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
Physics and Astronomy
Aerodynamics is heavily dependent on the four main forces of flight, weight, lift, thrust, and drag. Drag heavily impacts the aerospace industry's ability to create faster and more effective…
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) Fourth Award
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…
ISEF · 2026
Physics and Astronomy Third Award
Binary neutron star (BNS) mergers emit gravitational waves and eject neutron-rich matter, powering a short-lived infrared transient known as a kilonova. Immediately after the merger, the hyp…
ISEF · 2026
Physics and Astronomy
Vertical vibration can levitate a liquid layer above an air cushion. As the driving acceleration increases, the system transitions through three regimes: Rayleigh-Taylor instability at the l…
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) Honorable_mention Award
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…
ISEF · 2026
Physics and Astronomy
This project evaluated the ability of laboratory-scale permanent magnets and a battery-powered electromagnet to generate magnetic pressure and compared their capacity to approach the pressur…
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) Third Award
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…
ISEF · 2026
Physics and Astronomy
Purpose: Entanglement determines how quantum information is stored and processed, but measurements impact entanglement behavior in open quantum circuits. This project studies entanglement ph…
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…
ISEF · 2026
Physics and Astronomy Fourth Award
IC 4634 is a planetary nebula with a striking double-S shape, whose curved arcs and distant knots preserve a record of its outflow history. This study presents the first 3D morpho-kinematic…
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…
ISEF · 2026
Physics and Astronomy
Diving beetles (Dytiscidae) are among the most well-adapted freshwater insects. A previous study on variations in the length between the point of maximum width of the elytra and the tip of t…
ISEF · 2026
Physics and Astronomy Third Award
Current drug design methods treat proteins as rigid structures, failing to capture functional high-energy states. This contributes to 40–50% of clinical-stage drug failures. Mapping continuo…
ISEF · 2026
Physics and Astronomy
Purpose: Oil spills cause severe damage to marine life and ecosystems. In this research, we attempted to develop an efficient method that can control oil film movement and therefore manage o…
ISEF · 2026
Physics and Astronomy
This project develops a first principles framework linking molecular-scale randomness to macroscopic fluid behavior through coarse-grained velocity fields. Modeling molecular collisions as a…
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…
ISEF · 2026
Physics and Astronomy
Uncorrected refractive error is the leading cause of vision impairment particularly in low-income regions, due to limited access to diagnostic systems. Current assessment tools including pho…
CSEF · 2026
Physics & Astronomy (Senior Division) First Award
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…
ISEF · 2026
Physics and Astronomy Second Award
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…
ISEF · 2026
Physics and Astronomy
Reconciling general relativity and quantum field theory remains a central challenge in physics. Hawking radiation, a quantum effect where black holes emit radiation, provides a natural testi…
ISEF · 2026
Physics and Astronomy
Current exoplanet detection relies on identifying periodic transit dips in stellar light curves, explicitly searching for the geometric signature of a planet crossing its host star. This pro…
ISEF · 2026
Physics and Astronomy
Phase-change materials (PCMs) offer a viable alternative for thermal management and thermal energy storage due to their capacity to store substantial latent heat. This study investigates pre…
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) Honorable_mention Award
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…