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 · 2026
Translational Medical Science
Purpose: Neuroblastoma and glioblastoma are highly aggressive malignant neural tumors affecting pediatric and adult populations respectively. Both are associated with very poor prognoses des…
ISEF · 2026
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Globally, tens of millions of people suffer from lower body impairments, including spinal cord injuries, cerebral palsy, stroke, and muscular dystrophies, leading to loss of independent mobi…
ISEF · 2026
Translational Medical Science
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is a progressive neurodegenerative disease that continues to be difficult to diagnose in early stages. Despite studies demonstrating that when caught early, cognitiv…
ISEF · 2026
Translational Medical Science
Stroke, the 2nd leading cause of death(>7M) and 3rd leading cause of disability (94M) worldwide, is a time-critical emergency. Rapid, accurate stroke detection and severity assessment during…
ISEF · 2026
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Understanding neuronal dynamics often requires advanced mathematical tools that are not easily accessible to students or researchers without specific mathematical training. This project aime…
ISEF · 2026
Biomedical Engineering
Non-invasive BCIs such as EEG and fNIRS are limited by low spatial resolution and high latency, while invasive neural implants require surgery and pose biocompatibility risks. Existing close…
CWSF · 2026
Disease & Illness Silver Medal
Alzheimer's disease affects over 55 million people, projected to double by 2050. Current pharmaceutical treatments including Donepezil and Memantine primarily alleviate symptoms without addr…
ISEF · 2026
Biomedical Engineering
This project seeks to address the global need for affordable, early screening tools for diabetic peripheral neuropathy (DPN) by engineering a low-cost, self-contained wearable glove that qua…
ISEF · 2026
Behavioral and Social Sciences
One in every 20 people with epilepsy has photosensitive reflex epilepsy —2.5 million individuals for whom a flashing screen (3-60 Hz) can trigger a seizure within seconds, forcing them to li…
CWSF · 2026
Disease & Illness Bronze Medal
Current diagnostic methods for neurodegenerative diseases often depend on expensive imaging or on symptoms that only appear in later stages. My project, NeuroSight, explores a more accessibl…
CYSF · 2026
The purpose of this project is to find out whether going to bed earlier increases REM sleep and improves focus, mood, memory, and alertness the next day.
ISEF · 2026
Translational Medical Science
Parkinson's Disease (PD) is a neurodegenerative disorder that impairs motor function, making early detection crucial for slowing disease progression and managing symptoms. However, current d…
CYSF · 2026
Analysis of neural electrical activity recorded using microelectrode arrays to compare normal and seizure-like brain network behavior through computational and statistical methods.
ISEF · 2026
Embedded Systems
Chemical waste disposal in shared laboratories remains a major safety challenge because it often depends on handwritten labels, incomplete records, and user judgment. These limitations make…
ISEF · 2026
Mathematics
Purpose: A set of two new operators contribute to the development of a new theorem on jumpability that, together with a six-fold characterization of dimensional-expansions, are used to estab…
ISEF · 2026
Chemistry
N-heterocyclic carbenes (NHCs) have emerged as excellent spectator ligands in homogeneous catalysis, especially in transfer hydrogenation reactions. Transfer hydrogenation, the reduction of…
ISEF · 2026
Biomedical Engineering
This project designs anti-cancer peptides that inhibit PDEd, a chaperone regulating KRAS signaling. Using the PDEd crystal structure (PDB: 4JV6), RFdiffusion generated peptide backbones, Pro…
CWSF · 2026
Health & Wellness Gold Medal
Needle injections can be painful because they deform the skin, especially when larger needles are needed to deliver viscous fluids. In this project, a patented needle design that requires 57…
CWSF · 2026
Digital Technology Silver Medal
Deafblindness is a combined disability of vision and hearing impairments that create significant challenges to communication and information access. Many deafblind individuals rely on interv…
ISEF · 2026
Biomedical Engineering
Elopement/wandering affects nearly 49% of children with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD), and 71% of these cases result in fatal outcomes. Existing tracking systems rely on cellular subscripti…
CYSF · 2026
The study of nightmares in kids and why they have more nightmares than adults.
ISEF · 2026
Software Design
Conventional navigation aids for the visually impaired often suffer from estimation errors during non-linear maneuvers and fail to detect hazards obscured by crowds or corners. This study pr…
CWSF · 2026
Disease & Illness Silver Medal
Celiac disease is an autoimmune disorder where gluten causes damage to the small intestine.¹ A gluten sensor could allow patients to check their food. Current sensors are best at detecting w…
CYSF · 2026
The purpose of this experiment was to help people who are usually in noisy environments and these Noise-Aware Smart Headphones will automatically decrease the volume of the sound in the head…
CYSF · 2026
Investigating contact lens lysozyme aggregation by tracking the kinetics and mechanisms of home-purified egg white lysozyme subvisible aggregation at varying NaCl concentrations measured via…
ISEF · 2026
Animal Sciences
Bees pollinate the flowers of many fruit trees which produce a significant proportion of our food supply. It is therefore important to improve beekeeping practices to produce healthier bees…
ISEF · 2026
Biomedical Engineering
Distal pulse assessment during closed fracture reduction in pre-hospital emergency care is typically performed intermittently and subjectively, leaving windows where vascular compromise may…
ISEF · 2026
Environmental Engineering
This project was designed to tackle the growing problem of the invasive Burmese Python in the Florida Everglades. Since these snakes are hard to find, standard hunting methods did not work w…
ISEF · 2026
Cellular and Molecular Biology
Chlamydia trachomatis is the most common sexually transmitted bacterial infection in the United States. It is frequently asymptomatic, yet can result in severe reproductive complications. Wh…
ISEF · 2026
Biomedical Engineering
Background Heart failure affects 64 million people annually. Transplants are in chronic shortage, especially for pediatric patients. Total artificial heart (TAH) promises a solution; however…