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.
CWSF · 2026
Disease & Illness Gold Medal
2.3 million women are diagnosed with breast cancer every year, world wide. One of the main tools to decide the treatment is tumor grade, or aggressiveness of the cancer cells. Yet, the patho…
ISEF · 2026
Environmental Engineering
Roughly 46 million tons of mixed-fabric waste and 5 billion tons of Styrofoam waste end up in landfills each year. These industries alone account for around 35.5% of all landfill waste. Mixe…
ISEF · 2026
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Disease-spread and its consequences are governed by a multitude of factors, but only recently has culture been considered among its predictors. The individualism-collectivism spectrum, which…
ISEF · 2026
Physics and Astronomy
Dark matter constitutes approximately 85% of the matter in the universe and is inferred through gravitational lensing, in which both baryonic and dark matter bend light from distant galaxies…
ISEF · 2026
Microbiology
Drug-resistant Candida albicans infections are rapidly outpacing current antifungal therapies as mutations in the ERG11 enzyme reduce azole drug efficacy and drive treatment failure. Most an…
CYSF · 2026
This project explores the balance between pro-inflammatory and anti-inflammatory cytokines to understand how the body’s immune response can either help clear pneumonia infections or cause lu…
CWSF · 2026
Curiosity & Ingenuity Bronze Medal
Damage-Induced Response: Crack-Activated Fluid Delivery in Composite Materials Cracks in materials can lead to sudden failure, especially during events like earthquakes, making structures un…
CYSF · 2026
Our project explores motion-responsive scaffolds that mimic living tissue behaviour. By demonstrating how 'dancing molecules' self-correct, align, and guide tissues, we demonstrate a novel c…
ISEF · 2026
Physics and Astronomy
Dark matter is the primary component of galaxy clusters and a driver of cosmic structure formation, yet its impact on cluster properties remains poorly understood. While the Navarro-Frenk-Wh…
CYSF · 2026
We experimented how does the amount of daylight that enters your room affect the time that you sleep. We researched about different parts of the body that control sleep, and how daylight can…
ISEF · 2026
Biomedical and Health Sciences
COVID-19 infection causes disordered sugar metabolism, both in acute infection and long COVID. Diabetic COVID-19 patients with hyperglycemia have higher mortality rates, and infection elevat…
ISEF · 2026
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Indian educational reforms under the 2020 National Education Policy (NEP) aim to shift from rote memorisation toward creative thinking, a move that, alongside rising AI automation, demands s…
ISEF · 2026
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
PFAS (per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances) are organohalogens that are dubbed “forever chemicals” because they can remain in the environment for over 1,000 years. Chlorination-derived disinf…
ISEF · 2026
Translational Medical Science
GLP-1 receptor agonists are widely used to treat diabetes and obesity and are being investigated for potential cognitive benefits in Alzheimer's disease. However, these treatments simultaneo…
ISEF · 2026
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Hyperspectral imaging enables simultaneous acquisition of spatial and spectral information and has become indispensable in applications including material characterization, environmental eng…
ISEF · 2026
Biochemistry
Polyethylene terephthalate (PET) represents one of the most prominent forms of synthetic plastic pollution, accounting for over 50 million tons of annual waste worldwide. Although the discov…
CWSF · 2026
Environment & Climate Change
Have you ever wondered how much plastic stays on Earth long after it is used? To help solve the planet's waste problem, bioplastics were created using everyday food waste like banana peels,…
CYSF · 2026
To quantitatively study and characterize food batteries. Measure Current, Voltage and Voltage Decay. Explore real life applications.
ISEF · 2026
Physics and Astronomy
Solar flares are a major component of understanding solar weather. Geomagnetic storms resulting from solar flares can cause catastrophic damage to man-made satellites in space, disruption to…
ISEF · 2026
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
This project’s purpose was to find alternatives to the PET-plastic degrading enzyme ‘PETase’ from vast amounts of existing protein data that function at industrial temperatures (~70°C) for a…
CWSF · 2026
Disease & Illness Silver Medal
Bloodstream infections are life-threatening and frequently bacterial, requiring rapid initiation of species-specific antibiotic treatment. Gram staining provides initial bacterial characteri…
ISEF · 2026
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Each year, about 58,500 Americans are diagnosed with oral or oropharyngeal cancer, and over 12,000 of them will not survive it. When oral cancer is caught at a localized stage, the 5-year su…
ISEF · 2026
Software Design
Deepfake videos are increasingly convincing, yet current detectors show a frustrating gap between lab performance (over 90% accuracy) and real-world results (50–60% AUC) with latencies too s…
CYSF · 2026
We are testing out different systems of hydroponic gardening, such as, deep water culture system and Aeroponic gardens. we are seeing specifically what is the best hydroponic garden.
CYSF · 2026
I set up to rails on a slant and test different rollers to see how far up they roll and how fast they roll up
ISEF · 2026
Materials Science
Medication is one of the most significant inventions in human history, often serving as a lifesaving intervention. However, access to medicine remains a major challenge due to high costs, es…
ISEF · 2026
Chemistry
The production of formic acid through the electrochemical reduction of carbon dioxide has garnered significant attention as both a valuable chemical production pathway and a carbon reduction…
CWSF · 2026
Disease & Illness
Chaque année, environ 15 millions de nouveau-nés naissent prématurément à travers le monde. Parmi eux, les grands prématurés, nés à 22 semaines de gestation, se trouvent dans une situation p…
ISEF · 2026
Plant Sciences
Global agricultural sustainability is currently threatened by the inefficient use of chemical fertilizers, which often leach into ecosystems as pollutants rather than being absorbed by crops…
ISEF · 2026
Physics and Astronomy
This project modeled the effects of Hawking radiation on black hole evolution and investigated whether black hole initial conditions can be inferred from radiation temperature data. A numeri…