ISEF · 2015
Concentrated Solar Power
Fourth Award
Solar power technologies, which offer sustainable, clean energy sources, are developing to improve efficiency of energy conversion and storage. Concentrated solar power (CSP) plants are an e…
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ISEF · 2015
Continuous Reciprocating Air Filter
Fourth Award
During my work experience at Astrium, Poynton in Manchester I was introduced to equipment and rack manufacture for use in hostile environments. In particular, much of the equipment was for u…
ISEF · 2015
Correlating the Bandgaps of Earth-Abundant Metal Oxides to Photocurrent Generation for Water Splitting Applications
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design Fourth Award
Providing sustainable energy globally is one of the greatest challenges of the 21st century. Health and climate risks associated with combustion of fossil fuels threaten global stability, de…
CSEF · 2015
Crazy Composting
Environmental Engineering Fourth Award
Objectives/Goals To find out the best compost preparation method (chop, blend, or freeze) that will make compost worms the healthiest. Methods/Materials I tested 12 compost bins with 50 gram…
ISEF · 2015
Cyber Automated Report Linker: A Network Approach to Minimizing Expansion of Catastrophic Cyber Infiltrations
Fourth Award
Catastrophic cyber infiltrations can devastate a nation's information infrastructure. This project provides a new way to defend modern adaptive computer networks. Computer networks are autom…
ISEF · 2015
Designing a Genetic CRISPR-cas Detection Probe for Adherent Invasive Escherichia coli Utilizing Comparative Genomics
Fourth Award
Several studies have documented marked alterations in the gut microbiota of patients with inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). There are two major subphenotypes of IBD: Ulcerative Colitis (UC)…
CSEF · 2015
Determining Genetic Causes of Streptococcus pyogenes' Susceptibility to Retinoic Acid
Microbiology (General) Fourth Award
Objectives/Goals This project's goal was to find the genes that contribute to Streptococcus Pyogenes' susceptibility to retinoic acid, the active form of Vitamin A. Methods/Materials A genet…
ISEF · 2015
Developing Effective Solar-Powered Agitators for Mosquito Control in Stagnant Water
Fourth Award
Mosquitoes are vectors for many dangerous diseases such as Malaria, Dengue, Yellow Fever, West Nile etc. Mosquito transmitted diseases occur mostly in tropical, developing countries and crea…
ISEF · 2015
Development of Non-toxic Photostabilized Phycoerythrin for Application in Dye Sensitized Solar Cells
Fourth Award
Phycoerythrin is a light harvesting phycobilin protein extracted from the red seaweed species Chondrus crispus. Phycoerythrin has the potential to be used as the sensitizer in dye sensitized…
ISEF · 2015
Drosophila: A New Model for Studying Nuclear Actin
Translational Medical Science Fourth Award
This research establishes Drosophila oogenesis as a new system for the study of in vivo nuclear actin rod biology. The study examines the differences in length and frequency of the nuclear a…
CSEF · 2015
Effective Headgear in Soccer
Product Science (Physical) (Junior Division Only) Fourth Award
Objectives/Goals The goal of this experiment was to compare five brands of soccer headgear to observe differences in the forces of impact, at four different speeds, on each of the four sides…
CSEF · 2015
Effect of Age on Primary Nutrient Content in Bovine Manure
Plant Biology Fourth Award
Objectives/Goals The purpose of my science fair experiment was to determine if aged bovine manure loses its nutrient levels and effectiveness as a plant fertilizer over time. I investigated…
ISEF · 2015
Effect of Time-dependent Gain and Loss in a PT-Symmetric Optical Waveguide Array
Fourth Award
Quantum systems are typically treated as closed systems and hence described by hermitian Hamiltonian matrices. However, the discovery that a non-hermitian Hamiltonian can have real eigenvalu…
ISEF · 2015
Elucidating the Molecular Mechanisms of Arrhythmogenesis
Fourth Award
Atrial Fibrillation (AF) is the most commonly encountered cardiac arrhythmia in the clinical setting, and is a leading cause of stroke and heart failure. Hyperactivity of the ryanodine recep…
ISEF · 2015
Engineered Intraocular Injection Guide (IIG): Pain Reduction in Ophthalmic Disease Treatment
Biomedical Engineering Fourth Award
Purpose: Millions of intraocular injections are given each year. I developed a novel device (the Intraocular Injection Guide, IIG) to improve patient comfort during intraocular injections by…
ISEF · 2015
Engineering an Upconversion Photocatalyst for Energy and Environmental Applications
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design Fourth Award
Certain materials possess the ability to harness energy from light to facilitate reactions. These photocatalysts present an opportunity for providing a sustainable way to solve energy and en…
ISEF · 2015
Environmental Monitoring Probe Based on Intel Edison Platform
Fourth Award
Permanent environmental degradation caused by the global climate change, natural and technogenic factors is one of the greatest challenges of the 21 century. A global multiparameter environm…
ISEF · 2015
EyeMove: Using Electrooculography to Provide Mobility for the Disabled
Fourth Award
This engineering project is about investigating and developing an affordable system that is capable of controlling an electric wheelchair using ocular tracking based on electrooculographic (…
ISEF · 2015
Feynmans Inverse Sprinkler
Fourth Award
This research focuses on Feynman's question, why inverse sprinklers, sucking fluids in, instead of blowing them out, rotate. The conducted experiments using static sprinklers and a highly se…
ISEF · 2015
Gelatin and Hyaluronic Acid Nanoparticle Based Delivery of miR-34a for Treatment of Pancreatic Cancer
Systems Software Fourth Award
Pancreatic cancer is poorly responsive to available chemotherapy. miR-34a has been suggested as a potential therapy for pancreatic cancer, however it needs to be specifically targeted to the…
ISEF · 2015
Genetic Algorithms for Foreign Exchange Trading
Fourth Award
Due to the dynamic and variable nature of the stock market, trading strategies do have strong and weak periods. That requires periodic changes in the strategy, which involves finding the bes…
CSEF · 2015
Genotoxicity Investigation by Measuring the Effect of Metals on Garlic Bioassays by Observing Chromosomal Aberrations
Toxicology Fourth Award
Objectives/Goals The purpose of this experiment is to study how metal contamination impacts biological organisms at a cellular level and how the growth properties of cells are impacted. The…
ISEF · 2015
Gesture Recognition System (GRS)
Fourth Award
Nowadays, systems for hand gesture recognition become more and more required due to the replacement of 2D systems and the way of interacting with them by the new 3D and holographic technolog…
CSEF · 2015
Got Biodiesel? Transesterification of Plant Oils into Fatty Acid Methyl Ester
Chemistry Fourth Award
Objectives/Goals In this project I set out to make biodiesel from plant oil. I wanted to see which plant oil would produce the most biodiesel using only a single cup of plant oil. I chose re…
ISEF · 2015
HaptoTech: Creating Wearable Proximity Warning Devices for the Visually Impaired
Fourth Award
Problem: 285 million people in the world are visually impaired, representing a staggering 4% of our population. Currently-available assistive devices for the blind are either somewhat crude…
CSEF · 2015
Here Comes the Sun
Alternative Energy (Junior Division Only) Fourth Award
Objectives/Goals Every year, the world gets more polluted by energy production. The purpose of this project is to see what is the difference between the energy production rates of solar-foll…
ISEF · 2015
H.E.R.O.: A Novel Geographical Data-based Haptic Environment Response Operator for the Visually Impaired
Fourth Award
H.E.R.O. presents a novel approach towards assisting the visually impaired during navigation through the development of an Arduino platform based, multimodal, haptic feedback device that all…
ISEF · 2015
High Content Analysis and Targeting Cancer-Specific Pathway in Three Dimensional Breast Cancer Tumor Spheroids
Systems Software Fourth Award
Patients with inflammatory breast cancer (IBC) have a very poor prognosis. Their tumors are not responsive to chemotherapy. Previous studies have suggested that metastasis in IBC is driven b…
ISEF · 2015
High Frequency Resonant Transformer
Fourth Award
The high frequency resonant transformer, more commonly known as the Tesla coil, is a device that combines different physical phenomena in the field of electromagnetism. The existing literatu…
ISEF · 2015
Highly Precise Phase-Locked Loop DC Motor Control System with a Reduced Number of Parts
Fourth Award
Phase-locked loop (PLL) control has been widely applied, for example, in hard disk drives, which require extremely precise control of their rotational speed. The present study is the develop…