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.
AJAS · 2026
Biomedical and Health Sciences (inferred)
Background: Radiation therapy is an integral part of treatment for patients with brain cancers. Radiation-induced brain injury (RIBI) occurs in over 50% of patients, causing cognitive and ph…
CWSF · 2026
Disease & Illness Gold Medal
Heart disease currently affects roughly 6 million Canadians, with emerging research indicating that up to one-third of individuals with underlying cardiometabolic conditions will develop myo…
ISEF · 2026
Embedded Systems Third Award
Falls are the second leading cause of unintentional injury death worldwide, responsible for over 684,000 deaths annually. Existing solutions leave critical gaps. Preventive approaches like s…
AJAS · 2026
Energy and Transport (inferred)
Piezoelectric energy harvesting is a method of energy generation that has shown some amount of validity in recent years. Due to its versatility in terms of its traits and applications, piezo…
ISEF · 2026
Biomedical and Health Sciences Fourth Award
Primary open-angle glaucoma (POAG) is a leading cause of irreversible blindness, characterized by progressive optic nerve damage often without symptoms until significant vision loss occurs.…
ISEF · 2026
Microbiology Second Award
An estimated $6 billion USD will be lost in 2026 globally due to disease outbreaks in aquaculture facilities, particularly from Vibrio coralliilyticus, a pathogen that infects corals, fish a…
ISEF · 2026
Environmental Engineering
The lack of control over nitrate and phosphate levels in soil and water is becoming one of the most serious problems facing the Baltic Sea. Eutrophication and uncontrolled nutrient runoff le…
ISEF · 2026
Translational Medical Science
Embryo selection for Frozen Embryo Transfer (FET) is routinely based on subjective parameters. In most modern In-Vitro Fertilization (IVF) labs a quantitative approach for embryo selection i…
CSEF · 2026
Medicine & Physiology (Senior Division)
The California wildfires of 2025 (Palisades and Eaton) were the second-worst recorded weather disasters, with potential severe health consequences. It is becoming clear that cardiac abnormal…
ISEF · 2026
Mathematics
One of the central open problems in operator theory and PT-symmetric quantum mechanics is how to construct metric operators explicitly for non-Hermitian operators acting in spaces with an in…
ISEF · 2026
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
Hydrogen is a promising clean fuel, yet most global production still relies on fossil fuel intensive processes. Biogenic hydrogen offers a renewable alternative, but natural microbes suffer…
CSEF · 2026
Medicine & Physiology (Senior Division)
In the field of microvascular diagnostics, the most significant diseases are those that silently compromise systemic health by attacking the smallest vessels in the human body. Nailfold capi…
ISEF · 2026
Physics and Astronomy Third Award
Current drug design methods treat proteins as rigid structures, failing to capture functional high-energy states. This contributes to 40–50% of clinical-stage drug failures. Mapping continuo…
ISEF · 2026
Engineering Technology: Statics & Dynamics Second Award
Autonomous vehicle (AV) research has focused on structured, high-income Western environments, leaving dense, variable developing regions underexplored. This project develops three prototypes…
CSEF · 2026
Applied Mechanics (Senior Division)
Autonomous vehicle (AV) research has focused on structured, high-income Western environments, leaving dense, infrastructure-variable developing regions underexplored. This project develops t…
ISEF · 2026
Software Design
Climate volatility remains a primary obstacle to global food security, subjecting 500 million subsistence farmers to catastrophic financial losses due to the disconnect between traditional p…
CSEF · 2026
Biochemistry/ Molecular Biology (Junior Division)
Malignant peripheral nerve sheath tumors (MPNSTs) are a rare and aggressive cancer that develops from nerve tissues, affecting about 1 in 100,000 people. These tumors are difficult to remove…
CYSF · 2026
Bronze Medal
In this experiment, I am testing the effects of nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium-rich fertilizers on Barley to see how its health and growth will be affected by eutrophication.
CWSF · 2026
Curiosity & Ingenuity Silver Medal
Have you dealt with pesky squirrels raiding your bird feeder? This project tested whether the colour of an object affects how much squirrels are attracted to it, and if this is related to ho…
ISEF · 2026
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Prescribed burning and mechanical thinning are forest treatments commonly used to alter forest structures for wildfire mitigation. In 2001, the National Fire and Fire-Surrogate (FSS) Study e…
CSEF · 2026
Zoology (Junior Division) Second Award
The goal of this experiment was to observe the effect that different extreme conditions had on the speed and mobility of Hypsibius exemplaris, an animal from a species of microscopic inverte…
CYSF · 2026
Silver Medal
I have made a simple yet creative solution by combining both coding and low vision to make a pair of glasses called ClearPath. These special pair of glasses beep when an object is 30cm away…
CYSF · 2026
Bronze Medal
In this project i will be using a spectrograph to obtain a high-resolution spectrum of the Sun. After obtaining the spectrum, I will compare it to a standard reference library of star types.
CYSF · 2026
In the project I will be testing how quickly oceans reach their limit for absorbing carbon before they become too acidic for life.
CWSF · 2026
Disease & Illness Silver Medal
Diagnosing and treating ocular diseases quickly and accurately is essential, as prolonged ocular disease not only affects patient morbidity, but can also lead to permanent eye damage. Curren…
AJAS · 2026
Biomedical and Health Sciences (inferred)
Ophthalmological diseases pose a significant public health challenge, with an estimated 93 million adults in the United States at high risk for serious vision loss. However, only half of the…
ISEF · 2026
Physics and Astronomy
Purpose: Oil spills cause severe damage to marine life and ecosystems. In this research, we attempted to develop an efficient method that can control oil film movement and therefore manage o…
ISEF · 2026
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Computational annotation of protein function remains severely constrained by the vast gap between available sequences and experimentally validated characterizations. Current methods often fa…
CSEF · 2026
Applied Mechanics (Junior Division)
The purpose of this project was to design a ramp that helps Little League players who use wheeled adaptive devices like wheelchairs safely reach bases during games. Baseball fields are not a…
ISEF · 2026
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
HER2 is associated with cancer progression in breast and gastric cancer, and, while HER2-targeted antibody therapy has improved responsiveness, approximately half of patients with HER2-posit…