerto Ric…
ISEF · 2025
Physics and Astronomy Third Award
The internal kinematics of massive red supergiant branch (RGB) and oxygen-rich and carbon-rich asymptotic giant branch (AGB) stars in the Magellanic Clouds have been modeled to examine the t…
ISEF · 2025
Mathematics Third Award
Make24 is a classic game where players compete to be the fastest to get to 24 using 4 integers between 1 and 10 inclusive. In the generalised version of this game, one is given k not necessa…
ISEF · 2025
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design Third Award
Worldwide temperatures are rising due to increased greenhouse gas emissions, and energy production and consumption are the largest contributors. The purpose of this experiment was to assess…
ISEF · 2025
Robotics and Intelligent Machines Third Award
The purpose of this investigation is to design, build, and test a multi unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) system for wide area object identification. Wide area object identification has applicat…
ISEF · 2025
Biomedical and Health Sciences Third Award
STAC3, known as Native American Myopathy, was first identified within the Lumbee tribe of North Carolina and is known to be an inherited mutation that causes congenital myopathy and musculos…
ISEF · 2025
Earth and Environmental Sciences Third Award
Coastal erosion costs around $500 million per year due to damages to essential infrastructure (NOAA, 2025). Scientists have explored nature-based solutions to coastal erosion, specifically t…
ISEF · 2025
Physics and Astronomy Third Award
Traditional exoplanet detection methods often overlook multi-planet systems containing long-period or non-transiting planets due to observational biases favoring short-period transiting plan…