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
Translational Medical Science
Neonatal brachial plexus injury (BPI) can lead to significant and lasting motor and sensory impairments, particularly because the brachial plexus is directly connected to the spinal cord. In…
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…
CSEF · 2026
Medicine & Physiology (Junior Division)
The purpose of this experiment is to determine which resting position causes heart rate to go down the fastest after exercising. The heart rate was measured in each of the three resting posi…
ISEF · 2026
Translational Medical Science
Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is projected to affect 150 million people by 2050 and is characterized by the accumulation of neurotoxic beta-amyloid (Aß) plaques in the brain, leading to severe me…
ISEF · 2026
Biomedical and Health Sciences
(This project was implemented in the city of Duhok, in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq, to solve the health problems caused by wastewater. It aims to treat the polluted water, recycle it, and m…
CWSF · 2026
Health & Wellness Silver Medal
500–800 years. That is how long a single disposable pad can remain in the environment. Despite being used by millions of people daily, most menstrual products are uncomfortable, environmenta…
ISEF · 2026
Biomedical and Health Sciences Fourth Award
Parkinson's disease (PD) is a progressive neurodegenerative disorder characterized by motor dysfunction and neuron loss, with limited current treatments, revealing a critical gap. Heat shock…
CWSF · 2026
Health & Wellness
My project focused on how the Happy Days Mental Health app, which I built over a span of 3 years, affected the heart rate and calmed the body with all the activities involved on the app. I w…
CSEF · 2026
Medicine & Physiology (Track 2) (Senior Division) Honorable_mention Award
ThermaScreen aims to develop and validate an affordable AI-based spatial thermal imaging system for preventive home-based inflammatory screening, with surgical wound monitoring as its primar…
ISEF · 2026
Biomedical and Health Sciences
While racial smoking disparities are well-documented, traditional socioeconomic models often overlook the discordance between educational attainment and income. This study investigates ‘stat…
CSEF · 2026
Medicine & Physiology (Senior Division)
This experiment uses high-performance liquid chromatography tandem mass spectroscopy (HPLC-MS/MS) to measure estradiol changes in hair due to hormone suppression for breast cancer treatment.…
ISEF · 2026
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Purpose: Antibiotic resistance is growing. Bacteriophages (phages) are viruses that infect bacteria; using phages and antibiotics together has a synergistic effect. This study applied phages…
ISEF · 2026
Biomedical and Health Sciences
In the US, 1 in 3 individuals develops cancer in their lifetime. Yet, drug failure rates remain near 90%. Deciphering immune-cancer interactions within the tumor microenvironment (TME) is im…
CSEF · 2026
Medicine & Physiology (Senior Division)
Several studies have investigated the influence of Topical Melatonin in various skin conditions. Specific studies show that it has promise in chronic Atopic Dermatitis (AD) treatment, due to…
CSEF · 2026
Medicine & Physiology (Track 2) (Senior Division)
Stuttering is a common yet challenging speech disorder affecting approximately 80 million working adults worldwide and about 3 million individuals in the United States. For many, it is a chr…
CWSF · 2026
Health & Wellness
Traditional vs Modern Medicines What will fight off the most bacteria, traditional or modern medicines. I used 3 traditional medicines and one modern medicine. I swabbed bacteria from my hoc…
CWSF · 2026
Disease & Illness Bronze Medal
Late stage cancers are often very hard to treat due to the tumor environment weakening the body's immune system, especially natural killer (NK) cells that normally destroy harmful cells. In…
CSEF · 2026
Medicine & Physiology (Junior Division)
Neurological tremors , including those caused by Parkinson’s disease and other tremor disorders can significantly impair daily functioning, making routine tasks difficult and reducing indepe…
ISEF · 2026
Translational Medical Science
Atypical Chemokine Receptor 1 (ACKR1/DARC) is a non-signaling chemokine receptor expressed on erythrocytes and endothelial cells. In tumors, ACKR1 modulates inflammation, chemokine gradients…
CSEF · 2026
Medicine & Physiology (Track 2) (Senior Division)
Pancreatic cancer remains one of the deadliest cancers worldwide, as pancreatic tumors are small and often obscured by surrounding anatomical structures. Computed tomography (CT) is the prim…
ISEF · 2026
Translational Medical Science First Award
Retinal degenerative diseases (RDDs) affect 300 million patients worldwide. Current imaging techniques detect RDDs in late stages after significant vision loss. Approximately 40% of Retinal…
ISEF · 2026
Translational Medical Science Second Award
Melanoma is the most fatal type of skin cancer, taking over 50,000 lives annually. While advances in checkpoint immunotherapy have decreased mortality rates, it is difficult to determine whi…
CSEF · 2026
Medicine & Physiology (Junior Division)
Prosthetics are everywhere these days, and lots of people with them are proud to show them off! However, there is one major problem in the prosthetic field, and that is cost. Due to intensiv…
CWSF · 2026
Disease & Illness
This project uses technology that allows our genetic code to be edited in order to create a new treatment plan for a genetic disorder called Tay-Sachs disease. This disorder has a 100% fatal…
CSEF · 2026
Medicine & Physiology (Senior Division)
For patients with end-stage heart failure, receiving a heart transplant (HTx) increases their one-year survival chances by nearly fourfold. With 20% experiencing depression and 48.9% waiting…
CWSF · 2026
Health & Wellness
This experiment was created to test which types of UV light reduce the most amount of mold growth. It was hypothesized that if the mold was surrounded by UV-C light, the light with the short…
CWSF · 2026
Health & Wellness Gold Medal
Many patients are injured when IV fluids accidentally leak into their skin instead of staying in the vein. This causes painful swelling and bruising, and it happens to nearly 1 in 10 people.…
CSEF · 2026
Medicine & Physiology (Track 2) (Senior Division) Third Award
Central vision loss affects over 200 million people worldwide, arising from macular diseases including age-related macular degeneration, Stargardt disease, and diabetic macular edema. As cen…
CWSF · 2026
Disease & Illness Bronze Medal
Speech and voice changes can serve as noninvasive indicators of disease, particularly in respiratory, neurological, and psychiatric conditions, where subtle changes in phonation, tone, or ar…
CWSF · 2026
Disease & Illness Gold Medal
Alzheimer's disease steals the memories of 55+ million worldwide, yet no effective diagnosis or treatment exists. The retina is composed of neural tissue, thus mirroring neurological damage…