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ISEF · 2022
Behavioral and Social Sciences Second Award
Different Olympic male and female uniform designs create many potential problems: feeling uncomfortable on international television, risk of body part exposure, and sexualization of the body…
ISEF · 2022
Systems Software Second Award
Retinal prostheses provide a promising solution to restore vision to the 200 million people who suffer from retinal degenerative diseases worldwide. However, current FDA-approved implants ar…
ISEF · 2022
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics Second Award
This research presents ARIEL, a deep-learning method for predicting COVID-19 variants and designing therapeutics to neutralize them. ARIEL is the first framework to simultaneously address th…
ISEF · 2022
Environmental Engineering Second Award
E-Waste makes up 70% of all toxic waste. The abundance of heavy metals such as mercury, lead and cadmium entering landfills leach our soil, groundwater, and atmosphere to horrific ends, yet…
ISEF · 2022
Earth and Environmental Sciences Second Award
Humans have propelled Earth into its sixth mass extinction, wiping out hundreds of species and pushing hundreds more to the brink. To repopulate the at-risk, legislation, such as the U.S End…
ISEF · 2022
Biomedical and Health Sciences Second Award
Alzheimer’s disease (AD), the most common form of dementia, affects approximately 5.8 million Americans aged 65 or older. AD causes brain atrophy and memory loss due to buildup of ß-amyloid…
ISEF · 2022
Animal Sciences Second Award
Asian elephants are an endangered species and human-elephant conflict poses a grave threat to their existence. Human-elephant conflict refers to the negative interactions between humans and…
ISEF · 2022
Environmental Engineering Second Award
The detrimental threat microplastics (MPs) have on the environment is well known. However, their effective and efficient remediation in aquatic environments has yet to be established. This r…
ISEF · 2022
Biochemistry Second Award
HIV affects millions of people globally. Due to the high mutation rate of HIV, it is important that novel drugs are constantly found to combat new strains. NNRTIs are allosteric inhibitors t…
ISEF · 2022
Biomedical and Health Sciences Second Award
Hormonal breast cancer has a good prognosis compared to other breast cancer subtypes, however, ER-/PR+/HER2-, a hormonal breast cancer type, does not receive the benefits of hormonal therapy…
ISEF · 2022
Behavioral and Social Sciences Second Award
Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is a prevalent form of acquired injury that can lead to permanent disabilities and increased mortality. 90% of all TBI patients suffer visual impairment resultin…
ISEF · 2022
Microbiology Second Award
Soil MPs pollution intensifies rapidly, posing large negative impact on agriculture. Previously used MPs decomposing strains such as Citrobacter sp. were identified as low in efficiency. Thi…
ISEF · 2022
Engineering Technology: Statics & Dynamics Second Award
On average, 51% of a rocket engine’s weight is in the cooling system, so finding an engine design that would drastically reduce the engine's weight, complexity, and production cost would be…
ISEF · 2022
Engineering Technology: Statics & Dynamics Second Award
Magnetically deflected ballistic mass (MBDM) describes a system in which a metal rotor, the mass in the system, is suspended inside an evacuated sheath like a maglev train. The metal rotor c…
ISEF · 2022
Robotics and Intelligent Machines Second Award
Current prosthetic arm technology often lacks intelligent dexterity, haptic feedback, and are lucratively expensive ranging from 20,000 to 100,000 dollars. The engineering goal of this proje…
ISEF · 2022
Earth and Environmental Sciences Second Award
With the increase in population at large and meeting the demands in various sectors, management of industrial waste is a growing issue. Typically dye industries are excreting large quantitie…
ISEF · 2022
Robotics and Intelligent Machines Second Award
Current concrete structure inspection methods can cost on average $7500US per day. Cracks in concrete caused by forces can lead to long-term instability and serious structural problems. Nowa…
ISEF · 2022
Plant Sciences Second Award
Martian agriculture may be the most cost-effective means to develop a sustainable human life support system on Mars by employing in-situ resource utilization to convert atmospheric CO2 into…
ISEF · 2022
Microbiology Second Award
Early blight, a fungal disease, leads to annual crop losses of up to 70-78% in tomato, potato, and bell pepper crops. Current treatment requires repeated application of chemical fungicides,…
ISEF · 2022
Environmental Engineering Second Award
Beach pollution is an ever-growing global challenge that negatively impacts coastal ecosystems. Current solutions either involve having humans pick up pollutants (inefficient) or using beach…
ISEF · 2022
Robotics and Intelligent Machines Second Award
Is it possible to develop and build a six-axis robot arm as a high school student and just with knowledge acquired from the internet? This paper covers my research on a low-cost robot arm th…
ISEF · 2022
Physics and Astronomy Second Award
Superhydrophobicity, a high degree of water repellency, is characterized by a large contact angle between a liquid bead and a surface. Last year's project successfully treated masks with exp…
ISEF · 2022
Biomedical Engineering Second Award
Color Vision Deficiency affects over 400 million people around the world, making it one of the most common genetic disabilities. There is currently no cure, prompting a need for an effective…
ISEF · 2022
Chemistry Second Award
Plastic based magnets and circuits are an innovative idea to create a more sustainable electronics ecosystem. Additionally, custom fabricated electromagnets could certainly create new types…
ISEF · 2022
Environmental Engineering Second Award
The purpose of this project is to develop a versatile, environmentally sustainable, low cost, clay-based sorbent to extract oil and metallic pollutants in various natural environments. To me…
ISEF · 2022
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics Second Award
Tauopathies are a group of progressive disorders that are characterized when a protein, called tau, builds up significantly in an individual's brain. New breakthrough research has demonstrat…
ISEF · 2022
Microbiology Second Award
Antibiotic resistance is one of the leading challenges to public health today, and a primary contributor to the rapid rise of resistance is plasmids, which facilitate the spread of multi-dru…
ISEF · 2022
Translational Medical Science Second Award
Photosensitive epilepsy (PSE) is a neurological disorder, where seizures are triggered by aberrant flashes or specific spatial configurations of light. After COVID-19, billions of new intern…
ISEF · 2022
Mathematics Second Award
The non-trivial zeros of L-functions encode important information about primes, which are essential to both number theory and modern cryptography. The zeros near the central point, s = 1/2,…
ISEF · 2022
Robotics and Intelligent Machines Second Award
3D human motion reconstruction from a monocular video is one of the most attractive yet challenging research fields. It has the potential to enable 3D broadcasting, advance virtual and augme…