20,037 real projects from ISEF, the Canada-Wide Science Fair, JSHS and the Calgary Youth Science Fair — searchable by meaning, and filterable by fair, year, category and award.
ISEF · 2025
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
The purpose of this project was to determine how to maximize the energy produced by a wind turbine. Wind turbines are an effective way to generate power without burning fossil fuels. Burning…
CYSF · 2025
We are going to test a ton of different homemade water filters to find out which works the best
ISEF · 2025
Plant Sciences
Cotton is a cash fiber crop impacting the economies of over 80 countries. Salinity, an abiotic stress, is a major issue affecting cotton yield and fiber production. Improving salt tolerance…
ISEF · 2025
Microbiology
Gamma-aminobutyric acid (GABA) is an inhibitory neurotransmitter essential for stress regulation, mood stability, and anxiety reduction. Dietary factors such as artificial and flavors have b…
ISEF · 2025
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
Hand-powered generators are essential during natural disasters, military missions, and in developing nations. The paperfuge is a paper centrifuge that uses the supercoiling of string to reac…
CYSF · 2025
Tetanus and how vaccination is important for the human body and health if infected as well as examining the life-saving impact of tetanus vaccinations in reducing global death rates and addr…
ISEF · 2025
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Cancer is a complex disease affecting millions globally, encompassing various types such as breast, pancreatic and brain cancers, each requiring tailored treatment. A crucial enzyme in many…
CYSF · 2025
Examining the ripening process in different environments.
ISEF · 2025
Animal Sciences
Damage to DNA can have serious health repercussions, like cancer and neurodegenerative disorders. However, antioxidants like ascorbic acid (also known as vitamin C) have shown to have positi…
ISEF · 2025
Animal Sciences
This study investigates the potential effects of hunting on the length of bison (Bison bison) bellows, a guttural vocalization which is essential to male-male competition and therefore femal…
CYSF · 2025
Developing a viable alternative to dissolvable sutures using popping boba to lower healthcare inequalities.
ISEF · 2025
Plant Sciences
The limited variety of weed suppression treatments has contributed to herbicide resistance in several invasive species, threatening crop yields and global food security. Allelopathy—the natu…
ISEF · 2025
Engineering Technology: Statics & Dynamics
In modern spacecraft, hydrocarbon-based rockets can only reach a Specific Impulse (Isp) of 300-400s. This relatively low efficiency will be an issue on future, long-distance, space missions…
ISEF · 2025
Cellular and Molecular Biology
Toxic methylmercury (MeHg) readily crosses the blood brain and placental barriers, leading to developmental delays and neurological issues particularly with in utero exposure. Upon exposure,…
ISEF · 2025
Biochemistry
Tillandsia recurvata, better known as Texas ball moss, is an epiphyte native to the United States and commonly found in southern states including Texas, Florida, Louisiana, New Mexico, etc.…
CYSF · 2025
This project evaluates the effectiveness of natural remedies in plants, using its extracts to combat viral and bacterial cultures that cause common illnesses and diseases to introduce a gree…
CYSF · 2025
A study about the transition of a child going from elementary to junior high
ISEF · 2025
Materials Science
Mechanical recovery oil spill cleanup methods are unable to clean oil that sinks below the surface, and other methods can cause more pollution (in-situ burning). A method that is environment…
ISEF · 2025
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Short-read RNA sequencing is limited by its inability to fully sequence long genetic transcripts, requiring computational reconstruction that often hinders accurate characterization of trans…
ISEF · 2025
Physics and Astronomy
Sound waves are vibrations that travel through a medium and are characterized by frequency (pitch) and amplitude (volume). Humans can typically hear between 20 Hz and 20,000 Hz. A speaker is…
CYSF · 2025
how well plastic bags are
CYSF · 2025
A completely eco-friendly and entirely liveable home designed using bio-mimicry. A solution to creating an optimistic and sustainable future at a large scale.
CYSF · 2025
Describing how liver brain and lungs work plus other
ISEF · 2025
Mathematics
We explore the Euler-Lagrange equations in which tangent spaces have non-coordinate bases. This generalized form is the Boltzmann-Hamel (BH) equation, which contain a term dependent on a coe…
CYSF · 2025
We took 9 McDonald's cheese burgers and put them in 3 different environments (the fridge, counter, and pantry) then we logged each day to observe the rate of change and/or amount of mold..
ISEF · 2025
Microbiology
This project explores the effectiveness of coccolithophorid algae and eelgrass in reducing atmospheric CO2 levels through a small-scale carbon capture system. The goal was to design an affor…
CYSF · 2025
I made a trifold about about Chernobyl including the timeline, aftermath and some additional imformation.
JSHS · 2025
This research investigated the relationship between insomnia, anxiety, and hearing loss, with a focus on determining whether hearing loss exacerbates anxiety and insomnia in individuals. Mot…
ISEF · 2025
Mathematics
This research aimed to explore the behavior of particles in high-energy proton collisions through a Markovian model to identify cohesive patterns and predict particle behavior. One fundament…
ISEF · 2025
Earth and Environmental Sciences
The chemical class, Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances (PFAS), first used in the 1940s for ScotchgardTM and TelfonTM has grown to be a chemical class of 12,039 variants. Recently, health co…