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 First Award
Over 1 Billion people globally live with mental health conditions driving depression & suicide crises. Music therapy is a proven nonpharmacological approach for emotional regulation, yet acc…
CWSF · 2026
Curiosity & Ingenuity Platinum Award
Fungal pathogens pose an enormous threat to global health, and a growing number of pathogens are developing resistance to our limited arsenal of antifungals. Overexpression of efflux pumps t…
ISEF · 2026
Microbiology First Award
Fungal pathogens pose an enormous threat to global health, and a growing number of pathogens are developing resistance to our already limited arsenal of antifungals. Overexpression of efflux…
ISEF · 2026
Environmental Engineering First Award
Globally, pests destroy over 40% of crops annually. Traditional pesticides are highly harmful to the environment and human health, and current application methods—either wasteful mass sprayi…
ISEF · 2026
Biochemistry
BRCA1 is a tumor suppressor protein essential for DNA repair, cell cycle regulation, and the maintenance of genomic stability. Mutations in the BRCA1 gene are strongly associated with an inc…
CYSF · 2026
Bronze Medal
This study explores using stem-cell bioengineering to treat chronic kidney disease and kidney shortages, focusing on the potential of stem-cell-based artificial kidneys, and seeing if their…
CSEF · 2026
Microbiology (Senior Division) First Award
Heavy metal water pollution is a growing concern in Southern California due to industrial discharge and urban stormwater runoff. Live bacterial biosensors provide a low-cost platform for mon…
ISEF · 2026
Microbiology
In today’s world, 1 in 9 people all over the world suffer from diabetes. Out of those people, 1-3 in 9 experience something called diabetic wounds. This project helps biomedical scientists u…
CSEF · 2026
Earth & Environmental Sciences (Junior Division) Honorable_mention Award
This project focuses on stream health through the macroinvertebrate population. Certain insects have higher sensitivities to pollution and are good markers of watershed health due to their i…
CSEF · 2026
Earth & Environmental Sciences (Track 2) (Junior Division)
Have you ever wondered how to improve the quality of your soil? My family owns and farms an orange grove, and the success of our grove depends on maintaining healthy soil. That is why I want…
ISEF · 2026
Software Design Fourth Award
This project advances audio augmentation in augmented reality (AR) by developing a music-theoretic spatial sonification method. Although AR is increasingly used in education and entertainmen…
ISEF · 2026
Technology Enhances the Arts
Over 430 million people have some degree of hearing loss . Hearing-impaired individuals use sign language (SL) as their primary communication method, but SL literacy in society is low. This…
CYSF · 2026
Bronze Medal
We investigated and analyzed the effect of different genres of music on heart rate.We compared the results for different age group like teenagers(16) and adults(40).
CYSF · 2026
Bronze Medal
What I am doing is bringing people of certain fitness levels, genders, and ages. Recorded their heartbeat before, during and after exercise. I will see its effect by those factors, and make…
CSEF · 2026
Plant Biology (Senior Division)
Many vegetables contain natural pigments like anthocyanins, that contribute to their color and nutritional value. This project investigated the effect of varying temperatures on the rate of…
CWSF · 2026
Health & Wellness Bronze Medal
My project is about making functional prosthetic hands more accessible and affordable than a smartphone. To achieve this, I use 3D printing to create lightweight, customizable parts that tra…
ISEF · 2026
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics Third Award
Drug-induced liver injury (DILI) accounts for 13% of acute toxicity cases in the U.S. and remains a primary barrier to pharmaceutical development. While most machine learning models predict…
CWSF · 2026
Energy
My project investigates optimal conditions for passive solar heating. I used a temperature data logging system to quantify the effect of surface colour, surface angle, and thermal mass. Cond…
ISEF · 2026
Materials Science
Microbial contamination in cosmetic products such as lipsticks, can lead to health issues and skin irritations due to constant contact with the mouth and exposure to bacteria and fungi. Comm…
CSEF · 2026
Microbiology (Junior Division)
Have you ever wondered how the chemicals used in your garden or backyard might impact not just plants, but also the invisible world beneath your feet and even your own immunity? According to…
ISEF · 2026
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) has a five-year survival rate of 12%, driven in part by unresolved mechanisms of therapeutic resistance. While single-cell RNA sequencing has advanced…
ISEF · 2026
Animal Sciences Fourth Award
E-cigarettes are a growing public-health concern, as new studies indicate that heavy metals, including lead, can be found in vape liquid. Despite this desperate need for research, the long-t…
ISEF · 2026
Chemistry Second Award
Arsenic contamination in groundwater affects over 200 million people globally. Inorganic arsenic, mainly arsenite (As(III)) and arsenate (As(V)), is classified as a Group 1 human carcinogen,…
CSEF · 2026
Zoology (Senior Division) Honorable_mention Award
Obesity is a global epidemic, affecting 40% of the population in the United States. Diet-induced obesity, the most common form of obesity, is associated with numerous health risks, including…
CWSF · 2026
Health & Wellness
Dementia effects almost One-Million Canadians, and has no cure, with current treatments having severe side-effects. This experiment aimed to explore the effectiveness of high-frequency pulse…
ISEF · 2026
Biomedical Engineering Fourth Award
Fully instrumented gait analysis provides clinicians with critical metrics for surgical planning and rehabilitation. It is the gold standard, combining infrared motion capture and force plat…
ISEF · 2026
Animal Sciences
Planaria (Dugesia spp.) are a well-established model for studying neural regeneration due to their ability to fully reform heads and central nervous systems after decapitation. This study in…
CWSF · 2026
Energy Bronze Medal
This project focused on many aspects of harvesting renewable energy from highways, including cars, vertical axis wind turbines (VAWT), cost, traffic, and solar panels. Four vehicle types (pi…
ISEF · 2026
Embedded Systems Second Award
On average, every 3 seconds a car hits a pedestrian, and every minute one is killed. Hindsight is a low-cost wearable sensor that alerts pedestrian users of vehicles approaching from behind…
ISEF · 2026
Embedded Systems
Visually impaired students encounter many problems in their educational processes. The inadequacy of Braille embossed and audio information resources, the scarcity of these resources in area…