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
Product Science (Junior Division)
Optimizing Materials for Dancewear Remi Hurrey Iron Horse Middle School, San Ramon, CA, USA The purpose of this project is to find what materials work the best for dancewear. I am researchin…
CSEF · 2026
Environmental Engineering (Senior Division)
Water scarcity is an important issue for our global population. Natural sources of water are insufficient to meet this demand. However, the atmosphere is an untapped resource which at any po…
CSEF · 2026
Earth & Environmental Sciences (Junior Division) Fourth Award
Microplastic pollution, an immense environmental issue that has affected our world for decades, has impacted humans, organisms, and even whole ecosystems. One way to address this problem is…
ISEF · 2026
Translational Medical Science
In the spring of 2025, my aunt tragically passed away from a long and hard-fought battle with breast cancer. My grief inspired me to develop a way to help diagnose breast cancer more efficie…
CWSF · 2026
Disease & Illness
Lung cancer involves mutations causing uncontrolled cell growth, with small cell lung cancer (SCLC) making up 15% of cases. SCLC is aggressive, progresses rapidly, and resists treatment. Che…
CSEF · 2026
Biochemistry/ Molecular Biology (Senior Division)
The precise and effective evaluation of surgical recovery presents significant challenges in the medical field, and current methods for evaluating recovery can be invasive, subjective, and e…
ISEF · 2026
Mathematics
Urban accessibility optimization is a pressing challenge for sustainable urban development. Classical graph-theoretical methods, such as the Steiner tree problem, provide a framework for con…
CSEF · 2026
Electronics & Electromagnetics (Senior Division)
Glaucoma is the leading cause of preventable blindness globally and frequently characterized by a gradual increase of intraocular pressure (IOP). Current techniques for measuring IOP require…
ISEF · 2026
Physics and Astronomy
Uncorrected refractive error is the leading cause of vision impairment particularly in low-income regions, due to limited access to diagnostic systems. Current assessment tools including pho…
ISEF · 2026
Biomedical Engineering
OralSense is a smart toothbrush system designed for passive, non-invasive detection of early gingival disease and pre-diabetes risk during routine brushing. It consists of a reusable electro…
CSEF · 2026
Physics & Astronomy (Senior Division) First Award
Prior to the first unambiguous discovery in 2011, circumbinary planets (CBPs), planets orbiting two stars or eclipsing binaries (EBs), were considered unlikely to exist due to the perturbati…
ISEF · 2026
Physics and Astronomy Second Award
Prior to the first unambiguous discovery in 2011, circumbinary planets (CBPs), planets orbiting two stars or eclipsing binaries (EBs), were considered unlikely to exist due to the perturbati…
ISEF · 2026
Embedded Systems
Roundabouts have become increasingly popular as they offer numerous benefits over traditional intersections for traffic management. Despite this they can be a source of driver confusion due…
CYSF · 2026
My project is a mechanical model, also known as a orrery created to represent the oribital resonance of the three inner moons of Jupiter: Io, Europa, and Ganymede. In this project, the use o…
CYSF · 2026
This experiment uses strawberries to investigate how hypotonic, isotonic, and hypertonic solutions affect plant cell mass through osmosis. I measured the percentage change in weight to demon…
CSEF · 2026
Applied Mechanics (Senior Division)
This project investigates the relationship between the center of gravity and parasitic drag on the flight path of a glider. A glider was constructed using balsa wood, rubber bands, metal was…
CYSF · 2026
In my project, I am seeing which planet in our solar system is the second most habitable to Earth. After my research, I am going to make a prototype of a machine which will help contribute t…
CYSF · 2026
I will be researching and analyzing pandemics to figure out how to avoid them in the future.
CYSF · 2026
Silver Medal
My project talks about the 3 most commonly used gene-editing technologies which are -ZFN, TALENs, and CRISPR-cas9- and identify which one is ideal for gene-therapy in somatic cells when the…
CSEF · 2026
Biochemistry/ Molecular Biology (Senior Division)
Hemorrhage remains a leading cause of preventable death in trauma, battlefield injury, obstetric emergencies, and mass casualty events because definitive care is often delayed by limited acc…
CSEF · 2026
Zoology (Senior Division) Fourth Award
Honeybees (Apis mellifera) are essential pollinators sustaining agricultural productivity and ecosystem stability but are severely threatened by the parasitic mite Varroa destructor, a prima…
CSEF · 2026
Electronics & Electromagnetics (Senior Division)
This project designed and built a handheld magnetic field detection device to provide early warning to pacemaker patients before dangerous magnetic fields reach their implanted device. The d…
ISEF · 2026
Materials Science
The transition to a clean energy is limited by the high cost of green hydrogen production, relying ?on expensive noble metals electrocatalysts. This creates supply chain risks and restricts…
ISEF · 2026
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
This study proposes Purpose And Context Activate Knowledge Efficiently(PANCAKE), a novel structured Chain-of-Thought methodology for enhancing geometric problem-solving in Vision-Language Mo…
CSEF · 2026
Plant Biology (Junior Division)
Microplastics (MPs) are pervasive environmental pollutants that can accumulate in living organisms. Their levels in agricultural soils are expected to increase exponentially, but the impacts…
ISEF · 2026
Engineering Technology: Statics & Dynamics
In car crashes, the primary cause of fatalities is the sudden forces experienced by the passengers. Considering collision physics, an elongated front bumper would decrease the average force…
CSEF · 2026
Environmental Engineering (Senior Division) First Award
Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) are “forever chemicals” contaminating global drinking water, with concentrations varying widely across communities. We create modular filters that…
ISEF · 2026
Animal Sciences Fourth Award
Traditional begging signals given by the altricial young of birds serve to communicate need to parents and solicit provisions during feeding visits. Such signals often incur costs, like pred…
CSEF · 2026
Biochemistry/ Molecular Biology (Senior Division) Third Award
Eczema, or atopic dermatitis, affects 30% of children and 10% of adults in the United States (NIH). While corticosteroids suppress inflammation, they weaken the skin barrier, causing recurre…
CYSF · 2026
Bronze Medal
It's a robot that senses cracks on the road, and once it took the entire picture of the crack, it fixes the damage on the road without causing a lot of traffic. There will also be a supervis…