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.
CSEF · 2026
Medicine & Physiology (Track 2) (Senior Division)
Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is an autoimmune disease affecting approximately 18 million people worldwide. Many treatments rely on monoclonal antibody drugs that block inflammatory signals such…
CSEF · 2026
Biochemistry/ Molecular Biology (Senior Division)
Resistant hypertension affects billions of people globally, however despite improvements in science and drug discover, hypertension remains one of the most deadly causing over 10 million dea…
ISEF · 2026
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Parkinson disease (PD) remains a progressive neurodegenerative disorder that is characterized by dopaminergic neuronal loss, immune metabolic dysregulation, and chronic neuroinflammation. Th…
CSEF · 2026
Medicine & Physiology (Junior Division)
Project Number: 081-670-81 Title: AI Model Defining Heart Healthy Foods Team Member(s): Wanqi Li Purpose: This project builds an AI-assisted tool that helps people identify heart-healthy foo…
CSEF · 2026
Electronics & Electromagnetics (Junior Division)
Pedestrians face significantly increased risk at night and during rainy conditions due to poor visibility, reflective glare, water-filled potholes, sidewalk cracks, and hidden obstacles. The…
ISEF · 2026
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Current CRISPR guide design tools rank on single scores without multi-module integration. This project seeks to develop machine learning models to predict optimal CRISPR-Cas9 Guide RNA seque…
CSEF · 2026
Environmental Engineering (Senior Division)
Air quality impacts everyone, yet monitoring is often expensive. To solve this, we developed a computer vision system that estimates air quality directly from sky images. We hypothesized tha…
ISEF · 2026
Software Design
Our project addresses the knowledge gap between sophisticated and unsophisticated investors. Many unsophisticated investors avoid capital markets because they cannot interpret firms' financi…
CSEF · 2026
Plant Biology (Junior Division)
Every year, up to 40% of crops are lost due to plant diseases and pests. The farmers whom society relies on face daily challenges in identifying plant diseases. In fact, many use their own e…
CSEF · 2026
Electronics & Electromagnetics (Senior Division)
This project focused on the design and testing of an integrated electronic system capable of detecting, classifying, and wirelessly reporting damaging package handling events in real time. A…
CWSF · 2026
Disease & Illness Silver Medal
Every 40 seconds someone has a stroke and up to 30% are caused by a heart condition called atrial fibrillation that produces zero warning signs until it's too late. We built a portable heart…
CYSF · 2026
Gold Medal
My project is to develop an app to have continuous monitoring of potential skin cancer. The app will allow the user to take pictures of the suspected area overtime from which an AI model wil…
CSEF · 2026
Cognitive Science (Junior Division)
The idea behind this project was to see if age makes a difference in people's ability to tell if images are AI generated. I made a survey with five AI generated images and five real images,…
ISEF · 2026
Biomedical Engineering Second Award
Gliomas remain the deadliest form of brain cancer, with patients surviving one year post-diagnosis on average, 5-year survival rates as low as 5%, and no major treatment advances in the past…
ISEF · 2026
Environmental Engineering Fourth Award
Emergencies like wildfires and industrial accidents threaten public health. Accurate predictions of pollutant dispersion are vital for timely protective actions, but atmospheric models often…
CYSF · 2026
Silver Medal
This project investigates how the shape of an air cannon’s exit opening affects the speed of air it produces.
CWSF · 2026
Digital Technology Silver Medal
AISentry is a waterproof, customizable, and user-friendly sentry capable of detecting, locking onto, and engaging with any humans or other objects, (𝑡𝑎𝑟𝑔𝑒𝑡𝑠) in a given area. It works by aut…
CSEF · 2026
Environmental Engineering (Junior Division)
AI vs. Trash: The Effect of Lighting on Accuracy of an AI Classification Model Louis Lu This study investigated the effect of lighting intensity on the classification accuracy of a fully tra…
ISEF · 2026
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
As fossil fuels have been sent back to the head of the line for depletion, there is a need to continue to find alternative fuels. Algae has become a nuisance. In reaction to increased freque…
CSEF · 2026
Behavioral & Social Sciences (Junior Division)
Our study investigated the effects of social media use on the stress levels and self-esteem of middle school students. We hypothesized that higher social media consumption would correlate wi…
ISEF · 2026
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Large language models (LLMs) like ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and DeepSeek increasingly influence how people access and interpret political information, raising concerns that they may subtly sh…
CSEF · 2026
Medicine & Physiology (Senior Division) Third Award
Oral squamous cell carcinoma (OSCC), a major subtype of head and neck squamous cell carcinoma (HNSC), is characterized by aggressive extracellular matrix (ECM) degradation driven in part by…
CWSF · 2026
Disease & Illness Bronze Medal
Our project focuses on using statistical measures to make comparisons between the different factors that can affect Alzheimer’s disease cognitive trajectories. Firstly, we conducted a meta-a…
ISEF · 2026
Physics and Astronomy
This project presents an in-line lens-free digital holographic imaging system capable of single-frame 3D reconstruction. I used a 532 nm monochromatic source to illuminate the sample, and th…
ISEF · 2026
Biomedical Engineering
This project centers around the ultimate goal of making cancer research more affordable and accessible to labs and students around the world. Cancer cells that grow in low-oxygen environment…
ISEF · 2026
Biochemistry
Water pollution by phenolic compounds and heavy metals poses a significant threat to aquatic ecosystems, creating a need for rapid, low-cost methods to assess environmental toxicity. Tyrosin…
ISEF · 2026
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Approximately 2.1 million people in the U.S. live with limb loss, with about 36% experiencing depression. Conventional non-invasive prosthetic control relies on electromyography (EMG), which…
CWSF · 2026
Health & Wellness
Invisible to the naked eye but potentially harmful to our health, airborne bacteria are a hidden threat that demand an effective mitigation strategy. This study investigated the effect of sa…
ISEF · 2026
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Due to the need for unsafe or costly data collection to train a policy in the real world, sim-to-real transfer is the most common approach: learning a policy in simulation and deploying it i…
CWSF · 2026
Disease & Illness Silver Medal
Alzheimer's disease is a neurodegenerative disorder affecting millions, characterized by accumulation of amyloid beta oligomers causing neuronal dysfunction. The ubiquitin-proteasome system…