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ISEF · 2024
Embedded Systems Third Award
Autonomous mobile robot (AMR) fleets are widely used in smart warehouses, distribution centers and manufacturing to bring operational efficiency, with their market projected reaching up to $…
ISEF · 2024
Engineering Technology: Statics & Dynamics
In the modern day, transportation is everything. It's how we get to our daily destinations on time and quickly. Shock absorbers are being used on all vehicles on the road today. However, som…
ISEF · 2024
Physics and Astronomy Fourth Award
After half a century of development, the technology of silicon-based electronic devices is gradually approaching its limits. Devices such as computers and cell phones start to require more p…
ISEF · 2024
Physics and Astronomy
Magnetic reconnection is a phenomenon that drives solar flares and Coronal Mass Ejections on the sun's surface. A strong enough CME is capable of damaging electrical equipment, disrupting co…
ISEF · 2024
Earth and Environmental Sciences Third Award
In 2023, more than 10,000 oil spills caused approximately 706 million gallons of oil to be spilled into the ocean, damaging the environment and costing billions of dollars in mitigation effo…
ISEF · 2024
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
Zimbabwe is a net importer of petroleum-based fuels. These are non renewable, expensive and environmentally unfriendly. Petroleum based fuels are expensive and the country has suffered from…
ISEF · 2024
Translational Medical Science
Malaria is a deadly disease that claims the lives of over 460,000 children annually. Current diagnostic methods use labor-intensive microscopy to image Giemsa-stained blood smears, limiting…
ISEF · 2024
Animal Sciences
The purpose of this study is to evaluate the optimal chilling temperature and time for Aedes aegypti mosquitoes for use as part of a sterile insect technique release program. This is crucial…
ISEF · 2024
Environmental Engineering
Biogeochemical cycles are series of processes that transfer compounds through an ecosystem. Can the geochemical cycles of phosphorus and nitrogen be managed effectively through harvest of Ch…
ISEF · 2024
Plant Sciences
To establish long-term human presence on Mars, a method for sustainable agriculture utilizing in-situ resources and minimal fostering materials from Earth must be developed. This study aimed…
ISEF · 2024
Environmental Engineering
Polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), highly toxic and carcinogenic compounds, constitute a significant threat to the environment and public health, both on local and global scales. Nevertheless…
ISEF · 2024
Behavioral and Social Sciences Third Award
Unveiling the behavioral and neural activity underlying hand movements sheds light on mammalian motor control and bolsters advancements in brain-machine interfaces and prosthetic arms. Veter…
ISEF · 2024
Biomedical Engineering
Bed sores are a hidden, critical problem in society. The elderly population, stroke, coma, and spinal cord injury patients or any other immobile patients face this problem. Dead cells, forme…
ISEF · 2024
Engineering Technology: Statics & Dynamics
We investigated and experimented with structural integrity of towers from maximizing the amount of cross-bracing to enhance efficiency until a drop off point and fortify structures against d…
ISEF · 2024
Energy: Sustainable Materials and Design
Evidence shows that energy consumers are adopting solar panels as an alternative to conventional energy for their environmental and economic advantages. More comprehensive data is needed to…
ISEF · 2024
Biomedical Engineering
The polarization of light, a fundamental property, finds extensive utility in various applications, notably in the realm of optical polarimetry. This project presents a novel approach utiliz…
ISEF · 2024
Physics and Astronomy Third Award
Quantum computing has significant potential to generate unparalleled innovations in lattice modeling, encryption schemes, protein folding, prime factorization, and countless other fields of…
ISEF · 2024
Robotics and Intelligent Machines
For as long as humanity has been able to observe, the question of flight has always been. From the beginning, with ornithopters, to now full commercial airline use, despite the numerous adva…
ISEF · 2024
Chemistry
Currently, the invention of cost-efficient technologies for the remediation of persistent organic pollutants (POPs) is of growing interest and importance. As a proof of concept, we have deve…
ISEF · 2024
Earth and Environmental Sciences
This project used mapping software (ArcGIS Pro and Online) to create wolf location maps. A Fond du Lac Resource Management Division wildlife biologist shared wolf location and road data with…
ISEF · 2024
Physics and Astronomy
Galaxy mergers play an integral role in galaxy formation and evolution, and with many large upcoming surveys, a reliable and efficient method of identifying mergers is crucial to their study…
ISEF · 2024
Translational Medical Science
This experiment studies if a restricted diet improves the health of pregnant BPH/5 mice and their offspring. BPH/5 mice have high blood pressure during pregnancy, which mimics the symptoms o…
ISEF · 2024
Translational Medical Science
Acute kidney failure (AKF) is a worldwide growing clinical problem affecting over 13 million people and resulting in 1.7 million deaths annually. AKF symptoms are not noticeable in the early…
ISEF · 2024
Behavioral and Social Sciences Third Award
Methamphetamine is known for its addictive potential and rapid impact on the central nervous system's dopaminergic pathways. Recent studies suggest it exacerbates stroke outcomes by increasi…
ISEF · 2024
Translational Medical Science
Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the most common age-related neurodegenerative disease that affects memory and learning. Mitochondria are critical to neuronal function in the brain, and energy me…
ISEF · 2024
Biochemistry
As the world heavily relies on crude oils such as diesel fuel to fulfill the needs of everyday life, aerosol and gaseous pollutants are being emitted. Algae biofuel can help control and miti…
ISEF · 2024
Cellular and Molecular Biology
Breast cancer is the most prevalent cancer among women. Endocrine therapy (ET) has been shown to be an effective treatment against estrogen receptor positive (ER+) breast cancer (BC); howeve…
ISEF · 2024
Environmental Engineering
The ocean receives a large amount of pollution each year with plastics accounting for eighty percent. Plastics break down from sun, wind, and water exposure and cause microplastic pollution.…
ISEF · 2024
Earth and Environmental Sciences
The CSIRO has provided the first-ever global estimate for microplastics on the seafloor, with results suggesting there are 14 million tonnes across our oceans (Natalie Kikken, 2020). Investi…
ISEF · 2024
Biomedical Engineering
This project implements a novel detection system based on Rolling Circle Amplification (RCA) and Cas12a for miRNA biomarkers, and provides an efficient and cost-effective approach for the di…