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
Environmental Engineering Third Award
Science of Autonomy: Optimal path planning optimizes maritime navigation by analyzing environmental factors such as ocean currents to determine time-optimal routes in the ocean. I hypothesiz…
ISEF · 2025
Chemistry Third Award
More than half the world's population, around 4.4 billion people, lack access to clean and safe drinking water. This is partially due to the contamination of synthetic organic dyes, which ar…
ISEF · 2025
Technology Enhances the Arts Third Award
Playing the violin improves cognitive function, creativity, and brain development. However, access to private lessons is limited by high cost and availability, especially in underserved area…
ISEF · 2025
Robotics and Intelligent Machines Third Award
Over 4 million colonoscopies result in severe adverse reactions (SAEs) such as perforations, internal bleeding, and other side effects by the external pressure placed by a gastroenterologist…
ISEF · 2025
Earth and Environmental Sciences Third Award
Mars' current surface preserves a geological record for its mineralogical processes, with volcanism once being the primary source of sulfur transport. However, there is a mismatch between th…
ISEF · 2025
Behavioral and Social Sciences Third Award
Cognitive decline is common in aging populations, but early screening is critical to slowing its progression. Current screening tools like MoCA and MMSE are limited by their reliance on read…
ISEF · 2025
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics Third Award
Lung cancer remains the leading cause of cancer-related mortality, primarily due to its high metastatic potential and the difficulty of early detection. Current clinical approaches rely on a…
ISEF · 2025
Embedded Systems Third Award
High resolution absolute rotary encoders are essential to precision applications like tracking telescopes, semiconductor manufacturing, low-tolerance machining, and robotic mechanisms. Howev…
ISEF · 2025
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design Third Award
With the advancement of Internet of Things (IoT) technology, businesses are seeking to substitute rapidly deteriorating batteries with more efficient, wireless, and environmentally sustainab…
ISEF · 2025
Earth and Environmental Sciences Third Award
The chemical class, Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances (PFAS), first used in the 1940s for ScotchgardTM and TelfonTM has grown to be a chemical class of 12,039 variants. Recently, health co…
ISEF · 2025
Robotics and Intelligent Machines Third Award
Coral reefs are a vital ecosystem that thousands of species rely on. However, with climate changing, coral reefs are struggling. The “Cnidaria” Project serves as a tool for scientists to acc…
ISEF · 2025
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics Third Award
Pancreatic cancer has a low five-year survival rate (<11%), with only 9.7% detected early due to its subtle presentation in imaging. Pancreatic carcinoma typically appears as a poorly enhanc…
ISEF · 2025
Biomedical Engineering Third Award
Amputations from chronic wounds claim a limb every 30 seconds, with half of the patients dying within five years. Despite $50 billion spent annually, ineffective treatments leave millions at…
ISEF · 2025
Translational Medical Science Third Award
Thyroid cancer (TC) is one of the most common endocrine malignancies worldwide, with 821,214 newly diagnosed cases in 2022. It has the fastest growth rate across all cancers. Despite its pre…
ISEF · 2025
Environmental Engineering Third Award
Microplastics persist in the environment, move across the food chain, and are easily ingested because of their tiny sizes, harming aquatic organisms and posing health risks to humans. As par…
ISEF · 2025
Microbiology Third Award
Before the discovery of antibiotics, bacterial infections constituted a leading cause of human mortality. Antibiotics used during World War One and the subsequent introduction of penicillin…
ISEF · 2025
Behavioral and Social Sciences Third Award
Geriatric populations living with Alzheimer’s disease often experience low mood levels that can exacerbate their symptoms and shorten their life spans. The most common treatments for these l…
ISEF · 2025
Biomedical Engineering Third Award
Robotic-assisted minimally invasive surgery (RAMIS) was used in millions of procedures in 2024. Despite its widespread use, it overwhelmingly lacks force sensing. Few systems offer this feat…
ISEF · 2025
Animal Sciences Third Award
Ants – with their ability to assist in seed dispersal and scavenging – are an often overlooked foundational part of our ecosystems. In fact, according to the Journal of Animal Ecology, ants…
ISEF · 2025
Translational Medical Science Third Award
Diabetic macular edema (DME) is a leading cause of vision impairment, affecting up to 30% of diabetics. It results from retinal fluid buildup due to vascular leakage and is commonly treated…
ISEF · 2025
Biomedical Engineering Third Award
Lung cancer (LC), responsible for one in five cancer-related deaths, remains a major public health challenge (American Lung Association, 2024). Early detection is critical, as 5-year surviva…
ISEF · 2025
Environmental Engineering Third Award
Oil pollution on water surfaces remains a critical environmental challenge, with over 20 million liters of oil discharged into aquatic ecosystems each year. These spills endanger marine life…
ISEF · 2024
Biochemistry Third Award
Alzheimer’s is a terrible neurodegenerative disease affecting millions of individuals around the world. However, all FDA approved drugs for the illness offer only symptomatic treatment and h…
ISEF · 2024
Systems Software Third Award
Language workbenches and product lines allow users to customize programming languages by providing a framework for the creation of Domain Specific Languages (DSLs). They allow for quicker la…
ISEF · 2024
Chemistry Third Award
The contemporary bioaccumulation of Antibiotics in our environment due to various factors has resulted in significant pollution, predisposition of organisms to adverse health effects, and th…
ISEF · 2024
Translational Medical Science Third Award
Microglial cells have the ability to engulf HIV-1 infected glial cells by binding to neuronal blebs, effectively stopping the subsequent encephalopathy. However, two HIV-1 accessory proteins…
ISEF · 2024
Translational Medical Science Third Award
The precise and accurate leukemia detection in current clinical practice remains challenging due to limitations in cost, time, and medical experience. To address this issue, this research de…
ISEF · 2024
Robotics and Intelligent Machines Third Award
Current commercial and research-grade prosthetics lack fine motor movements and have limited degrees of freedom. These functional limitations force the amputee to compensate, which causes ot…
ISEF · 2024
Engineering Technology: Statics & Dynamics Third Award
Autonomous Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) can aid lifeguards as 82% of ocean-related deaths in California occur at unprotected beaches, and 90% of drownings occur at low- and mid-income cou…
ISEF · 2024
Environmental Engineering Third Award
The number of annual lead-poisoning fatalities exceeds the combined annual fatalities from car accidents and malaria. Cadmium causes DNA damage. A leading heavy metal exposure source is surf…