11705 projects whose affiliated fair was here, most recently in 2026.
ISEF records a state or province for some finalists and not others, so these counts do not add up to the country total.
11705 projects · showing 241–270
ISEF · 2026
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Each year, about 58,500 Americans are diagnosed with oral or oropharyngeal cancer, and over 12,000 of them will not survive it. When oral cancer is caught at a localized stage, the 5-year su…
ISEF · 2026
Software Design
Deepfake videos are increasingly convincing, yet current detectors show a frustrating gap between lab performance (over 90% accuracy) and real-world results (50–60% AUC) with latencies too s…
ISEF · 2026
Materials Science
Medication is one of the most significant inventions in human history, often serving as a lifesaving intervention. However, access to medicine remains a major challenge due to high costs, es…
ISEF · 2026
Plant Sciences
Global agricultural sustainability is currently threatened by the inefficient use of chemical fertilizers, which often leach into ecosystems as pollutants rather than being absorbed by crops…
ISEF · 2026
Physics and Astronomy
This project modeled the effects of Hawking radiation on black hole evolution and investigated whether black hole initial conditions can be inferred from radiation temperature data. A numeri…
ISEF · 2026
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
The rapid evolution of pathogens such as SARS-CoV-2 and influenza has consistently outpaced traditional monoclonal antibody discovery. Frequent mutations in key antigenic regions enable immu…
ISEF · 2026
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Medical AI systems fail on underrepresented populations in ways conventional fairness metrics cannot detect. Existing evaluations report average disparities at fixed thresholds, providing no…
ISEF · 2026
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
My science fair project works towards creating a hardware and software platform for automated AI-assisted fire suppression. Through a combination of an AI model, self-generated training data…
ISEF · 2026
Engineering Technology: Statics & Dynamics
Currently aviation produces considerable carbon emissions and high operating costs, making sustainable flight a key focus. Electric aircraft are widely viewed as an alternative due to their…
ISEF · 2026
Biomedical Engineering
Developing functional prostheses for the upper limb, has historically been a challenge. Amputation of the hand due to military injury, disease, or other trauma carries significant psychosoci…
ISEF · 2026
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Individuals with early-stage dementia often experience confusion or distress when interacting with standard conversational AI, which may challenge memory, argue, or reinforce inaccuracies. T…
ISEF · 2026
Environmental Engineering
Atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) concentrations are approximately 50% greater than levels in the pre-industrial era. Carbon dioxide is the most prominent greenhouse gas, and is driving globa…
ISEF · 2026
Embedded Systems
AI data centers are a growing resource concern because rising electricity demand increases both operating cost and emissions, while cooling infrastructure can also require substantial water…
ISEF · 2026
Physics and Astronomy
Diffractive sails are a novel aerospace propulsion concept that direct photon momentum through controlled diffraction. By electrically controlling how light is redirected as it passes throug…
ISEF · 2026
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
This project's purpose is to explore a novel hybrid energy harvesting model that uses two kinds of sustainable harvesting that tap into unused energy in the world, piezoelectric and electrom…
ISEF · 2026
Earth and Environmental Sciences
Lead toxicity is an important environmental issue and a major global challenge, particularly in developing countries where water contamination can pose serious health risks. Heavy metals con…
ISEF · 2026
Software Design
Among Us is a 4-15 player social deduction game in which players on a spaceship are secretly assigned the roles of Crewmates or Impostors. Crewmates work collaboratively to complete tasks an…
ISEF · 2026
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Classified under the Bromodomain-Extra Terminal family, Brd4 plays a crucial role in the transcriptional activation of genes involved in immunity, leading to sterile inflammation and fibrosi…
ISEF · 2026
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
The human proteome comprises ~20,000 unique proteins, yet only 3,000 are theoretically druggable given current therapeutic methods. Molecular glues (MGs) are therapeutics that eliminate path…
ISEF · 2026
Engineering Technology: Statics & Dynamics
The bell nozzle is the most common rocket nozzle design, but it is optimized for a single altitude and therefore operates below peak efficiency during most of flight. The aerospike is an alt…
ISEF · 2026
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Kidney stones are solid mineral deposits that cause severe pain or harm to the urinary tract if not diagnosed and treated early. However, medical machine learning models require large labele…
ISEF · 2026
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Phubbing (phone use during face-to-face interactions) affects 75% of smartphone users and correlates with depression, loneliness, and relationship dissatisfaction. While contingency manageme…
ISEF · 2026
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
In Alzheimer’s disease, a progressive neurodegenerative disease, a key pathological feature of the is the accumulation of amyloid-ß peptides in the brain, which aggregate to form plaques tha…
ISEF · 2026
Biomedical and Health Sciences
Leukemia remains a leading cause of global cancer mortality, with Acute Myeloid Leukemia (AML) presenting the most aggressive clinical profile with frequent relapse even after treatment. Ove…
ISEF · 2026
Translational Medical Science
Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD), which encompasses Crohn's disease and ulcerative colitis, affects about 5 million people worldwide and is caused by the inflammation of the gastrointestinal…
ISEF · 2026
Engineering Technology: Statics & Dynamics
Thrust vector control (TVC) enables rockets to adjust their trajectory by redirecting engine thrust, providing active stabilization during powered flight when aerodynamic fins are less effec…
ISEF · 2026
Mathematics
I investigated whether quandle colorings (homomorphisms) can detect causality for links realized as skies in a (2+1)-dimensional globally hyperbolic spacetime X. I built on the Allen–Swenber…
ISEF · 2026
Technology Enhances the Arts
Damage to musical strings can degrade sound quality or even cause sudden failure during a musical performance. For large wire-cables, complex methods measuring the propagation of vibrations…
ISEF · 2026
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
3D point clouds are fundamental to robot perception and 3D reconstruction. However, due to interference, they often contain outliers which distort surface geometry and degrade the performanc…
ISEF · 2026
Chemistry
PFAS chemicals, or perfluorinated substances, are commonly found in household products, like non-stick cookware, waterproof materials, and fabrics. PFAS, or perfluorinated substances, are co…