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
Environmental Engineering
Plastic pollution represents a major environmental challenge. This project investigates the potential of oyster mushrooms (Pleurotus ostreatus) to biologically degrade plastic waste using a…
CSEF · 2026
Environmental Engineering (Track 2) (Junior Division) Honorable_mention Award
For my project, I am creating a moisture detection device that I decided to name PotBot, that lets you know when your plant needs to be watered! Every year, 35% to 50% of houseplants die fro…
ISEF · 2026
Environmental Engineering Third Award
An estimated 92 million tons of textiles are discarded annually, yet fabric-to-fabric recycling accounts for less than 1% of production due to quality degradation and financial barriers. Thi…
ISEF · 2026
Environmental Engineering
Minnesota’s 4 million drivers release heavy metals into the environment through their vehicles’ emissions. Copper, Lead, and Zinc account for 90% of vehicle-derived heavy metal pollution, wh…
ISEF · 2026
Environmental Engineering
Continuous water quality monitoring is critical for safeguarding aquatic ecosystems, informing environmental management decisions, and supporting public health. However, conventional systems…
CSEF · 2026
Environmental Engineering (Senior Division)
86% of flood deaths since 1959 are from people driving or walking into floodwaters. As little as 6 inches of flood current can knock over an adult, while 12 inches can sweep a car away. As g…
ISEF · 2026
Environmental Engineering
Single-use paper items used in food packaging like straws and food wrappers are often coated with plastic or polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS, also known as "forever chemicals") to make them…
ISEF · 2026
Environmental Engineering
This experiment explores the regenerative properties of activated carbon as a filter for PFAS in water when combined with microwave-activated magnetite. PFAS refers to a family of over 14,00…
CSEF · 2026
Environmental Engineering (Track 2) (Senior Division)
Wildfires are becoming more severe, so detection systems need to be both fast and reliable. Although weather satellites can scan California every few minutes, public wildfire alerts are ofte…
CSEF · 2026
Environmental Engineering (Junior Division) Third Award
ROCKET POWERED REFORESTATION: ENGINEERING A ROCKET-DEPLOYED AERIAL SEEDING DEVICE. Daniel Ahdoot and Ryan Pearlman. David Schmidt. Gaspar De Portola Highly Gifted Magnet, 18270 Linett Street…
CSEF · 2026
Environmental Engineering (Junior Division)
Hi, my name is Rhian Welling-Farmer. I decided to do my science fair on saving homes from natural disasters involving water, like floods. I chose this idea because I was inspired by a docume…
ISEF · 2026
Environmental Engineering
Indoor pools pose an under-monitored public health risk, as chloramines, formed from chlorine reacting with swimmer-derived compounds, accumulate in air and are linked to asthma and respirat…
ISEF · 2026
Environmental Engineering Fourth Award
Purpose: The world loses billions of trees each year, and current reforestation efforts cannot keep pace. Drone-based seed planting has emerged as a promising solution, with current systems…
ISEF · 2026
Environmental Engineering Fourth Award
Global lithium demand is projected to increase by nearly 4000% by 2040 due to expansion of electric vehicles and energy storage systems; however, current extraction methods are water-intensi…
ISEF · 2026
Environmental Engineering
Coastal erosion poses a significant threat to Louisiana's ecosystems, infrastructure, and communities, with land loss occurring at one of the highest rates in the United States. This study i…
CSEF · 2026
Environmental Engineering (Junior Division) First Award
This project investigates whether cardstock made from the Variegated American Agave Century Succulent (VAACS) should replace traditional tree-based cardstock. My hypothesis is that VAACS car…
ISEF · 2026
Environmental Engineering Second Award
Non-Polar Organic Contaminants (NPOCs) such as Micro/Nano-sized Microplastics (MNMPs), oils and Benzene, Toluene, Ethyl Benzene, Xylene (BTEX) are emerging contaminants that are critical thr…
CSEF · 2026
Environmental Engineering (Track 2) (Junior Division) Honorable_mention Award
Abstract Objective Food waste decomposing in landfills is a major contributor to global warming because it releases harmful greenhouse gases, especially methane. Composting offers a sustaina…
CSEF · 2026
Environmental Engineering (Track 2) (Senior Division) Honorable_mention Award
This project, SolarFlux AI, was developed to make solar energy adoption easier, providing accurate and simple predictions of daily solar energy output for any city that provides weather data…
ISEF · 2026
Environmental Engineering
Every year, approximately 400 million tons of plastic are produced worldwide, yet only 9% is recycled. Meanwhile, heavy metal contamination of water poses significant risks to human health,…
CSEF · 2026
Environmental Engineering (Track 2) (Senior Division)
In Southern California, millions of dollars of infrastructure are destroyed annually by uncontrollable wildfires. For instance, the L.A. fires caused upwards of $164 billion in damages. Curr…
CSEF · 2026
Environmental Engineering (Senior Division) Honorable_mention Award
The purpose of this project was to investigate whether optimizing spider silk–inspired geometrical structures could improve fog-harvesting efficiency. Spider silk naturally captures water du…
CSEF · 2026
Environmental Engineering (Junior Division) Honorable_mention Award
Wildfires have been an increasing problem in California due to climate change. The recent Palisades fire was one of the most expensive on record, costing an estimated $250 billion dollars. T…
ISEF · 2026
Environmental Engineering
The City of Lake Charles is located about 20 miles north of the Gulf Coast and is named after the lake to its west. The city is the hub of a major petrochemical industry. The lake is connect…
CSEF · 2026
Environmental Engineering (Track 2) (Senior Division) Second Award
Wildfires have escalated into a global environmental catastrophe, and traditional suppression methods are increasingly insufficient. While prescribed burning is a critical mitigation tool, c…
ISEF · 2026
Environmental Engineering Third Award
Marine oil spills release toxic polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons and other compounds that harm organisms and bioaccumulate across food chains. Meanwhile, conventional remediation primarily r…
ISEF · 2026
Environmental Engineering
This study developed a high-performance poly(vinylidene fluoride) (PVDF) piezoelectric membrane using the Non-solvent Induced Phase Separation (NIPS) method combined with graphene doping, wi…
ISEF · 2026
Environmental Engineering
This Project aimed to improve the efficiency and viability of fog nets using corona discharge. Corona discharge is created when an electric field ionizes the surrounding air. This process al…
ISEF · 2026
Environmental Engineering Fourth Award
Brazil accounts for 70% of global passion fruit production (736,000 tons per year). However, 75% of this production becomes waste. Due to inadequate management, this waste can generate signi…
ISEF · 2026
Environmental Engineering Fourth Award
Airborne microplastics are an emerging environmental and public health concern, with recent studies suggesting that humans may inhale up to 70,000 particles daily. These polymer particulates…