Made a website/database for 17,000+ ISEF projects from 2014-2026 and 2026 CWSF projects (fairfolio.org)
Hey guys!
Last year, I competed in my first science fair. However, I realised that finding out whether my idea had already been done was weirdly hard. ISEF's official abstract database has the projects, but it's keyword search, so if you don't guess the exact words the abstract used, you get nothing.
So I built Fairfolio: every ISEF project from 2014–2026 plus CWSF 2026, 17,911 projects, searchable by meaning (semantic embeddings) instead of keywords.
example: search "teaching a machine to walk without falling over" on keyword search and you get zero results. Semantic search returns the quadruped and hexapod locomotion projects, because it matches the idea rather than the wording.
Current features:
- Filter by fair, year, category, award
- "Related projects" on every page, by embedding similarity
- Save projects to folders
- Every record links back to its original source
It's free, no account needed to browse. Data is from public ISEF abstracts and CWSF's public project listings.
I'm also currently working on adding database APIs and public MCP access so yall can connect your AI agents for ideation purposes.
Currently still in its early stages which is why I'd appreciate it if some of you guys tested it out. Thanks! (fairfolio.org)