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
Materials Science
Microplastic contamination via food container packaging and food itself is a pressing concern related to production systems, agriculture, and overall environmental health. Previous research…
ISEF · 2026
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Microplastics in waterways are becoming an ever-increasing problem for the natural world and for humans as well. It is important to find ways to remove microplastics effectively. Ferrofluids…
CSEF · 2026
Mathematical Sciences (Junior Division) Third Award
In protein-coding DNA, 61 sense codons encode 20 standard amino acids, allowing multiple synonymous codons for the same protein sequence. Codon selection influences translation rate, ribosom…
ISEF · 2026
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
A new construction of the sea wave energy converter has been invented and tested on operating models, which allows getting rid of the main problem of all such converters - an extremely low s…
ISEF · 2026
Cellular and Molecular Biology Fourth Award
Parkinson's disease progression is worsened by chronic neuroinflammation and excessive microglial activation, making inflammatory pathways promising therapeutic targets. Among these strategi…
CSEF · 2026
Medicine & Physiology (Track 2) (Senior Division)
Parkinson’s disease progression is exacerbated by chronic neuroinflammation and excessive microglial activation, making inflammatory pathways promising therapeutic targets. Among these strat…
CSEF · 2026
Plant Biology (Junior Division) Honorable_mention Award
Objective/Problem Statement: The purpose of this project is to understand how stressing a tomato plant affects fruit production. Will stress-induced monocarpic senescence cause the plant to…
ISEF · 2026
Biomedical Engineering
Wound infections remain a major challenge in healthcare, often slowing healing, raising treatment costs, and sometimes becoming life-threatening. Most infections are detected only after visi…
ISEF · 2026
Materials Science
Skin and soft tissues infections (SSTIs) remain a major global health concern, due to rising antimicrobial resistance, delayed wound healing, and limited access to effective localized therap…
AJAS · 2026
Biomedical and Health Sciences (inferred)
Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is a neurodegenerative disorder that is identified by cognitive decline, including memory loss and an impaired ability to perform daily, normal tasks, which leads to…
CSEF · 2026
Earth & Environmental Sciences (Track 2) (Junior Division)
I got my project idea when I experienced a lunar eclipse. That day I was around the beach area looking at the waves in the ocean. And that was what sparked my curiosity! I started to wonder…
ISEF · 2026
Behavioral and Social Sciences
This research examined how social media use influences the social acceptance of adolescents aged 14 to 16. Therefore, the purpose of the study was to determine whether social media contribut…
ISEF · 2026
Earth and Environmental Sciences
In late July 2024, cyclone “Kirsty” caused exceptionally intense rainfall in central Latvia, resulting in severe flooding and record-breaking precipitation totals for Latvia. This study inve…
AJAS · 2026
Physics and Astronomy (inferred)
The question for this research was, “Does the metallicity of the type of star an exoplanet orbits or the exoplanet’s temperature influence the gaseous composition of its atmosphere?”. It was…
CYSF · 2026
It’s a solar powered cover engineered to address a global infrastructure problem and reduce risk of power outages through renewable energy and a more environmentally friendly and trustworthy…
ISEF · 2026
Translational Medical Science
Non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) accounts for 85% of all lung cancers and can develop resistance to current therapies. This creates an urgent need for more effective and targeted treatment…
CWSF · 2026
Disease & Illness Bronze Medal
Neurodegenerative diseases such as Parkinson's are predominantly framed as problems of protein accumulation and downstream clearance, implicitly assuming that pathogenic conformations are su…
CYSF · 2026
Bronze Medal
Innovating ideas on how to treat the prion disease, Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, before conditions in a patient become critical.
CWSF · 2026
Energy
This project explores an enhanced Harmony Wind Turbine design engineered to prevent over-rotation during high wind conditions. To achieve this, I implemented and tested an automated blade-cl…
ISEF · 2026
Microbiology
Rising fertilizer costs have increased interest in sustainable methods for improving soil fertility. This project investigated whether Dermestid beetles could increase soil microbiomass by a…
CSEF · 2026
Zoology (Junior Division)
Climate change has caused global temperature to rise and is leading to more insects migrating up north to areas like Riverside, California. Soon there will be many new bugs in areas that hav…
CYSF · 2026
Silver Medal
This study aims to promote awareness regarding how endometriosis is a painful and debilitating condition, and advocate for further research on the disease
ISEF · 2026
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Autism Spectrum Disorder, or ASD, is a neurodevelopmental disorder that can cause significant behavioral and social challenges. The prevalence of ASD has risen over the past two decades, ref…
ISEF · 2026
Biomedical and Health Sciences
T-cell malignancies are aggressive hematologic cancers with limited targeted treatment options and high relapse rates. These malignancies are characterized by the overexpression of the PD-1…
CWSF · 2026
Digital Technology Silver Medal
Every 9 seconds, one person dies from diabetes, yet current technologies have significant limitations. I engineered a first-of-a-kind hybrid Physics-ML "glass-box" engine reconstructing each…
CWSF · 2026
Disease & Illness Silver Medal
Retinitis pigmentosa (RP), affecting about 1 in 4,000 people, is the most common inherited retinal disease. A common cause of RP is the P23H mutation in rhodopsin, which causes the protein t…
AJAS · 2026
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics (inferred)
Lymphoma arises from the uncontrolled proliferation of lymphocytes, often triggered by genetic mutations. Standard treatments such as chemotherapy and radiation therapy face limitations due…
ISEF · 2026
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Solid tumors represent approximately 90% of adult human cancers and arise from the uncontrolled growth of cells in tissues or organs. Recently, immunotherapy that boosts the immune system's…
ISEF · 2026
Microbiology Third Award
The bacterium Vibrio cholerae has evolved unipolar sheathed flagellum as the main organelle to drive motility and facilitate biofilm formation and colonization in host cells although the und…
CSEF · 2026
Physics & Astronomy (Senior Division) Honorable_mention Award
Small (1-10 cm) space debris in Low Earth Orbit is largely undetectable by current tracking systems, and can cause mission-ending damage to spacecraft. Due to low atmospheric drag, these fra…