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ISEF · 2016
Third Award
Potato late blight, spread by Phytopthora infestans, caused the Irish Potato Famine and still causes about $7 billion of annual crop damage. Tracking and predicting its spread remains proble…
ISEF · 2016
Third Award
The goal of the TCD3 project is to identify anomalous and dangerous driving patterns from traffic camera feeds. Successful execution can improve road safety by assisting law enforcement catc…
ISEF · 2016
Third Award
In the modern world, fossil fuels have ignited an overwhelming concern for pollutants emitted through the burning of gasoline and other non-renewable resources in vehicles, industry, and oth…
ISEF · 2016
Third Award
This project examined how cyanobacteria/algae might exist under Martian simulated conditions, helping convert Mars’ most abundant gas CO2 into oxygen; thus paving the way for possible settle…
ISEF · 2016
Biomedical Engineering Third Award
Trichotillomania is a psychological condition that has no known causes or cures. While this condition, which causes people to compulsively pull out their hair, is believed to be multifactori…
ISEF · 2016
Third Award
Today’s compression braces try to support and constantly compress joints or injuries which can cause pain after long use. They also restrict blood flow thus slowing or affecting healing time…
ISEF · 2016
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design Third Award
In this report, two ultraviolet (UV)-light absorption molecules (D2, A2) were synthesized. Organic solar cell (OSC) based on these two molecules were fabricated and studied. The electron-don…
ISEF · 2016
Third Award
Speech and hearing impaired people use hand gestures as their primary mode of communication. There are many different forms of hand gesture languages, the most popular being ASL (American Si…
ISEF · 2016
Third Award
Frameworks facilitate development of complex software, but there is no framework for developing 3D applications for browsers at the moment. The purpose of the project is to simplify the deve…
ISEF · 2015
Systems Software Third Award
Blood analysis is a primary test for disease diagnostics. Most conventional blood analyzers are expensive and bulky, limiting their use in clinical central laboratories. In this project, I d…
ISEF · 2015
Third Award
The purpose of this project is to create an inexpensive, simple, and effective airplane wing gust suppression system that has the capability to reduce the accelerations associated with unsta…
ISEF · 2015
Third Award
Electronics is being widely used in cars. Applications include – lane departure warning systems, collision avoidance systems, antilock braking systems, and adaptive cruise control. Electric…
ISEF · 2015
Third Award
A lightweight atmospheric visibility measurement system, the mobile visual range measurement(M-Vsi), is established on the smartphone platform. The smartphone’s camera is used to take the ph…
ISEF · 2015
Third Award
One main problem is the high electricity consumption of air conditioners. Therefore, we have chosen our goal to design an air conditioner system in which it heavily reduces or eliminates ele…
ISEF · 2015
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design Third Award
More than 60% of yearly deaths are caused by chronic and degenerative diseases such as cardiovascular, cancer, Alzheimer's and diabetes. Overexpressed free radicals are the precursors and pr…
ISEF · 2015
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design Third Award
This project fulfills future demands and need for sustainable, cheap resources. We have discovered that macroalgae, an underutilized resource, can be fermented and used for animal feed, fert…
ISEF · 2015
Third Award
A defining feature of Alzheimer’s Disease (AD) is the presence of large deposits of amyloid-beta peptide (AB) in the brain. This accumulation of AB is widely regarded as one of the most prom…
ISEF · 2015
Third Award
A limitation held within modern prostheses lies in their prohibiting, high cost and inefficient systems of user control, which results in their inability to be optimized for utilitarian purp…
ISEF · 2015
Third Award
This study explored plant architecture and growth using a novel application of mathematical tools. Fractal analysis of plant architectures was performed to quantify and describe functional o…
ISEF · 2015
Biomedical Engineering Third Award
Interleukin-4 (IL-4), a cytokine found in excess in the tumor microenvironment, is known to induce cancer cell proliferation. In vitro research suggests that the IL-4-induced activation of t…
ISEF · 2015
Third Award
Emerging ultra-low power, postage stamp-sized electronics attached to the curvilinear surfaces of the human body promise to revolutionize disease monitoring, prevention,and treatment. This s…
ISEF · 2015
Third Award
A compact, self-analyzing energy management system that could monitor energy usage in an industrial or domestic environment was designed, built and tested. Peak-Power management and optimal…
ISEF · 2015
Third Award
Foam and plastic packaging's for food are known to cause health and environmental problems from traditional foam and plastic packaging's. Lotus leaves have been used in old time food packing…
ISEF · 2015
Third Award
Heavy metal (HM) pollution has become a great issue over the last decades, because it endangers human’s health. Drinking water is one of the major routes, by which HM get into human’s body.…
ISEF · 2015
Third Award
Automobile industry has always been one of the most significant indicators of the current technological development. In recent years regular cars were equipped with electronic and computing…
ISEF · 2015
Third Award
Rhizomania, a severe disease caused by beet necrotic yellow vein virus (BNYVV), causes significant damage to sugar beet worldwide, not only physically harming the sugar beet root but also re…
ISEF · 2015
Third Award
The disease Chytridiomycosis (caused by the fungus Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis) has been detrimentally affecting amphibian populations for the past two decades. To make matters worse, the…
ISEF · 2015
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design Third Award
It is known that copper plates are heated in the air to form copper(I) oxide on their surfaces and give various colors due to optical interference of thin film. Heating copper foil was found…
ISEF · 2015
Third Award
Industrial wastewater engenders significant environmental concern primarily due to the environmental contamination caused by the presence of toxic heavy metals dissolved in water. This inves…
ISEF · 2015
Third Award
Heart allograft rejection occurs when transplanted cardiac tissue is rejected by the recipient’s immune system, which destroys the transplanted tissue. The effect of its treatment heavily de…