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ISEF · 2023
Embedded Systems First Award
Self-assembling modular robotic systems are a type of swarm robotics that allows for the assembly of different complex robotics configurations. Each system is composed of many individual mod…
ISEF · 2023
Systems Software First Award
Mid-Circuit Measurements (MCMs) are a key component in many quantum information algorithms. As such, ways to characterize their performance are of great interest. Specifically, it is importa…
ISEF · 2023
Biochemistry First Award
Safeguarding food quality and safety is essential to people's livelihoods. Over recent years, the ingestion of food-borne pathogens and their related metabolic toxins increasingly affects pu…
ISEF · 2023
Chemistry First Award
The interest in green hydrogen, produced from water, as a clean and efficient alternative to fossil fuels is hampered by the high cost of production and the need for desalinated water source…
ISEF · 2023
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics First Award
In mid-2022, Mpox reemerged with heightened infectivity and transmissibility, causing 30,000 cases in just six months. As we recovered from COVID-19, fear of another pandemic heightened. Two…
ISEF · 2023
Microbiology First Award
Staphylococcus aureus (SA) kills over 330,000 people yearly, is becoming increasingly resistant to antibiotics, and can stop wounds from healing. This study engineered bacterial cellulose-ca…
ISEF · 2023
Microbiology First Award
The opportunistic pathogen Pseudomonas aeruginosa causes fatal and chronic infections, with 124,000 deaths annually, due to its beta-lactamase-mediated resistance to beta-lactam antibiotics…
ISEF · 2023
Engineering Technology: Statics & Dynamics First Award
Electric-vertical-takeoff-and-landing (eVTOL) aircraft could enable the implementation of large-scale Urban Air Mobility projects, thereby mitigating problems that currently face the transpo…
ISEF · 2023
Robotics and Intelligent Machines First Award
In future interplanetary missions, rockets must land on smooth terrain to avoid damaging their boosters or tipping over. Currently, scientists can narrow down Mars mission landing spots with…
ISEF · 2023
Biomedical and Health Sciences First Award
422 million adults worldwide have diabetes, and 48% of all juvenile deaths are due to diabetes or diabetes-inflicted diseases; diabetes in low-income families has risen rapidly---up to 21% w…
ISEF · 2023
Physics and Astronomy First Award
The longstanding question of how ultra-short-period (USP) planets form and survive so close to their host stars signifies a gap in our understanding of planetary formation. With only 127 USP…
ISEF · 2023
Cellular and Molecular Biology First Award
Mitochondria are highly dynamic organelles that interact with various cellular components, including the endoplasmic reticulum (ER). This essential interaction occurs through mitochondria-as…
ISEF · 2023
Plant Sciences First Award
The acylated flavonoid glycosides (AFGs) in Pseudognaphalium affine (D. Don) Anderberg, a plant resource that has the concomitant function of both medicine and foodstuff in China, exhibited…
ISEF · 2023
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design First Award
The global electricity consumption due to cool air conditioning is huge, accounting for about 10% of the total global electricity demand. The self-powered energy saving device for air condit…
ISEF · 2023
Earth and Environmental Sciences First Award
Sedimentary rock layers found in eastern Pennsylvania, including Berks County, are known to have uranium deposits. Radon-222 is a naturally occurring radioactive gas that is a daughter eleme…
ISEF · 2023
Engineering Technology: Statics & Dynamics First Award
In the diverse landscape of robotic applications, there has been limited research on robots capable of navigating under stick structures, despite their critical importance in high-risk envir…
ISEF · 2023
Chemistry First Award
It is known that substances such as cocaine, barbiturates, LSD, and its derivatives, which have a stimulant and narcotic effect, have a strong addictive effect by directly affecting the cent…
ISEF · 2023
Earth and Environmental Sciences First Award
The Arctic is warming three times faster than the rest of the world, causing decreased sea ice and permafrost, changing ecosystems, and threatening the livelihoods of indigenous people. In t…
ISEF · 2023
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics First Award
Replication errors represent two-thirds of cancer mutations. A novel subset, micro-changing short tandem repeats (mcSTRs), lack systematic examination in cancers due to complex chromosomal a…
ISEF · 2023
Translational Medical Science First Award
Three million people in the U.S. suffer from gluten intolerance/celiac disease (CD). In these patients, the digestive system cannot digest gluten proteins. My project aims to solve this issu…
ISEF · 2023
Environmental Engineering First Award
Implementation of carbon capture & storage (CCS) is vital for alleviating detriments from carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions. However, all current processes are deemed ineffective due to ineffic…
ISEF · 2023
Biomedical Engineering First Award
This research aimed to enhance the accessibility and customizability of domestic chicken eggs for embryonic analyses and model system research. Through the engineering of a novel device, a s…
ISEF · 2023
Environmental Engineering First Award
1.1 billion individuals worldwide, particularly low-income workers in remote settings, are unknowingly exposed to dangerous gaseous concentrations of Volatile Organic Compounds (VOCs), accor…
ISEF · 2023
Animal Sciences First Award
Mealybugs are a global pest problem that threatens plants in various settings. Using insecticides to eliminate mealybugs has been associated with harmful environmental and human health probl…
ISEF · 2023
Biomedical Engineering First Award
Annually, Gastrointestinal (GI) cancer affects 4.8 million people worldwide, and has 5-year survival rates as low as 8%. However, the survival rate increases to 70% if GI cancers are detecte…
ISEF · 2023
Physics and Astronomy First Award
Astigmatism is a cylindrical refractive vision defect that affects 30% of the world population. Current subjective optometry of astigmatism is complicated, has low accuracy, and is dependent…
ISEF · 2023
Translational Medical Science First Award
One-billion individuals, one in six, suffer from neurological disorders. Encephalomyelitis disseminata (MS) is primarily an immune-mediated disease of the central nervous system (CNS) where…
ISEF · 2023
Mathematics First Award
The Two-Way Partitioning Problem is an NP-Complete problem that seeks to find a partition of a set of integers: given an input multiset S of n positive integers, separate the integers of S i…
ISEF · 2023
Behavioral and Social Sciences First Award
The goal of this experiment was to determine the effect of the Intermediate Metabolic Switching (IMS) diet on the short and long-term memory of mutant Drosophila due to neuroplasticity. Ther…
ISEF · 2023
Biomedical and Health Sciences First Award
Every forty seconds, suicide steals a life, yet no biomarkers exist for suicide. Suicide has largely been investigated from a psychological lens, and therefore the pathogenesis remains uncle…