Check this page after judging concludes to see if your project has been selected to receive an award at the Awards Ceremony. While you’ll be able to find out whether you’ve earned an award, the specific award level (First Place, Second Place, Third Place, or Honorable Mention) will be revealed during the ceremony. Good luck—and congratulations to all participants!
Please note that we use this page to provide project information for both the West Virginia State Science and Engineering Fair and the West Virginia State Social Studies Fair.
2026 WV Science and Engineering Fair Winners
| Project Number | Project Title |
|---|---|
| 2 | Music To Make You Crack |
| 3 | My Egg-cellent Business |
| 4 | Rate of Gain |
| 8 | Whitetail Deer: Choice of Food |
| 11 | Is Yawning Really Contagious? |
| 12 | The Nose Knows: A Battle of Taste vs. Smell |
| 13 | Who Has Better Tempo, A Dancer or a Musician? |
| 16 | In Which Container Will the Ice Cream Melt the Fastest? |
| 17 | Melting Ice |
| 19 | The Acid Attack: How Soda Eats Away At Your Smile |
| 21 | Where Did My Shell Go? |
| 23 | Environmental Effects on Copper Weathering |
| 24 | Growing Gummy Bears |
| 25 | Surface Tension Superpowers |
| 27 | Which Water Filter Works Best |
| 28 | Kinetic to Electric: Turning Wind to Watts |
| 29 | Produce Energy: Making Batteries from Fruit |
| 31 | To Conduct or Not to Conduct |
| 33 | Adaptive Hand/Arm Device for Safe Biking and Kayaking |
| 34 | Flood Watch: Flash Flood Conditions Alert System |
| 36 | How Does the Wear of a Brake Pad Effect How Fast a Car Stops |
| 37 | Soaring Propellers |
| 41 | Battle of the Bubble Gum |
| 42 | Heated |
| 43 | Static Magic |
| 44 | Which Line is A Keeper? |
| 46 | Blowing Out the Competition |
| 47 | Can AI Beat the Odds? |
| 48 | Great Cookie Dunk |
| 49 | Dental Dilemma |
| 51 | Generic vs Brand Name Medication: Which Works Faster? |
| 53 | Moisturizer: Face the Facts |
| 55 | Where Does Your Toothbrush Sleep? |
| 58 | Crack vs. Pop |
| 59 | The Physics of Bottle Flipping |
| 60 | The Science of a Soft Landing |
| 61 | What Materials Block Radio Frequencies? |
| 63 | How to Rainbow Grow |
| 64 | Phototropism: aMAZE of Light |
| 66 | Stay Clean Stay Green, Guac this Way! |
| 68 | What Solution Keeps Cut Flowers Fresh the Longest |
| 70 | How Circuits Affect My Life |
| 71 | S.A.L.L.Y. - The Pole Climbing Robot |
| 72 | Smart Sensors |
| 73 | Which "Battery" Powered My Robot the Best? |
| 75 | EggSEALANT: The Effect of Applied Eggshell Coatings on Preventing Egg Weight Loss During Storage |
| 76 | Tails Waggin' Tints |
| 77 | Tortoise and Hare-Who Would Actually Win? |
| 78 | Worming Out the Truth |
| 79 | Human vs. AI |
| 80 | Music vs Concentration |
| 81 | Music vs Media-What Do They Do to Cognitive Function? |
| 82 | Project Eleven |
| 85 | Elephant Toothpaste |
| 86 | How Cheesy is Your Cheese? |
| 88 | Now You See It, Now You Don't: The Science of Invisible Ink |
| 89 | Salty Science |
| 90 | Faulty Injections |
| 92 | Mist Opportunities |
| 94 | Risks to Evitts Run's Aquatic Life |
| 96 | Electrolyte Energy |
| 97 | Great Scott! "Bac"tricity |
| 100 | Which Battery Brand Lasts the Longest? |
| 101 | Which Wind Turbine Produces the Most Energy? |
| 102 | An Engineering Design: Investigation of Thermal Preservation in Insulation Through Material Selection and Thickness Optimization |
| 103 | Heating Up the Streets |
| 104 | Maximum Motion |
| 105 | More Flo for Bro |
| 109 | Fruit Vs. Fabric |
| 110 | Paper Towel Absorbency |
| 112 | Tumbler Wars: The Insulation Game |
| 113 | Hidden Gaussians Around Us |
| 114 | How Angle Affects Penetration-Airsoft vs Foam Board |
| 116 | The Speed of Different Sorting Algorithms Technology |
| 117 | What's Poppin |
| 119 | Font vs Reading |
| 121 | Regenerative Medicine vs. Bionic Technology: Which Has More Potential to Restore Human Limbs? |
| 122 | Shining Light on Sugar: Can Light Detect Blood Glucose? |
| 124 | The Spreading Secret |
| 125 | Don't Be a Drag! Optimizing Weight for Max Flight |
| 127 | Radio Reflections |
| 129 | What Product is the Best for Deicing? |
| 130 | Wheee! How Much Track to Loop the Loop? |
| 131 | Bread Molding |
| 132 | Can UV Light Make Strawberries Last Longer? |
| 134 | How Microplastic Affects Plants |
| 137 | The Melody of Mint |
| 138 | AC vs DC |
| 139 | Ball or Nothing: Can AI Score? |
| 140 | Can AI be Eyed? |
| 141 | Face Or Fake |
| 142 | Do Whorl Patterns Impact Cattle Behavior Based on Breed? |
| 143 | Good Vibrations: Can Vibrations Stop Lanternfly Mating? |
| 145 | Better Memory-Mindful Minutes |
| 146 | Intergenerational Correlation of Bachelor's Degree Attainment |
| 148 | Sleeping Students |
| 150 | Grade Matters: Matcha vs. Oxidation |
| 151 | Genectic and Molecular Biology of Disease |
| 153 | How Native and Non-Native Languages Load onto the Physics Network |
| 154 | Humidity's Effect on Heartrate |
| 157 | Sandura: A Wearable Sensor and Oscillatory Device to Reduce the Manifestation of Hand Tremors for Parkinson's Disease |
| 158 | A Developmental Perspective on Studying Clock Neurons in Drosophila Melanogaster |
| 159 | Mitigating Obesity and Cardiovascular Disease Risk Through Omega-3 Enrichment in Spinach Leaves |
| 160 | Comparative Analysis of Vitamin C Degradation Across Cooking Methods |
| 161 | Orange Juice vs. Sports Drinks |
| 162 | Soap Opera: DNA Edition |
| 163 | The Hybridization of Generative Diffusion Models with Molecular Dynamics Simulations: a Novel Method to Accelerate Drug Discovery |
| 166 | Dirty to Clean: Which Method Works Best? |
| 167 | Fading Lights: The Effect of Artificial Light on Firefly Activity |
| 169 | Which Material Biodegrades Best for the Environment? |
| 170 | All Juiced Up |
| 171 | Breaking the Barrier |
| 172 | Design amd Optimization of Innovative Thermal Management Systems |
| 173 | Hybrid Nozzle Design and Optimization for Adaptive Thrust Efficiency Across Varying Altitudes |
| 174 | Repel-Attract Magnetic Levitation: How Inverter Magnetic Systems Defy Earth's Gravity |
| 176 | Shark-Skin Inspired Micro-Riblets: A Biomimetic Approach to Airfoil Drag Reduction |
| 178 | Design, Ruggedization, and Field Validation of a Low Cost Water Quality Sensor System |
| 179 | How pH Affects Aquatic Life in Restored and Contaminated Streams |
| 181 | What is the Best Natural Water Filter? |
| 183 | 3D Print Crusher |
| 184 | Electric Extravaganza: The Electrolyte Test |
| 186 | Does a Rising Tide Lift All Boats? A Statistical Analysis of Economic Growth's Impact on Income Inequality |
| 187 | It's Just a Theory |
| 188 | Lionel Messi: A Star Player's Impacts on MLS Games |
| 189 | Concentrations of Chlorine Bleach's Effect on E. coli |
| 190 | Pandemic Problems-Which Mask Works Best? |
| 191 | Automotive Suspension Generator |
| 193 | Sound and Shape |
| 194 | Sound Lasers and Mirrors: How Sounds Affect The Shape of Vibrations |
| 198 | Getting to the Base-ics Which Lime Works Best? |
| 200 | How Light Color Affects Plant Growth in Wisconsin Fast Plants |
| 201 | Modeling Soil Fertility in Appalachian Coalfields through Quantum Machine Learning |
| 204 | AI Modeling of Group Decision-Making through Multi-Agent Collaboration |
| 205 | Arduino Controlled Sunshield for Lunar Agriculture |
| 206 | Can a Neuron Network Predict Mutation Types of a Variant Gene? |
| 208 | Veritas.jl: Applying Formal Verification to a Dynamic Programming Language |
| 211 | Can AI Crack Cancer's Code? |
| 212 | Investigating TRPV-1Dependent Genetic Survival in Glioblastoma: MAPK Signaling and Noncoding RNA Biomarkers Under Cytotoxic Stress |