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.
CSEF · 2026
Computational Science (Senior Division)
Traditional search-and-rescue (SAR) operations rely heavily on manual aerial interpretation and often fail under low-visibility or communication-denied conditions. This project aims to addre…
CSEF · 2026
Computational Science (Senior Division)
As companies transition their businesses online, their manipulative design practices evolve into dark patterns. This often leads to people, especially seniors, being exploited due to their u…
CSEF · 2026
Computational Science (Senior Division)
Protein conformational dynamics is the continuous structural transitions proteins undergo during folding, unfolding, and thermal fluctuation, and underlie enzyme catalysis, ligand binding, a…
CSEF · 2026
Computational Science (Senior Division)
A critical challenge in Artificial Intelligence is “shortcut learning,” where models rely on superficial shortcuts rather than true causal understanding. A prominent manifestation of this is…
CSEF · 2026
Computational Science (Senior Division)
Machine learning has, in recent years, gained popularity in biology, chemistry, and physics for the creation of surrogate predictors and optimization tools. Despite this promise, these algor…
CSEF · 2026
Computational Science (Senior Division)
Over 80 million people face loss of upper-limb function. However, modern non-invasive electroencephalogram (EEG) prosthetic hand interfaces are limited to cumbersome, binary movements due to…
CSEF · 2026
Computational Science (Senior Division)
This project attempted to test different types of machine learning models and algorithms to identify which model was most effective for predicting the accuracy of dopamine neurotransmitters.…
CSEF · 2026
Computational Science (Senior Division)
Non-Alcoholic Steatohepatitis (NASH) is a severe, chronic form of Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease (NAFLD). An estimated 16 to 17 million Americans have NASH, and another 80 to 100 million…
CSEF · 2026
Computational Science (Senior Division)
Globally, over 10 million individuals are affected by Parkinson's disease and it is the second most common neurodegenerative disorder. Early diagnosis is extremely important as it assists in…
CSEF · 2026
Computational Science (Senior Division)
Early detection of medical emergencies remains a major challenge, particularly in elderly populations, where falls account for over 37 million severe injuries annually worldwide (World Healt…
CSEF · 2016
Mathematics & Computer Science
Objectives/Goals Provide a visual proof for complex mathematical identities. Methods/Materials Paper and pencil. Results The three formulas I proved using a visual method called tiling helpe…
CSEF · 2016
Mathematics & Computer Science Fourth Award
Objectives/Goals As of 2013, 126.6 million people around the world have developed the eye disease diabetic retinopathy, and this number continues to grow every day. In many areas where peopl…
CSEF · 2016
Mathematics & Computer Science
Objectives/Goals 75 percent of Americans are dehydrated, leading to an influx of general health problems, such as obesity and heart disease. The reason for this is the unavailability of low-…
CSEF · 2016
Mathematics & Computer Science
Objectives/Goals The objective of this experiment was to determine how the amount of hidden neurons in an artificial neural network affect its performance in the game "Dots and Boxes." The o…
CSEF · 2016
Mathematics & Computer Science Third Award
Objectives/Goals Swarms of robots offer an alternative to the conventional single-robot approach in navigation and exploration problems. In this project, I show the viability of using Artifi…
CSEF · 2016
Mathematics & Computer Science
Objectives/Goals The goal of my project is to design an efficient algorithm that creates assignments that maximize overall satisfaction, and to then make software specifically applying the a…
CSEF · 2016
Mathematics & Computer Science Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals Image recognition technology is a hot field in computing that is currently applied in areas including health, security, gaming, autonomous vehicles, and virtual reality. The…
CSEF · 2016
Mathematics & Computer Science
Objectives/Goals The goal is to develop an incremental self-learning model that helps in the prediction of drug behavior effectively increasing the net knowledge without human intervention M…
CSEF · 2016
Mathematics & Computer Science Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals Currently, the use of neural networks has been restricted to image classification. Video classification has been a challenge due to the difficulty of fusing spatial-temporal…
CSEF · 2016
Mathematics & Computer Science
Objectives/Goals Efficient energy use can help to combat global warming. Transportation of people and goods has increased with the expansion of global markets, leading to greater energy cons…
CSEF · 2016
Mathematics & Computer Science
Objectives/Goals When a musician is learning to play an instrument, they must learn to hit all of the notes in tune. This can be more difficult on instruments that can produce continuous var…
CSEF · 2016
Mathematics & Computer Science
Objectives/Goals Stylometry, which has been around since at least the 19th century, is the analysis of linguistic style in writing, generally used to determine the author of an unknown piece…
CSEF · 2016
Mathematics & Computer Science
Objectives/Goals Diabetic retinopathy (DR) is one of the leading causes of preventable blindness globally. Today, the disease has the potential to affect 382 million diabetic patients worldw…
CSEF · 2016
Mathematics & Computer Science Second Award
Objectives/Goals The objective of this project is to develop a computer vision algorithm for solving the problem of exhaustively searching for a predefined path, by solely analyzing a video…
CSEF · 2016
Mathematics & Computer Science
Objectives/Goals Create and program a computer for the blind community at a low price using inexpensive modern technologies. The computer should be able to allow the blind to 1) View and Edi…
CSEF · 2016
Mathematics & Computer Science
Objectives/Goals Over 560 million people are colorblind. These people cannot see all colors and will have a hard time distinguishing between two colors that, to them, are too similar to each…
CSEF · 2016
Mathematics & Computer Science
Objectives/Goals The goal of this project is to analyze if a given image is similar to any of the images in a large dataset, and if so, how similar. While comparing two images, we seek to al…
CSEF · 2016
Mathematics & Computer Science First Award
Objectives/Goals To develop a simple, responsive and reliable method of digitally assessing the risk of cancer in skin lesions using an iPhone app. Methods/Materials 8 numerical methods were…
CSEF · 2016
Mathematics & Computer Science Honorable_mention Award
Objectives/Goals Fusion inhibitor proteins prevent the HIV-1 gp41 glycoprotein from binding with the receptors on the host cell. However, scientific understanding of inhibitory potencies amo…
CSEF · 2016
Mathematics & Computer Science
Objectives/Goals The objective of this project is to devise a cryptosystem that is both efficient and secure. Methods/Materials Paper, pencils and a computer for initial research. Wolfram Ma…