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ISEF · 2022
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design Second Award
In today’s world, electric cars have a more prominent role within society, they provide numerous benefits such as instantaneous torque, thereby eliminating the outdated exponential torque cu…
ISEF · 2022
Animal Sciences Second Award
Bioluminescence is present in a diverse range of organisms. One of the most studied luminous organisms is the firefly, a member of the Lampyridae family. Firefly bioluminescence is produced…
ISEF · 2022
Embedded Systems Second Award
Drone development has been on the rise since the turn of the century and has expanded greatly from government use. Most high quality drones tend to be expensive and have a limited feature se…
ISEF · 2022
Animal Sciences Second Award
The existing studies in the broader literature have investigated epigenetics with the class Mammalia, contrary to the class Insecta that remained uninvestigated. To these ends, this study ai…
ISEF · 2021
Chemistry Second Award
Tetraponera rufonigra, also known as the bi-colored arboreal ant, is one of the most dangerous invasive ant species globally. Phospholipase from its stings lead to severe anaphylaxis in whic…
ISEF · 2021
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design Second Award
The synthesis of a self-charging through light supercapacitor has been executed with exceptional energy storage properties. Conventional photo capacitors face a major disadvantage of relativ…
ISEF · 2021
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics Second Award
Our survival depends on the brain's adaptation of information processing to changing cognitive demands; this ability stems from the interactions of specialized brain networks. At rest, netwo…
ISEF · 2021
Behavioral and Social Sciences Second Award
Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) is a neurodevelopmental disorder that affects one in fifty-four individuals born in the US. ASD hinders one’s ability to recognize emotions, causing difficulti…
ISEF · 2021
Earth and Environmental Sciences Second Award
This study focuses on creating a machine learning model that will predict the spread of any invasive species. This study used hemlock woolly adelgid (HWA), an invasive forest pest that poses…
ISEF · 2021
Biomedical Engineering Second Award
High cost, proprietary parts, complex manufacturing techniques, and transport issues limited our ability to produce enough ventilators during the COVID-19 pandemic. The goal of my project wa…
ISEF · 2021
Earth and Environmental Sciences Second Award
Estimating the intensity of tropical cyclones (TCs) is one of the most important aspects in TC forecasts. Currently, the operational method of TC intensity estimation is the Dvorak Technique…
ISEF · 2021
Engineering Mechanics Second Award
Today, when we drive cars there is no indication of dangerous road conditions that could cause issues such as hydroplaning. Rain is substantially more dangerous than the other conditions bec…
ISEF · 2021
Biomedical Engineering Second Award
The ARTHETA-0 is a 3D printer with a novel motion system that specializes in printing vascular-stents. The stent manufacturing industry, as it stands, uses extremely inefficient and unafford…
ISEF · 2021
Biomedical Engineering Second Award
216,262,500. That’s the number of steps an average human takes over their lifetime, yet the shoes that humans use for this have not evolved over time and are found to have major flaws such a…
ISEF · 2021
Biomedical Engineering Second Award
Microorganisms are observed every day in the hopes of finding new developments that will help gain new insights into human health. Many organisms move quite fast under the microscope's field…
ISEF · 2021
Biochemistry Second Award
Current Cancer Diagnostic methods are inaccurate and time-consuming with invasive procedures, mostly resulting in late-stage detection. In contrast, we have strong evidence that treating can…
ISEF · 2021
Biomedical and Health Sciences Second Award
Chronic sleep deprivation (CSD), a result of consistent sleep loss, is a global concern in more than half of adults worldwide. Research has shown that people with CSD are more susceptible to…
ISEF · 2021
Mathematics Second Award
It is a basic question in contact geometry to classify all non-isotopic tight contact structures on a given 3-manifold. If the manifold has a boundary, this classification is based on the di…
ISEF · 2021
Robotics and Intelligent Machines Second Award
Terrorism is one of the most prevalent problems in today’s world, with over 21,000 people killed each year and many others adversely affected as a result of terrorist activity. Terrorist net…
ISEF · 2021
Animal Sciences Second Award
Commercial quality assurance plans require ranches to maintain flock health programs that include periodic monitoring to evaluate vaccination response or disease exposure in egg laying chick…
ISEF · 2021
Robotics and Intelligent Machines Second Award
COVID-19 has infected over 114 million people as of March 1, 2021, pushing the world towards social and economic collapse. With cases rising rapidly and the current gold-standard for diagnos…
ISEF · 2021
Biomedical and Health Sciences Second Award
The anti-estrogen tamoxifen is a highly effective hormonal therapy for hormonal (HR+) breast cancer patients. However, the estrogen receptor-negative, progesterone receptor–positive (ER-/PR+…
ISEF · 2021
Behavioral and Social Sciences Second Award
This paper presents a deep learning model to detect ‘fake news’ through tone and sentiment in text. The primary challenge facing researchers in the ‘fake news’ detection field is a deficit o…
ISEF · 2021
Environmental Engineering Second Award
Annually, ~1.3 million gallons of crude oil spill into the ocean. Traditional methods of oil cleanup are difficult, costly, non-efficient, and environmentally harmful, all highlighting the n…
ISEF · 2021
Cellular and Molecular Biology Second Award
Common genetic diseases—systemic diseases caused by thousands of mutations—affect millions of people around the world. Many of these mutations fall within regulatory regions. While the mutat…
ISEF · 2021
Earth and Environmental Sciences Second Award
Arsenic, a WHO-classified carcinogen and neurotoxin, has gained widespread notoriety, potentially affecting 250+ million globally. Current arsenic detection methods require frequent sampling…
ISEF · 2021
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics Second Award
Multiple Sclerosis (MS) is a neuroinflammatory demyelinating disease that affects over 2,000,000 individuals worldwide. Although the exact etiology of the disease is unknown, the main sympto…
ISEF · 2021
Earth and Environmental Sciences Second Award
Ingesting marine biotoxins such as domoic acid (DA), a neurotoxin produced by the diatom Pseudo-nitzschia spp., and paralytic shellfish poison (PSP), a neurotoxic byproduct of the saxitoxin-…
ISEF · 2021
Biomedical Engineering Second Award
Sending experiments to the International Space Station is expensive; therefore, clinostats are used to perform microgravity simulations. Although 3D clinostats provide an accurate simulation…
ISEF · 2021
Chemistry Second Award
The contamination of heavy metal ions in water sources can adversely affect the environment. Existing detection methods are impractical and inaccessible for field testing due to monetary cos…