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
Technology Enhances the Arts
This project determined if playing different games in different amounts would affect typing speed and accuracy. The experiment was performed due to personal research that showed an increase…
ISEF · 2026
Biochemistry Second Award
Breast cancer remains the most prevalent malignancy among women worldwide. Dose-dense AC-T chemotherapy (Adriamycin, Cyclophosphamide, and Paclitaxel), a commonly prescribed regimen, is asso…
ISEF · 2026
Environmental Engineering
Polyethylene terephthalate (PET) is one of the most common plastics used worldwide, and is used to create products like water bottles, food packaging, and textiles. PET is difficult to break…
ISEF · 2026
Physics and Astronomy
Photonic devices—engineered systems composed of metal-dielectric nanostructures—provide a powerful platform for manipulating and probing the quantum properties of light. These systems suppor…
ISEF · 2026
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Brain cancer, or glioblastoma, is one of the most aggressive cancers, given the nutrient-dense environment of the brain. This cancer is very deadly, given the significance of the brain for t…
CSEF · 2026
Biochemistry/ Molecular Biology (Junior Division) Honorable_mention Award
Gelatin forms a strong three dimensional network during gelation, where protein chains trap water within a branching framework. This project investigates the biochemical effects of citric ac…
AJAS · 2026
Systems Software and Computer Science (inferred)
Cybersecurity defense mechanisms are crucial for protecting sensitive information within computer networks. However, previous approaches for Intrusion Detection Systems (IDS) fail to address…
CYSF · 2026
We are aiming to create a triboelectric nanogenerator that can generate electricity from snow to help energy poverty in secluded countries.
ISEF · 2026
Biochemistry
Oligonucleotides, especially siRNAs, have been identified as a point of interest in recent research due to their capability for targeting of “undruggable” targets. siRNAs bind to and guide t…
ISEF · 2026
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics Third Award
Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) exhibits substantial heterogeneity in long-term developmental outcomes. Children with similar early symptoms often follow divergent cognitive and adaptive-func…
ISEF · 2026
Cellular and Molecular Biology
Nonalcoholic fatty liver disease is characterized by excessive lipid accumulation in the liver and can progress to nonalcoholic steatohepatitis, fibrosis, cirrhosis, and hepatocellular carci…
ISEF · 2026
Plant Sciences Fourth Award
Global warming has led to a significant escalation of the rate of coral bleaching, with 90% of reefs projected to experience bleaching annually by 2050. Coral bleaching often occurs when mar…
ISEF · 2026
Cellular and Molecular Biology
Besides the familiar double helix, DNA can form alternative structures such as G-quadruplexes (G4), guanine-rich four-stranded structures that arise during replication and repair. G4s are co…
CSEF · 2026
Applied Mechanics (Senior Division)
Lightweight load-bearing structures are widely used in aerospace, protective packaging, and deployable engineering, where reliability depends on resisting compressive collapse. Origami tesse…
ISEF · 2026
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Autonomous robots rely on Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (SLAM) to build maps and estimate their position within unknown environments. While many modern robotic systems achieve high r…
CSEF · 2026
Computational Science (Senior Division)
DNA origami design automation has advanced rapidly, but scaffold sequence is typically treated as fixed, despite emerging methods enabling custom scaffold synthesis. This project presents a…
CSEF · 2026
Microbiology (Junior Division)
This project tested if hand sanitizer or soap was more effective at killing bacteria on children and adults. It was believed that soap would be better across the board, but that there would…
ISEF · 2026
Mathematics
Gerrymandering is the process when congressional district maps are redrawn to benefit a certain political party. This process undermines democracy while giving disproportionate advantage to…
CYSF · 2026
Gold Medal
Using a self-made equation to model a household as either low, average, or high greywater producer, further explaining the best method of greywater reuse for an individual household.
CSEF · 2026
Applied Mechanics (Junior Division)
Earthquakes pose significant threat to the world. In areas like California and Japan, deadly earthquakes occur frequently, causing tsunamis, tearing cities apart, and causing buildings to co…
ISEF · 2026
Software Design
Plant diseases, particularly fungal infections, cause significant crop losses worldwide due to delayed detection and limited access to rapid diagnostic tools. This project presents Gharsa, a…
CWSF · 2026
Aerospace Gold Medal
The nature of dark matter (DM) remains one of the biggest unanswered questions in physics, all while current methods remain challenged with accurately distinguishing between different DM mod…
ISEF · 2026
Biomedical Engineering
Migraines are a debilitating neurological condition that impacts over one billion people across the globe, but not enough research or developments on the treatment of migraines have been don…
ISEF · 2026
Biomedical Engineering
Gut motility disorders affect over 20% of the population, but standard diagnostic tools, including endoscopy and manometry, are invasive, expensive, limited to clinical settings, and don’t t…
CSEF · 2026
Physics & Astronomy (Senior Division) Third Award
Liquids are ubiquitous in industrial and chemical applications. They are typically composed of geometrically rough colloidal particles that exhibit complex dynamical behavior arising from mi…
ISEF · 2026
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Nerve degeneration causes devastating symptoms for millions of patients worldwide. While some peripheral nerves experience recovery, others experience chronic neuropathic pain due to sensory…
CSEF · 2026
Biochemistry/ Molecular Biology (Senior Division)
Medulloblastoma, the most common malignant pediatric brain tumor, is driven in ~30% of cases by aberrant Hedgehog signaling through GLI transcription factors. FDA-approved upstream inhibitor…
CSEF · 2026
Microbiology (Junior Division)
The project question was how do varying levels of phosphates affect the population density of bioluminescent dinoflagellates. It was hypothesized that if the different levels of phosphates a…
ISEF · 2026
Biomedical and Health Sciences Third Award
Impaired wound healing is a widespread complication experienced by diabetic patients, with persistent hyperglycemic conditions being a central factor that disrupts cellular repair programs.…
ISEF · 2026
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics Third Award
Despite decades of therapeutic development, most disease-associated proteins remain therapeutically inaccessible. These so-called “undruggable” targets typically lack suitable binding pocket…