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
Electronics & Electromagnetics (Senior Division)
This project aims to design a single, contained module that reduces the effect of motion sickness in cars by providing additional visual, auditory, and/or haptic cues to the passengers. Acco…
CSEF · 2026
Physics & Astronomy (Senior Division)
The double-slit experiment (originally done by Thomas Young in 1801) is done by pointing a concentrated beam of light towards to two very thin slits (which are very close to each other), res…
CSEF · 2026
Electronics & Electromagnetics (Junior Division)
As trains advance more and more every day safety becomes the highest priority in maglev train engineers designs. The objective of this experiment is to stop a maglev train short of the safet…
CSEF · 2026
Physics & Astronomy (Junior Division)
Water pollution can affect several aspects of aquatic environments, underwater location systems, and further scientific study. The purpose of my experiment was to determine whether different…
CSEF · 2026
Electronics & Electromagnetics (Junior Division)
This project attempts to design a method for detecting an impact and estimate its location on an irregular surface, using non-intrusive sensors and offline processing. Motivated by a need fo…
CSEF · 2026
Physics & Astronomy (Senior Division)
Small (1-10 cm) space debris in Low Earth Orbit is largely undetectable by current tracking systems, and can cause mission-ending damage to spacecraft. Due to low atmospheric drag, these fra…
CSEF · 2026
Electronics & Electromagnetics (Junior Division)
Locating small air leaks in bike inner tubes is challenging because hissing sounds are often too quiet to hear. Traditional methods take time and effort because finding air leaks requires re…
CSEF · 2026
Physics & Astronomy (Senior Division)
Problem/Objective: Conventional silicon solar cells inefficiently utilize ultraviolet (UV) light, with excess photon energy typically lost as heat rather than converted into electrical outpu…
CSEF · 2026
Electronics & Electromagnetics (Senior Division)
Engineering Problem: In the area I live in, I always see roadkill, scraps/trash, potholes, and debris from accidents on the road. All of which could potentially cause accidents or even death…
CSEF · 2026
Electronics & Electromagnetics (Junior Division)
Juvenile Idiopathic Arthritis (JIA) is the most common chronic rheumatological condition in children, affecting an estimated 300,000 children in the USA alone, with a global prevalence reach…
CSEF · 2026
Electronics & Electromagnetics (Junior Division)
The Life Saver Helmet is a low-cost electronic system that uses an impact sensor to detect crashes. It also has an Arduino, which sends and receives signals.
CSEF · 2026
Electronics & Electromagnetics (Senior Division)
Cyclists face significant risk from rear-end collisions due to limited awareness of approaching vehicles, and existing safety technologies like the $200 Trek CarBack Radar remain pricey. Thi…
CSEF · 2026
Electronics & Electromagnetics (Senior Division)
Neural Networks are intensive, requiring large numbers of Multiplier-Accumulate (MAC) operations, leading to high energy usage for common digital processors. Especially with the growing use…
CSEF · 2026
Physics & Astronomy (Senior Division)
Make the wind work for you by using wind to power a windmill.
CSEF · 2026
Electronics & Electromagnetics (Senior Division)
In fields such as rugged exploration or search and rescue, the ability to navigate terrain safely is crucial. This is often done through robotics; however, traditional systems (rovers, drone…
CSEF · 2026
Physics & Astronomy (Senior Division)
The goal of this experiment was to identify the distortion in spherical and cylindrical measurements found in glasses based on deviation from the optical center. This question was asked beca…
CSEF · 2026
Electronics & Electromagnetics (Junior Division)
Engineered a low-cost dual-layer gas safety system combining Arduino-based MQ-5 gas detection ("Digital Nose") with smartphone visual monitoring ("Digital Eyes") for elderly stove safety. Th…
CSEF · 2026
Electronics & Electromagnetics (Senior Division)
Glaucoma is the leading cause of preventable blindness globally and frequently characterized by a gradual increase of intraocular pressure (IOP). Current techniques for measuring IOP require…
CSEF · 2026
Physics & Astronomy (Senior Division)
Prior to the first unambiguous discovery in 2011, circumbinary planets (CBPs), planets orbiting two stars or eclipsing binaries (EBs), were considered unlikely to exist due to the perturbati…
CSEF · 2026
Electronics & Electromagnetics (Senior Division)
This project designed and built a handheld magnetic field detection device to provide early warning to pacemaker patients before dangerous magnetic fields reach their implanted device. The d…
CSEF · 2026
Physics & Astronomy (Senior Division)
A common assumption in the literature when studying stellar wind bow shocks is a spherically symmetric stellar wind, despite $\sim25\%$ of O-type stars being rapid rotators, inducing severe…
CSEF · 2026
Electronics & Electromagnetics (Senior Division)
Wilderness search-and-rescue (SAR) operations in U.S. national parks have remained consistently high over the past decade, placing sustained strain on emergency response systems. National Pa…
CSEF · 2026
Physics & Astronomy (Senior Division)
Chaos, discovered in the 1960s by Edward N. Lorenz, has a broad variety of applications from describing many systems in our daily life to analyzing systems such as electrical pulses in the h…
CSEF · 2026
Physics & Astronomy (Senior Division)
This project develops a physics-grounded framework for reservoir computing implemented in simulated spintronic networks (STNO arrays, vortex MTJs and skyrmion textures). By deriving semi-ana…
CSEF · 2026
Physics & Astronomy (Junior Division)
Controlling the spatial distribution of thermal radiation is important for passive thermal management in microelectronics, suppression of thermal noise in quantum and cryogenic systems, and…
CSEF · 2026
Electronics & Electromagnetics (Junior Division)
Autonomous vehicles often use time-of-flight (ToF) sensors that emit near-infrared light and measure the return time to estimate the distance to obstacles. In extreme weather and lighting, w…
CSEF · 2026
Physics & Astronomy (Junior Division)
With our project, we are hoping to gather information on which of the following entry landing, and descent (EDL) systems can protect a model rover the most when dropped; a shell, a parachute…
CSEF · 2026
Electronics & Electromagnetics (Junior Division)
A device that enables the visually impaired to be able to navigate the outside world the same way a non-blind person would by using foot haptics and circuitry.
CSEF · 2026
Physics & Astronomy (Senior Division)
Copper(I) oxide (Cu2O) semiconductor nanocrystals (NCs) exhibit distinct plasmonic modes in the visible and near-infrared regions of the electromagnetic spectrum and have diverse application…
CSEF · 2026
Electronics & Electromagnetics (Junior Division)
Enhancing mobility and safety for the visually impaired