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
The objective of this research was to develop a dual-methodology framework for the autonomous identification and physical characterization of lunar lava flows using multi-modal orbital data.…
CSEF · 2026
Physics & Astronomy (Junior Division) Honorable_mention Award
This project examines how paper airplane performance is influenced by key aerodynamic principles, including Bernoulli’s Principle, the Coandă Effect, lift, thrust, gravity, drag, and Reynold…
CSEF · 2026
Electronics & Electromagnetics (Junior Division)
I love cooking, but not having the right ingredients can sometimes be an issue. I decided to combine my interest in cooking with my interest in computer science and engineering to try to sol…
ISEF · 2026
Physics and Astronomy
As the discovery of compact multi-planet systems advances, classical Newtonian dynamics are proving insufficient for predicting long-term orbital stability, resulting in over-optimistic orbi…
CSEF · 2026
Electronics & Electromagnetics (Junior Division)
I've been running track for a while, but I always have trouble timing myself while training. The problem with commercially available systems is that they tend to be very expensive, and meant…
CSEF · 2026
Physics & Astronomy (Senior Division) Honorable_mention Award
This study aimed to characterize known exoplanets by performing aperture and differential photometry to generate modeled transit light curves. It was originally hypothesized that there would…
CSEF · 2026
Electronics & Electromagnetics (Junior Division)
According to the World Health Organization, at least 2.2 billion people worldwide live with some form of vision impairment, and many depend on assistive tools just to get around every day. R…
CSEF · 2026
Physics & Astronomy (Senior Division)
Focused ultrasound (FUS) with microbubbles can noninvasively open the blood–brain barrier (BBB) for targeted drug delivery, but the method is limited by off-target acoustic sidelobes, which…
CSEF · 2026
Physics & Astronomy (Senior Division) Second Award
The computational power of quantum computing is expected to expedite advances in fields from chemistry to machine learning. However, this potential is locked behind the high error rates of p…
ISEF · 2026
Physics and Astronomy Fourth Award
Rare flavour-changing neutral current decays such as a B->Kmu+mu- are a sensitive probe of beyond Standard Model (SM) Physics. The angular observable P5' has exhibited a persistent deviation…
ISEF · 2026
Physics and Astronomy
A planet is a celestial body that orbits a star. Thousands of exoplanets (planets outside of our solar system) have been discovered to date, with many additional candidates identified by mis…
ISEF · 2026
Physics and Astronomy
When transit exoplanets pass in front of their parent stars, they produce periodic but faint dips in the star's light curve. To schedule follow-up observations with ground-based telescopes a…
ISEF · 2026
Physics and Astronomy
Warp drives are hypothetical solutions to Einstein's equations that might allow superluminal travel by expanding space behind a spaceship and contracting it in front. This project investigat…
CSEF · 2026
Electronics & Electromagnetics (Junior Division)
Abstract Our question was “how will changing the number of coils affect the brightness and distance they will work,” and our hypothesis answering that question was that the 600 loop coil wou…
ISEF · 2026
Physics and Astronomy Second Award
Neutrino oscillation measurements aim to find fundamental physics beyond the Standard Model, but precision is limited by our inability to distinguish genuine signals from interfering nuclear…
ISEF · 2025
Physics and Astronomy Fourth Award
The growth of space debris in Low Earth Orbit (LEO) risks the current operation of satellites and spacecrafts. The Kessler Syndrome, in which debris is projected to grow at an exponential ra…
ISEF · 2025
Physics and Astronomy
Sound waves are all around us, but we never think about how they can be controlled or focused like light can be. My project explores if sound waves can be bent or concentrated using gases wi…
ISEF · 2025
Physics and Astronomy
The mechanics behind the evolution of supermassive black holes have eluded researchers for decades. Quasistars, consisting of a black hole embedded inside a massive star-like envelope, are o…
ISEF · 2025
Physics and Astronomy
Stellar spectroscopy is vital in astronomy, enabling star classification, chemical analysis, and more. The Harvard Classification System, classifies stars into temperature (O, B, A, F, G, K,…
ISEF · 2025
Physics and Astronomy
One of the main problems with spaceflight is the high costs associated with it. For example, the Space Shuttle cost $65,000 per kilogram of payload delivered to Low Earth Orbit. Drag is a fa…
ISEF · 2025
Physics and Astronomy
?We demonstrate that the delayed choice quantum eraser (DCQE) exhibits no retrocausality. While the lack of necessity for retrocausality in interpreting the DCQE has been previously proposed…
ISEF · 2025
Physics and Astronomy
A type of active galactic nucleus is the quasar, or quasi-stellar radio source. Quasars are integral to understanding the formation and evolution of galaxies. This research was conducted by…
AJAS · 2025
Physics and Astronomy (inferred)
The study of hadronization, the process of quarks combined into hadrons, is pivotal for understanding the universe's formation, yet current theories inadequately explain this process. This s…
ISEF · 2025
Physics and Astronomy First Award
Turbulence is a natural phenomenon that serves as an underlying principle for many other fields, ranging from astrophysical studies of star formation to climate change modeling. Due to its c…
CSEF · 2025
Electronics & Electromagnetics First Award
ISEF · 2025
Physics and Astronomy Fourth Award
A transit occurs when an exoplanet blocks the light from its host star to cause a unique dimming. The Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) is an all-sky scanning space telescope that…
CSEF · 2025
Electronics & Electromagnetics First Award
ISEF · 2025
Physics and Astronomy
The ADMX experiment utilizes a microwave haloscope to directly detect axions, a theoretical particle that is the proposed solution for the Strong CP problem and a strong candidate for dark m…
ISEF · 2025
Physics and Astronomy
Bubble curtains have a wide range of important applications, ranging from underwater gear protection to sound pollution reduction and oil spill control, and increasing numbers of offshore pr…
ISEF · 2025
Physics and Astronomy
A planet is an object that moves through space in a fixed path, orbiting a star or remnants of a star. An exoplanet is a planet outside our solar system. The TESS space telescope has identif…