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ISEF · 2024
Microbiology First Award
Plant litter decomposition is a key ecological process that plays a vital role in the global carbon cycle. While the effect of soil microbes on decomposition has been well studied, the role…
ISEF · 2024
Earth and Environmental Sciences First Award
Microplastics have become a prevalent global environmental issue, with an estimated 75 trillion microplastics in the oceans today. MPs pose dangers to wildlife and cause serious health issue…
ISEF · 2024
Translational Medical Science First Award
Renal Cell Carcinoma (RCC) is the world's deadliest urological disease. Although detection before metastasis can raise a patient's 5-year survival rate by over 75%, current diagnostic method…
ISEF · 2024
Plant Sciences First Award
Huanglongbing (HLB), or the Citrus Greening (Candidatus Liberibacter asiaticus), is the most destructive citrus disease worldwide and persists in threatening the sustainability of the Citrus…
ISEF · 2024
Chemistry First Award
Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), a class of highly fluorinated hydrocarbons, pose global contamination and pollution concerns due to both their toxicity and their potential to inc…
ISEF · 2024
Earth and Environmental Sciences First Award
Nitrous oxide (N2O) is one of the largest contributors to the greenhouse effect (265x more greenhouse forcing than CO2) and is the largest contributor to ozone depletion in the 21st century.…
ISEF · 2024
Biochemistry First Award
A hallmark of cancer is the rewiring of cellular metabolism to meet proliferative needs. Citrin protein (transcribed from the human SLC25A13 gene) is a mitochondrial carrier involved in the…
ISEF · 2024
Physics and Astronomy First Award
The study of hadronization, the process of quarks combined into hadrons, is pivotal for understanding the universe's formation, yet current theories inadequately explain this process. This s…
ISEF · 2024
Cellular and Molecular Biology First Award
In a recent study, 33% of individuals with neurodevelopmental disorders (NDDs) carried mutations in ASXL3, whose function is unknown. To understand ASXL3’s role in NDDs, we used CRISPR techn…
ISEF · 2024
Animal Sciences First Award
Populations of green sea turtles (Chelonia mydas) in Hawaii have become a source of concern over the past decade due to the tumor-causing disease fibropapillomatosis (FP), the number one cau…
ISEF · 2024
Technology Enhances the Arts First Award
As digital design has become ubiquitous over the last few decades, 3D creations have become much more advanced through Computer-Aided Design (CAD). However, this approach can be tedious, tim…
ISEF · 2024
Robotics and Intelligent Machines First Award
The primary aim of this project is to design and implement a robotic swarm controller capable of path planning and task allocation, performing diverse assignments in a dynamic environment. A…
ISEF · 2024
Biomedical Engineering First Award
Gastroparesis, characterized by slowed or absent gastric contractions, affects 1.8% of the population, presents with severe nausea, abdominal pain, a high mortality rate, and incurs high tre…
ISEF · 2024
Biomedical and Health Sciences First Award
Primates had evolved an advanced spermatogonia stem cell (SSC) system that correlates with reduced germline mutations and longer lifespans, yet the underlying mechanism remains poorly unders…
ISEF · 2024
Behavioral and Social Sciences First Award
Parkinson’s disease (PD) affects millions of people worldwide and causes gait impairments like tremors. Accurate motor impairment assessment is critical for efficient PD management. The MDS-…
ISEF · 2024
Environmental Engineering First Award
Peatland ecosystems are the largest natural terrestrial carbon store on earth. Healthy peatlands act as carbon sinks, trapping atmospheric CO2 as soil organic matter. However, anthropogenic…
ISEF · 2024
Physics and Astronomy First Award
Continuous gravitational waves (CW) are long-lasting, monochromatic gravitational waves (GW), produced by persistent quadrupolar variations of dense matter resulting from rapidly spinning as…
ISEF · 2024
Translational Medical Science First Award
Every 3 seconds, someone in the world develops Dementia. By 2050, over 139 million people worldwide will be living with Dementia. Early interventions are crucial in preventing and treating D…
ISEF · 2024
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics First Award
Alzheimer's Disease (AD) has neither satisfactory nor equitably accessible treatments. Current research emphasizes inflammation, notably age-related elevation of microglial TNF-a, in driving…
ISEF · 2024
Biomedical Engineering First Award
45% of people today are affected by oral diseases such as periodontal (gum) disease and dental caries (cavities). These can lead to tooth loss and have been linked to fatal diseases like can…
ISEF · 2024
Engineering Technology: Statics & Dynamics First Award
As the global population continues to increase and natural calamities grow more severe, the pressing issue of inadequate seating in educational institutions poses a significant obstacle to s…
ISEF · 2024
Plant Sciences First Award
Every year, farmers around the world lose more than $95 billion from uncontrolled weed infestation. Herbicide-resistant weeds, also known as “superweeds”, are fast becoming a significant par…
ISEF · 2024
Robotics and Intelligent Machines First Award
Skin cancer is the most prevalent cancer worldwide with 8 million incidences and 120,000 annual deaths. Visual inspection has a 40% misdiagnosis rate, causing treatment delays leading to inc…
ISEF · 2024
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design First Award
The increasing focus on decarbonization has brought hydrogen into the center role in the quest for sustainable solutions. As the hydrogen economy is expected to grow, new detection methods a…
ISEF · 2024
Systems Software First Award
A fundamental class of problems in mathematical optimization is second-order cone programming (SOCP), which provides a generalized framework to solve problems in a wide range of fields. Whil…
ISEF · 2024
Mathematics First Award
A mathematical billiard system is one composed of a planar or multidimensional surface and a moving object whose trajectory is defined by its initial position and speed vector, along with so…
ISEF · 2024
Chemistry First Award
Post-Combustion Carbon Capture (PCC) aims to mitigate rising greenhouse gas emissions by sequestering CO2 from flue gas streams. Currently, PCC utilizes liquid amine solvents, such as monoet…
ISEF · 2024
Engineering Technology: Statics & Dynamics First Award
By leveraging modern flight computer capabilities, I designed and flight tested an oblique wing aircraft (an efficient variable-sweep design where one wing sweeps forward and the other sweep…
ISEF · 2024
Embedded Systems First Award
The 10m Air Rifle competition is an ISSF Summer Olympic sport where 1mm can make the difference between winning and losing. Over 57,000 cadets in Canada train with the 853C air rifle in the…
ISEF · 2024
Biomedical and Health Sciences First Award
Osteosarcoma (OS), a primary bone tumor, arises from an imbalance in the bone remodeling pathway which fosters metastasis. In healthy bones, the microenvironment supports balanced remodeling…