Are you ready to take on a challenge? The Canada-Wide Science Fair project challenges are designed to help you explore the issues that matter most to you and our world. Choose a challenge that sparks your curiosity, from keeping our air and water clean to creating new technologies or improving our health and wellbeing. By working on a project that aligns with one of these challenges, you’ll have the opportunity to learn, innovate, and make a positive impact. So, what challenge will you take on?
Project Challenge, a.k.a. Categories
1) Aerospace
My project helps advance atmospheric or space science, aviation or aerospace technologies, or enables humans to explore and live in space, on the Moon, or beyond.
Project Ideas: Aerospace | PorjectBoard: YSC
2) Agriculture, Fisheries and Food
A project that helps ensure food security, sustainability or competitiveness in agriculture, fisheries or food production
Agriculture, Fisheries & Food | ProjectBoard: YSC
3) Curiosity and Ingenuity
A project that helps improve our understanding or addresses a problem in an area of STEM not covered by the other challenges
Project Ideas: Curiosity & Ingenuity | ProjectBoard: YSC
4) Digital Technology
A project that helps improve our quality of life or transforms existing products and services through digital devices, methods or systems
Project Ideas: Digital Technology | ProjectBoard: YSC
5) Disease and Illness
A project that helps enhance our diagnosis, treatment or understanding of disease, or the management of physical or mental illness
Project Ideas: Disease & Illness | ProjectBoard: YSC
6) Energy
A project that helps improve our use of current energy sources, enables the transition to alternative energy sources, or reduces our energy footprint
Project Ideas: Energy| ProjectBoard: YSC
7) Environment and Climate Change
A project that helps ensure the quality of water, air, soil or the diversity of living things, or manages the impact of climate change
Project Ideas: Environment & Climate Change | ProjectBoard: YSC
8) Health and Wellness
A project that helps prevent disease or promotes physical, social, emotional, spiritual, environmental, occupational, or intellectual wellbeing
Project Ideas: Health & Wellness | ProjectBoard: YSC
9) Natural Resources
A project that helps ensure the sustainable management, use, reuse or recycling of Earth’s finite or renewable natural resources
Project Ideas: Natural Resources | ProjectBoard: YSC
Don’t worry if you’re not sure – send a project description to [email protected] and I can give you some suggestions.