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
Plant Biology (Junior Division)
Two contributors to global warming are the disposal of keratinous waste in landfills and the chemical synthesis of nitrogen fertilizers. These create greenhouse gases, pollutants, and health…
CYSF · 2026
Bronze Medal
Our research project can allow us to use the Bayesian statistics to interpret DNA fingerprint matches more accurately. This method uses analysis, previous information and probability to dete…
CSEF · 2026
Environmental Engineering (Senior Division)
Benzene, toluene, and xylene (BTX) are common environmental pollutants found in air, groundwater, and soil. These chemicals pose serious health risks including cancer and neurotoxicity. Wast…
ISEF · 2026
Cellular and Molecular Biology
MicroRNAs (miRNAs), small noncoding RNA genes, play crucial roles in regulating gene expression in human development and cancer. The let-7 miRNA is involved in various cellular processes, in…
ISEF · 2026
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
As computer vision systems become increasingly integrated into everyday life, it is imperative to consider the deficiencies and biases present in our computer algorithms. One such bias is sp…
ISEF · 2026
Mathematics
Airlines have increasingly adopted flexible refund policies that allow passengers to cancel tickets in exchange for time-limited travel credits. While these policies reduce customer risk, th…
CSEF · 2026
Mathematical Sciences (Senior Division) Honorable_mention Award
Airlines have increasingly introduced flexible refund policies that allow passengers to cancel tickets and receive time-limited travel credits. These policies introduce additional uncertaint…
AJAS · 2026
Robotics and Intelligent Machines (inferred)
In machine learning applications using sensitive, distributed big data, i.e., medical data, voting records, etc., it must be assured that model training data cannot be recovered or exposed p…
CYSF · 2026
Silver Medal
In this project I will be using 18650 lithium ions cells salvaged from old modems as a power source for a custom electric bike to prove the viability of reused cells to power electric vehicl…
CSEF · 2026
Applied Mechanics (Senior Division)
Robotic fish for ocean exploration face challenges of low energy efficiency. Traditional propeller propulsion systems consume high energy and cause significant disturbance to marine life. In…
ISEF · 2026
Plant Sciences
The Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) measures the health of plants. This project used two cameras, one measuring red light and the other near infrared light, to calculate the ND…
ISEF · 2026
Environmental Engineering
The material use of shade balls has become an area of concern in recent years. The water used in the production of shade balls and other water covers often offsets the water that is retained…
CSEF · 2026
Biochemistry/ Molecular Biology (Senior Division) Honorable_mention Award
Focal Cortical Dysplasia (FCD) causes epilepsy in 4 million newborns yearly. Treatments are surgical removal of malformed brain tissue, which fails for 40% of patients and causes permanent c…
CWSF · 2026
Disease & Illness
This project uses technology that allows our genetic code to be edited in order to create a new treatment plan for a genetic disorder called Tay-Sachs disease. This disorder has a 100% fatal…
CSEF · 2026
Medicine & Physiology (Senior Division)
For patients with end-stage heart failure, receiving a heart transplant (HTx) increases their one-year survival chances by nearly fourfold. With 20% experiencing depression and 48.9% waiting…
ISEF · 2026
Plant Sciences Third Award
Due to population growth, demand for crop yields is rising, leading to greater use of environmentally harmful chemical fertilizers. Stressors (e.g., water, salinity stress) complicate this i…
ISEF · 2026
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
The development of next-generation autonomous devices capable of self-powering through ambient energy harvesting has increasingly focused on piezoelectric nanoparticle-based nanogenerators,…
ISEF · 2026
Biomedical Engineering
Understanding complex brain aneurysm geometry through detailed modeling for aneurysm behavior comprehension facilitates the prevention of focal dilation rupture in cerebral vasculature linke…
CWSF · 2026
Health & Wellness
This experiment was created to test which types of UV light reduce the most amount of mold growth. It was hypothesized that if the mold was surrounded by UV-C light, the light with the short…
ISEF · 2026
Software Design
Modern web vulnerability scanners often generate high noise, miss Application Programming Interface (API) and dynamic application paths, or fail under defensive controls. We developed V-8 Sc…
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…
CSEF · 2026
Behavioral & Social Sciences (Senior Division)
Abstract- Currently, 11.7 million people worldwide are affected with Parkinson’s disease, a neurodegenerative movement disorder of the central nervous system, in which dopamine-producing cel…
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
Environmental Engineering
Approximately 2.7 billion tons of red mud waste from the aluminum industry are stockpiled worldwide, and nearly 1.5 million tons of glass-fiber waste are generated annually. In alignment wit…
CWSF · 2026
Aerospace Silver Medal
The fuel carried by a spacecraft limits how far and how long it can travel in space and orbit planets. My project, VARION (Versatile Atmospheric Ion Thruster), is about utilizing atmospheric…
CWSF · 2026
Health & Wellness Gold Medal
Many patients are injured when IV fluids accidentally leak into their skin instead of staying in the vein. This causes painful swelling and bruising, and it happens to nearly 1 in 10 people.…
CSEF · 2026
Plant Biology (Junior Division)
For our project we wanted to see if there was a difference in old growth redwood forests tree and shrub diversity between high elevation and low elevation. Our hypothesis was that low elevat…
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…
CSEF · 2026
Environmental Engineering (Senior Division)
Nitrate contamination of freshwater is one of the most pressing environmental challenges. Nitrates from fertilizer runoff enter freshwater and drive eutrophication, triggering harmful algal…
AJAS · 2026
Breast cancer is the most common cancer type among women with IDC (Invasive Ductal Carcinoma), accounting for 80% of cases. Living in the age of precision medicine, WSI (Whole Slide Imaging)…