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.
CWSF · 2026
Environment & Climate Change Silver Medal
The prevalence of microplastic pollution in aquatic environments is a significant global concern. However, quantifying microplastics using conventional laboratory-based methods is costly and…
ISEF · 2026
Environmental Engineering First Award
Marine ecosystems are paramount to the planet's health, but they are threatened by human-introduced pollutants. In particular, microplastics have proven to be detrimental to aquatic wildlife…
CYSF · 2026
Bronze Medal
In this project, I created a Deep Q Network which takes three inputs, angle of attack, Reynolds number and a target lift coefficient, and creates a 4 digit NACA airfoil that minimizes drag w…
ISEF · 2026
Biomedical and Health Sciences
In trauma and mass casualty events, hemorrhage remains a leading cause of preventable death as definitive car is often delayed by limited access to safe, compatible donor blood. Deployment o…
AJAS · 2026
Earth and Environmental Sciences (inferred)
Climate change has significantly increased global wildfire frequency and impact, making it a critical humanitarian crisis, particularly in dry climates. To address this challenge, we propose…
ISEF · 2026
Animal Sciences Third Award
Drosophila melanogaster in quail farms poses a serious pest problem, where they disturb the birds, degrade hygiene, and reduce egg production, an important source of nutritious food globally…
CWSF · 2026
Disease & Illness
Approximately 5-10% of students experience dyslexia[1], a neurodevelopmental reading disorder often identified after prolonged difficulties in reading development[2]. Standard screening appr…
CSEF · 2026
Environmental Engineering (Track 2) (Senior Division) Honorable_mention Award
Purpose: The conversion of lignocellulosic agricultural waste into platform chemicals is essential for sustainable biofuel production and carbon sequestration. Unlike conventional industrial…
ISEF · 2026
Animal Sciences First Award
Apis mellifera are essential pollinators, contributing to 80% of global food crop pollination and $183 billion annually to the global economy. However, around 40–50% of hives collapse annual…
ISEF · 2026
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL) is the most common aggressive non-Hodgkin lymphoma. Standard R-CHOP chemotherapy leaves many patients with relapsed or refractory disease, and salvage p…
ISEF · 2026
Embedded Systems
Coastal erosion presents a critical environmental challenge for the world, where shifting weather phenomena driven by climate change threatening vital ecosystems and infrastructure. The stud…
ISEF · 2026
Software Design
Alzheimer’s disease (AD) is a progressive neurodegenerative disorder characterized by heterogeneous cognitive decline, including episodic memory loss, semantic impairment, and visuospatial d…
ISEF · 2026
Mathematics
Arithmetic performance depends on the neural processing across distinct brain regions. This study investigates whether clustering coefficients (CCs), a graph theory metric for centrality, re…
ISEF · 2026
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics Fourth Award
Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma (PDAC) is a highly lethal cancer with a 90% mortality rate. Standard treatments such as surgery and chemotherapy show high recurrence rates of ~85% due to PD…
CSEF · 2026
Computational Science (Senior Division)
Breast cancer’s molecular complexity presents significant challenges in identifying robust and reproducible prognostic biomarkers. This study applies an integrative, pathway-level survival m…
ISEF · 2026
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Sickle cell disease (SCD) remains a major global health challenge, with no widely accessible targeted cure and most existing therapies focused on symptom management or partial disease modifi…
ISEF · 2026
Software Design
Misdiagnosis remains a critical challenge in dental radiography. In a study where 151 Egyptian dental professionals were surveyed, 94.7% identified it as urgent issue, with over 90% reportin…
ISEF · 2026
Embedded Systems
Paralysis afflicts 15.4 million people globally, growing by 0.5 million annually, with an additional 2.5 million Americans experiencing severe arm mobility impairment, with prosthetics costi…
ISEF · 2026
Biomedical Engineering
Purpose: Millions of deaths are preventable annually, with timely emergency care (WHO). Yet in real life emergencies; lives are lost since help doesn't arrive within critical “golden time”.…
CWSF · 2026
Digital Technology
We designed and built a Smart Pill Container that helps seniors take their medications on time and reduce related health risks. We were inspired to create this project by a lovely neighbor o…
AJAS · 2026
Embedded Systems (inferred)
The research aimed to develop an intelligent system capable of detecting propane gas leaks and automatically activating ventilation, lighting, and a sounder as means of awareness and alert.…
CSEF · 2026
Electronics & Electromagnetics (Junior Division) Second Award
Locating small air leaks in bike inner tubes is challenging because hissing sounds are often too quiet to hear. Traditional methods take time and effort because finding air leaks requires re…
ISEF · 2026
Earth and Environmental Sciences
My project is a Chesapeake Bay case study simulation built using an existing Lagrangian tracking model, driven by real National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association (NOAA) current and wind da…
ISEF · 2026
Earth and Environmental Sciences Second Award
Oil spills are among the most serious environmental threats. They remain difficult to control, and current remediation methods either disperse oil into water or use chemically aggressive tre…
CSEF · 2026
Chemistry (Senior Division) Second Award
The increasing prevalence of antibiotic-resistant infections has necessitated the development of passive, self-cleaning antimicrobial materials. Titanium dioxide (TiO2) is a widely studied p…
CSEF · 2026
Medicine & Physiology (Track 2) (Senior Division)
Visual information is detected and encoded in the retina through dozens of parallel pathways, with each pathway encoding a specific aspect of what we see. Each pathway is associated with a s…
CSEF · 2026
Medicine & Physiology (Senior Division)
Knee injuries and osteoarthritis affect an estimated 50 million individuals worldwide every year. Many patients undergo unnecessary and invasive procedures even after diagnostic imaging, wit…
CSEF · 2026
Physics & Astronomy (Senior Division)
Problem/Objective: Conventional silicon solar cells inefficiently utilize ultraviolet (UV) light, with excess photon energy typically lost as heat rather than converted into electrical outpu…
ISEF · 2026
Software Design Second Award
Passwords are failing. Stolen credentials are now responsible for over 88% of online attacks, and systems are unable to detect when an attacker bypasses a login screen or accesses an unatten…
ISEF · 2026
Biomedical Engineering
Currently 250,000 to 390,000 Americans are estimated to live with a spinal cord injury. United Spinal Association (2025) states that the number grows by 18,000 approximately every year. That…