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 · 2025
Materials Science
Quantum dots (QDots) are nanoparticles with a wide range of applications, including bioimaging, fluorescent labeling, and agriculture. Commercial QDots are synthesized using heavy metals, ma…
ISEF · 2025
Environmental Engineering
The fashion industry generates substantial textile waste, contributing to environmental pollution and resource depletion. This study investigates the enzymatic separation of mixed poly-cotto…
ISEF · 2025
Environmental Engineering
Rice is the most commonly wasted food, with an estimated 38 kg wasted per person annually. This contributes to 12% of methane emissions and 1.5% of global greenhouse gas emissions, straining…
ISEF · 2025
Behavioral and Social Sciences Second Award
The incel (involuntary celibate) community is a radicalized online subculture. In this study, I focus on the popular social media platform Reddit and analyze the activity patterns and commen…
ISEF · 2025
Plant Sciences Fourth Award
Lunar colonization will require sustainable agriculture using in-situ resources and minimal fostering materials from Earth. This study aimed to grow Raphanus sativus (radish) in a Lunar Sout…
ISEF · 2025
Animal Sciences
In many farms around the world, production is not maximized due to animals getting sick, which could affect their milk production, Reproduction, weight, and more, based on the The World Orga…
ISEF · 2025
Materials Science
The accelerating depletion of fossil fuel reserves and the escalating crisis of plastic pollution, underscore the critical need for sustainable, biodegradable alternatives to conventional pe…
ISEF · 2025
Materials Science
In this study, after self-assembly and hydrothermal reaction under acidic conditions using TEOS as a silica source and a triblock copolymer (P123) as a template, a nanostructured silica mate…
ISEF · 2025
Behavioral and Social Sciences
A common feature in stress- related disorders is maladaptive feeding, such as undereating or overeating (Wei et al., 2019). The mechanisms of how stress influences feeding behavior remains e…
ISEF · 2025
Environmental Engineering
The objective of this research was to mitigate environmental pollution from plastic bottles and aluminum cans using an autonomous robot: Gatherer of Aluminum Cans and Polyethylene Terephthal…
ISEF · 2025
Robotics and Intelligent Machines Third Award
Over 10 million people live with Parkinson's Disease (PD), an incurable movement disorder that disrupts daily life. Freezing of Gait (FoG) affects 80% of advanced patients, causing sudden im…
ISEF · 2025
Biomedical and Health Sciences
This study aimed to evaluate the effectiveness of garlic extract against E. cloacae infections. First, inhibition zones were created using lawns of E. cloacae and sterile disks soaked with d…
ISEF · 2025
Biomedical Engineering
Gallium Cancer Therapy (GCT) has emerged as a promising non-invasive treatment modality due to its ability to induce apoptosis and disrupt cellular iron metabolism, inhibiting rapid prolifer…
ISEF · 2025
Biomedical Engineering
My research this year was devoted to creating a non-invasive method to efficiently detect gastrointestinal conditions without causing harm to the digestive tract, as GI diseases affect milli…
ISEF · 2025
Systems Software Second Award
Traditional operating systems use multiple abstraction layers that simplify development but restrict customization and optimization. Gate OS, a Rust-based exokernel, minimizes abstraction ov…
ISEF · 2025
Physics and Astronomy
The purpose of this experiment was to test the strength of 3D-printed gears with different infill levels. Infill refers to how much material is used for the inner portion of an item. This id…
ISEF · 2025
Mathematics
The occurrence of Pi in the Mandelbrot set is a phenomenon which has been known since its discovery in 1991. It has enjoyed great popularity among mathematicians ever since, even appearing o…
ISEF · 2025
Animal Sciences Third Award
Fire ants cause billions of dollars of economic damage every year, and common control methods kill all insects in a given area, even advantageous ones. As my local community is highly effect…
ISEF · 2025
Biochemistry Fourth Award
Oligonucleotides, especially siRNAs, have been identified as a point of interest due to their capability for precision targeting of "undruggable" targets. siRNAs (Small Interfering RNA) bind…
ISEF · 2025
Mathematics
Generating all possible Feynman diagrams is crucial in quantum field theory for computing interaction amplitudes. In scalar phi-4 theory, characterized by four-point interaction vertices, th…
ISEF · 2025
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Accurate prediction of gene expression from chromatin accessibility data is essential for understanding transcriptional regulation across cell types. While the General Expression Transformer…
ISEF · 2025
Mathematics
Linear systems of equations are fundamental for scientific and engineering projects. Yet, traditional methods of solving linear systems struggle with scalability(speed) , instability, and ar…
ISEF · 2025
Materials Science
Quasicrystals are materials with ordered but aperiodic atomic arrangements, which can be contrasted from traditional crystals that possess a periodic structure. Their unique thermal and elec…
ISEF · 2025
Embedded Systems
Background: Grasping is a critical function for humanoid robots to automate mechanical labor. Current robotic grasping is limited by the inability to precisely set grasping conditions before…
ISEF · 2025
Embedded Systems
This study addressed the engineering challenge: can a low cost, microcontroller based device reliably detect and visually represent alerts in real time for individuals with hearing impairmen…
ISEF · 2025
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Global Microplastic Pollution, an “Environmental Ticking Time Bomb”, is a significant and ongoing threat to the environment, world's water-quality, and human-health. Humans now ingest >5 gra…
ISEF · 2025
Microbiology
Aliivibrio fischeri is a single-celled, gram-negative, rod-shaped bacterium that lives within the ocean. When in healthy waters, its cell membrane quorum senses with other bacterium near it…
ISEF · 2025
Biomedical and Health Sciences
The use of GLP-1 agonists, including Ozempic and Exenatide, has increased by almost 40-fold between 2017 and 2021. These drugs are widely used to regulate glucose metabolism in type 2 diabet…
ISEF · 2025
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
Graphene Solar Fuel Generator (GSFG) is a new generation green fuel production technology based on advanced graphene-based solar technology to generate methane (CH4) from carbon dioxide (CO2…
ISEF · 2025
Robotics and Intelligent Machines Second Award
Multimodal contents' increasing complexity poses significant challenges for Vision-Language Models (VLMs), particularly in hateful video detection. Hateful videos are inherently multimodal a…