Browse real student projects, abstracts, and awards.
ISEF · 2017
Engineering Mechanics Second Award
Airborne Wind Energy Systems (AWESs) offer an efficient, environmentally sustainable, cost-effective, portable, and safe method of generating electricity. An AWES consists of a tethered glid…
ISEF · 2017
Earth and Environmental Sciences Second Award
Freshwater pollution is a major environmental threat across the globe, exacerbated by the lack of ongoing scientific data about health of freshwater bodies. One way to address this problem i…
ISEF · 2017
Biochemistry Second Award
In many parts of the world including India, several hazardous chemical insecticides are excessively sprayed on vegetables,fruits or any other consumable product for insect control. In genera…
ISEF · 2017
Cellular and Molecular Biology Second Award
Cardiometabolic disease (CMD) is a cluster of correlated diseases. Risk of heart disease, the world’s leading cause of death, is greatly increased by metabolic syndrome, a combination of dia…
ISEF · 2017
Biomedical Engineering Second Award
Vein imaging systems have been used in the medical industry for many years. Most of them work by using the Near Infrared Imaging technique. However, using such a technique made the devices e…
ISEF · 2017
Energy: Chemical Second Award
In order to realize a sustainable society, artificial photosynthesis has been gaining attention and has been widely studied in recent years. This research focused on tantalum oxide, which ca…
ISEF · 2017
Embedded Systems Second Award
Illnesses and injuries like multiple sclerosis, stroke, and poliomyelitis can cause a loss of leg strength, necessitating the use of a Knee-Ankle-Foot Orthosis (KAFO, or leg brace) that lock…
ISEF · 2017
Embedded Systems Second Award
Optic fiber networks stand as the most effective means of data and high power transfer infrastructure and have applications in military laser systems, laser surgery, broadband networks, etc…
ISEF · 2017
Biochemistry Second Award
Transplantation of isolated human pancreatic islet cells secrete insulin and cures diabetes in patients. Native islets in the pancreas have a rich blood supply and they provide efficient del…
ISEF · 2017
Mathematics Second Award
The concept of metric dimension has applications in a variety of fields, such as chemistry, robotic navigation, and combinatorial optimization. Three bounds on the metric dimensions for diff…
ISEF · 2017
Earth and Environmental Sciences Second Award
This study investigated for the first time whether ants could serve as a model organism for rapidly screening chemical effects on key social behaviors of honeybees. Current tests of honeybee…
ISEF · 2017
Physics and Astronomy Second Award
OB stars are the most luminous and massive stars, living short lives and exerting a disproportionate influence on their environments. They are key to understanding progenitors of gravitation…
ISEF · 2017
Cellular and Molecular Biology Second Award
RNAi-based modalities offer sequence-specific knockdown of tumor survival and growth, presenting a novel alternative to ineffective conventional treatments. This study investigated a pH sens…
ISEF · 2017
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics Second Award
Neurological manifestations of recent viral outbreaks such as congenital microcephaly and Guillain-Barré Syndrome associated with Zika (ZIKV) infection are a global concern. An urgent need e…
ISEF · 2017
Behavioral and Social Sciences Second Award
Compassion fade—the phenomenon of decreasing sympathy and willingness to donate when the number of victims of a crisis increases—has been invoked to help explain a variety of human failings,…
ISEF · 2017
Environmental Engineering Second Award
Countless fertilizers and plant-conditioning products utilize nitrates, which when presented into an ecosystem with surrounding bodies of water, catalyze the dangerous process of eutrophicat…
ISEF · 2017
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics Second Award
The emergence of high-throughput histopathological images over the past decade provides new opportunities for computational techniques to study cancerous tumors. Current analysis of tumor pr…
ISEF · 2017
Robotics and Intelligent Machines Second Award
Annually, 7 million patients suffer surgical complications, many of which are linked to inadequate surgical training and a lack of individualized feedback. To improve operative skill, it is…
ISEF · 2017
Engineering Mechanics Second Award
Engineering Goals: The project is attempting to create a hybrid direct ink write 3D printer that utilizes a novel dual-gantry system which combines three extrusion methods; inkjet deposition…
ISEF · 2017
Chemistry Second Award
Given the importance of protein Nuclear Magnetic Resonance (NMR) spectroscopy, the goal was to develop an algorithm to filter and assign signals to accelerate drug discovery. From the 4D NOE…
ISEF · 2017
Mathematics Second Award
In this project, Ricci flow and normalized Ricci flow were studied in a discrete 3-dimensional setting, where the manifold of interest is the boundary of a 4-simplex. This manifold is the di…
ISEF · 2017
Systems Software Second Award
While biometrics have become a vital part of user authentication in technological platforms, they suffer from issues like inaccuracy, high costs, and vulnerability to physical damage that ma…
ISEF · 2017
Engineering Mechanics Second Award
For most organ failure patients, organ donations do not exist. But in 5-10 years, patients will be able to grow their own organs by placing stem cells into extracellular matrices (ECMs) take…
ISEF · 2017
Materials Science Second Award
In developing knee prosthetics, actively tuning the stiffness of the knee is crucial to facilitate natural movement and decrease fatigue for the amputee. Latest devices exploit the highly tu…
ISEF · 2017
Earth and Environmental Sciences Second Award
Anthropogenic emissions of methane (CH4) and carbon dioxide (CO2) especially from large cities have resulted in the build-up of greenhouse gas concentrations responsible for climate change.…
ISEF · 2017
Environmental Engineering Second Award
Growing concerns about eutrophication induced by elevated phosphorus (P) and nitrogen (N) levels in water and wastewater demand innovative water quality treatment technologies. My previous r…
ISEF · 2017
Biomedical Engineering Second Award
The Glasgow Coma Scale was proposed in the 1970s to classify the level of awareness of patients who have suffered some sort of traumatic brain injury (TBI). This scale is still used in hospi…
ISEF · 2017
Biomedical and Health Sciences Second Award
The goal of this study was to compare hospitalization outcomes in women with Turner Syndrome (TS), the condition of missing the second X chromosome, and non-TS women. It was hypothesized tha…
ISEF · 2017
Biomedical and Health Sciences Second Award
Introduction: Nasal breathing is the preferred method of respiration for a myriad of physiological reasons, one of which relates to Nitric Oxide (NO) production in the paranasal sinuses, bas…
ISEF · 2017
Plant Sciences Second Award
Fusarium oxysporum is a plant pathogenic fungus posing threat to many crops worldwide. Persistence in soil, inefficient chemical control and lack of treatment make this fungus a major cause…