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ISEF · 2024
Engineering Technology: Statics & Dynamics Fourth Award
My project explores a novel design of interlocking transformative drones that drastically increases the number of potential applications of drone swarms. With my design, drones in a swarm ca…
ISEF · 2024
Cellular and Molecular Biology Fourth Award
Cells enter the senescence state when aging occurs, an irreversible cell cycle arrest. This exhibits an age-related increase in the levels of Senescence Associated Secretory Phenotype (SASP)…
ISEF · 2024
Environmental Engineering Fourth Award
Since the beginning of modern plastic's invention nearly a century ago, the human species as a whole has continually increased its rate of plastic consumption and waste. Until recently, this…
ISEF · 2024
Systems Software Fourth Award
Ransomware attacks render data unusable and demand a ransom in order to restore data integrity. These attacks cost billions of dollars every year at the individual, industrial, and national…
ISEF · 2024
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design Fourth Award
Hydrogen has shown promise as the future of zero-carbon energy storage. However, partly due to the cost and synthesis complexity of electrocatalysts for Alkaline Water Splitting (AWS), 95% o…
ISEF · 2024
Animal Sciences Fourth Award
Lac resin secreted from lac insects is one of the important commercial agricultures of Thailand as it can be used in many industries such as medicine and printing. Currently, farmers tend to…
ISEF · 2024
Microbiology Fourth Award
Fossil fuel-derived plastics, including microplastics, cause significant environmental pollution, necessitating sustainable solutions. While biodegradable plastics are key for sustainability…
ISEF · 2024
Biomedical and Health Sciences Fourth Award
Alzheimer’s is difficult to treat, particularly due to inability of prospective treatments to cross the impermeable blood-brain-barrier(BBB). Neurodegeneration is exacerbated by Aß-aggregate…
ISEF · 2024
Biochemistry Fourth Award
Current radiobiology research focusses to identify radioprotective agents that can protect normal tissues from radiation-induced injury due to accidental exposures. Recently, cardamonin has…
ISEF · 2024
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics Fourth Award
The aim of this research is to detect tumor tissue during brain surgery using data preprocessing and machine learning. Brain tumors are the leading cause of cancer-related death in children…
ISEF · 2024
Earth and Environmental Sciences Fourth Award
This Environmental Science project brings to light the real issues the Navajo People face from health concerns to pollution on their sacred lands in a unique and resourceful way. It investig…
ISEF · 2024
Cellular and Molecular Biology Fourth Award
Strongyloides, a group of parasites identified in ruminants, had displayed a growing resistance against commercial anthelmintic treatments which has caused economic losses in livestock and a…
ISEF · 2024
Microbiology Fourth Award
Bats, like bees, are a keystone species benefiting the environment and saving farmers billions of dollars in chemicals. However, since 2006, millions of bats in North America have died of a…
ISEF · 2024
Translational Medical Science Fourth Award
Despite its incurable nature, MSK Life Sync offers AI-driven support to manage Medullary Sponge Kidney (MSK) disease to enhance life quality for sufferers, including children. As highlighted…
ISEF · 2024
Chemistry Fourth Award
In nature, many animals change their colors or shapes to adapt to various environments, sparking a research trend in environmental adaptive materials. Light-responsive cholesteric liquid cry…
ISEF · 2024
Mathematics Fourth Award
Seventh chords are widely used in music. What are the relationships between different seventh chords? Can these relationships be explained mathematically? This research classifies transforma…
ISEF · 2024
Systems Software Fourth Award
The goal of this study was to create an enhanced yet accessible system to generate simplified summaries of governmental policies, thus enhancing public understanding and mitigating informati…
ISEF · 2024
Biomedical and Health Sciences Fourth Award
Water pollution is a critical threat to human health as it can lead to increased cancer risk. More than 22 carcinogens can be found in the drinking water, including heavy metals such as lead…
ISEF · 2024
Physics and Astronomy Fourth Award
After half a century of development, the technology of silicon-based electronic devices is gradually approaching its limits. Devices such as computers and cell phones start to require more p…
ISEF · 2024
Embedded Systems Fourth Award
Pressure ulcers, or pressure injuries (PIs), are localized areas of the skin and/or underlying tissue decay that typically occur over bony prominences due to prolonged pressure or friction.…
ISEF · 2024
Chemistry Fourth Award
The rise of vector-borne diseases, particularly dengue fever has highlighted the need to enhance mosquito control. Aedes aegypti is the mosquito species responsible for the rapid transmissio…
ISEF · 2024
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics Fourth Award
In the human brain, high amounts of metabolic energy are required to maintain neural activity. A large fraction of this energy is expended in the generation and firing of action potentials,…
ISEF · 2024
Chemistry Fourth Award
The composition and structure of variable side chains in amino acids determine peptides' unique functions in a wide range of applications. The APD database served as the primary data source…
ISEF · 2024
Environmental Engineering Fourth Award
Wastewater is expected to increase by 24% in 2030, posing significant risks to health and the environment. Titanium carbide (2D MXene) membranes offer a potential solution for wastewater tre…
ISEF · 2024
Earth and Environmental Sciences Fourth Award
Outdoor air pollution, specifically nitrogen dioxide (NO2), poses a global health risk. Land use regression (LUR) models are widely used to estimate ground-level NO2 concentrations by descri…
ISEF · 2024
Chemistry Fourth Award
Metal surfaces are of vital importance in aerospace, automobile, and food industries, where they are often coated to prevent corrosion and chemical reactions with surroundings. Surface defec…
ISEF · 2024
Biomedical Engineering Fourth Award
Approximately 50 million people globally rely on technology to replace a missing appendage, 80% of whom cannot afford current solutions and are left with costly, immobile, bulky prosthetics.…
ISEF · 2024
Earth and Environmental Sciences Fourth Award
The depletion of water resources and environmental hazards associated with aging oil wells, including the release of oil-contaminated water, present grave threats to marine ecosystems and hu…
ISEF · 2024
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design Fourth Award
Lithium-ion batteries (LIBs) plays a decisive role in the development of consumer electronics and electric vehicles (EVs). However, the problems of range anxiety and time-consuming charging…
ISEF · 2024
Mathematics Fourth Award
We explore knots. If we allow self-intersections, we get Singular knots. To distinguish different knots, invariant functions are used. A function from the set of knots to a ring is called a…