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ISEF · 2021
Engineering Mechanics Fourth Award
Last year I set out to research why it was so hard to stop a tsunami and what kind of barrier I could design that would limit the amount of devastation that one created. I found some remarka…
ISEF · 2021
Plant Sciences Fourth Award
The future of food production involves physiological growing adaptions to nutrients that will increase the nutritional value of crops. This study tests the ability of lettuce biofortificatio…
ISEF · 2021
Engineering Mechanics Fourth Award
Every year in California, broken utility poles and conductors ignite approximately 500 fires. In 2017 and 2018, four utility-caused fires destroyed 27,000 buildings, killed 133 people, and c…
ISEF · 2021
Behavioral and Social Sciences Fourth Award
For more than 20 years, our Palestinian community has been suffering from an increase in the number of people who are diagnosed with cancer, which has reached about 12,000 cases in 2019, whi…
ISEF · 2021
Microbiology Fourth Award
Because of the strong association between microbial imbalance, decreased short-chain fatty acid (SCFA) production, and Crohn’s disease (CD) onset, microbiota-targeting therapies are crucial…
ISEF · 2021
Environmental Engineering Fourth Award
Water pollution is a critical issue that threatens maintaining healthy living conditions. Clean drinking water is the base for the improvement of public health. In addition to the conservati…
ISEF · 2021
Earth and Environmental Sciences Fourth Award
The world's soils are losing their ability to naturally support crops, and many are approaching exhaustion. Erosion, soil structure degradation, nutrient loss, and soil microorganism populat…
ISEF · 2021
Earth and Environmental Sciences Fourth Award
The rapid growth in urbanization over the past few years has caused the Urban Heat Island (UHI) phenomenon- an occurrence where the temperature of an urban area is significantly greater than…
ISEF · 2021
Biomedical Engineering Fourth Award
There are upwards of 7.5 million people suffering from speech impairment caused by conditions such as stroke, ALS, and cerebral palsy. These paralyzed patients can’t speak, as they can’t use…
ISEF · 2021
Behavioral and Social Sciences Fourth Award
The purpose of this project is to assess executive functioning in the human brain and determine if there are qualitative differences between bilingual and monolingual students. I believe tha…
ISEF · 2021
Microbiology Fourth Award
This two part analysis method (emphasizing environmental viability and novel compound deduction) is indicative of the viability of marine based natural products to be used in pharmacology. C…
ISEF · 2021
Earth and Environmental Sciences Fourth Award
Traditional process of sweet potato, a popular raw material used for food production, generates a large amount of protein-rich wastewater which is hard to treat and causes water pollution an…
ISEF · 2021
Robotics and Intelligent Machines Fourth Award
Physical disability is a major consequence of limb amputation. High-level lower extremity amputees (hip disarticulation and hemipelvectomy), have a bigger percentage than other amputees and…
ISEF · 2021
Chemistry Fourth Award
Photothermal therapy (PTT) has caught attention as a treatment for cancer due to its high control, noninvasiveness, and negligible side effects. However, PTT drugs require a vessel for nanod…
ISEF · 2021
Chemistry Fourth Award
Two main issues within our global community are pollution and electricity access. The textile dye industry produces 7x10^5 tons of dye annually, approximately 20% of which pollute water sour…
ISEF · 2021
Biomedical Engineering Fourth Award
The goal of this project is to automize the Test of Gross Motor Development (TGMD) so that it can be widely applied in schools and potentially benefit billions of children. Gross motor devel…
ISEF · 2021
Physics and Astronomy Fourth Award
Purpose: There is a disparity in the estimated age of the Coma Ber Cluster. A recent study used the turnoff point method to determine an age estimate of 800 Myr (Tang et al. 2018), significa…
ISEF · 2021
Behavioral and Social Sciences Fourth Award
Depression cripples a large percentage of the population, and the novel coronavirus pandemic has acted as an additional stressor, further exacerbating a decline in mental health. To effectiv…
ISEF · 2021
Mathematics Fourth Award
We often meet the well-known mathematical means: the arithmetic, geometric and harmonic means. They appear in inequalities, extremum problems, geometric connections. However, the ancient pyt…
ISEF · 2021
Biomedical and Health Sciences Fourth Award
Diabetes is an international health crisis. There is an extreme need for adequate testing methods. This led us to ask the question: Can we use manganese (IV) oxide nanosheets to create an in…
ISEF · 2021
Earth and Environmental Sciences Fourth Award
To reduce styrofoam pollution, Tenebrio beetles and their larvae, mealworms, are very effective. They can digest and biodegrade polystyrene plastic, or styrofoam, into released carbon dioxid…
ISEF · 2021
Animal Sciences Fourth Award
60% of deaths worldwide are caused by various chronic inflammatory diseases that vary from arthritis to inflammatory bowel disease. Past studies have revealed that certain chronic inflammato…
ISEF · 2021
Earth and Environmental Sciences Fourth Award
Lake Erie has always experienced Harmful Algal Blooms, but the worst recorded was in 2011. The intensity of the HAB reached over 3x that of any other season. Many economic and ecological ser…
ISEF · 2021
Environmental Engineering Fourth Award
For over a decade, it has been known that the toxic dyes released from textile factories into wastewaters have severe damaging effects on the marine eco-system as they disrupt photosynthetic…
ISEF · 2021
Biomedical Engineering Fourth Award
CPM actuators are used to assist the rehabilitation of patients who lost their athletic mobilities. These devices require structural stability and enough output force to assist the medicatio…
ISEF · 2021
Biomedical and Health Sciences Fourth Award
Limb loss poses an important challenge to society, as humans have limited regenerative potential. The murine digit is used to study mammalian regeneration because it can regenerate after dis…
ISEF · 2021
Mathematics Fourth Award
Motivated by the characterization of symmetric monoidal functors between Deligne categories, the additive monoid R_+(x) is defined as the set of all nonnegative integer linear combinations o…
ISEF · 2021
Biomedical Engineering Fourth Award
This year alone, 1 million Americans suffer from Parkinson’s Disease (PD); 5 million from Alzheimer’s (AD); and 400,000 from Multiple Sclerosis (MS). Neurodegenerative diseases affect the ne…
ISEF · 2021
Engineering Mechanics Fourth Award
This research is aimed to design a novel movable underwater platform that could cover the disadvantages that prevail in traditional propeller driven submersibles. Cownose ray, a fish species…
ISEF · 2021
Biochemistry Fourth Award
Although water makes up to 71% of the Earth’s surface, only 0.5% is fresh. Fresh water resources are getting exhausted at an exponential rate due to environmental changes, as well as the lac…