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ISEF · 2024
Technology Enhances the Arts
Cozy video games are a known method of stress relief. Cozy games primarily focus on the player assisting others through acts of nurturing and generosity. The core of cozy games are the playe…
ISEF · 2024
Mathematics
This study introduces a new solution approach to the Gauss Circle Problem by utilizing Pick's Theorem. Our approach involves examining lattice points within and on the circumference of the c…
ISEF · 2024
Systems Software Second Award
People with Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (PALS), who have severe motor and speech impairments, mostly rely on their eyes and assistive technology to communicate. However, existing high-tech…
ISEF · 2024
Biomedical Engineering
Glioblastoma multiforme (GBM) is a highly invasive malignant brain tumor with a low patient survival rate. Tumor cells multiply quickly into healthy brain tissue, making it difficult to remo…
ISEF · 2024
Chemistry
Water scarcity continues to threaten populations worldwide, especially in less developed countries where industries tend to establish factories. As a result, many developing areas lack clean…
ISEF · 2024
Physics and Astronomy Fourth Award
The ability to engineer metamaterials with properties and functionalities not found in nature is a revolutionary concept with exciting technological applications. Mechanical metamaterials us…
ISEF · 2024
Robotics and Intelligent Machines Third Award
Cutaneous Squamous Cell Carcinoma (SCC) is the second most common form of skin cancer. Moreover, accurate, early diagnosis for pre-metastatic SCC is imperative; post-metastasis patient survi…
ISEF · 2024
Biomedical Engineering
Electrical Impedance Tomography (EIT) reveals lung function and helps diagnose many diseases. However, commercial EIT systems are expensive and bulky. Two-thirds of the world’s population, e…
ISEF · 2024
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
With environmental disasters affecting poorer, disadvantaged communities in disproportionate amounts, solutions that are accessible (i.e. low-cost and abundant resources) are important for t…
ISEF · 2024
Biomedical and Health Sciences Fourth Award
Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) is an incurable chronic autoimmune disease in which the immune system attacks its tissues, causing widespread inflammation and organ damage. Due to the lac…
ISEF · 2024
Plant Sciences Third Award
Wasabi (Japanese horseradish: Eutrema japonicum, synonym Wasabia japonica) is an endemic species in Japan that has been cultivated as a traditional Japanese condiment. However, Ulleung wasab…
ISEF · 2024
Mathematics
This project looked at two prevalent neurodevelopment disorders that often exhibit overlapping symptoms, ADHD and Dyslexia. The purpose of this project was to find out if these two disorders…
ISEF · 2024
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics Third Award
Deep learning, particularly generative models, have shown promise to expedite the drug discovery process by generating novel molecules with desirable properties/bioactivity. Current research…
ISEF · 2024
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
Diabetic retinopathy (DR) is the leading cause of blindness among working-age adults. Early detection is crucial to reducing DR-related vision loss risk but is filled with challenges. Manual…
ISEF · 2024
Plant Sciences
There are 500,000 abandoned mine sites in the United States. Mine tailings cause land to remain un-vegetated for decades, characterized by low pH, high salinity, low organic matter, and effl…
ISEF · 2024
Behavioral and Social Sciences
Alzheimer's Disease (AD) is a progressive neurodegenerative disorder, which causes memory loss and cognitive decline, and often leads to behavioral changes, increasing levels of agitation, a…
ISEF · 2024
Embedded Systems
Grasping is a critical function for human-like robots to automate human labor. Currently, robotic grasping is limited by robotic hands' inability to precisely set grasping conditions before…
ISEF · 2024
Embedded Systems Fourth Award
Vision is one of the most crucial senses. However, visual impairment - the inability to properly correct eyesight - has grown to affect more than 253 million people worldwide, with lifelong…
ISEF · 2024
Biomedical Engineering
Glaucoma, an eye disease that causes damage to the optic nerve, is the second-leading cause of blindness worldwide. Swift diagnosis and treatment of glaucoma is crucial to prevent any glauco…
ISEF · 2024
Environmental Engineering First Award
Peatland ecosystems are the largest natural terrestrial carbon store on earth. Healthy peatlands act as carbon sinks, trapping atmospheric CO2 as soil organic matter. However, anthropogenic…
ISEF · 2024
Earth and Environmental Sciences Third Award
The escalating scale of “Global Plastic Pollution” is leading to the omnipresence of Microplastics (MPs), negatively impacting the environment, world's water quality, aquatic organisms, and…
ISEF · 2024
Earth and Environmental Sciences Third Award
In this study, I use data science principles to analyze pesticide use and Parkinson's Disease (PD) incidence, internationally. Countries were clustered using DBSCANs, the k-means method, and…
ISEF · 2024
Earth and Environmental Sciences Third Award
Global soil carbon stock contains more than twice the amount of carbon found in Earth’s atmosphere. Soil respiration (Rs) is the emission of carbon dioxide (CO2) from soil microorganisms and…
ISEF · 2024
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Oxidative stress is a precursor to numerous cancers, including the Grade IV glioblastoma, affecting >300,000 people annually. However, the identification of oxidative stress markers remains…
ISEF · 2024
Physics and Astronomy
Luminol is a chemical used in forensic science that produces chemiluminescence in the presence of hemoglobin, allowing it to be used to detect blood. Previous studies on luminol have noted p…
ISEF · 2024
Environmental Engineering
Microplastic pollution is a severe threat to aquatic ecosystems, necessitating innovative approaches for efficient removal. This research introduces a method for eliminating microplastics by…
ISEF · 2024
Plant Sciences
Erratic weather patterns, protracted droughts, and hazardous runoffs threaten the availability of sufficient water for food producers. One solution in combating this issue is using Superabso…
ISEF · 2024
Biomedical and Health Sciences Third Award
Glioblastoma (GBM) is the most predominant malignant brain cancer in adults without prognosis improvement in decades (average survival interval of 14-17 months). Nevertheless, 83% of GBM cas…
ISEF · 2024
Computational Biology and Bioinformatics
Traditional drug discovery is costly, slow, and has low FDA approval rates. Deep learning models such as GAN, VAE, & reinforcement learning (RL) have emerged as a solution, using SMILES or g…
ISEF · 2024
Chemistry
Titanium dioxide (TiO2) photocatalysis is an effective water purification method against rising rates of dye pollution, but the energy-consuming UV light it requires limits large-scale deplo…