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.
7 projects
Kaitlyn Wang
Grand award · Regeneron ISEF 2023
Reported faster and higher-precision detection than existing approaches, and the discovery of the smallest ultra-short-period planet found at the time.
Saathvik Kannan
First place · Regeneron ISEF 2023
A pipeline combining machine learning with three-dimensional comparative protein modelling to work out why mpox became more transmissible after its 2022 resurgence, focusing on the structures the virus uses to replicate.
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.
Pannathorn Siri, Poon Trakultangmun, and Teepakorn Keawumdee
First place · Regeneron ISEF 2023
Reported a five-fold increase in lacewing survival rate.
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.
Natasha Kulviwat
Second place · Regeneron ISEF 2023
Neuroinflammation markers and claudin-5 were both elevated in the brains of suicide cases relative to comparison tissue.