What strong projects actually look like — the question they asked, the design that survived review, and the one decision that made the difference.
Archive entries are summaries compiled for study. Read them for how a project was structured, argued, and defended — not as a template to reproduce. Copying someone else's project is the one thing that will end yours.
14 projects
Aakash Manaswi
Third place · Regeneron ISEF 2026
Reported mite elimination as effective as pesticide treatment, without pesticide residues, alongside improved hive health measures.
Illaria Liedtke
Third place · Regeneron ISEF 2026
Reported reduced cellular stress markers in the injury-mimicking condition.
Kevin Sun
Third place · Regeneron ISEF 2026
Radio-frequency identification tags printed from conductive MXene material that identify a plastic's type during sorting and then dissolve during standard recycling instead of contaminating the output stream.
Evan Morris
Third place · Regeneron ISEF 2026
Reported a 70.1% reduction in seizure recurrence.
XinYan Chen
Third place · Regeneron ISEF 2025
Reported indoor formaldehyde reduced by nearly 90% over 18 hours.
Aleksandra Petkova
Third place · Regeneron ISEF 2025
A study of how vessel speed shapes wake patterns, combining aerial photography of real wakes with controlled trials using remote-controlled boats, to predict the speed that minimises drag for a given hull size.
Cory Seelenfreund
Third place · Regeneron ISEF 2025
Simulation and mathematical modelling of how memory length and degree of self-interest change outcomes in the iterated prisoner's dilemma, framed around implications for AI agent design.
Uma Sthanu
Third place · Regeneron ISEF 2025
An investigation of how prostaglandin E2 affects damaged neural cells, aimed at treatments for brain disease and traumatic injury.
Tanishka Balaji Aglave
Third place · Regeneron ISEF 2024
A natural alternative treatment for citrus greening, using curry leaf tree extract injected directly into tree trunks. Citrus greening has no cure and has reshaped citrus agriculture wherever it has spread.
Ingrid Wai Hin Chan
Third place · Regeneron ISEF 2024
A multi-sensory therapy for people with dementia delivered through virtual reality headsets, giving structured practice of cognitive and physical skills.
Maddux Alexander Springer
Third place · Regeneron ISEF 2024
Field research on fibropapillomatosis in green sea turtles, examining its relationship to wastewater input, invasive algae, and the amino acid arginine as a possible mechanistic link.
Eugene Chen
Third place · Regeneron ISEF 2023
A device that redirects an air conditioner's own cooling-fan airflow to spray its condensate onto its condenser, lowering condenser temperature and cutting power draw — using only waste water and airflow the unit already produces.
Yuyang Wang
Third place · Regeneron ISEF 2023
Outperformed existing inchworm-style robots at inclines below 22 degrees.
Rishabh Ranjan and Gopalaniruddh Tadinada
Third place · Regeneron ISEF 2023
Reported results in approximately three hours at an estimated cost of about $300 per run.