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
Mathematics
Benzenoids are organic compounds composed of hexagonal six-carbon benzene rings with no adjacent double bonds. A Kekulé structure models a benzenoid as a collection of selected edges (repres…
ISEF · 2026
Biochemistry
Three platinum anticancer compounds have been used for over 40 years in the United States. Despite their longtime use, it wasn't until 2017 that it was discovered that one of the platinum dr…
ISEF · 2026
Physics and Astronomy
Light pollution is a growing societal issue with at least 80% of the world's population encountering reduced night sky visibility due to urban skyglow. As well as scattered light emanating f…
CSEF · 2026
Alternative Energy (Junior Division)
As the world faces climate change, advancements in green technology have begun to emerge across various sectors, with many of these key innovations relying on batteries as their primary sour…
CSEF · 2026
Biochemistry/ Molecular Biology (Senior Division)
Protein glycosylation is a highly diverse and complex post-translational modification that is critical to many biological processes, such as intercellular communication and protein folding.…
ISEF · 2026
Physics and Astronomy Third Award
Wildfires pose significant threats to ecosystems and communities worldwide. While visible flames can be readily captured, the underlying thermofluidic processes governing atmospheric fire sp…
CWSF · 2026
Aerospace Bronze Medal
Wildfires are becoming an increasing concern as climate change decreases rainfall, increases lightning storms, and causes earlier snow melt. Most wildfires are in northern Canada, and often…
ISEF · 2026
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Wildfire response depends on three tasks that currently operate in isolation: detecting fires, forecasting where they will spread, and deciding where to send crews. Existing detection relies…
CWSF · 2026
Health & Wellness
We studied about first nations fasting and what it does for the body, we went to our elders and offered tobacco for information and knowledge. Our elders gave us lots of information for our…
CSEF · 2026
Behavioral & Social Sciences (Senior Division)
The NFL is a multi-billion-dollar industry where the success of one position can determine a team's fate, to be winners or losers. That position is the quarterback. Quarterbacks are taken in…
CSEF · 2026
Microbiology (Junior Division)
The five second rule project was to see if bacteria or fungus went on food when it falls on the ground for a certain amount of time. People would say if food falls on the ground, in five sec…
CSEF · 2026
Computational Science (Senior Division) Honorable_mention Award
This project introduces a contrastive multi-view self-supervised framework for network intrusion detection (NID) that integrates finite-difference temporal modeling with Fourier Kolmogorov–A…
ISEF · 2026
Robotics and Intelligent Machines Second Award
Most robotic grippers are either powerful or gentle, rarely both. Traditional rigid designs lack adaptability and often damage fragile objects through excessive force, limiting their usage i…
CYSF · 2026
Gold Medal
Due to the rise of pollution, specifically from the packaging industry's synthetic foam production, this project will make a biodegradable alternative to it using vegan ingredients and a kit…
CYSF · 2026
Gold Medal
to provide affordable mesospheric, upper atmospheric and space access for for upper atmospheric research and smallsat development, specifically focusing on CFD and ML regression assisted aer…
CSEF · 2026
Environmental Engineering (Junior Division) Honorable_mention Award
Flooding is a natural hazard that can cause serious damage to homes, surroundings, and safety. This engineering project is a simple, low-cost flood alarm designed to detect rising water leve…
ISEF · 2026
Physics and Astronomy Third Award
Arterial stenosis, the narrowing of arteries by plaque buildup, is the primary cause of cardiovascular diseases. Diseased arteries often contain multiple or non-uniform stenoses, so clinical…
CYSF · 2026
Bronze Medal
Fluoride flow is about how different levels of fluoride affect bacterial growth in water! This project includes information on bacteria, fluoride, and even about why calgary decided to add f…
CYSF · 2026
I am researching how fluoride in our drinking water affects our health
CSEF · 2026
Behavioral & Social Sciences (Senior Division)
This study examines how augmented feedback influences human learning in complex auditory-motor skill acquisition, using flute tone color production as a model system. Tone color is a subject…
CSEF · 2026
Zoology (Junior Division) Third Award
Objectives According to W.H.O., 400 million people worldwide suffer from alcohol addiction. Due to this, this research aimed to find a treatment for alcohol addiction through a Drosophila mo…
CWSF · 2026
Aerospace
A death in search and rescue can happen in minutes, especially in the harsh climate of the North. With oblique wing drones we could lessen that through more speed control and efficiency, bot…
CYSF · 2026
We are doing elephant tooth paste and measuring which one makes the most . The variable is the percent of hydrogen peroxide 3% and 12%
CYSF · 2026
Gold Medal
To determine which genre of interference will derive the focus of Junior High students most. We will perform visual, auditory, and motionary distractions to unsuspecting participants and com…
CSEF · 2026
Applied Mechanics (Junior Division)
The purpose of this experiment was to determine if the design affects the distance a paper airplane will travel. My hypothesis was that the plane folded with a longer body would fly farther.…
CWSF · 2026
Curiosity & Ingenuity Bronze Medal
Buying food can be very expensive. And it can be even more expensive to buy healthy food. My goal was to create an efficient way to grow plants inexpensively in the home. My idea for an indo…
ISEF · 2026
Earth and Environmental Sciences
The South Pacific Convergence Zone (SPCZ) is the largest band of precipitation in the Southern Hemisphere stretching from the Western Pacific Warm Pool (WPWP) to French Polynesia. The WPWP c…
CWSF · 2026
Digital Technology Silver Medal
I chose this project because wildfires are becoming a bigger problem in Canada. they can affect forests, wildlife, air quality, and nearby communities. I wanted to see if a machine learning…
CSEF · 2026
Earth & Environmental Sciences(Senior Division)
Kelp forests are highly productive ecosystems along California’s coast. However, kelp forests have been collapsing due to a variety of factors including climate stressors and destructive gra…
ISEF · 2026
Biomedical and Health Sciences Fourth Award
Lactase dietary supplements are widely used to address lactose intolerance, a condition where the small intestine produces insufficient lactase enzyme to break down lactose, the natural suga…