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
Agriculture, Fisheries & Food Bronze Medal
My grandparents live near the Englishman River on Vancouver Island, where big floods often happen in the fall and winter, soon after salmon lay their eggs. I wanted to learn how these floods…
CSEF · 2026
Earth & Environmental Sciences(Senior Division)
Soil salinization is a growing problem on agricultural lands, especially in the central valley of California and areas where irrigated agriculture is present. Salinization damages plant root…
CYSF · 2026
What is salt water effect on plants?We are doing this to see if you can water gardens with salt water.
ISEF · 2026
Technology Enhances the Arts
Dementia affects over 57 million individuals worldwide, causing two critical challenges: facial recognition deficit and disordered speech. Current assistive tools for dementia such as facial…
ISEF · 2026
Physics and Astronomy First Award
Origami and linkages are widely used across architecture, space engineering, and the natural world owing to their high interconnectivity, where a single input drives the entire mechanism. Bo…
CSEF · 2026
Applied Mechanics (Senior Division) Honorable_mention Award
One of the biggest problems faced by humans is a worldwide lack of affordable housing. Alternative technologies for building houses exist, namely 3D printing houses using cement, but this te…
CSEF · 2026
Earth & Environmental Sciences (Track 2) (Junior Division) Second Award
Kelp forests declined across California in 2014 from sea star wasting disease and a heatwave, though some are now recovering. I was inspired to use accessible technology to explore this hidd…
AJAS · 2026
Arsenic is a toxic carcinogen that may be present at high levels in groundwater. Over 100 million people worldwide are estimated to be exposed to arsenic through drinking water, with studies…
CYSF · 2026
Bronze Medal
This project studies how GNSS accuracy is affected by satellite visibility and environment. Multi-constellation data was compared to evaluate positioning precision, highlighting the importan…
CWSF · 2026
Environment & Climate Change Silver Medal
80% of stuffies (~500Million lbs) are discarded in landfills / year! Polyester-fibre stuffies=highly-consequential pollutants; their high surface area=more microplastics & toxins insidiously…
CYSF · 2026
I built AI models to predict machine failures at Decibel Cannabis Co, achieving a 96.8% accuracy, and potentially saving $300 000 annually by enabling proactive maintenance rather than emerg…
CSEF · 2026
Environmental Engineering (Junior Division)
Hi, my name is Rhian Welling-Farmer. I decided to do my science fair on saving homes from natural disasters involving water, like floods. I chose this idea because I was inspired by a docume…
CYSF · 2026
Gold Medal
Plastic has become an important part of our lives, but also a growing source of environmental pollution. My project studies micro plastics in our waters and tests various filters to trap the…
ISEF · 2026
Plant Sciences
Pests are a serious problem as they cause drastic negative impacts on global food production. The current solution, using pesticides, causes even bigger issues: having detrimental impacts on…
ISEF · 2026
Software Design
Generative modeling for structure-based drug design aims to generate three-dimensional ligands directly from the geometric and chemical context of protein binding pockets. However, existing…
ISEF · 2026
Environmental Engineering
Indoor pools pose an under-monitored public health risk, as chloramines, formed from chlorine reacting with swimmer-derived compounds, accumulate in air and are linked to asthma and respirat…
ISEF · 2026
Translational Medical Science
GLP-1 drugs address diabetes-obesity crisis that claims 12 lives per minute from associated complications, yet their uncharacterized off-targets may pose long-term health risks. Current safe…
ISEF · 2026
Physics and Astronomy Second Award
Quantum computers encode information in qubits, which are susceptible to physical noise. To protect information, quantum systems use error correction codes like the surface code, detecting e…
CYSF · 2026
Bronze Medal
My project involves a novel multi-omics MCDA algorithm and logic-gated pipeline to produce a precision-engineered CAR -T therapy designed to be both effective and cardiac-safe.
CSEF · 2026
Earth & Environmental Sciences (Junior Division)
With over 5.25 trillion plastic fragments currently suffocating our oceans and decimating coral reef ecosystems, the search for a viable recovery method has become a race against time. Tradi…
ISEF · 2026
Software Design
School Buddy is a multi - functional communication app developed to centralize school announcements, messaging, homework partner matching, club announcements, and extracurricular activity pl…
ISEF · 2026
Robotics and Intelligent Machines Third Award
Globally, 43 million blind and 295 million visually impaired individuals lack independent indoor mobility. Existing aids are either reactive (white canes), expensive (guide dogs), or ineffec…
ISEF · 2026
Biomedical and Health Sciences
The skin, the body's largest organ, consists of three layers: the epidermis, dermis, and hypodermis, each with distinct roles. Skin hyperpigmentation disorders, such as Post-inflammatory hyp…
ISEF · 2026
Chemistry
Traditional silicon solar cells are limited to approximately 33% efficiency, proposed by the Shockley-Queisser limit. Singlet fission (SF), a process in which one singlet exciton splits into…
CSEF · 2026
Medicine & Physiology (Junior Division)
My science fair project was how electronics may affect vision with children. My goal was to prove my mom wrong so I could play more electronics. I tested using bright surroundings and dark s…
CSEF · 2026
Behavioral & Social Sciences (Junior Division)
The purpose of this experiment was to determine if the amount of screen time affects your mood and self-reported stress level. 15 subjects were tested, six male and nine female, all within t…
CSEF · 2026
Behavioral & Social Sciences (Junior Division) Fourth Award
Purpose/Hypothesis Excessive social media usage is linked to anxiety/depression, sleep problems, and academic difficulties. Teen screen time has doubled over the past decade, and few studies…
CSEF · 2026
Computational Science (Senior Division)
Protein conformational dynamics is the continuous structural transitions proteins undergo during folding, unfolding, and thermal fluctuation, and underlie enzyme catalysis, ligand binding, a…
ISEF · 2026
Translational Medical Science Fourth Award
AI-powered breast cancer diagnostics remain inaccessible in low-resource settings due to patient privacy constraints, high hardware costs, and bandwidth limitations. This project designed an…
CSEF · 2026
Medicine & Physiology (Track 2) (Senior Division)
SEABED addresses a critical gap in global healthcare: AI-powered breast cancer diagnostics exist but remain inaccessible in low-resource settings due to high hardware costs, bandwidth limita…