20,037 real projects from ISEF, the Canada-Wide Science Fair, JSHS and the Calgary Youth Science Fair — searchable by meaning, and filterable by fair, year, category and award.
ISEF · 2025
Translational Medical Science
The issue of mental health misdiagnosis, affecting more than a third of patients with severe psychiatric disorders (39.16%) according to the National Institute of Health, calls for urgent ac…
ISEF · 2025
Microbiology
Antibiotic-resistant bacteria threaten a future where even minor infections may become untreatable. This growing concern has renewed interest in an old alternative—phage therapy. Phage thera…
ISEF · 2025
Embedded Systems
From tracking fetal heartbeats in ultrasound to pinpointing voices in noisy crowds, acoustic beamforming plays a vital role in healthcare, consumer technology, and public safety. Beamforming…
ISEF · 2025
Biochemistry
Camelina sativa is an oilseed crop for biofuel production. Genetic modifications have improved traits like oil content and stress resistance, with the DsRed fluorescence marker used to ident…
ISEF · 2025
Cellular and Molecular Biology
Helicases are enzymes that unwind double-stranded DNA during replication and repair. Human DNA helicase B (HELB) is critical for proper genome maintenance and recovery from replication stres…
ISEF · 2025
Physics and Astronomy
Recent observations have revealed unexpected galaxy populations at cosmic noon and “ultra-large-scale structures” in the local universe that challenge standard mass assembly models. To inves…
ISEF · 2025
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Nicotine addiction is the leading cause of preventable death worldwide. The National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA) reports approximately 23.6 million Americans have a nicotine use disorder.…
ISEF · 2025
Translational Medical Science
Diabetes Mellitus is a growing global epidemic, affecting over 500 million people worldwide. The condition is characterized by insulin resistance- failure of body’s cells to respond effectiv…
ISEF · 2025
Translational Medical Science
Autoimmune diseases affect millions worldwide, yet many are difficult to diagnose due to biological complexity and variability across patients. I developed a computational pipeline to addres…
ISEF · 2025
Physics and Astronomy
The formation of planetary orbits and star systems remains one of the greatest mysteries in astronomy. Exocomets, with their unique geological and molecular compositions, may hold the key to…
ISEF · 2025
Mathematics
Due to the grave danger that epidemics hold to our health and way of life, there has always been a dire need for models that predict the onset and severity of an epidemic. This is emphasized…
JSHS · 2025
Distracted driving represents an escalating public safety crisis, with its role in motor vehicle collisions and resulting fatalities steadily increasing. Despite advances in distracted drivi…
ISEF · 2025
Systems Software
Distracted driving represents an escalating public safety crisis, with its role in motor vehicle collisions and resulting fatalities steadily increasing. Despite advances in distracted drivi…
CYSF · 2025
To investigate how constant digital notifications (e.g., texts, social media alerts) affect participants' attention span, concentration, and task performance.
ISEF · 2025
Physics and Astronomy
Galactic formation is not fully understood, and supernovae are essential in current models; however, despite significant advances in understanding, there remains limited precision and effici…
JSHS · 2025
In living organisms, DNA is a critical macromolecule; its stability and integrity are vital for the normal functioning of cellular processes, such as DNA replication repair. Sunlight is a si…
CYSF · 2025
Do boys and girls have the same lung capacity?
CYSF · 2025
I am trying to answer the above question with research and an physical experiment.
CYSF · 2025
I decided to look at baking with and withort baking soda
CYSF · 2025
This project is about putting to the test if sleep improves academic performance
CYSF · 2025
Does temperature affect the bounce of a basketball we took a basketball and we heated and made it cold. We after dropped it from 5ft 3 times
ISEF · 2025
Plant Sciences
The agricultural industry is striving to increase the world's food supply systems to meet future needs, and hydroponics can be a crucial tool in this endeavor. This study aimed to enhance th…
CYSF · 2025
This project explores how different sizes of button batteries impact the level of burning in a child’s esophagus if swallowed. It aims to understand the risks and raise awareness about batte…
CYSF · 2025
This science project aims to determine whether washing rice a different number of times affects the amount of bacteria, using a microscope and petri dishes. It also examines whether the bact…
CYSF · 2025
Grow plants from seed in greenhouses in different environment to see how plant growth changes.
CYSF · 2025
Dogs and human saliva can be different so we thought we could do the project and we can see what is dirty
ISEF · 2025
Animal Sciences
In the 21st century, microplastics have become an increasingly common anthropogenic environmental pollutant. While the effects of microplastic contamination on many large species have been e…
ISEF · 2025
Behavioral and Social Sciences
The current youth has been experiencing a decline in cognitive functioning, and many have attributed this to a Dopamine (DA) rewiring stemming from “easy” DA induction from online habits. Ho…
ISEF · 2025
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Dysregulated dopamine in the mesolimbic system is linked to disorders like schizophrenia, depression, and addiction. Low phasic dopamine release correlates with reduced drug reward sensitivi…
CYSF · 2025
To test the maximum hearing frequency for professionals working in the high sound exposure professions like military, construction, manufacturing, and music industry as compared to normal so…