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ISEF · 2023
Robotics and Intelligent Machines First Award
Working on high voltage power lines is a hazardous task, and the risks associated with this type of work are numerous and significant, proven by the electrical industry’s high mortality rate…
ISEF · 2022
Systems Software First Award
Democratic elections are the instrument that enables people to select representatives to advocate for their beliefs. Distrust in elections is reflected in a steady decrease in voter turnout…
ISEF · 2022
Biomedical Engineering First Award
Cancer and cranial diseases are the second leading cause of death worldwide. Early diagnosis and well-guided medical care as well as accurate analysis are essential to improve patient life e…
ISEF · 2022
Engineering Technology: Statics & Dynamics First Award
More than 190 countries worldwide work together peacefully to gather crucial weather information. Every day, several thousand weather balloons are launched. They burst after a few hours and…
ISEF · 2022
Cellular and Molecular Biology First Award
Obesity is the enlargement of adipose tissue caused by consuming more calories than used by the body. Excessive fat accumulation in the adipose tissue forms adipocyte hypertrophy, which prom…
ISEF · 2022
Translational Medical Science First Award
85% of Cholangiocarcinoma, a leading cause of mortality in Thailand and Asian countries, is caused by Orphistorchis viverrini (Ov) infection. “CASCAP” organization proactively diagnoses Ov i…
ISEF · 2022
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics First Award
Cancer is a major public health problem that has caused over 10 million deaths worldwide in 2020. Precision oncology, which employs a patient's genetic profile of tumors to identify the most…
ISEF · 2022
Microbiology First Award
Bacterial biofilms account for 80% of all chronic microbial infections. ESKAPE pathogens form dense, multispecies biofilms that are resistant to most antibiotics. In this project, a combinat…
ISEF · 2022
Biomedical and Health Sciences First Award
There is currently no cure for chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), the third leading cause of death worldwide with over 70 million cases and 3.5 million deaths per year. Treatment…
ISEF · 2022
Biomedical and Health Sciences First Award
Stroke is the second leading cause of death worldwide, with 15 million people suffering from its debilitating effects each year. 87% of strokes are ischemic, where an artery narrows or becom…
ISEF · 2022
Plant Sciences First Award
Drought is the most serious threat to global food production and sufficiency. Late detection of drought stress in plants leads to irreversible crop damage and yield loss. The standard method…
ISEF · 2022
Earth and Environmental Sciences First Award
Wildlife poaching of endangered species such as elephants in Africa has become a biodiversity crisis, which has also been highlighted by the United Nations Sustainable Development Biodiversi…
ISEF · 2022
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design First Award
Hydrogen is one of the cleanest forms of energy storage that, when burned, produces only water as a byproduct. Nevertheless, the use of hydrogen is greatly limited due to the costly material…
ISEF · 2022
Environmental Engineering First Award
Wildlife-vehicle conflict poses injury/mortality risks to both drivers and wildlife. Eqwis detects animals approaching roads and alerts drivers through intelligent road signs, encouraging dr…
ISEF · 2022
Engineering Technology: Statics & Dynamics First Award
With the goal of achieving greater environmental and economic sustainability, the automotive industry has begun transitioning to electric vehicles (EVs). However, the challenge is that the p…
ISEF · 2022
Behavioral and Social Sciences First Award
The most prevalent vision impairment in young children worldwide, cortical visual impairment (CVI) is caused by damage to the visual cortex or optic nerve. State-of-the-art therapy technique…
ISEF · 2022
Environmental Engineering First Award
Plastic waste poses threats to both the environment and human health. PET is the world’s most common plastic. Compared to traditional methods to treat PET waste, biodegradation is environmen…
ISEF · 2022
Behavioral and Social Sciences First Award
Suicide is the second leading cause of death for teenagers. Depressed teens feel obligated to deal with these serious issues by themselves to avoid burdening those around them and keep quiet…
ISEF · 2022
Animal Sciences First Award
Salts are important for nerve conduction. However, excessive salt causes defects in learning and memory in mice. To investigate the mechanisms of salt-induced learning impairment, I used Dro…
ISEF · 2022
Mathematics First Award
The abc-conjecture (Masser and Oesterlé) is an active problem that has remained open for several decades. The conjecture would imply a direct proof of Fermat’s Last Theorem and also shine ne…
ISEF · 2022
Robotics and Intelligent Machines First Award
In order to develop complex relationships between their inputs and outputs, deep neural networks train, and adjust, a large number of parameters. To make these networks function at high accu…
ISEF · 2022
Biochemistry First Award
There is a significant global need for tissue engineering scaffolds that are comparable to human tissue. Interestingly, the plant kingdom presents a striking similarity to human tissues, esp…
ISEF · 2022
Chemistry First Award
Traditional Carbon Capture and Storage uses a combination of technologies to capture, transport, and store carbon dioxide (CO2) from large point sources such as coal or natural gas-fired pow…
ISEF · 2022
Embedded Systems First Award
According to the World Health Organization (WHO), there are around 1.3 billion visually impaired people, 36 million of which are blind. A predicted 79 million more will be blind in the next…
ISEF · 2022
Earth and Environmental Sciences First Award
As the Basin and Range province is one of the most biodiverse regions, advancements in reconstruction modeling of geologic-climate changes are necessary to investigate potential associations…
ISEF · 2022
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics First Award
Replication errors represent two-thirds of cancer mutations. A novel replication error subset, recurrent repeat contractions (rRCs), lack systematic examination in cancers due to complex amp…
ISEF · 2022
Chemistry First Award
Hydrogen is a promising renewable energy carrier. However, it has the lowest density of all other substances, so it needs to be compressed to run a car. Formic acid (FA) is an attractive liq…
ISEF · 2022
Physics and Astronomy First Award
Astigmatism is a cylindrical imperfection of the optical system of the eye that normally should be spherical. The optometry of astigmatism, so-called subjective refraction, involves multiple…
ISEF · 2022
Robotics and Intelligent Machines First Award
Covid-19 pandemic leads to an increased need for automation in food industries. Current soft robots require cast molding, high assembly effort, large actuators and upfront actuation awarenes…
ISEF · 2022
Biomedical Engineering First Award
In protein sequences—as there are 61 sense codons but only 20 standard amino acids—most amino acids are encoded by more than one codon. Although such synonymous codons do not alter the encod…