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 · 2025
Materials Science Fourth Award
Over 40% of chemotherapy patients suffer toxic side effects due to non-specific targeting, and most genetic therapies are prematurely degraded before they can reach target organs, limiting t…
ISEF · 2025
Systems Software
A fractal is a mathematical object with non-integer dimensions, characterized by self-similar patterns repeating at different scales. They help describe intricate natural phenomena, like the…
ISEF · 2025
Environmental Engineering Second Award
With rising carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions accelerating climate change, carbon capture technologies have become essential. Cryogenic carbon capture (CCC) leverages low temperatures to separa…
ISEF · 2025
Chemistry First Award
In our research we focused on antivirotics, broad-spectrum drugs against RNA viral diseases. Galidesivir, a molecule that today appears to be the most optimal inhibitor of viral RdRp, became…
ISEF · 2025
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
This project investigates the genetic mechanisms underlying Alzheimer's Disease (AD) and Limbic-Predominant Age-Related TDP-43 Encephalopathy (LATE) and their co-occurrence by analyzing diff…
ISEF · 2025
Physics and Astronomy Fourth Award
Flexible two-dimensional (2D) field-effect transistors (FETs) have gathered great interest, due to the need to solve scalability problems that are commonplace in 3D FETs. Specifically, the r…
ISEF · 2025
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Cardiovascular disease (CVD) causes 20.5 million deaths annually and imposes significant economic burdens due to rising healthcare costs. While pharmacological treatments and surgeries are t…
ISEF · 2025
Embedded Systems
Despite technological advancements in automation, the construction industry continues to primarily rely on manual labor. This project strives to implement autonomous masonry utilizing drones…
JSHS · 2025
Speech production has long been the focus of neurolinguistics, where concepts are associated with their respective words, a process called word retrieval. Though defined, current research la…
AJAS · 2025
Engineering (inferred)
Electric motors used in industrial applications use rare earth magnets derived from rare earth metals. Rare earth metals are nonrenewable and acidify the surrounding soil and water when mine…
AJAS · 2025
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics (inferred)
Alzheimer's disease (AD), a progressive neurodegenerative disorder affecting over 50 million globally, has seen limited success with FDA-approved treatments targeting amyloid beta (Aβ) aggre…
JSHS · 2025
Zooxanthellae, genus Symbiodinium, is the symbiotic microalgae that occupies coral tissue. Coral bleaching is the process in which the zooxanthellae is expelled from the host because of risi…
AJAS · 2025
Zooxanthellae, genus Symbiodinium, is the symbiotic microalgae that occupies coral tissue. Coral bleaching is the process in which the zooxanthellae is expelled from the host because of risi…
ISEF · 2025
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
The electricity demand for large language models (LLMs) has dramatically increased, driven by their intensive computational needs. Optimized Arithmetic via Ternary Networks (OATNet) is propo…
ISEF · 2025
Physics and Astronomy
Asteroid observation is vital for gathering lightcurve data, enabling the refinement of asteroid models, reconstruction of their three-dimensional shapes, and derivation of astrophysical pro…
AJAS · 2025
We can use electronics to see, hear, and communicate, but we still need a way to use electronics to smell things and send smells over distances. By creating a way to do this, we can identify…
ISEF · 2025
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Lacking adequate tools for early detection and treatment of Oppositional Defiant Disorder (ODD) and Conduct Disorder (CD) among Egyptian children and adolescents poses a crucial challenge. A…
AJAS · 2025
The purpose of this research was to compare the results of different omega-3 fatty acids in trying to improve impaired locomotion of strain VC1927 Caenorhabditis elegans as a model for syste…
ISEF · 2025
Mathematics
Purpose In this study, Rowlands' sequence, a recursive sequence discovered in 2003, was studied. The aim was to develop a conditional proof of: Conjecture 1: The first difference of Rowlands…
ISEF · 2025
Mathematics
This research looks to define a basis and the behavior of the Tau-divisor topology. This can be viewed as a permutation of the usual divisor topology by implementing the Tau-factorization th…
ISEF · 2025
Translational Medical Science First Award
Cancer is the second leading cause of death worldwide, affecting 20 million people and being responsible for >9.7 million deaths annually. Early prediction of clinical outcomes is crucial fo…
ISEF · 2025
Biochemistry Third Award
At-home blood collection, such as the dried blood spots for fertility workups has been challenging due to low circulating Anti-Mullerian Hormone (AMH) concentrations and dependence on traine…
ISEF · 2025
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Heavy metal contamination in water poses a significant threat to human health and the environment. Effective detection of heavy metals is crucial for the prompt removal of contamination sour…
ISEF · 2025
Biomedical and Health Sciences
The study analyzed the antioxidant content in teas, coffees, red wines, and various fruits. The biological effect of antoxidants includes antibacterial, antiviral, anti-inflammatory, antiall…
CYSF · 2025
Bronze Medal
We are researching that Oobleck will act as a liquid when undisturbed, and a solid when force is applied to it.
ISEF · 2025
Biomedical Engineering
Organ-on-a-Chip (OOC) devices have the potential to revolutionize drug testing as an ethical, in vitro alternative to traditional methods. However, further research and adoption is limited b…
CYSF · 2025
Bronze Medal
Why does the human brain see optical illusions? The neuroscience of optical illusions.
CYSF · 2025
14 participants will take a visual acuity test one eye at a time at different times of the day to see the decline of vision throughout the day.
ISEF · 2025
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
This project explores the design, construction, and optimization of a 3D-printed impulse turbine using compressed air for electricity generation, to reduce intermittency in renewable energy…
ISEF · 2025
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
Microbial fuel cell (MFC) technology is gaining interest in the scientific community as a promising alternative energy source. However, current MFCs have several limitations. Therefore, this…