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
Environmental Engineering (Senior Division) Second Award
Abstract: Introduction: Plastics are one of the most widely used materials on the planet. They are mostly made from petroleum-based polymers, which can be molded into a variety of shapes and…
CSEF · 2026
Medicine & Physiology (Track 2) (Senior Division)
The human leukocyte antigen (HLA) system comprises over 20,000 alleles, making immune recognition one of the most polymorphic biological processes. Therapeutic proteins encode overlapping pe…
ISEF · 2026
Biomedical Engineering
Optogenetics leverages genetically encoded, light-sensitive proteins to achieve high spatiotemporal resolution in cellular regulation. However, current chimeric proteins suffer from slow swi…
CWSF · 2026
Environment & Climate Change Bronze Medal
Les arbres sont bien plus que du bois; ils constituent notre première ligne de défense contre le changement climatique en séquestrant activement le carbone atmosphérique. Pourtant, cette val…
ISEF · 2026
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design Third Award
Electrochemical seawater splitting is one of the most promising methods for sustainable hydrogen production. However, its major challenge is the simultaneous chlorine evolution reaction (CER…
CSEF · 2026
Electronics & Electromagnetics (Junior Division)
Title: Talk to The Hand – ASL Gesture Recognition Glove Name: Tasneem Ismaili Grade: 7th Purpose: The goal of the project was to develop an ASL speech recognition glove, aiming to bridge the…
CSEF · 2026
Electronics & Electromagnetics (Junior Division) Third Award
Purpose/Design Goal and Background: I did the Talk to the Hand: Voice Controlled Robotic Hand project because I wanted to learn more about coding and working with the affordable Raspberry Pi…
CYSF · 2026
Bronze Medal
In my project I'm aiming to prove if powdered tamarind seeds can facilitate the removal of microplastics from the water through flocculation.
CSEF · 2026
Applied Mechanics (Junior Division)
Earthquakes produce seismic forces that can cause serious structural damage, making seismic engineering essential for building safety. This project investigated two common seismic protection…
CWSF · 2026
Disease & Illness Gold Medal
1 out of 4 patients die within 3 months of a bloodstream infection from Staphylococcus aureus (S.aureus) [1]. Currently, both first-line and even last-resort antibiotics are mainly ineffecti…
ISEF · 2026
Translational Medical Science Fourth Award
Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS) is a fatal neurodegenerative disorder characterized by progressive motor neuron loss and limited therapeutic options due to its complex, multifactorial pa…
ISEF · 2026
Translational Medical Science
Endocrine therapy resistance affects ~40% of patients with estrogen receptor-positive (ER+) breast cancer, limiting treatment efficacy and contributing to relapse. The Aryl Hydrocarbon Recep…
ISEF · 2026
Microbiology
Biofilm formation is a major driver of antimicrobial resistance and persistent infections, particularly in medical device-associated settings. These structures protect bacteria from antibiot…
CYSF · 2026
Silver Medal
I designed trial peptides for targeting MHC-1 deficiency prevalent in cancer via the activation of NKG2D receptors on natural killer cells, with red blood cell and MHC-1 prevalence avoidance…
ISEF · 2026
Biochemistry
Glioma is an aggressive, life-threatening form of brain cancer with poor clinical outcomes. Despite decades of research, tumor-intrinsic mutations cannot explain disease progression alone. C…
AJAS · 2026
Purpose: The accumulation of advanced glycation end products (AGEs) and their interaction with the receptor for AGEs (RAGE) have been implicated in the progression of prostate cancer (PCa),…
ISEF · 2026
Microbiology
Antibiotic resistance is a rising global health threat, causing over 5 million deaths worldwide annually. This is a particular concern in hospital settings where bacterial infections can spr…
ISEF · 2026
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Curricula shape how societies transmit knowledge, values, and collective memory. In the United States, textbook adoption occurs at the state level, producing variation in what students learn…
CYSF · 2026
Gold Medal
A human controls a robotic arm through teleoperation, the arm will accurately replicate the operator’s movements to perform mechanical tasks.
CYSF · 2026
Bronze Medal
In this project, we received data from the Rocky Mountain Eagle Research Foundation on historical golden eagle migration timing and numbers, as well as the average temperature from 2010 to 2…
ISEF · 2026
Embedded Systems
HVAC systems account for approximately 40% of building energy consumption, with significant waste arising from conditioning unoccupied spaces. While occupant-centric HVAC systems improve eff…
CSEF · 2026
Applied Mechanics (Junior Division)
The purpose of this project is to build and test a magnetic tensegrity table and determine the critical (maximum) load the table can hold before it becomes unstable; along with how the posit…
CSEF · 2026
Environmental Engineering (Track 2) (Senior Division)
TerraBrix addresses the challenges of modern poultry farming and environmental degradation with the development of the AgriWeave Blox. Modern-day agricultural infrastructure for poultry farm…
ISEF · 2026
Software Design Third Award
Soil degradation affects over 1.7 billion people globally, yet long-term prediction of soil evolution remains fundamentally challenging because soil emerges from complex interactions among c…
CWSF · 2026
Agriculture, Fisheries & Food Gold Medal
Food waste is a major issue in Canada, with much of it happening at the household level due to confusion about best-before dates. Many people throw away food that is still usable or rely on…
CSEF · 2026
Behavioral & Social Sciences (Junior Division) Honorable_mention Award
Alarm fatigue is recognized as a significant risk to both patient safety and the well-being of healthcare professionals. This is a huge safety concern in hospitals. Frequent exposure to non-…
ISEF · 2026
Engineering Technology: Statics & Dynamics Third Award
The IceCube Neutrino Observatory requires boreholes drilled 2,500 meters into the Antarctic ice sheet using a 5 megawatt hot water drill. During the first 66 minutes of drill startup insuffi…
ISEF · 2026
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Nicotine is a psychoactive substance, commonly delivered through e-cigarettes. In the short-term, nicotine can cause an individual to feel enhancements in attentiveness, while also reducing…
CYSF · 2026
Bronze Medal
I will test different algorithms and see which one gets the ai to as little loss or as much rewards as much as possible, I'll expiriment with different learning algorithms and activation fun…
CYSF · 2026
Silver Medal
This project investigates how cold weather affects the responsiveness of hydraulic systems in heavy equipment. Two hydraulic oils, AST 20 and Univis HVI 13, were tested in a model hydraulic…